In case you haven’t been following the story because you’ve been in a coma up until this very moment, shit has really hit the fan for Donald Trump and this whole ‘Grab her by the Pussy’ Gate. Since the absolutely disturbing video leaked of him bragging about assaulting women, every Republican under the sun has come out against him, even his vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence.
While I actually applaud most Republicans for publically saying they won’t vote for Trump and that he should step down from the race, one Republican really has me amused with his Donald Trump hate, and that’s none other than California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Given the aftermath of the whole Trump scandal, every member of the party Trump is actually running for came out of the wood work to go ‘No, no, no. We’re out. We can’t be associated with this mess anymore. It was fine when he was just racist and body-shaming women, but now that he’s talking about assaulting women we really need to stop showing any support whatsoever for this guy. We’re with Mike Pence, though. He just hates the gays and we’re ok with that.’
In Hollywood, the two most notable Republicans are Alec Baldwin, who has been KILLING IT with his critical impersonation of Trump on Saturday Night Live these days, and, of course, Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. While Alec Baldwin has been publically mocking Trump for a while, Schwarzenegger has finally joined in as a mega famous Republican who is not here for Donald Trump. Arnie recently put this statement on his Twitter and Instagram:
While I totally appreciate this statement and I think it’s a really significant to the Republican party, two things really stood out to me:
- This man was inspired to become a Republican because of RICHARD FUCKING NIXON??!! Literally one of the most shamed presidents of all fucking time?! Tricky Dick?!
- Arnie is speaking out against Donald given the outcry over Donald’s statement about groping women, right? I mean, he probably wouldn’t have released this statement when he did if it wasn’t for that. Which is funny, since the only other famous man I can literally imagine saying that he is such a big celebrity that he can just go around grabbing women by their pussy is LEGITIMATELY Arnold Schwarzenegger! Seriously, I’m sure a video of him saying almost the exact same shit probably exists out there!
If you Google ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger Groping Allegations’ you will find a long and disturbing list of accusations made against Arnold by dozens of women over dozens of decades.
In a 1977 interview with Oui magazine, Arnold brags about gang-banging a black woman with his friends:
Body builders party a lot, and once, in Gold’s–the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train–there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, we all got together. Not everybody, just the guys who can fuck in front of other guys. Not everybody can do that. Some of them think they don’t have a big enough cock, so they can’t get a hard-on.
I’ll give it to him that I guess that seems to be a consensual gang bang, but still mega gross.
Back in the 90’s, Arnie had an affair with 16-year-old actress, Gigi Goyette, and btw, the legal age of consent in California was and is 18.
Since the 70s, literally dozens of women have accused Arnold of randomly grabbing their breasts, tweaking their nipples, grabbing their butts, and, in the 80s, he famously once told a waitress at a restaurant that he wanted her to go to the bathroom, stick her finger in her vagina, then come out and let him smell it. I couldn’t even make this shit up! He is literally an INCREDIBLY vile man, which makes it genuinely HILARIOUS for me to read his statement against Trump!
However, it really makes you think: if evil cartoon villain Mike Pence and serial sexual assaulter Arnold Schwarzenegger think you’re a vile human being who isn’t fit to be president, just how bad must you be?
Uh says
Alec Baldwin is 100% not a Republican…
carlo says
yeah smart guy. And they were all great politicians despite there transgressions moron. You need to stop being such a bleeding liberal and see both sides of an issue. There is no black and white anymore, it’s all grey.
Ivan Armoff says
If that’s all you can comment on Nixon, you don’t know much about the man or his presidency or vice presidency.
Every president from Reagan forward consulted Nixon, including Bill Clinton, at least weekly and often daily, by phone. That is, Reagan, Bush Sr. & Clinton from Jan 1993 thru June 1994. Ford consulted Nixon – but had less reason to do so with Nixon’s plans for winding down Vietnam already in place, and the National Security apparatus remaining in place as it was, and Alexander Haig overseeing the transition then moving back into uniform to get his 4 stars and become Allied Commander over NATO. He then returned to become Reagan’s Secretary of State.
The long term relationships and TRUST that Nixon had with leaders and nations across the globe are the reason that 20 years after he resigned the presidency, the leadership of the United States still required his formidable thinking power and strategic positioning of trade and policy, defensive posture and compromise with respect to treaties, and a long history of being welcome in those same countries AFTER his presidency, including China, during those years.
Carter was and has been a loner, on his own, until just recently when Obama invited him aboard Air Force One along with ALL other presidents, for Mandela’s funeral. Carter would likely not have looked toward Nixon at the time, but also because Nixon was literally fighting for his life in the immediate post Aug 1974 years, with blood clots in his legs moving into his lungs (pulmonary embolism) as well as presenting a massive stroke risk.
Nixon continued to write Best Seller after Best Seller upon leaving the White House BECAUSE of his intellect and understanding of world powers, and after Bush Sr., there hasn’t been anyone with such a capability (Reagan changed parties because of Nixon, and in 1960 was head of “Democrats for Nixon” – as did Texas governor John Connolly, (who was shot along with JFK in the same car), who then became a senator and Nixon’s Secretary of the Treasury (and first choice, before Ford, to be vice president).
The demand for Nixon’s public appearances began in the mid-80s, when the NY Economic Club – headed by Rockefeller, invited Nixon to present the keynote on the expectations we should have of Gorbachev. In the end, his prediction was dead on. He remained an integral member of the Council on Foreign Relations – despite having his name removed from the list prior to the 1968 election, and Kissinger, to this day, still tries to take credit for China – when it was Nixon’s appointment of the Envoy to China, who carried out all negotiations with China, as the voice of Nixon, during those 2 years, and then became the first Ambassador to China.
That person was George Herbert Walker Bush. It was Ford who, after China was open and the exchange of people and communication was open and flowing, who recalled Bush – to have him take over the CIA, after the demise of Richard Helms.
The impact of Richard Nixon on US policy extends all the way through to Bill Clinton and over 4 of the 5 presidents that followed him. You can be forgiven for ignorance with respect to Richard Nixon – he has been dead for 22 years, and there is not a lot of reference to him these days, but his resurrection as a beacon of respect was clear on the reception of magazines from Time & Newsweek, to Foreign Affairs and many others, beginning in 1985. He was honored at the GOP convention in 1988.
He admitted, to David Frost, that not immediately cleaning house, was the worst thing that he did, instead of debating whether the tense timing of the election should have changed that action. A year later, as things began to leak, the 1973 Israel/Egypt war and the position of the USA, and the need to not appear hamstrung by Watergate in the strategic decisions he made was critically important – when the Russian leader of the day, once Israel began to come back and win from near defeat, suggested that if the USA was not going to do something, they (the Soviets) would move unilaterally into the mideast – PERMANENTLY. Despite Watergate, Nixon – without the cooperation of his Secretary of Defense, ordered a worldwide alert of US Forces – all submarines were deployed, 4 million people were activated, and all 1100 Minutemen missiles were put on DefCon II notice. All US Carrier Task Groups were deployed and the Strategic Air Command was ordered OFF the ground, 24/7 – with the trigger cocked – and then Mr. Nixon said “Russia WILL be sitting this one out. I hope we need not make that any clearer than I just did…”
Status quo was returned, Carter went on to create the Peace Treaty / Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, and for nearly 40 years, that has kept the peace. I would not be surprised to learn that Nixon was consulted for that – but I have not read such, again, given the proximity to his resignation.
Do yourself a favor, and research it. You will find the criticism of Nixon on Watergate to be harsh, and as he, himself, agreed, deserved. But he long felt that history would vindicate his overall record. It did not take that long. LBJ is known for his liberalism and establishing Medicare. Nixon was far more liberal in social programs and spending for the poor, creation of WIC, and other related programs, and so many other aspects of domestic policy, not just international relations, that you do yourself a great disservice by not knowing these things.
I do not refer to some online crap written 10 years ago by a 24 year old who wasn’t even born during Reagan’s clown-like presidency. I’m speaking of those books by true historians – such as Stephen Ambrose, the articles in Foreign Affairs from 1973 through 1995 ( see for reference to RMN, not just the papers written by him, one from 1985 and the use of the weapons on Japan I strongly disagree with – yet maintain my reverence for the individual), material written or spoken in interviews by Dianne Sawyer – who was his primary speech writer and maintained a roll in his life, despite her fame on 60 Minutes and the network morning shows, as the one who was truly capable of writing his modern, post-presidency biography, read the several books Nixon himself wrote, and those written after 1985, not just trying to rehash old news, as someone always does, regardless of the celebrity, either when they are down for the count or no longer living to answer the charge.
Nixon’s legacy is a proud one, with spots of tarnish like every single human being that has lived. As a nation we would be far weaker without him, and as a nation we proved to weather the storm of a presidential resignation, and the equally negative and positive record of Carter – whose accomplishments were significant, but are buried under the clouds of the lack of confidence he conveyed to the nation, in both his military leadership and civilian leadership. Something NOT acceptable for a naval officer with a degree in Nuclear Engineering, who worked directly for Admiral Rickover, was part of the first deployment of nuclear submarines during the Cold War, and yet was viewed as “weak” by the nation, uninspiring my the lower members of the military, and only possessing strength when it came to addressing the handling of nuclear weapons – because of both his choice of nuclear scientist (and bomb designer) Harold Agnew as SecDef, and his own background to create the “nuclear boomer” and see through that the Ohio Class submarines were completed as the crown jewel of the strategic triad – especially because Nixon began the SALT Treaty – but underscored it with the construction of both the Space Shuttle and the Ohio Class subs – during a time of significant reductions in spending, anticipating the post-Vietnam period, April 1975 and immediately afterwards.
Ivan Armoff says
btw… Arnold’s actions at 25 – 28, are among the reasons that at 69, he can comment on those of a 71 year old man, who isn’t just a world renown gym rat and movie star (as he was through 1993), but a man with these issues and still conveying the attitude at 71 years old, while running for the position of President of the United States of America.
His viewpoint is also important because HE was once viewed as the one individual that the GOP Senate (Orin Hatch in particular, from 1988 forward…) discussed changing the Constitution of the United States to permit Arnold to run for president.
Everyone’s opinion counts, but not everyone’s opinion matters. Arnold’s MATTERS, for exactly the reasons above and more.