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GA-SEN: Hershel Walker Brags About Playing Russian Roulette (Original Post) RandySF Sep 2021 OP
Keep it up hershel, you're eventually going to 'win'. spanone Sep 2021 #1
this is what it looks like Red Mountain Sep 2021 #2
Holy crap. Can't imagine voters will like that. lagomorph777 Sep 2021 #3
The same people elected Marjorie Taylor Greene... Grins Sep 2021 #24
That doesn't help me keep my lunch down. lagomorph777 Sep 2021 #27
Thank God he is not running in Texas - he would win in a landslide.....sadly. Rural walkingman Sep 2021 #4
He is a football hero in a state (Texas) where football is like religion. Prof. Toru Tanaka Sep 2021 #26
I would hope he was drunk at the time. I'd hate to think he was sober when he did that. patphil Sep 2021 #5
No, he is literally schizo, has been for years. He has talked about numerous violent urges Celerity Sep 2021 #9
The ads against him will be epic. zuul Sep 2021 #15
Replay a clip of Trump and his 5th Avenue comment... LiberatedUSA Sep 2021 #16
Wow! He's definitely a scary guy. No way he should ever have any political power. patphil Sep 2021 #17
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Botany Sep 2021 #6
Yep. Was about to post the same thing... GoCubsGo Sep 2021 #11
A huge # of people who have played running back have some form or another of CTE Botany Sep 2021 #13
6 times because he never gets tired of the WINNING underpants Sep 2021 #7
If I may bring up my conservative friend again Moebym Sep 2021 #8
THat Ad Just Writes Itself Me. Sep 2021 #10
I met Hershel when I was at UGA jpak Sep 2021 #12
Ya got another "winner" there, republicans. OH boy! brush Sep 2021 #14
Listen to Hershel Walker bragging about playing Russian roulette. LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2021 #18
We REALLY need to work to GOTV for this guy in the Georgia Republican senatorial primary! 11 Bravo Sep 2021 #19
Quitter NightWatcher Sep 2021 #20
If the gun goes off, is that a win or a loss? Harker Sep 2021 #21
Seven is a really lucky number in gambling. niyad Sep 2021 #22
I hear chicky-races are full of fun and competitions. Drive your car against another driver towards AZLD4Candidate Sep 2021 #23
An admission such as that should disqualify him from running FakeNoose Sep 2021 #25
Does the GOP have anyone else in this race? Because this is just weird. Hekate Sep 2021 #28
Way too many concussions have addled his brain. NoMoreRepugs Sep 2021 #29

Red Mountain

(1,737 posts)
2. this is what it looks like
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:50 AM
Sep 2021

when you scrape the bottom of the barrel for candidates.

Georgia voters get to decide if they want to play, too.

walkingman

(7,658 posts)
4. Thank God he is not running in Texas - he would win in a landslide.....sadly. Rural
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:57 AM
Sep 2021

Texas and voter complacency run this state.

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(1,982 posts)
26. He is a football hero in a state (Texas) where football is like religion.
Fri Sep 24, 2021, 03:06 PM
Sep 2021


Yes, Walker would likely win an election in the Lone Star state. Hopefully the folks who elected Warnock will come through again.

patphil

(6,206 posts)
5. I would hope he was drunk at the time. I'd hate to think he was sober when he did that.
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 12:01 PM
Sep 2021

At least six times!
If he cares that little about his own life, how much concern does he have for the lives of others?

Celerity

(43,497 posts)
9. No, he is literally schizo, has been for years. He has talked about numerous violent urges
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 12:25 PM
Sep 2021

he gets, really violent, demented ones, like ramming something into the eye socket of a neighbour or hunting a bloke down and shooting him. He is a fucking nutter. Last thing he needs is a big dose of actual political power.




He has dissociative identity disorder, once known as multiple personality disorder.

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-sports-nfl-college-football-coronavirus-pandemic-5e2875eec11e93f9a3bf1fc859137ff8

The National Alliance on Mental Illness describes dissociative identity disorder as “alternating between multiple identities,” leaving a person with “gaps in memory of everyday events.” It notes men with the disorder “exhibit more violent behavior rather than amnesia.”

In his book, Walker acknowledges violent urges. He writes that he played Russian roulette and recounts sitting at his kitchen table in 1991 pointing a gun, loaded with a single bullet, at his head. “I wasn’t suicidal,” Walker explained, but “just looked at mortality as the ultimate challenge.”

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A watershed moment, he writes, came in February 2001, when he drove around suburban Dallas, hunting for a man who he said was avoiding his calls after being days late delivering a car Walker had purchased.

“The logical side of me knew that what I was thinking of doing to this man — murdering him for messing up my schedule — wasn’t a viable alternative,” Walker wrote. “But another side of me was so angry that all I could think was how satisfying it would feel to step out of the car, pull out the gun, slip off the safety, and squeeze the trigger.”

patphil

(6,206 posts)
17. Wow! He's definitely a scary guy. No way he should ever have any political power.
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 02:41 PM
Sep 2021

Trump's base will love him.

GoCubsGo

(32,088 posts)
11. Yep. Was about to post the same thing...
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 12:40 PM
Sep 2021

And, not trying to be mean, either. It's sad, actually. It feels like members of his party are exploiting him.

Botany

(70,578 posts)
13. A huge # of people who have played running back have some form or another of CTE
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 12:53 PM
Sep 2021

.... and his enjoyment of violence to others and himself shows that he might have some kind of
organic brain damage.


Who is most at risk for CTE?

Every person diagnosed with CTE has one thing in common: a history of repetitive hits to the head. CTE is most frequently found in contact sport athletes and military veterans. CTE has been found in individuals whose primary exposure to head impacts was through tackle football (500+ cases confirmed at the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank), the military (50+ cases), hockey (30+ cases), boxing (20+ cases, 50+ globally), rugby (10+ cases), soccer (5+ cases, 20+ globally), pro wrestling (5+ cases), and, in fewer than three cases each, baseball, basketball, intimate partner violence, and individuals with developmental disorders who engaged in head banging behaviors.

https://concussionfoundation.org/CTE-resources/what-is-CTE

Moebym

(989 posts)
8. If I may bring up my conservative friend again
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 12:11 PM
Sep 2021

Her friends do not enjoy playing games of any sort with her because she, like Herschel Walker, is hyper-competitive.

She has kept the notepad with the score from a board game match that her team won on her refrigerator ever since it happened many years ago. When she or her team loses, lets just say that she is not great at hiding her displeasure. Worst of all, whenever the subject of games comes up, she insists that everyone play her favorite and never fails to brag about how good she is at it.

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
19. We REALLY need to work to GOTV for this guy in the Georgia Republican senatorial primary!
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 03:38 PM
Sep 2021

Go Herschel!

Harker

(14,034 posts)
21. If the gun goes off, is that a win or a loss?
Fri Sep 24, 2021, 10:55 AM
Sep 2021

I'm not sure I understand the game.

Wouldn't solitaire be safer?

AZLD4Candidate

(5,751 posts)
23. I hear chicky-races are full of fun and competitions. Drive your car against another driver towards
Fri Sep 24, 2021, 11:51 AM
Sep 2021

a cliff, the first person who jumps is a chicken and the winner goes off the cliff.

Try it, Hersh!

Hekate

(90,787 posts)
28. Does the GOP have anyone else in this race? Because this is just weird.
Fri Sep 24, 2021, 03:36 PM
Sep 2021

Of course, since this is today’s GOP, that may be a feature they like.

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