He's just doing what Dems do best.

Reparations… what a load of horse shit. I wonder if ANY Texan dumb enough to support this understands that this won’t be a one time payout if it passes. It will be forever after anyplace that embraces it. As in on top of current taxes which can only mean higher taxes.

Only about 25% of Texans owned slaves. My family was poor. Our granny picked cotton for other people in the 1920s and 1930s.

Talarico is desperate.

Just another nail in his election chance coffin.

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Paxton is dangerouos.........

He is, I agree,………………………..to the GDCs.

Talarico wants a job where he only has to talk and make promises while getting paid to increase he and his mommy's checkbook account.

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James Talarico Endorses Plan for Texans to Pay Slavery Reparations

Yeah and he only said this after getting bashed by the black community for not counting on them for votes. He only responds to things after criticism and it isn’t s part of his original platform. He is a fake who just will say what he needs to get votes. He also believes juvenile criminals should not be in jail and wants to abolish the Texas juvenile prisons in saying they can be rehabbed at home; yeah okay. The juveniles who are in state prison are there because they are the worst of the worst; not because they stole candy. He believes in “sensible” gun control; the truth of that would come out if he actually got elected. He does not believe in constcarry. He is another Bill Clinton and has been screwing around with his staffers. His girlfriend was his chief of staff and worked for him up until 2023, yet he says they have been together for four years and did not date until she left; fuzzy math. He says he is running a vegan campaign, girlfriend is a Vegan, gets criticized and runs around doing photo ops of him “eating BBQ”. I don’t know any Texan eating BBQ with a totally clean plate void of anything at all on it in front of them and holding a single rib with no bite out of it. That plate would have all the meats, sides, onions, pickles, etc. He is a fraud and a fake doing what he can to get elected to do what he actually wants, which is not going to be anything he says to pander to Republicans.

^^^^^^^^^^^he wants it too bad. Can’t trust anyone who wants it that bad.

Talarico just hired Ana Lucia Lopez as is legislative director so there is the answer to his “Sensible Gun Control”.

https://www.ammoland.com/2026/...n-texas-senate-race/

James Talarico is the Democrats’ candidate to replace Texas Senator John Cornyn. During his four terms as a representative in the Texas House, 2A issues have never been a particular issue for Talarico, so his choice of a new legislative aide is either a bold move, staking a new claim on the issue, or a real head-scratcher.

Ana Lucia Lopez is a dedicated, dyed-in-the-wool gun control zealot.

When she was a student at the University of Texas at Austin, she inherited the leadership of “C*cks Not Glocks,” a student group that protested Senate Bill 11, the campus carry bill signed into law in June 2015.

The new law allowed students with Texas concealed handgun licenses to carry their guns on community college and state university campuses. There were numerous restrictions but there was still an outcry from faculty and students.

C*cks Not Glocks grew out of a social media post by Jessica Jin, another UT student. According to the Houston Chronicle, Jin said she wanted to “put a dildo in the hands of every pissed off college student who hasn’t been heard in this safety conversation.” She also said, “Strap it on, feel the discomfort, feel the weird looks. Wear it loud, wear it proud, and don’t take them off until people take their guns home.”

Supported by donations, the group claimed it distributed about 4,500 of Jin’s preferred sex toy to protestors.

The law went into effect on August 1, 2016. A rally was staged about three weeks later on August 24, 2016. It was highlighted by students wearing T-shirts featuring slogans and male genitalia.

The year after the UT rally, a sister group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison held its own rally. Forbes called it one of the seven most ridiculous college protests of 2017.

Jin graduated and moved to California. Lopez took the reins and carried on, organizing Students Against Campus Carry.

From ‘C*cks Not Glocks’ to the Texas Capitol

When Talarico was a freshman representative in the 86th Texas Legislature, Lopez drafted or helped draft three bills. House Bill 3506 would have added restrictions to reciprocity; House Bill 3507 would have required dealers and shooting range operators to run a NICS background check on people renting a firearm for use at the range; and House Bill 3508 would have changed Texas from a shall-issue state to a may-issue state.

All three bills were filed on March 6, 2019. They were read for the first time and referred to the Homeland Security and Public Safety on March 18 and died when the 86th Legislature adjourned sine die in May.

They didn’t attract any sponsors or co-sponsors; there were no public hearings; and none appeared on the committee calendar.

Three Gun-Control Bills–All Dead on Arrival

About a month later, Lopez, who was in a four-year, liberal arts, undergraduate honors program, submitted her senior’s thesis. Entitled “Oh, Shoot: A Sociological Analysis of Gun Culture in the Age of Campus Carry,” it was exactly what one would expect from a dyed-in-the-wool gun control zealot. Talking points faithfully parroted with little discernible analysis.*

She proudly mentioned her authorship of the bills. Since the paper was submitted a month before the 86th legislative session ended, she was spared the need to share their fates.

Lopez also touched on House Bill 357, former Rep. Jonathan Stickland’s constitutional carry bill, which did have a number of sponsors. It was torpedoed by the Republican Speaker of the House and a Democrat committee chairman later arrested for cocaine possession. Texans had to wait two more years for permitless handgun carry.**

Texas Chose Constitutional Carry Instead

I didn’t do an exhaustive search of the legislative filings during Talarico’s three subsequent legislative sessions but I found only one other 2A-related bill authored by Talarico. That was House Bill 5025, a prohibition on carrying in a library he filed in the most recent session. Like his three previous bills, it attracted no co-sponsors and died in committee.

He was a co-sponsor on five other bills but, considering how many gun control bills were filed in the 87th, 88th, and 89th sessions, his involvement took a back seat to his other priorities.

In her new role, Lopez will again be drafting legislation. As an ardent gun-grabber, there’s no reason to believe she will be affected by the changes in the landscape, including multiple significant setbacks in the courts or the fact Texas and 12 other states adopted constitutional carry since she drafted those three bills in 2019.

And campus carry is still legal in Texas.

Talarico’s Anti-Gun Legislative Record

Legislative aides typically aren’t fodder for the media and opposition. The C*cks Not Glocks episode has largely been forgotten by the public. So it’s hard to understand Talarico’s choice of Ana Lopez.

The media reports of Talarico’s selection have made Lopez’s past sensational. The mixture of immaturity, obscenity, and sex toys is red meat for opponents and perhaps a bit embarrassing for supporters. Especially when reminded the movement failed to change anything.

James Talarico is already vulnerable on 2A issues; he doesn’t have a track record, and I am not sure he even understands why John Cornyn lost in the primaries.

These people, if technology gave them the chance would want to re-fight the Civil War because they think the Union didn't win enough. Then once the shooting stops would try to sue everybody and anybody, thinking 'that was the right thing'
...so dumb

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The media reports of Talarico’s selection have made Lopez’s past sensational. The mixture of immaturity, obscenity, and sex toys is red meat for opponents and perhaps a bit embarrassing for supporters. Especially when reminded the movement failed to change anything.

Running anti-gun in Texas deserves this cliche meme

I'm no Biblical scholar, but I'm pretty sure when Jesus said to heal the sick, He meant for people to care for the sick voluntarily out of the goodness of their hearts, not hand control of it over to the Romans.

https://x.com/ScotsFyre/status...-government-n2680572

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I'm no Biblical scholar, but I'm pretty sure when Jesus said to heal the sick, He meant for people to care for the sick voluntarily out of the goodness of their hearts, not hand control of it over to the Romans.

That is exactly right. Jesus said to love and take care of one another. He didn't say to subordinate your personal responsibility to the government. TatorTodd, you are the first person, besides me, that I have ever heard (or read) say this. Thank you.

In any case, if this fascist pile of garbage wanted to make healthcare affordable AND accessible to all, he would demand the repeal of obamacare, and he would demand that all medical insurance companies compete openly, across state lines, to individuals and families, just as home insurance and auto insurance companies do. End the protected oligopoly of medical insurance that existed before obamacare made it worse, and watch the coverage improve, and the premiums go down.



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The Plymouth Colony started out with a socialist-like arrangements. Then they almost starved themselves to death. The next year they resurrected private property, and had enough left over for a Thanksgiving feast. So even Christians don't work if there's no incentive.

I heard this morning he is ahead of Paxton in the polls.
Is the cheat on?

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The Plymouth Colony started out with a socialist-like arrangements. Then they almost starved themselves to death. The next year they resurrected private property, and had enough left over for a Thanksgiving feast. So even Christians don't work if there's no incentive.

I tell this to people and they look at me like I am crazy. There was a good website on this is around 2004. Wrote a college paper referencing it. Too bad its gone now.

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I tell this to people and they look at me like I am crazy. There was a good website on this is around 2004. Wrote a college paper referencing it. Too bad its gone now.

Have you tried looking for it on the Internet Archive? If you have the old URL, do a search on it there and if it was archived, they will have a copy of it.

I am fine with having a conversation on reparations; a complete, open conversation. It would have to include every facet of slavery, and post slavery America, including the following:

What is a human life worth?

Can we place a value on human life? Whatever that figure is, times that by approximately 340,000 Union troops who died to free the slaves.

Add the emotional and economic toll of another approximately 275,000 men wounded in battle, some crippled and unable to work, or work in a full capacity, to provide for their families.

Economic cost:

The Union spent about $3.25 billion, with a B, in 1865 dollars, to free the slaves. That would be about $66 billion in 2026 dollars.

The South spent about the same about of money, $3.25 billion.

Total cash spent by the newly reunited USA: $6.5 billion, or $132 billion in 2026 dollars.

Blockade of trade routes over 4 years took a huge economic toll on both the North and the South.

Much of the war was fought in the South, and the destruction of farms, homes, livestock, infrastructure, towns and cities was huge. At least through the 1970s, one could still see the physical path of Sherman's March to the sea, which was brutal.



This does not take into consideration the immeasurable economic post-war cost of the following:


* The loss of the lives 640,000 men (including 280,000 Confederate soldiers) no longer able to contribute to the economy.

* Another 500,000 (both sides) wounded to varying degrees, many unable to work in a full capacity.

*Postwar "Reconstruction" was possibly as brutal as the war; Andrew Johnson came down hard on the South, and much of the money spent went to puppet governments and the infamous "carpetbaggers". So South really did not really begin to recover until well into the 20th Century.

Regarding the cost of lives and the economic cost to the South; one could say, well, the South did much of that to themselves, and that is partly true. But the fact is that almost 70% of the people in the South did not own slaves, but were thrown into war regardless, and paid a huge toll for it. And the reunited nation, as a whole, suffered, for this war and its aftermath.

The 40 acres and a mule- Okay, this program was stopped, abruptly, by a Democrat, Andrew Johnson.

All of the above was the price paid, in lives and billions upon billions of 1865 dollars, to free the slaves. It was paid willingly by the North, of its own volition, with no outside force, because of the Judeo-Christian moral values instilled in our Constitution. When including the lives lost by the North, the price paid is immeasurable.

Affirmative Action- I have no idea of the economic cost, or the economic benefit to black people over the last 50-60 years, but it must be in the trillions. The same with welfare programs that have paid out in disproportionate numbers to black people.


So let's have the discussion. But put the above on the scales of justice first, then see where we stand, and what is really owed.



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