GOP Senate Candidate Herschel Walker Floats A Jaw-Dropping Air Pollution Theory

[Eugene]

Source: HuffPost

GOP Senate Candidate Herschel Walker Floats A Jaw-Dropping Air Pollution Theory

We shouldn't battle pollution because our good air will just "decide" to go to China, the Trump-backed Georgian told supporters, drawing massive blowback.

By Mary Papenfuss
Jul 11, 2022, 08:39 PM EDT

Problem-plagued U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker has presented an astounding argument for not enacting laws against air pollution: America’s “good air” will simply “decide” to go to China, he told supporters in Georgia.

A viral video clip of the speech by the Republican — who has been endorsed by Donald Trump — during a campaign stop in Hall County, Georgia, on Saturday, is making the rounds on Twitter and has triggering a tsunami of criticism. (Even Fox News conceded Walker’s mangled perspective “drew criticism.”)

“Since we don’t control the air, our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air, so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move,” Walker explained. “So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got to clean that back up,” he added.

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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/herschel-walker-good-air-decides-to-move-to-china_n_62cc9255e4b0d740198761ff

[secondwind]

1. OMG 😳

[Duppers]

2. Omg, how ignorant!!!!

SMH.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Ignoramuses are puppets of powerful money interests. . . nt

[Lonestarblue]

15. Indeed. One of his big backers is a gun manufacturer.

They make AR-15s—the weapon of choice for mass murderers. I’m sure Walker was chosen as the candidate because of his race and because he will vote exactly as his big donors tell him.

[joshdawg]

9. Well, he's running as a republican, so.....................

republicans have never been the sharpest knives in the drawer. Walker is just proving that fact........again!

[AZLD4Candidate]

3. Needs to play when he steps on stage

[Funtatlaguy]

4. Would love to know how theAtlanta media is handling this.

[Ziggysmom]

6. A kid in grade school would get laughed at for saying shit like that! Did he take too many

hits to the head?

[Rhiannon12866]

10. That was my first thought! Yikes!

And he's going up against Raphael Warnock who Rachel Maddow has called "the most eloquent member of the Senate..."

[ProfessorGAC]

25. No

It's NOT CTE.
He's an idiot, and always has been.
Had he been a cornhole player, with zero head hits, he'd still be an imbecile.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

7. Sad - this is a close race - WHY!!!

[DFW]

8. This is a close race for one reason only

That letter “R” in front of his name is all that standing between him and a 2% favorable poll rating. It is an unfortunate fact of life that Snagglepuss the Lion would poll at 40% or more in any Southern or Midwestern state as long as he had that “R” in front of his name and the endorsement of Fox Noise (which is automatic, anyway).

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Nuts.

[AverageOldGuy]

12. And for his next comedy routine . . .

. . . he will recite the names of all his children, even the ones he ignores.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. Twitter reply:

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[Rhiannon12866]

14. Twitter reply:

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[underpants]

22. Authentic gibberish

?noredirect

[gab13by13]

16. He obviously didn't graduate from UGA, right?

How did he even get in, oh wait, never mind.

[underpants]

23. No

Walker claimed he graduated from high school as the valedictorian, but there is no evidence for this claim. He later walked back this statement.[14]

In December 2021, Walker's campaign deleted a false claim that he had graduated from the University of Georgia several hours after it was posted on a campaign website and after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution inquired about the claim.[15] In April 2022, reporting revealed that Walker had been falsely claiming he had graduated from the University of Georgia "in top 1% of his class" in motivational speeches as early as 2017.[14]

[PXR-5]

17. Stuff is writing itself for Weekend Update 😃

[mwb970]

18. They're all just so STUPID.

It's maddening.

[tanyev]

19. Stupid and arrogantly proud of it.

[Chainfire]

20. People, who are not from the South, vastly underestimate the power of football down here.

It is a religion to many, and Walker was a high priest. Being dumb as a stick is not a disqualifier for being a Republican politician; we have proof of that already.

[hadEnuf]

21. The GOP wants complete idiot chumps like this in office.

They are guaranteed to be easy to control.

[leftyladyfrommo]

24. We are going back to the Dark Ages. Back to a time

before science. Back to a time when donkeys were worth more than wives.

I don't think these people ever think anything through.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

26. Zero sum...

...the wind blows, so the air must be moving, and *gasp* leaving!

So since our air went away, to China, say, (as the boogeyman du jour), theirs must be coming here. Nature abhors a vacuum.

The only problem is the vacuum is between Walker's ears.

[PatrickforB]

27. Well, now that I'm done laughing, I honestly don't know what to say.

Well, I do. I will be donating to Herschel's OPPONENT, for sure. Geez.

He was a decent football player, but I think the deck is now short a few cards...