• IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.

    — George “W. Winner Winner Halliburton’s Dinner” Bush Jr.

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      11 months ago

      Ah, the good old days when I thought this was the least articulate president I’d see in my lifetime

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      11 months ago

      I don’t know if it’s true, but there’s the theory that he realised midway through his sentence that he didn’t want a soundbite of him saying “shame on me”

      I think Dubya was smarter than he let on, still a war criminal tho

      • ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        I always took it as him just cutting off the saying and sternly saying America’s not gonna get fooled again. Like a “nah fuck that saying come at me” thing? Idfk I was like 8