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Republicans downward spiral to irrelevancy

Whenever I find myself getting too down about Donald Trump's Presidency, I think back to the last time republicans managed to elect an incompetent celebrity--specifically, Arnold Schwarzenegger in California.  While it's true that Schwarzenegger won two terms (heaven forbid it taking America that long to wake up to Trump's ineptitude), his tenure was so disastrous that Californians elected a Democratic governor and gave him a supermajority in the state legislature upon his leaving...and have elected a Democratic governor three consecutive terms now with what continues to be a supermajority in the legislature.  And the state has prospered like few others.

In the end, I believe what happened in California is that the bulk of its citizenry awoke to the fact that government serves a greater good and is best run by people who both care about the state and its citizens--virtues that would describe zero republicans.

Here's hoping the bulk of Americans wakes up to this fact by 2020 and sends Trump and his minions in Congress packing.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Hope is a good thing

Looking for a silver lining in the disaster that is the election of Donald Trump?  How about this:

In 2003, California elected an idiotic, grope happy celebrity (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to be its Governor.  While he would win re-election (gasp), at the end of his second term he had an approval rating of 23%, and in the five years since he left office, California has become, arguably, the bluest state in the nation.

Here's hoping Americans figure out in four years what Californians discovered in eight:  republican leaders are straw men whose only best interest concern is their own.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee