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Please help translate Herschel Walker 🤪 (Original Post) underpants Dec 2021 OP
misses the part when he refers to Lewis as a Senator Skittles Dec 2021 #1
He is a case in point illustrating how football fails its scholarship athletes. Herschel hlthe2b Dec 2021 #10
education and intelligence are two different things Skittles Dec 2021 #19
His intellect was not stimulated by education and thus not developed--stunted. That is my meaning. hlthe2b Dec 2021 #21
I dunno Skittles Dec 2021 #22
Highly educated? No, legacy admissions... hlthe2b Dec 2021 #23
all of them? every repuke sucking up to Donald Fucking Trump? Skittles Dec 2021 #24
You might think them smart because they went to an Ivy League school. I don't necessarily. hlthe2b Dec 2021 #26
Football brain... jcgoldie Dec 2021 #51
My four-year-old great niece makes more sense than that. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2021 #2
I'll bet! SheltieLover Dec 2021 #9
She got a two-wheeler bike with training wheels today. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2021 #14
All good here, ty! SheltieLover Dec 2021 #15
They'll be fine. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2021 #17
Glad to hear! SheltieLover Dec 2021 #18
So are we. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2021 #28
Any doctor can translate that.. Enter stage left Dec 2021 #3
I honestly am not seeing what's so hard to understand? Grown2Hate Dec 2021 #4
Okay. Works for me. LoisB Dec 2021 #8
Brain damage PJMcK Dec 2021 #5
Calling Dr McKee! Poiuyt Dec 2021 #38
Once again... as a Georgian... I truly apologize for what the GOP has foisted upon us. CurtEastPoint Dec 2021 #6
Years ago I enjoyed watching him play/run for the goal posts. Now, he's just sad. hlthe2b Dec 2021 #13
As a Texan, allow me to sympathize with your plight Bucky Dec 2021 #32
I'm from Wisconsin and feel the same way whenever Ron Johnson opens his pie hole Poiuyt Dec 2021 #39
Sorry, I don't speak "illiterate-y" or "ignorant-y". Something about encourage but don't encourage LoisB Dec 2021 #7
The Repubs are "getting things done now." In many states. Hortensis Dec 2021 #11
I'm Black and a celeb so I can pull a lot of the Black vote and ensure that walkingman Dec 2021 #12
Agree taxi Dec 2021 #55
Traumatic brain injury? SheltieLover Dec 2021 #16
Sadly, that is likely the case. GoCubsGo Dec 2021 #25
No doubt! SheltieLover Dec 2021 #31
One of my jobs in college was tutoring. BlackSkimmer Dec 2021 #49
I went to grad school where Walker played, right around the time he was there. GoCubsGo Dec 2021 #50
Yeah, I have often wondered what became of these guys. BlackSkimmer Dec 2021 #52
He talks like dRumpf. strongermessage Dec 2021 #20
"I'm dumber than a bag of rocks and have no idea what I'm talking about." Bleacher Creature Dec 2021 #27
Only tfg can interpret that... LuckyCharms Dec 2021 #29
Nothing beats the babble? czarjak Dec 2021 #30
CTE relayerbob Dec 2021 #33
been unintelligible since his first McDonald's commercial... bringthePaine Dec 2021 #34
Sure mzmolly Dec 2021 #35
Just looking for someone with dark skin to be there poster boy Hulk Dec 2021 #36
CTE? n/t TygrBright Dec 2021 #37
Meaningless word salad Historic NY Dec 2021 #40
He speaks fluent carpetbagger. keithbvadu2 Dec 2021 #41
Has the man been drinking? summer_in_TX Dec 2021 #42
Here's the clearest translation you'll ever find: lastlib Dec 2021 #43
Rachel Maddow played audio of Walker's recent speech which was truly cringeworthy Rhiannon12866 Dec 2021 #44
Too many hits to the head. kairos12 Dec 2021 #45
Someone should read HW's quotes back to him IzzaNuDay Dec 2021 #46
His brain cell is scrambled RainCaster Dec 2021 #47
I cannot translate that particular dialect of Dumbfuckistanese Celerity Dec 2021 #48
if you understand TFG and Walker you speak cult and are in the matrix RANDYWILDMAN Dec 2021 #53
I think Herschel Walker is taking tweeting lessons from Chump FakeNoose Dec 2021 #54
Have you met his son Christian? 😳 nolabear Dec 2021 #56

hlthe2b

(102,236 posts)
10. He is a case in point illustrating how football fails its scholarship athletes. Herschel
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 09:52 PM
Dec 2021

could scarcely talk about football at UGA much less anything else, never completed a degree (though he lies about it now), and his ability to express himself and his intellect remains embarrassingly stunted. I guess he made money and apparently that is all that matters... I know most want to assume he suffers CTE. I'm not so sure. I think this is just Herschel.

I hope to hell his celebrity doesn't move the average GA independent or the few sane R voters.

Skittles

(153,157 posts)
19. education and intelligence are two different things
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 10:10 PM
Dec 2021

my grandparents were among the smartest people I have known and they never even completed high school

Walker is a case of willful ignorance - the fact that he is a repuke, a party that celebrates racism, tells me everything I need to know about him.

hlthe2b

(102,236 posts)
21. His intellect was not stimulated by education and thus not developed--stunted. That is my meaning.
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 10:13 PM
Dec 2021

I have met people the world over with minimal education--and particularly in the "third world"-- that would put many of us with advanced degrees to shame. But even those who are not inherently "smart" can develop their intellect with curiosity and "care to learn."

hlthe2b

(102,236 posts)
26. You might think them smart because they went to an Ivy League school. I don't necessarily.
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 10:22 PM
Dec 2021

Legacy admissions, the privilege of $$$ and once there the tendency to CYA by passing them through. I recall George W. Bush* Harvard Business School professor saying as much.

greatauntoftriplets

(175,733 posts)
14. She got a two-wheeler bike with training wheels today.
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 10:00 PM
Dec 2021

Took to it beautifully. Our Christmas was via ZOOM, because two family members have COVID. Neither is very sick, but.....

I hope that yours was a good one.

greatauntoftriplets

(175,733 posts)
17. They'll be fine.
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 10:07 PM
Dec 2021

One is vaccinated and boostered, and had it already in April of 2020. She's feeling much better after three days of feeling like she had a terrible cold. She was tested, so it's confirmed. No details on the other, but he's feeling okay.

It's important for the baby of the family to catch up to bigger siblings, so all is good.

Grown2Hate

(2,010 posts)
4. I honestly am not seeing what's so hard to understand?
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 09:37 PM
Dec 2021

It's PRECIOUS to encourage, but not encourage, but rather encourage, the legal people to vote BEFORE voting, but not while NOT being illegally trying to vote instead of doing something NOW; not before, not after, not now, but NOW. So go get the IDs and everything and vote now for Senator Lewis!

Bucky

(53,998 posts)
32. As a Texan, allow me to sympathize with your plight
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 11:51 PM
Dec 2021

There are days I wake up and realize what Ted Kaczynski's brother must have gone through.

LoisB

(7,203 posts)
7. Sorry, I don't speak "illiterate-y" or "ignorant-y". Something about encourage but don't encourage
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 09:43 PM
Dec 2021

people who are legal to vote, which is everyone because no one is not legal, and get IDs now instead of when they're in line to vote then start talking about either IDs or voting (I'm not sure). Hell, I have no idea what he's talking about. I dare say, neither does he.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
11. The Repubs are "getting things done now." In many states.
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 09:54 PM
Dec 2021

Obfuscating as it is, I can't interpret this any other way but to support what the Republican Party is doing. Now.

walkingman

(7,608 posts)
12. I'm Black and a celeb so I can pull a lot of the Black vote and ensure that
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 09:55 PM
Dec 2021

Democrat doesn't win. Ya feel me.....

taxi

(1,896 posts)
55. Agree
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 04:11 PM
Dec 2021

It's the same for any celeb - the celeb says:
I'm this or I'm that, and I'm a celebrity. This is how I vote.

Going after someone's idols is a poor strategy. Every vote counts.

GoCubsGo

(32,080 posts)
25. Sadly, that is likely the case.
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 10:21 PM
Dec 2021

Probably many multiple instances of it. Also the product of an educational system where football is the main religion, and lots of guys made it into college because they could play ball, but had no business there. otherwise.

 

BlackSkimmer

(51,308 posts)
49. One of my jobs in college was tutoring.
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 08:51 AM
Dec 2021

Many of the football players were sent to us. I was gobsmacked at their lack of education.

The ones I tutored read at a third grade level, if that.

GoCubsGo

(32,080 posts)
50. I went to grad school where Walker played, right around the time he was there.
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 09:42 AM
Dec 2021

The academically-unqualified athletes weren't the only ones who shouldn't have been there. There were loads of "legacies" who were only admitted because Daddy went there, and was willing to pay a ton of money to get the kid in, regardless of whether they met entrance requirements. I was a teaching assistant in the Bio Sciences. I often wondered how some of my students ever got out of high school. Not all of them were like that, but enough to make one cringe.

 

BlackSkimmer

(51,308 posts)
52. Yeah, I have often wondered what became of these guys.
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 11:23 AM
Dec 2021

I usually tutored English and various social science material.

But once they asked me to take over a math session for another tutor. I laughed because my math skills are atrocious. I remember the professor looking at me and saying, “you can add and subtract, right?” Of course I could, and he sadly assured me that was all I’d need. So sad.

Bleacher Creature

(11,256 posts)
27. "I'm dumber than a bag of rocks and have no idea what I'm talking about."
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 10:26 PM
Dec 2021

That's the best translation that I could come up with.

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
36. Just looking for someone with dark skin to be there poster boy
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 12:03 AM
Dec 2021

herschel is a lame stooge. We aren't talking about any fountain of intelligence.

Hope he gets trampled by 40 percentage points or more. You have to be pretty damn stupid to vote for somebody that goofy.

lastlib

(23,224 posts)
43. Here's the clearest translation you'll ever find:
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 12:21 AM
Dec 2021




From the Sarah Palin School of Political Speech. Four-year-olds can make more coherent sentences.

Rhiannon12866

(205,283 posts)
44. Rachel Maddow played audio of Walker's recent speech which was truly cringeworthy
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 12:47 AM
Dec 2021

Since even in that short speech he demonstrated how little he knows - Even about voting rights icon John Lewis! And just a few days before she played Raphael Warnock's Senate floor speech, then had him as a guest - and she suggested he may be our most eloquent senator.

Is This Seriously Who Republicans Want Representing Georgia Instead Of Raphael Warnock? - Rachel Maddow
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017701155

RANDYWILDMAN

(2,672 posts)
53. if you understand TFG and Walker you speak cult and are in the matrix
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 03:23 PM
Dec 2021

If you don't, you understand the power of the matrix to control weak minds !

nolabear

(41,960 posts)
56. Have you met his son Christian? 😳
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 05:03 PM
Dec 2021

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He got roasted for wearing that bazillion dollar hoodie while filling up his Land Rover and representing the common man.
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