Shortly after Jerry Brown reclaimed the Democratic governorship of California, outgoing Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger was vague in commenting on life after his high-profile term.
He expressed disappointment at the longstanding failure of Congress to pass significant legislation, making reference to a "Skynet Funding Bill" that should have been enacted "13 years ago." [No such bill is on record.]
"There is no fate but what we make," Schwarzenegger explained without prompting. Agitated by a reporter's follow-up interpretation of a possible presidential bid, he ranted for several minutes about the future of mankind and an apparent dark horse candidate named John Connor.
"Afghanistan will not matter. Pakistan will not matter. Deficits will mean nothing," he asserted with increasingly strained voice before describing semi-coherently a scenario which sounded borderline apocalyptic. He used the occasion to reiterate with great volume his painfully consistent position on technological spending, most recently frustrated by a "no" referendum against Proposition 54 which would have replaced most governmental positions with "robots or machines of this nature" within ten years.
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