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[–] 22 points 5 months ago (9 children)

You fool me once...You fool me. The point is you can't get fooled again.

-George W. Bush

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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Fool me once . . . Shame on . . Shame on you . .
    Fool me twice . . . Y- . . You can’t get fooled again.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    For the curious, this quote is because he realized mid-sentence (literally as he was saying “fool me once”) that he was about to give democrats a nice juicy “shame on me” sound bite to use in all of their ad campaigns.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    So instead he mangled the phrase so badly we're still making fun of him for it twenty years later?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I think he just forgot it midway through. He wasn’t a great speaker so it was initially kind of weird they had him speaking everywhere, all the time.

    And he’d inevitably say something wrong, offensive, outrageous, stupid, whatever.

    Which is why we were sure he’d go down as the worst predisent evar.

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