Herschel Walker is doing his best to put the Onion out of business.

[Bleacher Creature]

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[leftieNanner]

1. A few too many concussions?

Too many knocks to the football helmet?

Geez, but he's deeply stupid.

[Peacetrain]

2. This!!!

[hlthe2b]

15. Not sure that can explain. I recall hearing his interviews when he was the FRESHMAN star at UGA

and the years later. Atlanta local sportscasters seemed to hang on his every utterance-such as they were. Even speaking to football, he came across this way. Clearly, no time spent in college (yeah, I know) or since has changed his baseline level of knowledge/intellect.

Ironically, even the neuronal synapse-lacking former guy is probably laughing at this--even if he is promoting him.

[paleotn]

38. Much of the current NCAA academic requirements didn't exist when he was at UGA.

Well, the short time he was at UGA anyway. I've heard numerous anecdotes of SEC football and basketball athletes who were, and probably still are, functionally illiterate. Even today with supposed academic standards. Probably much the same across all of Div I.

[GoCubsGo]

36. That and a life-long academic pass.

A lot of star athletes are allowed to slip through high school with poor grades, which continues at the university level. They'll be offered crip courses in order to keep their grades up, and never actually learn much of anything. It's an especially common here in the South, where football is THE main religion. I don't know if Walker is actually stupid, or just abysmally-educated. I lean toward the latter, especially when it comes to science, and evolution, in particular.

[barbtries]

42. that last one.

deeply stupid, i think it was

[obamanut2012]

3. My dead uncle would answer Walker by saying HE is the ape residue

ie he believed, literally, thet black people were straight evolved from apes, and were literally still have ape, half human. So, my uncle would say the apes are black people, and I doubt that dead bastard is far from the only one thinking that.

[Faux pas]

4. I'm

sure all the fools that are stoopider than he is will vote for him. That's the far right secret to 'winning' is appealing to the unevolved, ignorant assholes.

[leftieNanner]

6. They will vote for ANYTHING

with an R next to their name.

[Faux pas]

8. Sad

but true. Lol, I think they should all be gathered up and moved to one state, Texass or Florida would be my picks

[Rebl2]

31. Let's give them

a choice TX or FL and for those that like the cold, the Dakota’s.

[Faux pas]

56. Any

red state would do. Just keep them away from we 'woke' ones

[Hoyt]

5. 2022 Georgia election is a chitshow. From Walker, to KKKemp and Purdue trying to out racist

each other, to Majorie Greene and Andrew Clyde pandering to the majority rubes in their districts, and maybe worse.

[Chainfire]

7. Being ignorant doesn't disqualify someone from Republican Politics, in fact the opposite.

The dumber they are the more the Republicans like them. Walker made fame and fortune in life by running over people. In a system where brawn is valued over brain, he should not be wasting his time running for the Senate, but for the Presidency.

Judging by the path of the Republican Party is taking, their next nominee for President may be a garbage truck. It is big and strong and crushes the opposition. At least that would be an improvement over Greene, Walker, or a host of other Republican politicians.

[Ocelot II]

16. In the GOP, stupid isn't a bug, it's a feature.

GOPers don't like them smarty-pants types who think they're better than reg'ler 'Mer'cans jus' cuz they know things.

[TrogL]

41. Ignorance is Strength

[rurallib]

45. he only has to do what he is told to do - that is all

[Chainfire]

48. You are exactly right.

Small minds don't need as much pushing. Thus the strength of so may congress members that are too dumb to pour pee out of a slipper. They aren't particular who they sleep with as long as the money is there in the morning.

[hlthe2b]

9. When he wasn't talking about football (or many times when he WAS) he's always been cringe-worthy

I feel for any sports figures who have to bear the stereotypes about "jock" (especially football player jock) intellect, but Walker, sadly, provides support for the notion.


Uggh.

[Ron Obvious]

10. Haven't heard that one in a while

The answer, of course, is that we ARE apes. Some of us more so than others, perhaps.

[Ray Bruns]

11. this is an old creationist argument that has been shot down so many times

It looks like Snoopy's doghouse after he tangles with the red baron.

[Hugin]

12. South Park already has this covered...

Where Kayne (oh, wait it is Ye now right?) tried to explain how Kim is not a Hobbit.

[Silent3]

13. The supposed-gotcha question from anti-evolutionists is the epitome of ignorance...

...and it's amazing to me that anyone can still ask that question seriously and not realize the self-parody they're creating.

There are plenty of people who don't believe in evolution, yet they still know this is a very dumb question. You'd think that some of the smarter morons would tell the more moronic morons to stop making them all look so bad.

[gratuitous]

14. Mr. Walker

If you got a degree from your time at the University of Georgia, you may be entitled to a partial or even a full refund of all tuition paid, because you clearly didn't learn anything in any of your classes.

[rsdsharp]

18. He didn't pay any tuition, either.

He was on an athletic scholarship all three years. I don’t know whether he graduated from Georgia, but apparently he was valedictorian of his high school class. I wonder if the collective IQ of his class reached double digits.

[soldierant]

33. Oh, it may well have -

concussion explains a lot.

[11 Bravo]

43. Walker played 3 seasons at UGA. Coincidentally, that's also the number of classes he attended.

[Ocelot II]

17. Don't anybody tell him what happened to the dinosaurs...

Psst, Herschel - they aren't extinct; they're birds.

[wnylib]

34. Anti evolution response: "Oh yeah? Well robins don't look

big and scary to me."

And don't forget that people and dinosaurs lived at the same time.

And you can't get a cat from a dog so how can you get a bird from a dinosaur?

(I've heard those comments several times. I just smile and don't try to explain. Too much ignorance to fill in during a passing conversation. I just tell them that they clearly don't understand evolution and should know about a topic before trying to discuss it.)

[marie999]

47. Of course there were people and dinosaurs at the same time,

didn't you ever watch the documentary The Flintstones?

[wnylib]

50. But if course. how could I

have forgotten.

Great documentary series about the domestication of dinosaurs, forerunners to the Model T, and so many other great human inventions.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. That's like flat earther logic. . . nt

[UTUSN]

20. Note to him: Not every thought is worth acting on, like your thinking you should be in the Senate.

But, oh well, given the slew of clowns as Congresscritters, never mind.

[packman]

21. Can't ya'll know that he be apealin' to the TV church people

Monkeys and Apes, they be havin' no trafficin' with Adam and Evie in the Garden.


Quick, someone ask him how old the earth is-----

[Permanut]

22. Makes perfect sense..

For example, we have dogs now, which explains why there are no wolves.

Oh, wait, never mind.

[Aussie105]

23. Somewhere in his utterings there is a spark of intelligence . . .

Searching . . .

Searching . . .

Nope, not finding it.

Welcome to the Senate! Success guaranteed!

[JustAnotherGen]

24. If he beats Warnock

This complete total dumbass shit for brains person . . .

I'm going to a live worm. I will post it on DU.

Mark this post for future reference.

How can anyone be that dang stupid?

[wnylib]

35. Consider where he is before

making any bets on his ability to win.

[JustAnotherGen]

44. That's the sad part

Like - Stacey Abrams is at the top of the ticket.

No - just no. It's bad enough a couple of dummies (Bobo and MTF) in the House. This -

It's just unseemly.

[JohnnyRingo]

25. I'm sure he went to college on a football scholarship.

No prof dared to flunk him.

But here's something. He's interested in martial arts and ballet because they go together, but if a opponent has video of him prancing about in tights.... well, I'm just sayin'.

[Calista241]

26. That's quite close to the best, most ridiculous quote of all time. n/t

[PJMcK]

27. Hey, Walker!

Your understanding of evolution is severely lacking. In fact, your comment about apes is profoundly ignorant.

Try studying a little science =before you open your mouth and show everyone how you're really stupid.

Hint: No one ever said that humans evolved from apes.

[Demsrule86]

28. Oh my God, this is a stupid man.

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. Sheesh, the KKK was using this same argument 55 years ago.

I heard it with my own ears when my "dad" took me to a HATE rally when I was 11.

[turbinetree]

30. Why do we have air, water and tress, please tell us Walker, how did you get your last name...

[Caliman73]

32. Humans ARE Apes. Dumbass

We share a common ancestor with all primates, including monkeys, and a closer ancestor with apes, and a closer ancestor with "Great Apes", and a closer one with chimpanzees and bonobos. Each of our distinct species separated and continued on with our clade splitting again many times until we are all that is left of the Homo family Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

There are still other Apes because we haven't managed to kill them all off yet.

[keithbvadu2]

49. Clade... Had to look that up. Always something new to learn.

Clade... Had to look that up. Always something new to learn.

[Hortensis]

53. :) Got that from the Bible, did you?

[Caliman73]

54. For the Bible tells me so...

[Hortensis]

55. Sum of all knowledge right there, the book itself often free, and

you don't actually have to read it to be infinitely more knowledgeable than all nonbelievers. No wonder it's so popular. There but for the grace of genetic pairings go I...

Thanks for the beautifully concise little summary, btw. I tend to forget.

[Pepsidog]

37. Dumb F*ckery! Shut up Herschel.

[Ohio Joe]

39. Sigh...

[AverageOldGuy]

40. Okay, okay . . .

. . . knock off the Dumb Jock jokes.

Of course, in Walker's case, they are not jokes.

[Demovictory9]

46. Lol 😀

[keithbvadu2]

51. Herschel, what race was Adam/Eve?

Herschel, what race was Adam/Eve?

And 'human' is not a valid answer.

Black, white, red, brown, other?

[Stuart G]

52. Stupid is still "Stupid"