{"id":7518,"date":"2026-07-22T05:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/?p=7518"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:49:01","slug":"parole-parole-parole-empty-promises-from-empty-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/?p=7518","title":{"rendered":"Parole, parole, parole. Empty promises from empty suits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Broken Promises: Presidents (From Clinton to Bush to Obama to Trump) Promise Peace, Deliver War\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GKVyIR8KBw8?start=300&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">&#8220;A people that elect corrupt politicians&#8230;are not victims&#8230;but accomplices.&#8221; &#8212; George Orwell<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>There&#8217;s an old saying in Tennessee &#8211; I know it&#8217;s in Texas, probably in Tennessee &#8211; that says, fool me once, shame on &#8211; shame on you. Fool me &#8211; you can&#8217;t get fooled again.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libquotes.com\/george-w-bush\">George W. Bush<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speech in Nashville, Tennessee, (September 17, 2002), in which the president confused a centuries-old proverb (&#8220;Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A people that elect corrupt politicians&#8230;are not victims&#8230;but accomplices.&#8221; &#8212; George Orwell &#8220;There&#8217;s an old saying in Tennessee &#8211; I know it&#8217;s in Texas, probably in Tennessee &#8211; that says, fool me once, shame on &#8211; shame on you. Fool me &#8211; you can&#8217;t get fooled again.&#8220; George W. Bush Speech in Nashville, Tennessee, (September 17, 2002), in which the president confused a centuries-old proverb (&#8220;Fool me once, shame on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104,59,63,82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}