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Just watching him get voted in again already threw me into a deep depression
Yooooo. For real. I was devastated. I seriously do NOT understand Americans. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... you know how it goes. They're absolute fools.
American here. Many of us also don't understand. It's baffling and absolutely depressing. Far too many voting Americans are the kind of people who would happily destroy their own property to avoid sharing it. These are also usually the same people who believe in American exceptionalism above all else, despite our country being measurably worse than several others in a number of categories. They're insufferable.
Looking forward to that likely spring election and trump lite?
Yeah... No.
Not sure if that aphorism is the most appropriate to compare Americans to since it was Bush II who famously didn't know what the saying was supposed to be.
"...shame...shame on me?”
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"Fool me.... I can't get fooled again."
I don't like defending Bush II. But this particular case, you could see him switch gears in real time to prevent the "shame on me" sound bite. Say what you want about the rest of his policies and actions but this bit was an intelligent political move even if it did make him look a little dumb.
You are foolish too, my friend. If you can't understand how it played out, maybe it'll happen to you in the future... Power hungry assholes can be found all around the world.
Yeah I know how that played out. Americans are still fools. Democrats had a choice between a younger intelligent candidate and a liar, fraud, rapist, child molester, sociopathic old man.
I don't care how it played out. The choice was fucking obvious. They still voted for the latter. Shame on them.