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Texas Democrat and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico fired back at his opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Friday after the two Republicans echoed MAGA insults about his masculinity.

“I’ve said before, and I will keep saying that real men serve others; weak men serve themselves,” Talarico told MS NOW’s “The Briefing” host Jen Psaki. “And so I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man, and I don’t think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is.”

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[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 4 points 1 hour ago

Man I can’t love Talarico enough, he’s the manliest politician I can think of right now.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 3 hours ago

Emotionally fragile and fragmented people are bullies. It takes far more strength to tame the roaring beasts within us than punishing/lashing out at others.

In short, those who can't control themselves seek to control everyone else.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago

He needs to just keep asking Rafael why he changed his mind on trump, and why he never stands up for Texans or his own wife against trump.

Gotta separate them from dear leader

[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago

They’re gonna pretend like they don’t care, but I bet it’s going to hit them a lot harder than Talarico.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Calling this guy derogatory names, but JD Vance out there wearing gobs of black eye liner on the daily giving interviews and trying to assert his alphaness. Keep on keeping on GOP

[–] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 1 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with men wearing makeup?

[–] prostatitis@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

Nothing if you're not a hypocritical knob about 'masculinity'.

I mean, it's not his constituents, but Cruz blatantly serves Israel...

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Talarico should just challenge Paxton to a sanctioned fight. 100% he won't do it.

[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Talarico is nothing special and I don’t believe in voting, but the opportunity to end Paxton’s career is too great to pass up. Seeing him lose is worth showing up to the polls for.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

...you don't believe in voting.

I can't possibly imagine how things have gotten the way they are

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I know this is unpopular but people who claim to be for things like feminism shouldn't be using "weak men" and "strong men" as categories no matter how you are defining those categories. This rhetoric should be thrown out completely.

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 minutes ago

This opinion should be thrown out completely. Dude's trying to win in Texas.

[–] NM_Gringo@lemmy.world -4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Talarico should get some tips from Hunter Biden. That dude is on fire.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 hours ago

That dude is also a racist who defends his fathers genocide and war crimes so maybe stop glazing this scum.