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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Liberator on August 06, 2003, 08:08:25 pm
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For those who haven't heard, Arnold Schwarzenegger has annouced that he is running for Governor of the State of California. He will replace the current Governor, Gray(out) Davis, who is being recalled by people of California, because he has destroyed California economically.
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You mean, if he wins.
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That could turn out quite interesting. :cool:
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Originally posted by an0n
You mean, if he wins.
His opponent does not have the ability to beat him.
When asked whether he was a Democrat or a Republican he replied, "I am for the People of the State of California.".
He'll win, he's the Terminator for crying out loud.
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people didn't hear this before now? i saw stuff on the news around the time T3 came out...
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T3's out?
I really need to catch up.
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T3 kicks ass.
My own foibles with the movie are:
Too much T-X emotion.
Humor (especially the funny kind) has no place in Terminator films.
The music wasn't up to much.
So basically, less T-X emotion, more musical emotion and no goddamn cliched jokes.
Other than that it was ****ing awesome, as a stand-alone and as a sequel.
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Originally posted by Hippo
people didn't hear this before now? i saw stuff on the news around the time T3 came out...
He was thinking about it, however he hadn't finalized it until now.
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I like this- Enron didn't **** over California, Gray Davis did! You know, because Enron's just a bunch of bloated evil plutocrats who openly raped the state like a four-year-old at a Maryland truckstop and left its bleeding mangled corpse at the side of the road after the energy "crisis" (which was bull****, out here constant blackouts punctuated by the occasional brownout are known as "winter", and also most of the other "months of the year"), Davis is a Democrat!! That's like a Hitler, but worse!
Anyway, my money's on Larry Flynt. The king of Hustler can do nothing but good things for any state he runs.
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Originally posted by Liberator
"I am for the People of the State of California."
So he's running as a communist...
Bah. He'll win. That's why he decided to run as soon as his movie was shown to be a success...
All those stupid drunk dumbass fans in CA will vote for him nomatter what.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
at a Maryland truckstop
What do you know about the truckstop? :nervous:
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
So he's running as a communist...
Bah. He'll win. That's why he decided to run as soon as his movie was shown to be a success...
All those stupid drunk dumbass fans in CA will vote for him nomatter what.
So uh, run that by me again. What's wrong with Arnold again? Just because he's famous and appears to genuinely love America (or California, whatever.) He's a bad candidate?
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I have maintained for some time that "anyone off the street" is better than the current crop of politicians. Arnold fits the bill, and then some.
Basically, even though he is running as a Republican, I believe that he is more educated and more moral that the normal politicians, so I'm cheering for him to win. Being foreign, he doesn't take his power and riches for granted, he had to earn it, unlike most American politicians who were handed everyrthing they have by their daddies, and who don't even try to conceal their gross ignorance and/or greed.
I heard a short speech by him today on the TV. Its funny, everything he says it sounds like its comming from an action movie. Even when its serious, he sounds like he's ready to kick some ass and jump out of an exploding building:D :D
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I wonder if we'll see him do that 'shut the **** up' pose during debates... you know on the off chance that I ever meet Arnie, I'm going to tell him to run for President :nod:
On a side note, why won't my hash of Running Man download even a single kilobyte. WHY???
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He can't run for president. You have to be born in the US to be eligible.
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Originally posted by an0n
T3 kicks ass.
My own foibles with the movie are:
Too much T-X emotion.
Humor (especially the funny kind) has no place in Terminator films.
The music wasn't up to much.
So basically, less T-X emotion, more musical emotion and no goddamn cliched jokes.
Other than that it was ****ing awesome, as a stand-alone and as a sequel.
Funnily enough, I agree with you on everything you said - except the first and last lines. :)
IMHO, T3 was a good movie, but I guess my expectations were up too high by T2. I was sorely disappointed by the music score, and even when the "da-dum, dum, da-dum" did finally crop up (during the ending credits?!?!?!??), it was.... different. Too short.
Also, I'd add the overly-repeated theme of "T-X almost gets them, T-101 arrives at last second and delays her, allowing them to escape" to my lisk of yucks.
Anyway, back to Arnie as governor... does anyone else find it at least mildly hillarious that Arnie has bodyguards? I mean, they're half his size! :lol:
Originally posted by Knight Templar
He can't run for president. You have to be born in the US to be eligible.
*runs for president* :D
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
On a side note, why won't my hash of Running Man download even a single kilobyte. WHY???
Because the book is precisely one hundred million times better and you should be reading that rather than trying to obtain the awful, awful film version.
As for Arnie being a governor, start to worry when he wants to implement a computerised defense system.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
He can't run for president. You have to be born in the US to be eligible.
Well that's just plain racist :nervous:
Originally posted by 01010
Because the book is precisely one hundred million times better and you should be reading that rather than trying to obtain the awful, awful film version.
It's got Arnie in it. What's not to like?
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
So uh, run that by me again. What's wrong with Arnold again? Just because he's famous and appears to genuinely love America (or California, whatever.) He's a bad candidate?
From what I know, Schwarzy is very intelligent and potent. If he has good advisors and can adapt to politics, he mights be just very good.
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well... he isn't the first actor in predator to run for governor. He's just trying to copy Jesse Ventura.
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Funny thing is, the people who wrote the law stating you need to be born in the US to run for president, probably werent born in the US ;) Anyways, He's definitely better than the standard crop of career politicians. Think about it - he's damn rich, he doesn't have to give a damn about whether it'll benefit him personally or not, whereas most politicians don't think about anything *but* that.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
He can't run for president. You have to be born in the US to be eligible.
Yeah but his popularity as a Governorwill cause the 61st amendment to be....
Wait! That was Demolition Man not real life :lol:
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Originally posted by karajorma
Yeah but his popularity as a Governorwill cause the 61st amendment to be....
Wait! That was Demolition Man not real life :lol:
well... maybe demolition man will come true...
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wll, it wouldn't be the first tim USA has an actor for president :p
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Originally posted by Venom
wll, it wouldn't be the first tim USA has an actor for president :p
no, but on the other hand, all politicians are actors.
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Originally posted by Venom
From what I know, Schwarzy is very intelligent and potent. If he has good advisors and can adapt to politics, he mights be just very good.
Yeah...
KT: I didn't say there was anything wrong with it, persay. But He did choose to run at a time when anyone who seen his movie and liked it and is old enough (and registerred) to vote can, and just may...
There's no better campaign than an action movie. :p
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Originally posted by karajorma
Yeah but his popularity as a Governorwill cause the 61st amendment to be....
Wait! That was Demolition Man not real life :lol:
For some reason then i get the image of, stone and arnie, duking it out in a fight to the death for president :D
..... what it made me laugh ... :p
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he reminds me of a (somewhat) liberal Ronald Regan, he's better than 90% of our current polatitions
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
There's no better campaign than an action movie. :p
yeah, that's exactly what dubyou thought :p
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Originally posted by Venom
yeah, that's exactly what dubyou thought :p
Untastefull comment, but true...
If he wins, he should pick up the current governeer and throw hiim out of a window. Now that would be an entrance. Or perhaps, better yet, have him do the "You're fired" thing from True Lies and fire a missle into the current governer:lol: :lol:
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Stand Against the opression!!!
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Where's Stryke? I know he'll have something to say about that last post....
All he has to do to win is intimidate the other candidates... not that he has to make any concious effort to do that though....
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
I like this- Enron didn't **** over California, Gray Davis did! You know, because Enron's just a bunch of bloated evil plutocrats who openly raped the state like a four-year-old at a Maryland truckstop and left its bleeding mangled corpse at the side of the road after the energy "crisis" (which was bull****, out here constant blackouts punctuated by the occasional brownout are known as "winter", and also most of the other "months of the year"), Davis is a Democrat!! That's like a Hitler, but worse!
Anyway, my money's on Larry Flynt. The king of Hustler can do nothing but good things for any state he runs.
:p
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Originally posted by Bobboau
he reminds me of a (somewhat) liberal Ronald Regan, he's better than 90% of our current polatitions
Unlike Regan, Arnold doesn't look like he'll pull a complete 180 on everyone. Let's see Regan was head of a film actor's union, then as president what does he do? Busts unions... When in power he was led by the money, so we *WAS* one of the 90% of all politicians.
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Arnie will do well. Did you hear him slam Davis? He sounds like a straight shooter. "I have plenty of money, you don't have to worry about me selling out to special interest groups."
The only thing is, if he's elected, there is going to be one hell of a clean up in Sacremento. It sounds like the legislature is getting a **** load of money in pensions.
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my 90% comment was directed to arnie.
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wasn't, you mean.
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well I don't realy have anything against Regan ether
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[\Best Arnold voice]
Come with me if you want to live.
Should be his campaign slogan.
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i think that could be misconstrued as a threat.
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man, if he loses...
I can already hear the 'I'll be back' puns
:mad:
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Well, since they're already plasterring the 'Total recall' jokes in the papers because of the recall vote...
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There was a woman I know at my summer job who used to work on Broadway, and she met Arnold once, and she says he was a really nice, cool, down-to-Earth guy.
Arnold gets my vote to win (even if I don't live in California :D) :yes:
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OK. I don't want to spoil the thread by making it all political (thus sparking another vicious bout of arguing), but I think I have to say this: While Arnie is stinking rich, meaning he's less likely to be bought by some evil fatcat, he's way too similar (politically) to the big W for my liking - he's a neo-con. (Me being a leftie, that automatically brings him down in my estimation,but I'll leave that aside). Also, he's been living the high life for thirty-odd years, which means that he probably isn't exactly clued-up on most of the issues that the average Californian is concerned about.
Having said that, I think (and hope) that he'll win, because he's probably the best candidate for the job. All the other Republicans are scheming corporate scum (not true, but that's what it seems like), and the Democrats are either too spineless to make any changes, or are just liberal Republicans. :blah: Arnie probably won't screw people around as much as the rest would.
My ideal candidates would be Serj Tankian and Tom Morello (see Axis of Justice in the siggy) - they'd sort things out pretty sharpish...:nod:
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I support the OLD Republicans (Civil War time, their rolls + the democrats were actually reversed then), and I hate the new Democrats, because they're too chicken-**** to do anything different. If they'd take a stand on one damn issue, then that would be fine, but they're content with simply hiding under a rock for right now.
Republicans (right now) are dumbasses. They're all about corporate America, censoring public information, and not giving a **** about the average working Joe or our enviroment. By all means, go to war against Iraq, but at least say the REAL reason why you're doing it, not making a fool out of yourself + making the world hate you by lying + then getting ccaught for it.
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What UT said.
And "he's incorruptible because he's rich" has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard, ever. something like 70% of Congress is composed of millionaires. Bush and Cheney are in the top .5%, pretty much, and they're both so beholden to corporations that they can't take a **** unless there's an ulterior benefit to one of their millionaire buddies. People do not take large amounts of money because they need it. Quit eating those lead paint chips.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Quit eating those lead paint chips.
But, but, but they are so flavourful.
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They taste vaguely like Doritos without the MSG, I know.
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I read it takes $3,500 and only 65 (sixty-five) signatures to become a candidate in CA right now. Something like 10,000 signatures waives the monetary requirement.
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I'm there. VOTE ME! The candidate who promises to set the opposition's house on fire!
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
I'm there. VOTE ME! The candidate who promises to set the opposition's house on fire!
"I'd buy THAT for a dollar"