@jamestalarico Let me tell you what I don't want.
Wide open borders with a "welcome mat".
State income tax.
Requirements for my grandchildren to have surgical mutilation even if their parents don't agree with it.
Nothing you say or do can make any of that ok.
@POTUS
Have you seen this bs?
Using cutting Autism assistance as a threat for the state asking all departments to cut their budgets by 3%.
Why can't they cut something less utilized?
#fundautism
A minister at James Talarico's own church, who has known him since kindergarten, got caught on hidden camera guaranteeing he'll "change his tune back to where he was" once he's elected. She gave the moderate act about 50 weeks. Then she added, "if it helps him win, okay."
So I graded his record the way I grade lab reports.
Trying to get a straight answer out of this campaign is like trying to baptize a cat, so I went to the Texas House Journal instead. He voted against HB 25, girls' sports. Against SB 14, which bars puberty blockers and surgeries for kids. Against the Heartbeat Act. Against $1.8 billion for border security, against making illegal entry a state crime, and against the Ten Commandments bill, which he called "idolatrous."
Then he went on Fox News in September and said he'd "absolutely" back a national ban on surgeries for minors. He says he's been consistent. I agree. He's consistently on whichever side of the issue the camera is standing on.
The theology is worse. On the House floor: "God is non-binary." On Rogan: life starts at first breath, because of Adam. (Nobody gestated Adam. There was no baby shower.) At a church in DeSoto this July: we're saved "by healing the sick." Ephesians 2:8-9 would like a word. So would John Calvin, and Talarico goes to a Presbyterian church. The man is more confused than a chameleon in a bag of Skittles.
Jesus said you'll know them by their fruits. Not their ads.
All hat and no cattle, and this time the hat came from PawPaw's closet.
But what do I know? I'm only a science teacher who knows the difference between evolution and a 50-week costume change.
His campaign's only answer so far: he has "remained consistent." So, Talarico fans, a simple question. Is his own minister wrong? If she is, why won't he say so, by name?
Ilhan Omar's office called today's search of her home "unprecedented." Bernie called it authoritarian. One federal judge signed the warrant. Zero doors got kicked in. And the precedent they forgot involves $90,000 in a congressman's freezer and gold bars in a senator's closet.
What actually happened: before dawn Monday, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant at Omar's D.C.-area home. DOJ confirmed it on the record. Fox's reporter on the block said nobody knocked down doors and nobody came in with weapons drawn. Agents were there about four hours and left with boxes. Sources say it involves immigration paperwork from her childhood. No charges.
What they said:
o Omar's office: "an unprecedented escalation"
o Bernie Sanders: "Trump is an authoritarian"
o Elizabeth Warren: "a dangerous abuse of power"
o Rep. Delia Ramirez: "We must dismantle DHS"
o Hasan Piker: "the american democracy project might be totally over"
That's a 12-piece bucket of stupid, served hot.
Now the precedent. 2005: the FBI searched Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's home and found $90,000 in his freezer. January 2022: agents searched Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar's home about six weeks before his primary. June 2022: agents searched Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez's home and found about $486,000 in gold bars and cash. All court-authorized. Two convictions.
Unprecedented, apparently, means "happened to a Democrat three times before and nobody burned down the republic."
And "dismantle DHS"? DHS also runs the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, TSA and FEMA. Somebody in that caucus has a leak in the think tank.
Authoritarians don't ask a judge for permission first. They don't confirm the search on the record the same morning. And they don't lose in their own courts.
To be fair, a search is not a conviction. If the paperwork is clean, I'll say so out loud. Even duct tape can't fix stupid, but evidence can fix a rumor.
But what do I know, I'm only a teacher who checks the precedent before grading the word "unprecedented."
So answer one question for me, Democrats: if a judge-signed warrant on a Democrat is authoritarian, what was the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022?
@SenBooker I was happy the DOJ FINALLY searched her house. Took them long enough.
That woman is a fraud. Make her dreams come true, send her back home to Somalia.