It is just so tedious reporting and analyzing Herschel Walker. He literally humiliates himself every single time he opens his mouth. He is so clearly unqualified for the U.S. Senate that you would think hard – and this is said with dead seriousness – about whether you would trust him to pick your kids up from school and drop them off at the soccer field. He has a violent and erratic past and doesn’t present well now.

In some ways, it is sad. There is also the part that makes many of us football fanatics uncomfortable. There is now a huge body of evidence that football players suffer CTE, Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, at a previously inconceivable rate. NFL football games have been compared to a “car crash each weekend,” and it goes down to high school. The disease has taken so many lives through suicide and impairs judgment. Of course, we’re not reporting that Walker has CTE, only that he certainly “presents” as someone who might have it.

And yet Georgia could elect him to the U.S. Senate with the faith that Lindsey Graham – who, as far as he’s fallen over the years, does not have CTE and remains almost brilliant – that Graham will simply hold Walker’s arm and have it push the right button, or yell the right answer, and it’s a vote, which is all they need.

But damn, the man is an embarrassment. Yesterday he was talking about “judges with these cash bails,” and today, he’s talking about having “enough trees” that climate change isn’t a problem. There is NO doubt that nations across the world should be planting millions and millions of trees (some are) as a small part of fighting climate change, but it’s obviously not the biggest issue.

And yet, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

He also repeated his opposition to the new federal climate change, tax and healthcare law, which he described as wasteful spending.

“They continue to try to fool you that they are helping you out. But they’re not. Because a lot of money it’s going to trees. Don’t we have enough trees around here?”

Now, again, serious scientists have proposed national programs to plant millions and millions of trees in every single nation. But that’s not the issue when it comes to making cars that don’t put carbon in the atmosphere, to begin with, and that even though windmills have had a bad impact on birds (just as damns have had on salmon), they are still better than pumping more and more carbon into the atmosphere.

The man has serious issues, and being a U.S. Senator is serious business. Good thing Ralph Warnock is such a sweet, smart, and gentle man. It makes it far easier for the Georgia independent to hit the ballot for Warnock over Walker.

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman