Defective Deviant Abnormal Weird

8 24 jdv WALZ --> PROJECTION TALARICO?

see nazi

TWISTED BENT DISTORTED

---

TARGET BC HE IS DEM STRONG IN STATE BETO ALMOST TIPPED CALLS OUT GOP RT ON BEING BAD XIANS

AMAZING OVER THE TOP BILE FROM PAXTON SPEECH WIN PRIMARY -->

“Weird,” “vegan,” and “effeminate”: Right-wing media are attacking James Talarico based on lies and vibes

Right-wing pundits have resorted to calling Talarico disparaging nicknames like “Tofu Talarico,” “Tala-freak-o,” and “Beta O’Rourke”

Written by Gideon Taaffe & Sage Hodil

Research contributions from Jane Lee

Published 05/28/26

Right-wing media are lobbing attacks at Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico, resorting to playground insults and seeking to define him as “unlikable,” “gay,” and “against meat.”

• ## James Talarico has been under attack from high profile Republicans over false claims and misrepresentations of his beliefs since winning the Democratic nomination for Senate

• • Following Talarico’s Democratic primary win earlier this year, right-wing media attacked his faith as a Presbyterian seminarian.MAGA pundits called Talarico and his discussions of Christianity “blasphemous,” “demonic,” and “completely insane.” Media Matters, [3/5/26]

• • President Donald Trump has also attacked Talarico, falsely claiming he was a vegan.Trump told reporters, “I mean, this guy is bad news. His masking from relatively recently. And he's a vegan. He's a vegan. All of a sudden he's not a vegan.” The claim stems from a 2022 clip from Talarico’s campaign for state House in which he said he was running a “non-meat” campaign by buying vegan products at campaign events. Talarico has repeatedly denied being a vegan and has posted evidence of him eating a turkey leg. USA Today, [5/15/26; CNN, 5/25/26]

• • Republicans have also baselessly insinuated that Talarico is a pedophile or transgender.An official Republican social media account posted a photo of Talarico with the caption, “Hide your kids.” Additionally, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller claimed, referring to Talarico, “The Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender senate candidate.” Bluesky, [5/21/26; Them, 5/27/26]

• ## Right-wing media are falsely claiming Talarico is a vegan and mocking him as “weird”

• • War Roomhost Steve Bannon said Talarico “is a vegan who plays with dolls.” Real America’s Voice, *War Room*, [5/27/26]

• • The Charlie Kirk Showhost Andrew Kolvet listed off nicknames for Talarico including “Tofu Talarico,” “Tala-freak-o,” and “soy boy.”Kolvet also said Talarico is “objectively very weird.” Real America’s Voice, *The Charlie Kirk Show*, [5/27/26]

• • Podcaster Tim Pool called Talarico a “vegan, woke, weird sex guy.”YouTube, Timcast, [5/27/26]

• • Right-wing radio host Scott Jennings attacked Talarico, saying, “Today, perhaps he has committed the most unforgivable sin that a candidate can commit in Texas: He has come out against meat.” Jennings then played the clip from 2022 of Talarico talking about his “non-meat” campaign and stated, “I don’t know a single male, in fact, who talks this way.” Salem News Channel, *The Scott Jennings Show*, [3/18/26]

• • Fox & Friendsco-host Lawrence Jones attacked Talarico for being a vegan in Texas, saying, “The brisket capital of the world. Right. Unelectable.”Jones continued, “That's just like going to Texas and saying get rid of all the Whataburgers. It doesn't work. And, you know, if you want him at the top of the ticket, go for it.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [3/20/26]

• • Fox News anchor Dana Perino said onThe Fivethat Talarico is “against meat.”Fox News host Greg Gutfeld reacted to Talarico wearing a mask in 2022, saying, “He may not eat meat but he doesn't have any balls, that's for sure. What a pathetic individual.” Fox News, *The Five*, [3/19/26]

• • Podcast host Megyn Kelly called Talarico “weird and unlikable.”SiriusXM, *The Megyn Kelly Show*, [5/20/26]

• • OnThe Ingraham Angle, Fox News contributor Ben Domenech said, “James Talarico is, quite frankly, a gigantic weirdo and believes insane things.”Fox News,*The Ingraham Angle*, [5/26/26]

• • Newsmax host Rob Finnerty claimed, “James Talarico is insane, and I mean that literally.” Newsmax, *Finnerty*, [5/26/26]

• • Jennings said of Talarico, “Democrats down there have nominated one of the biggest weirdos in America.” Salem Radio Network, *The Scott Jennings Show*, [5/26/26]

• • While discussing Democrats’ nomination of Talarico in Texas, Fox News host Charlie Hurt said Democrats are “doing everything they can to pick the weirdest people.”Hurt stated, “Don't nominate weird candidates to represent your party. That's all you have to do. And it's like they're doing everything they can to pick the weirdest people.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [3/23/26]

• ## Right-wing media have questioned Talarico’s masculinity and sexuality

• • Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro said, “Talarico is the slightly more gay Pete Buttigieg.”The Daily Wire,*The Ben Shapiro Show*, [5/20/26]

• • Megyn Kelly said Talarico reminds her of “a little boy with an unusually mismatched deep voice.” She continued, “When you just listen to him, like the people listening to this on SiriusXM or on podcast, I think you would picture a much larger, more manly man. Then you see this guy, and it's like, don't you have, like, to get back to school for your PE class? Look at him. He's just like — he looks like — he needs to wear a tie too, and he's one of those politicians who should be praying that he goes prematurely gray just to be taken a little bit more seriously.” SiriusXM, *The Megyn Kelly Show*, [5/27/26]

• • On Fox News, podcaster Benny Johnson said Democrats have “given up on masculinity” and called Talarico an “effeminate, estrogenetic, catty, and totally embarrassing” candidate.Johnson also referred to Talarico as “Beta O’Rourke” and ranted: “This guy is the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light ad of political campaigns. Clearly Michelle Obama has more testosterone than Talarico. James Talarico is a guy who could be played by Elliot Page in a new Christopher Nolan movie, or a Subaru ad.” Fox News,*Jesse Watters Primetime*, [5/28/26]

• • Newsmax host Carl Higbie referred to Talarico as “low T” and said he has “weird perverted” rhetoric regarding trans kids.Reacting to a clip in which Talarico said he loves trans children, Higbie lashed out: “You pervert. You disgusting, child mutilating freakshow of a human being.” Newsmax,*Carl Higbie Frontline*, [5/25/26]

• • OnThe Five, co-host Jesse Watters said “Tala-freak-o” looks “prepubescent” before joking, “Yes, a gay vegan is definitely going to win in Texas.”Fox contributor Lisa Kennedy Montgomery called Talarico a “baby lotion soft child” and a “beta male,” saying he looks “prepubescent” and that he “put the semen in seminarian.” Fox News, *The Five*, [5/27/26]

---

August 13, 2024 mma

• Alan Feuer and Nick Corasaniti @ The New York Times: Former Pro-Trump County Clerk Is Found Guilty of Tampering With Voting Machines

Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., was convicted on Monday of tampering with voting machines under her control in a failed attempt to prove that they had been used to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald J. Trump.

• Anna Merlin @ Mother Jones: Elon Musk’s Twitter Space With Donald Trump Was a Dumpster Fire

A heavily publicized Twitter conversation between Elon Musk and Donald Trump on Monday night began with an immediate bed-shitting technical crash. When things finally kicked off 42 minutes later with a much smaller audience, Musk blamed a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which did not appear to be true, as the rest of his site continued to function as normal.

• Jesse Valentine @ American Journal News: Far-right extremist Jack Posobiec to speak at event for North Carolina Trump supporters

The campaign to reelect former President Donald Trump will host a virtual training event that features Jack Posobiec, a purveyor of far-right conspiracy theories.

• Zack Beauchamp @ Vox: The right’s plan to fix America: Patriarchy 2.0

JD Vance and like-minded conservatives are theorizing a kind of “neopatriarchy.”

• Media Matters: Roger Stone uses anti-LGBTQ slur to describe Tim Walz

“Now she’s picked, this guy, Tim Walz. Saw him at a rally. I mean, I hate to quote, Mel Brooks, in Blazing Saddles, but he was jumping around like a Kansas City faggot. This guy — really, really weird.”

===