Jumping the shark

Jumping the shark is a metaphor that was originally used to denote the tipping point at which a TV series is deemed by a viewer to have passed its peak. This happens when the creative energies of writers have been exhausted or when the inherent stupidities of the plot have been fully realized.

In the political sense it means that someone or some organization has said or done something so incredibly stupid as to be irrelevant in the wider scheme of all things political, such as George W. Bush getting elected president of the USA and the invasion of Iraq.


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