Silver Lining, Day 46

I started coming up with my Silver Linings in December and started posting them on Inauguration Day. The response has been favorable, but I have written a lot of duds that I thought fell flat, or didn't really work.

Rather than just delete them out of existence, I thought I'd compile them here in a list of "Top Eleven Rejected Silver Linings." I'd tell you to enjoy, but they're not that great.

11) Maybe Ted Nugent will shut up now and just play guitar.

10) I no longer have to be annoyed by idiots questioning the President's legitimacy (Apparently I am one.)

9) False equivalencies arouse me.

8) I know some people who are bemoaning the politicizing of social media, but I think it's amazing. He has made American great again by trying to divide us.

7) I think I figured out who's still trying to win an Emmy Award.

6) For the first time in my life, I feel smarter than the president. I'm not saying I am, I just FEEL that way.

5) Every other politician seems rational and normal.

4) You know that feeling? 

When you have the stunning realization that you made a horrible mistake?

When you realize, at some point, that you have passed the tipping point?

And all the noise around you that you dismissed as sour grapes, as misinformed liberal bleeding
hearts, as the blathering of fools who did not know what was truly right for this country, that your blind dismissal of the cacophony out of a sense of self-righteousness and the rigid faith in the lies you have been fed - that all of that was for naught.

That feeling that sinks its icy cold teeth into your spine when you realize you were wrong and that you were duped into believing an alternate reality?

Yeah, I'm not worried about that.

3) It's like stepping in a pile of dog shit and being thankful you didn't step on a landmine. Except we're tracking poop everywhere. And we smell like crap. And our shoe is ruined. And we're mad someone left a huge pile of shit on the sidewalk and didn't bother to clean it up.

2) Realizing it's time to unfriend people who say stupid shit like this: "Where are the protests when a single terrorist takes multiple lives? Or when Isis publicly beheads someone? It's not the early 1900's, it's a different world. An ounce of prevention.....". What does that even MEAN?

and the number 1 Rejected Silver Lining from the first 45 days:

1) A lot less snarky "#ThanksObama" nonsense