Senate Democrat nominee James Talarico appears ready to bring a touch of Trotsky to Texas. In a video from a climate forum, Talarico is shown declaring capitalism an “oppressive system” linked with white supremacy and that it must be “dismantled” to achieve a better world. It is reminiscent of Leon Trotsky, who denounced the “fundamental evil of the capitalist system” and called on citizens to free themselves from its oppression. The Democratic Socialists of America and radical sites have long called “to dismantle the capitalist state.”
As a state representative, Talarico addressed the 2020 climate conference by the Austin chapter of the Sierra Club with other Texas House candidates. However, it was Talarico that roused the crowd with an attack on capitalism:
“I’m so thankful that you asked this question and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and White supremacy and capitalism in our country … And I think only ending the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we gonna be able to begin the process of dismantling them.”
Talarico added criticism of Texas’s oil and gas industry, which he mocked as a dying industry “like being the leader in cassette tapes in the 1980s.” He predicted with obvious satisfaction, “That industry is not gonna last.”
Ironically, given his earlier promise of running a meatless, Vegan campaign, opposing both beef and energy markets in Texas could well achieve the dismantling of the economy by default in Texas.
Talarico’s views closely parallel socialist and communist talking points online. Democratic Socialists of America has challenged people to “Imagine the end of capitalism.” Those words in the Democratic Socialists of America manifesto offer Americans a world without landlords, debt, mandatory work hours, and “food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation… are common goods and utilities.”
The DSA is premised on the same stated objective of Talarico, declaring that there has to be “a revolutionary transformation to replace the capitalist social order based on exploitation and oppression.”
Other candidates have sought to pander to this radical mob. Recently, California Gov. Gavin Newsom thrilled the mob by declaring that “nostalgia is not working,” adding that “capitalism as we know it doesn’t work either.”
In “Rage and the Republic,” I discuss the rise of socialism and the coalition of politicians, pundits, and professors in attacking capitalism as well as core institutions such as the Supreme Court. It is a crisis of faith on the 250th anniversary of the oldest and most successful republic in history.
It is the 250th anniversary not only of the Declaration of Independence but of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Smith’s free market theories were immediately embraced by the founders as the perfect economic theory to match their political theory. They had declared the first Enlightenment Revolution based on a belief in natural rights that came from God, not governments.
However, those rights mean little without economic freedom. Capitalism offered citizens the ability to transcend class and social barriers, to advance as far as their skills and labor would take them.
Together, those political and economic theories created the most prosperous and stable democratic system in the world. That system is now under attack on both sides. Radicals are calling for the trashing of the U.S. Constitution and the discarding of our core constitutional values.
Even establishment figures from former Vice President Kamala Harris to California Governor Gavin Newsom now dismiss faith in core institutions as mere “nostalgia.” Those of us who support the Madisonian democracy are derisively called “institutionalists” and constitutional “cultists.”
The New York Times ran a column, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” by Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale, calling upon citizens to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.”
As these attacks on our constitutional system mount, a similar attack on capitalism is unfolding. In New York, Zohran Mamdani promised to show citizens the “warmth of collectivism” from free child care to free buses to state-run grocery stores. Across the country, Mamdani allies are joining him in calling for the de-commodification of private property and the seizing of the means of production.
Polls show that these candidates are being propelled not by the working class, but by young, college-educated voters fresh out of the ideological echo chamber of higher education. They are armchair revolutionaries like Talarico, repeating socialist slogans with the same robotic rote delivery of a Young Pioneer camp.
As these videos surface, radical candidates from Abdul El-Sayed to Talarico brush off their earlier comments as media allies attack any reporting on prior statements. Socialist Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is considering a run for president, recently referred to her own extremist statements as “Woke 1.”
The transparent insincerity does not matter to their base. These figures have already shown their bona fides with extremist statements in the past. Talarico’s desire to dismantle capitalism was not some slip of the tongue but a planned speech to fellow activists. To pivot now is considered to be mere packaging for uneducated and malleable dupes.
Indeed, the Talarico campaign responded by simply declaring that Talarico is a “proud Capitalist,” though one staffer admitted that the comments were a bit “cringey.” Being a “proud capitalist” who wants to “dismantle” capitalism is a bit like being an avid meat-eater who denounces meat consumption as killing the world and banning meat from his campaign.
Accordingly, when asked about past radical positions, these figures immediately deny or dismiss them. If you want to dismantle the constitutional or economic systems of the United States, a few white lies hardly seem of much consequence. After all, as Trotsky explained, “The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.” For these radicals, there is no greater justification than their own election.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
This column also ran on Fox.com
This column was updated with the response of the Talarico campaign.
There is nothing productive for the country in the taking up of polemic endpoints. Socialism doesn’t work because it destroys the reward system by stripping the population of agency and responsibility, making people dependent on govt. Laissez-faire capitalism doesn’t work because it allows the most rapacious, unethical, psychopathic actors to veer into criminal patterns of exploitation, risk-dumping and theft, destroying the reward system for all those with lesser power.
We’ve seen both of these movies before.
Ours is a hybrid economic system, especially taking into account the economics of the family raising children, which is “from each according to his ability, to each according to their need” for infants and young children. The key challenge is transitioning children into independent, thriving capitalist actors by the age of legal emancipation (18). Some of the failure signs:
• young adults entering the economy as debtors rather than savers
• unable to marry their first love because of economic instability
• some lacking stable housing, couch surfing, living in car, or worse
• legal trouble trouble tracing back to poverty (eviction, driving without a license or insurance, shoplifting)
• no health care, dentistry, vision care
• any emergency is crippling
Conservatives are missing the boat in assigning “moral hazard” to young adults failing to launch, in essence blaming them for their lot, rather than objectively analyzing the uphills they face. It isn’t the same economy as 50 years ago when anybody with a pulse could stand at a machine operating it. Add to this, we’ve allowed educational standards to slide downward to the point where a diploma doesn’t even signify ability to read and write.
I’m all for a system that rewards learning, a strong work-ethic and responsibility-taking — a post-racial, individual meritocracy. But that reward system is undermined by the ongoing inequalities foisted on newborns by the birth lottery and zipcode. If we were serious about “equal opportunity”, we’d be considering birth licensing, a system akin to drivers licensing, assuring parental preparedness to raise a child without crippling handicaps in verbal and character development, health, personal safety, drug use and mental health. The truth is, up to this point, we don’t care enough about the birth lottery as a conspicuous contradiction to equality of opportunity. And I think we all agree that our capitalist economic system be graded on equal opportunity for the entrants joining it.
Socialism is having a field day because conservatives are too aloof and defensive about maintenance and repair of capitalist “imperfections”. The corrections will be tough, e.g. birth licensing, mandatory national service for all young people, resetting standards of excellence in public education. It’s all about clarifying responsibilities where they have been muddied or neglected. This is where the discussion should be.
Communism didn’t work out well for Trotsky when he disagreed with Dear Leader.
Leon Trotsky was exiled from Russia in 1929.
Leon Trotsky died from injuries sustained when he was attacked with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader, an assassin believed to be acting on orders from Joseph Stalin, on August 20, 1940. He succumbed to his wounds the following day, August 21, 1940.
Dissent and trolling are not allowed in Socialist Countries like the USSR.
Or China
Gotta ask, what does that have to do with Texas 2026?
Capitalism is when the jews take over your economy first, and your government second.
Communism is when the jews take over your government first, and your economy second.
Fascism is what the jew cries out when you try to prevent either one.
Jew hate much? You must be a Democrat.
Get a grip.
FY dustoff
Ya really, Jew hate much?
And its a Republican.
And these same people are rigging our elections.
Just imagine, every American soldier who died for his country—the United States of America—since 1776 actually died for MexAfricAsiArabia without even knowing it.
Could you elaborate on what you mean?
#WeAreEstovir
Has anyone noticed that all these progressive communist are wealthy. Also these women of color that keep hitting white male toxicity. Guess who most of them married, you guessed it, white males.
Bob – and Friedrich Engels was from a wealthy family. He co-developed communism with Karl Marx. Also, Professor Turley has pointed out that many of the French Revolutionaries were wealthy. What’s your theory on why?
#WeAreEstovir
The non-wealthy who possess the requisite intellect are too concerned with securing their economic survival to spend that much energy in that direction.
That’s reasonable. As for wealthy radicals, perhaps they feel guilty about their wealth and want to virtue signal . . . (?) Or they fancy that they’ll be in charge of the new socialist order so who cares if the masses are plunged into poverty and slavery . . . (?) Or they are willing to plunge everyone else into poverty and slavery just to sound cool . . . (?) Or a combination of these . . . (?)
#WeAreEstovir
But, oldman.
Are they willing to give their money for the cause, or just yours?
#. Mr. Talarico is free to leave and live in a socialist country whenever. That’s another great characteristic about the US. That freedom thing…
The GOP is so afraid, and so corrupt – they are literally closing polling locations in blue districts in Texas right now. If you are still on board with this, you are either corrupt or a coward – or more likely, both.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/amid-public-outcry-tarrant-county-texas-cuts-polling/story?id=136116581
Ano
What you failed to post
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Republicans in favor of the measure argued that the number of polling locations after the cuts would still meet the mandatory minimum. They also cited efforts to cut costs, citing low voter turnout at various polling locations.
O’Hare, who vote for the measure, told ABC News in a statement on Monday that under the new proposal, there will still be 54 polling places that exceed the statutory minimum for Election Day
Another cut-n-paster eh dustoff? Incredible skill you have there. Now try formulating your own news story. Now spell PLAGIARISM.
The only oppression I feel is the boot of the government on my back. If I knew Karate I’d send Uncle Sam (and Democrats in general) flying through the air ala Bruce Lee’s roundhouse kick. That’s the oppression I see more stifling than any other facet of living in America. That and spam callers.
Welcome New Puppets
Today Estovir has fielded these new puppets in addition to many well-established puppets plus several anonymouses.
KevinTKilty
bcofdt13
brianb1813
em
Zero Ideological Efficacy
Roffman5
The whole point of these puppets is to disguise the fact that Estovir is a constant presence posting 12 hours per day.
Care to comment, Estovir?
Why should every comment thread revolve around one yahoo? I’d like to hear some different opinions from real people.
I’ve been noticing for years that a lot commenters sound like Estovir. I’ve also observed that many conversations between commenters have a stilted quality, like just one guy is writing them.
Your total lack of self awareness is astounding. Please, get some professional help, it’s embarrassing.
Puppets In Heavy Rotation:
Lately Estovir is leaning heavily on these old stalwarts to keep parroting the message:
Old Man From Kansas
Diogenes
Sam
Kirk
Whimsical Mama
Interestingly, Thinkthrough was Estovir’s lead puppet for significant periods of time. Thinkthrough and Old Man From Kansas were amongst the original puppets first employed more than 6 years ago. But Diogenes is now in heavy rotation. Diogenes goes back at least 3 years and was formerly used as more of a reoccurring puppet.
there’s no such word as ‘reoccurring.” THat tells us where you are on the scale.
Estovir, if you want to comment 20 times per day with the name ‘Estovir’, that’s fine. But 200 times per day, under 20 different names, is just a big deception. And you’ve been playing this deception for years!
It makes for dull reading because way too many comments sound way too much alike. That’s why most of the old regulars moved on.
Estovir, you are obviously being paid to dominate these threads. But it doesn’t look like Turley is okay with the arrangement. It appears that you were forced on Turley without his full consent.
No one works 12 hours per day, 7 days per week, for years on end, without compensation. So it goes back to that silly post yesterday about you’re being a ‘wounded warrior’. The truth is probably something along those lines. You more than likely imagine you’re doing important work.
Why don’t you move on PSYCHO MORON ANON???
Anon @7:49
reoccur (intransitive verb): to occur again; to happen another time
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reoccur
Apparently you are not even on the scale.
Clearly you are an immigrant, and English is your 3rd or 4th language.
FY for the 15th time3 today PSYCHO MORON ANON!! I’ve been on this site for 3 years. Not anyone’s puppet you DF!!!
Yawn…
The proof is out of the closet: Bad Anon is Hunter Biden
Hunter Biden, Who Slept With Late Brother’s Widow, ‘Comes Out As 48.6% Gay’
By: Tyler Durden ~ Sep 02, 2026
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-biden-who-slept-late-brothers-widow-comes-out-486-gay
In response to Luke Beasley’s opening declaration, “Let’s get serious. I am gay,” Biden said,
Talk about one MESSED up family, but typical of most libs.
Forgot me again Ano.
Try another job, you just don’t cur it.
The entire communist American welfare state is unconstitutional, including, but not limited to, admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, CRT, DEI, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, PBS, NPR, Fed, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and “general Welfare”—ALL or THE WHOLE WELL PROCEED through governmental provision of security and basic infrastructure—omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor, or charity.
The same Article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY “the Value of money,” “Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes,” and “land and naval Forces.”
Further, the 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification and allowing ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property.
Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals, while government is severely limited and restricted to facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of security and basic infrastructure.
The Necessary and Proper Clause is nothing more than a perfunctory redundancy for the purposes of clarification—a reinforcement of that which was previously codified—and may not be wielded to amend and impose separate acts that do not represent but alter the letter and spirit of the Founders and Framers.
Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto 59 years after the adoption of the Constitution because none of the principles of the Communist Manifesto were in the Constitution. Had the principles of the Communist Manifesto been in the Constitution, Karl Marx would have had no reason to write the Communist Manifesto. The principles of the Communist Manifesto were not in the Constitution then, and the principles of the Communist Manifesto are not in the Constitution now.
“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
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“The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
– Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto
Well, Paxton certainly approves of taking other people’s property…
you may have missed the articles point, or perhaps just misunderstood its sinificance. The cultural-marxists – who are by definition marxists – are working and planning on abolishing the constitution. Until that future oal is realized they are operating on the practical reality that having infiltated every institution and branch of our overnment , that they can violate our rihts and laws with impunity because the bureaucratic, judicial , and leislative allies will defeat attempts to defeat them. In other words they have already won halt of the war.
Summary of the Prentis Cycle
At the stage between apathy and dependency, men always turn in fear to economic and political panaceas. New conditions, it is claimed, require new remedies. Under such circumstances, the competent citizen is certainly not a fool if he insists upon using the compass of history when forced to sail uncharted seas.
Usually, so-called new remedies are not new at all. A planned economy, for example, was tried by the Chinese some three millennia ago and by the Romans in the early centuries of the Christian era. It was applied in Germany, Italy, and Russia long before the present war broke out. Yet it is being seriously advocated today as a solution to our economic problems in the United States.
Its proponents confidently assert that government can successfully plan and control all major business activity in the nation and still not interfere with our political freedom or our hard-won civil and religious liberties. The lessons of history all point in exactly the reverse direction.
– Henning W. Prentis, Armstrong Cork Company, National Industrial Conference Board, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, March 18, 1943
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Once citizens become dependent upon government to manage their economic lives, government inevitably acquires greater power over their lives generally. History shows that economic planning and political freedom are difficult, if not impossible, to keep permanently separated.
This Turley endoresement of Paxton ranks right up there with his endorsment of Elon Musk! Remember when Turley suggested in a post that Musk be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work on DOGE? And then five days later Musk posted on X that the Epstein files were loaded with stories about Trump. Turley hasn’t spoken about him much since! What an amazing judge of character he is! 🙂
Well, Turley is a lawyer, so his views are totally mercenary and wholly negotiable for the right fee. Even if his client loses and is hauled off to spend the rest of his life in chokey, Turley still gets paid.
Dear Anon. from the Darkside.. stealing resources from Pro. Turley’s Blog again… are YOU that mercenary and cheap that you can’t get your own Blog for your TDS Hateful back-stabs?
Stealing resources? Are you drunk or just criminally stupid? You are stealing oxygen.
Eighteenth Hole is Estovir.
“Eighteenth Hole is Estovir.”
AI translation,
Eighteenth Hole is a real man. Someone annony wishes he could some day be but is forever damned to be a Failure to Launch.”
HAHAHA… Nice one Upstate
WINNING!
Dear Anon. from the Dimwats Darkside.. again.. all Fake News and all out of context from you. It was later specified by Musk that he lashed out at Trump with rubbish to get the Tesla Dealership bombings to stop. Musk has No Access to the ‘Epstein Files’ nor was he around at the time Epstein was creating his empire.. and Yes.. ANYONE with an ounce of pro-American sentiment Unlike yourself would endorse Talarico’s competition.. and YES.. ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY YES MUSK SHOULD BE AWARDED THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM FOR DOGE at a minimum.. AND Last but not Least.. MUSK needs to at least Lead a DOGE COMEBACK to make DOGE PERMANENT in our Govt.
Even Trump does not want the autistic Boer back! Though your illiteracy suggests you might be DJT himself.
Go and repeat Fifth Grade.
Professor Turley is right to emphasize the robotic nature of left-wing politicians repeating familiar slogans or phrases such as climate change, white supremacy, white privilege, capitalism, and socialism. No one calls on them to define these words. They understand only that they have appeal to discomfited LSA college graduates with high debt and few prospects.
Ah, so almost as dumb and meaningless as wearing baseball hats declaring Make America Great Again? Could not agree more.
Imagine LOSING to the red hats! must be demoralizing!
Might inflame those suffering from TDS.
Imagine losing to a left-wing Democrat in Texas! 🙂
Are you serious? Talarico is going to be totally exposed for the freak show he is. Same thing happened to Beta(o). Capitalism must be dismantled, oil industry needs to be stopped…yeah great platform to run on in Texas. Paxton hasn’t even fired a salvo at him yet, he’s doing it himself.
Texas snd communists … that’s a good one!
Oh well, if you want a philandering thief to win, good luck to you. Funny how we keep being told that Talarico is going to be totally exposed… but it has not happened yet. Paxton is floundering, when a proper GOP candidate would be miles ahead. I don’t like Talarico or his politics, but better an honest lefty than a philandering thief.
8 Ball is Estovir.
“Eightball is Estovir.”
AI translation,
Eightball is a real man. Someone annony wishes he could some day be but is forever damned to be a Failure to Launch.”
“When you talk about socialism here in the US, and when you look at the demographic of those voters, they are over-educated and under-earning.”
“So these are underachievers who are jealous of those who want to go and work every day.”
– U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, September 1, 2026
“they are over-educated”
Certainly not an accusation that could be levelled at DJT or his fellow intellectual colossi in his Cabinet.
Education is for the stupid.
Am I right?
You, for example, clearly need education.
You HATE America?
Speaks volumes…….
Edward Mahl is Estovir.
“Edward Mahl is Estovir.”
AI translation,
Edward Mahl is a real man. Someone annony wishes he could some day be but is forever damned to be a Failure to Launch.”
“… capitalism an “oppressive system” linked with white supremacy and that it must be “dismantled” to achieve a better world. …” -JT
Jonathan, Why is that hard for you to accept?
The Democrats are appealing to the role of the Proletariat Unionist (Trotskyism).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism#The_key_role_of_the_proletariat
It is odd that a Texan (James Talarico), where there are very low numbers of Unions would take this approach, or that they (Talarico) feel it would be appealingly advantageous to the Hispanic community (who knows what?).
But it is even more strange that you (JT) would denounce this approach considering that your Publisher (Simon & Schuster) had established roots in The Free Press of Glencoe (Glencoe, Illinois). “… They chose the name Free Press because they wanted to print books devoted to civil liberties. It was launched with three classic titles: Division of Labor by Emile Durkheim, The Theory of Economic and Social Organization by Max Weber and The Scientific Outlook by Bertrand Russell. …”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Press_(publisher)
This is an Mid-Term Election year, it is hard to fathom that a Candidate would be campaigning for György Lukács or Leon Trotsky as a platform of progressive change. Yet alone that candidate James Talarico would even have the slightest idea of what these men’s philosophy are.
The whole idea (Trotskyism) is much more deeper than the Democrat-Proletariat would care to understand.
Zero Ideological Efficacy is Estovir.
Whoever coined the term “capitalism” was confused and just plain wrong.
It is not “capitalism.”
It is FREEDOM.
The full and complete freedom to do whatever you please with your private property, your money, your free enterprise, your capital equipment, your assets, your investments, your earnings, your dividends, your capital gains, your real estate, your personal wealth, your financial resources, your bank accounts, your cash reserves, your savings, your income, your wages, your salary, your profits, your royalties, your interest income, your pension, your retirement funds, your emergency fund, your checking account, your credit, your loans, your debts, your liabilities, your equity, your net worth, your business interests, your company shares, your stocks, your bonds, your mutual funds, your exchange-traded funds, your securities, your portfolio, your cryptocurrency, your intellectual property, your patents, your copyrights, your trademarks, your inventory, your machinery, your vehicles, your land, your buildings, your rental properties, your insurance policies, your trust funds, your inheritances, your bequests, your tax refunds, your business revenue, your operating income, your retained earnings, your distributions, your options, your futures contracts, your capital contributions, etc.
FREEDOM.
^^^ Anonymous @ 3:42 PM ^^^
FREEDOM is OPPORTUNITY
(Not material wealth)
“Capitalism is the economic expression of private property: the freedom of the owner to decide what to do with what he owns.”
– ChatGPT
“Precisely. At its core, capitalism is private ownership coupled with the freedom to use, control, exchange, or dispose of one’s property as one chooses, subject to the rights of others.”
– ChatGPT
You’re a ——- idiot.
Not to put too fine a point on it.
The Republicans must really be sweating for them to get Turley to churn out such a ridiculous piece. Could it be that having Trump endorse as GOP candidate a man in his own image: corrupt, philandering, physically unattractive, mendacious and arrogant is not panning out so well for them?
Nah – Turley is happy to do it. I, at one time. believed him to just be doing the MAGA act to sell books – that quietly, in bed at night, he knew that Trump and his ilk, like Paxton – adultering, filandering, thieving – were bad for the country, let alone his party. But I was wrong. Turley’s all in.
I suspect Turley has quite a nice pen. Hope he does not leave it unattended near Paxton’s sticky mitts.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAH!!!
“They are armchair revolutionaries like Talarico, repeating socialist slogans with the same robotic rote delivery of a Young Pioneer camp.”
Of course, if Turley actually knew a single thing about Trotsky, he would realise that Trotsky condemned the use of the Young Pioneers by Stalinism to corrupt the youth and inculcate a belief in a single, infallible Great Leader. A bit like Turning Point USA and the intellectual colossus that is DJT.
How does Trump and the GOP even get mentioned in the same sentence compared to Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner, Eric Swalwell, Barry Obama, Nancy and Paul Pelosi. Everyone of them a Democrat with documented criminality, philandering, adulterous behavior and thievery beyond anything seen attributed to a Republican. Turley sees the same thing all sane Americans are, the Democrats are insane with nothing to offer.
Go take your fiber…
“White supremacy”, “exploitation”, and “oppression” have become of such little consequence to be rendered meaningless in America today. They are but the longing cries of an outdated ideology still yearning for the same old voice of a failed existence that once had lasted only 70 years. What makes the resurgence of socialism meaningless today is the fact that white folks are no longer the sole or even primary benefactors of capitalism. The values and benefits of capitalism have come to be realized across all races and ethnicities on a scale once believed impossible. Indeed, it is because of capitalism that today wealth is distributed to anyone who has any need to be sustained. The blessings of capitalism may be shared differently, but far fewer of us are resigned to abject poverty than ever before. Socialism can do no better without first leveling everyone to having the same means and sharing the same miseries.
roffman5 is Estovir.
Republicans are SO scared of losing power, so the oligarchs that pay MAGA pundits like Turley are in overdrive trying to make Democrats sound extreme. Talarico’s comment was deliberately taken out of context–it’s clear that what he wanted to “dismantle” was the way climate change and White supremacy”, work together, driven by “capitalism”. He wasn’t suggesting abolishing capitalism. He’s not wrong–polluters disproportionately target poorer neighborhoods inhabited by minorities. There are numerous examples of unsafe water and air pollution in areas where blacks live. Climate change is driving the extremes in weather, and is due to pollution from factories, cars and burning coal. Since the fossil fuel industry donates to Trump and Republicans, Trump has rolled back environmental protections. The fossil fuel industry IS the past. It cannot last. To ensure our future energy needs, we need to support and invest in renewable energy. Here’s what Talarico said:
“I’m so thankful that you asked this question and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and White supremacy and capitalism in our country … And I think only ending the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we gonna be able to begin the process of dismantling them.””
Since Republicans cannot defend Trump and his corruption, wasting of taxpayer money on vanity projects, starting an unnecessary war after lying about no new wars, and the wrecking of our economy, they are left with trying to distort facts to prevent voters from voting Democratic by twisting their words. A new tactic: claiming that the DSA position was adopted by the Democrat party–IT WAS NOT. MAGA media lies about this all of the time.
Okay Karen
100% – this is all they have – cherry picking snippets of comments. No mention of the fact that Paxton is so corrupt that his OWN PARTY impached him for bribery, abuse of public trust, unfitness for office, and obstruction of justice – just THREE YEARS AGO. Way to present the whole story, Turley 😉
Now you know why the American Founders restricted the vote qualifications to those who were male, European, and 21, with 50 lbs. Sterling or 50 acres, and why they severely limited and restricted government in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Now you know why the same qualifications were imposed by the Greeks at the inception of democracy in 508 B.C. and later the Romans.
Of possible interest:
#WeAreEstovir
Talarico added criticism of Texas’s oil and gas industry, which he mocked as a dying industry “like being the leader in cassette tapes in the 1980s.” He predicted with obvious satisfaction, “That industry is not gonna last.”
True, as the AI data centers will operate exclusively on wind and solar energy.
Not reliable enough. Their output changes with the weather.
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2025/10/23/the_more_wind_and_solar_we_add_the_less_they_deliver_1142829.html
#WeAreEstovir
“Capitalism is oppressive so let’s switch to socialism/communism” an updated form of slavery where government owns everyone and decides who lives and who dies because no one has any rights. No. Democrats aren’t worried that we’re oppressed, they’re worried that we’re not oppressed enough, and oppressed by THEM.
em is Estovir.