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Flashback to 2023 when James Talarico argued at length on the floor of the house against banning gender affirming surgeries for kids Today, on a podcast, he came out for the opposite position

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Mormons go talk to @GodLogic_GL

Mormons are some of the most disingenuous apologists for their religion in the public square. Instead of clearly defining and defending their beliefs as distinct from historic Christianity, Mormon apologetics seem to center on blurring lines as much as possible with historic Christianity, essentially preying on the ignorant. Jesus said to his disciples, “What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.” Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.” But we rarely hear Mormons openly proclaiming their distinctives, such as their rejection of the Trinity, their belief in preexistent spirits, their view of Jesus and Lucifer as brothers, their claim that man can become as God, and their many other doctrines ranging from laughable absurdity to damnable blasphemy. Christians meanwhile do not need to rely on obfuscation to advance our faith. The word of the gospel is the power of God for salvation, which is why we can speak truth plainly and trust God to work, even when those truths are unpopular in our culture. But false religions and cults such as Mormonism lack this power, forcing them to rely on deceptive, obfuscatory, and underhanded tactics instead of the rigor of their own claims.

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While I’m no fan of socialism or arbitrary confiscations of wealth, I can see why Bernie Sanders’ proposal (for the government to take a 50% stake in AI companies) resonates, including with many on the right. The CEOs of the leading AI labs have told us repeatedly that they will cause massive job loss. This is not a story that I believe, nor does the data bear it out, but this is what they have told us. Similarly, they have hyped the risks of AI without putting an equal or greater emphasis on the benefits or readily available mitigations. Conservatives have another fear. The employees of the leading labs claim to be philanthropic, but what we’ve seen is massive enrichment of NGOs advancing an agenda at odds with traditional values, fueling a revolution against our cities and communities. Soros-maxxing is not charity in our book. Anthropic and OpenAI have established themselves as Public Benefit Corporations. What could be more in the public benefit than using half the wealth generated by these companies (which trained for free on the collective knowledge of humanity) to pay down the national debt? There is no ideological bias in that philanthropy. Dario and Sam have begun to walk back their claims of massive job loss, but the damage to public trust is done, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. I could almost support the Sanders proposal as a stupidity tax. There’s just one problem. Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we’re already sliding toward. Conservatives rightly fear a Central Bank Digital Currency. They ought to be even more concerned about Central Government AI — a system with even more totalistic power over information, decision-making, and human behavior. We saw how social media was weaponized to censor conservatives (including President Trump) in the last Democrat administration. The definition of “trust & safety” expanded to mean protecting the public from supposed psychological harms, micro-aggressions, and disinformation (you know, like hearing conservative ideas or true facts about Covid). That “safety” agenda as applied to AI will be vastly more powerful and Orwellian. AI won’t just moderate posts; it will curate reality — with the ability to rewrite history, enforce ideological conformity, influence policy at scale, mass surveil Americans, and condition the benefits of the many systems it controls on approved behavior. America won’t win the AI race if we beat China but end up with a CCP-style social credit system in the U.S. — and that is the danger as the government becomes more deeply involved in AI development and assumes direct ownership and control. Conservatives are right to fear where this is all headed but ought to think more carefully about how regulations they are flirting with now (that are widely celebrated among those with a long history of lust for Big Government) will be used against them the next time a Democrat administration is in power.

The theology of voting 🔽 Christians have been deceived and manipulated on this issue for decades. You need to understand what your vote IS... and what it IS NOT. Step 1. Make sure you're on the right "team."

James Talarico is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and I can give you a detailed story as to why… During the 88th Texas Legislature, we fought for HB 900. HB 900 was the bill that worked to remove s*xually explicit materials from Texas public schools. Talarico vehemently fought against HB 900 with the argument that explicit photographic material was covered by the Constitution. Keep in mind, he was defending making sure it stayed in CHILDREN’S school libraries in the name of the First Amendment. Many people say this is a “myth” and that there was no p*rn in the libraries. Facebook AND X have both removed my posts that showed examples of some of the images in these books for explicit content and nudity. Even when I blurred them, I could not show the images. Some of the images showed men with men, women with women, and a man with a boy. (No, I’m not joking.) Here are a few excerpts in image form. In 2021, 2022, and 2023, I was finding these books all over Texas in high school and middle school public libraries. Talarico found the following subjects to be suitable for 11- and 12-year-olds: foul language, rpe, incest, and detailed descriptions of sx. One book was a “how-to” guide on how to have gay s*x and how to search for gay partners on online hookup apps. This is what a man who calls himself a “pastor” and a “Christian” was defending giving to children. You just need to ask yourself why.

The only four talking points of the left in Texas right now: 1) You all must be very scared of Talarico! You're talking/acting like you're scared! Ooooh! SO SCARED!!! 2) You're not a true Christian if you can vote for an adulterer. King David? Who was that...? I don't know your Bible... 3) PeDo PrOtEcToRs!!!!1!1!!! 4) The Bible says all the things Talarico has said, even the things it hasn't, and from a certain point of view, he's objectively right, and everyone's always said God is non-binary in every church ever since the beginning of time, what are you talking about? And why do you care about God having a penis and trans kids so much? It's weird. He's also the perfect candidate for Texas because he alienates Evangelicals by weaponizing their religion against them! Atheists love him for the way he bashes Christians. There's no way he could lose Texas, everyone knows Latinos will all vote for a leftist who is pro-abortion, gender transition, and anti-masculinity. (Not in these words, but this is the overall message) It's pretty ridiculous at this point.

RT @Tenn_MAGA2: Just In! 🙏🏼Texas Pastor Josh Howerton rips the mask off Texas Democrat James Talarico, calling him out for exactly what he…

James Talarico is someone that Republicans in Texas will go out of their way to vote against. He’s that repellant to conservative voters in Texas. Yes, I’m not from Texas but I’m echoing what I hear Texans say. I am a conservative Christian and his fake pastor act is not just off-putting; it’s insulting in ways that Biden’s and Pelosi’s never was. He is nothing like Beto or Allred. Beto was charismatic, inspirational, humble. And Beto was trying to sneak up on Cruz. Allred similarly ran a low-profile campaign and depended on quietly winning crossover votes against Cruz. Both Allred and Beto lost despite running what I would characterize as smart campaigns. A Democrat was going to lose in now Trump 14 Texas even if they focused solely on Trump. But Talarico has made the election a referendum on him.

The E. Jean Carroll case against President Trump is one of the strangest civil cases in American history. The foundational problem is this: Carroll could not identify when the alleged incident occurred — not even the year with any precision. That should have killed the case as dead as a skunk on the road right there. Without a temporal anchor, no defendant — regardless of guilt or innocence — can mount an alibi defense. Trump, who has maintained detailed calendars and staff records for decades, was denied the most basic tool of self-defense: the ability to establish where he was. That is not a technicality. It is a due process violation at the constitutional level. Then Carroll produced the one piece of physical evidence she claimed corroborated her account — the dress she wore during the alleged incident. It was subsequently established that the dress was designed after the incident could have occurred. The sole corroborating evidence falsified her timeline. The case proceeded anyway. The resulting verdict was then weaponized in a defamation suit — where Trump was held liable for denying the allegation, while being procedurally barred from defending against it, because it was already "proven" in another court, regardless how flawed the procedure was. He was punished, in effect, for asserting his own innocence. Compounding everything: coordinated professional and physical threats so thoroughly intimidated the legal community that attorneys refused these cases regardless of available fees. When you systematically destroy a defendant's ability to retain counsel of choice, you forfeit the right to a legitimate verdict. An allegation is not evidence. Process without substance is not law. And a verdict produced under these conditions carries no legitimate authority — whatever its formal status. Not only is it the right move to investigate Carroll, but every other person involved as well. Trump is owed serious damages here, and there may be a few people who belong in prison for their roles in the case.

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” — Plato, The Republic

This ad alone is gonna make Paxton win by 5 lololol

Unbelievable… Housing Sec Scott Turner confirms Democrats allowed illegal aliens to Buys Homes in America — Their Mortgages were PAID FOR BY TAXPAYERS “We took away FHA backed mortgages from illegal aliens during the Biden administration. They turned a blind eye, but we're going to keep the law to make sure that these mortgages, which are backed by the TAXPAYER, go only to the American people” rumble.com/v72n95w-democrats…

.@JeremyDBoreing explains the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: People recognize errors in media when they have expertise in a subject. But…as soon as they read (or hear) something they know nothing about, they forget how unreliable the source is and suddenly trust the author (or podcaster). “The deeper problem is that we are remarkably good at noticing the lies in the narrow corner of the world where we have direct knowledge, and we’re remarkably bad at remembering when we turn the page what we just noticed.“ 🎥: youtu.be/z59rdbK7VR4?si=X4ks…

This merits a response. JCPOA proponents always focus on the enriched uranium stockpile and not its underlying infrastructure, which the JCPOA freed up to expand — legally and massively — starting in 2024, following sunsetting arms and missile restrictions in 2020 and 2023. Under the JCPOA, Iran was always permitted to engage in R&D on advanced centrifuges and to deploy them starting in 2024. Just a few hundred advanced centrifuges are sufficient for a secret enrichment plant to go to weapons-grade uranium. At what point in this timeline would Iran diplomatically renegotiate? After Oct. 2025, when it would have been freed from the enrichment suspension and have no incentive to do so? That same year when it would be allowed to legally import anything it desired for its nuclear program? But let's say the JCPOA was still intact. In 2020 and 2023: • UN conventional arms embargo on imports to and exports from Iran lapsed (Oct. 2020); • Select UN-sponsored visa bans on Iranian officials lifted; • UN-sponsored ban on imports/exports of missile-related equipment and technology expired (Oct. 2023); • UN prohibition on Iranian ballistic missile launches ended; • U.S. and EU/UK sanctions on select proliferation-linked entities lapsed; • UN-sponsored asset freezes on select entities terminated; Iran's permitted activities from 2024-2026: • Up to 5,060 IR-1 centrifuges would have been allowed to enrich at Natanz; 1,044 IR-1s held idle at Fordow; • Tests with up to 30 IR-6 and 30 IR-8 centrifuges would have been permitted; manufacture of up to 200 IR-6 and 200 IR-8 per year - without rotors - would have been allowed; • JCPOA procurement channel would have dissolved, removing oversight of nuclear-related imports; • Past UNSC resolutions related to Iran's nuclear program would have terminated - in particular, the demand for a suspension of enrichment and reprocessing; • "Snapback" mechanism to restore international sanctions would have expired Oct. 18, 2025. From 2027-2029: • 2,500-3,500 IR-2m or IR-4 centrifuges would have been installed at Natanz - output potentially exceeding all 5,060 permitted IR-1s; • IR-8 infrastructure would have been installed at Natanz; rotors fitted to stockpiled IR-6 and IR-8 machines under IAEA monitoring; • Uranium tests in cascades of up to 150 IR-6 and 84 IR-8 would have been permitted. By 2029: • No further limits on advanced centrifuge manufacture or enrichment would have applied; • Up to 1,200 IR-6 and 1,200 IR-8 centrifuges could have been stockpiled by this date; • Breakout time would have been reduced to weeks or less - Iran would have been a de facto nuclear threshold state. By 2031: • No cap on enrichment purity level or enriched uranium stockpile would have applied; • Enrichment at Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant would have been permitted; new enrichment plants permitted; • Plutonium reprocessing prohibition would have been lifted; heavy water reactors permitted; no cap on heavy water production or stockpiling; • No limits on centrifuge types or quantities would have remained; • Powered by a fully deployed fleet of advanced centrifuges, Iran would have faced near-zero breakout time - able to produce weapons-grade uranium within days In fact, the JCPOA was a very specific plan to progressively allow a state sponsor of terrorism and growing threat to the U.S., Israel, and their allies to enrich uranium legally and on an industrial scale with zero breakout time! Instead, thanks to military strikes: • These thresholds were never reached. • The JCPOA was formally terminated Oct. 18, 2025. • Iran is not enriching uranium for the first time in nearly 20 years. • No functioning enrichment facilities, feedstock production, or accessible enriched uranium stockpile currently exist. • Strikes have eliminated Iran's entire enrichment fuel supply chain: the Isfahan uranium conversion facility that produced UF6 feedstock has been destroyed; the Isfahan tunnel enrichment plant under construction has been struck and buried; the centrifuge manufacturing base that would have built the advanced machines has been demolished; and the enrichment facilities at Natanz and Fordow that would have run them have been severely damaged or rendered inaccessible. • Without UF6 feedstock, functioning centrifuges, or operational enrichment halls, Iran cannot produce the enriched uranium fuel required for a nuclear weapon. • The uranium metal conversion and fuel fabrication lines at Isfahan - essential for fashioning enriched material into weapon cores - have also been eliminated. • Iran's plutonium pathway has been closed by strikes on the Arak reactor. • UN resolutions once again prohibit enrichment and reprocessing. The near-zero breakout timeline has been foreclosed. • Snapback restored all UN prohibitions on Iran's imports of arms and missiles. And most importantly, the United States and its allies are no longer bribing Tehran with sanctions relief and other incentives to directly augment its threat capacity — they instead eliminated the great majority of these threats militarily.

Fact: Most of Iran’s nuclear expansion accelerated under Joe Biden, as sanctions enforcement weakened and Washington pushed Tehran to reenter the deeply flawed JCPOA—even as Iran expanded enrichment and advanced centrifuge work.