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Then: The boy who cried Wolf.
Now: The man who cried Tariff.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/07/business/tariffs-trump-canada/index.html
The president stinks
"Don't meet your heroes" they say. I experienced that recently. 
(Sadly, not my first experience.)
“The room reeks of old, dead terror—and a brooding malevolence, as if the instruments of torture are merely biding their time. Just you wait, they’re saying.”
Götterdämmerung @gutenberg_org
#Saying: the grab-bag category. Sayings is the loose catchall term for short, pithy observations about life. E.g. "When it rains, it pours." Unlike their more pretentious cousins, sayings don't try to impress you. They're content with being the verbal equivalent of small talk.
Elections, where the sausage is worse than how the sausage is made.
Jack* of all** trades, master*** of none.
* What is the bar, here? Can I be a "jack" of creative writing if I've never published anything?
** A few
*** Again, not sure about the threshold. Maybe I'm a master of something, but it really depends on the criteria
A quotation from Chamfort, Nicolas:
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Most collectors of verses and sayings proceed as though they were eating cherries and oysters, choosing the best first, and ending by eating them all.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/22441/
