4x World’s Strongest Man champion and proud American Brian Shaw was very disheartened and seemingly repulsed after a recent comment by the iconic Arnold Schwarzenegger, which didn’t sit well with many.
The former California Governor is known to be very vocal about certain issues and the Covid-19 situation is no different. In fact, he’s commented many times on the subject which is to be expected.
And while Schwarzenegger has the right to his opinion and beliefs on using preventative measures during this health crisis, it was the words, “screw your freedom,” that caused a big uproar and lost him a lot of longtime fans in the process.
“I think people should know there is a virus here,” said Schwarzenegger. It kills people, and the only way we prevent it is to get vaccinated, to wear masks, to do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about well my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.
“No, screw your freedom!“
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He also wrote a caption on the post that read,
“You have the freedom to be a schmuck. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.”
Brian Shaw took to Instagram with a message of his own…
“There are a lot of people in our country right now that have forgotten that freedom is very important,” he said in the video.
Shaw has had a poster of Arnold Schwarzenegger on his gym wall since he started training because he explained the 7x Mr. Olympia was a huge influence on him.
But that will no longer be the case.
He included the following written message in his post…
“FREEDOM IS IMPORTANT 🇺🇸
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Today is a very sad day for me as I had to take down the poster of @schwarzenegger on the wall of my gym. I have had a poster of him in my gym since I started training.
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He has the freedom to say whatever he wants and that’s part of being an American citizen but him saying “screw your freedom” did not sit well with me and therefore it was time for his poster to come down from my gym wall.
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Freedom didn’t come free and I will always stand for freedom 🇺🇸“
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Everything you need to know about how Shaw was feeling at the moment could be seen on his face and with his body language as he brought down the poster and walked away from where it hung.
Aaron Singerman, CEO of supplement brand Redcon1 was also extremely disappointed with what was said. As a result, he’s decided to boycott the upcoming Arnold Classic and not participate as a sponsor.
“When somebody says ‘Screw your freedom,’ I can’t and Redcon1 can’t, in good conscience, continue to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars sponsoring that show with a name honoring that person. So there’s no way that I can continue, Redcon1 can continue supporting the Arnold Classic for the future,” Singerman said.
“When you say screw your freedoms, or you’re a schmuck, or a moron, or anything else because you disagree with somebody… I’m not for canceling anybody. Don’t cancel Arnold, but don’t support him, if you’re me. If you like it, go there. I won’t be there unfortunately, so if you’re looking to see Kai Greene and the rest of the Redcon1 athletes and myself, unfortunately you won’t.”
Singerman also mentioned that Kai Greene and other Redcon1 sponsored athletes won’t be there in September either.
The situation has stirred up a lot of emotions and this will likely continue to be the case, especially since it involves what appears to be a controversial comment made by a prominent public figure in Arnold Schwarzenegger, on such a sensitive topic.
What do you make of this whole situation?
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Yeah. Well I’m leaving my poster of Arnold Swarzeneggar up. Because he is 100% right about what hw said. I’ll also be taking down my Brian Shaw poster. Oh wait I don’t have a Brian Shaw poster. I wonder why that is??
I’m very sure Arnold didn’t mean to remove freedom from your life. I believe he meant ” personally shelve it until this pandemic lessens itself…no one has freedom to infect other people…vaccinations seem the simplist method of self protection to be in public, or wear a mask, or just isolate…Arnold is a very good Republican, who got his shots. I didn’t take it like it was a forever mandate!!
Everyone talks about their freedom but no one wants to talk about their RESPONSIBILITY.
Personal choices only affect YOU.
Choosing to not be vaccinated or mask up against covid literally affects 6-8 people around you.
Sooo… eff MeMaw and children under 12 as long as you’re free that’s all that counts🤔😒
I have loved Arnold Schwarzenegger for many years.. I’m quite saddened by his remark. Yes, he has his opinion just like I have my own. But to say that about people’s freedom it’s just horrible. He wants to call people names who don’t get vaccinated, What wait how old are you?Something a grade school kid would say, you’re supposed to be an adult. He is a public figure that people listen to and look up to and you’re putting our country down. My son is going into the Marines, he will be defending our freedom for our country. How dare you say that. Wow!! Complete shock, shame shame on you for letting politics to decide things for you. Let this sink in many doctors have not and not going to get the vaccine. How does that make you feel? Should make you question the safety and your health after you receive this vaccine.
Most people believe in freedom in our country and it’s sad to say that you don’t.
I’m so proud of you for taking his picture down and finding another source to look up to. I’m sorry that you had to find out you’re hero was fake and just so disappointing. I feel that he has changed alot of people’s opinion of him. I wish you a lot of luck.
Talk about missing the point! Why don’t these muscle-brained dip-shits get this upset at morons not getting vaccinated?
Newsflash – Arnold doesn’t give a shit about your stupid poster! Go get vaccinated.
Talk about missing the point! Why don’t these muscle-brained dip-shits get this upset at morons not getting vaccinated?
Newsflash – Arnold doesn’t give a shit about your stupid poster! Go get vaccinated!
Arnold is a piece of shit hypocrite. Two days after making that comment he’s out walking without a mask on smoking a cigar. Screw his freedom, maybe people don’t want to breathe in his cigar smoke. These elite assholes think they are better than us and all of these morons on here defending Arnold are just as bad. Go suck on his dick.
“One of the World’s strongest men completely undone by four simple syllables!” Oh the irony! 🤣🤣🤣
I agree with Arnold. Screw anyones’ freedom who thinks it’s ok to walk around and risk other peoples lives.
Arnold might have been payed to say the oficial narativ . He”s a big ass.
Maybe he should return to wherever he comes from.
I have heard that his father was a nazi , I don’t know if it’s actually true, but let’s hope he doesn’t try and
follow his father’s ideaolgy.
It has made me sad but all we can do is pray for him.
I see this as a wash up using this as an opportunity to market his irrelevancy away. Oh those hurtful words!
Reallly.
It was taken the wrong way.
Boy must be a bunch of leftist Cali people on here. Mask’s have been proven not to work, you get your shot and still get the China Virus as well as a multitude of other health problems. When is America going to wake up and see what is happening to this country
I will not be taking “moral compass” advise from a guy who fathered a child with his house maid. As much as I can appreciate his contributions to the acting and physical fitness worlds, I have to disregard his position on the vaccines and the name calling he has resorted to. Not that I give a rat shit about him calling someone a schmuck, because I don’t, but I will not take heed to any advice coming from a lair cheater inflated celebrity who lives in a protected bubble.
Really?! Really?! Why is everyone so butt hurt (not that there is anything wrong with that) about “screw your freedom” in this context? Can we shoot a gun in a crowd? Sleep with an under aged person if your an adult? I mean thousands of people are dying, directly related to Covid and people are crying about “screw your freedom!?”
Wow…
Anyone that agrees with Arnold is an idiot. The shot does not and will not protect you and does not stop you from spreading it. Do you’re damn homework people. So, yes, screw Arnold and anyone that agrees with him. Bunch of sheep.
Arnold was a massive asshole with how he handled it. And that’s the problem with people like him: they just can’t help themselves. They can’t help but belittling someone, or name calling, or playing the “I’m more educated than you” card…..anything to guilt or shame a person into doing something that THEY feel is best for everyone else. We call these people DEMOCRATS, and judging by how badly Arnold fucked up California’s economy, I’d say he fits the bill as a typical RINO.
You want people to take this virus more seriously? Here’s a clue: STOP POLITICIZING IT. Our politicians can’t even get our citizens out of third-world shitholes without turning it into a massive international disaster…..you think the GOVERNMENT knows what’s best for you in regards to a virus or your health? Get the fuck outta here lol.
If you want to wear a mask, then wear a mask. If you don’t, then don’t. And if you are so terrified of this goddamn thing that you don’t know what to do, then just stay home. Not that fucking difficult.
And when the doctors can trace a specific person’s illness directly back to ME, then I’ll take this issue more seriously. But until then, take your power and control issues, as well as your condescending Liberal guilt trips, and eat my ass.
Narcissistic Karen assholes like Arnold SHOULD be put in their place, and I’m glad Brian did it. Imagine calling one of your admirers as accomplished as Brian Shaw a “schmuck”….the fucking nerve. He needs to keep his dick in his pants and his words in his mouth.
James is terribly ill informed or maybe not thinking about what he is saying.
You people are morons. You run to take a vaccine that was in NO WAY found safe. They changed the verbiage of the safety standards and all the sudden the sheep are feeling saved.
If the vaccines were what the mainstream c0mmunists ssy….they wouldn’t have to threaten and bribe people to take it. Sad day when Americans are so pussy ass scared that they’ll welcome communism into this country.
Those who give up freedom for a little (false) security deserve neither.
Arnie’s legion of Nazi’s come out to agree with him…go figure.
Millions dead because of this virus. Yeah, keep going with that argument.
I think he was pretty clear in saying that your freedom to decide to get a vaccine doesn’t only affect you, it affects others around you as well. I don’t know who said it, but my freedom ends where yours begins. I don’t get to just do what I want, without consequence. I can’t remove your freedom to a peaceful day but punching you in the face. That’s what he’s saying. We all have freedom. Your choices are limiting the freedom I have to keep myself and my family safe. You have freedom not to get a vaccine, but if you’re dumb enough to make that choice, do the honorable thing and stay inside, isolate yourself from the world until either covid is gone or your little feelings are OK and ready to rejoin society responsibly. Arnold said what a lot of people think. I love freedom. But freedom in the hands of the selfish leads to tyranny and irresponsibility. We’re all in this together. It shouldn’t be a political issue.
Also, I think it’s very important to differentiate, people didn’t die for only your freedoms, they died for ALL of OUR freedoms. All of us. That’s the problem. So many people are only looking at it from a selfish point of view. Sure, it’s an inconvenience, but if my inconvenience means I don’t pass covid to someone old, or immunocompromised, or an innocent kid who can’t get the virus, I’m cool with that. I’d rather wear a mask than know I contributed to someone else losing a loved one.
Proud of you Brian for following your moral compass. Most of these followers are blinded by their insecurities and are afraid to educate themselves on the scientific facts of the virus and the vaccines. To all you freedom haters… The virus doesn’t discriminate against you. It will attack all of us and some will die. That is nature doing it thing (in laymen’s terms). Are you willing to give up your personal freedoms out of fear? I have as much right to not wear a mask as you have to wear one. I am not trying to infect anyone, however I will not live my life a scared individual trying to stop the inevitable. If I get the virus and die from it than that is God’s will and I have no control. You all foolishly believe you can control the virus with a vaccine that was developed by big pharma on a fast track. Most approved vaccines take years of research on human subjects to determine their safety in multiple health situations. These vaccines were not researched enough. The copious amounts of data that are recorded with traditional research was never completed on these vaccines and therefore those of us that were vaccinated are the rats in this experiment. Is the CDC calling you two or three months after to ask you questions regarding your experience with the vaccine? NO. No one from the gov’ t health agencies is interested in whether you had a good experience or a bad one. You have just introduced a foreign substance into your blood stream because the Gov’t asked you to in the name of preserving others. Would you inject other drugs into your system if asked to? I don’t believe I would. Therefore you haters have no right to shame anyone into feeling that we are doing something wrong. We are the individuals who are not afraid and that is what this countries freedoms were built on. An old Navy guy once told me this quote “ Freedom is not free!! It was paid for by the Brave”. Please be brave in your daily routines and live your life like tomorrow doesn’t exist. Do not cower to something you have no control over! Thank you for reading.
Everybody has an opinion. That’s fine. But like so many people say, “follow the science,” the science is that more people are dying within 2 weeks following the shot than are dying from Covid. And that’s not just here in the US. Follow the science and avoid the shot, unless you don’t care are dying. It’s your choice. Support your own immune system, and use common sense to have your best chance of getting through this tough time.
I’m with Arnold on this one. Freedom is important, but putting others before yourself and not being a POS is more important.
Even more of a reason to like Brian Shaw!
Good on Schwarzenegger , he is completely right .
It’s hilarious antivax strongman trying to justify their stance with “we don’t know the long term effects “ when they take drugs that have terrible long term effects , with increased blood pressure and heart problems to name a few from various anabolic steroids .
I’m so proud my country Britain has ignored the liars on the internet and 90% of adults have had at least one dose . America ought to be ashamed of itself . It has gone full retard. Wouldn’t surprise me if measles and polio have a resurgence there. Thanks for outing yourself shaw , I won’t watch anything with you in it anymore . Bitterly disappointed one of my favourite strongmen has fallen for the lies peddled on Facebook and YouTube
And to all the people thinking anyone pro vaccine is a Democrat , I’m a RIGHT WING BREXITEER
To all the people crying that the “vaccine is experimental….” The Pfizer version has completed FDA approvals, and Moderna is about a month behind. The irony here is that supplements aren’t FDA-approved are even necessarily tested for purity and safety, but you meatheads guzzle them down.
If you think your personal freedom trumps the freedom of the general public, I have some news you might not want to hear.
Yes Brian! Well done for standing up for your beliefs! Stick Dorian up there instead!
Just remember….Hitler was Austian toi…and didn’t give a shit about people’s freedoms either….
Thank you Brian Shaw for standing up for true freedom. People are running scared because they just don’t understand. The virus was man made: Period! Masks will not protect people from this virus, and do not take my word for it, research it and you will find the virus is so small that it can pass right through the fibers of paper or cloth masks. As for the vaccine, everyone has the freedom to take it or not, it’s up to the individual not the government. I believe the human body can make better antibodies than any lab. As for Arnold, it’s a said day. I to have trained with a picture of him since the 1978. I have defended him and told people how he inspired me with his willingness to work hard and make something of himself, but people change or do they really. I for one will remember him for what he was, a great bodybuilder, ahead of his time. I will support this country against people who try to use fear to make others do something against their will. That is the American way.
Let’s see we now have 5 million +dead as of Jan 2022 so Arnold Schwarzenegger was talking about covid19 not any other freedom’s just nobody has the right to infect other people so if you want freedom from the virus and death take the shot like he did!!!