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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,825 posts)
Thu May 28, 2026, 12:42 PM Thursday

Stephen Miller Calls James Talarico the Democrats' "First Transgender Senate Candidate"

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller falsely claimed that Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was transgender during a heated online exchange on Tuesday, as Republicans escalated anti-LGBTQ+ attacks against the Democrat.

The exchange began after the Democratic National Committee promoted Talarico on its official X account following Texas Republican voters’ decision to nominate Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the GOP Senate primary. President Donald Trump endorsed Paxton last week.

“The Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender senate candidate,” Miller posted on X.

Talarico, who won a Democratic primary for Senate in March, is cisgender and heterosexual. He has drawn attention for his outspoken allyship and advocacy for LGBTQ+ equality, something Republicans have pounced on as the Democrat poses the first serious threat in years to flip Texas blue.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/stephen-miller-calls-james-talarico-231624039.html

So? Miller is a colon polyp removed from Trump's asshole.

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Stephen Miller Calls James Talarico the Democrats' "First Transgender Senate Candidate" (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday OP
Isn't Miller the Cuck Cabinet Member? But Talarico is too decent a person to say that. We'll have to say it for him. ChicagoTeamster Thursday #1
Piece of shit Nazi says what? Whyisthisstillclose Thursday #2
Isn't Miller the WH official (other than 47) with the tiniest dick? Or is that Kegbreath? Ocelot II Thursday #3
I'd say it's both MustLoveBeagles Thursday #22
Is every accusation of confession now. Is Miller trans. Walleye Thursday #4
I suspect... 2naSalit Thursday #17
Sounds like something an insecure penis head might say SSJVegeta Thursday #5
"Transgender" is all they have to campaign on. GoodRaisin Thursday #6
What is Traildogbob Thursday #11
Way too early. He should have waited till 6 days before the election. enough Thursday #7
Grow TF Up, republicans. C_U_L8R Thursday #8
His wife is now whining because somebody called him an "ugly f#ck" Ritabert Thursday #9
Not just somebody, the official DNC X/Insta account. sir pball Thursday #14
Please proceed EarlG Thursday #10
Paxton released a close pal from jail guilty of sexual abuse of a young child Torchlight Thursday #12
Trump will dispatch his crack team of private investigators to Bangkok, "the sex change capital of the world." sop Thursday #13
Are you implying that Abolishinist Thursday #21
Better than be called a crook like Paxton. Emile Thursday #15
And I call Stephen Miller one of the biggest fucking asshole traitors in the country. Initech Thursday #16
Ironic considering Miller is Jewish. mwmisses4289 Thursday #18
This is their only game, transgender. ananda Thursday #19
More right-wing double-speak Vogon_Glory Thursday #20

ChicagoTeamster

(1,295 posts)
1. Isn't Miller the Cuck Cabinet Member? But Talarico is too decent a person to say that. We'll have to say it for him.
Thu May 28, 2026, 12:45 PM
Thursday

Walleye

(45,593 posts)
4. Is every accusation of confession now. Is Miller trans.
Thu May 28, 2026, 12:49 PM
Thursday

Not that I would care except for the hypocrisy. The whole state of Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the Congress. Are we all stupid? Do they respect the democratic process at all?

2naSalit

(103,937 posts)
17. I suspect...
Thu May 28, 2026, 01:59 PM
Thursday

He was transitioned into something humanoid to try and convince us that he's one of us but we're not fooled.

GoodRaisin

(11,094 posts)
6. "Transgender" is all they have to campaign on.
Thu May 28, 2026, 12:56 PM
Thursday

It is a buzz word gets all their mouth breathers charged up. They will say it a million times between now and the election.

Traildogbob

(13,182 posts)
11. What is
Thu May 28, 2026, 01:14 PM
Thursday

The proper identification of a male with a mushroom penis between his legs, and anus under his nose and a caping vagina on his neck?
Nothing trans, he was born with all that.
Gods will?????? As a bad joke on Fred and his assery?

sir pball

(5,356 posts)
14. Not just somebody, the official DNC X/Insta account.
Thu May 28, 2026, 01:16 PM
Thursday

Then Katie Miller doxxed the intern who posted it, and the intern clapped back with her engagement pictures. It's just all around awesomely crazy

EarlG

(23,730 posts)
10. Please proceed
Thu May 28, 2026, 01:08 PM
Thursday

I believe we're in the diminishing returns phase of this particular cultural attack. This is absolutely not to diminish the increasing injustices that the GOP has continued to inflict on trans people via legislation -- that is a real problem. But as an effective political attack, I think this peaked in 2024.

Many low-info voters were bamboozled by the GOP's relentless attacks on trans people during the 2024 election, and voted accordingly. Those same low-info voters are now a year and a half into Trump's second term, and they are struggling with rising inflation and higher costs of living, a huge jump in gas prices, a masked Gestapo roaming the country brutalizing innocent people, and a pointless war in Iran that nobody asked for. Meanwhile, Trump is old, tired, deranged, and clearly not up to the task of leading the country anywhere good.

Voters are going to be looking for change this year, and IMO, the stale, warmed-over bigotry that Miller is dabbling in here is going to be mostly ignored, because right now most cis people have far bigger problems going on in their lives than worrying about the imaginary threat of trans people.

Torchlight

(7,102 posts)
12. Paxton released a close pal from jail guilty of sexual abuse of a young child
Thu May 28, 2026, 01:15 PM
Thursday

Paxton's close friend pleaded guilty in April to indecent assault and displaying harmful materials to a minor. His deal called for just one day in jail with credit for time served.

I think the 'transgender' assertions from the RW won't really make much of a dent given Paxton's mad-hatter's hatful of material.

sop

(19,486 posts)
13. Trump will dispatch his crack team of private investigators to Bangkok, "the sex change capital of the world."
Thu May 28, 2026, 01:15 PM
Thursday

The same gumshoes who've been busy unearthing Obama's birth records since 2008 will now dig up Talarico's medical records.

Abolishinist

(3,067 posts)
21. Are you implying that
Thu May 28, 2026, 03:34 PM
Thursday

Siam's NOT gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness?

Initech

(109,366 posts)
16. And I call Stephen Miller one of the biggest fucking asshole traitors in the country.
Thu May 28, 2026, 01:37 PM
Thursday

Fuck you Stephen Miller, fuck you.

ananda

(35,590 posts)
19. This is their only game, transgender.
Thu May 28, 2026, 03:14 PM
Thursday

That's how Cruz won against Allred.

It all depends on whether this works on
Latiinos again.

Vogon_Glory

(10,396 posts)
20. More right-wing double-speak
Thu May 28, 2026, 03:32 PM
Thursday

Right-wing religious “conservatives”, a major component of Trump’s voter coalition, devote lots and lots of bandwidth extolling abstinence before marriage.


And here is Steverino implying that Talarico must be some sort of deviant because he isn’t catting around like his boss or transgressing the bounds of marriage like the Republican candidate running against him.

This Trumpies are trying to have it both ways, aren’t they?

I don’t know what Talarico’s sexual inclinations are, and they’re none of my business (I don’t think they’re any of Steve Miller’s, Donald Trump’s, or Ken Paxton’s either). I do do know that there are more older bachelors out there than right-wing propaganda liars and whores want to admit to and that many of them stay single for reasons that have nothing to do with what gender they’re attracted to.

I think Talarico deserves the benefit of the doubt for not yet having the right life-partner and the speculators should shut the Eff up.

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