Herschel Walker Delivers Unhinged Transphobic Speech the Day After LGBTQ Nightclub Shooting

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Source: Jezebel

Herschel Walker Delivers Unhinged Transphobic Speech the Day After LGBTQ Nightclub Shooting

A mass shooting of queer and trans people couldn't even derail the Georgia senate candidate from his hateful rhetoric for 24 hours.

BySusan Rinkunas
Published 2 hours ago

On Saturday, a 22-year-old man with a history of domestic violence killed five people and injured 22 others with an AR-15 at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Some people were at the venue, Club Q, to mark the Transgender Day of Remembrance, a commemoration of people killed in anti-trans violence. One of the victims, bartender Daniel Aston, was transgender.

Some gun-loving Republicans offered their typical thoughts and prayers after the 34th mass shooting in the U.S. this year; others just carried on with the kind of homophobic rhetoric that fuels hate crimes like this. Herschel Walker, who’s currently campaigning for a December 6 runoff election in Georgia against incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D), went ahead with his wildly bigoted stump speech on Sunday in Carrollton, without acknowledging the shooting at all.

Here’s what Walker told voters yesterday, according to audio obtained by Jezebel:

“Do y’all know what the definition of an enemy is? A enemy is somebody that don’t like you. But they been telling you they don’t know the definition of a woman either. So think about that either. They don’t know the definition of a woman. But I’m going to tell you the definition of a woman. Because it written in my great book. It said ‘a man and a woman.’ And there’s a difference between the two of them. So that’s the reason men shouldn’t be in women’s sport—here’s a difference.

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Read more: https://jezebel.com/herschel-walker-delivers-unhinged-transphobic-speech-th-1849808603

[republianmushroom]

1. I find most of his speech's are " Unhinged"

[bdamomma]

18. he's

unhinged. Too many brain injury infarcts.

[Jerry2144]

2. My nephew's speak and spell

Says more intelligent things than Mr. Walker

[Funtatlaguy]

3. I ALMOST want him to win and embarrass the GOP daily. But since

They are now beyond embarrassment, there’s not even that silver lining if Warnock loses.
Walker is a moron, a joke, a self parody.

[blue neen]

4. Good heavens. He's a moron.

How can anyone support him?

[Boomerproud]

5. Other morons support him.

nt

[blue neen]

12. Well, there you go.

You are absolutely right.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. Someone alerted on the above post

[sarisataka]

9. Don't know if it was worthy of an alrert

But it certainly is inaccurate. In Twain's story Jim is honorable and a gentleman, the opposite of most of the white characters.

He does speak in a historical vernacular and if the comparison is purely on manner of speech I can see how someone would alert on it.

[Fullduplexxx]

8. Good lord . "We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen."

— Grover Norquist

Well you found one

[SheltieLover]

10. This guy belongs in a locked psych ward.

[FloridaBlues]

11. He really does not want to be a Senator.

God forbid he wins he will likely resign leaving kemp to hand pick someone else.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Maybe some future Repub prez will pick him to replace Thomas on SCOTUS.

He is as qualified as Thomas.

[Mr.Bill]

17. And if the republicans controlled the Senate

every single one of them would vote for him.

[Iris]

22. That may actually be the plan.

[vercetti2021]

13. Shut the fuck up thumb head

Some get this drool baby a fucking bib.

[Turbineguy]

14. Did he know?

[rsdsharp]

16. I think the guy's political views are abhorrent, but I also think he's suffering from CTE.

Walker was with the Cowboys when Jerry Jones bought them, and unceremoniously canned Tom Landry. Walker was interviewed about the firing, and his statement was articulate, and well articulated. Not the mindless word salad he mumbles his way through now.

[onethatcares]

19. it's 2:00 a.m.

Hershells phone rings. He's all that stands between life and nuclear war.................in advance let me say "good bye".

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. K&R

[niyad]

21. ummm, jezebel? 651 mass shootings so far this year, an average of 2 a day.

[Initech]

23. The Christian right are a bunch of fucking ghouls.

Fuck them.