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LEFT WING LOONS Title: Schwarzenegger to Sue Big Oil for ‘First Degree Murder’ (usefull Idiot!) AUSTIN, Texas Arnold Schwarzeneggers next mission: taking oil companies to court for knowingly killing people all over the world. The former California governor and global environmental activist announced the move Sunday at a live recording of POLITICOs Off Message podcast here at the SXSW festival, revealing that hes in talks with several private law firms and preparing a public push around the effort. This is no different from the smoking issue. The tobacco industry knew for years and years and years and decades, that smoking would kill people, would harm people and create cancer, and were hiding that fact from the people and denied it. Then eventually they were taken to court and had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars because of that, Schwarzenegger said. The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did their own study that there would be global warming happening because of fossil fuels, and on top of it that it would be risky for peoples lives, that it would kill. Schwarzenegger said hes still working on a timeline for filing, but the news comes as he prepares to help host a major environmental conference in May in Vienna. Were going to go after them, and were going to be in there like an Alabama tick. Because to me its absolutely irresponsible to know that your product is killing people and not have a warning label on it, like tobacco, he said. Every gas station on it, every car should have a warning label on it, every product that has fossil fuels should have a warning label on it. He argues that at the very least, this would raise awareness about fossil fuels and encourage people to look to alternative fuels and clean cars. He added, I dont think theres any difference: If you walk into a room and you know youre going to kill someone, its first degree murder; I think its the same thing with the oil companies. Schwarzenegger was at SXSW for an extensive discussion of lessons he learned in his seven years as governor, and how hed apply them to the current political situation in Washington and beyond. On the list: Maximize the bully pulpit; use the carrot but have the stick ready; and no one gets a perfect 10, because theres always room for improvement. Those, he said, were part of his art of the deal, and explained how hed been able to institute major laws from workers compensation reform to environmental standards to a state election overhaul to implement independent redistricting and a jungle primary system, in which the top two advance. Schwarzenegger also addressed, for the first time since the national reawakening around the #MeToo moment, the charges of groping and inappropriate behavior that surfaced from multiple women against him at the end of his first campaign for governor in 2003. He acknowledged that the change in the moment made a huge difference. It is about time. I think its fantastic. I think that women have been used and abused and treated horribly for too long, and now all of the elements came together to create this movement, and now finally puts the spotlight on this issue, and I hope people learn from that, he said. Youve got to take those things seriously. Youve got to look at it and say, I made mistakes. And I have to apologize. He stressed the importance of sexual harassment training, like the one he made his staff do once he was elected including himself. We make mistakes, and we dont take it seriously. And then when you really think about it, you say, Maybe I went too far, Schwarzenegger said. Youve got to be very sensitive about it, and youve got to think about the way that women feeland if they feel uncomfortable, then you did not do the right thing. The past few months, he said made me think totally differently, adding, I said to myself, Finally. OffMessage_Logo_FINAL_1160.jpg Click here to subscribe and hear the full podcast, including Schwarzeneggers views on violent movies and video games in the gun control debate, and his lessons for governing in the age of Trump. Schwarzenegger took a number of shots at Donald Trump, dismissing the presidents latest attack on him, delivered at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday night, for having failed when he did the show, a reference to the former governors rocky one-season stint as the host of The Apprentice on NBC last year. I never know really why the Russians make him say certain things, Schwarzenegger said. Its beyond me. Why do you think he says those things? Hes supposed to be very busy. Later in the interview, he returned to the attack on Trump, teasing that the script of the new Terminator movie, which Schwarzenegger is set to start filming in June and is expected to be released next year, had to be rewritten to include Trump. The T-800 model that I play, hes traveling back in time to 2019 to get Trump out of prison, Schwarzenegger joked. He wouldnt reveal any actual details about the script other than that he is still the T-800 model. This isnt his only upcoming foray into old film franchises: Hes due to shoot King Conan and Triplets, an update on the 1988 film Twins, with Eddie Murphy as the third brother. (Theres something funny there with the mixing of the sperm, he said.) Schwarzenegger said hed like to see Ohio Gov. John Kasich run for president but urged him to run in the Republican primary rather than as an independent. Hes a great Republican, Schwarzenegger said. But he said dont expect him to be a major campaign presence in 2020. Hell be focusing on pushing gerrymandering reform, and has gotten involved again with California Republicans, with whom hell be meeting in the coming days back home. The Republicans that are the new thinking Republicans in California want to get things done, Schwarzenegger said, adding that he wants elected officials to remember, ultimately, you are a public servant, not a party servant. He urged the GOP to pay attention to what happened in California, where Democrats have become completely dominant. Republicans there, he said, are stuck with an ideology that doesnt really fit anymore with what people want. He cited the environmental work of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush as examples. Today, those are all things that are absolutely a no-no in the Republican Party. I didnt change; its the Republican Party thats changed, he said. Now we have to work very hard to get the party back to where it was. Back at the end of his presidency, Bill Clinton wrote Schwarzenegger a long letter that ended with Clinton urging Schwarzenegger to become a Democrat. Schwarzenegger said he wasnt interested then, and isnt interested now, for all his problems with Trump and the current GOP. Thats a fun letter, and I like supporting him on some issues, Schwarzenegger said. But the bottom line is that Im a Republican, and Im a true Republican, and I will always be a Republican. Its a fantastic party, but theyve veered off into the right into some strange lanes. Poster Comment: A lousy actor and a miserable governor! Arnold got his climate degree from a cracker jack box. He is as much a republican as is obama. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 2.
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I remember how everyone thought he would make a great Repucking president! He is nothing more than a crony capitalist ie progressive shit from the start. Do as I say not as I do!
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