Arnie says...

"To go and ban people who have a green card? That means that the United States of America has given you permission to work here permanently in this country and you are on the way to permanent citizenship. I was in that position.
To get stuck at the airport and someone says to you you cannot come in, or students that have been studying at Yale or Harvard or different universities all over the country and they have gone to the Middle East home for a few days on vacation to visit their parents and then to come back again to continue the study ... and now they are told that they can't come in? I mean it's crazy. It's crazy and it makes us look stupid when the White House is ill prepared to put this kind of executive orders out there. (...) I learned very quickly that I have to be more inclusive."
Arnold Schwarzenegger



Last October, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that for the first time since he had become a citizen in 1983, he would not vote for the Republican candidate for President" (via).

Update (2 February 2017)
Arnie's response to Trump who at the National Prayer Breakfast said he wanted to pray for Schwarzenegger: LINK

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Photograph ov Arnold Schwarzenegger by Annie Leibovitz via

Women and their hormones

“I was asked this morning on Fox News whether a woman’s hormones prevented her from serving in the Oval Office."
Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett Packard CEO

According to a recent survey (n = 2.000 from across the UK) carried out by Expert Market, more than half of people (54%) believe that women's behaviour at work is dictated by their hormones. Most of the people also think that gender bias is a myth, do not believe in the gender pay gap (63%), and say that they have never experienced discrimination against women (86%) (via).



“The survey essentially shows that most people do not think there is much discrimination going on, but conflictingly, they do believe in damaging stereotypes such as that the women they work with make decisions due to their hormones. It might appear harmless enough to say these things, but when these same people are making hiring and firing decisions you have to believe it might impact who they select for a role or how they interact with their colleagues.”
Grace Garland



Women being dictated by their hormones is a wide spread myth. This year, a female businesswoman in Texas said Hillary Clinton should not be president because her hormones may make her so irrational she will start an unnecessary war. Time magazine declared Hillary Clinton the perfect age to be president ... because she is a postmenopausal woman who is biologically primed to lead (via).

"We're built differently, we have different hormones. In the world that we live in, I understand that there's equal rights and that's a wonderful thing and I support all of that. I don't support a woman being president."
Cheryl Rios, CEO of Go Ape Marketing



I can only come to the conclusion that I should have listened to feminist current:

"Ladies, have I got a protip for you! Do not Google any topic that includes the words female, leadership, and hormones. Don’t do it because you will see pages and pages of articles like this and this and this, leading you to assault your own computer, and repairs will be expensive. Also, “hormones” will be blamed for the tech-assault."

::: Arnie taking a ballet lesson from Marianne Claire in October 1976: WATCH



photographs of Arnold Schwarzenegger (1976) via and via and via and via

Hasta la vista.

Jakub: What's wrong with U Arnie? I have to unlike...
Arnie: Hasta la vista.



Shortly after yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court's decision to guarantee same-sex marriage as a fundamental constitutional right in all U.S. states, facebook launched a tool to let its users show their support by using a rainbow filter (via).

“I’m so happy for all of my friends and everyone in our community who can finally celebrate their love and be recognized as equal couples under the law. We still have much more to do to achieve full equality for everyone in our community, but we are moving in the right direction.”
Mark Zuckerberg

A great many celebrities used the rainbow filter, among them Arnold Schwarzenegger. When one of his followers communicated that he had to "unlike" (Jakub got 293 "likes" for the comment), Arnie's hilarious response was: "Hasta la vista." (a comment with 646 "likes").

Update (28 June '15): After a short while, the scores of Jakub vs. Arnie were 757 : 4.722 for Arnie. By the next morning, the posting had been shared 10.000 times and liked 250.522 times.

image and facebook dialogue via