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Republicans must be scared of Talarico. His message seems to resonate with his base. He’s a white christian man, so in other words “Just a great guy!” in their view.
Also, he’s not afraid to call out the establishment. The republican base likes that kind of stuff, they’ve just been misled into believing that “the establishment” means jews and diversity hires instead of corporate-financial oligarchs and their political lackeys.
Talarico has been pretty effective at meeting these people where they’re at and redirecting their ire towards the oligarchy where it belongs.
That must terrify republican politicians.
Republicans get to throw the most vile, puerile insults at anyone. Meanwhile, that girl will have to resign, relocate, and probably change her name.
They are going to harp on Trans-everything this year, which affects almost nobody, because it’s all they’ve got. They’ve got nothing successful to point to, or even something that has the potential to be successful. They can’t criticize Dems, because they’re right about EVERYTHING, and they don’t want to point it out.
If you hear a MAGA going on about Trans stuff, ask them how many trans people they know,.or have ever known. When they tell you none, tell them to worry about stuff that’s real, like their empty fridge.
Someone make an edit of Lois doing the 9-11 thing when she was running for office but make it trans-gender (I’m at work)
These days i sometimes get sad from the things happening in the world. Those moments i try and remind myself that despite all those things happening, at least my country isn’t run by US politicians.
I’m a brit and we have around 3 years to point and laugh at the US until we get our own Poundland version.
Germany and France also appear a bit shakey on this front 🤦
When this started about ten years ago or whatever, you guys were about 5 years behind.
Taking your 3-year at face value it makes sense because this shit accelerated very damn quickly.
Fair chance we would vote them in now if there was an election, although Elmo Musk is currently funding a even more far right party which might split the vote 🤣.
The three years is just the timeframe before an election has to be held.
Fuck this. You guys have been leading the global charge against trans rights for ages. At least own your shit.
fun fact, STEPHAN miller also DYED his bald scalp to make it look like had a full head of hair. and he has a HS video about him and immigrants too.
He used RONCO GLH. It gave him the confidence to derive the final solution to immigration.
Bigotry is pretty much the only strategy the GOP has left. One state over, they are hammering the airwaves with ads claiming Hallie Shoffner, the Democrat running against Tom Cotton, is a major supporter of the “tRaNs AgEnDa”. It’s pathetic. It reeks of desparation. I think, for the first time in years, the Democrats might actually have a viable candidate. I think Tom Cotton thinks so too. I hope Hallie Shoffner stomps that little fucking weasel into the dirt.
culture wars is the only useful thing for TRUMP supporters, hate against[insert minority here] is enough for most thier voters. magats dont look past thier economic policies, because they are told the contrary of what happens if a DEM has laws on the books.
I’ll be voting for her. So there’s one.
There’s at least two of us. :)
Never thought I’d find other Arkansans here, but make it 3. How he wasn’t buried after the stolen valor claiming to be in the seals is fucking beyond me.
They were threatening Sharia Law in primary ads here in Texas against Cornyn. They know how to give red meat to the reactionaries.
and the evangelicals area already enacting sha’ria law in some gop states in some form of another.
Hip hip hooray it’s weasel stomping day!
I wrote a thing I hope to turn into a postable graphic. It reads (current version):
Ken Paxton and James Talarico are running for US Senator of Texas. The race serves as a microcosm of what red-state Republicans have to decide in the 2026 midterm election:
Do you want relief from the bullshit and open corruption? Or do you serve and obey our Glorious Leader?
Are you tired of watching your family suffer? Or are you good with owning the libs some more, and maybe pushing trans folk back into the shadows?
Are you a communist and a terrorist, as defined by the US Department of Justice? Or do you cede your voice to the party that is actively trying to make elections irrelevant?
I’d probably change the second to last line. Nobody really wants to be a terrorist.
But yeah I think November truly will decide the future of our country in a big way.
Stephen is just resentful because he has the appeal of an infected hangnail.
Yeah, better than losing a toe isn’t a very high bar.
cant physically strangle a hooker, thats why hes so frustrated. its a meme going around about miller.
He looks like a cross between Nosferatu and one of the martians from Mars Attacks.
maga-mind.
He looks like voldemort with the soul of jk rowling
A human polyp
Katie miller, his equally deplorable wife also said somehting similar in the same thread.
I don’t get it. Is this person not transgender or something?
hes not, thats why they call him a vegan, as a deragatory name, eventhough isnt that either.
I’m always astounded by their lack of creativity. Same with right wing comics. They lack every bit of talent and or creativity. I never saw a right wing comedian or comic where i thought: i don’t disagree, but that shit is funny. I understand that that’s not only right wingers, there’s leftist stonetoss artists as well, and a lot of people here love them to death, but you’d think there is someone hateful that also has some talent. Same with Donald, he can say whatever, whenever, he clearly doesn’t care and it doesn’t matter, but all he comes up with is sleepy joe, his wife looks like a dog, he she is fat and whatnot.
they call whatever shit sticks with conservatives smoothbrains. they think vegan is a “n-word” some reason. it also revolves around be hypermasculine/toxic masculinity too. vegans/vegeterians are often women in general.
trump uses the tactic like russia, call sanewashing. hypernormalizing, if they say it enough time, the braindead support things its normal and not an issue. in trumps case he uses this as a distraction from other thing he distracting from.
One time a woman on tinder asked me what i’m doing. I told her that i’m having a salad. And she was like: what? Like a woman. That shit confuses me to this day.
No, he’s a cisgender heterosexual male - but he just so happens to have progressive political views, and that absolutely frightens the right-wing nutjobs.
He’s also specifically running as a Christian who opposes Christian Nationalism which is the most terrifying thing about him to the GOP. They know full well that being able to use the Christian label is the only thing they need for low information voters to vote for them, especially in the South. If they lose the stranglehold they have on that label they are well and truly fucked.
hes also a christian too, but that doesnt matter for magats, becauses not thier brand of “christianity”
He’s not.
He’s also not vegan, but that’s another accusation his opposition is using. Because I guess there’s nothing Texans hate more than (checks notes) … tofu?
To them, it’s supposed to be “emasculating” (a concept that only makes sense if you think being a man is a fragile state that is conditional on behaviour, and can be revoked by other people but not by the very individual).
All he would have to say is “I’m not. I just really fucking love beans” and a photo of him in a canned beans meme and all the young voters would vote for him.
I was already planning on voting for him, but if he did the “Baked Beans” sketch from WKUK, I’d have to vote for him even harder
Thanks for posting this.
If he’s swinging that low, then they release how badly they fucked up.
But their messaging works. And gets votes. I guarantee next time I see my dad he’ll bring up Talarico being a slur while emphasizing the foreign-ness of his last name. He will not, however, acknowledge any details about Ken Paxton’s criminal behavior, because that’s fake news and he “won” by not getting indicted/convicted. I hope he dies soon so my votes aren’t canceled out by him any more.
“Dad, that Stephen Miller guy is so dumb he got ‘transgender’ and ‘presbyterian’ mixed up. Fucking millennial could learn how to read if he wasn’t so busy making avocado toast all the time.”
I’m a millennial but I will gladly malign my entire generation with the usual inaccurate tropes if this strategy actually works.
Not really sure what he means by the foreign-ness of the name. Unless it’s in Choctaw or whatever, there aren’t really any “American” surnames. The place is only a couple of hundred years old so there’s no history. The house I grew up in is older than that.
Maybe rico being the last part of his last name could add an extra Hispanic accent. TalaRRRico
the anti-trans propaganda has primed most republican voters to vote for whoever the R is.
Try to talk to your dad and convince him there’s no point to him voting as Paxton is a shoe-in so he might as well go fishing/hunting/suck off one of the boys as they needed some company and it’s not gay to help a friend/play some pool at the bar. Do the things the “Demon-rats” want to take away from him (according to Fox News)
Some people will believe anything if it means their in-group is good and the out-group is weak and bad. Probably the best hope for humanity is somehow channeling that trait so in-group is humanity and oh i just re-invented the end of watchmen, I think.
Adrian Veidt was right.
But they went even lower, they called him a vegan!!
(He’s not even a vegan)
In Texas? That’s worse than calling him gay.
He came out with a statement that he’s 8th generation Texan, and he LOVES Barbecue.
All he has to do is shoot a single ad of a big family picnic, and be seen enthusiastically eating a rib. Not like that McDs CEO, who looked like his own burger was poisoned, but like you actually LOVE good ribs.
Talarico is a fascinating case study of how a totally mid cishet guy would be buckets hotter if I thought he was either a trans dude or a lesbian.
Yeah him being another bland white guy makes me suspicious, how do you tell which one is the facist? They both spout religious crap too.
You know, something like 70% of the country is Christian. I have plenty of reasons to dislike and distrust organized religion, but you have to recognize that there are progressive Christians who don’t use their faith to oppress people. There are some Christians who take the “love one another” thing seriously and don’t suck.
Sure, but you can’t blame someone for assuming the worst until otherwise demonstrated. Most Christians are hypocritical shitheads, it’s safest to lead with that.
Yeah, that’s fair. But I think it’s also fair to say that Talarico has quite publicly demonstrated that he isn’t one of those shitheads.
Putting your racism aside, one spouts unhinged religious conspiracy theories, the other promotes loving your neighbor and practicing acceptance. Not really the same thing.
White people can’t judge themselves? TIL. You’d think we’d be experts.
You’re not judging yourself. You’re saying white = probably fascist. Is Uncle Ruckus racist?
It’s just a slightly dated sense of humour, the way I read it. I used to laugh with other pale dudes about cracker this and honky that. It was always in poor taste, but our hearts were in the right place. Most of us. It’s very late-00s, the kind of joke you’d only make as a super comfortable white guy who will never genuinely fear discrimination but wants to seem anti-racist while doing race jokes.
Ok maybe I’m missing something but scumbag Stephen Miller didn’t really say anything contentious or bad? I’m sure he meant it disparagingly but wouldn’t a more effective response be something like “thanks for acknowledging this positive step towards inclusivity!” ? Idk
Except it’s not true.
James Talarico is a cis man. Not trans. Stephen Miller was intending to A) suggest that he looks like a biological woman dressing as a man, meant to be an macho insult, and B) probably mislead Trump’s idiot base into actually believing that to be true so they automatically hate him. Stephen Miller is a literal nazi in all but (maybe) name, and he hates anyone that is not white, not straight, not cis, not biologically male, or not pro fascism. If you are any of those things, he believes suggesting that you are other of those things to be inherently an insult. Whether or not you consider being trans bad, he does, and so him saying it is still an insult, particularly where it’s not remotely true.
Talarico is not trans though
Ohhh ok yea there it is. Sorry, not American.
Me too, but I also watch an unhealthy amount of videos on Youtube about American politics.
calling talarico a trans man, and vegan is pretty bigotted.
I wish the Democrats replied “Talarico isn’t that cool”
I don’t think Talarico is cool in general. He seems like a pretty campy christian dude with decent morals and a good attitude. But the bar is set really damn low. Compared to the alternative, Ken Paxton, he’s LL fucking Cool J. That evil moron has done more damage to the integrity and trust in our election system than most, and worked constantly to thwart good policy making under Biden. Talarico. May not be exciting, exactly, but he’s young, he’s more progressive than the establishment, and Ken Paxton doesn’t need to be in any office, let alone a federal one.
The fact that he’s not cool, or trying to be, is his strength. He comes off like a sincere, decent, honest person, with good faith intentions. I’ll vote for that over a proven scumbag like Paxton.
What’s the logic? Talarico seems to good to be true, he must be hiding something, with no evidence of that at all. So the better alternative is Paxton, a guy who is absolutely proven to be one of the most corrupt politicians in America, right up there with the very worst of the worst.
But yeah, Talarico might be hiding something, so vote for the known criminal.
