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.
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
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
It’s fine, it’s not like it’s gonna happen a third time…
— George “W. Winner Winner Halliburton’s Dinner” Bush Jr.
Ah, the good old days when I thought this was the least articulate president I’d see in my lifetime
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
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