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0 pointslwansbrough1d ago0 comments

Well let’s hope, as Bush once said, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… can’t get fooled again.”

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Hopefully. They've bene fooled into voting for him 3 times already.

The US have been fooled by Israel for the past... thirty, forty years at least? Look who Trump is sending around the world to negotiate on behalf of the US: two committed Zionists, personal friends of Netanyahu and past financers of the Israeli army. The other negotiators regard them as Israeli assets, plain and simple. While they pretend to "negotiate", Israel launches surprise attacks that have not been agreed with the US and that forces them to intervene.

libertine1d ago

Either Russian propaganda is leaking into US, or people are being so easy to manipulate it's becoming scary.

What's the deal the US not having agency? Lol

Russia was manipulated by NATO and they were fooled over and over again, according to the state propaganda - if that was true, why are they still stuck with the fool who keeps being fooled? Isn't that the sign of a deficient leadership?

Same applies to the Trump administration, until when will that narrative stick?

Because the "common sense", a big trope used by both states propaganda, claims that you can only be fooled once lol

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xg151d ago

I read somewhere that Bush made this awkward figure of speech not because he didn't know the idiom, but because he realized too late that he'd be saying "shame on me" on air, which is apparently a phrase absolutely Verboten by political media advisors (because it could have been taken out of context and used by his adversaries). In a way that says a lot about the political culture that resulted in a figure like Trump, I think.

cosmicgadget1d ago

Seems like the better option is to simply say, "you know the rest of the saying".

Perhaps he actually just flubbed. Many such cases.

JKCalhoun1d ago

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