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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStephen 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.
ChicagoTeamster
(1,295 posts)Whyisthisstillclose
(753 posts)Ocelot II
(131,430 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(17,589 posts)Walleye
(45,593 posts)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)He was transitioned into something humanoid to try and convince us that he's one of us but we're not fooled.
SSJVegeta
(3,218 posts)GoodRaisin
(11,094 posts)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)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?
enough
(13,781 posts)C_U_L8R
(49,574 posts)Seriously.
Ritabert
(2,657 posts)sir pball
(5,356 posts)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)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)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)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)Siam's NOT gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness?
Emile
(43,463 posts)Initech
(109,366 posts)Fuck you Stephen Miller, fuck you.
mwmisses4289
(4,808 posts)ananda
(35,590 posts)That's how Cruz won against Allred.
It all depends on whether this works on
Latiinos again.
Vogon_Glory
(10,396 posts)Right-wing religious conservatives, a major component of Trumps 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 isnt 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, arent they?
I dont know what Talaricos sexual inclinations are, and theyre none of my business (I dont think theyre any of Steve Millers, Donald Trumps, or Ken Paxtons 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 theyre 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.