Pic Of The Moment: Herschel Walker On Why Preventing Air Pollution Is Pointless

[EarlG]

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

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[Maine Abu El Banat]

1. And they don't want to be called stupid!

[KS Toronado]

21. TOO LATE !

[niyad]

2. PLEASE tell me that this is The Onion.

[malthaussen]

18. Okay, this is the Onion.

Oops, sorry, I lied.

-- Mal

[niyad]

19. Thank you for that nanosecond of hope.

[CrispyQ]

3. Unfuckingbelievable that anyone would vote for him. -nt

[tosh]

46. I'm in Georgia

And I actually saw a Walker campaign sign a few days ago.

I feel hopeful, though, because it is the ONLY one I’ve seen!

[rurallib]

4. he must breathe some pretty rarified air

[SergeStorms]

41. Has it flown in from China.

It used to be our air, but.....Herschel explained it all. How can you argue with scientific facts like that?

[rampartc]

5. walker is close to an awful truth that no maga can comprehend.

this is one of many problems that can only be solved of we cooperate with the rest of the world. borders are only invisible lines on a map.

[MadameButterfly]

32. This reminds me of the Hrabal novel CLosely Watched Trains

where the trains (in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakis) were gradually more and more behind schedule until eventually, for a brief moment (when they were 24 hours behind), they were on time.

[FakeNoose]

6. In spite of all this, they will vote for him

... because Chump told them to.

[Rebl2]

14. Unbelievable

that anyone could vote for him

[JohnnyRingo]

7. I often give the benefit of the doubt

Really, even when MTG makes a dumb press statement I'll say "I know what she meant", but this time I really believe he thinks this is how it works. He doesn't understand that particulate matter is affected by gravity.

Maybe we should put a steep tariff on all that Chinese air.

[appleannie1]

8. Makes as much sense as windmills cause cancer and kill birds.

[llmart]

11. Or raking the forests.

There have always been really, really stupid people, but in the past NO ONE would ever vote for them for President or Senator or even dog catcher.

[Diamond_Dog]

9. Cornering the market on Dumb Sheep Led by Trump

[IronLionZion]

10. Build the wall high enough to keep good air in America

[William Seger]

13. Build the Dome!(tm)

[lapfog_1]

17. who knew this is a serious proposal from an actual major party candidate for US Senate

[Jon King]

12. Repugs want as much dumbness as possible.

Walker is another useful idiot. Truly how the Repugs hold onto power, promote as much stupidity and alternate reality as they can.

[malthaussen]

15. He has a point. :)

I distinctly remember back in the '70s, when China was doing atmospheric nuclear tests, the claims that the fallout would drift all the way to the US. Doonesbury even did a strip about it. The same thing happened when Fukushima sort-of-al-most-but-not-quite-depending-on-whom-you-talk-to melted down, and there was panic about the fallout reaching our pristine shores. So if in Mr Walker's confused and depraved mind this is equatable to "out goes the bad air, in comes the good," I'm not terribly surprised.

This is what our Senate has come to. Now, that's a surprise.

-- Mal

[catbyte]

16. In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny...

[Moostache]

20. Jesus (and I) wept.

The very idea that people will vote for this idiot by the millions + in November is depressing.

How do we tackle serious, existential threats and economic structural deficits when one side of the vote tally is terminally stupid, epically incurious, and led by their noses to do the bidding of others who profit from their pain?

People who hear THAT and think "damn right!" get to vote and their votes count as much as anyone who is actually versed in the field and knows what is happening and what to do about it.

I am seriously welling up with tears of rage thinking of the bleak future we are bequeathing to the youth and knowing that I cannot do a damn thing about it in this current government system. Its past time to blow this thing up and start over. A system so broken that a man with clear signs of mental deficiency likely early signs of CTE and no ability or qualifications is on the doorstep of the United States Senate is a system that has failed.

[SouthBayDem]

22. Do the people of Georgia understand what's at stake?

I cannot believe anyone would watch this guy speak and conclude, "Yeah I'd totally trust him to vote on the federal budget, federal judges, and cabinet members. He would really know how to cross examine witnesses in committee hearings."

Perhaps the Republicans want someone who's easily manipulated by lobbyists, on purpose.

[ShazzieB]

24. Ding ding ding ding!

Perhaps the Republicans want someone who's easily manipulated by lobbyists, on purpose.

Absolutely they do, or at least the party leaders do. And their base is just dumb enough to fall for it.

[MadameButterfly]

34. They just want someone who can win

and rubber stamp the Republican position. They haven't been interested in competence for a while.

They thought Warnock won because he was Black, just replace a Black man with a Black man. The bench isn't deep on the Republican side since most competent Black politicians are Democrats. So they figured any kind of celebrity would do.

This kind of thinking has been surprisingly successful so far. I hope they've finally gone too far.

[central scrutinizer]

23. "Our good air decided"??.

Sounds like the air is more sentient than Walker

[Sky Jewels]

40. Hah, I was going to post the same thing.

[lastlib]

25. Thank God he chose football over playing with subatomic particles!

That is weapons-grade stoopidity!

So we shouldn't do ANYTHING about polluting the air we NEED to breathe, Herschel? Tell that to people with lung diseases, you G-- D----d IDIOT!

[Midnight Writer]

26. He got applause for this.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

27. Please, Georgia, save yourselves and us. You have better candidates. Look for the D.

[underpants]

28. Can this be stopped by building a wall?

That cracked me up Earl

[NCjack]

30. No, the bad air would decide to hop over the good fence. The only solution

is to explode a good nuclear bomb under the bad (from China) air. That would cause that air to rise and travel back to China and our good air to flow back to USA.

I think I got that correct. It's very complicated.

[underpants]

31. Too smart for me

[YoshidaYui]

29. IS IT THE GOP'S GOAL TO flood the system

with Highly stupid people??

[Ford_Prefect]

33. There's no arguing about it, He has a way with words! His words, his way. WOW!

[KPN]

35. And today's Republican Party actually recruited

this guy to run against Warnock. Idiocracy truly is here.

[Dysfunctional]

36. In a way, he isn't totally wrong.

No, our good air doesn't go to China and their bad air comes to the US. What does happen is if China and other countries don't do anything about climate change it will affect the whole planet.

[djacq]

37. Watched Spaceballs too many times?;

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[twodogsbarking]

38. So will we have to move to China?

And the Chinese move here? Stay tuned.

[patphil]

39. My God! The Idiocracy is upon us!

500 years to sune!

May God have mercy on hour soles.

[SergeStorms]

42. Brought to you by Carl's Junior.

Brawndo! It's got what Herschel Walker craves!

[Beartracks]

43. What?? I thought conservatives claimed air pollution doesn't even cross state lines!

[Frostlight]

44. "The Mind... is a terrible thing..."

[Beartracks]

45. Hey Republicans! You know how to stop a bad country with bad air?

You need a good country with good air!



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