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[–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Lord_McAlister@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Fuck the peace sign

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 points 2 years 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