In news that will surprise absolutely no one, Texas Democrat senate candidate James Talarico is the socialist weasel we always thought he was.
Democrat U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico spoke of “dismantling” capitalism while dismissing the future of Texas’ oil and gas industry during a 2020 climate forum, newly resurfaced video shows.
The comments, first reported by CNN, came during a virtual candidate forum hosted by the Austin Sierra Club while Talarico was serving his first term in the Texas House.
During the forum, Talarico was asked what lawmakers could do to address the effects of climate change on minority communities.
“I am so thankful that you asked this question, and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country,” Talarico said.
“And I think only ending the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together, are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them.”
So much for his camouflage as a moderate.
Earlier in the discussion, Talarico described what he called the “multifaceted threat of a climate crisis, an economic crisis, and a social justice crisis.”
He said a “New Deal effort” would be “the only approach to start to address all three in a thoughtful and meaningful way.”
Talarico also questioned the future of the oil and gas industry, comparing Texas’ position as a national energy leader to dominating an obsolete technology.
“We all know that Texas has been a leader in oil and gas, but in many ways that’s like being the leader in cassette tapes in the 1980s,” Talarico said. “That industry is not gonna last.”
Six years later, Talarico is presenting a markedly different message as he campaigns against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate.
His campaign told CNN that Talarico is now a “proud capitalist” who supports the oil and gas industry.
So there are basically two possibilities for Talarico. Either he’s a woke-infected socialist hiding his true colors to try to get elected, or he’s Zelig-like chameleon with no core beliefs willing to say or do anything to get elected.
Either should disqualify him in the eyes of Texas voters.
Tags: 2026 Texas Senate Race, Anthropogenic Global Warming, Communism, Democrats, James Talarico, oil industry, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, Texas Scorecard
Yet, Paxton is losing to this guy.
Picking a corrupt, lazy, sex-addled, scumbag as the GOP nominee turned out to be a great idea. A really, really good idea. The best, to be honest.
Is he losing? IIRC, TX republicans traditionally outperform polls by about 10 pts.
Polls generally show Talarico with a small, within-the-margin-of-error lead.
“…Talarico described what he called the ‘multifaceted threat of a climate crisis, an economic crisis, and a social justice crisis.'”
The plural of crisis is crises. But wait… there’s more.
“Multiple crises occurring at the same time and interacting to make each other worse are called a polycrisis.”
“He said a “New Deal effort” would be “the only approach to start to address all three in a thoughtful and meaningful way.”
Now that the problem has been defined, how is the crisis resolved? Dialectics to the rescue!
Thesis: the Private Property Order (defined as “capitalism by commies) presents an existential threat (to commies).
Antithesis: Abolish the Private Property Order
Synthesis: Green New Deal
This “Third Way” proposal was popularized by New Deal architect FDR. His vision of forming industrial cartels-e.g., National Industrial Recovery Act-was modeled on Mussolini’s economic model: fascism.
So yeah, Talarico is a neo-Fascist. Now marry Mussolini’s industrial fascism to Hitler’s anti-Jew Aryan Socialism and you begin to see the broad outlines of today’s Democrat/DSA party.
Ye haw, Texans…let’s party like it’s 1939!
“Picking a corrupt, lazy, sex-addled, scumbag as the GOP nominee turned out to be a great idea.”
So this is disqualifiying because it makes him about like JFK, BJ Clinton and Donald J Trump, amirite? Thanx for your keen political insight.
I’d like to think Texans are too smart for this sh!t, but these days, who knows?
Think of the Kompromat material that could be gathered by these cameras and how it could be used to blackmail elected officials and you discover one reason for their uneasiness with its wide-speead use.
The Godley, Texas prostitution ring, run by elected officials, could hardly have been an easy matter if their clients rode in on bicycles to avoid having their license plates recorded.
Small wonder that the interests of elected officials and the body politic coincide on this issue.