Sign of the times:
During a full Moon, come on guys this is basic stuff it drives me crazy we’re still covering this.
Undead, Yes.
Unperson, No.
This is why I love you (people).
Walker explains that it’s Warnock’s fault that All In The Family is off the air:
Can I assume that with sufficient brain damage this… sentence,
“But because of Senator Warnock, it wouldn’t be on the air because he’s still living in the past.”
will suddenly become coherent?
You just can’t make this stuff up. 
I want to bring that remarkable sentence to the attention of linguists and all defenders of descriptivism who claim that humans have an innate instinct for language, and although we may not all be exceptionally eloquent, we adhere to a natural basic grammar and do not randomly utter completely incoherent sentences that cannot possibly be parsed. Either that premise is false, or Walker is not a functional human. I’m open to either interpretation.
If somebody’s brain is that damaged; it’s time to check their driver’s license for an organ-donor notation.
Even the Pirahã have recursion, so you needn’t go full Chomsky to support this contention.
There’s been debate about whether or not the Pirahã language has recursion, but Chomsky has claimed that even if it doesn’t, it wouldn’t overturn his fundamental theories of linguistics. But Herschel Walker’s utterance, if true, does threaten to undermine Chomsky’s underlying premise for a universal grammar, namely that there are innate constraints on what the grammar of a possible human language could be.
Gotta love the Dope!
FWIW, I just learned a new word today.
I wish I could find a convenient conversation where I could just let that drop.
Well, I think maybe he is possibly trying to imply that the same way people say “Blazing Saddles” couldn’t be made today, that “All in the Family” also wouldn’t get by the Woke Police.
And that reference is going to really resonate with the under 50 crowd.
And which entirely misses the point of those works.
He’s basically saying Archie should be allowed to go on being Archie and never change or learn a thing or be called out and you should just let them live in the past.
I was thinking that too – but if that’s what he meant, he undercuts it with the line “because he’s still living in the past.” If Warnock was living in the past, wouldn’t a TV show that was made in the past be something that would be made? In other words, if he’s trying to say that Warnock is woke, then “living in the past” is the complete opposite way to describe him.
I know, I’m trying to apply logic where it doesn’t exist…
You’re not putting the proper Alt-right MAGA spin on it today. Warnock is still “living in the past” because he thinks racism is still a problem. He can’t just let people enjoy racism as part of their culture now that racism doesn’t actually exist anymore, as any good Republican will tell you.
Oh, I get it now. There’s a good past and a bad past. Walker wants to return us to the good past, where everybody was chill and no one cared about the opinions of people who weren’t white. Warnock, on the other hand, keeps thinking about the bad past, which clearly ended, um, sometime. But now Warnock wants to make the bad past the real future because he can’t stop living in the bad past, while Walker wants to stop him by making sure only the good past gets through the present to become the real future.
I’ve got my talking points for Thanksgiving down now.