You know the old saying: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”

Listening to the recent Congressional testimony of various members of the Trump administration, that much-repeated truism has become even more relevant. Shame on all of us for continuing to allow ourselves to be ruled by a band of charlatans the likes of which even Shakespeare never imagined!

Some 400 years ago, French mathematician, philosopher, scientist and logician Rene Descartes said it far more eloquently:

“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”

– Rene Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy”

Once again, the wisdom of the ancients has proven prescient. When will we begin to pay attention?

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
3/10/26