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James Talarico
Who is James Talarico? By fusing progressive politics with unapologetic Christian faith, the 36-year-old Democratic star has garnered praise from both Barack Obama (“really talented young man”) and Joe Rogan (“you need to run for president")—and a chance to compete in November against the winner of Texas’s Republican runoff.
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Talarico has been devoted to Christianity since childhood. His grandfather was a Baptist preacher in south Texas, and he still goes to the same church—St. Andrew’s Presbyterian in Austin—where he attended Bible camp as a kid.
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“The biggest divide in our country is not left versus right; it’s top versus bottom,” Talarico likes to tell his 2 million Instagram followers. “Billionaires want us looking left and right at each other so that we’re not looking up at them.”
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Congressional reform: Talarico supports term limits for members of Congress and a ban on congressional stock trading. He opposes partisan gerrymandering. He has said the Senate should eliminate its filibuster rule so laws can pass with a simple majority vote.
Health care: Talarico calls his approach “Medicare for Y’all.” He favors letting nonseniors buy into Medicare or providing another “not-for-profit health care option for every American.”
Immigration: Talarico favors comprehensive immigration reform that would crack down on criminals; provide a pathway to citizenship for others; hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement accountable for abuses; and improve the asylum and guest worker systems. He likes to say that “our border should be like a front porch—it should have a welcome mat out front and a lock on the door.”
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Talarico supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has condemned what he called Israel’s “war crimes” while describing the conflict itself as “the moral test of our time.” He opposes the sale of offensive weapons to Israel and has refused to take money from the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC. “I think God is screaming at us in Gaza right now,” he has said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/arti...06519.html
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RE: James Talarico
Not a Christian if he refers to God as non binary, says the Bible supports abortions, and believes there are 6 genders.
(This post was last modified: 03-05-2026 08:29 PM by banker.)
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RE: James Talarico
He is obviously an apostate, but his views are a window into the coming one world faith. This is the type of "Christian" the woke progressives can embrace. One who turns the faith upside down and reverses every aspect of it while cloaking themselves in white robes and feigned righteousness.
"You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of."
How can you escape the condemnation of hell?"
Matthew 12:34 & 23:33
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RE: James Talarico
(03-06-2026 02:36 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: He is obviously an apostate, but his views are a window into the coming one world faith.
Quite so.
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RE: James Talarico
(03-06-2026 02:36 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: He is obviously an apostate, but his views are a window into the coming one world faith. This is the type of "Christian" the woke progressives can embrace. One who turns the faith upside down and reverses every aspect of it while cloaking themselves in white robes and feigned righteousness.
"You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of."
How can you escape the condemnation of hell?"
Matthew 12:34 & 23:33
Apostasy and heresy are not Faith! He's selling leftist humanism and its innate arrogance as the humility, service, and salvation of Christ. There is no adherence to the Word or teachings of God, no confession of sins (other than victimization), no contrition for sins (because all human lifestyle choices are called good), and no obedience to faith in Christ, belief in Christ's uniqueness in history, or in his sacrifice, or resurrection. It's merely a corporate feel-good message that condemns anyone who sees things in terms of right or wrong moral choices.
Since the Supreme Court has called corporations "citizens" where rights of the law are concerned, and with the advent of AI to consistently control what is read or heard by the public, and because it will be ubiquitous, it is quite possible that we are beginning an age where the fulfilling of the concept of the Beast of Revelation is quite possible. A false light, assuming the control of the public conception of church, not born of a woman, meaning not human and not created in the image of God, will be able to deliver messages globally in one instant. And in as much as it will appear that it brings an end to conflict in the geopolitical sense, it may well be worshipped.
Progress for Christians might only be found privately, because any public declaration of legitimate faith, or practice of legitimate morality, will be deemed offensive to the unified message delivered to masses. And that message will be the ear tickler that, "Anything Goes". And the people will do what is right in their own sight and chaos will abound in the land.
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ericsrevenge76
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(03-14-2026 01:13 PM)JRsec Wrote: Apostasy and heresy are not Faith! He's selling leftist humanism and its innate arrogance as the humility, service, and salvation of Christ. There is no adherence to the Word or teachings of God, no confession of sins (other than victimization), no contrition for sins (because all human lifestyle choices are called good), and no obedience to faith in Christ, belief in Christ's uniqueness in history, or in his sacrifice, or resurrection. It's merely a corporate feel-good message that condemns anyone who sees things in terms of right or wrong moral choices.
Since the Supreme Court has called corporations "citizens" where rights of the law are concerned, and with the advent of AI to consistently control what is read or heard by the public, and because it will be ubiquitous, it is quite possible that we are beginning an age where the fulfilling of the concept of the Beast of Revelation is quite possible. A false light, assuming the control of the public conception of church, not born of a woman, meaning not human and not created in the image of God, will be able to deliver messages globally in one instant. And in as much as it will appear that it brings an end to conflict in the geopolitical sense, it may well be worshiped.
Progress for Christians might only be found privately, because any public declaration of legitimate faith, or practice of legitimate morality, will be deemed offensive to the unified message delivered to masses. And that message will be the ear tickler that, "Anything Goes". And the people will do what is right in their own sight and chaos will abound in the land.
I could not endorse your post more strongly, wise words and breakdown from you as always.
AI has so many uses and one of the slyest will be the AI run algorithms that will be able to filter and control social media completely, and they will roll it out with great subtlety step by step. It will be able to spy, collate info, predicts behavior and move on private citizens in a way just as described by the beast/system in Revelation 13. All the different ways they are about use AI to control information and speech and target Christians and others who try to speak out against it with this type of speed and precision is something that was previously just science fiction and fantasy. Now its become full reality.
To narrow it down even more, I think a coming type of "super AI" is the IMAGE of the beast in Rev 13:14-18. It says they literally make this thing, and they are able to make this thing come ALIVE. And this thing can speak to everyone and track and see everyone in the world simultaneously, and then force everyone to worship it or be put to death. If that is not describing what a powerful super AI can/will be then I don't know what would.
There is also a great foreshadowing of the "image of the beast" in Daniel 3.
But you don't have to be a Biblical scholar to see how AI can bring about the details of Rev 13 like never before. Nor do you even have to be a Christian or have faith at all to know that AI is going to be one of the biggest events and changes in the entire history of man. Even the atheists know AI and what is coming now is a major turning point for mankind.
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RE: James Talarico
Just because his grandfather or father I can't remember was a well respected pastor, it doesn't make him a great theologian.
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RE: James Talarico
Oh, here it is. I wondered what happened to this post.
(03-05-2026 08:13 PM)Gitanole Wrote: Who is James Talarico? By fusing progressive politics with unapologetic Christian faith, the 36-year-old Democratic star has garnered praise from both Barack Obama (“really talented young man”) and Joe Rogan (“you need to run for president")—and a chance to compete in November against the winner of Texas’s Republican runoff.
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Talarico has been devoted to Christianity since childhood. His grandfather was a Baptist preacher in south Texas, and he still goes to the same church—St. Andrew’s Presbyterian in Austin—where he attended Bible camp as a kid.
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“The biggest divide in our country is not left versus right; it’s top versus bottom,” Talarico likes to tell his 2 million Instagram followers. “Billionaires want us looking left and right at each other so that we’re not looking up at them.”
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![[Image: gettyimages-2264127831.jpg]](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/YnFbjVyw47AaemkPkNP98w--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B_V4zBcBzPot2gDR8Zk7yg--~B/aD0yNjY3O3c9NDAwMDthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net/images/user-uploaded/gettyimages-2264127831.jpg)
Congressional reform: Talarico supports term limits for members of Congress and a ban on congressional stock trading. He opposes partisan gerrymandering. He has said the Senate should eliminate its filibuster rule so laws can pass with a simple majority vote.
Health care: Talarico calls his approach “Medicare for Y’all.” He favors letting nonseniors buy into Medicare or providing another “not-for-profit health care option for every American.”
Immigration: Talarico favors comprehensive immigration reform that would crack down on criminals; provide a pathway to citizenship for others; hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement accountable for abuses; and improve the asylum and guest worker systems. He likes to say that “our border should be like a front porch—it should have a welcome mat out front and a lock on the door.”
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Talarico supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has condemned what he called Israel’s “war crimes” while describing the conflict itself as “the moral test of our time.” He opposes the sale of offensive weapons to Israel and has refused to take money from the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC. “I think God is screaming at us in Gaza right now,” he has said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/arti...06519.html
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RE: James Talarico
Talafreako was part of the DEMS exodus last year protesting the Texas redistricting map. Fled the state and delayed voting due to lack of a quorum. What a chump.
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