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Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Hershel Walker (R) told Howard Stern that hes played Russian roulette as least six times because I love competition so much
I just love to compete.
https://politicalwire.com/2021/09/20/hershel-walker-brags-about-playing-russian-roulette/
spanone
(135,635 posts)Red Mountain
(1,705 posts)when you scrape the bottom of the barrel for candidates.
Georgia voters get to decide if they want to play, too.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Grins
(7,134 posts)Does that help?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)walkingman
(7,512 posts)Texas and voter complacency run this state.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,924 posts)Yes, Walker would likely win an election in the Lone Star state. Hopefully the folks who elected Warnock will come through again.
patphil
(6,034 posts)At least six times!
If he cares that little about his own life, how much concern does he have for the lives of others?
Celerity
(42,666 posts)he gets, really violent, demented ones, like ramming something into the eye socket of a neighbour or hunting a bloke down and shooting him. He is a fucking nutter. Last thing he needs is a big dose of actual political power.
He has dissociative identity disorder, once known as multiple personality disorder.
https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-sports-nfl-college-football-coronavirus-pandemic-5e2875eec11e93f9a3bf1fc859137ff8
The National Alliance on Mental Illness describes dissociative identity disorder as alternating between multiple identities, leaving a person with gaps in memory of everyday events. It notes men with the disorder exhibit more violent behavior rather than amnesia.
In his book, Walker acknowledges violent urges. He writes that he played Russian roulette and recounts sitting at his kitchen table in 1991 pointing a gun, loaded with a single bullet, at his head. I wasnt suicidal, Walker explained, but just looked at mortality as the ultimate challenge.
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A watershed moment, he writes, came in February 2001, when he drove around suburban Dallas, hunting for a man who he said was avoiding his calls after being days late delivering a car Walker had purchased.
The logical side of me knew that what I was thinking of doing to this man murdering him for messing up my schedule wasnt a viable alternative, Walker wrote. But another side of me was so angry that all I could think was how satisfying it would feel to step out of the car, pull out the gun, slip off the safety, and squeeze the trigger.
zuul
(14,615 posts)LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)then fade to these quotes.
patphil
(6,034 posts)Trump's base will love him.
Botany
(70,291 posts)n/t
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)And, not trying to be mean, either. It's sad, actually. It feels like members of his party are exploiting him.
Botany
(70,291 posts).... and his enjoyment of violence to others and himself shows that he might have some kind of
organic brain damage.
Who is most at risk for CTE?
Every person diagnosed with CTE has one thing in common: a history of repetitive hits to the head. CTE is most frequently found in contact sport athletes and military veterans. CTE has been found in individuals whose primary exposure to head impacts was through tackle football (500+ cases confirmed at the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank), the military (50+ cases), hockey (30+ cases), boxing (20+ cases, 50+ globally), rugby (10+ cases), soccer (5+ cases, 20+ globally), pro wrestling (5+ cases), and, in fewer than three cases each, baseball, basketball, intimate partner violence, and individuals with developmental disorders who engaged in head banging behaviors.
https://concussionfoundation.org/CTE-resources/what-is-CTE
underpants
(182,279 posts)Moebym
(989 posts)Her friends do not enjoy playing games of any sort with her because she, like Herschel Walker, is hyper-competitive.
She has kept the notepad with the score from a board game match that her team won on her refrigerator ever since it happened many years ago. When she or her team loses, lets just say that she is not great at hiding her displeasure. Worst of all, whenever the subject of games comes up, she insists that everyone play her favorite and never fails to brag about how good she is at it.
Me.
(35,454 posts)jpak
(41,742 posts)He seemed nice enough
brush
(53,474 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(143,999 posts)11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)Go Herschel!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Harker
(13,880 posts)I'm not sure I understand the game.
Wouldn't solitaire be safer?
niyad
(112,435 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,559 posts)a cliff, the first person who jumps is a chicken and the winner goes off the cliff.
Try it, Hersh!
FakeNoose
(32,351 posts)Just sayin'
Hekate
(90,195 posts)Of course, since this is todays GOP, that may be a feature they like.