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RandySF

(59,507 posts)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 09:51 AM Dec 2022

GA-SEN: Herschel Walker Ex Comes Forward: He Attacked Me in a Rage

A former longtime girlfriend of Republican senatorial candidate Herschel Walker has come forward to detail a violent episode with the football star, who she believes is “unstable” and has “little to no control” over his mental state when he is not in treatment.

The woman, Dallas resident Cheryl Parsa, described an intimate and tumultuous five-year relationship with Walker in the 2000s, beginning shortly after his divorce and continuing for a year after the publication of his 2008 memoir about his struggle with dissociative identity disorder (DID), once known as multiple personality disorder.

Parsa, who has composed a book-length manuscript about her relationship with Walker, says she is speaking out because she is disturbed by Walker’s behavior on the campaign trail, which she claims exhibits telltale flare-ups of the disorder she tried to help him manage for half a decade.

“He’s a pathological liar. Absolutely. But it’s more than that,” Parsa, who last had regular contact with Walker in 2019, told The Daily Beast. “He knows how to manipulate his disease, in order to manipulate people, while at times being simultaneously completely out of control.” She said that when she was with Walker, he used his diagnosis as an “alibi” to “justify lying, cheating, and ultimately destroying families.”

Parsa is one of five women who were romantically involved with Walker who spoke to The Daily Beast for this article. All of them described a habit of lying and infidelity—including one woman who claimed she had an affair with Walker while he was married in the 1990s. All five women said they were willing to speak to expose the behavior of the man they now see running for Senate.




https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-ex-lover-cheryl-parsa-says-he-attacked-her-in-a-rage?source=twitter&via=desktop

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PatSeg

(47,685 posts)
3. Wow, that sounds like quite a few men I've known
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 10:43 AM
Dec 2022

Especially the part about using a disorder as an "alibi to justify lying, cheating, and ultimately destroying families".

I've seen men use an addiction or disorder as an excuse to not take responsibility for their actions. "It's not my fault, it is the ____". Of course in their eyes, the rest of the world is always responsible for whatever THEY do or say.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
12. it's a common and normalized mental disorder that can get really bad
Fri Dec 2, 2022, 08:33 AM
Dec 2022

the symptoms of sex on the wrong brain, which include greed and fear of uncertainty/need for certainty, need to be recognized as a fixable problem century after century and not excused as 'human nature'

hitler, trump, walker, musk, kanye, marge taylor greene may have 4 things in common - strong sex drive, are repulsive/scary to the opposite sex, a genetic predisposition, and a lot of frustrated masturbation in early years to burn in the neural connections to send impatient satisfaction-demanding reproductive urges to brain functions that need patience and objectivity.

the alternative is what the koran mandates - "man can only have sex with his wife and that which the right hand possesses" - meaning if you aren't old enough or can't afford a wife or slave or aren't a warrior with captives just make sure you cheat with the right hand, not the left.

for MTG that means a vibrator, held with the right hand.

Jim__

(14,090 posts)
4. And the Georgia senate race is neck and neck? We have a serious political problem.
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 11:42 AM
Dec 2022

Psychopaths should not be viable candidates in an election.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. Better really late than never?
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 12:23 PM
Dec 2022

I'm not looking to cast blame, but my goodness! This race has been going for months now, with the issue still in doubt. I'd be interested to know why these women haven't come forward sooner. What tripped the switch for them at last to go public? From my perspective, these stories told sooner might have avoided the run-off entirely by giving Sen. Warnock a majority vote back in November.

Hekate

(90,914 posts)
8. The GOP is too busy owning the libs to give a damn. Seriously. And it works for a lot of voters.
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 01:18 PM
Dec 2022

The cynicism would gag a goat.

orthoclad

(2,910 posts)
9. "And it works"
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 10:00 PM
Dec 2022

Yes, they know how to push emotional hot buttons. It's a skill. Maybe based on studies on how to overthrow governments.

It might gag a goat, but not a willing manipulator.

twodogsbarking

(9,860 posts)
6. There are people who see nothing wrong with this. Tell me that is not true
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 12:37 PM
Dec 2022

to make me feel better, or something.

RANDYWILDMAN

(2,678 posts)
11. Sickening
Fri Dec 2, 2022, 03:24 AM
Dec 2022



having lived through domestic abuse from one of my parents to another. I can't imagine the pain this man will cause and I can't fathom people still voting for him...but them I remember that republicans quit giving a fuck about anything other than winning a long time ago.


Mr. Ected

(9,674 posts)
13. Their attack ads on Warnock give the right all the cover they need to stick with Walker
Fri Dec 2, 2022, 08:37 AM
Dec 2022

By manufacturing false equivalencies between Walker and Warnock, whether true or not (not), that's all they need to dismiss these accusations and vote R once again.

GOP voters don't want to hear the truth. That would destroy their well-constructed worlds.

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