You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

Fandango

If you don’t know who Herschel Walker is, he is a former football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. He is the Donald Trump-endorses Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia running against the Democratic incumbent, Raphael Warnock.

Like Trump, Walker’s campaign has been littered with false and misleading claims. He’s lied about being in the military, about his education, about being a cop, about his business ventures, about his charities, and even about how many children he has with different women. He claims he is anti-abortion, but he paid for at least one abortion for one of his girlfriends. He is totally unqualified to serve as a member of the U.S. Senate.

In the midterm elections in Georgia earlier this month, Warnock received 49.4% of the votes (1,943,737) while Walker received 48.5% of the votes (1,907,272). A third-party candidate received 2.1% of the votes (81,278). But because neither Warnock nor Walker received a majority (50%+) of the vote, a runoff election between the two is scheduled for early December. If Democrat Warnock wins, the Democrats will have a 51-49 majority in the Senate. If Walker wins the runoff, the Senate will be split 50-50.

But here’s where it really gets weird. During a stump speech yesterday, Herschel Walker said this:

“I was watching this movie called ‘Fright Night.’ It was about vampires. I don’t know if you know, vampires are cool people, are they not? But I want to tell you something that I found out. A werewolf can kill a vampire, did you know that? I didn’t know that. So, I don’t want to be a vampire anymore, I want to be a werewolf.”

How bizarre is that? Yet this man, Herschel Walker, could possibly be elected to serve in the U.S. Senate representing the state of Georgia if he beats Senator Raphael Warnock in the runoff election next month.

You just can’t make this shit up.

26 thoughts on “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up”

      • bushboy November 17, 2022 / 4:41 pm

        I shudder to think what his friends are like if he is the brains of the outfit or if they picked him to say the words he’s told to say. Either way that bloke is a dumbass

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  3. Mister Bump UK November 17, 2022 / 3:28 am

    But that’s living in a democracy for you. If it was a meritocracy, idiots would automatically be excluded from standing… and from voting! Next question, who gets to decide who the idiots are?

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    • Fandango November 17, 2022 / 4:09 pm

      Intelligent voters should, but they appear to be MIA.

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  6. newepicauthor November 17, 2022 / 6:06 am

    He should try to be a sensible person instead of an idiot, but Georgia also has Marjorie Taylor Green so that tells you who they will vote for.

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  8. Alice DeForest November 17, 2022 / 8:43 am

    I live in Georgia. and it’s a nasty campaign with both candidates carry baggage. It’s a great state to live in for many reasons and as you can see from the election lots of folks with different ideas.

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  9. Maggie November 17, 2022 / 9:08 am

    It makes it hard to take politics seriously, yet our very future rides on the backs of people like this.

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  10. Nope, Not Pam November 17, 2022 / 11:03 am

    Well, if either very actually real, he got that fact right supposedly. So there’s an improvement.

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  11. JT Twissel November 17, 2022 / 11:19 am

    And I’m sure if he gets into office, equal rights for werewolves will be high on his agenda.

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    • Marleen November 18, 2022 / 1:15 am

      That’s a good one. And perhaps we should debate whether his view that werewolves can kill vampires is a misleading claim. Priorities.

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  13. Jen November 17, 2022 / 5:10 pm

    I saw the speech. 🙄 If he wins, you’re definitely in trouble.

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  16. Marilyn Armstrong November 19, 2022 / 1:43 pm

    Could a werewolf running for the senate be any weirder that what we’ve already gone through?

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    • Fandango November 19, 2022 / 5:23 pm

      Probably not. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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  17. leigha66 November 24, 2022 / 11:25 am

    I had not heard this… wow, I sincerely hope he is not elected.

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  18. rawgod December 7, 2022 / 10:50 am

    Fortunately, the werewolf lost last night. And the moon was even almost full.

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    • Fandango December 7, 2022 / 1:18 pm

      America dodge a bullet. But it was too close for comfort!

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