He told them “screw your freedom,” and went on a rant about how freedom requires “obligations” and that wearing a mask or getting vaccinated is the obligation in this circumstance.Īnd for good measure, Conan the Authoritarian added that anybody that disagrees with him is a “schmuck.” Well, we’re glad that Schwarzenegger’s freedom of speech brings with it the “obligation” to insult and demonize other Americans. Universe and his classic bodybuilding brand, but his recent comments were pretty shocking.ĭuring a recent segment with CNN, where the former governor was invited on to speak with Trump impeachment mascot, retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, and network pundit Brianna Golodryga, Schwarzenegger lost it over people who choose not to get the COVID-19 vaccines. ![]() In a video posted to YouTube on August 16, Singerman stated, “After much deliberation, we have decided at REDCON1 to no longer sponsor the Arnold Classic or any of the Arnold events around the world, and also no attend the Arnold events.” Well that’s a shame for the former Mr. Stick that in your “stogie,” Ah-nuld, and smoke it! REDCON1 founder Aaron Singerman has since decided to terminate his company’s sponsorship of Schwarzenengger’s bodybuilding events and conventions. But former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent live comments telling a portion of America, “screw your freedom,” are seeing some pushback from the bodybuilding community.īodybuilding supplement and lifestyle company REDCON1 didn’t take too much of a liking to Terminator actor’s over-the-top TV attacks on Americans who refuse to get the vaccine. ![]() "And when you start lying to people and the nation experiences these kinds of lies and deceits and cheating and corruption, and all this sort of thing, it goes down a dangerous road and it has to be stopped at all costs.Cable news evenings are filled with elitist jerks who get on to say horrible things about freedom-loving Americans without much consequence. "And I’m talking now about before the Second World War how my father and people in Austria and Germany and all over Europe were actually lied to by a regime that was very evil," he said. He was born and raised in post-war Austria before immigrating to the United States in 1968. Mr Schwarzenegger said he was compelled to make the video after seeing the similarities and potential dangers to the rise of fascism in Europe. The two shared an affinity of sorts after Mr Vindman saw Mr Schwarzenegger’s video response, holding the sword from Conan the Barbarian, to denounce the US Capitol riot on 6 January. Mr Schwarzenegger was speaking to promote the new book Here, Right Matters by Alexander Vindman, the retired army lieutenant colonel who served as a key witness in former president Donald Trump’s first impeachment proceedings. "Yeah you have the freedom to wear no mask, but you know something, you’re a schmuck for not wearing a mask because you’re supposed to protect your fellow members around you, it’s just that simple," he added. "We put the traffic light at the intersection so someone doesn’t kill someone else by accident… you cannot say, ‘no one is going tell me that I’m going to stop here at this traffic light here, I’m going to go right through it’, yeah, then you kill someone else and then it is your doing," he said. ![]() If people don’t wear a mask they are responsible for killing anyone who catches Covid from them and dies, he said. Rather, wearing masks and taking vaccines is no different than obeying the rules of the road while driving. He went on to explain that people cannot just say they have the right to do whatever they want when their actions affect other people. ![]() No, screw your freedom," Mr Schwarzenegger said. "There is a virus here, it kills people, and the only way we prevent it is get vaccinated, get masks, do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about ‘well my freedom is being kind of disturbed here’. The treatise against individual rights in favour of the collective good came moments after the Austrian-born actor warned of rising fascism in America by comparing the pro-Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol to Adolf Hitler’s Brownshirts before World War II. Former Republican governor and action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger told Americans who refuse to get the Covid vaccine or wear a mask to "screw your freedom", because with great freedom comes great responsibility.
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