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Talarico on Trumpworld's "short term pain" talking point: "I'd like them to tell that to the parents of the American troops who have lost their lives. That is not short term pain. That is pain that will last forever ... no one asked for this."

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Umbrae Soulsbane@umbrae.bsky.social

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If he's as good as he sounds Texas needs to elect to this man. I never trust any politician not completely but I think there's ones out there that are definitely better than others. He might be one

So long as Trump is on the escalatory ladder, the war whisperers & apocalyptics have his ear, & he & Netanyahu are unable to accept failure, the costs to all of us will keep mounting exponentially. People of the world need to take to the streets urgently (antiwar protests) to prevent the unthinkable

Many "Christians" in America have never actually read the Bible, instead they just listen to what their pastor tells them is in the Bible and it is these pastors who rather than teach the Bible, or challenge some of the views of their audience instead pander to the bigotry of their audience.

Losing a loved one in service to the country is a pain no family should ever have to carry. Their sacrifice deserves more than political talking points—it deserves lasting respect and careful decisions from our leaders.

The only regret Trump would have over our fallen military personnel would be how if it negatively impacts his image. Deaths-be they ours, theirs or schoolgirls does not cause him even the slightest of moment of pause. His only concern, first, last and always is me, me, me!

What Trumpworld doesn't get is that a man whose whole family gets wiped out [father, mother, wife, child, grandchild, etc] isn't going to let this all go lightly and it won't be "short term". Terrorist attacks on US soil have been rare but that will change soon. But does Trumpworld care? Hell no.

My husband read to me that new Iran leader lost his wife, his dad, his wife’s sister & her child in our bombing. Do you think this man has to come & surrender to us? We’ve unleashed & birthed future terrorists, within their rights.

We've made most of the enemies and terrorists ourselves. Ho Chi Minh worked for the CIA Osama bin Laden's father was the contractor who built the US military base in Saudi. Funded him in Afghanistan. Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA agent in 1959. Timothy McVeigh learned how to build bombs in the Army.

Do not ever forget his cruel, insensitive remarks👇 For these families, it is a forever pain💔 Trump tells Iowans to ‘get over’ school shooting at campaign event Former president made the comment 36 hours after one student was killed and seven people wounded during the first day of school

This could be Vietnam 2 A war of attrition. Who knows how many countries will jump in. Or how many will turn on America. When the flow of oil money is interupted countries get very upset and start to look at who's to blame. I see one person to blame....the Pedophile Trump. Release the Epstein files

Hold on to this thought: Feb26: Hillary Clinton testifies under oath about Epstein Feb27: Bill Clinton testifies under oath about Epstein Feb27 headline: "Pressure builds for Trump to testify on Epstein ties after Clinton deposition" Feb28: Trump starts war with Iran This war is about Epstein

My hearts breaks for those families whose family have died in this republican war. Trump's Short term pain. Tell that to the people who have had to sell their homes and move in with family so they can afford health insurance. Tell it to cancer patients not able to get care.

Talarico isn't wrong, but I'm worried that he's latching onto liberal talking points, and fooling people into thinking he's a good guy. He's a religious fundie, who behind closed doors has said some bullshit things about Black people, specifically his opponent Colin Allred.

No plan. Donnie is owned by BB and the oligarchs. Just American blood and treasury for Bibi’s war. Don’t worry if your child is killed, your business collapses, you lose your home….we have a catchy advertisement “short term pain, long term gain” for BB’s war.

The problem with saying this “long term gain” statement is that no one has said what long term gains are? Does it offset the enormous pain and costs of blowing up people whatever those gains are? They have not stated any. I just see this action is like shooting off your own foot from carelessness.

As a white man i don’t trust him. He’s too slick and looks like the bible thumping twat from high school. He knew all the progressive things to say but was deeply hateful of women and minorities it turns out.

It's not even true purely from an economic viewpoint. Businesses are going to go bust due to the increased fuel costs, and the additional national debt will be a burden for years. Btw: They say US deaths are a "sad part of war", while vigorously denying it is a war... Assholes...

So the pain we’ve been feeling at the grocery store and paying for healthcare has not been short term. It is ongoing because the Greedy Old Pedo party keeps giving money to the Epstein class and enabling them to jack up prices. The war was just the most recent escalation.

Talarico is so good with so much potential to reach people a lot of Democrats could not and even reach across the iske to get Independents and moderate Republicans. He is calm, disciplined, logical, compassionate. It would be hard for Republicans to portray him as radical.

He also seems like a real Texan, not someone who is trying turn Texas into California. FYI I'm not from Texas, just when I talk to my Texas coworkers, that is one major concern they seem to have.

I agree. He seems like a basic humanitariian. Like Mamdani in New York, he communicates well. Democrat leaders presently keep at arm’s length from both. Jeffries and Shumer are like parents awaiting a trophy to be brought home. Their quietude could easily snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

I haven't claimed to be Christian for many decades, but Talarico, like some of my nearest relatives, could convince me to change my mind. Talarico is actually a follower of Christ's words, as so few "Christians" are.

So well said. I love the fact that he can speak from a place of faith and that he does not let Republicans claim to have a monopoly on faith when the Republican Party is full of hypocrites and false prophets.

To the hopeful posters: Texans are not good Christians by and large. We will need turnout, especially in the urban and Democratic suburban areas (please help, Jasmine) and in South Texas. The evangelical preachers will be haranguing their “faithful” every Sunday for the rest of the year.

Seems like a good guy. He grasps what is - in my humble opinion - the core of most of the world’s religions and really the only part that matters: AKA, the Golden Rule. MAGAs pride themselves on how big of a$$holes they can be. Talarico sounds like a great candidate. Hope he wins!

There is NO short term pain for the parents of a dead child. I know this from personal experience. Those families will live with the vacant seat at the table forever. The pain is life changing and not in a good way. To be so fucking nonchalant about soldiers dying on your watch hurts my heart.

People have been suffering from the pain this demo/genocidal psychopath has inflicted for decades. Ask the families of construction companies he screwed who lost everything, including a few lives because of suicide, or the families of those who lost loved ones to COVID because of his negligence.

The one thing that I really like about him is he appeals to self proclaimed "good xtians"... He might even be able to flip one or two🤷🏽‍♀️

Right?! And short term pain to gain what?! More jobs for robots? More bailouts for huge businesses led by greedy fools? More tax cuts for the 1% who have 90% of the country’s wealth and it’s STILL not enough? Trump’s republicans want to “win monopoly,” and they’re willing to kill ANYONE to do it.

But here’s the thing: Monopoly is a crappy boring game who peaked in WWII when it was turned into secret spy kits to help POWs escape the Nazis. The fact that it’s so popular is mind-blowing. The only way to win is to kick all your friends/family out so you can sort colored paper alone for 20 min. 😒

In 6th grade, my best friend and I played a 3-MONTH game of monopoly. Why? Because neither of us were willing to be jerks and collect when the other landed on our stacked hotels. It ended when their parents got sick of our “social democracy” game taking up the dining room table, so they put it away.

We came home to a post-it note on the box with the dollar amount each of us had and said, “please go outside.” I technically won, but I think, if we’d have liquidated property too, they’d have won. The point is, neither of us wanted to “win” because the REAL victory was spending time together…

Netanyahu along with Republicans must have Really Hated the fact that Obama diplomatically negotiated a signed deal to have OUR inspectors enter the country of Iran and be able to monitor their facilities to make sure they wasn’t developing nuclear weapons ! Obama won his Nobel Prize legit

He talks a lot in religious terms, but I think that is exactly what is needed for Texas. He's genuine, too. He is not using religion for manipulation. I prefer religion not to be mentioned at all, but in his case, I can take it.

Trump is such a fucking imbecile that someone in the White House called Trump’s war in Iran an “incursion,” he heard “excursion,” and now he’s describing a war like it’s a cruise-ship day trip.

Not only didn’t anyone ask for this, but 80 million the dumbest Americans voted for the 🍊🤡 conman specifically because he promised no new wars. Similar to farmers who voted for him now losing their livelihood, MAGAs reap what they sow. Sadly, the rest of us must also pay for their stupidity.

I know they won’t elect a person of color statewide in Texas but now we’ll see if they can tolerate a real Christian. The large difference between Evangelical, Republican, prosperity gospel pseudo- Christians and Talarico is a pretty large gap. 🤷🏻‍♂️🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Not to mention the 150 or more service members who have been injured, some severely. They will need care for the rest of their lives in some form or other. Is Trump going to increase the VA budget to care for them?

These war casualties are not numbers. Each is a child, woman, or man, a mother, father, sister, brother, son or daughter. True whether American, Iranian, Israeli, or of other countries.

A firehose of never-ending lies, juvenile insults, inflammatory rhetoric, incompetence, cruelty, perversion, ignorance, inhumanity, disinformation, homophobia, bigotry & criminality.. Trump, his cabinet & supporters are EXHAUSTING! #Trump

This is why we have Article 1, Sec 8 requiring congressional approval. As for the children’s school the specialists (recently fired) to review targets and assure we don’t randomly strike: kill civilians.

but, those who have gone to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity in the name of Führer Trump and the false messiah Bibi the Butcher in Iran have willfully and willingly embraced it. they have no excuses, no justification, and no defense.

Every time Trump has a press conference the Democrats need to have one to rebut his lies. Every single time. "No, the war in Iran has not been won"

I am 67 and have not seen any war that was actually about defending America. I bet that research would find that most wars were created to sell weapons. We, as the victims, the normal citizens, can make a difference. First, quit voting for warmongers and quit glamorizing joining the military.

Trump brags that he’s the only president in 47 yrs with the guts to attack Iran. The other president didn’t attack Iran because they saw how easily Iran could disrupt the world oil markets. Trump didn’t because he’s just not smart enough. We had a deal that Trump ripped up…for this

Somewhere in Hell, Dick Cheney is grinning. His philosophy of "all your oil are belong to us" is being acted out. How much is Trumpistan willing to pay in US blood for Iranian oil? "I know that some of you will die in this noble cause, but, that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make..."

Let’s remember history. The gas crisis in the 70s was not due to a democrat. That was a republican governor who manipulated a country and industry with his power. Trump is no different. Follow the money.

I do not understand why Dems do not go for the jugular when talking about Trump. Trump campaigned on being the best deal maker, but time after time chooses war because he can’t get a deal done. Make this your talking point. He CAN’T MAKE A DEAL! Hit him where it hurts.

Considering the bloodlust by some on the right, I'm sure that there are some who asked for this. It's definitely not reflective of the vast majority of America, but there are definitely some who just wanted to bomb the hell out of Muslims, especially in Iran, children included.

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....and yet they obey him. A mad child rapist who led them into an illegal war. One wonders what needs to happen for US troops to refuse to blindly follow orders. Do they have to come from a female president, or one with Mexican parents?

Short term pain: we have seen and heard the two-word phrase 'gas prices' thousands of time over the past two weeks. Gas prices. Gas prices. Gas prices. OMFG! It suggests we won't survive the short term.

It is not short term pain for long term gain. It is long term pain for (Trump's) short tern gain. And that's before the almost 200 casualties we have had to date.

When is anyone in the relevant media actually going to do their job and challenge him and his cronies? Utterly treasonous behaviour by them all. And Republican Congress? Having said, that, I feel the same about large tracts of British organisations with their deference to Johnson (in particular).

And then you can talk to the parents of those killed by Iran through their proxies. 47 years, they've been killing our troops and citizens. They want a nuclear weapon to kill us. They want to start a nuclear war to usher in the next Mahdi.

In a country where many households are one missed paycheck away from ruin, "short term" means a day or two. But when millionaires and billionaires talk (about anything but corporate profits) they mean months or years.

How do you look a Gold Star family in the eye and call their child's death "short term pain"? How do you explain that to the mom in Kentucky whose son deployed last week? Name the date the pain ends. Name it. They can't. Because there is no plan.

Like in the Marx brothers movie, “Duck Soup”, sadly some Americans choose to follow the saying “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?" almost every time Trump speaks—especially when it comes to the needless, expensive, and tragically sad Iran war he started… and so much more!

And in their hearts know his words are true.. it isn't a religion.. it is truth..it is goodness and love for your neighbor and earth..that everyone person knows deep down it is in everybody's heart.. some people might just need a little shock to their systems to recall...

The US military is the nation's only jobs program. Overwhelmingly, that's the deal. The risk of a necessary (or at least beneficial) is counterbalanced by history of planning + adequate munitions. This isn't that. This is a hornet's-nest-stuck-on-foot shitshow military leadership advised against.

The short term pain is only for the 1% who might have to experience the oh so devastating pain of seeing the markets tumble for a bit which will allow most of them to gobble up everything dirt cheap before things start recovering and they get 10x richer.

But all then republicans have stock in arms company's. War us big money unless your the average American family working and watching your pay check shrink in taxes and insurance charges!

Ehhh... None in Iran's strike reach. And if oil keeps backing up with SoH closed, pumping will have to be halted & some of those wells will brick. Russia certainly asked for it so they could pull back from the brink of economic collapse due to pouring money/blood into a few miles of Ukraine's soil.

I so admire Talarico fighting for what he believes in Texas. I lived in Plano, Texas for 25 years. I totally understand the Texas mentality and here we have Talarico fighting for something different. This is a Good Fight!

"Wait one minute", I thought everyone figured out the Iran War was Trump's direct diversion from the Epstein files or after promising GOP'S oil investments scheme will pay off, at the same time Trump can transferring more wealth to his own family or blame it all on the Iran oil war crisis of 2026"!