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(66,388 posts)Are you able to copy and paste it into your post?
@donwinslow
Arnold Schwarzenegger Offers to Pay to Reopen Closed Polling Places Across the South https://yahoo.com/entertainment/arnold-schwarzenegger-offers-pay-reopen-054241298.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr via @Yahoo
Aristus
(66,388 posts)Arnold has come a long way since being the 'Governator'.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)NBachers
(17,120 posts)experience -
Issa'd pumped millions of his own dollars into the recall effort; he thought it was his Big Chance to kick Gray Davis out and take his office away from him.
PTWB
(4,131 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)BComplex
(8,053 posts)That would be good!
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)onetexan
(13,043 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)I hated him as governor.
Grokenstein
(5,725 posts)as was everything else about his governorship. But if he's legitimately turned his shit around, that's terrific; Senator Byrd proved even the most vile turd of a man might change for the better. I sure wouldn't mind being able to watch Total Recall without the urge to puke.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Redemption for Ahnold
Traildogbob
(8,756 posts)Now he gets to actually be a real hero not just play one. I would love to see him fully armed with all the Expendables at polling places daring trump Terrorists to say something, decked out in WalMart Camo, military surplus gear. (All too chicken shit to have served)
Bravo Arnold. Bring the mini donkeys!
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)I hate to admit it but I enjoyed all the EXPENDABLE movies. Have 'em on b-ray. All the TERMINATOR movies, too.
Traildogbob
(8,756 posts)Not Oscar type performances but damn entertaining. I love seeing bad guys getting asses kicked, want that euphoric feeling November 4th. Maybe Arnold can provide the one liners for that historic day.
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)The Running Man might be one of my fave movies of all time. "You get so pale in prison." "You have a travel pass. Now I have a travel pass." "Killian! Sub-zero, now plain zero." And of course, "I'll be back."
padah513
(2,503 posts)Too bad most of those places were closed by design. Just look at Georgia.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)on his post governorship war on partisan gerrymandering.
mucifer
(23,550 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Given half a chance, I suspect Whiskey would chew my leather shoe. Lulu is a darling.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,011 posts)sl8
(13,787 posts)Arnold Schwarzenegger terminates troll who questions need for Special Olympics
Schwarzenegger wrote: "As evil and stupid as this comment is, I'm not going to delete it or ban you (yet) because it's a teachable moment.
"You have two possible paths ahead. Right now, I guarantee you that these athletes have more courage, compassion, brains and skill - actually more of every positive human quality than you.
"So take their path - you could learn from them, and try to challenge yourself, to give back, to add something to the world. Or you can stay on your path, and keep being a sad pitiful jealous Internet troll who adds nothing to the world but mocks anyone who does out of small-minded jealousy.
"I know that all you really want is attention, so let me be clear. If you choose to keep going this way, no one will ever remember you."
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llashram
(6,265 posts)the potential to teach a mean-spirited person that they can learn and grow
mainer
(12,022 posts)He needs to join Arnold in keeping polling places open.
Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)Right now, Joe doesnt need the money
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)As soon as he figured out he couldn't take everything to the "peeeeple" of California and get his way, he settled down. He hates Trump, for sure.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)and to his credit, he acknowledge the horrible defeat and said something like, "The public has spoken", and started governing closer to the center. Still a republican, but closer to the center.
shanti
(21,675 posts)and other state workers through the furloughs, $15,000 to be exact. He was voted in by the cult of celebrity. Sorry, I'll never like him, no matter what.
JI7
(89,252 posts)that's why he won. But he was awful st the job.
ananda
(28,866 posts)The cult of celebrity just has its own energy.
Qutzupalotl
(14,317 posts)and not give the money to election boards and hope they use it as intended.
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)He certainly has no love for Trump or the extreme right, and has not been silent about it.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Thats the one where he tells how he was born in 1947 in Austria: a country of broken men, full of shrapnel and shame for having followed fascism. For anyone who would listen, it was a warning to stop effing around with the country we have.
I like him very much as an ex-governor.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)druidity33
(6,446 posts)NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)the t-bagger full blown fascist type. Maybe he and other repugs who think his way can transform his party back to its roots and away from fanatical fascism.
tblue37
(65,407 posts)Azathoth
(4,610 posts)His kind of Republican got stomped out about 30 years ago.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)That is, until he crashed and burned in HIS 2005 California referendum special election
Schwarzenegger called the election to allow voters to decide on propositions regarding teacher tenure requirements (Proposition 74), the use of union dues for political campaign contributions (Proposition 75), state budgetary spending limits (Proposition 76), and redistricting (Proposition 77). Schwarzenegger originally proposed a fifth proposition on the issue of public pension, but dropped that proposition amid criticism that the proposition would eliminate death benefits to widows of police and firefighters who died in the line of duty. The four propositions that made it to the ballot eventually came to be known as Governor Schwarzenegger's Reform Agenda. The Governor claimed his agenda would clear the way for correction of the problems he was elected to solve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_California_special_election
crickets
(25,981 posts)nolabear
(41,987 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,743 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Way to go, Arnold Schwarzenegger!!!!!
catbyte
(34,403 posts)PatrickforO
(14,577 posts)But Arnold paid for that - Shriver divorced him, and rightly so.
As to today's political continuum, Arnold might call himself a Republican, but these days Trump's base would call him a socialist, a communist or a marxist.
I've always liked Arnold. He's human. I mean, I'm 61 and have done some real stupid stuff in my life. I'm on my third marriage, so I'm definitely inclined to forgive any past peccadilloes and celebrate the moment!
catbyte
(34,403 posts)but I never doubted they were essentially good people who loved their country. Now, it's an authoritarian, fascist cult of personality ala 1933 Germany. Power is everything to them. And I'm sure most republicans these days despise him. The ironic thing is the republican party's journey down the crapper began with Saint Ronnie when he kowtowed to the Religious Right, giving Falwell, etc. actual political power. He opened Pandora's Box and now, even though they claim to revere Reagan, he wouldn't get past the first republican primary.
As far as his affair, meh. That was between him and his family. I couldn't care less. The only time I care is when these moralizing hypocrites try to legislate morality all the while having affairs and forcing their girlfriends to have abortions, etc. Arnold was never that brand of Republican.
PatrickforO
(14,577 posts)Wow.
Roy Rolling
(6,918 posts)He made mistakes, he tried to atone for them, his work today is beneficial.
On a personal note, respectful of everyone. As a producer on one of his movies,I went to set for lunch/business and accidentally sat in his designated chair in the catering tent while meeting with others. When he arrived, his assistants tried to rush me from the chair to avoid a scene, but Arnold arrived and insisted I sit in his chair.
It impressed me that he went out of the way to be gracious to a lowlife stranger like me, and I judge peoples character sometimes on how they treat strangers.
Arnold gets an A+++.
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)Also im thinking maybe Arnold has actually learned and tried to become better in life.
Upthevibe
(8,053 posts)Thank you for this post.....
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)He is one of the few Rs I like. He is generally funny.
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)but having a private citizen funding election procedures doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
I am impressed, if theres such a thing as impressed by a republican
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)mucifer
(23,550 posts)They close lots of polling places and have crazy long lines
BlueWavePsych
(2,635 posts)Laha
(407 posts)I'm giving myself away here, but I wish I could be curled up in his arms as I fell asleep. I would never feel more safe.
Starfury
(812 posts)Just don't forget why he was governor in the first place. He was maneuvered into office in a special election to protect Ken Lay & Enron, after Gray Davis' administration sued the energy company for price gouging CA during an artificially exacerbated energy crisis to the tune of billions of dollars. As governor, Arnold settled those suits for a fraction of that and declared victory for CA.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)to California's debt while in office. A mess Jerry Brown mostly cleaned up and left with a budget surplus.
The guy is an idiot and didn't have a clue how to govern. Not to mention his failure as a husband. For pete's sake, he had a baby with the housekeeper. Disgusting human being. An immoral moron.
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)a lot of dedication and his own code.
soldierant
(6,890 posts)Just as converts are often more devout than those born into whatever faith it is, so natural born Americans are far too often blase about voting. Naturalized citizens see it differently.
Even if their politics are not progressive - that can depend on a lot of things - they do value the vote.
NotANeocon
(423 posts)- and an ignorant prick to me.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)I wish more of the wealthy who have benefited by, whether they wanted it or not, the Bush and Trump tax cuts, would give back for their country like this.
How about buying picture IDs for those that can't afford them, in Voter ID States?
Donating to buy new postal sorting machines, so DeJoy can't whine about taxpayers
Roc2020
(1,616 posts)from voting always backfires then and it will backfire in 2020.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)he was never quite as RW fanatical as his fellow Repubs have become.
He has plenty of reasons to hate him for, but his politics weren't always that bad.