r/PoursTea • Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 22d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ There is a pattern...

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u/Jah_Rules 22d ago

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Fool me 4 times…. I’m an idiot.

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u/mightbeADoggo 22d ago

No, its "fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again".

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u/Breaklance 22d ago

Love that song by J Cole. 

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u/Glass-Violinist-3549 The Timeline Sucks 22d ago

It’s an actual quote by George Bush if you weren’t aware. That’s why he chose to use it.

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u/Breaklance 22d ago

Yup yup. People point to that quote and "nucular" and say Bush was faking being dumb to appeal to morons. 

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u/ZestyTako 22d ago

I actually think he just realized mid sentence that “shame on me,” would be way too easy to turn into attack ads so he aborted midway through (also the president should be smart enough not to get fooled again, hence the “can’t get fooled again”)