Talarico, better get used to the name. 3 weeks into Senate campaign

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Red Fishing Ag93 said:

DallasAg 94 said:

If you are truly seeking (and I have no reason to think otherwise), like mentioned, I would encourage you to read the Bible for yourself

I've mentored many young people. One example, the guy just wanted the answer. "People disagree on this, what is the answer?" I'd tell him 'let's read it and see.' He said, "No, just tell me." I told him I'd just be another opinion.... the Word is the best source. THEN, see if other Scruptures support what you read.

It is why on an early post, I referred back to the OT from which Jesus was quoting, that Talarico quotes about Love. What was Jesus saying, when he said what he said.

Not "What dies <x> say that means" where x is Trump, Talarico, DA 94, TexAgs, Catholic Priest, other.

The Shema is the root. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind." It is referenced repeatedly in the Bible. OT and NT. Seek the Lord. But not just the pieces you like.

The OT lays out God's character more fully. He required repentance and sacrifice. Jesus was the lamb who resolved that for eternity... but what Jesus fulfilled can only fully be appreciated when you see what He washed away.

And very important..... find a small group of sound, biblical men to spend time with regularly.

I would add to find a bible study church that allows you to learn more about the Bible. I have been well served over my years focusing on churches that often go back to the original languages to better understand the Bible.
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Old McDonald said:

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Old McDonald said:

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Old McDonald said:

talarico unsettles the christian right because he embodies a version of christianity they cannot control. his faith is not angry or punitive, it is compassionate and rooted in the gospel's command to love the least of these. that directly threatens the republican project of monopolizing and wielding religion as a weapon of resentment.

their cultural monopoly on "real christianity" is cracking, and the louder they squeal about talarico, the clearer it becomes that people are hungry for an alternative


Talarico is a sideshow for the left. He will not go far because leftism is it's own religion with Government being the highest power, and Christianity is unneeded in that worldview. There is a reason Christianity and leftism don't get along, and it is because they are antithetical. Democrats might be hungry for an alternative, but it is because leftism is a moral failure. Not saying Republicans are a direct match for the alternative, but they are less of a direct match for the moral vapidity that the Democrat party has become.
Christianity and liberal ideals are have a long history of compatibility. abolition, civil rights, labor reforms all sprang from Christians acting on gospel imperatives. talarico represents that lineage.

republicans, by contrast, have baptized cruelty and greed, calling them Christian virtues. the moral vapidity is not in democratic concern for the poor, sick, or marginalized, but rather in right-wing Christianity's betrayal of its own scriptures.



Oh, just stop it. Self-proclaimed Christians like Talarico that push the leftist agendas don't want equality. They want "restorative justice" and the other nonsense that comes from the class warfare principals of Critical Theory. There is nothing "just" about it because what it really is is more racism and classism in the opposite direction, and they in their ivory towers get to maintain their status while picking winners and losers. There is nothing whatsoever that is Christian about that.
restorative justice is far closer to the Gospel than punitive vengeance. Christ commands forgiveness, reconciliation, and lifting the downtrodden. luke 4:18: "he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free." that is restorative in essence.

if talarico and others seek to redress imbalance through policy, that aligns with the biblical demand for justice.


Jesus expects zero of reconciliation and restoration from government initiatives.
Gig'Em and God Bless,

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Keller6Ag91 said:

Old McDonald said:

Burdizzo said:

Old McDonald said:

Phatbob said:

Old McDonald said:

talarico unsettles the christian right because he embodies a version of christianity they cannot control. his faith is not angry or punitive, it is compassionate and rooted in the gospel's command to love the least of these. that directly threatens the republican project of monopolizing and wielding religion as a weapon of resentment.

their cultural monopoly on "real christianity" is cracking, and the louder they squeal about talarico, the clearer it becomes that people are hungry for an alternative


Talarico is a sideshow for the left. He will not go far because leftism is it's own religion with Government being the highest power, and Christianity is unneeded in that worldview. There is a reason Christianity and leftism don't get along, and it is because they are antithetical. Democrats might be hungry for an alternative, but it is because leftism is a moral failure. Not saying Republicans are a direct match for the alternative, but they are less of a direct match for the moral vapidity that the Democrat party has become.
Christianity and liberal ideals are have a long history of compatibility. abolition, civil rights, labor reforms all sprang from Christians acting on gospel imperatives. talarico represents that lineage.

republicans, by contrast, have baptized cruelty and greed, calling them Christian virtues. the moral vapidity is not in democratic concern for the poor, sick, or marginalized, but rather in right-wing Christianity's betrayal of its own scriptures.



Oh, just stop it. Self-proclaimed Christians like Talarico that push the leftist agendas don't want equality. They want "restorative justice" and the other nonsense that comes from the class warfare principals of Critical Theory. There is nothing "just" about it because what it really is is more racism and classism in the opposite direction, and they in their ivory towers get to maintain their status while picking winners and losers. There is nothing whatsoever that is Christian about that.
restorative justice is far closer to the Gospel than punitive vengeance. Christ commands forgiveness, reconciliation, and lifting the downtrodden. luke 4:18: "he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free." that is restorative in essence.

if talarico and others seek to redress imbalance through policy, that aligns with the biblical demand for justice.


Jesus expects zero of reconciliation and restoration from government initiatives.
Exactly.

Perhaps Talarico is the one who is a Chrstian nationalist.
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Luke 4:18: "he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free." that is restorative in essence.

if talarico and others seek to redress imbalance through policy, that aligns with the biblical demand for justice.


So you quote Luke 4:18, which is Jesus quoting Isaiah 61:1-2

Let me show you a great video clip of that so you can better understand the context

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Even if James Talarico wins the Democratic nomination, John Cornyn will defeat him by double digits. A Democrat has not won a statewide election since 1994 and a US Senate election in Texas since 1988, and that won't change in 13 months.
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AgNav93 said:


You cannot call yourself a Christian and be pro-abortion or trans. Sorry. You can't pick and choose those things from the bible that you like.



The Bible has no clear stance on either abortion or transgenderism, unlike homosexuality which is clearly outlawed. The bible makes no statement for when life begins or how gender is defined.
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DarkBrandon01 said:

AgNav93 said:


You cannot call yourself a Christian and be pro-abortion or trans. Sorry. You can't pick and choose those things from the bible that you like.



The Bible has no clear stance on either abortion or transgenderism, unlike homosexuality which is clearly outlawed. The bible makes no statement for when life begins or how gender is defined.

Because it is beyond common sense to think you'd have to. But we find ourselves today having to debate why there is only 2 genders and not 37, why it is wrong to give prepubescent kids opposite sex hormones, and why men/boys should not be in women's locker rooms. Even if it was in the bible it would not matter anyway because the majority of libs/leftists use the bible to try an point out conservatives/republican supposed hypocrisy rather than actually read it and live by the values it promotes.
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AnScAggie said:

DarkBrandon01 said:

AgNav93 said:


You cannot call yourself a Christian and be pro-abortion or trans. Sorry. You can't pick and choose those things from the bible that you like.



The Bible has no clear stance on either abortion or transgenderism, unlike homosexuality which is clearly outlawed. The bible makes no statement for when life begins or how gender is defined.

Because it is beyond common sense to think you'd have to. But we find ourselves today having to debate why there is only 2 genders and not 37, why it is wrong to give prepubescent kids opposite sex hormones, and why men/boys should not be in women's locker rooms. Even if it was in the bible it would not matter anyway because the majority of libs/leftists use the bible to try an point out conservatives/republican supposed hypocrisy rather than actually read it and live by the values it promotes.

The problem with "common" sense is that it is completely dependent on what the culture considers common. Surely, the infallible Word of God, that was meant to be distributed to every different group of people on the planet, would not need to rely on common sense to outline sin.
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Keller6Ag91 said:


Jesus expects zero of reconciliation and restoration from government initiatives.

Jesus only makes one statement regarding politics/government saying "render to caesar what is caesar's". To say anything else about Jesus's opinions on politics teeters on heresy.
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DarkBrandon01 said:

AgNav93 said:


You cannot call yourself a Christian and be pro-abortion or trans. Sorry. You can't pick and choose those things from the bible that you like.



The Bible has no clear stance on either abortion or transgenderism, unlike homosexuality which is clearly outlawed. The bible makes no statement for when life begins or how gender is defined.

Bull****

"Thou shall not kill"

Pretty clear. Ending a life, which begins at conception according to science, is "killing" and explicitly described as a sin.
Transgender? Well, it was Adam and Eve....a binary couple. But I honestly couldn't care about that extremely small subset of a small subset. Just leave the kids alone.

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The bible makes no statement for when life begins

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I consecrated you" - Jeremiah 1:5

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Take this ridiculous crap somewhere else. Reddit talking points aren't going to cut it.
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agent-maroon said:

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The bible makes no statement for when life begins

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I consecrated you" - Jeremiah 1:5


Isaiah 49:1 (NIV): "Before I was born the LORD called me; from my mother's womb he has spoken my name."

Isaiah 49:5 (NIV): "And now the LORD sayshe who formed me in the womb to be his servant...

Galatians 1:15 (NIV): "But when God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me by his grace, was pleased..."

Psalm 139:13, 16 (NIV): "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb... Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."

Psalm 22:9-10 ESV
[9] Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts. [10] On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God.
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DarkBrandon01 said:

AgNav93 said:


You cannot call yourself a Christian and be pro-abortion or trans. Sorry. You can't pick and choose those things from the bible that you like.



The Bible has no clear stance on either abortion or transgenderism, unlike homosexuality which is clearly outlawed. The bible makes no statement for when life begins or how gender is defined.


Genesis 1:27 ESV
[27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 5:1-2 ESV
[1] This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. [2] Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV
[4] He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, [5] and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? [6] So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."


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Careful with the educated thoughtful responses debating against transtifa. People get murdered for that.
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DarkBrandon01 said:

AnScAggie said:

DarkBrandon01 said:

AgNav93 said:


You cannot call yourself a Christian and be pro-abortion or trans. Sorry. You can't pick and choose those things from the bible that you like.



The Bible has no clear stance on either abortion or transgenderism, unlike homosexuality which is clearly outlawed. The bible makes no statement for when life begins or how gender is defined.

Because it is beyond common sense to think you'd have to. But we find ourselves today having to debate why there is only 2 genders and not 37, why it is wrong to give prepubescent kids opposite sex hormones, and why men/boys should not be in women's locker rooms. Even if it was in the bible it would not matter anyway because the majority of libs/leftists use the bible to try an point out conservatives/republican supposed hypocrisy rather than actually read it and live by the values it promotes.

The problem with "common" sense is that it is completely dependent on what the culture considers common. Surely, the infallible Word of God, that was meant to be distributed to every different group of people on the planet, would not need to rely on common sense to outline sin.


Galatians 5:19-21 ESV
[19] Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, [20] idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, [21] envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

https://bible.com/bible/59/gal.5.19-21.ESV
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shiftyandquick said:

And just blew Collin Allred out of the water with the fundraising reports just released. Not taking PAC money, not taking AIPAC money. Preacher, man of the cloth.

The best Democratic senate candidate in a generation.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/01/texas-senate-democratic-fundraising-james-talarico-colin-allred/

" the best senate candidate in a generation"

Lol. You made me do a little internet research. My conclusions:
Taught school for a couple years after 8 years of being a college student.
Became a politician and ran an NGO for a few years…
Currently a Texas House member and once again a student…

36 now but I don't see any mention of a wife, partner, children, etc
Is James a Furry?

What makes him the " best senate candidate in a generation "? I thought Beto held that title.
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Mas89 said:

shiftyandquick said:

And just blew Collin Allred out of the water with the fundraising reports just released. Not taking PAC money, not taking AIPAC money. Preacher, man of the cloth.

The best Democratic senate candidate in a generation.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/01/texas-senate-democratic-fundraising-james-talarico-colin-allred/

" the best senate candidate in a generation"

Lol. You made me do a little internet research. My conclusions:
Taught school for a couple years after 8 years of being a college student.
Became a politician and ran an NGO for a few years…
Currently a Texas House member and once again a student…

36 now but I don't see any mention of a wife, partner, children, etc
Is James a Furry?

What makes him the " best senate candidate in a generation ". I thought Beto held that title.


It's the political version of whoever the quarterback at tu is at the moment.
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DarkBrandon01 said:

Keller6Ag91 said:


Jesus expects zero of reconciliation and restoration from government initiatives.

Jesus only makes one statement regarding politics/government saying "render to caesar what is caesar's". To say anything else about Jesus's opinions on politics teeters on heresy.


Is this meant to be funny in context?

While true regarding a direct quote, the flip side is even more important. Personal holiness and GODly obedience through faith is our "offering"

Jesus was neither an R or a Dem, but he certainly wouldn't approve of the outsourcing of caring for others to the government like the Dem party. And on gender fluidity, homosexuality, and abortion, he would fall in the commandments and GOD's created order, which are all out of line in the Dem party.
Gig'Em and God Bless,

JB'91
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John Fisher Pessimist said:

John Fisher Pessimist said:

Fake preacher. Will lose


ETA: Allred got whooped. Don't see how this is much different. I don't think people will buy his shtick when his policies are extreme left.

Never stopped Allred before or his out of state donors.
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agent-maroon said:

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The bible makes no statement for when life begins

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I consecrated you" - Jeremiah 1:5



God's nature is atemporal, so he knows everyone before he makes them. The second part just means that life is sanctified sometime before birth. Some abortions may be okay and other might not be. Who knows.
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Old McDonald said:

Teslag said:

Old McDonald said:

aggieforester05 said:

He's a POS like every leftist. The ideology of the Democrat party is antithetical to Christianity.
if you think christ can be owned by one party, you've shrunk him into a partisan mascot, not a savior


You cannot be a Christian and call Christ a liar, which is basically what being pro-abortion is.
empty accusation, scripture gives no such commandment on the matter. calling others false christians over an issue He never addressed is itself closer to bearing false witness.


Pretty sure the Bible is strongly against murder, which abortion is. Maybe you missed that chapter. There is a pretty good movie about it too
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TXAG 05 said:

Old McDonald said:

Teslag said:

Old McDonald said:

aggieforester05 said:

He's a POS like every leftist. The ideology of the Democrat party is antithetical to Christianity.
if you think christ can be owned by one party, you've shrunk him into a partisan mascot, not a savior


You cannot be a Christian and call Christ a liar, which is basically what being pro-abortion is.
empty accusation, scripture gives no such commandment on the matter. calling others false christians over an issue He never addressed is itself closer to bearing false witness.


Pretty sure the Bible is strongly against murder, which abortion is. Maybe you missed that chapter. There is a pretty good movie about it too


Bro just totally forgot about the 10 commandments.
They paid for their wars with your tax dollars and also with your untaxed dollars. Inflation is theft.
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Talarico has repeated the lie that Numbers 5 is about abortion.

In his interview on Rogan, he stated the Incarnation is pro-choice and heavily implied Mary could have gotten an abortion.

One cannot be a Christian and have such vile beliefs. I don't know who he worships, but it isn't Jesus.
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Forget talaraco. bring in your real super stars, dems

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If she knows nothing else, she knows about "being at the table". But running for congress? lol... sure, why the hell not...
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E_TX_Ag12 said:

I don't know who he worships, but it isn't Jesus.

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A wolf in sheep's clothing.

A literal demon.
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That's perverse.
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DarkBrandon01 said:

agent-maroon said:

Quote:

The bible makes no statement for when life begins

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I consecrated you" - Jeremiah 1:5



God's nature is atemporal, so he knows everyone before he makes them. The second part just means that life is sanctified sometime before birth. Some abortions may be okay and other might not be. Who knows.


With your vast Biblical knowledge, are the abortions using forceps and scissors to tear up the baby ok or no?
Gig'Em and God Bless,

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Reminder: there are low iq useful idiots and America-hating communists already smitten for this psycho
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well, the guy is in the general election for US senate in November. I'm sure Democrats are still excited about this guy and their prospects to turn Texas blue. the out of state money flowing in to prop this guy up and tear down Cornyn or Paxton will be massive, I'm sure.

...but it still feels like the resident communists are more excited they found a guy who can successfully trick low IQ voters because he's a "man of the cloth" with prepared lines and soundbites. They won't actually defend the platform, policies, or views, will they? Why do we need wide open borders and unfettered mass migration? Why do we need to trans minors? Why should we have no prisons? Why should white people be ashamed and feel as guilty for who they are as he does? Why should my tax $ be spent on murdering your babies in the womb?
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A man who actually follows the teachings of Christ is despised by so many "Christians" on the right…what a time to be alive.

The maga hat really is the mark of the beast. Hoping Talarico can restore sanity to this broken country before it's too late.
 
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