With the amount of crap the Republicans are going to hurl at him. And don't expect the M$M to come to the rescue either.

would be certifiable. But the think we've finally learned the lesson about fighting back and addressing this kind of childish name calling. At least I hope we have.

No, and they can't even say it correctly!

I thought they believed in freedom? Weird.

a lot of these fellers got older, their arteries clogged up, and their cardiologists told them “Cowpoke, you’re going to have to change your diet!”.

I haven’t had a steak since.

At 52, I was feeling a bit weird, and thought it might be heart-related, since both my father’s parents died of heart attacks before they were 70. So I sought out a cardiologist. Within less than 72 hours, I was in a hospital, having 2 stents put in my arteries. They had an ambulance waiting outside to rush me to another clinic in case the stent implant failed, in which case I would need an emergency bypass operation. The implant was successful, but the surgeon played me back the video if the procedure, and I had two arteries 99% clogged. My coming major (and probably fatal) coronary was maybe 48 hours away. Maybe less. He said only one thing to me in English: „Just in time.“ I was told, among other things, „from now on, if it walks on four legs, don‘t eat it.“ I haven‘t.

He’s been a vegan for decades.

is and has been a vegan for quite some time.

The right wingers made it up. His campaign keeps posting pictures of him eating barbecue.

They and he are all about vengeance, vituperation, and vitriol these days.

andimal products. Good On him!

The "outrage" of the Repukes calling him this is comical; however, he has addressed it and he is not a vegan.

Just clarifying. It should make no difference if he were. It's an absolutely STUPID thing the Repukes put forth.

calls out Paxton for will be true.

James Talarico loves his BBQ.
He also has a girlfriend of four years if they choose to be total pigs.

against him.

In a speech he gave during his 2022 run for reelection to the Texas house, Talarico said reducing meat consumption is the "moral thing to do" and "necessary to fight climate change."
"I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign, so we are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses," he said, adding, "Everyone has to take personal responsibility in this effort."

But he did not claim to be a vegan.

I'm vegan, but it doesn't matter to me if anyone eats meat. I do it for my health purposes.

To each his/her own, and to thine ownself be true.

if people want to go vegan, fine by me, it's a personal choice and more importantly, none of my business.

i happen to like meat way too much to go full on vegan, fish-aterian i'd be ok with. i'd give some vegan items a try, plant based burgers for example. my biggest issue with being a vegan is that i only like a small amount of vegetables: onions, carrots, corn, peas, and lettuce (iceberg). it's a texture thing for me.

like you said, to each their own. and in my case, to swine own self beef true...

Potatoes are verges, Corn on the cob!

I eat Protein grains like Buckwheat & Quinoa, Beans, Pinto, black beans, lentils, Chick peas, hummus, Pasta.. all organic, of course. Brown Basmati Rice. Lots of great food is left, in addition to all the fruits available. Mangos!

Not trying to talk you into anything, just stating what I have available being vegan for my health.

i just cannot stomach lentils... but i forgot i do like black beans. not much fruit eater other than bananas and apple... sauce.

with all the fruits available.

Enjoy your apples and bananas.

Helping others, like Jesus would do, is weak and woke.

Helping yourself and letting others struggle -- THAT's where it's at!

the GOP is going to exaggerate what he said.

During a speech while running for reelection in 2022, Talarico said reducing meat consumption is the "moral thing to do" and "necessary to fight climate change."

"I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign, so we are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses," he said, adding, "Everyone has to take personal responsibility in this effort."

He did not say he was a vegan though.

But in Texas, calling someone a vegan is considered a high insult.

on to that.

We have vegans in our outfit, as well as in our circle of friends (my CEO funds his wife‘s modern dance company).

His campaign has released multiple pictures of him eating barbecue. This is all a ridiculous rumor started by republicans and we need to stop repeating it on DU of all places.

(a paraphrase of his statement earlier this week)

How many pictures does his campaign staff need to post of him eating barbecue?

a PEDO or a PEDO Pusher.

Good reply to the Fascists' Stupidity.

Graham, Rubio, the whole pack of bow and scrapers.

on my "good husband potential" list, once upon a time. I'm not in the market, though and haven't kept a mental list like that in 35 years.

and have now made the race about who benches more (or something).

the border and trans issues.

honestly this is getting kind of ridiculous. Y'all need to watch his interview (see Youtube) with Jamie Kern Lima. It's like 2 hours and he puts up with all her intrusive questions! He eats meat, he has a girlfriend, he wants kids someday. IDK what else people want to know.

And he's a hell of a lot better than Ken Paxton, who is corrupt as hell - so much so that his own party impeached him for corruption! Not to mention the adultry, theft, etc.

That's how bad Paxton is. Talarico is a million times better.

So James is selling the t-shirts.
https://store.jamestalarico.com/products/im-a-talafreako-black-tee

I may just have to buy a couple and experiment with cutting the sleeves off and tying the shoulders w/ribbons or something ... His campaign has a great sense of humor!

Make tease-shirts.

I say get one and customize it your way.

She was suffering from dementia, and was at loose ends when her husband died. I also took my turn shoveling her walk and mowing her lawn.
She got so bad that she believed that no one could watch TV if she turned her set off. So we contacted her son who lived in Texas, and he came up and got her.
This is what neighbors did in small town America. They take care of folks who need help.

people in big cites and the suburbs do favors for their neighbors too

unless they disapprove of your "lifestyle"

It can refer to your love of planting flowers in your upper windows.

I mean, it can refer to anything... because that is not there real reason for it. They do not like a person, then they come up with a reason for it.

That is 'small town behavior' in a nutshell. And, if you say you have never noticed this... well then, guess where you fall in the 'popularity poll' of the town? (The 'in' crowd never notices anything, because they never do... unless it happens to them.)

People in cities aren't much different than people in small towns. We have a thing called 'neighborhoods'.

I live in a metroplex and I see (and perform) acts of kindness all the time.

Back then they did things without talking about it. My dad's older brother went to college got a pilot job after WW2 and ended up making a lot of money. My dad stayed home didn't go to school worked at Mare Island building submarines and supported his sister and widowed mom.

People still do, quietly.

My grandfather got a job there after arriving to San Francisco on December 6, 1941. Good timing on his part. Went from being a cowboy in New Mexico to being a welder in Vallejo.

Before tourists.

It echoed a line from Paxton after his runoff victory on Tuesday, and Talarico had a response ready for his supporters at the Houston rally: "I've been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton's first indictment," he said.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/talarico-targets-paxtons-scandals-in-texas-senate-race-pivoting-from-his-sunny-primary-message


Great comeback!

is.

He serves on the city council. I would never vote for him, but I have told him that I admire anyone who gives back to their community. He also volunteers to shovel snow for local seniors here in southeast Michigan. Further, he volunteers his teenage son to assist on these activities. It is clear that he wants to raise his son well, even if voting for the opposite of integrity sets a poor example.

Paxton is what he is and there isn't really a way to rehab that. Talarico is a relatively unknown and they are going to destroy his image. To me, I see it shaping up like the right trying a campaign like Lee Atwater ran against MIchael Dukakis in 1988, except nastier.

They'll focus on Talarico's pro-LGBT stances and that he's unmarried, that he's lobbied for gun control, and try to make him seem alien and to the left of Karl Marx. They'll probably fabricate personal scandals because he seems so clean cut, religious and wholesome.

Hopefully, it could backfire, and Talarico seems like the kind of candidate who can counterpunch well. But, I suspect that this is about to be a very sleazy campaign.

that fits his persona. I don't think he should or will get into the mud with Paxton. It's not so much when they go low, we go high as he's just not the right vehicle for it. However, I am strongly in favor of employing surrogates to "dirty up" Paxton about his various infidelity scandals. Voters need to be made aware that he has no standing to criticize anyone else.

act like juvenile, asshat 13-year-old boys with messaging targeted to their base.

Paxton said Talarico was launching a "vegan" campaign. Duuuuh!
Pathetic attempt at a joke in line with a junior high school boy.
Of course, vegan being code for "fag".

Don't be shocked when stupid, scummy people do stupid, scummy things.