Georgia Republican Senate Candidate Herschel Walker has an impressive list of accomplishments. The Heisman Trophy-winning former pro football player is also an experienced mixed martial artist, and he even competed as an Olympic bobsledder in the ’92 Games. Along the way, he apparently picked up an advanced degree in climate science, as evidenced by a recent speech he gave on the intricacies of air pollution.
If it’s not evident we’re joking about that last resume bullet point, the breakdown he gave to a crowd of MAGA supporters will speak for itself… if you can follow it.
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There are countless reasons to hope that Georgia voters reelect Walker’s opponent, freshman Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, come November. Warnock’s support of LGBTQ rights are just one of the issues that set the two candidates drastically apart. But Walker’s explanation of climate science should also be a huge red flag, or red weather balloon in this case.
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In Walker’s own words: “Since we don’t control the air our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got we to clean that back up.”
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The remarks come at the end of this short clip, which has since gone viral on Twitter:
Herschel on the climate/Green New Deal/air:
“Since we don’t control the air our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got we to clean that back up.” pic.twitter.com/BsR4GVAbX7
— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) July 11, 2022
Here’s how folks are responding:
He’s going to put the Saturday Night Live writers out of work. They couldn’t possibly write a skit better than this.
— Jim Mangum (@saintmaker52) July 11, 2022
Herschel Walker explaining Inflation.
WALKER: How many of y’all like balloons? I love balloons. Like the kind you can twist and turn into a poodle or a sword. That’s inflation. When you inflate those balloons, you inflate America. You put good air in them. Not bad Chinese air…
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) July 11, 2022
My gosh – it’s like a bad comedy sketch, but more sad and more dangerous.
— Andrew McGill (@AndrewMcGIsMe) July 11, 2022
We have clean water and air because of bipartisanship. If the current GOP had its way, they would eliminate the Clean Air Act entirely. That just shows how far the GOP has gone off the rails.
— Boyd P 🇺🇲🏳️🌈🇺🇦 (@BoydPetrie) July 11, 2022
If only he had a whiteboard he could use to illustrate this with X’s and O’s.
— Fletcher THEE Moore (@BikeTwain) July 11, 2022
Jesus. This is the @GOP Georgia primary winner and their chosen candidate for the United States Senate. The Senate. Our Senate. One of one-hundred senators.
Not sending their best.
Or are they?
— JustFul☮️ (@fulton503) July 11, 2022
— StonedVegan_🔥🌱 (@StonedVegan420) July 11, 2022
abfab
He could go into porn. There’s a fetish for big and stupid.
Kangol2
He’s not all there. He should drop out and let Rev. Raphael Warnock run unapposed. He can barely complete a sentence, even with a TelePrompter.
abfab
These cretins don’t drop out and let others run unapposed. What planet?
ZzBomb
Walker is the perfect example of today’s right wing lot: Brain Dead.
Yooper
The GOP is so desperate for people of color among their ranks they’ll tolerate the bottom of the barrel (e.g. Clarence Thomas, Candace Owens).
jt1990
Silly Dumocrat, the Left IS ‘bottom of the barrel’ when it comes to candidates. But hey, this guy could be our very own dark skinned version of Sleepy Joe!
Bosch
JT, the whole world watches your country’s politics, so I don’t know who you think you’re fooling.
LumpyPillows
“Dumocrat” – sounds like something a 9 year old would say.
Repeating Trump’s sad name calling with “Sleepy Joe” cinches it – you’ve got real issues.
Fname Optional Lname
when you hear things like “dumocrat” it only confirms that the person who used the word heard the mighty orange one say it and has been using it ever since. Junior high mentality that only makes us feel sad adults are exposing their stupidity in alarming rates
okiloki
Republicans have become so anti science, anti education, anti common sense. They really are proudly arrogant about their own stupidity.
abfab
Exactly. They actually ”own it” and they wallow in their own mire.
CNY1983
when the party of MANSON FAMILY VALUES nominates someone they have to be sure he/she is a stone-cold stupid idiot.
wheres that repugnant pro-cheerleader in prince’s old high heel boots size boys 5 1/2 “SON?” of his?
imagine just imagine that was YOUR son.
hershel walker – IGNORANCE IS BLISS.
scotty
so i wonder if all his kids are as stupid as he is? that vapid gay not gay son of his sure is dumb as a rock too.
m
I think you just answered your own question ??
still_onthemark
“All his kids,” well, he has probably lost track of a few.
Gay-Mullato
Oswald bates (in living color)
Den
I’m surprised that Mario and his buddy Mysti have no shown up to talk about what a genius Walker is. Right up there with DeSantis, MTG and Bobert.
butchqueen
I can’t even watch the video. I do not need to hear the rocks tumbling around in his head any longer.
Jim
And people would not for this guy who can’t keep it in his pants because?????
Brian
The problem isn’t that he has multiple children. The problem is his hypocrisy in giving many speeches about how absent fathers are terrible. …and then lying to his own campaign about how many children he has(!)
BaltoSteve
The scary thing is, I understand the very complex and nuanced point he was trying to articulate, albeit rather poorly. So, we, as a country, work toward cleaning the air in this country. We enact quality standards and CO2 emission limits. But because of air currents in the upper and lower parts of the atmosphere, effects of other countries with pollution problems are experienced here in the USA. And that until those countries enact equal or better quality and emission limits, we are not only cleaning up the mess we’ve made of our more localized atmosphere, we will be getting spill over of their mess as well. Though it is right on brand to take such a complex topic, pick and choice little bits of truth and twist it into the America First narrative.
LumpyPillows
Yeah, but it still isn’t an excuse to do nothing because China won’t.
Kangol2
Herschel Walker is clueless. China, to name one of the countries he’s citing, has actually been working hard to reduce its air pollution. We hear nothing about this because of the very strong anti-China slant in our media, but this is verifiable. Our right-wing ignoramuses, as well as too many Democrats, are also completely unaware of this.
Google any of the following sources, none of which is particularly pro-China:
CNN: “China has saved hundreds of thousands of lives by reducing air pollution, study says”
National Geographic: “China’s Surprising Solutions to Clear Killer Air”
World Economic Forum: “How China is tackling air pollution with big data”
World Economic Forum: “China has announced ambitious plans to cut single-use plastic”
Reuters: “A Technology Fix That’s Aiding China’s Fight Against Air Pollution”
Energy Policy Institute, University of Chicago: “A Technology Fix That’s Aiding China’s Fight Against Air Pollution”
Earth . org: “How China is Winning Its Battle Against Air Pollution”
Reuters: “China vows new incentives to cut pollution, CO2, but says ‘stability’ paramount”
Neoprene
He crazy.
Gay-Mullato
Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom. ~william J.H Boetker~
Patrick
He actually makes MTG & Boebert look less stupid & ignorant.