LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agoTrump's own fans turn on him over new Iran deal: 'You can't fool your base'www.rawstory.comexternal-linkmessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTrump's own fans turn on him over new Iran deal: 'You can't fool your base'www.rawstory.comLuminousLuddite@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square97fedilink
minus-squaredaniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month ago“You can’t fool your base,” they say without even a hint of irony.
minus-squareSeductiveTortoise@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoWe’re unfoolable! *get fooled by their sweater while trying to get in
minus-squareLucidlethargy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month ago“I can’t wait to receive my new high quality, US-made Trump phone!” – The same fools
minus-squareWhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoYou fool me once…You fool me. The point is you can’t get fooled again. -George W. Bush
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoFool me once . . . Shame on . . Shame on you . . Fool me twice . . . Y- . . You can’t get fooled again.
minus-squaremic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoFor the curious, this quote is because he realized mid-sentence (literally as he was saying “fool me once”) that he was about to give democrats a nice juicy “shame on me” sound bite to use in all of their ad campaigns.
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoI think he just forgot it midway through. He wasn’t a great speaker so it was initially kind of weird they had him speaking everywhere, all the time. And he’d inevitably say something wrong, offensive, outrageous, stupid, whatever. Which is why we were sure he’d go down as the worst predisent evar.
minus-squareusernamefactory@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoSo instead he mangled the phrase so badly we’re still making fun of him for it twenty years later?
minus-squarestephen01king@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoHey, but no ad campaigns, though.
“You can’t fool your base,” they say without even a hint of irony.
We’re unfoolable!
*get fooled by their sweater while trying to get in
“I can’t wait to receive my new high quality, US-made Trump phone!”
– The same fools
You fool me once…You fool me. The point is you can’t get fooled again.
-George W. Bush
Fool me once . . . Shame on . . Shame on you . .
Fool me twice . . . Y- . . You can’t get fooled again.
For the curious, this quote is because he realized mid-sentence (literally as he was saying “fool me once”) that he was about to give democrats a nice juicy “shame on me” sound bite to use in all of their ad campaigns.
I think he just forgot it midway through. He wasn’t a great speaker so it was initially kind of weird they had him speaking everywhere, all the time.
And he’d inevitably say something wrong, offensive, outrageous, stupid, whatever.
Which is why we were sure he’d go down as the worst predisent evar.
Those were the days
So instead he mangled the phrase so badly we’re still making fun of him for it twenty years later?
Hey, but no ad campaigns, though.
Mission accomplished!
Boom.