BREAKING: BRAVO! James Talarico demolishes Ted Cruz for smearing him as not "masculine" enough to win in Texas by listing all of the things that "real men" never do.
And Cruz does every single one of them...
"Ted Cruz basically said he wouldn't use the word 'masculine' to describe you,'" Jen Psaki said to Talarico on MS NOW. "It seems pretty clear what they're trying to do here, at least to me. Not only are they going after you, but they're really trying to attack groups of people you've defended in the past, including trans people and others. What do you make of that?"
In addition to Cruz's pathetic smear, Trump's pet fascist Stephen Miller falsely asserted that Talarico is transgender. Other Republican influencers have implied that he's gay. The strategy here is clear: lean into culture war lies about Talarico rather than contest him on actual policy.
"Yeah, there's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man," Talarico said to Psaki. "And recently on the campaign trail, I told the story of my adoptive dad, the man who gave me his last name, the man who raised me as his own."
"Every Saturday morning, Mark Talarico would mow our lawn, whether it was rain or shine, whether he wanted to or not, he insisted on mowing our lawn himself," he continued. "And then without anyone asking him to, he would go next door and mow our neighbor's lawn because our neighbor was elderly, she was a widow. And my dad never talked about it. He just did it."
"Because that's what a man does. A man takes responsibility," he said.
"A man upholds his commitments to his family and his neighbors."
"A man does what's right even when no one is watching."
"And here's what real men don't do... They don't lie and cheat their way through life," he went on. "They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. They don't steal from other people in order to enrich themselves. And so I've said before, and I will keep saying, that real men serve others."
"Weak men serve themselves," he added. "And so I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man. And I don't think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is."
Someone should tell Ted Cruz that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Donald Trump called his wife ugly during the 2016 Republican primary, only for Cruz to go on to become one of Trump's staunchest supporters. There is nothing "masculine" about selling out your own family in pursuit of power.
Similarly, Talarico's disgraced opponent Ken Paxton is the furthest thing from a good man. He was impeached as state attorney general by his own party for bribery, and his wife divorced him for adultery. If that's what a "real man" does, then we need a lot fewer "real men" in government.
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BREAKING: Judge Brinkema is giving the Trump admin one week to submit a sworn statement โ signed by the Attorney General and Treasury Secretary โ that the slush fund will not go forward.
NEW/BREAKING: MLB investigators plan to question Dodgers head doc Neal ElAttrache in wake of disclosure he supported Conor McGregor's use of performance-enhancing drugs as he recovered from injury. ElAttrache is LA Rams team doc. NFL didn't return message seeking comment on what NFL plans to do.
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BREAKING:
House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia says he plans to formally ask Chairman Comer to bring JD Vance, Susie Wiles, and Kash Patel before the Committee in light of the new NYT Epstein reporting.
"They're having meetings in the Situation Room about covering up the Epstein files and protecting Donald Trump, and so this is to us a huge smoking gun."
Trump: "The problem is it could be the greatest deal in history. They could wave the white flag of surrender and say 'Praise be to Allah' and the fake news would say, 'It was a great victory for Iran.' It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. We're killing them. We're killing them."
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, after an American helicopter was shot down by Iran, CNN is finally slamming Donald Trump for saying the war with Iran has ended over 37 times before. It's about time someone call Trump out on his BS.
BREAKING: As Donald Trump was being booed in New York, James Talarico was out at the bars in Texas having an amazing time with Spurs fans and supporters. This is the difference between Trump and Democrats like Talarico. People actually like us.
"Trump has spent two months continuing to suggest a deal was right around the corner. A lot. Including the period before the ceasefire, he's done it at least 37 times... there's no indication that's any more true today than it was back on April 7. But Trump keeps saying it." https://t.co/blAQeiUqqQ
OMFG. This made up nonsense again. Does no journalist have the courage to say it to his faceโฆโSir, you have said this twenty times, and nothing has remotely changed.โ
SCOOP: Trump blindsided AI leaders when he said heโd be meeting them to discuss taking equity stakes in their firms
"I actually have a meeting scheduled in the very short, in the very near future,โ Trump said
This was news to the firms, sources say ...
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For the past 9 months, I've been investigating Andrew Tate's empire of sexual exploitation โ drawing on thousands of private messages and sealed court files, as well as interviews with the Tates, their associates & more than a dozen alleged victims. Here's what I found: https://t.co/q1L65EVG1O
MAJOR BREAKING: Canada bans Texas cattle over flesh-eating screwworm outbreak.
Remember that Trump/DOGE pushed broad USDA staffing and budget cuts that affected APHIS, which happens to be the the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, responsible for overseeing screwworm in cattle at the federal level.
Thanks Trump for screwing us, you worm....
Welcome to Americaโs new nuclear family: three marriages, multiple affairs, got wife #3 pregnant while still married to wife #2, and paid $50,000 to settle a sexual assault.
Full-on colonoscopy. Why they call it "mission first."
โItโs shocking that he got by a process that scrutinizes everything,โ said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA operations officer whose field assignments spanned the globe. โโThey interview friends, relatives, professors. Itโs a full-on colonoscopy.โโ https://t.co/IBfyF5lhCa