“There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.’”
Yeah but it got memed a decade after he left office. Flubbing up one quote is much better than giving the press a sound clip of you saying “shame on me” while running for reelection after one of the most controversial presidencies.
The first time, the Conservatives on the Supreme Court stopped the vote counting when it looked like Bush would lose Florida. The legal justification used was "because we want Bush to win".
The second time was a combination of Swift Boating and the man who oversaw the Ohio part of the election, literally worked for the Bush Campaign. Which turned out like this.
It is pretty amazing that no matter how bad these Republican politicians are, the country seems to forgive and forget about it and is willing to give the next Republican another fair shot.
And this has been going on for decades now. We are now dealing with Trump, but before that was W and before that was Reagan and before that was Nixon. Each one was incredibly unpopular. Each one embroiled in controversy and corruption and incompetence. And yet it seems like the second these clowns step out of the White House, the American people are right back to willing to give the GOP another shot at running the show. It’s like we collectively have the memory of a goldfish, and we can’t process the idea that maybe, just maybe, the party that is always condemning the government, maybe isn’t well suited to actually running that same government.
You’re just stuck with your undemocratic electoral process 🤷
I would gladly see the US split in four or five countries just to grab a bowl of popcorn and watch the republican parts become the third world country they so dearly wish to become.
The first drop of 100 pre-sale tickets for Fyre Festival II went on sale Monday for $499 a pop and sold out within a day, according to the festival's website.
If I had to guess, plenty of them are “influencers” the more of a disaster this is the better for their views on how horrible it was. It’s a no lose situation for them.
Are we even sure those are real sales? They only made 100 tickets available. It’s far more reasonable to assume that they “released 100 tickets” and then had a grifter friend purchase them all immediately. You’d be able to say that you sold out. Then you ride the wave of free publicity that you get from news article like this. Seems like grifting 101.
I’d bet you’re right. Why else would they only release 100 tickets? It’s a laughably small number for a music festival. Most bars hold more people than that.
If I knew then what I know now about the first fire fest, I would have considered trying to get tickets.
I have fairly low standards for a vacation, usually I like to go camping so spartan accomodations, meh food, etc. are pretty much par for the course. I usually do a good bit better for myself than the fyre fest provided, but I could make do just fine with what was available.
But man, I would have loved to watch all the entitled rich assholes melting down in-prson in real-time.
The documentary showed when he was out on bail, he got caught doing similar ticket scams again!
It’s almost funny at this point because this seems to be all he knows how to do. I’m sure we’ll hear about this again and he’ll be going back to jail at some point.
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