Even dumber than Trump

[Brainstormy]

I swear I didn't think it was possible, but Georgia's GOP candidate Herschel Walker is one for the books. His first response to the Uvalde shooting was "What I like to do is see it and everything and stuff.” Yesterday he proposed “a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women, that’s looking at their social media ― what about doing that?”


GEORGIA, don't do this!

[RussBLib]

1. Walker really sounds ignorant

maybe that appeals to a ton of Georgia voters

[lastlib]

23. I'm not gonna say he's stupid, but....

...in a battle of smarts, I think a leafy vegetable could take him. He probly gets outsmarted by inanimate objects.

[Woodswalker]

2. God help us

[RussBLib]

6. don't look for god's help

you won't like the response

yeah, I know, just a figure of speech

[CurtEastPoint]

3. I pray to Everyone Up/Down There that he will lose. I voted Warnock and will again. HW is a GD

idiot.

[Meadowoak]

42. Republicans tend to vote for washed up celebrities.

[Dirty Socialist]

4. "And stuff"

Did he learn that term in law school?

[lastlib]

24. (You never heard "stuff ipsa loquitor"?)

[Dirty Socialist]

45. LOL

[hlthe2b]

5. That should be apparent to all--all among us ought to be embarrassed by that...

One need not be highly educated to be able to converse or form understandable thoughts and comments. And, no, I don't think it is CTE. Walker was passed along throughout his years as is not unusual for "recruitable college or NFL" jocks in high school and later at universities. It is tragic. But, Walker was no more articulate at UGA. It just wasn't as obvious when speaking about an upcoming game or general issues regarding football. Stardom protected him from any perceived need to be educated or even to self-educate.

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. "CTE"?

I’m lost.

[Glorfindel]

14. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

CTE: "Brain degeneration due to repeated head traumas, which causes concussions, short-term memory loss, impulsive behavior and depression."

[A HERETIC I AM]

16. Fair enough

Thanks

[3Hotdogs]

10. Where I was teaching, urban N.J. school, football player was offered a scholarship at Hawaii.

They were going to fly him to a basketball game during vacation, dog-pony and so forth.

Following Monday, Coach: "So how was Hawaii?"

"I didn't go. There was a hot party at the projects."



Another one go an offer to W.V. He visited but turned it down because it was too far to drive (from N.J.) to classes every weekend.

[NNadir]

32. One of the saddest things I ever overheard was in a...

...restaurant during "parent's weekend" at my son's fairly rigorous university during his freshman year, when a young man there on a football scholarship telling his family that he was failing all his courses and would lose his scholarship and need to dropout.

It was heart breaking. We still talk about it.

[cab67]

40. I've taught students like this.

For the most part, the "dumb jock" stereotype is a myth. The large majority of athletes I've taught have been bright, intelligent, and genuinely interested in their education.

This is even true for the big-time sports that bring extensive coverage, like basketball and football.*

The biggest problem they face is time management. They constantly practice and work out. They struggle to squeeze schoolwork around their sports commitments. And whenever there's an away game or meet or match or whatever, they're liable to miss one or two days of school.

Many did, indeed, academically underperform other students in high school. But from what I've witnessed, they're just as committed to getting an education as everyone else. And the athletics program provides all kinds of resources and tutors to help them succeed. But they just don't have the time to commit themselves to their schoolwork.

The worst case I saw was several years ago, when the women's basketball team at my university went far in the tournament. We were all proud of the team, but I had two students miss nearly a month of class because of it. One was a team member, and the other was a member of the band that traveled with the team. Both were doing very well in my class until the tournament started.

*There are, of course, exceptions. I used to be enthusiastic about college football. That ended during my first semester as a TA in grad school, when a football player mis-spelled the word "rib" on a homework assignment.

[NNadir]

44. Well there was , of course, Bill Bradley, but the worship of sports...

...at Universities strikes me as poor priority setting.

My son attended his university pretty much on a very generous grant; it was not a school I could have afforded without that grant. He's now an engineer starting a Ph.D program. I have told him, and he agrees, that when the time comes, he needs to pay it forward. His engineering ability should be an asset to the world.

At the same time, our State University, invited him to the Engineering accepted student event where they loudly proclaimed that their accepted students were the best and brightest. They offered him zero dollars, the only school do do so.

Their football coach is paid over half a million bucks a year. They have a huge stadium. They just built a luxurious workout gym for the players.

This is a State University in a State known for good public schools overall.

In his first campaign, our Governor, for whom I voted - he was the Democrat - said that we needed to do something about how many graduates to our public schools leave the State after college. As far as I can tell, nothing has changed. My son is very unlikely to return here after graduate school.

Supporting our engineering students better than we support the football players of this unhealthy game would be a better priority.

[cab67]

46. no disagreement here.

I do a lot of work abroad. Colleagues in other countries can't wrap their heads around the fact that alumni donations increase if the football or basketball team does well, but not if someone wins a Nobel.

[Glorfindel]

12. CTE Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

A new term to me. Thanks for this, hlthe2b. I'm sure it will crop up somewhere sooner or later, and I'll know what is being discussed. I agree...I think HW is just stupid, not damaged.

CTE: "Brain degeneration due to repeated head traumas, which causes concussions, short-term memory loss, impulsive behavior and depression."

[Tommymac]

33. The 2015 movie 'Concussion' was about CTE and the NFL.

Finding out what causes CTE, and exactly how CTE affects the individual is a big research effort.

'Concussion' the movie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussion_(2015_film)

CTE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy

[keithbvadu2]

38. Muhammad Ali... all those shots to the head.

Muhammad Ali... all those shots to the head.

[mopinko]

15. it could have started in hs.

if he played very young, the chances that this is cte are high. young brains are extra vulnerable.

[A HERETIC I AM]

17. It's also possible that he was dumber than a bag of hammers...

To begin with.

Right?

[mopinko]

19. well, true.

i find the whole thing sad.

[lastlib]

25. yeah, there's a good reason he wasn't on the chess team....

[MyOwnPeace]

7. As I read elsewhere.......

Herschel Walker makes Sarah Palin sound like a Rhodes Scholar!

[Aviation Pro]

8. Too many hits to the head

TBI

[Tommy Carcetti]

11. Who is he, Derek Zoolander?

[2naSalit]

13. Brain damage.

Jimmy Kimmel asked if he played football without a helmet. Probably has issues from his football days.

[Irish_Dem]

20. Yes very apparent this man suffers from brain damage.

Lack of critical thinking skills, very poor expressive language skills, no situational or social awareness, impoverished language content.

Actually a sad situation but very dangerous to have this man become a political leader, he is not competent.

[sprinkleeninow]

31. Combination low IQ and offensive tackling.

No matter.what, totally unfit for office. Danger.

[2naSalit]

47. Without question...

To those of us who still retain a sense of rationality.

[Samrob]

18. Times have really changed. Emmitt Till was murdered for ALLEDGEDLY whistling at a white woman.

Herschel Walker assaulted his ex-wife who is white and has two other assault charges against him from other white women and gets the GOP nomination for GA Senator. Go figure.

[Lonestarblue]

21. Hershel Walker sounds like he got hit in the head a few too many times playing football.

This man most likely has absolutely zero ideas for governing. He is just a front man for people like the Daniel family of gun manufacturers, the makers of the gun in the Uvalde murders, who will be the ones telling Walker what to think and how to vote should he be elected.

[ashredux]

22. He has a low IQ...just factual...

[czarjak]

26. But, he's the R candidate. Good enough?

[IronLionZion]

27. That's the best the GOP can do

because they are a party of exceptional idiots.

[bringthePaine]

28. frequently, relentlessly unintelligible

[ToxMarz]

29. My first thought is that Walker is "looking at women...

He's looking at their social media". Repukes always project themselves.

[dlk]

30. Too many closed head injuries...

n/t

[TimeToGo]

34. Senate control

That’s all they care about

[birdographer]

35. Not possible

No one can be more stupid than trump. His stupidity comes from a soulless evil place. This clown is either a more plain version of stupid, or he left his helmet at home for a few games. On the other hand, the rural GA population tends to not be too bright either.

[Tommymac]

36. Hershel never quite made the cut as a top tier Network NFL analyst.

That should pretty much tell one all they need to know about his level of competence and ability to communicate to the public.

[dchill]

37. Yes, Herschel! The DOLAS!

Department Of Looking At Stuff!


GREAT IDEA!

[keithbvadu2]

43. Master of the mechanical stuff

and the master of the stupid stuff

[Picaro]

39. Idiocracy

If you haven’t seen it you need to watch it. Idiocracy was supposed to be a really far-fetched satire. It was not supposed to be a depiction of reality. But, sadly, we are living through it in real life.

The movie was wryly funny.

The reality is not very funny at all. All of the stupid ideas and the stupid stupid people behind them that we used to make sure stayed in the fringes have now become mainstream. The idiots have now decided that they are smarter than all of the smart people out there. They are really the smart people and all those scientists and doctors and people with degrees and shit….well, they’re a bunch of idiots.

Herschel Walker is a pure distillation of a idiocracy.

[Dukkha]

41. every press conference he has