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Professor Brittney Cooper had the following to say on Twitter about Herschel Walker:

When I see the walking stereotype of Black male mediocrity that is Herschel Walker, I am reminded that a significant swath of white folks need this to be who Black people are, who Black men are. Violent, idiotic, brute, immoral, deadbeats.

The GOP’s support for Herschel Walker’s candidacy is designed as a continual insult and assault on all who strive to be Black and excellent, or hell, just Black and decent.

The GOP had spent decades locking up dudes like Herschel, and propagating a narrative that this is who brothers are. (It is who Herschel is. But he isn’t who all Black men are.) Now they want to give him a senate seat.

This dude is a walking talking Sambo on one hand, and Bigger Thomas on the other. Herschel Walker is the walking embodiment of their white supremacist projections of Black masculinity and I think voters in GA should do everything legal to make sure he doesn’t win.

And I’m pointing this out 1.) because as a Black person I am enraged at their elevation of that abusing MF. And 2.) because for the brothers in Georgia falling for the GOP okey-dokey, it’s not enough to only vote Warnock. You gotta vote Abrams too. The whole GOP hates you.

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Oct 7, 2022·edited Oct 7, 2022

Okay, first things first. Herschel Walker is No.1 in today's letter.

“This here, the abortion thing, is false. It’s a lie,” Walker told reporters following a campaign event in Wadley, Georgia.'

“I am not deterred. I am not backing down,” Walker said in a statement later Thursday afternoon. “The stakes are too high. We are going to win this race – and put Georgia first again.”

'During an interview on conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show earlier Thursday, Walker was asked about the Daily Beast reporting and said that “if that had happened, I would have said it, ‘cause there’s nothing to be ashamed of there.” (CNN)

Walker has said he is an absolutist about abortions - NO!

Why is this story not going away? Why, because it is a perfect example of how mad America is. For how long have we heard and seen how many lies in plain sight? We live in the hall of mirrors where two opposing versions of a story are on different sides of the mirror - the truth on one side and the fiction on the other. When one of our two political parties and many millions of people 'believe' the fiction, which the Republicans perpetuate- the LIES - and the people believe them -- What is that? It is Fascism. It is putting the country on a death march as it terrorizes many of us. Combine this with so many Americans not even knowing what's happening.

See America as it is right now.

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Thank you Heather.

As I sit back watching the Herschel Walker debacle unfold.....more everyday, it paints an ugly picture of this Country. Do we no longer have any standards or do we bypass them just to get what we/they want?

Liz Cheney was here in Syracuse earlier this week at Syracuse University. I wasn't aware she was going to talk at SU or I would have been there. I did watch the live feed and was very impressed in her message. She is going to do everything in her power to be sure Trump and his election deniers lose. There is no confusion in her message. She did not mince her words.

It looks like we need alot of Liz Cheneys right now before everything we have worked for goes away.

Be safe. Be well. Be Liz.

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Oct 7, 2022·edited Oct 7, 2022

The pro-life movement was never about the babies. Oh sure, there was all that talk about the innocents that suffer so painfully in the hands of hateful mothers and their cruel doctors, but it was always about the votes. What I don’t get is how they expect to get more votes by abandoning that stance to say it is about adopting a religious, I mean Christian identity as the face of its party. Even that Christian identity is flawed - God forgives the men who force women to have abortions but jails the women who get them and the doctors who perform them?!? This philosophy is about control - of women, of non-Christians, and of those who don’t conform to their Christian puritanical beliefs. All the while, they have stepped up their advertising to bring parishioners back to the fold with commercials and billboards about the wonder and mercy of Jesus.

Personally, I’m finished with organized religion. I’m a Catholic from Pennsylvania, and when AG Josh Shapiro released his report of 300+ clergy members who abused children in 2019, I knew at least two of the priests. There were more who have crossed my family’s path, and there was hardly a Catholic family in the entire state of PA who didn’t know at least one of them. And no amount of money is going fix this with many parishioners, including myself; the church has yet to bear the weight of their shame of the thousands of years of abuse for “a vision.” That is a process that is only imposed on its parishioners.

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“Over time, ‘voter fraud’ became the way Republicans explained away the unpopularity of their ideas.” ~ HCR

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I'm an American who has been living outside of America for over 30 years, so my comments have to be taken in that context. It seems to me that the "new" Republican Party, -that is the party that stands for legitimising lies, restricting freedom of choice and encouraging violence as a legitimate political tool, now has developed a formula for turning those who we previously thought were heroes, such as Herschel Walker and Rudi Giuliani, into fools, and turning those we previously thought were fools into heroes, such as Trump, DeSantis, Roger Stone and his gang. Is the "Republican paradox" so strong and pervasive, is the lie so overwhelming, that it can reduce heroes to fools and turn fools into heroes? "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit" (Twelfth Night Act 1)

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"...299 Republican candidates for the House, Senate, and important state offices are election deniers, and... 174 of them are running in districts that are safely Republican."

That, is the crux, the core, the gist of the problem. After all that has happened, after all that has been revealed, how can any district be "safely" Republican? Millions and MILLIONS! of our fellow citizens seem to have lost, or thrown away, any sense of public decency, morality, honesty.

Herschel Walker is no worse, indeed not as morally bankrupt, as TFG, and TFG could get re-elected if he ran today. Walker still has a good chance of becoming a US senator.

Hypocricy? The Republican Party passed that polite stage a while ago. I don't know a word for where they, all of them, are today.

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I've always found it interesting that Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden are probably the most observant Christians we've elected the last century. And the most despised by the current crop of "Christians" in the GOP. Also, Barack Obama was a regular church-goer and Bill Clinton could quote the Bible better and faster than most, yet they are also despised by the same "Christians." Hmmmm. I wonder why...

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In the comments today (so far) I have not seen any discussion of these points:

The Conservative Radio host Dana Loesch is widely quoted as saying she doesn't care if Walker paid for endangered baby eagles to be aborted --"I want control of the Senate."

This shows me what I have long suspected, that being that the entire abortion issue was just a hot topic that the GOP grabbed to grab the Religious Right. I feel like there should be airplanes dragging banners above every Baptist church saying "YOU GOT PLAYED BY THE GOP"

There is more to Loesch's quote that IMHO should be looked at even more closely: she is quoted as saying "If the Daily Beast story is true, you’re telling me Walker used his money to reportedly pay some skank for an abortion. And [Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.)] wants to use all of our monies to pay a whole bunch of skanks for abortions.”

Reread that quote and think about it for a moment. Bear with me if I seem to impersonate Tucker Carlson as "I have questions!!"

Does saying "a whole bunch of skanks for abortions" mean she thinks many? most? all? who have abortions are "skanks"...any woman who had an abortion might wish to think THAT over!

What about Walker himself? He reportedly has children by 4 women. Why is HE not called the equivalent of a "skank" then? Is this not a double standard between men and women?

The start of this remarkable passage quotes her as saying: “What I am about to say is in no means a contradiction or a compromise of a principle." in regards to her comments about Walker. "IN NO MEANS A CONTRADICTION OR A COMPROMISE OF A PRINCIPLE" Pardon the caps, it is for emphasis, and also pardon this but seriously: WTF?!?! I must have a different definition of contradiction or compromise of a principle.

And shame on me and shame on all the media, but here we go again--a virtually unknown Conservative Radio Host is making her name known and garnering her 15 minutes of fame by "owning the libs" with this inflammatory story.

I get torn between ignoring this junk and discussing it, but I fear that by just ignoring this type of foolishness it somehow conveys a sense of condoning it.

Good Lord I am so tired of all this crap.

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Don’t be confused or naive when you hear people say they believe in a Christian Democracy. It is neither. It’s a euphemism for Nationalist Fascism.

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If anyone was listening to Morning Edition yesterday, they would have heard the appalling Ralph Reed--yes the former head of the KKK who now claims to be a Christian leader with an ultra-right theocratic political organization, who is called a "conservative strategist" by NPR rather than the racist nazi he really is--"defend" Walker by basically lying his head off. And they let him. I had to turn off the radio because my screaming at 5:45 AM was upsetting my dog. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/06/1127158931/republicans-continue-to-support-herschel-walker-even-after-abortion-report

When even the most reasonable and dedicated news outlets buy the lie that these [expletives deleted] are legitimate political activists, it becomes obvious that this national experiment is doomed. If I could leave I would.

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Ohio's Mike DeWine and the all GOP legislature. > https://www.clevescene.com/news/hello-ladies-ill-be-in-charge-of-your-uterus-now-39226356

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The idiocy of Trump clinging to these papers, purloining them in the first place, all the subsequent intrigues, speak to the sheer self-destructiveness of this Orange Clown. He is like the William H. Macy character in the movie 'The Cooler', except he was born into ownership of the casino instead of working there. The self-destructiveness is breathtaking!

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Re Hershel Walker……remember folks. TFG got away with this kind of crap against women his entire life. He never saw any consequences. In fact he was rewarded.

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Oct 7, 2022·edited Oct 7, 2022

I’m almost speechless watching our two party system devolve into a repub’s shameless race for a big win, their own Big Lie, even to their own diehard repub voters who are only paying attention to the R on their ballot and not the totally unqualified and embarrassing candidates showing up. I can’t imagine there will be any debates. Their latest candidate, Herschel Walker, is even less qualified than Dr.Oz or maybe TFG. Is it possible the only qualification for repub candidates is age, citizenship and a heartbeat? To prevent big repub wins, Dems must vote in November’s election, up and down the ballot.

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"After they show you who they are, believe them."(?) - Maya Angelo

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