I will be voting for Talarico in the upcoming election. The sad part is many of the people who don’t like Ken Paxton will simply sit out the election. My FIL has told me he “I dont like “insert canadates name” and I cannot vote for a corrupt democrat” and then acts as if sitting out voting for the position is the same thing. It doesn’t matter if they cannot name the corruption, their information source told them it was corrupt. This is the bubble that need to be pierced
The problem is Texans keep electing guys like paxton. Case in point, abbott keeps getting reelected. rafael keeps getting reelected. They have shown that they are grifters who only care about lining their pockets and sucking that MAGA/republican dick. 41st in education, 11th highest rate of poverty, and 50th in health and medical coverage. Houston is the 4th (1st in Texas) largest city in the US, San Antonio is the 7th or 6th (2nd in Texas) depending on who you ask, with Houston’s violent crime rate approximately 220% above the national average and San Antonio’s approximately 149% above. Republicans have turned this state into a shit hole but Texans still vote for them.
If Texas is not a place for paxton we sure do have a fucked up way of showing it. I will vote for Telerico, hell I am going to vote a straight Democrat ticket in November but I won’t hold my breath. We have to vote, damn it you fuckers have to get off your asses and wait in line and fucking vote. Vote early 10/06/26 - 10/30/26 there is no fucking excuse and there are short lines compared to Election Day. Even if you think your vote doesn’t count just fucking do it, it wont hurt you and you get a stupid sticker.
Georgia elected a lot of bad people before a Democrat finally broke through, so there’s hope. Things can change for the better, and this is a pretty good year for change. Keep up the good fight and good luck.
Think the nation really needed to go through all this so everybody will look for better candidates across the board
Hopefully. But we also could have said that after Trump’s first term. We were able to stomach all that, including Jan. 6, and react with a basic desire to trust the system and stop thinking about politics.
So I’m hopeful that this could be a catalyst for improvement, but we shouldn’t ever get complacent that finally everything is just going to work out for the better.
Very true, the 1st time though they did not feel much consequences since we had a more balanced admin with dems in. This time they too feel it in every way since all the shit is unleashed.
But I agree fully with you it is the catalyst for improvement needed. I would also say both sides are seeing that their side does not represent them which is another one. The old legacy dems on dems side, and the current “admin” for right both don’t have our interests in mind and need to be replaced. They both are supporting each other indirectly in various ways too when you really look into it.
Think/feel based on observations people on both sides are waking up to the top being rotten for both in different ways and seeing that doing together to take back our country on our sides and together is needed. Left is becoming more progressive actually, the right is becoming more down to earth with non-maga growing. At end of the day it comes back to all of us working together and reversing this shit too. Our international allies are helping us as well. Let’s keep going and never get complacent!! We got to this point from doing and we always keep getting better!
So we all got this!! The more of us we get active, the more united, more together in communities online and in-person doing, and more focused the stronger we all are!!
Don’t trust anyone on the right who’s only waking up now. Welcome whatever period of lucidity they have, but if they had moral or philosophical objections to MAGA fascism, they would have left before now. I know a few conservatives who turned away when things started turning obviously fascist, but every other one who stuck past that has only had limited periods of “I actually don’t like that” before being suckered back in by some new propaganda campaign.
Talarico is correct in saying that in order to win, he has to move beyond the traditional Democratic base. To do this, he has to adopt more centrist views in order to attract independents and Republicans.
in order to win, he has to move beyond the traditional Democratic base. To do this, he has to adopt more centrist views in order to attract independents and Republicans.
How many times does this need to be proven false before people start thinking that “courting the centrists” don’t work?
He needs to focus on social programs and helping the working class. You know those crazy non-centrist, non-right policies.
What if he talked about shooting his glock, how often he prays to Jesus, and campaigned with like…Liz Cheney? Has anyone tried that? I bet we pick up two republicans in the suburbs for every left wing communist we lose in the cities. Right?
Such as those of Mamdani. You really think such policies would appeal to Texans?
Mamdani ran on rent, buses, and childcare. These seem like policies that would appeal to people in Texas.
Yes, I do. There is a reason that trump won and it’s not JUST racism and sexism. He speaks to those that know that the 2 party system is rigged and needs a change. His change is more grifting for his buddies, but his message was ‘outsider changing the system.’
Think about why so many 2016 Bernie bros had trump as their number 2 pick. How many of AOC supporters also voted for trump in 2024? She asked her voters because she wanted to know. It seemed like the same answer Bernie told the dnc.
They have abandoned the working class. That includes repubs. The working class knows the system is rigged and wants a change. Not everyone in the working class knows what the change looks like, but they know the system isn’t working for them.
Do you think Texans would want to pay higher taxes? That’s necessary to pay for Mamdani’s programs.
No? They won’t need to. Did Mamdani pay off the deficit in NYC by raising taxes or did he just make some of the rich pay some of their fair share? Taxing second homes and what not. I’ll give you a hint. It’s the latter.
After inheriting a $12 billion gap in the budget…while critics claimed the only possible way to balance NYC’s budget would be to raise property taxes or slash city services, his team “rejected that idea” and still managed to bring the deficit down to zero. “We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people,” Mamdani said in the video’s caption. “We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.”
I know it seems crazy to have politicians actually work for the working class but this is what it is supposed to look like.
Why not? But there are more registered Democrats in Texas than there are Republicans. So something strange is happening in Texas voting.
Oh yes the strategy of running on centrists policies, its so effective it makes it so you just barely lose to a child rapist.
If leftist policies appeal to Texans, why is Texas still red?
Gerrymandering.
they tried a leftist platform on texans?
He needs to not support genocide too. That loses a lot of votes that the dems dont have to spare.
I don’t know whether that is much of an issue in Texas, but Talarico can adopt my proposal.
This is my proposal to end the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Egypt will be given the West Bank enlarged by land equivalent to the Gaza Strip. In return, Israel will be given the Gaza Strip and land at least 3 times larger than the West Bank in the Sinai Peninsula. Some of the land will be adjacent to water so Israel can build desalination plants. The Sinai is inhospitable, and Egypt doesn’t have the technology to develop it, but Israel does. With its new land, Egypt can give it to the Palestinians, make it a state within Egypt, or whatever it wants.
@sanitation I would like James to win. But there’s something off about that guy.
How so? Seems like the dude is a good candidate.
@jaschen306 James sounds like a guy who wants to change things. But I don’t know if he’ll be able to get past the old fools that currently run the Democratic party.
So he sounds “off” because you don’t think he can get past the old fools who run the Democratic party? How does that even make any sense to you?
It doesn’t sound like he did anything to sound off. More like you trying to raise doubt for the good people that might otherwise vote for him.
@jaschen306 No, I’m not trying to discredit the man. It’s just that I was misinformed.
I was confused about his party affiliations at first. However, after some reading, sounds like he’s a good guy.
Oh ok! I’m sorry for being rude. So much AI and Russian bots that I honestly can’t tell who is who. James is a good guy. I used to always vote Republican. Now I vote for the people that cares about the community.
Ha! Nonsense. That ‘something off’ is humanity. You’re just not used to it. I personally don’t like all the religious talk from him. But I have and will again vote for him.
