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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 114 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Stephen is just resentful because he has the appeal of an infected hangnail.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He looks like a cross between Nosferatu and one of the martians from Mars Attacks.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

He looks like voldemort with the soul of jk rowling

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

cant physically strangle a hooker, thats why hes so frustrated. its a meme going around about miller.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 91 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 55 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If he's swinging that low, then they release how badly they fucked up.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 60 points 1 week ago (6 children)

But their messaging works. And gets votes. I guarantee next time I see my dad he'll bring up Talarico being a slur while emphasizing the foreign-ness of his last name. He will not, however, acknowledge any details about Ken Paxton's criminal behavior, because that's fake news and he "won" by not getting indicted/convicted. I hope he dies soon so my votes aren't canceled out by him any more.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Try to talk to your dad and convince him there's no point to him voting as Paxton is a shoe-in so he might as well go fishing/hunting/suck off one of the boys as they needed some company and it's not gay to help a friend/play some pool at the bar. Do the things the "Demon-rats" want to take away from him (according to Fox News)

"Dad, that Stephen Miller guy is so dumb he got 'transgender' and 'presbyterian' mixed up. Fucking millennial could learn how to read if he wasn't so busy making avocado toast all the time."

I'm a millennial but I will gladly malign my entire generation with the usual inaccurate tropes if this strategy actually works.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some people will believe anything if it means their in-group is good and the out-group is weak and bad. Probably the best hope for humanity is somehow channeling that trait so in-group is humanity and oh i just re-invented the end of watchmen, I think.

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[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But they went even lower, they called him a vegan!!

(He's not even a vegan)

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In Texas? That’s worse than calling him gay.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't get it. Is this person not transgender or something?

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No, he’s a cisgender heterosexual male - but he just so happens to have progressive political views, and that absolutely frightens the right-wing nutjobs.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He's also specifically running as a Christian who opposes Christian Nationalism which is the most terrifying thing about him to the GOP. They know full well that being able to use the Christian label is the only thing they need for low information voters to vote for them, especially in the South. If they lose the stranglehold they have on that label they are well and truly fucked.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

hes also a christian too, but that doesnt matter for magats, becauses not thier brand of "christianity"

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He's not.

He's also not vegan, but that's another accusation his opposition is using. Because I guess there's nothing Texans hate more than (checks notes) ... tofu?

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All he would have to say is "I'm not. I just really fucking love beans" and a photo of him in a canned beans meme and all the young voters would vote for him.

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

I was already planning on voting for him, but if he did the "Baked Beans" sketch from WKUK, I'd have to vote for him even harder

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

hes not, thats why they call him a vegan, as a deragatory name, eventhough isnt that either.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm always astounded by their lack of creativity. Same with right wing comics. They lack every bit of talent and or creativity. I never saw a right wing comedian or comic where i thought: i don't disagree, but that shit is funny. I understand that that's not only right wingers, there's leftist stonetoss artists as well, and a lot of people here love them to death, but you'd think there is someone hateful that also has some talent. Same with Donald, he can say whatever, whenever, he clearly doesn't care and it doesn't matter, but all he comes up with is sleepy joe, his wife looks like a dog, he she is fat and whatnot.

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Bigotry is pretty much the only strategy the GOP has left. One state over, they are hammering the airwaves with ads claiming Hallie Shoffner, the Democrat running against Tom Cotton, is a major supporter of the "tRaNs AgEnDa". It's pathetic. It reeks of desparation. I think, for the first time in years, the Democrats might actually have a viable candidate. I think Tom Cotton thinks so too. I hope Hallie Shoffner stomps that little fucking weasel into the dirt.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll be voting for her. So there's one.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's at least two of us. :)

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never thought I'd find other Arkansans here, but make it 3. How he wasn't buried after the stolen valor claiming to be in the seals is fucking beyond me.

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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They were threatening Sharia Law in primary ads here in Texas against Cornyn. They know how to give red meat to the reactionaries.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

Republicans must be scared of Talarico. His message seems to resonate with his base. He's a white christian man, so in other words "Just a great guy!" in their view.

Also, he's not afraid to call out the establishment. The republican base likes that kind of stuff, they've just been misled into believing that "the establishment" means jews and diversity hires instead of corporate-financial oligarchs and their political lackeys.

Talarico has been pretty effective at meeting these people where they're at and redirecting their ire towards the oligarchy where it belongs.

That must terrify republican politicians.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

If he can't win, I don't see how anyone could. Like Paxton is so blatantly corrupt that it's laughable he was even allowed to run in the primary.

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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These days i sometimes get sad from the things happening in the world. Those moments i try and remind myself that despite all those things happening, at least my country isn't run by US politicians.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm a brit and we have around 3 years to point and laugh at the US until we get our own Poundland version.

Germany and France also appear a bit shakey on this front 🤦

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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stephen Miller has been dodging my challenges to a fist fight for a solid year. If anyone is a soy beta bitch boy, it’s him.

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Talarico is a fascinating case study of how a totally mid cishet guy would be buckets hotter if I thought he was either a trans dude or a lesbian.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They are going to harp on Trans-everything this year, which affects almost nobody, because it's all they've got. They've got nothing successful to point to, or even something that has the potential to be successful. They can't criticize Dems, because they're right about EVERYTHING, and they don't want to point it out.

If you hear a MAGA going on about Trans stuff, ask them how many trans people they know,.or have ever known. When they tell you none, tell them to worry about stuff that's real, like their empty fridge.

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At the local level, we have a guy who runs for the school board every goddamn election. All he cares about it trans kids. It's all he talks about.

Last meeting, I stood up and asked him "Why do you spend so much time thinking about little kids' dicks?" and that man didn't say another fucking word the next 45 minutes. Really looking forward to the next school board meeting lmao. Gonna keep asking him why he's so obsessed with children's dicks until he stops talking about it or tries to fight me.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 10 points 1 week ago

That's what you have to do, keep shaming them, turning it on them, put them on the defense, chase them out. MAGAs and Anti-Vaxxers are the last two groups for which bullying is not only allowed, but strongly encouraged. Mock them, abuse them, shun them, fire them, call them names, laugh at them, cheat them, ignore them, discriminate against them, waste their time, etc.

Not just dicks, ask him why he is so fixated on all children's genitals. Clearly you think about children's genitals a lot, do you have an issue with that? Have you talked to a therapist about that? Have you ever had trouble with the police regarding children? Do you have children yourself? What would CPS say if we asked them about you?

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[–] TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why are all of these conservatives so fucking weird and this obsessed with trans people?

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

Cause we are their favorite porn category.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Because if women can become people, then their whole thing starts to sound stupid.

They're not sorting whites and blacks and men and women and poors and wealthy.

They are sorting people out of a pool of "not people." If, all of a sudden, a woman could become a real person...

See it doesn't work. It's the part we keep forgetting.

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[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't understand why miller doesnt have 1000 slander and libel suits against him right now

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

fun fact, STEPHAN miller also DYED his bald scalp to make it look like had a full head of hair. and he has a HS video about him and immigrants too.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

He used RONCO GLH. It gave him the confidence to derive the final solution to immigration.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wrote a thing I hope to turn into a postable graphic. It reads (current version):

Ken Paxton and James Talarico are running for US Senator of Texas. The race serves as a microcosm of what red-state Republicans have to decide in the 2026 midterm election:

Do you want relief from the bullshit and open corruption? Or do you serve and obey our Glorious Leader?

Are you tired of watching your family suffer? Or are you good with owning the libs some more, and maybe pushing trans folk back into the shadows?

Are you a communist and a terrorist, as defined by the US Department of Justice? Or do you cede your voice to the party that is actively trying to make elections irrelevant?

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Republicans get to throw the most vile, puerile insults at anyone. Meanwhile, that girl will have to resign, relocate, and probably change her name.

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