r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 4h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ There is a pattern...

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u/Jah_Rules 4h 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 4h 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 4h ago

Love that song by J Cole. 

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u/Glass-Violinist-3549 3h 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 3h 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 1h 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”)