Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Rep.) endorses Kamala Harris in SEARING Message
Arnold Schwarzenegger is confirming his choice for the White House. The Republican and former California governor announced his decision to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 election, explaining in a lengthy and searing social media message on Oct. 30 that despite his party affiliation he believes the Harris ticket is the best way to “turn the page” away from what he called “four more years of bulls***” should Donald Trump get re-elected.
“To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious,” he wrote in part, an apparent reference to Trump’s recent rally comment in which he called the U.S. a “garbage can for the world.” Schwarzenegger clarified that he has issues with both Republican and Democratic policies and disagrees with much of Harris and Walz’s platform, but despite wanting to “tune out” from the political discourse he noted that he is ultimately an American first. “I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do,” he added of his rare public endorsement. “You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers message against hatred in first visit to Auschwitz
The former California governor and ‘Terminator’ actor meets with Holocaust survivors, vows to ‘fight prejudice together’ and return to the notorious death camp in the future.
OSWIECIM, Poland — Film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the site of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Wednesday, meeting a Holocaust survivor and the son of Holocaust survivors to deliver a message against prejudice and hatred.
The “Terminator” actor and former California governor viewed the barracks, watchtowers and remains of gas chambers that endure as evidence of the German extermination of Jews and others during World War II.
He also met with a woman who as a 3-year-old child was subjected to experiments by the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
“This is a story that has to stay alive, this is a story that we have to tell over and over again,” he said after his visit to the site of the death camp, speaking in a former synagogue that now is home to the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation.
He stood alongside Simon Bergson, who was born after the war to Auschwitz survivors, and mentioned his own family history.
“I was the son of a man who fought in the Nazi war and was a soldier,” the 75-year-old Schwarzenegger said.
He said he and Bergson, who are close in age, were united in their work.
“Let’s fight prejudice together and let’s just terminate it once and for all,” Schwarzenegger said.
His visit to the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during WWII, was his first and came as part of his work with the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, whose mission is to fight hatred through education.
He received the foundation’s inaugural “Fighting Hatred” award in June for his anti-hatred stance on social media. He said he couldn’t attend in person then because he was filming a new action series in Canada and was in a “COVID bubble.”
After his visit to Auschwitz, he vowed it wouldn’t be his last.
“I’ll be back,” he said
Schwarzenegger, who is originally from Austria, has spoken openly in the past about his father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, being a Nazi soldier during the war.
He told Russians in a video posted on social media in March that they were being lied to about the war in Ukraine and accused President Vladimir Putin of sacrificing Russian soldiers to his own ambitions.
In that video he brought up painful memories about how his own father was lied to as he fought, and how he returned to Austria a broken man, physically and emotionally, after being wounded at Leningrad.
Historians estimate that around 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz during the war. Around 1 million of them were Jews. Some 75,000 Poles were killed there, as well as Roma, Russian prisoners of war and others.
(source: timesofisrael.com)
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