for some reason people love to revisit things like this and find post hoc justifications for dumb fucks to make them look smarter. it happens a lot with elon and TFG too.

but the one timeless example that pisses me off the most is W's "fool me once" flub. every time it's mentioned, so many people come to his defense, adamant that it was on purpose! supposedly he didn't want to have a clip of him saying "shame on me" on camera to be used against him in political ads and whatnot. not like we have tons of evidence that he was a fuckwit before that, and never mind that there's absolutely no evidence for this to be so propagated like it's a fact...

but this is such bs on so many levels that I'm getting angry even right now thinking about it. wow! such marvelous political instincts... he sure didn't end up giving a much worse soudbite that made him look like an absolute buffoon now, did he? what a savant!

no, people can be stupid. but also the american public in general? come on... there's areas in which you can try to save your national pride, math ain't one of them.