2022 Georgia Senate Race
Re: Georgia Senate Race (for Raphael Warnock's seat)
Good interview with Rev. Warnock on The Last Word with O'Donnell tonight.
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Re: Georgia Senate Race (for Raphael Warnock's seat)
Needs a 'script, which I don't have but the story is all over the twitter machine.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel- ... secret-son
https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel- ... secret-son
Herschel Walker Says He’s a Model Dad. He Has a Secret Son.
Walker has said if you have “a child with a woman, even if you have to leave that woman… you don’t leave the child,” per
@thedailybeast.
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Re: Georgia Senate Race (for Raphael Warnock's seat)
Between this and the Boebert stuff, I'm all verklempt with the schadenfreude today. If one might mix English, Yiddish, and German together in a single sentence.Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:04 am Needs a 'script, which I don't have but the story is all over the twitter machine.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel- ... secret-son
Herschel Walker Says He’s a Model Dad. He Has a Secret Son.
Walker has said if you have “a child with a woman, even if you have to leave that woman… you don’t leave the child,” per
@thedailybeast.
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And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
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And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
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Re: Georgia Senate Race (for Raphael Warnock's seat)
Change approved.
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Re: Georgia Senate Race (for Raphael Warnock's seat)
The lesser secret son, what does he have to say on social mediaSlim Cognito wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:04 am Needs a 'script, which I don't have but the story is all over the twitter machine.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel- ... secret-son
Herschel Walker Says He’s a Model Dad. He Has a Secret Son.
Walker has said if you have “a child with a woman, even if you have to leave that woman… you don’t leave the child,” per
@thedailybeast.
Re: Georgia Senate Race (for Raphael Warnock's seat)
GOP Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker admits having 2 more ‘secret’ children — now says he has 4 kids
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/16/gop-geo ... ldren.html
Herschel Walker, former pro football star and current Republican nominee from Georgia for the U.S. Senate, confirmed he has two more previously unknown children.
Walker’s disclosure is the second time this week that the candidate, who has been repeatedly publicly critical of African American absentee fathers, has been forced to admit he had children out of wedlock after media reports of their existence.
He has been heavily touted by former President Donald Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/16/gop-geo ... ldren.html
Herschel Walker, former pro football star and current Republican nominee from Georgia for the U.S. Senate, confirmed he has two more previously unknown children.
Walker’s disclosure is the second time this week that the candidate, who has been repeatedly publicly critical of African American absentee fathers, has been forced to admit he had children out of wedlock after media reports of their existence.
He has been heavily touted by former President Donald Trump.
I guess he doesn't know how this "politics" work. He couldn't keep his thingy in his pants then tried to hide the results when running for public office with a morality plank. Maybe should have sought a different second career other than politics after being brain damaged repeatedly from American football concussions.Walker now says he has four kids, only one of whom was previously known.
“I have four children. Three sons and a daughter,” Walker said in the statement.
“They’re not ‘undisclosed’ — they’re my kids. I support them all and love them all. I’ve never denied my children, I confirmed this when I was appointed to the President’s Council on Sports Fitness & Nutrition,” he said.
Walker added: “I just chose not to use them as props to win a political campaign. What parent would want their child involved in garbage, gutter politics like this?”
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Re: Georgia Senate Race (for Raphael Warnock's seat)
Sen. Warnock on Joy Reid right now. LOVE him.
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Re: Georgia Senate Race (for Raphael Warnock's seat)
Seriously. Exactly how would have that worked? “Hi I’m Herschel Walker and I have three children out of wedlock. I know I’ve complained about this exact thing and it being the downfall of society and all, but hey, look at these three kids and vote for me!”
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Re: Georgia Senate Race (for Raphael Warnock's seat)
Not to mention the hypocrisy of his irritating son being all over social media "involved in garbage, gutter politics like this?”
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Re: Georgia Senate Race (for Raphael Warnock's seat)
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As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
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As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
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Re: Georgia Senate Race (for Raphael Warnock's seat)
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Of course he did.
"Herschel Walker received resounding applause from evangelical Christian activists on Saturday, following revelations he had fathered three children he had not previously discussed publicly."
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Well, after all, it's the women's faults.
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Re: Georgia Senate Race (for Raphael Warnock's seat)
It’s Womenses, Andy.
I guess we’re all gonna have to learn to speak Moron more fluently.
I guess we’re all gonna have to learn to speak Moron more fluently.
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Re: 2022 Georgia Senate Race (Raphael Warnock v. Herschel Walker))
She rather vehemently disagreed.
So we have something to talk about on the Virtual Meetup tomorrow night.
I told her that my understanding of Frater's argument is that there are two religions in Jawja: Christianity and Football. And Herschel is a god of Football. Yeah, he lies all the time, and worse, he's a dumb liar: he gets caught on a regular basis. It's a lot harder to catch some of us in a lie, we're a little more prepared. He's dumber than salt. He has all these kids he just acknowledged. That would kill anybody else. But he's a god of Football, which means ...
... well, it means he may be elected.
'Course, Stacy Abrams is going to fight Kemp again for the governorship. She may have coattails, who knows?
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Re: 2022 Georgia Senate Race (Raphael Warnock v. Herschel Walker))
It just blows my mind that people are so fucking stupid they would vote for a lying, violent wackjob just because he could catch a pass* (or whatever the fuck he did).
*or make movies
or wrestle
or sell fake diet pills on tv.
the list goes on and on.
*or make movies
or wrestle
or sell fake diet pills on tv.
the list goes on and on.
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He carried the ball. He is a large mammal and he was successful at running over/around/through the other large mammals.
He was especially successful for the University of Georgia.
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You forgot the most important *or: because they could get tfg's endorsement.Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:18 am It just blows my mind that people are so fucking stupid they would vote for a lying, violent wackjob just because he could catch a pass* (or whatever the fuck he did).
*or make movies
or wrestle
or sell fake diet pills on tv.
the list goes on and on.
Also, worth pointing out is that Frater is correct. Reputable polling has them currently tied at 46%. That isn't a lot of undecided left.
https://news.yahoo.com/why-walker-tied- ... 27156.html
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Of course Frater is correct. He's paying attention down there.
I'm not sure Trump's endorsement is as valuable as it once was. His chosen folks haven't been doing too well, with some notable exceptions of course.
I'm not sure Trump's endorsement is as valuable as it once was. His chosen folks haven't been doing too well, with some notable exceptions of course.
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That's an interesting question, tfg's endorsement definitely isn't the golden ticket it once was. But I wouldn't go so far as to say his chosen folk aren't doing well. The vast majority of the 200 picks he made sailed through. Of course the vast majority of them also faced weak to no opposition. But even in the ones that did face real opposition, he scored a decent amount of wins. The NYT had a round up last week. Lemme find it...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/us/p ... ecord.htmlHere’s where Trump’s endorsement record stands so far.
Of the roughly 200 candidates endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump in the 2022 midterm elections, many are running unopposed or face little-known, poorly funded opponents. But in contested races, those endorsed by Mr. Trump have won more times than they have lost.
Mr. Trump’s endorsement has helped propel some candidates to victory, like J.D. Vance in Ohio and Bo Hines in North Carolina. His picks also won critical primaries in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. But in Georgia, several of his candidates were resoundingly defeated, and he had mixed success in states like South Carolina and North Carolina.
The article goes on to detail the contested races. The tl;dr that I get from it, is that while tfg's endorsement isn't what it once was, it still carries sufficient weight to turn races more often than not.
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Vance may have won on name recognition based on his bestseller fake memoir. It didn’t hurt.
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Walker the lesser belies his naivety.
Christian Walker @ChristianWalk1r wrote: I’ve never seen as much racism as I’m seeing from liberals towards Clarence Thomas.
If you want to see a liberal’s racism come out, just bring up a black conservative.
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Re: 2022 Georgia Senate Race (Raphael Warnock v. Herschel Walker))
Unfortunately I am paying attention...
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That is DeSantis' crazy press sec, she is bad news with a capital Bad News. Anyway, Walker the Jr better not let tfg hear him singing DeSantis' praises, I feel like there was already a rift developing between Walker the Sr and tfg based on some of the crap Walker the Sr has spewed (he can't help himself. But then neither can tfg.) Walker the Jr took a trip from his homeland of California to Florida recently, and he can't stop singing DeSantis Land's praises ever since. In semi-related news Walker the Jr has a podcast. I listened to an episode. It was good, he is entertaining and fun to listen to. He, of course, has stupid things to say. Mostly about gay people in the episode I heard. Like children, they should be seen but not heard. And not seen either. Except him. He does gay correctly.
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