From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department, comes this pronouncement from the guy who popularized the gas-guzzling CO2 belching Hummer military vehicle for his own LA commutes. His self-awareness must be zero.
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Sunday he is going to sue big oil companies for “first-degree murder.”
During a live recording of a Politico podcast, Schwarzenegger said he was talking to several private law firms about taking on oil companies in court.
The Hollywood actor compared oil to the tobacco industry, and said both are “knowingly killing people all over the world.” Schwarzenegger said the tobacco industry had to pay millions of dollars in court for hiding the fact that tobacco had adverse side effects, and said he hopes oil companies will have to do the same.
“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 people’s lives, that it would kill,” Schwarzenegger said Sunday.
Schwarzenegger suggested oil companies have warning labels on its products that are “killing people,” just like tobacco products.
“I don’t think there’s any difference: If you walk into a room and you know you’re going to kill someone, it’s first-degree murder; I think it’s the same thing with the oil companies,” Schwarzenegger said.
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How seriously do steroids affect the brain?
Seriously!?!
SCIWIZ,,
wrote, “a real discussion on the facts.”
Now that is funny. An article about a Hollywood hypocrite blow-hard being a hypocrite, and you just want to stick to the facts? What facts? Arnold is just bloviating. Fact-free bloviating.
He’s a joke. His rant is a joke. No facts needed.
Yep.
Still a fossil fuel.
Schwarzenegger has been involved in:
U.S. Supreme Court case, c.2006
UNDP/United Nations Development Programme
C20 organization based in Switzerland
Cap-and-trade, California
He is big on the United Nations.
Schwarzenegger correction:
Should be: R20 organization based in Switzerland.
Steroid fueled muscles go to waste with age. That no doubt affects the brain of insecure muscle junkies.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/images/2008/12/23/shirtlessarnold.jpg
You hit the nail on the head. Please can we have a real discussion on the facts.
Worlds biggest hypocrite Complaining about the Tobacco industry and fossil fuel industry while still stuffing those nasty stogies in his mouth and driving a Hummer
How did you photoshop Arnold’s head on to my body.
He’ll be back to feeling a tit if previous groping claims resurface. I’m sure the Guardian will support him though!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/oct/03/usa.filmnews
We know the lower half of the brain shrivels up with steroid use. The upper half must, also.
They tend to elect some real high voltage-guys on the left coast. /sarc
As for the Hummer, Arnie was going to have his converted to hydrogen by a friend of mine, but backed out of it.
How seriously do steroids affect the brain?
In some cases, steroids can very seriously affect the brain.
In people with bipolar disorder, or a potential for BPD, it can provoke hypomanic or hypermanic episodes. Hypomania can result in the person making decisions with adverse consequences for themselves or those close to them.
https://www.mdedge.com/currentpsychiatry/article/62206/corticosteroid-induced-mania-prepare-unpredictable
What Brain?
Yeah, what is the saying about a fool and his money are easily separated?
Granted, I doubt he’ll Terminate his own money in this venture…
But…..he’ll be back.
He just won’t go away.
his new movie line:
“I’ll be an idiot”
While they are all trying to play up to their base…..their base is shrinking…and the rest of the sane world is so totally over it…
posting this again…..I’m in shock
Even Scientific American is mocking them…..now
Should We Chill Out about Global Warming?
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/should-we-chill-out-about-global-warming/
Yes, but the adverts – they look like they came out of a comic… wait, sorry..
If comments are not allowed at the SA blog… is it really a blog?
So I take it he has stopped using oil because it is so dangerous to the planet.
Arnold should be tried as an accessory to murder.
Especially during the years when he was playing the Governator role, he would fly from Santa Monica airport to Sacramento nearly every single working day so that he could be home at night to play the role of good father. It wasn’t a piston engined propeller plane…
Can we sue on behalf of funeral homes that have NOT had to bury the many more that have not frozen to death?
Well, part of the time he was home at night to play the good father, he was also screwing his maid.
She was his wife’s maid.
Yes that is the problem with his stupidity, unless he has stopped using oil he is complicit in any murder. The leftist lunatic media reporting this sort of rant won’t push him about that because it doesn’t fit the agenda or they aren’t smart enough to see the issue.
Black Plowman is a huge hunk of flaming ignorance.
What do ambulances, medical helicopters……. and so on run on saving millions of lives. Can’t see this one being take too seriously.
Might be TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome)
I think that’s it.
“…from the guy who popularized the gas-guzzling CO2 belching Hummer military vehicle for his own LA commutes.”
Well, he’s really sorry, he won’t do it again, and neither will you.
At least it gets better mileage than his other vehicle.
…and doesn’t tear up the road as badly…
That might be even worse fuel mileage than his Unimog.
https://jalopnik.com/of-course-this-is-arnold-schwarzeneggers-vintage-merced-1752850282
Some people will do anything for publicity.
An ego is a terrible thing to waste.
Can you GET any more hypocritical and unaware, Arnold ?
THE PREDATOR is still one of my favorite movies, though. I wonder what the “carbon footprint” of that movie was. Someone should do a table on this — carbon footprints of motion pictures.
Ahnuld, the thinking man’s blockhead.
Was this before or after his latest film dumped MILLIONS of tons of CO2 into the air? Is he hoping time travel is real like in the Terminator, or what? Sue Arnie—he’s the one killing the planet.
Most people get to movies in cars. Those cars add to the CO2. Since Arnie already knows this, he must be knowingly committing murder as well. Also takes energy to process a court case. By suing Arnie is murdering even more people.
1. Defendants are innocent until proven guilty.
2. This is an inherently unprovable case.
Any judge who doesn’t immediately throw this suit out should be removed for incompetence.
Arnie fails to realize that he used their products for many years and still does NOW, thus he already has no standing.
This is also a case that cannot be brought by a private citizen.
This is so ridiculous that it’s hardly worth wasting logic on it – BUT – if you’re going to say that a murder was committed, then you have to show WHO, WHEN, and HOW that person was killed. Not some vague “a lot of people”, but a specific person, with a name, with a place.
And once you have that, you have to show HOW the person you blame was the “Proximate Cause” of that person’s death. I don’t think “oh my god it was 1/10 of one degree hotter than I thought it should have been last June 19th, and that’s why he died!!!” is gonna cut it.
oh by the way if this supposed death happened somewhere else in the world then you need to go to THOSE countries and play with their legal systems, US Courts probably do not have jurisdiction.
“This is also a case that cannot be brought by a private citizen.”
Exactly. Murder is a criminal charge. Arnie suing is a civil action.
He’s not a lawyer, but a term as governator should have taught him such basics. I take his stated action as a declaration of stupidity.
So he’s representing himself?
I read the original story.
He’s working with (Democrat) State Attorneys General. They’re the ones that will be suing.
At tax payer expense.
He’ll probably bring the case in the Ninth Circuit, so it will not be thrown out, and we the taxpayers will spend a fair amount of money on this foolishness.
All of California (and Oregon and Washington, two other looney tunes states) is in the 9th Circuit federal court of appeals. So if this money waste doesn’t get thrown out at the district level, it will go to SCOTUS. 9th is Most overturned Circuit in US: 80 % per the ABA. Only the DC based Federal appeals court is worse:84% (based in DC, mostly patent and trademark disputes, high reversal rate due to low number of cases, but with BIG impact).
Back in Dante’s day, they only had seven circles.
That shows how much Arnold has contributed to the human race.
“Only the DC based Federal appeals court is worse:84% ”
….
What about the 6th and 11th?
..
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/feb/10/sean-hannity/no-9th-circuit-isnt-most-overturned-court-country-/
9th has the highest number of cases overturned, but not the highest percentage. Rates are pretty close most years. Highest number probably due mostly to size, but SCOTUS doesn’t take cases randomly; 9th decides a lot of controversial issues and makes a lot of decisions just begging to be overturned.
Just goes to show that the people of California have a long record of electing whackos to governor. Moonbeam wasn’t the first.
I believe Moonbeam was the first. His first time around.
And, regrettably, won’t be the last.
We didn’t have much choice when Arnold was running. California politicians are an extraordinary kind of stupid. Just look at who we have in the Senate, House, and State legislature. It’s amusing that they attacked Trump’s mental fitness, when most of these politicians are just plain psychotic. (From the definition: Neurotic people make up fantasy worlds; Psychotic people live in them.)
I left off Governorship. But it is a target-rich environment when looking for wackos.
And psychiatrists charge the rent.
That was before the vegetarian poodle-clippers arrived….
California here I come.
How cranky do vegetarian poodles get?
There was a time when I was sorry Ahnold couldn’t run for POTUS – you know, back when he was making nice speeches at the RNC. The second he started blathering about global warming/climate change, I was extraordinarily happy he couldn’t even “try it.”
“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 people’s lives, that it would kill,” Schwarzenegger said Sunday.
The entertainment industry knew, prior to 1959, through marketing studies, that there would be audience reaction to their product that could be harmful or beneficial. That it could be risky to people’s lives to inundate them with depictions of violence to such an extent that it could be then considered a normal part of daily life, that doing so would end up getting some people killed.
“I don’t think there’s any difference: If you walk into a room and you know you’re going to kill someone, it’s first-degree murder; I think it’s the same thing with the entertainment companies and the driving actors” Schwarzenegger should have said.
Again, a form of projection associated with his (their) type of mental/emotional problems.
You can tell who the left are ling up for their next shakedown by who they start their campaign to demonize.
Elective abortion, huh. Perhaps environmentalism through regulatory arbitrage… over there, or through mass obfuscation of local effects. Neither human rights nor conservation, respectively. Certainly only a semblance of science practiced at the twilight fringe (“penumbra”).
Elective a-bortion, huh. Perhaps environmentalism through regulatory arbitrage… over there, or through mass obfuscation of local effects. Neither human rights nor conservation, respectively. Certainly only a semblance of science practiced at the twilight fringe (“penumbra”).
How many woman claimed he raped them again……
“Schwarzenegger suggested oil companies have warning labels on its products that are “killing people,” just like tobacco products.”
Fossil fuels are also saving many peoples lives .
LMAO. First, the ridiculous notion that fossil fuels are “killing people” is like saying a doctor who has saved thousands of lives, but lost a couple “on the table,” is a “murderer.” Second, hypocritical much?! The defense’s Exhibit A (should this ever make trial, which should NEVER happen, but then again there’s California) should be Ahnold smoking one of his big cigars at the wheel of his Hummer. Somebody’s got to have that shot.
Whenever I have had an operation, the surgeon always tells me of the risks, including death, that could occur when one is under a general anaesthetic.
The choice is mine as to whether to go ahead or not.
Similarly with driving. Can we sue the auto industry for selling a product that is known to cause injury and death?
The fool that calls Arnie an idiot is no drongo.
Ha ha ha, the dude got his millions working in an industry that uses a lot of energy sources in large amounts. Recall the heavy use of explosives and multiple car chases in some of his movies and the secondary cottage of support behind the movie making.
He smoked one too many cigars…….
Arnold was at one point reasonable. He called the legislators in Sacramento “Girly Boys”, which was in fact the most accurate description that could be used. But too much time in that cesspool rotted his brain and he became one of them.
The real sad part was that his failed terms in office paved the way for an even greater “Girly Boy”, Governor Moonbeam. Too much can be said about his follies, so that will wait for another post.
I left CA in 1999 for a number of reasons, and the politics there was definitely one of them.
I expect Ahnold will be calling for an end to violent films and video games that endorse MURDER, violence, mayhem, and mass shootings. The industry KNOWS that multiple psychological studies demonstrate a connection between violent films and games and mass murderers. Ahnold should be charged and jailed as an accessory to murder … mass murder.
From here we get the auto makers guilty of mass murder for knowingly selling vehicles that cause thousands of deaths per year. How about those who banned DDT resulting in millions of deaths from malaria. Electric companies that knowingly run hazardous and deadly power lines down our streets. Candy companies and fast food franchises that knowingly peddle death. Soon the only ones employed will be the lawyers.
According to this, he will be suing himself as well as all the rest of us.
This is a great point. It doesn’t only apply to Big Oil. Whenever “Greedy Corporations” are targeted with hate, it should be pointed out that the corporations are publicly owned. The beneficiaries of this “greed” is the American public.
And just think where all the unions’ pension funds, including those of government employees, invest their money? So the leftist of the Lefties are bankrupting the country by getting richer and richer off the oil companies! Andy they scream about AGW?
From the link: ‘Schwarzenegger said he’s 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.
‘“We’re going to go after them, and we’re going to be in there like an Alabama tick. …”‘
In response to the first paragraph: I wonder if they’re gonna’ find a law firm to take this on commission?
In response to the second paragraph allow me to tell you a story: Many years ago I went on a family camping trip. My brother’s son found himself with a tick attached to his little eight year old penis. Everybody, but everybody was very very careful about what they said to this boy about that because we all knew what would ensue if we said what we were thinking. Everybody, that is, except for my brother-in-law who left caution to the wind and told my nephew;
“Well, you’ve got a tick on your dick!”
I don’t know how many suns rose and set, how many seasons changed, before my nephew finally grew tired of telling everyone (near and far, old and young, he and she, and transgendered) that he once had a tick on his dick. It was thigh slapping poetry.
Let this be a warning to anyone who starts talking about ticks.
you remind of the old story about 2 aggies out hunting in the woods, when one of them was relieving himself and got bitten by a snake in the same place. So he yelled and asked his friend to help, so his buddy said “I don’t know what to do, I’ll call a doctor!” (and this was in the old days, nowadays this advice is no good anymore) BUT at the time, he called the coc and asked what first aid he could us for a snakebite, and the doc said “cut and suck, cut and suck!” So, he went back to his buddy, and buddy asked “What did the doc say? What did the doc say??”
“He said, you gonna die.”
Oozy 9 millimetre. It’s the steroids….