Things could always be worse.

[arib]

Sometimes, I look at the political mess that the US is in: a very unpopular president, a contentious election pending, and I worry about the state of the country I live in.

Then I look at Zimbabwe and feel better.

(How the heck do you manage to lose an election that you went out and rigged, anyway?)

Comments

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

By being utterly bad for the country?

[arib.livejournal.com]

he's been utterly bad for the country for several decades. but has still managed to pull off statistically improbably wins until now...

:-)

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

:) I guess enough people are getting utterly fed up. It remains to be seen what will happen.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

How the heck do you manage to lose an election that you went out and rigged, anyway?

It's like a zany Broadway musical!

Only not.

[bluepapercup]

*boggles*

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It's probably the inflation rate - Mugabe would've set aside, say, five billion Zimbabwe dollars to buy the election, but by the time it actually happened the price of a rigged poll had risen to something more like fifty billion Zimbabwe dollars.

[sethg]

They should have used their occult powers to consult Mayor Curley.