Quote: (09-14-2013 03:47 PM)Cyr Wrote:
Quote: (09-14-2013 03:32 PM)Vitriol Wrote:
Quote: (09-13-2013 10:04 PM)MunichSux Wrote:
The problem is obviously once you have to get off for the rest of your life, once stretched skin becomes sagging as what you've gained chemically enhanced is lost when you go 100% natty. Arnold Schwarzenegger comes to mind - didn't age well.
I found a picture of AHNELD from a few months ago, he doesn't look took bad for a guy at about 65 years old.
What does a 65 year old that "aged well" look like if that's bad?
He's also smoked cigars his whole life as well, and held extremely high stress positions (such as governor of California). Considering this, I'd say he looks at least as good as can be expected.
Being in a position like that (Governor) is extremely stressful.
An example of just the tiniest part of it-- theoretically California still has the death penalty, although because it's a very progressive state there is a lot of opposition and the really rabid advocates are pretty marginalized. At this point, the legislators know it never has and never will be applied fairly ( rich guys basically never get executed, OJ got off completely) but a lot of the masses like the idea so legislators have pretty much stopped it with an end run, some technicality, so they don't have to take the electoral hit.
I think there were only 1-3 executions while he was governor.
But he had the power to stop them, imagine being in that position, you're actually fairly liberal guy ( Schwarzenegger is not stupid guy) and they're going to do this medieval shit to someone-- you could just commute his sentence, but the guy was a total, total scumbag, let's say murdered three upstanding citizens who had done absolutely nothing to anyone to deserve it.
Or let's take funding distribution. I think he can veto but not issue a budget. So let's say a powerful legislator adds a lot of money for the nursing homes in his district. It gets taken out of a child education program in a poor area. Who do you fuck over? It's zero sum sometimes, and you can't escape the stress.
And all the time you've got yahoos who want to execute every shoplifter and stop all food stamps or whatever because it's "socialist."
See how it's a no-win socially? Someone hates you no matter what you do.