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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“Nothing to see here…. just an old man with dementia. Move along now. Move along…”
Arnold has reached that point in one’s life where people begin to worry about what will happen to their money and properties after they pass on…
Obviously, Arnold doesn’t want his money or goods to go to family members, so why not spend it all on lawyers?
That way, when Arnold passes on, he knows that he was not the cause of any corruption to family members; well, at least through bequeaths.
All of Arnie’s money and properties will go to already fully corrupt lawyers that Arnie can check on when they arrive at their, (and Arnold’s), eternal rewards.
Any riches Arnie bequeaths to innocent family members, he might never get future word about since those family members may get different, more pleasant, eternal rewards.
I used to think he was smart. Roids kill…brain cell at least. Too bad the makers of his performance enhancing substances didn’t put that warning label on their packages back in the 70s & 80s when Arnie was conspicuously consuming. It might have saved him from this jaw-dropping public disay of grotesque idiocy.
Arnie’s theatrics may be tipping his hand to a re-run for Governor.
Ha ha
Well, you know the old Hollywood story – the Devil made me buy that car.
‘“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.’
Where are those studies? Or did Arnie just make it up?
I’d be upset, too, if
I challenge anyone to find one person who has died because of oil induced global warming!, there are 7 billion plus people on this plants whose live are dramatically better because our use of oil to create energy. WAFing moron.
Sounds like Arnold needs to sued for making slanderous remarks…
Isn’t this the same guy who got both his wife and maid pregnant at the same time in the same house (smart wife found out afterwards and got a divorce) while acting as the California Governor driving around in his Hummer while smoking cigars? Not the smartest guy!
This is the same Arnie that encourages car usage by advertising car insurance while driving a Hummer isn’t it?, Funny how his morals get pushed to one side when their is a pay cheque involved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ADHb1p4lv8
Arnold is purely a loser who’s trying to brownnose his way back into good favor among his elitist friends – totally (and justifiably) destroying his career in the process. His former fan-base wouldn’t walk across the street to spit on him, and he sure isn’t making any new ones.
Maybe he should find who murdered his career and sue them instead. 😀
That case has already been ruled a suicide.
All these lawsuits against the oil industry boil down to one thing.
Due to the financial mismanagement of Democrat governments they are broke and they are looking for a sucker to get they out of trouble.
Shut down the wells in these states and refuse to sell the petroleum products.
See how long they last.
Unlike him, we would never suggest that he strap his mouth to the the tailpipe of his Hummer, thereby reducing his dino-sized “carbon-footprint” to zero. No, never.
Idiots like Schwarzenergerersereesee (sorry, I had a hate spasm on my keyboard) should be charged with murder for pushing CO2 reduction which would absolutely curtail foodstuff production and cause the death of millions from famine.
From the time the Industrial Revolution began humans started first to become wealthier and then healthier. Child mortality has decreased, food production has increased, heating, energy and clean water has become available to more and more people. Was this due to people smoking cigarettes or burning coal?
It’s another edition of the Weinstein Effect. Keep your maids and daughters away.
Excellent. He is a true leader in changing attitudes on climate change. Keep up the choir work Arnie – you are the role model to follow and setting a good example in comparison to the AGW-denying fossil fuel advocate Trump.
You forget the sarc tag
Arbie is a humungously successful wright lifter, a humungously successful actor and a very popular and effective Governor. Now he is campaigning against AGW as it is a cause he is prepared to put his talents and efforts into. No sarc tag needed my friend…
Arnie (or as you say Arbie) WAS as successful weight lifter, WAS a successful actor, WAS a popular Governor. He WAS these things and now his ego is looking for some additional adoration so what better way than to play the mindless drones that follow people like him.
Ivan, hugely successful steroid abuser, then Hollywood fantasy actor, then Unsuccessful Governator. You forgot a sarc tag, or else aint from the US and the TDS enjoyed by us Deplorables, or both.
Arnie was a popular and successful governor?
In which reality?
Ivan is a freelance proofreader who doesn’t proofread his own writing so he can’t get much work. Now he trolls blogs for Soros to make a living. Just like Arnold he’s too blind to see how foolish he looks.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-kinsman-27460a75
One of these days ivan will make sense.
Once again today isn’t that day.
Plus many.
One day Mark you will see it differently. It is always difficult to give up an entrenched position but in the light of increasing scientific evidence (not warmer missionary zeal which is how sceptics see it because they choose to ignore this overwhelming body of evidence), you will see why AGW needs to be faced up to.
Back at you oh clueless one.
Regardless, where exactly is this scientific evidence of which you brag?
If you want to talk about the increasing warming over the last 150 years, most of the warming occurred prior to the big run up in CO2. Besides, the average over the last 10,000 years has been as much as 3 to 5C warmer than it is today. So any warming is not only not unusual, it is returning us a return to average.
choir = good
Psychological projection.
Everybody has to have something that they are good at.
They should make Arnie the King of California.
Unlike tobaco, there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and plenty of scientific rational that the climate sensivity of CO2 is zero. If CO2 were really a problem it is not the fossil fuel companies that are responsible but the peope that make use of goods and services that involve the burning of fossil fuels. It is their money that keep the fossil fuel companies in business. Just think if, in response to such litigation, all the fossil fuel providers of the world stopped providing fossil fuels. Most of the people where I live would starve to death in short order because so much of our food is transported by truck.
From the paleoclimate record and the work done with models, one can conclude that the climate change we are experiencing today is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control even the fossil fuel companies. The extreme weather events and sea level rise that has been happening is part of the current climate and has nothing to do with climate change. If there are damages, the real culprit is Mother Nature and that is the entity they should sue. Lots of luck collecting on a judgement against Mother Nature.
Gave up smoking years ago. Haven’t given up trying to stay warm.
More RINO virtue signalling. It appears Trump Derangement Syndrome must become an actual psychiatric diagnosis soon. Unfortunately, modern medicine offers no known hope of a cure because Trump just keeps on winning. Very tough on Terminated Arnie and pals like Crumbs Pelosi, Shutdown Shumer, Lil Leaking Schiff, Sleepy Todd, Low IQ Waters, …
“Trump just keeps on winning”….correct, for example Devos is a real winner. See her on 60 minutes? Oppps, forgot about Roy Moore winning in Alabama.
DD, try tax reform, steel and aluminum tariffs, deregulation, jobs. Plinking dinky targets just explains why you are losing bigly.
Tariffs are a “win?” You ever study history? Ever heard of Smoot Hawley? Your conception of “winning” is predicated on ignoring the bad and emphasizing the good. It’s more like “treading water” where you’re not making any progress. He’s not “winning” and he’s not “losing”, but running like mad on a treadmill, and getting nowhere.
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Watch Pensylvania 18 tomorrow night.
Not only is his turnover rate for staff remarkable, but he’s had more subordinates indicted that any prez in recent history.
It’s funny how having a highly partisan Justice Dept can tilt those numbers.
Hillary should have been in jail years ago.
You are correct MarkW, with Sessions in charge, the Justice Department is highly partisan. Why hasn’t he put Hilary in jail yet?
It looks like the Intelligence Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has closed their investigation into Trump/Russia collusion during the 2016 election and has found no evidence that Trump ever colluded with the Russians.
David, are you really as ignorant as you pretend to be?
The previous FBI head gave immunity to pretty much everybody, with no requirements that they actually turn states evidence.
TA, the committee is partisan, and it is protecting the leader of their political party. You seriously expect a different outcome?
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MarkW, I’m not talking about the previous director, I’m talking about the current one, with Sessions at the helm. Oh, and for your information, Hilary was not granted immunity. Again I ask you MarkW, why haven’t they locked her up?
Failure to tape her testimony. ( by a demoted fan of hers in the fbi) Failure to question her obvious lies, like her feigned ignorance on what is classified and her signature on security where she signs her understanding and acceptance that ignorance is not an excuse, immunity to the chain of criminals beneath her, for exactly zero justice reasons, despite blatant destruction of evidence from bleach kit to hammering several phones, to deleting 30k emails, FBI members admitting she got a HQ special, the list goes on…
Do you have any evidence that the current director is corrupt? Or do you just assume he must be since he hasn’t arrested Trump yet?
David, your hatred of all things Trump has caused your reading comprehension to crash again.
I never said that Hillary herself got immunity. It would be unusual for the actual target of an investigation to get such.
And while offers of immunity for lower level players isn’t unusual, standard procedure is to predicate that immunity on the person actually providing usable evidence.
This was not done in this case.
David A, if she did all that why hasn’t Sessions’ DOJ arrest her?
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MarkW, please list all the folks that got immunity. Thanks in advance.
“Or do you just assume he must be since he hasn’t arrested Trump yet?” Patience cupcake, Mueller is working on it.
Mueller is working on padding his resume. Nothing more.
Waxman did enough policy damage to the country to dwarf all of them.
Every morning when I wake up, I check the news first just to make sure, and then I thank God Trump is still president. The alternative was just plain unthinkable.
The alternative would have been a disaster for the whole world. The U.S. would have continued its march to socialism and authoritarianism and no telling where it would stop.
At least with Trump we have a chance to get things back on track. And Trump is doing it despite the tremedous resistance he has to deal with. It’s pretty amazing to watch him just keep chugging right along, not distracted by the attacks from those who oppose him.
Degree Fahrenheit or Celsius.
Whichever you want. We’re flexible.
Stop burning fossil fuels Arny. The CO2 that you produce might be the bit that takes us past the tipping point and then you will be responsible for millions of murders. What a freak show Arny is.
Oil Companies should sue Arnold for Stupidity; Oil has Saved Countless Lives
Schwarzenegger to Sue Big Oil for ‘First Degree Murder’ The oil companies have saved infinitely more lives than their CO2 has killed. CO2 has boosted crop yields, lifting billions of people out of starvation. CO2 allowed oxen to be replaced by tractors, greatly reducing the workload on humans. Nothing has improved the standard of livings … Continue reading
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