Ah, the slippery slope

[khaosworks]

Sprechen Sie Englisch, Herr Gropenführer? By Mr. Terence Chua, Pissed Off And Loving It.

(thanks to mactavish for bringing it to my attention)

In an AP article, "San Francisco Honors Same-Sex Newlyweds", the Supreme Commandant of Stalag Kalifornia, Der Gropenführer Arnold Schwarzenegger is quoted as saying:

"In San Francisco, it is license for marriage of same sex. Maybe the next thing is another city that hands out licenses for assault weapons and someone else hands out licenses for selling drugs, I mean you can't do that," Schwarzenegger said Sunday on NBC.

I normally don't make fun of the way other people speak English, but I will in this case because I am a very, very small and petty man when it comes to numb-nuts like Schwarzenegger.

"In San Francisco, it is license for marriage of same sex." Well, fuck me.

As an encore, Arnold, why don't you for Great Justice, take off every Zig? You've been in the US how many years? There are New York cabbies just fresh off the last refugee plane from Baghdad just a step up from saying, "my hovercraft is full of eels," that speak better than you do. Repeat after me - a, an, the. A, an, the. Articles are your friends.

And of course, gay marriage is the same as a semi-automatic weapon spraying HORRIBLE FIERY DEATH and a drug fiend doped up on some primo horse. Fuckin' A, man - didn't you notice all those arms and drugs dealers standing on the steps of City Hall handing out ammo and vials of crack after the first couples got married the other day? All over the country, cities are just chomping at the bit to issue those drug dealing licenses. Mayors are just screaming to each other, "San Francisco did it, boys! The door's wide open!"

It. Simply. Boggles. The. Mind.

Can we recall this guy too?

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Well, the good news is that with New Mexico, Massachusetts, and maybe Chicago on the same path, it's becoming, to quote Arlo, a movement.

Yeah, yeah, I know all about the different sorts of movements. Let's just say that this one belongs onstage, in the spotlight, and applauded, okay?

Can we recall this guy too?

I'd rather forget him instead. Somewhere around the bottom of the Marianas Trench, maybe: "Oops. No suit? No tanks? Oh, well. Sorry, chum" ;-)

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

Alas, he won by a large enough majority that we need to give him more time to screw things up, first. Though since everyone's gotten their 'car tax rebate', maybe it would go differently. Yeah, and people ask me why I long ago stopped believing that Democracy was necessarily a good idea. There are far too many stupid people out there.

[mycroft.livejournal.com]

I just love the irony of the Governator speaking against assault weapons. Maybe he learned that from Sigourney.

[deekoo.livejournal.com]

If it's been six months, si, sen~or.

And anyone whose prior political involvement
includes a movement to make English the official
language of the US should use article, even
if he beed Slanduch.

[jost.livejournal.com]

Aside from the malformed sentence, surely you can see that he's exaggerating in order to make a point. I actually admire him for doing this as it shows that he's not letting the specifics of a topic affect his opinion that said topic is directly against the law. Personally, I am all for the state allowing same-sex marriage and I don't believe that Arnold really thinks that same-sex marriage is wrong either, but he is 100% accurate that California took a direct vote on the matter in question and the not-at-all-by-single-digits majority of the electorate said "no". I would think that Arnold was spitting in the very face of the law if he were to just ignore this direct violation of the law passed into effect not by the Legislature but by the People. I've no doubt that he, like myself, would much rather see the people involved in this (as the media seems to enjoy terming it) civil disobedience work collectively to change the law rather than blatantly defy it. If I were the presiding officer of a smaller group that had passed a bylaw in their governing documents and then the minority that disagreed with the bylaw just went ahead and did what they wanted any way in direct violation of the bylaws you had better believe that I would have a serious problem with it. You simply don't have to agree with the law to follow it, your honor. Surely you've hard at least one instance on the bench where you had to enforce the law even if you didn't agree with the very law you were enforcing?

[shannachie.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. You know, his German isn't much to write home about either. He has never lost his very local Austrian accent. Slightly rural.
Such a shame. One would think the electricity lobby that financed this entire election thing would have made sure he got a real good language teacher. Maybe he has the excuse that he was drunk? I always lose bits of my English grammar all over the place when I am under the affluence of incohol. Buy me a drink at the next con and watch me drop my articles...
And I am so glad I did not know about the potential danger or I might have been really worried about the two simply wonderful married (to one another) gentlemen who celebrated my birthday with me yesterday. So glad they never held anything more dangerous than my harp.

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

What annoys me is that IIRC (and my brain might just be full o holes on this, so I could easily be wrong) Der Gropenfuhrer had said during campaigning that he was pro-gay civil rights.