Poor situational awareness? Herschel Walker disses EVs in 'Battery Belt' ahead of Senate runoff

[Eugene]

Source: Savannah Morning News

Poor situational awareness? Herschel Walker disses EVs in 'Battery Belt' ahead of Senate runoff

Adam Van Brimmer, Savannah Morning News
Sun, November 27, 2022 at 7:00 AM·3 min read

The Herschel Walker campaign bus is logging serious miles around Georgia as he stumps for the U.S. Senate, and his travels must be taking him through Bryan County on Interstate 16 frequently.

Surely he must have noticed the 2,000-plus acres of cleared land behind the truck weigh station near Exit 143. The expanse is hard to miss, as are the dust clouds that drift across the highway from the construction equipment hard at work prepping the site.

The location is the future home of the Hyundai Metaplant America, an automobile assembly facility and battery manufacturing factory that will mean 8,000-plus new jobs. Suppliers to Hyundai will employ thousands more — already three parts makers have announced projects, promising a combined 2,400 jobs.

All this new job creation involves one specific product: Electric vehicles or EVs. The Hyundai Metaplant will build EVs exclusively, as will another facility planned for Georgia along Interstate 20, that one for Rivian. The Rivian plant estimates hiring 7,500 employees.

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Yet one high-profile Georgian stands against EVs: Would-be Sen. Walker.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/poor-situational-awareness-herschel-walker-110018262.html

[Maraya1969]

1. More from link

"Walker is campaigning against EVs. “I don’t want an electric car, I like my hot rod,” Walker told several hundred at an early November rally in Richmond Hill — a couple dozen miles away from the Hyundai site.

He doubled down following his second-place finish in the Nov. 8 election, telling a crowd in Peachtree City, “What we need to do is keep having those gas-guzzling cars. We got the good emissions under those cars.” He repeated the mantra in a stop in Augusta as well.

Walker is dissing EVs as part of a broader attack on what he calls “green new deal” policies championed by Democratic President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress, such as his runoff opponent, Sen. Raphael Warnock.

But for all but the GOP zealots, the approach has less juice than an EV in need of a charge. Georgia leaders, who are overwhelmingly Republican, are behind the push to attract EV manufacturers and related"

[dchill]

10. Herschel Walker is perfect ambassador for gas guzzling.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. What a GD clown. I am ashamed I live in Georgia for his presence here alone. Cretin.

[Celerity]

3. Assclown Walker, cartoonish minstrel show for white power christofash shitbaggery & wilful stupidity

[vlyons]

12. "Minstral show" is right on

Makes me feel very sad that they are using this man, who clearly has a low IQ and little self awareness. Shame on the GOP for running Walker. Just shows that the GOP has no respect for voters and certainly no respect for the honor and duty of the office of US senator. Is it any wonder why they rail against "wokeness?"

[doc03]

4. The Republican party is owned by the fossil fuel industry, they don't want any clean energy or

EVs. You mention a hybrid or EV they go into their, "What if you have to buy a new battery, they cost $20-$30k?"
You have to stop and charge it every 200 miles! What about your electric bill? There are no charging stations
and you have to pay to get them charged, they buy gas but think electric would be free. He is really talking to the
MAGA base.

[dembotoz]

6. yep you nailed it

[dalton99a]

5. Fucking moron

[Chainfire]

9. I don't fault him for being a moron, he probably can't help that.

I fault the Republican Party for running morons that they can count on to vote as they wish without question.

We don't need any additional morons making our laws.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Why did Trump back Herschel? To neutralize race as an issue, or as satire?

No one with 1/8 of a brain could figure Herschel is Senate caliber material. No one.

[odins folly]

11. First option

And also because he had a recognizable name. When shitbag was running the USFL into the ground, Wlaker was a player on his team. Shitbag remembers (or was reminded of that) and the fact that he can also neutralize the race card and win-win!

[Hortensis]

8. Schmuck. Gas-auto manufacturers are transitioning to EV,

some planning to go all-electric by 2030 -2035, GM for one.

Walker knows that. With a net worth estimated by the AJC at somewhere between $29-65 million, he virtually certainly is invested in it.

Most of his voters also know that, but being conservatives they're distressed by change itself.

“A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” ― William F. Buckley

[usonian]

13. Don't focus on his clownishness.

Other than a few people who are scared out of their minds by clowns.
MOST PEOPLE LIKE THEM.

This happened in 2015. I saw it, when every joke made at the expense of the orange moron was free publicity.

CONCENTRATE ON QUALITY.

Sadly, Homer Simpson would win most races these days,
and Archie Bunker would trounce Carrol O'Connor! (who was always a liberal)

The drift to "personality politics", the first step towards fascism, is not to be ignored in the short term.
Politics is entertainment to many, aided by the "show value" placed on politics by the media.
That was always the case, but increasingly so as media replace community, and "metaverses" strive to replace reality.

CONCENTRATE ON QUALITY.

[Ilsa]

14. I wonder why Gov. Kemp didn't advise him on that matter?

Kemp has done an ad for Walker, basically an anti-Biden ad.

If only the bus had stopped at the Love's nearby, HW might have seen the construction and asked, "What huge tax base money-maker is going up here?" Naaaahh, he'd never think to ask that.

[Midnight Writer]

15. Too many people have been inhaling those "good emissions" from under their car.

If you asked Herschel Walker to inhale straight out of a tailpipe, even he would say "What are you, crazy?"

[Marcuse]

16. Maybe...

[LiberalFighter]

17. He knows how to drive? Does he even have a Georgia drivers license?

[Wounded Bear]

18. I'm not sure it's all that "situational"...

[Missn-Hitch]

19. Yes!! LOL!

I haven't seen it but I pictured the crowd yee-hawing and cheerin' him on.