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Ditzy Herschel Walker Declares: America Is ‘The Greatest Country In The United States’

Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker is trying to drum up support as he heads into a December 6 runoff election with incumbent Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D).

Why is there a runoff? The Associated Press explains:

A third candidate, Libertarian Chase Oliver, took 2.1% in the initial round of balloting Nov. 8. That was enough to keep both Warnock and Walker, the former University of Georgia football standout, from taking more than half the vote, which is required to avoid a runoff.

Less than 1 percentage point separated Warnock and Walker, with Warnock slightly ahead. They will be the only candidates up for consideration Dec. 6.

As he’s done repeatedly since he announced his candidacy, Walker is making a complete fool of himself with remarks he made to a group of supporters, asking them, “Do you know we’re the greatest country in the United States…?”

Yes, we most certainly are the greatest country in the United States because we ARE the United States! Damn! Thanks for that information, Captain Obvious.

If you’ve followed Walker’s campaign at all, then you’ll know this is about the 10 millionth stupid thing he’s said since he announced his candidacy with the enthusiastic support of disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump. Here’s a few other examples:

  •  “They continue to try to fool you like they’re helping you out, but they’re not. They’re not helping you out, because a lot of the money is going to trees. You know that, don’t you? It’s going into trees. We’ve got enough trees. Don’t we have enough trees around here?”
  • In a July 9 appearance, he spoke about climate change, suggesting that Georgia’s “good air decides to float over” to China, replacing China’s “bad air,” which goes back to Georgia, where “we got to clean that back up.”
  • At a town hall and lunch for women on August 19 in Wrightsville, he said that inflation affects women more than men because “they gotta buy groceries.” 

Twitter lit up with mockery for Walker’s latest gaffe.

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Abortion Elections GOP

Trump Fan Twists Himself In Knots Trying To Defend Herschel Walker’s Abortion Hypocrisy

According to many Republicans, abortion is murder and needs to be declared illegal across the country, no matter the reason a woman may be trying to terminate her pregnancy, with some on the right even going so far as to say there should be no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother.

That hardline position is leaving many right-wingers in a difficult position when it comes to Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who says he’s opposed to abortion yet reportedly paid for at least two women he impregnated to terminate their pregnancies.

Such was the case with a Georgia man who was interviewed by Jason Selvig of The Good Liars.

The man — who was wearing a pro-Trump cap and told Selvig that he did indeed support Walker — was asked:

“You think abortion is murder?”

The man replied:

Selvig then asked:

“Do you think that Herschel Walker is a murderer if he paid for an abortion?” 

The man responded:

“Well, actually we’ve all done bad things.”

Once again, Selvig pressed:

“Murder is, you know — that’s one of the worst you could do, right?”

The man attempted to change the topic to Walker’s opponent, incumbent Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock:

“Warnock hasn’t repented for his sins.”

But Selvig had the perfect comeback:

“But, I mean, totally unrelated to Raphael Warnock, if Herschel Walker paid for an abortion, and you think abortion is murder, does that not make him a murderer?”

That led the man to tell Selvig:

“You know, it’s according to what you want to call murder. I mean, if you see somebody breaking into your house and you kill him, is that murder? If you accidentally run over somebody—”

Selvig asked yet again:

“Is abortion murder?” 

The man replied:

“Well, if you do that, a premeditated taking of a life, I think that is murder.”

Selvig:

“So that, by definition, if the allegations are true, he was a murderer, but that’s okay with you because he repented.”

The man continued to twist himself into pretzel shape, replying:

“Well, what is sin is sin. I mean, some sins are more long lasting.”

Spoken like a true fake Christian who has either never read the Bible or read it and didn’t understand a word about forgiveness, redemption, and sin.

Here’s the video:

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Elections U.S. Senate

Warnock Destroys Walker In Georgia Senate Debate: Herschel ‘Has A Problem With The Truth’

The Friday evening debate between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and his Republican opponent, Herschel Walker, wound up being a blowout, with Warnock reminding voters that Walker says one thing one day and another the next, meaning he cannot be trusted.

When he was asked if he supported gun safety legislation, Walker said he would never vote for any bill that would impact the Second Amendment and then attacked Warnock for suggesting some members of law enforcement cannot be trusted.

“And because of the name calling he’s done, the morale is down, recruitment is down, only because of what he’s done. He’s empowered criminals to think they’re better than police.

“He don’t protect the border, fentanyl is coming into this country — also into Atlanta Seventy percent of the drugs coming from the border goes to Atlanta, Georgia.”

Asked for a response, Warnock replied:

“We will see time and time again tonight, as we’ve already seen, that my opponent has a problem with the truth. And just because he said something doesn’t mean it’s true.”

Warnock then leveled his opponent with this line:

“One thing I have not done, I’ve never pretended to be a police office. And I’ve never threatened a shootout with the police.”

Rather than admit he had lied about being a police officer, Walker flashed a fake badge and was scolded by the moderator for violating debate rules by using a prop.

Among the other lies Walker has told along the campaign trail, according to The New Republic:

  • Reporting from The Daily Beast, including receipts and a “Get well” card, revealed that Walker, who opposes abortions without exceptions, in fact paid for his girlfriend’s abortion.
  • Walker’s campaign claimed last December that Walker has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and graduated in the top 1 percent of his class from the University of Georgia. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution looked into the claim and found it was false.
  • Walker claimed in January to be Native American on his mother’s side, stating that his grandmother was a “full-blooded Cherokee.” His own mother was unable to confirm these claims in an interview with HuffPost.
 

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Henry Winkler Just Laid A Nasty Burn On Absentee Dad Herschel Walker

Tomorrow is Father’s Day, but it’s safe to say it won’t be a very happy one for Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who claims to be worried about the problem of fatherlessness in the African-American community, but was exposed as an absentee father of two sons and a daughter.

According to The Daily Beast, which first broke the story:

A day after The Daily Beast broke the news that Herschel Walker had a secret 10-year-old son he fathered out of wedlock, the football star-turned-politician confirmed late Wednesday night that he has yet another son with a different woman that the public doesn’t know about—as well as a daughter that he had in college.

The revelations come in the middle of Walker’s competitive race to unseat Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and after many public comments Walker has made about absent fathers in the Black community.

Walker also suggested this week that celebrities are to blame for making Americans dispirited and depressed:

“I think some of the biggest problems going on in our country today, we have so many celebrities telling people that they can’t do it. Telling a lot of people, ‘Oh, well, you got to feel bad for yourself, feel sorry for yourself.’ Which is sad to me. They’ve done it, but they’re telling you you can’t do it. And it’s like, you did it, why they can’t do it? I think they tell all the kids they can’t do it, making our kids feel sorry for themselves.”

That quote rubbed actor Henry Winkler, who rose to fame in the 1970s playing Fonzie on “Happy Days” and he responded to Walker on Twitter:

And now Winkler is expanding on his tweet and his thoughts about Walker, appearing on CNN Saturday afternoon and telling host Jim Acosta:

“The general premise has bothered me forever. I always thought it was so weird so many people use that kind of tactic of saying, oh, you’re on television, you shouldn’t say what you think, and I’m thinking that is the craziest thing I ever heard. And then, when I saw Mr. Walker’s tweet, I thought to myself, first of all, we are, as a profession, we are uplifting. That’s number one.”

“Number two, why shouldn’t I have the same point of view he has the right to. He’s a celebrity. What is he talking about? He talks about being an absentee father. He has a couple of children he hasn’t even mentioned nor has seen that we can say anything for a vote is nauseating.”

Winkler, it should be noted, is everything Herschel Walker isn’t when it comes to being a devoted husband and father. He’s been married to the same woman since 1978 and has two children: A son, Max, who is now a screenwriter and director, and Zoe, who was a preschool teacher for many years.

Father’s Day is a very special day, as it should be. But Herschel Walker is in no position to preach to anyone on fatherhood or being a celebrity.

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Elections GOP Gun Crime WTF?!

Herschel Walker’s ‘Plan’ For Preventing School Shootings Is Nonsensical Gibberish

There was a time back in the early 1980s when Herschel Walker was undoubtedly the greatest running back in the country, earning him the Heisman Trophy in 1982 as the best player in all of college football while playing for the University of Georgia.

Now, however, 40 years later, Walker is the GOP Senate nominee for the Peach State, and it seems every single time he opens his mouth these days, he winds up making little to no sense whatsoever.

Such was the case today when Walker appeared on Fox News to discuss the horrific mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 elementary school children and two of their teachers dead this week.

Walker, who has the full support of failed, one-term, twice-impeached former President Donald Trump, had this to say when asked about the most recent shooting in the United States:

“You know Cain killed Abel, you know, and that’s a problem that we have. What we need to do is look into how we can stop those things, you know, they talked about doing a disinformation.”

Cain and Abel? Last time I checked, Cain didn’t mow Abel down with an AR-15 and then go kill an entire village of people. And do we even have any factual proof that such an event ever took place?

But it was what Walker said next that suggested he isn’t fit to be elected to any office, let alone the U.S. Senate:

“What about looking at getting a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women that’s looking at their social media? What about doing that, looking into things like that? And we can stop that that way. But yet, they want to continue to talk about taking away your constitutional rights.”

A department that can look at young men that’s looking at women that’s looking at their social media. What in the hell does that even mean?!

Walker added:

“This has been happening for years, and the way we stop it, by putting money into the mental health field, by putting money into other departments rather than departments that want to take away your rights.”

Putting money into the mental health field is a good idea, and yet legislators in Walker’s former home state, Texas, have repeatedly slashed funding for mental health services. Why doesn’t Herschel call on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to convene a special session of the Texas legislature and allocate millions for better mental health infrastructure in the Lone Star State?

As for Walker’s suggestion of department to look at social media postings, the Brennan Center for Justice notes that there are already over a dozen federal agencies that monitor social media sites.

Herschel Walker was a great football player, and no one can ever take that away from him. But he’d be a disaster as a senator, and hopefully Georgia voters will reject his brainless gibberish in November.