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-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-230 days 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-up0·29 days 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-up0·29 days agoSo instead he mangled the phrase so badly we’re still making fun of him for it twenty years later?
minus-squarestephen01king@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·29 days agoHey, but no ad campaigns, though.
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.