Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Humvee fan Arnold Schwarzenegger demonstrating his profound ignorance of climate issues.
Arnold Schwarzenegger mocks Trump on coal, asks if he’ll bring back Blockbuster next
By Saba Hamedy, CNN
Updated 0617 GMT (1417 HKT) June 29, 2018“The Terminator” has a message for President Donald Trump: Don’t go back in time to “rescue the coal industry.”
In a video uploaded to Facebook by media company ATTN: on Thursday, former California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger references a popular movie role he played to mock what he describes as efforts to “save an industry that is poisoning the environment.”
“So President Trump, I know you really want to be an action hero, right?”
Schwarzenegger says, while looking at a Trump bobblehead. “So take it from the Terminator, you’re only supposed to go back in time to protect future generations. But your administration attempts to go back in time to rescue the coal industry, which is actually a threat to future generations.”
He then compares Trump’s attempt to “rescue the coal industry” to rescuing other relics from America’s past.
“It is foolish to bring back laughable, outdated technology to suit your political agenda,” Schwarzenegger says. “I mean, what are you going to bring back next? Floppy disks? Fax machines? Beanie Babies? Beepers? Or Blockbuster? Think about it. What if you tried to save Blockbuster?”
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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/28/politics/arnold-schwarzenegger-trump-video-message/index.html
Arnie’s video rant;
Schwarzenegger seems to think the President is forcing people to use coal. Arnie thinks the USA should be investing in gas, wind, solar and geothermal energy.
As far as I know President Trump is not forcing anyone to use coal.
According to an internal White House memo obtained by Bloomberg a few weeks ago, President Trump explored providing support for energy suppliers who kept three months reserve fuel supply onsite, to protect grid resilience.
As far as I know this offer would in principle have been available for renewable energy suppliers who could demonstrate their ability to provide three months battery backup for their nameplate generation capacity. Of course, in the real world most renewable providers can’t promise a stable power supply for three minutes into the future, let alone three months.
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“It is foolish to bring back laughable, outdated technology to suit your political agenda,” Schwarzenegger says. “I mean, what are you going to bring back next?” How about railroad trains, the premier ground transportation of the 19th century?
I think “the wheel” qualifies under that description.
Let’s see, the coal industry being hindered by government intervention despite adapting and innovating greatly over 50 years, is not the same as Blockbuster [practically] going out of business because they took advantage of their monopoly for years and failed to adapt. Communists have trouble understanding how Capitalism works.
Class A hypocrite this Schwarzenegger person. Does he plan on replacing the engine in his surplus army tank with an electric motor and D-cell batteries? Will he retrofit his Gulfstream III with rubber bands?
http://www.airplanegame.us/top-10-celebrities-private-jets/
And as governor of CA, he often flew via private jet from CA to and from Sacramento vs living up their full time or flying via an airline:
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/07/local/me-arnold7
Loved his drive and accomplishments during his younger days. Don’t know why he switched to this green religion (environmentalism) loved by socialists.
Yeah, I love him as an actor. He’s so iconic. I just wish he and other actors would focus on what they are good at: acting.
Redbox is still around.
It was a hard thing to do and to time, but retrenchment was in order. It is obvious in hindsight.
I do not know that I could have sold that much property and fired that many employees.
Blockbuster could have survived in altered form.
Swartzenegger’s negatives are very high . It gets easier every day to skip watching his movies except for Terminator & Conan.
He keeps it up and those will be thrown in the dustbin, too.
Blockbuster still survives in places without good internet, like Fairbanks, Alaska. The failure of the company should be used as the poster child in business classes today for leadership failing to plan and adapt. From $6 billion in revenue to gone, all because they couldn’t foresee events unfolding right in front of them.
Sounds a lot like the story of Kodak.
Latest from the BBC
The UK’s catastrophic shortage of CO2 continues, supermarkets ration sale of fizzy drinks, … pigs stunned!
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44673648
meanwhile a bit further down the road Elon Musk and greens are set for a bit of an internecine fight.
Looking forward to it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5905675/Elon-Musk-build-worlds-biggest-battery-Britain-400m-solar-panel-plans.html
‘Schwartzy’ is a twerp, but I still like the clown.
I have science based degrees, does that make me qualified to act in crappy Hollywood blockbusters?
Yes. You might be the first smart male in movies.
Meanwhile:
See Mayim Bialik, Lisa Kudrow, Geena Davis, and Hedy Lamarr.
John Hultquist:
Hedy Lamarr’s engineering “hobby” was amazing.
Another actor who actually got an engineering degree,
but never used it, was Dolph Lundgren
He’s got a master’s degree in chemical engineering,
and left behind a Fulbright Scholarship at MIT,
to become an actor.
He speaks five languages,
and was the European karate champion
in the early 80′s.
A bizarre biography.
This precisely the reason his scripts were three word sentences as few as possible.
Time to retire Arnold. Your politics is worse than your acting.
What we see here is an attempt by Arnold Schwarzenegger to bring back Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has become irrelevant.
This is sort of like trying to find a use for an empty beer bottle.
“I really don’t care. Do U?”
In other words, if you are a notable actor, you can say, “I’m rich, I’m famous, I’m successful, I’m comfortable times ten compared to most people, and it’s all because of fossil fuel, BUT if you are not already all of these things, then you cannot do this the way I have done and AM still doing it — you have to actualize my fantasy of neoEden — I did all this acting for YOU to nurture YOUR fantasies, now it’s YOUR turn to nurture MY fantasies.
Coal has already been “rescued”, Mr. Schwartzy… Too bad you haven’t taken the time to figure that out, sir.
Do steroids cause brain damage?
Arnie says no, they don’t cause dain bramage.
Steroid poisoning.
Bought and paid for by the globalists. Enemy of humanity.
Then he can tell China to stop building plants every day.
Even more frightening than, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” — (bureaucrat of choice), is “..I’ll be back!…”
Arnie should go back in time. And stay there.
Floppy disks? I thought the brainless Strawman belonged to an entirely different movie.
Slacko from Oz
Schwarzenegger obviously didn’t make reference to going back in time to rescue his marriage to Maria Shriver . . . that would have required him to, ahem, terminate himself.
Well thst does it!
We had better get rid of the oldest fsiled energy source, wind.
Thanks, Governor!
The future will thank you.
Pity can’t just reflash his chip like they did in the movie.
Arnold, Arnold, Guess what? You’re not an “Action Hero” either.
You just played one in the movies. (Many of them I liked. One of my favs was “The Last Action Hero”. When my kids were young, I had them watch it. Good job (unintentionally) showing the difference between Hollywood and Real Life.)
Trump is actually producing “action” despite resistance from all sides to regain and/or preserve what this nation was founded on, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights.
He may not be perfect but he certainly comes closer to a real life “Action Hero” than you have…in real life.
(Anybody know how to add a “multiplier” to the +/- thing?8- )
Ahnold reading Trump’s mind.
““So President Trump, I know you really want to be an action hero, right?”
So Ahnold, I know you really didn’t want to be such a failure as Governor.
If President Trump started (S)hitting bars of Pure Gold, the left wing nuts would complain that he was stealing the wealth of the unknown universe !!
“It is foolish to bring back laughable, outdated technology to suit your political agenda,” Schwarzenegger says. “I mean, what are you going to bring back next? Floppy disks? Fax machines? Beanie Babies? Beepers? Or Blockbuster? Think about it. What if you tried to save Blockbuster?”
There are 3rd graders that can frame this better.
FWIW, the Terminator franchise is set to release a 6th movie in 2019. Arnie’s likeness was CGI’d in the last one or two versions, but he’s back in full for this one. First one was good as was the 2nd…although the CGI hasn’t stood the test of time. But a 6th? Come on. At least it’s not for a political agenda…is just for $$$$$$$$$.
I be baaack….someday !!
Take away fossil fuel Arnold and we will be going back to “ Floppy disks Fax machines Beanie Babies Beepers Or Blockbuster Think about it bobble head, everything after these that you enjoy now (i.e. cellphone, cds/dvds etc.) are made with Petroleum. Dummy! Must have taken too many hits to the head. I suggest you stick to making muscle movies.