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Arnold Schwarzenegger to sue big oil companies for “first-degree murder.”
wattsupwiththat.com ^ | March 12, 2018 | Anthony Watts

Posted on 03/12/2018 10:03:22 AM PDT by PROCON

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.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: ahhhnold; bigoil; globalwarming
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To: PROCON
I've got to question his judgement.
21 posted on 03/12/2018 10:25:34 AM PDT by boycott
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To: PROCON

Ahhhnold’s brain has been terminated for some time.


22 posted on 03/12/2018 10:27:01 AM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: PROCON

From the most famous Hummer owner Go climb back on your maid and stfu


23 posted on 03/12/2018 10:31:06 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: PROCON

I don't think he understands how this works ...


24 posted on 03/12/2018 10:32:07 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: PROCON

Time to sue the pants off the devil. Class action lawsuit against governments for their horrific behavior the last century. The losses in property and life were unprecidented in planetary history. Over 100 million killed by direct government action.


25 posted on 03/12/2018 10:38:38 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: boycott

She can suck start a Hummer


26 posted on 03/12/2018 10:40:55 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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The steroids have done him in evidently....I would love to see CA without petroleum products...


27 posted on 03/12/2018 10:41:26 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: PROCON

So if Arnold is driving around in cars (and hummers) and flying on planes. Using these products that cause global warming, isn’t he responsible too? Apparently he’s smarter than everyone else and knows, yet he’s still driving and flying.

I think I’ll sue him for my future death due to global warming.


28 posted on 03/12/2018 10:44:04 AM PDT by No Socialist
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To: Steve_Seattle

There once was a man who did Roids
Who looked like one of those androids
It burned through his guts
And shrunk his wee nuts
and keeps passing his brains when he voids


29 posted on 03/12/2018 10:49:31 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: PROCON

The ME TOO bandwagon hypocrisy is hilarious:

“He stressed the importance of sexual harassment training, like the one he made his staff do once he was elected— including himself.”

And then he went out and knocked up the maid.


30 posted on 03/12/2018 10:50:26 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: PROCON

Didn’t this clown drive around in a Hummer?


31 posted on 03/12/2018 10:52:07 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: PROCON

Banging a Kennedy probably turned him into a liberal nutcase, long before he started banging the fugly Mexican maid.

The Austrian ahole really needs to go back there.

Phony driving a hummer.


32 posted on 03/12/2018 10:53:12 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (No DACA Caca....Send the Nightmares home. "Americans are Dreamers, too." President Trump)
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To: NohSpinZone
Didn’t this clown drive around in a Hummer?

I recall hearing something about this, but I think it involved his maid?

33 posted on 03/12/2018 10:54:14 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: PROCON
Was it the years of steroid use that turned Arrrrnold into a liberal nutcase?

Not at all, El Neggar was always, ALWAYS a kennedy wanna be, he certainly lived the life at home! He just put on a very good act until he was safe in office and then if you look back he was a pretty darn good liberal, living the life he told others to eschew!

Hell he even brought back moonbeams enviro witch to run roughshod over the state driving business out and employees to the unemployment lines.

34 posted on 03/12/2018 10:54:16 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: wny

His muscles were the product of steroids, not manhood. They affected his brain.


35 posted on 03/12/2018 10:59:35 AM PDT by odawg
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To: PROCON

Arnold, your doing it wrong. Not even Al Gore would have made such a ridiculous statement.
I hope you don’t want oil company employees to be harrassed the way lumberjacks were during the era of the most sacred Spotted Owl. That would be irresponsible.


36 posted on 03/12/2018 11:01:11 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Steve_Seattle

Does his private plane have a label; his motorcycles; his hummer; his cigar collection? Would he also suggest putting warning labels on anabolic steroids? Should his bodybuilding dog-and-pony shows have health labels?

I suggest one large label for him...covering his mouth.


37 posted on 03/12/2018 11:06:08 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: No Socialist

It is not the oil company that releases CO2 into the atmosphere. It is the consumer who buys the fuel and then burns it who releases the CO2.

This is like suing McDonalds because somebody had a Big Mac for lunch and then went on to kill somebody in the afternoon.


38 posted on 03/12/2018 11:28:08 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: PROCON

Arnold needs to stick to things he’s good at, like impregnating the hired help.


39 posted on 03/12/2018 11:29:00 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: PROCON

40 posted on 03/12/2018 11:36:06 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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