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tacocat  ·  3268 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What might the future actually look like if Donald Trump was elected?

Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

I don't think we can know. There's no precedent for dangerous celebrity morons being elected to executive office. Even Hitler was a politician.





arguewithatree  ·  3268 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    dangerous celebrity morons

Reagan tho.

tacocat  ·  3268 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good point

user-inactivated  ·  3268 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    There's no precedent for dangerous celebrity morons being elected to executive office. Even Hitler was a politician.

Reagan.

Jane Fonda. (Ok, so she saw an adviser and not elected)

Schwarzenegger.

Fred Thompson.

Cooter from Dukes of Hazard.

I personally will never vote for, give money to, or support the candidacy of a entertainer or celebrity in our government. I want people to show up and get the work done, not play make believe for the camera.

user-inactivated  ·  3268 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Was Schwarzenegger that bad? I'm currently reading his autobiography and am far from the political carreer of his, but I'd like to know beforehand. I have no idea what the result of his reign as the California gov'ner was, keep in mind.

user-inactivated  ·  3267 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Eh.... sort of. He came in and tried to make a bunch of very right-leaning people happy. He ended up ditching them and got some decent environmental work done. More of a wash than anything. Granted I did not live there and only know what friends and family tell me.

user-inactivated  ·  3267 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    More of a wash than anything.

What does it mean?

user-inactivated  ·  3266 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I forgot, you are not American, sorry. A wash is sort of like a draw. If you add the good and the bad you end up with a zero. Not good, not bad.

user-inactivated  ·  3266 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So, "more of a wash than anything" means that it barely had any effect, correct?

user-inactivated  ·  3265 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    So, "more of a wash than anything" means that it barely had any effect, correct?

Think of the expression as more of he did some good things, some not-so-good things and in the end did not screw anything up to the point of disaster level.

user-inactivated  ·  3265 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I see. Thank you for the explanation.

user-inactivated  ·  3268 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It would have been better if Sonny Bono had stuck to playing make believe for the camera.

user-inactivated  ·  3268 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I knew I was forgetting a few.

lil  ·  3268 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    There's no precedent for dangerous celebrity morons
Are you sure? Dogs and cats already live together.

goo  ·  3268 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I knew my cats and dog getting along was a sign!

tacocat  ·  3268 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They're living in sin and need to be properly wed.