#dont engage with those barbarians

[themilfking]

This is your daily reminder that there is no value in the opinion of a Zionist.

[ushiwakatrash]

On your knees, King! (Part 2)

Bakugou x reader, Todoroki x reader

Fantasy AU

!Warnings!: Swearing, betrayal, lil dash of angst, shitty writing

Synopsis:

Bakugou is the esteemed King of the Kingdom of Barbarians and because he succeeded in ruling the lands that were once governed by the Yuuei Kingdom, an offering must be made for the peace of the people. As the so-called ‘black sheep’ of the royal family, the King of Yuuei a.k.a. your father, offered you--naming you the most precious thing he could give; but you know the truth behind his words.

PART II 

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The whole night Prince Shouto held you in his arms, gently running his hand through your hair as he cooed you to stop crying.

“Oh Sho, if only our engagement was not cancelled then I could have been happy to live the rest of my days with my best friend. But alas, this is only wishful thinking”

These words struck his heart as he yearned for the princess even more. His heart had been hers to begin with, ever since they were kids, ever since they met one beautiful morning in the garden where their parents often had tea.

Knowing she was to be given away when she was supposed to be his pained him. She saw the marriage as her marrying her best friend but for him, there is no one else who he is willing to grow old with rather than (Y/n).

A bitter taste was left in his mouth and before he even knew it, a tear started to roll down his face. The world had always been unfair for him and he almost had the only thing he could ever want, the Barbarians had to take that away from him too.

“Princess, I am still hoping your father changes his mind. I will try to convince him as best as I can” Todoroki softly said. He knew the chances were too slim but he still had to try.

His last string of hope got cut when he saw the broken smile of the princess. “I don’t think there’s anything we can do at this point. My father has already signed the papers. My life is over, Sho.”

“Don’t say that, milady. It may not be so bad. For sure they do things differently but I know they won’t treat you poorly. You are a grand token from the Kingdom of Yuuei and the um... future... queen of the.. Barbarians” The prince’s hands fell to his side and he balled his fists.

“You dont deserve this, (Y/n). I truly wish I could do something. I can’t give you up to that unsightly king! I... just can’t take it..” slowly Shouto got up and turned his back on you.

“Sho, what’s wrong?” he started walking towards the door and flashed a small sad smile “I don’t want to lose you, but it looks like the future is set on doing so. Rest, (Y/n). Goodnight.”

Silence surrounded the room and the princess was left alone to her thoughts once more. “Should I make that Bakugou hate me so he would want to get rid of me? Oh wait, if I become a nuisance, he might just go for my head!” she said to herself.

“If I do what he wishes, he might treat me well...” all that thinking and crying finally took over on the girl’s body and soon enough she fell asleep.

--

As the Prince excited her room, he felt his legs stagger and when he was already further down the hallway, his knees finally gave up. Immense pain clouded his heart as the news finally hit him.

He grew up with her, he shared his pain with her and he was ready to see her seated beside him when it was their time to rule over their empires. All because of that stupid king, all of his dreams were crushed.

Memories of them came flashing in his mind and he smiled a little when he remembered the time he fell in love. 

--

“I can’t stand how you look like your father!” those were the words he heard before the scorching heat of boiling water kissed his delicate face. What hurt the most was that his own mother was behind the ugly burn mark that’s starting to eat away his pale skin.

“AAAAAAAAAAH! NO PLEASE MOTHER, STOP IT!!!” the child prince’s cries filled up the whole room. The queen couldn’t believe what she had done and dropped everything she was holding. One of the guards herd the commotion and stood frozen as he saw the scene unfolding in front of him.

“M-ma’am, what happened here?” his shaky voice asked. “I- I d-didn’t mean i-it! It’s his father’s fault! Everything is his father’s fault!” Soon more guards entered the room and some escorted the prince to find medical assistance.

“Get the king, quick! We don’t know if we can arrest her majesty or not”

King Enji, mostly known as King Endeavor, quickly rushed to the room where his knights led him and saw the mess his wife had made. Knowing how big of a scandal this would cause, he announced that the queen had gone ill but in fact, she was hidden away in a room deep in the palace where only selected maids were to tend to her.

If ever palace staff were to spread the truth about Rei Todoroki, their heads would be chopped off in an instant. Out of the fear of the king and of course their lives, no one said a word.

--

When Princess (Y/n) heard the news she quickly dragged her personal maid out of the castle and demanded for a carriage pronto. Her palace staff scrambled to their feet to comply to the princess in a hurry. 

“Quick, to the Todoroki Castle, something bad had happened. Please sir make the carriage fly if you have to!” she pleaded. They knew their sweet little princess never demanded anything from them so this must have been a real emergency. 

When they reached their destination, (Y/n) jumped out of their vehicle and run towards her friend’s room. Her visit startled the maids because she had come without prior notice.

In a loud authoritative (but cute) voice she ordered the maids to immediately take her to Shoto. Without even knocking, the princess busted the door open and took the boy in his arms.

Instantly, Shoto felt the comfort the princess was trying to give. He cried as she cooed sweet words in his ear. When the prince calmed a little, the little girl cupped his tear stained face and gave a little kiss on his nose.

“You know Sho, you’ll always be the most handsome prince to me. Your face may change but you’ll always be my Sho!” she then kissed his scar and engulfed him in another hug “You’ll always be my prince Sho. It’s okay to get hurt and cry but you have to pick yourself up too. How will my prince protect me if he keeps looking down?” the sweet girl then beamed at him.

Her contagious smile made way to his and he knew everything would be alright. The girl had said everything he needed to hear.

So when Shoto fell for her, he sure fell damn hard.

--

Back to the present, a red strong dragon had just landed in the balcony of the royal castle of the Barbarians. He roared to let his master know he was home.

“What did you see, Kirishima?” the King went to pet his mystical dragon. In human form, the dragon would be able to talk so after receiving his well earned pats on the head, Kirishima transformed to a young buff man with sharp hair as red as his beautiful scales.

The red head knelt on one knee and proceeded to tell King Bakugou the events that happened. “Oh so she and that Todoroki bastard are friends, huh? But really, a grown ass woman sleeping over at his fucking castle? Tch. I’d rather not have that dual color haired bastard taint what’s going to be mine!” the Barbarian King was not happy with the scenes relayed to him by his loyal steed.

“(Y/n)... you better toughen it up if you wanna stay a fucking queen in my palace.”

--

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[purralyth]

How have things been going with Chariot and crew? Maybe I missed some things, but it feels like it's been awhile since I last heard of their shenanigans! Has the gf been helping out? Any crisises? (In the world around them or emotional?) What is the DEALIO I am ready to hear it!

haHAHAHA i’ll be honest i don’t talk much about their emotional/world crises because they are happening All the time. our dm wants to see us suffer. but let’s have a small summary shall we, i’m actually going to put this one under a read more bc we’ve done That Much

so first things first, the gang got shunted into the feywild, i talked about that much. that’s where we picked up our lovely little tiefling monk Fuarthas (Silence, back then) from his awful hag grandmother rosie, found chariot’s masked mom, and then got taunted by a fey demigod in his Hell Maze and he proposed to fuarthas and now they’re engaged because he’s a warlock now it’s fun shit. anyway. we get back to toril with the crew (and chariot’s masked mom’s ship, lovingly dubbed Eri’s Chariot after her daughter and her dead boytoy, that we thought we might have to leave behind) and we find out that in the MAYBE month-long period we’ve been in the feywilds, 2.5 years have gone by on toril. meteors have fallen from the sky, which is now a permanent blood red, people are chanting at these meteors embedded in the city like possessed cultists who attack anyone that threatens to take them out, and the worms coming out of the meteors are like kind of sort of turning people undead?? it’s messed up. Cool Stuff. but chariot’s aunt mom Serenity and uncle dad Patience opened up an orphanage so that’s cool

So we got some magic tattoos in some downtime (Chariot got 2, one on the back of her neck that lets her understand Undercommon, and another on her chest that gives her a free use of Mage Armour per day) and met up with some new NPCs, one of  which is traveling with us now as our cleric-fighter and is dating(??) our big tiddy big heart half-orc barbarian Lockjaw, and left our aasimar monk’s kickass wife behind to run her tavern bc she’s expecting. we go to look at some funky stuff going down in the town cemetary. first thing we do is go see erran, our moon elf friend we took into the feywild and hates us now for it, and he takes us into this portal and shows us this weird temple thing his supervisor or something had just discovered. there’s these murals on the walls of meteors striking the earth, and a flood, and some figures sailing on a ship through the sky, and then 7(?) figures, that like kind of seem like Us but not quite on par, so fun stuff, and these two HUGE statues in the main chamber. somebody presses a button and this fantasy Alexa bitch floats down from the ceiling and is like oh shit presences detected. and starts listing these titles, like Sufferer, and Guardian, and Exceptional, and then locks onto jia and is like ABERRATION DETECTED FUCK THOSE SHITS and tries to kill her so she has to run. basically without making this too long we find out that we (chariot, frazier, lockjaw, fuarthas, and frazier’s daughter) are descendants of some ancient heroes that saved the world once, and we grave rob just a little and get some cool magic items, and there’s this prophecy that we’ll stop the apocalypse or something?????? shit’s wack. we go back out to see jia and chariot’s trying real hard to cover for her but she’s like well i cant rly hide it anymore. hey guys i have an illithid tadpole In my brain and it didn’t develop so now i’m also part of a separate prophecy that i’ll wipe out all the illithid. but look at this i can float but chariot and i did some research and the only way to not have it be a problem anymore is to destroy my skull and then resurrect me. so that’s a lot of fun!!!!!

still in that cemetary, we find a trail of meteor worms. follow them into a secret passage that leads to the lair of Sunshine, masked mom’s dead assistant that chariot one-shot, but it turns out she’s a necromancer! she kicks our asses to unconsciousness even after chariot polymorphed into a t-rex and sells us to Neogi in the underdark, which if you don’t know what they are, google them, they’re fucked up spider giraffe eels that are evil incarnate and basically were slave trading us & psychically torturing Jia the whole way!! which made chariot throw cantrip after cantrip at them to try to hurt them so they just mind-control enslaved her over and over so that’s fucked her up good :)

we get sold to some drow after a week. beefy boys were sent to work manual labour til they die, and the rest of us were set to be sacrificed to Lolth, so we go haha we have to get out of here asap. chariot disguise selfs into a drow guard (a man bc i was very stupid) and gets caught 2 seconds out the door by a cleric of lolth, who sets up some mix between a dick appointment and an ass kicking for later bc chariot didn’t like. idk acknowledge her. fuck drow. she and fuarthas (who she was pretending to transport) skedaddle into a side chamber and a drow guard captain comes in. she goes to beat up fuarthas so chariot attacks her and a wild magic pops off and they fall mutually head over heels in love and lust with each other, which is MESSY. chariot convinces her to help round the gang up, but everywhere they look everyone’s gone missing (frazier and lockjaw got into a fight down at the manual labour camp and jia turned into a fish and shrieked so she’s gone) so chariot ends up wined and dined and tries desperately not to let this drow captain Do Her and does not take a long rest bc she has to stay awake and make sure this woman doesn’t wake up and see she’s not actually Erran the Drow Guard. but when everyone wakes up a shadow dragon is attacking this drow camp. cool. yes. awesome. fantastic. hell breaks loose, chariot and zarra (the drow captain) find frazier and jia in a stairwell, zarra kisses chariot goodbye and runs off to do stuff after a hefty persuasion check, jia gets Understandably Angry, we run like hell to find our magic items they bought with us and get the hell out of dodge With Lockjaw’s new orc army he’s recruited and the drow dude we found that’s a part of Frazier’s old order. shadow dragon finds us, holy shit she’s frazier’s adopted mom, she offers us a ride back while chariot very desperately tries to tell jia she doesn’t know what’s going on and why zarra kissed her and why she feels like this (she didn’t know it was a charm !!) and generally feeling Very Shitty. we get to frazier’s old monastery and the charm wears off, chariot and jia have a very long talk and chariot breaks a couple times, chariot steals a bottle of wine to try and feel better, she gets in shit for it and frazier takes the fall, he gets whipped as a punishment which just breaks chariot even more, she puts herself on house arrest for a full week, jia finally starts talking to her again 3 days into that, they do some drugs, chariot makes a deal with shadow dragon mama to split the cost of a teleportation circle and the gang blows up at her but she’s like nah it’s cool. at this point she is using her +9 deception to pretend she didn’t just break for a whole week and nothing happened and she’s totally good now guys dont even worry about it.

side tangent from All That, we go to deal with a giant problem for the monastery and there’s corpses strung up with the symbols on chariot’s palm all over. lots of combat yadda yadda, trap one giant in a room and ask her questions through the door, get some cool insight on chariot’s magics that she still has no idea how it works. turns out there’s a third queen of the feywilds, the queen of night and magic if i remember correctly, and she was shunned for her beauty and her and all of her subjects were made to be ugly and misshapen or some messed up stuff. chariots like oh fuck we were just there and no one said shit about a queen that apparently everyone hates that she has the symbols for on her Hands and honestly on her cape as well half the time. but ok cool that’s some new info sweet.

jia’s still guilting chariot for kissing zarra (even though it was a CHEEK KISS and she didn’t do it) because chariot’s been feeling awful that jia got into a romantic relationship (WITH FRAZIER’S DAUGHTER WHO JOINED JIA’S CULT, FUNNY ENOUGH) on her like 10 month leave bc she assumed she’d never get to see chariot again, but that’s a whole can of worms. lots of emotional fuckage though, chariot feels even worse that that happened bc jia hadn’t even been charmed, etc etc etc. but she’s never gonna say any of it bc she’s terrified jia will leave a second time and bringing any of that up might be what triggers it So!

we get told the neogi are selling slaves to jia’s old god, Ool’zakgothool the Aboleth who has been the Big Bad since like session 3-5, so we need to go stop that shit so we can go take down this aboleth and get frazier’s daughter back. but first we have literally no money bc we got sold and had all our shit stolen so we have to sell the like 700lbs of elven armour and weaponry we stole from a navy outpost place thing in the feywild. so we get to solve a little murder mystery in a gnome town so that’s fun. go back to the monastery, pick up some stuff, get some cool magic items made by our new artificer friend Jokk who’s part of the same prophecy we are, and head out again to fuck up these neogi. but on the way jia suddenly sprints ahead and gets like hug tackled by 5 kids who she apparently raised in her cult, and we get lead back to the marketplace where we plan on staking out the neogi and following back to their camp, but uh oh there’s 100 cultists here who swarm us and there’s some midsommar shit and we just fight the neogi right then and there and that’s basically where we’re picking up now. they enslaved lockjaw who oneshot chariot bc she’s a weak little bitch so jia kicked him in the ribs it was fun. and now we’re holding the elf that threatened to cut chariot’s tail off from our Neogi Cage Days hostage to tell us where the shiny gold head hauncho went bc he dimension doored out while chariot was paralyzed and couldn’t counterspell and we want him Dead. to be continued

[apsbicepstraining]

He’ll be back: why old age can’t keep Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has swung a sword, a shotgun and a heads pencil. But as he grows 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has embodied dominance. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a pulpit he was the biggest, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether holding a sword, a shotgun or a ministers pen, as a movie attribute or himself, he exulted in success in victory.

Crush your adversaries, assure them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the women. Ill be back. If they dont have the intestines, I call them girlie husbands. He was, and seemingly always would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural grade of trust, focus and desire propelled him from the forest village of Thal to triumph in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a identify once regarded unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the jokes, such as Clive James equating him to a brown condom full of walnuts, exclusively bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he meets a relentless, insidious foe not even he was able to overcome: age. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien piranhas and competitive cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. As it ticks, his domination ebbs.

He exactly wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never acceptance, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I visualize deep inside him there is some discomfort: What am I supposed to do with this tour? I only want to be number 1. If not number one, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger persists far-famed, favourite and busy manically busy. Early mornings you can blot him in Santa Monica, belting up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, moving through red lights for his cardio. He still shoots cast-iron, plays, travels and endorses political candidates and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless croaking, leading, disappearing, endeavor, straining, endeavor, said Bonnie Reiss, world director of an institute that bears his call at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer subjugating. Schwarzeneggers recent films have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him guiding for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former act hero who led California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political uppercase in the worthwhile if arcane issue of redistricing reconstruct – restraining the gerrymandering which bedevils local and regime polls and fuels partisanship. He is ginning up money and notice for a action which will reach the Supreme court of the united states in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt truly have much of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politic prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talk about him any more. Hes basically a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He married Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual harassment accusations dubbed gropegate and prevailed Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a rocky term. He mocked Democratic antagonists as girlie mortals, clashed with unions and other strong interest groups and watched the recession erupt a monetary crisis. He precluded meltdown and triumphed re-election by rebooting his administration, moving to the political centre and grinding out legislative increases. Upon leaving place in 2011 he adulterated his bequest by travelling the penitentiary sentence of the son of a political friend. His divorce from Shriver amid revelations of an thing and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of manager clout must suffer, said Outland Baker. He really likes renown and supremacy and the movie industry cant provide the same level of real fulfillment, she said. Their relationship ended in 1974 but they remained in touch and he established an interrogation for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend national constitutions, the so-called Arnold amendment, failed to lifting the embargo on foreign-born nominees. A huge jolt, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the crest, if youre Arnold. If he had been able to run, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has made an unexpected capacity, one with a world-wide spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise prompted a rivalry. It explodes in slug and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairwoman labelled Schwarzenegger a total cataclysm and pathetic as emcee of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national prayer breakfast assemble: I want to only pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great theme, he said in a video positioned on social media. Why dont we switch responsibilities? You take over Tv because youre such an expert on ratings and I take over your work and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got inundated.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with person he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, indicated Joel Fox, a tax policy consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he notes Schwarzenegger menacing because he has this deep anxiety about his maturity, said Pitney, the analyst.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds more powerful soldier, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 profile titled Why Arnold Affairs: The Rise of a Cultural Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much cast-iron anymore but he remains a continue whiz of pumping irony into the odd country of American politics. He is the has-been who are continuing is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for engagement in this nexus of politics and personality, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and heading psyching comes within the framework of the bodybuilding macrocosm, she said. The future superintendent honed his razzing sciences against a bodybuilding competitor, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Gushing Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger alter the enmity into publicity, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they probably understand the subconsciou of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to amplification, said Fox, the implementation of policies consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former superintendent has applied the attention to spotlight climate change issues and an after-school program, both induces close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger labours hard to sustain his brand against the ruin of occasion. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official summit, 6ft2in, has been feuded over the years by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and travels widely to promote climate change meters, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable wizard of action flicks such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and slapsticks such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent action outings such as The Last-place Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Rotating to smaller, quieter movies Maggie, Aftermath won over some reviewers( Arnie can act !) but gatherings abode away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming slapstick Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still accompanies stardust and policy comprehension to contests promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth programs. France recently recognised his climate change issues exertions with the Legion dHonneur.

A parcelled, honoring life for most someones but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to subsist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to subdue.

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[apsbicepstraining]

He’ll be back: why old age can’t keep Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has swung a sword, a shotgun and a heads pencil. But as he grows 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has embodied dominance. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a pulpit he was the biggest, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether holding a sword, a shotgun or a ministers pen, as a movie attribute or himself, he exulted in success in victory.

Crush your adversaries, assure them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the women. Ill be back. If they dont have the intestines, I call them girlie husbands. He was, and seemingly always would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural grade of trust, focus and desire propelled him from the forest village of Thal to triumph in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a identify once regarded unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the jokes, such as Clive James equating him to a brown condom full of walnuts, exclusively bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he meets a relentless, insidious foe not even he was able to overcome: age. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien piranhas and competitive cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. As it ticks, his domination ebbs.

He exactly wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never acceptance, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I visualize deep inside him there is some discomfort: What am I supposed to do with this tour? I only want to be number 1. If not number one, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger persists far-famed, favourite and busy manically busy. Early mornings you can blot him in Santa Monica, belting up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, moving through red lights for his cardio. He still shoots cast-iron, plays, travels and endorses political candidates and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless croaking, leading, disappearing, endeavor, straining, endeavor, said Bonnie Reiss, world director of an institute that bears his call at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer subjugating. Schwarzeneggers recent films have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him guiding for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former act hero who led California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political uppercase in the worthwhile if arcane issue of redistricing reconstruct – restraining the gerrymandering which bedevils local and regime polls and fuels partisanship. He is ginning up money and notice for a action which will reach the Supreme court of the united states in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt truly have much of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politic prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talk about him any more. Hes basically a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He married Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual harassment accusations dubbed gropegate and prevailed Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a rocky term. He mocked Democratic antagonists as girlie mortals, clashed with unions and other strong interest groups and watched the recession erupt a monetary crisis. He precluded meltdown and triumphed re-election by rebooting his administration, moving to the political centre and grinding out legislative increases. Upon leaving place in 2011 he adulterated his bequest by travelling the penitentiary sentence of the son of a political friend. His divorce from Shriver amid revelations of an thing and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of manager clout must suffer, said Outland Baker. He really likes renown and supremacy and the movie industry cant provide the same level of real fulfillment, she said. Their relationship ended in 1974 but they remained in touch and he established an interrogation for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend national constitutions, the so-called Arnold amendment, failed to lifting the embargo on foreign-born nominees. A huge jolt, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the crest, if youre Arnold. If he had been able to run, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has made an unexpected capacity, one with a world-wide spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise prompted a rivalry. It explodes in slug and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairwoman labelled Schwarzenegger a total cataclysm and pathetic as emcee of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national prayer breakfast assemble: I want to only pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great theme, he said in a video positioned on social media. Why dont we switch responsibilities? You take over Tv because youre such an expert on ratings and I take over your work and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got inundated.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with person he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, indicated Joel Fox, a tax policy consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he notes Schwarzenegger menacing because he has this deep anxiety about his maturity, said Pitney, the analyst.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds more powerful soldier, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 profile titled Why Arnold Affairs: The Rise of a Cultural Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much cast-iron anymore but he remains a continue whiz of pumping irony into the odd country of American politics. He is the has-been who are continuing is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for engagement in this nexus of politics and personality, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and heading psyching comes within the framework of the bodybuilding macrocosm, she said. The future superintendent honed his razzing sciences against a bodybuilding competitor, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Gushing Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger alter the enmity into publicity, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they probably understand the subconsciou of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to amplification, said Fox, the implementation of policies consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former superintendent has applied the attention to spotlight climate change issues and an after-school program, both induces close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger labours hard to sustain his brand against the ruin of occasion. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official summit, 6ft2in, has been feuded over the years by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and travels widely to promote climate change meters, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable wizard of action flicks such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and slapsticks such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent action outings such as The Last-place Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Rotating to smaller, quieter movies Maggie, Aftermath won over some reviewers( Arnie can act !) but gatherings abode away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming slapstick Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still accompanies stardust and policy comprehension to contests promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth programs. France recently recognised his climate change issues exertions with the Legion dHonneur.

A parcelled, honoring life for most someones but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to subsist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to subdue.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t keep Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has swung a sword, a shotgun and a heads pencil. But as he grows 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has embodied dominance. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a pulpit he was the biggest, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether holding a sword, a shotgun or a ministers pen, as a movie attribute or himself, he exulted in success in victory.

Crush your adversaries, assure them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the women. Ill be back. If they dont have the intestines, I call them girlie husbands. He was, and seemingly always would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural grade of trust, focus and desire propelled him from the forest village of Thal to triumph in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a identify once regarded unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the jokes, such as Clive James equating him to a brown condom full of walnuts, exclusively bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he meets a relentless, insidious foe not even he was able to overcome: age. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien piranhas and competitive cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. As it ticks, his domination ebbs.

He exactly wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never acceptance, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I visualize deep inside him there is some discomfort: What am I supposed to do with this tour? I only want to be number 1. If not number one, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger persists far-famed, favourite and busy manically busy. Early mornings you can blot him in Santa Monica, belting up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, moving through red lights for his cardio. He still shoots cast-iron, plays, travels and endorses political candidates and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless croaking, leading, disappearing, endeavor, straining, endeavor, said Bonnie Reiss, world director of an institute that bears his call at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer subjugating. Schwarzeneggers recent films have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him guiding for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former act hero who led California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political uppercase in the worthwhile if arcane issue of redistricing reconstruct – restraining the gerrymandering which bedevils local and regime polls and fuels partisanship. He is ginning up money and notice for a action which will reach the Supreme court of the united states in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt truly have much of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politic prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talk about him any more. Hes basically a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He married Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual harassment accusations dubbed gropegate and prevailed Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a rocky term. He mocked Democratic antagonists as girlie mortals, clashed with unions and other strong interest groups and watched the recession erupt a monetary crisis. He precluded meltdown and triumphed re-election by rebooting his administration, moving to the political centre and grinding out legislative increases. Upon leaving place in 2011 he adulterated his bequest by travelling the penitentiary sentence of the son of a political friend. His divorce from Shriver amid revelations of an thing and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of manager clout must suffer, said Outland Baker. He really likes renown and supremacy and the movie industry cant provide the same level of real fulfillment, she said. Their relationship ended in 1974 but they remained in touch and he established an interrogation for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend national constitutions, the so-called Arnold amendment, failed to lifting the embargo on foreign-born nominees. A huge jolt, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the crest, if youre Arnold. If he had been able to run, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has made an unexpected capacity, one with a world-wide spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise prompted a rivalry. It explodes in slug and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairwoman labelled Schwarzenegger a total cataclysm and pathetic as emcee of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national prayer breakfast assemble: I want to only pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great theme, he said in a video positioned on social media. Why dont we switch responsibilities? You take over Tv because youre such an expert on ratings and I take over your work and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got inundated.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with person he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, indicated Joel Fox, a tax policy consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he notes Schwarzenegger menacing because he has this deep anxiety about his maturity, said Pitney, the analyst.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds more powerful soldier, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 profile titled Why Arnold Affairs: The Rise of a Cultural Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much cast-iron anymore but he remains a continue whiz of pumping irony into the odd country of American politics. He is the has-been who are continuing is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for engagement in this nexus of politics and personality, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and heading psyching comes within the framework of the bodybuilding macrocosm, she said. The future superintendent honed his razzing sciences against a bodybuilding competitor, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Gushing Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger alter the enmity into publicity, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they probably understand the subconsciou of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to amplification, said Fox, the implementation of policies consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former superintendent has applied the attention to spotlight climate change issues and an after-school program, both induces close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger labours hard to sustain his brand against the ruin of occasion. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official summit, 6ft2in, has been feuded over the years by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and travels widely to promote climate change meters, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable wizard of action flicks such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and slapsticks such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent action outings such as The Last-place Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Rotating to smaller, quieter movies Maggie, Aftermath won over some reviewers( Arnie can act !) but gatherings abode away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming slapstick Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still accompanies stardust and policy comprehension to contests promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth programs. France recently recognised his climate change issues exertions with the Legion dHonneur.

A parcelled, honoring life for most someones but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to subsist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to subdue.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t save Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has exercised a sword, a shotgun and a governors pencil. But as he makes 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has embodied dominance. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a pulpit he was the most difficult, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether swinging a sword, a shotgun or a superintendents pen, as a movie character or himself, he gloated in success in victory.

Crush your opponents, view them driven before you and discover the lamentation of the status of women. Ill be back. If they dont have the guts, I call them girlie soldiers. He was, and apparently ever would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural stage of trust, focus and passion propelled him from the forest hamlet of Thal to prevail in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a figure formerly deemed unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the jokes, such as Clive James comparing him to a brown condom full of walnuts, exclusively bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he confronts a relentless, insidious adversary not even he can overpower: hour. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien piranhas and competitive cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. As it clicks, his supremacy ebbs.

He just wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never accept, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I envisage deep inside him there is some discomfort: What am I supposed to do with this pilgrimage? I simply want to be number one. If not number one, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger abides far-famed, popular and busy manically busy. Early mornings you can recognise him in Santa Monica, region up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, operating through red lights for his cardio. He still shoots cast-iron, behaves, circulates and champions political candidates and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless starting, croaking, starting, endeavor, endeavouring, striving, said Bonnie Reiss, world head of an institute that digests his identify at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer curbing. Schwarzeneggers recent cinemas have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him extending for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former action hero who passed California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political capital in the deserving if arcane issue of redistricing reconstruct – curbing the gerrymandering which bedevils local and nation referendums and fuels partisanship. He is ginning up money and courtesy for a lawsuit which will reach the Supreme court in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt really have often of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politics prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talked about any more. Hes basically a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He wedded Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual abuse accusations dubbed gropegate and acquired Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a bumpy term. He taunted Democratic resists as girlie servicemen, clashed with unions and other strong interest groups and watched the recession erupt a monetary crisis. He avoided meltdown and acquired re-election by rebooting his government, moving to the political core and grinding out judicial gains. Upon leaving office in 2011 he defiled his bequest by travelling the incarcerate convict of the son of a political ally. His divorce from Shriver amid revelations of an affair and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of manager clout must throb, said Outland Baker. He really likes fame and influence and the movie industry cant provision the same degree of real fulfillment, she said. Their rapport ended in 1974 but they remained in signature and he rendered an interrogation for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend national constitutions, the so-called Arnold amendment, is impossible to lift the ban on foreign-born candidates. A big blow, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the top, if youre Arnold. If he could move, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has created an unpredictable capacity, one with a world-wide spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise prompted a conflict. It appears in bullet and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairwoman branded Schwarzenegger a total tragedy and pathetic as legion of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national devotion breakfast pick: I want to exactly pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great mind, he said in a video posted on social media. Why dont we switch places? You take over Tv because youre such an expert on ratings and I take over your job and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got flooded.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with person he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, hinted Joel Fox, a tax policy consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he knows Schwarzenegger peril because he has this deep insecurity about his manhood, said Pitney, the analyst.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds more powerful human, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 account titled Why Arnold Stuffs: The Rise of a Cultural Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much cast-iron anymore but he remains a continue wizard of pumping irony into the odd regime of American politics. He is the has-been who still is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for battle in this nexus of politics and celebrity, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and thought psyching was part of the bodybuilding world-wide, she said. The future minister sharpened his taunting skills against a bodybuilding adversary, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Shooting Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger alter the grudge into advertisement, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they are likely understand the soul of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to amplification, said Fox, the implementation of policies consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former superintendent has used the attention to spotlight climate change and an after-school curriculum, both effects close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger works hard to sustain his firebrand against the ravage of experience. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official altitude, 6ft2in, has been quarrelled over its first year by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and wanderings widely to promote climate change sets, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable wizard of act flicks such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and humors such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent activity jaunts such as The Last Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Pivoting to smaller, quieter movies Maggie, Aftermath won over some critics( Arnie can play !) but gatherings remained away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming comedy Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still returns stardust and programme supremacy to happenings promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth curricula. France lately recognised his climate change issues struggles with the Legion dHonneur.

A packed, rewarding life for most souls but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to subsist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to overcome.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t save Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has exercised a sword, a shotgun and a governors pencil. But as he makes 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has embodied dominance. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a pulpit he was the most difficult, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether swinging a sword, a shotgun or a superintendents pen, as a movie character or himself, he gloated in success in victory.

Crush your opponents, view them driven before you and discover the lamentation of the status of women. Ill be back. If they dont have the guts, I call them girlie soldiers. He was, and apparently ever would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural stage of trust, focus and passion propelled him from the forest hamlet of Thal to prevail in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a figure formerly deemed unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the jokes, such as Clive James comparing him to a brown condom full of walnuts, exclusively bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he confronts a relentless, insidious adversary not even he can overpower: hour. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien piranhas and competitive cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. As it clicks, his supremacy ebbs.

He just wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never accept, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I envisage deep inside him there is some discomfort: What am I supposed to do with this pilgrimage? I simply want to be number one. If not number one, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger abides far-famed, popular and busy manically busy. Early mornings you can recognise him in Santa Monica, region up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, operating through red lights for his cardio. He still shoots cast-iron, behaves, circulates and champions political candidates and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless starting, croaking, starting, endeavor, endeavouring, striving, said Bonnie Reiss, world head of an institute that digests his identify at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer curbing. Schwarzeneggers recent cinemas have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him extending for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former action hero who passed California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political capital in the deserving if arcane issue of redistricing reconstruct – curbing the gerrymandering which bedevils local and nation referendums and fuels partisanship. He is ginning up money and courtesy for a lawsuit which will reach the Supreme court in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt really have often of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politics prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talked about any more. Hes basically a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He wedded Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual abuse accusations dubbed gropegate and acquired Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a bumpy term. He taunted Democratic resists as girlie servicemen, clashed with unions and other strong interest groups and watched the recession erupt a monetary crisis. He avoided meltdown and acquired re-election by rebooting his government, moving to the political core and grinding out judicial gains. Upon leaving office in 2011 he defiled his bequest by travelling the incarcerate convict of the son of a political ally. His divorce from Shriver amid revelations of an affair and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of manager clout must throb, said Outland Baker. He really likes fame and influence and the movie industry cant provision the same degree of real fulfillment, she said. Their rapport ended in 1974 but they remained in signature and he rendered an interrogation for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend national constitutions, the so-called Arnold amendment, is impossible to lift the ban on foreign-born candidates. A big blow, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the top, if youre Arnold. If he could move, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has created an unpredictable capacity, one with a world-wide spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise prompted a conflict. It appears in bullet and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairwoman branded Schwarzenegger a total tragedy and pathetic as legion of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national devotion breakfast pick: I want to exactly pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great mind, he said in a video posted on social media. Why dont we switch places? You take over Tv because youre such an expert on ratings and I take over your job and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got flooded.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with person he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, hinted Joel Fox, a tax policy consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he knows Schwarzenegger peril because he has this deep insecurity about his manhood, said Pitney, the analyst.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds more powerful human, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 account titled Why Arnold Stuffs: The Rise of a Cultural Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much cast-iron anymore but he remains a continue wizard of pumping irony into the odd regime of American politics. He is the has-been who still is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for battle in this nexus of politics and celebrity, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and thought psyching was part of the bodybuilding world-wide, she said. The future minister sharpened his taunting skills against a bodybuilding adversary, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Shooting Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger alter the grudge into advertisement, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they are likely understand the soul of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to amplification, said Fox, the implementation of policies consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former superintendent has used the attention to spotlight climate change and an after-school curriculum, both effects close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger works hard to sustain his firebrand against the ravage of experience. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official altitude, 6ft2in, has been quarrelled over its first year by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and wanderings widely to promote climate change sets, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable wizard of act flicks such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and humors such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent activity jaunts such as The Last Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Pivoting to smaller, quieter movies Maggie, Aftermath won over some critics( Arnie can play !) but gatherings remained away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming comedy Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still returns stardust and programme supremacy to happenings promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth curricula. France lately recognised his climate change issues struggles with the Legion dHonneur.

A packed, rewarding life for most souls but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to subsist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to overcome.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t save Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has exercised a sword, a shotgun and a governors pencil. But as he makes 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has embodied dominance. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a pulpit he was the most difficult, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether swinging a sword, a shotgun or a superintendents pen, as a movie character or himself, he gloated in success in victory.

Crush your opponents, view them driven before you and discover the lamentation of the status of women. Ill be back. If they dont have the guts, I call them girlie soldiers. He was, and apparently ever would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural stage of trust, focus and passion propelled him from the forest hamlet of Thal to prevail in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a figure formerly deemed unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the jokes, such as Clive James comparing him to a brown condom full of walnuts, exclusively bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he confronts a relentless, insidious adversary not even he can overpower: hour. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien piranhas and competitive cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. As it clicks, his supremacy ebbs.

He just wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never accept, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I envisage deep inside him there is some discomfort: What am I supposed to do with this pilgrimage? I simply want to be number one. If not number one, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger abides far-famed, popular and busy manically busy. Early mornings you can recognise him in Santa Monica, region up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, operating through red lights for his cardio. He still shoots cast-iron, behaves, circulates and champions political candidates and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless starting, croaking, starting, endeavor, endeavouring, striving, said Bonnie Reiss, world head of an institute that digests his identify at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer curbing. Schwarzeneggers recent cinemas have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him extending for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former action hero who passed California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political capital in the deserving if arcane issue of redistricing reconstruct – curbing the gerrymandering which bedevils local and nation referendums and fuels partisanship. He is ginning up money and courtesy for a lawsuit which will reach the Supreme court in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt really have often of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politics prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talked about any more. Hes basically a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He wedded Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual abuse accusations dubbed gropegate and acquired Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a bumpy term. He taunted Democratic resists as girlie servicemen, clashed with unions and other strong interest groups and watched the recession erupt a monetary crisis. He avoided meltdown and acquired re-election by rebooting his government, moving to the political core and grinding out judicial gains. Upon leaving office in 2011 he defiled his bequest by travelling the incarcerate convict of the son of a political ally. His divorce from Shriver amid revelations of an affair and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of manager clout must throb, said Outland Baker. He really likes fame and influence and the movie industry cant provision the same degree of real fulfillment, she said. Their rapport ended in 1974 but they remained in signature and he rendered an interrogation for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend national constitutions, the so-called Arnold amendment, is impossible to lift the ban on foreign-born candidates. A big blow, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the top, if youre Arnold. If he could move, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has created an unpredictable capacity, one with a world-wide spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise prompted a conflict. It appears in bullet and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairwoman branded Schwarzenegger a total tragedy and pathetic as legion of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national devotion breakfast pick: I want to exactly pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great mind, he said in a video posted on social media. Why dont we switch places? You take over Tv because youre such an expert on ratings and I take over your job and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got flooded.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with person he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, hinted Joel Fox, a tax policy consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he knows Schwarzenegger peril because he has this deep insecurity about his manhood, said Pitney, the analyst.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds more powerful human, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 account titled Why Arnold Stuffs: The Rise of a Cultural Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much cast-iron anymore but he remains a continue wizard of pumping irony into the odd regime of American politics. He is the has-been who still is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for battle in this nexus of politics and celebrity, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and thought psyching was part of the bodybuilding world-wide, she said. The future minister sharpened his taunting skills against a bodybuilding adversary, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Shooting Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger alter the grudge into advertisement, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they are likely understand the soul of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to amplification, said Fox, the implementation of policies consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former superintendent has used the attention to spotlight climate change and an after-school curriculum, both effects close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger works hard to sustain his firebrand against the ravage of experience. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official altitude, 6ft2in, has been quarrelled over its first year by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and wanderings widely to promote climate change sets, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable wizard of act flicks such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and humors such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent activity jaunts such as The Last Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Pivoting to smaller, quieter movies Maggie, Aftermath won over some critics( Arnie can play !) but gatherings remained away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming comedy Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still returns stardust and programme supremacy to happenings promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth curricula. France lately recognised his climate change issues struggles with the Legion dHonneur.

A packed, rewarding life for most souls but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to subsist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to overcome.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t impede Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has maintained a sword, a shotgun and a ministers write. But as he swerves 70, is time lastly catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has exemplified preeminence. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a rostrum he was the most difficult, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether exercising a sword, a shotgun or a governors pen, as a cinema reference or himself, he gloated in success in victory.

Crush your foes, watch them driven before you and discover the lamentation of the status of women. Ill be back. If they dont have the guts, I call them girlie people. He was, and seemingly ever would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural grade of confidence, focus and desire propelled him from the forest hamlet of Thal to triumph in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a identify once deemed unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the laughs, such as Clive James comparing him to a brown condom full of walnuts, simply bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he encounters a relentless, insidious foe not even he was able to defeat: occasion. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien piranhas and competitive cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. As it ticks, his preeminence ebbs.

He exactly wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never accept, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I fantasize deep inside him there is some uneasines: What am I supposed to do with this journey? I merely want to be number 1. If not number 1, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger remains famous, favourite and busy manically busy. Early mornings they are able to recognise him in Santa Monica, belting up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, running through red lights for his cardio. He still shoots cast-iron, plays, wanders and endorses political campaigners and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless running, moving, disappearing, endeavouring, striving, striving, said Bonnie Reiss, world-wide chairman of an institute that permits his reputation at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer conquering. Schwarzeneggers recent cinemas have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him flowing for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former action hero who loped California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political uppercase in the worthwhile if arcane issue of redistricing improvement – restraining the gerrymandering which bedevils local and district elections and gasolines partisanship. He is ginning up money and notice for a example which will reach the Supreme court in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt certainly have much of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politics prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talk about him any more. Hes virtually a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He wedded Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual abuse allegations dubbed gropegate and won Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a bumpy tenure. He teased Democratic adversaries as girlie humankinds, clashed with unions and other strong interest groups and watched the recession erupt a fiscal crisis. He avoided meltdown and triumphed re-election by rebooting his government, moving to the political centre and grinding out parliamentary incomes. Upon leaving place in 2011 he adulterated his bequest by travelling the prison sentence of the son of a political ally. His divorce from Shriver amid revealings of an thing and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of administration clout must hurt, said Outland Baker. He really likes popularity and superpower and the movie industry cant provision the same degree of real fulfillment, she said. Their relation ended in 1974 but they remained in touching and he rendered an interview for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend the constitution, the so-called Arnold amendment, is impossible to lift the ban on foreign-born nominees. A big jolt, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the crest, if youre Arnold. If he could scamper, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP legislator to the Oval Office, however, has made an surprising persona, one with a world spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise prompted a clash. It spews in slug and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairperson labelled Schwarzenegger a total calamity and pathetic as legion of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national devotion breakfast meet: I want to just pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great theme, he said in a video positioned on social media. Why dont we switch tasks? You take over Tv because youre such an expert on ratings and I take over your work and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got flooded.

Speculation bristles over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with someone he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, suggested Joel Fox, a tax policy consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he encounters Schwarzenegger threatening because he has this deep danger about his maturity, said Pitney, the psychoanalyst.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds most powerful gentleman, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 biography titled Why Arnold Troubles: The Rise of a Culture Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much iron anymore but he remains a long-lasting virtuoso of pumping irony into the odd position of American politics. He is the has-been who are continuing is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for combat in this nexus of politics and personality, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and pate psyching was part of the bodybuilding macrocosm, she said. The future minister sharpened his razzing knowledge against a bodybuilding contender, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Gushing Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger convert the clash into publicity, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they probably understand the psyche of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to addition, said Fox, the policy consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former governor has utilized the attention to spotlight climate change issues and an after-school programme, both justifications close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger makes hard to sustain his label against the devastation of duration. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official height, 6ft2in, has been disputed over its first year by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and tours widely to promote climate change appraises, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable sun of act movies such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and comedies such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent activity jaunts such as The Last Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Pivoting to smaller, quieter movies Maggie, Aftermath won over some commentators( Arnie can behave !) but audiences bided away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming humor Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still returns stardust and policy domination to affairs promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth programs. France recently recognised his climate change endeavors with the Legion dHonneur.

A parcelled, honoring life for most people but Arnie? The entail of life, he one said, was not simply to dwell, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to inhibit.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t impede Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has maintained a sword, a shotgun and a ministers write. But as he swerves 70, is time lastly catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has exemplified preeminence. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a rostrum he was the most difficult, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether exercising a sword, a shotgun or a governors pen, as a cinema reference or himself, he gloated in success in victory.

Crush your foes, watch them driven before you and discover the lamentation of the status of women. Ill be back. If they dont have the guts, I call them girlie people. He was, and seemingly ever would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural grade of confidence, focus and desire propelled him from the forest hamlet of Thal to triumph in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a identify once deemed unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the laughs, such as Clive James comparing him to a brown condom full of walnuts, simply bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he encounters a relentless, insidious foe not even he was able to defeat: occasion. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien piranhas and competitive cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. As it ticks, his preeminence ebbs.

He exactly wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never accept, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I fantasize deep inside him there is some uneasines: What am I supposed to do with this journey? I merely want to be number 1. If not number 1, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger remains famous, favourite and busy manically busy. Early mornings they are able to recognise him in Santa Monica, belting up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, running through red lights for his cardio. He still shoots cast-iron, plays, wanders and endorses political campaigners and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless running, moving, disappearing, endeavouring, striving, striving, said Bonnie Reiss, world-wide chairman of an institute that permits his reputation at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer conquering. Schwarzeneggers recent cinemas have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him flowing for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former action hero who loped California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political uppercase in the worthwhile if arcane issue of redistricing improvement – restraining the gerrymandering which bedevils local and district elections and gasolines partisanship. He is ginning up money and notice for a example which will reach the Supreme court in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt certainly have much of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politics prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talk about him any more. Hes virtually a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He wedded Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual abuse allegations dubbed gropegate and won Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a bumpy tenure. He teased Democratic adversaries as girlie humankinds, clashed with unions and other strong interest groups and watched the recession erupt a fiscal crisis. He avoided meltdown and triumphed re-election by rebooting his government, moving to the political centre and grinding out parliamentary incomes. Upon leaving place in 2011 he adulterated his bequest by travelling the prison sentence of the son of a political ally. His divorce from Shriver amid revealings of an thing and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of administration clout must hurt, said Outland Baker. He really likes popularity and superpower and the movie industry cant provision the same degree of real fulfillment, she said. Their relation ended in 1974 but they remained in touching and he rendered an interview for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend the constitution, the so-called Arnold amendment, is impossible to lift the ban on foreign-born nominees. A big jolt, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the crest, if youre Arnold. If he could scamper, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP legislator to the Oval Office, however, has made an surprising persona, one with a world spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise prompted a clash. It spews in slug and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairperson labelled Schwarzenegger a total calamity and pathetic as legion of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national devotion breakfast meet: I want to just pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great theme, he said in a video positioned on social media. Why dont we switch tasks? You take over Tv because youre such an expert on ratings and I take over your work and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got flooded.

Speculation bristles over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with someone he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, suggested Joel Fox, a tax policy consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he encounters Schwarzenegger threatening because he has this deep danger about his maturity, said Pitney, the psychoanalyst.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds most powerful gentleman, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 biography titled Why Arnold Troubles: The Rise of a Culture Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much iron anymore but he remains a long-lasting virtuoso of pumping irony into the odd position of American politics. He is the has-been who are continuing is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for combat in this nexus of politics and personality, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and pate psyching was part of the bodybuilding macrocosm, she said. The future minister sharpened his razzing knowledge against a bodybuilding contender, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Gushing Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger convert the clash into publicity, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they probably understand the psyche of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to addition, said Fox, the policy consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former governor has utilized the attention to spotlight climate change issues and an after-school programme, both justifications close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger makes hard to sustain his label against the devastation of duration. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official height, 6ft2in, has been disputed over its first year by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and tours widely to promote climate change appraises, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable sun of act movies such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and comedies such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent activity jaunts such as The Last Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Pivoting to smaller, quieter movies Maggie, Aftermath won over some commentators( Arnie can behave !) but audiences bided away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming humor Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still returns stardust and policy domination to affairs promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth programs. France recently recognised his climate change endeavors with the Legion dHonneur.

A parcelled, honoring life for most people but Arnie? The entail of life, he one said, was not simply to dwell, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to inhibit.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t impede Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has maintained a sword, a shotgun and a ministers write. But as he swerves 70, is time lastly catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has exemplified preeminence. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a rostrum he was the most difficult, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether exercising a sword, a shotgun or a governors pen, as a cinema reference or himself, he gloated in success in victory.

Crush your foes, watch them driven before you and discover the lamentation of the status of women. Ill be back. If they dont have the guts, I call them girlie people. He was, and seemingly ever would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural grade of confidence, focus and desire propelled him from the forest hamlet of Thal to triumph in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a identify once deemed unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the laughs, such as Clive James comparing him to a brown condom full of walnuts, simply bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he encounters a relentless, insidious foe not even he was able to defeat: occasion. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien piranhas and competitive cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. As it ticks, his preeminence ebbs.

He exactly wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never accept, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I fantasize deep inside him there is some uneasines: What am I supposed to do with this journey? I merely want to be number 1. If not number 1, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger remains famous, favourite and busy manically busy. Early mornings they are able to recognise him in Santa Monica, belting up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, running through red lights for his cardio. He still shoots cast-iron, plays, wanders and endorses political campaigners and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless running, moving, disappearing, endeavouring, striving, striving, said Bonnie Reiss, world-wide chairman of an institute that permits his reputation at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer conquering. Schwarzeneggers recent cinemas have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him flowing for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former action hero who loped California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political uppercase in the worthwhile if arcane issue of redistricing improvement – restraining the gerrymandering which bedevils local and district elections and gasolines partisanship. He is ginning up money and notice for a example which will reach the Supreme court in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt certainly have much of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politics prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talk about him any more. Hes virtually a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He wedded Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual abuse allegations dubbed gropegate and won Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a bumpy tenure. He teased Democratic adversaries as girlie humankinds, clashed with unions and other strong interest groups and watched the recession erupt a fiscal crisis. He avoided meltdown and triumphed re-election by rebooting his government, moving to the political centre and grinding out parliamentary incomes. Upon leaving place in 2011 he adulterated his bequest by travelling the prison sentence of the son of a political ally. His divorce from Shriver amid revealings of an thing and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of administration clout must hurt, said Outland Baker. He really likes popularity and superpower and the movie industry cant provision the same degree of real fulfillment, she said. Their relation ended in 1974 but they remained in touching and he rendered an interview for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend the constitution, the so-called Arnold amendment, is impossible to lift the ban on foreign-born nominees. A big jolt, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the crest, if youre Arnold. If he could scamper, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP legislator to the Oval Office, however, has made an surprising persona, one with a world spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise prompted a clash. It spews in slug and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairperson labelled Schwarzenegger a total calamity and pathetic as legion of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national devotion breakfast meet: I want to just pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great theme, he said in a video positioned on social media. Why dont we switch tasks? You take over Tv because youre such an expert on ratings and I take over your work and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got flooded.

Speculation bristles over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with someone he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, suggested Joel Fox, a tax policy consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he encounters Schwarzenegger threatening because he has this deep danger about his maturity, said Pitney, the psychoanalyst.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds most powerful gentleman, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 biography titled Why Arnold Troubles: The Rise of a Culture Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much iron anymore but he remains a long-lasting virtuoso of pumping irony into the odd position of American politics. He is the has-been who are continuing is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for combat in this nexus of politics and personality, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and pate psyching was part of the bodybuilding macrocosm, she said. The future minister sharpened his razzing knowledge against a bodybuilding contender, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Gushing Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger convert the clash into publicity, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they probably understand the psyche of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to addition, said Fox, the policy consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former governor has utilized the attention to spotlight climate change issues and an after-school programme, both justifications close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger makes hard to sustain his label against the devastation of duration. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official height, 6ft2in, has been disputed over its first year by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and tours widely to promote climate change appraises, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable sun of act movies such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and comedies such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent activity jaunts such as The Last Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Pivoting to smaller, quieter movies Maggie, Aftermath won over some commentators( Arnie can behave !) but audiences bided away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming humor Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still returns stardust and policy domination to affairs promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth programs. France recently recognised his climate change endeavors with the Legion dHonneur.

A parcelled, honoring life for most people but Arnie? The entail of life, he one said, was not simply to dwell, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to inhibit.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t impede Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has swung a sword, a shotgun and a governors pen. But as he revolves 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has incarnated preeminence. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a rostrum he was the most difficult, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether swinging a sword, a shotgun or a governors pen, as a film attribute or himself, he gloated in success in victory.

Crush your opponents, construe them driven before you and discover the lamentation of the women. Ill be back. If they dont have the intestines, I call them girlie mortals. He was, and seemingly ever would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural stage of trust, focus and ambition propelled him from the forest village of Thal to prevail in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a call once deemed unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the puns, such as Clive James equating him to a brown condom full of walnuts, merely bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he meets a relentless, insidious rival not even he can subjugate: time. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien predators and competitive cyborg from the future, cannot be stopped. As it ticks, his ascendancy ebbs.

He precisely wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never hospitality, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I repute deep inside him there is some annoyance: What am I supposed to do with this excursion? I only want to be number 1. If not number one, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger persists famed, favourite and busy manically busy. Early mornings they are able to spot him in Santa Monica, belting up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, operating through red lights for his cardio. He still pumps cast-iron, behaves, travels and champions political nominees and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless extending, disappearing, starting, striving, endeavor, endeavor, said Bonnie Reiss, world-wide director of an institute that countenances his figure at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer quelling. Schwarzeneggers recent movies have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him moving for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former war hero who passed California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political capital in the worthy if arcane issue of redistricing reconstruct – restraining the gerrymandering which bedevils local and country polls and fuels partisanship. He is ginning up fund and scrutiny for a subject which will reach the Supreme court of the united states in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt genuinely have much of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politic prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talk about him any more. Hes virtually a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He married Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual abuse accusations dubbed gropegate and acquired Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a rocky term. He lampooned Democratic adversaries as girlie husbands, clashed with unions and other potent interest groups and watched the recession erupt a monetary crisis. He deflected meltdown and triumphed re-election by rebooting his government, moving to the political core and grinding out legislative gains. Upon leaving place in 2011 he tainted his gift by commuting the penitentiary convict of the son of a political ally. His divorce from Shriver amid disclosures of an thing and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of executive clout must injure, said Outland Baker. He really likes glory and influence and the movie industry cant provision the same level of real fulfillment, she said. Their relation ended in 1974 but they remained in signature and he opened an interrogation for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend the constitution, the so-called Arnold amendment, failed to lift the ban on foreign-born candidates. A big jolt, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the pinnacle, if youre Arnold. If he had been able to move, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has invoked an unexpected character, one with a world spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise triggered a discord. It spews in slug and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairperson branded Schwarzenegger a total cataclysm and pathetic as multitude of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national prayer breakfast throng: I want to only pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great sentiment, he said in a video positioned on social media. Why dont we switch activities? You take over Tv because youre such the panel of experts on ratings and I take over your job and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got morass.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with someone he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, indicated Joel Fox, a taxation policies consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he acquires Schwarzenegger warning because he has this deep danger about his manhood, said Pitney, the specialist.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds more powerful gentleman, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 profile titled Why Arnold Concerns: The Rise of a Culture Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much cast-iron anymore but he remains a continue artist of pumping irony into the bizarre commonwealth of American politics. He is the has-been who still is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for battle in this nexus of politics and luminary, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and heading psyching comes within the framework of the bodybuilding world, she said. The future head honed his taunting sciences against a bodybuilding contender, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Spouting Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger convert the feud into advertisement, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they are likely understand the soul of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to income, said Fox, the implementation of policies consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former head has used the attention to spotlight climate change issues and an after-school programme, both generates close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger drives hard to sustain his label against the ruin of time. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official meridian, 6ft2in, has been feuded over its first year by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and travelings widely to promote climate change issues steps, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable sun of war flicks such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and comedies such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent war jaunts such as The Last Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Swiveling to smaller, quieter films Maggie, Aftermath won over some pundits( Arnie can play !) but gatherings remained away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming slapstick Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still draws stardust and policy mastery to affairs promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth programs. France lately recognised his climate change issues exertions with the Legion dHonneur.

A packed, honoring life for most people but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to reach, to defeat.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t impede Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has swung a sword, a shotgun and a governors pen. But as he revolves 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has incarnated preeminence. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a rostrum he was the most difficult, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether swinging a sword, a shotgun or a governors pen, as a film attribute or himself, he gloated in success in victory.

Crush your opponents, construe them driven before you and discover the lamentation of the women. Ill be back. If they dont have the intestines, I call them girlie mortals. He was, and seemingly ever would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural stage of trust, focus and ambition propelled him from the forest village of Thal to prevail in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a call once deemed unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the puns, such as Clive James equating him to a brown condom full of walnuts, merely bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he meets a relentless, insidious rival not even he can subjugate: time. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien predators and competitive cyborg from the future, cannot be stopped. As it ticks, his ascendancy ebbs.

He precisely wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never hospitality, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I repute deep inside him there is some annoyance: What am I supposed to do with this excursion? I only want to be number 1. If not number one, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger persists famed, favourite and busy manically busy. Early mornings they are able to spot him in Santa Monica, belting up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, operating through red lights for his cardio. He still pumps cast-iron, behaves, travels and champions political nominees and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless extending, disappearing, starting, striving, endeavor, endeavor, said Bonnie Reiss, world-wide director of an institute that countenances his figure at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer quelling. Schwarzeneggers recent movies have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him moving for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former war hero who passed California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political capital in the worthy if arcane issue of redistricing reconstruct – restraining the gerrymandering which bedevils local and country polls and fuels partisanship. He is ginning up fund and scrutiny for a subject which will reach the Supreme court of the united states in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt genuinely have much of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politic prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talk about him any more. Hes virtually a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He married Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual abuse accusations dubbed gropegate and acquired Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a rocky term. He lampooned Democratic adversaries as girlie husbands, clashed with unions and other potent interest groups and watched the recession erupt a monetary crisis. He deflected meltdown and triumphed re-election by rebooting his government, moving to the political core and grinding out legislative gains. Upon leaving place in 2011 he tainted his gift by commuting the penitentiary convict of the son of a political ally. His divorce from Shriver amid disclosures of an thing and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of executive clout must injure, said Outland Baker. He really likes glory and influence and the movie industry cant provision the same level of real fulfillment, she said. Their relation ended in 1974 but they remained in signature and he opened an interrogation for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend the constitution, the so-called Arnold amendment, failed to lift the ban on foreign-born candidates. A big jolt, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the pinnacle, if youre Arnold. If he had been able to move, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has invoked an unexpected character, one with a world spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise triggered a discord. It spews in slug and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairperson branded Schwarzenegger a total cataclysm and pathetic as multitude of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national prayer breakfast throng: I want to only pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great sentiment, he said in a video positioned on social media. Why dont we switch activities? You take over Tv because youre such the panel of experts on ratings and I take over your job and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got morass.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with someone he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, indicated Joel Fox, a taxation policies consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he acquires Schwarzenegger warning because he has this deep danger about his manhood, said Pitney, the specialist.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds more powerful gentleman, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 profile titled Why Arnold Concerns: The Rise of a Culture Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much cast-iron anymore but he remains a continue artist of pumping irony into the bizarre commonwealth of American politics. He is the has-been who still is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for battle in this nexus of politics and luminary, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and heading psyching comes within the framework of the bodybuilding world, she said. The future head honed his taunting sciences against a bodybuilding contender, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Spouting Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger convert the feud into advertisement, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they are likely understand the soul of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to income, said Fox, the implementation of policies consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former head has used the attention to spotlight climate change issues and an after-school programme, both generates close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger drives hard to sustain his label against the ruin of time. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official meridian, 6ft2in, has been feuded over its first year by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and travelings widely to promote climate change issues steps, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable sun of war flicks such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and comedies such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent war jaunts such as The Last Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Swiveling to smaller, quieter films Maggie, Aftermath won over some pundits( Arnie can play !) but gatherings remained away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming slapstick Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still draws stardust and policy mastery to affairs promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth programs. France lately recognised his climate change issues exertions with the Legion dHonneur.

A packed, honoring life for most people but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to reach, to defeat.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t impede Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has swung a sword, a shotgun and a governors pen. But as he revolves 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has incarnated preeminence. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a rostrum he was the most difficult, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether swinging a sword, a shotgun or a governors pen, as a film attribute or himself, he gloated in success in victory.

Crush your opponents, construe them driven before you and discover the lamentation of the women. Ill be back. If they dont have the intestines, I call them girlie mortals. He was, and seemingly ever would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural stage of trust, focus and ambition propelled him from the forest village of Thal to prevail in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a call once deemed unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the puns, such as Clive James equating him to a brown condom full of walnuts, merely bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he meets a relentless, insidious rival not even he can subjugate: time. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien predators and competitive cyborg from the future, cannot be stopped. As it ticks, his ascendancy ebbs.

He precisely wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never hospitality, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I repute deep inside him there is some annoyance: What am I supposed to do with this excursion? I only want to be number 1. If not number one, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger persists famed, favourite and busy manically busy. Early mornings they are able to spot him in Santa Monica, belting up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, operating through red lights for his cardio. He still pumps cast-iron, behaves, travels and champions political nominees and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless extending, disappearing, starting, striving, endeavor, endeavor, said Bonnie Reiss, world-wide director of an institute that countenances his figure at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer quelling. Schwarzeneggers recent movies have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him moving for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former war hero who passed California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political capital in the worthy if arcane issue of redistricing reconstruct – restraining the gerrymandering which bedevils local and country polls and fuels partisanship. He is ginning up fund and scrutiny for a subject which will reach the Supreme court of the united states in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt genuinely have much of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politic prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talk about him any more. Hes virtually a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He married Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual abuse accusations dubbed gropegate and acquired Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a rocky term. He lampooned Democratic adversaries as girlie husbands, clashed with unions and other potent interest groups and watched the recession erupt a monetary crisis. He deflected meltdown and triumphed re-election by rebooting his government, moving to the political core and grinding out legislative gains. Upon leaving place in 2011 he tainted his gift by commuting the penitentiary convict of the son of a political ally. His divorce from Shriver amid disclosures of an thing and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of executive clout must injure, said Outland Baker. He really likes glory and influence and the movie industry cant provision the same level of real fulfillment, she said. Their relation ended in 1974 but they remained in signature and he opened an interrogation for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend the constitution, the so-called Arnold amendment, failed to lift the ban on foreign-born candidates. A big jolt, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the pinnacle, if youre Arnold. If he had been able to move, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has invoked an unexpected character, one with a world spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise triggered a discord. It spews in slug and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairperson branded Schwarzenegger a total cataclysm and pathetic as multitude of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national prayer breakfast throng: I want to only pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great sentiment, he said in a video positioned on social media. Why dont we switch activities? You take over Tv because youre such the panel of experts on ratings and I take over your job and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got morass.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with someone he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, indicated Joel Fox, a taxation policies consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he acquires Schwarzenegger warning because he has this deep danger about his manhood, said Pitney, the specialist.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds more powerful gentleman, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 profile titled Why Arnold Concerns: The Rise of a Culture Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much cast-iron anymore but he remains a continue artist of pumping irony into the bizarre commonwealth of American politics. He is the has-been who still is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for battle in this nexus of politics and luminary, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and heading psyching comes within the framework of the bodybuilding world, she said. The future head honed his taunting sciences against a bodybuilding contender, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Spouting Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger convert the feud into advertisement, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they are likely understand the soul of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to income, said Fox, the implementation of policies consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former head has used the attention to spotlight climate change issues and an after-school programme, both generates close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger drives hard to sustain his label against the ruin of time. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official meridian, 6ft2in, has been feuded over its first year by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and travelings widely to promote climate change issues steps, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable sun of war flicks such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and comedies such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent war jaunts such as The Last Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Swiveling to smaller, quieter films Maggie, Aftermath won over some pundits( Arnie can play !) but gatherings remained away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming slapstick Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still draws stardust and policy mastery to affairs promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth programs. France lately recognised his climate change issues exertions with the Legion dHonneur.

A packed, honoring life for most people but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to reach, to defeat.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t stop Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has wielded a sword, a shotgun and a governors pen. But as he turns 70, is time finally catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has embodied dominance. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a podium he was the biggest, the strongest, the mightiest. Whether wielding a sword, a shotgun or a governors pen, as a film character or himself, he exulted in success in victory.

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the women. Ill be back. If they dont have the guts, I call them girlie men. He was, and seemingly always would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural degree of confidence, focus and ambition propelled him from the forest village of Thal to triumph in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a name once deemed unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the jokes, such as Clive James comparing him to a brown condom full of walnuts, only bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70th birthday on Sunday he confronts a relentless, insidious foe not even he can vanquish: time. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien predators and rival cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. As it ticks, his supremacy ebbs.

He just wants to be number one, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never welcome, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former girlfriend. I think deep inside him there is some discomfort: What am I supposed to do with this journey? I only want to be number one. If not number one, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger remains famous, popular and busy manically busy. Early mornings you can spot him in Santa Monica, belting up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, flying through red lights for his cardio. He still pumps iron, acts, travels and champions political candidates and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless going, going, going, striving, striving, striving, said Bonnie Reiss, global director of an institute that bears his name at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer conquering. Schwarzeneggers recent films have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him running for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former action hero who ran California is no longer number one.

He has invested his remaining political capital in the worthy if arcane issue of redistricing reform – curbing the gerrymandering which bedevils local and state elections and fuels partisanship. He is ginning up money and attention for a case which will reach the Supreme Court in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt really have much of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politics professor at Claremont McKenna College. California Republicans dont talk about him any more. Hes essentially a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He married Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual harassment allegations dubbed gropegate and won Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a rocky tenure. He mocked Democratic opponents as girlie men, clashed with unions and other powerful interest groups and watched the recession ignite a fiscal crisis. He averted meltdown and won re-election by rebooting his administration, moving to the political centre and grinding out legislative gains. Upon leaving office in 2011 he tainted his legacy by commuting the jail sentence of the son of a political ally. His divorce from Shriver amid revelations of an affair and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political accomplishments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of executive clout must hurt, said Outland Baker. He really likes fame and power and the movie industry cant provide the same level of real fulfillment, she said. Their relationship ended in 1974 but they remained in touch and he gave an interview for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak.

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend the constitution, the so-called Arnold amendment, failed to lift the ban on foreign-born candidates. A huge blow, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the top, if youre Arnold. If he could run, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has conjured an unexpected role, one with a global spotlight and rapt audience: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise triggered a feud. It erupts in slug and counter-slug every few weeks. The president branded Schwarzenegger a total disaster and pathetic as host of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national prayer breakfast gathering: I want to just pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung back with gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great idea, he said in a video posted on social media. Why dont we switch jobs? You take over TV because youre such an expert on ratings and I take over your job and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got swamped.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with someone he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, suggested Joel Fox, a tax policy consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he finds Schwarzenegger threatening because he has this deep insecurity about his manhood, said Pitney, the analyst.

Photograph: Allstar/ORION PICTURES

Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds most powerful man, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 biography titled Why Arnold Matters: The Rise of a Cultural Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much iron anymore but he remains a persistent virtuoso of pumping irony into the bizarre state of American politics. He is the has-been who still is.

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for battle in this nexus of politics and celebrity, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and head psyching was part of the bodybuilding world, she said. The future governor honed his taunting skills against a bodybuilding rival, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger convert the feud into publicity, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they probably understand the psyche of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to gain, said Fox, the policy consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former governor has used the attention to spotlight climate change and an after-school programme, both causes close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger works hard to sustain his brand against the ravage of time. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official height, 6ft2in, has been disputed over the years by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his (biodiesel) Hummer and travels widely to promote climate change measures, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable star of action flicks such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and comedies such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent action outings such as The Last Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Pivoting to smaller, quieter films Maggie, Aftermath won over some critics (Arnie can act!) but audiences stayed away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming comedy Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still brings stardust and policy mastery to events promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth programmes. France recently recognised his climate change efforts with the Legion dHonneur.

A packed, rewarding life for most mortals but Arnie? The meaning of life, he one said, was not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

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