{"id":2639513,"date":"2026-08-03T07:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignsuddenly-james-talarico-is-a-good-ol-boy-who-hates-taxes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:37:55","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignsuddenly-james-talarico-is-a-good-ol-boy-who-hates-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignsuddenly-james-talarico-is-a-good-ol-boy-who-hates-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly James Talarico Is A Good Ol&#8217; Boy Who Hates Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignsuddenly-james-talarico-is-a-good-ol-boy-who-hates-taxes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2639513&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This article provides a satirical and critical portrayal of James Talarico, a Texas politician.It begins with a humorous description of him as a simple country boy who loves his woman, his truck, cutting taxes, and securing borders. The piece critiques his shifting political image,contrasting his earlier advocacy for environmental issues and his vegetarian stance with his current focus on tax cuts and government handouts. It suggests that Talarico is adept at pretending to support popular policies like increasing free government services while together promising to cut taxes, highlighting a perceived lack of genuine commitment or coherence. The article also alleges that he uses pandering tactics, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >including racially charged rhetoric<\/a> and promises of free benefits to Black voters, describing his plans as intentionally segregated and insincere. it mentions his efforts to unify his party amidst political turbulence and predicts that he will continue to portray himself as a champion of tax cuts and populist free programs, even if it involves lying. the piece portrays Talarico as a skilled manipulator engaging in superficial politics aimed at garnering votes through promises of freebies and tax relief, with a sharp satirical tone throughout.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lemme tell ya \u2019bout ol\u2019 Jimmy Talarico, folks. He\u2019s a simple man, a country boy whose pappy was a preacher, and he loves just four things in this world: He loves <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JackSuggs711\/status\/2070914393936662637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his woman<\/a>. He loves drivin\u2019 them back roads in his ol\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/daveweigel\/status\/2082501846724190294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pick-\u2019em-up truck<\/a>. He loves cuttin\u2019 taxes. And he <em>loves<\/em> securin\u2019 the border.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Talarico Unveils His Border Security Plan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ZuoCGP-bO4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t been following Talarico\u2019s media campaign, spend a few minutes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@jamestalaricoTX\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">take a look<\/a>. The great thing about being a politician with no real internal self is that it becomes comically easy to turn into some new person, pivoting from Beto-light soy opera on themes like the non-binary God and loving trans kids to\u2026whatever it is that he\u2019s doing now. <\/p>\n<p>Apply the following comparison as widely as possible. This is James Talarico:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>In 2022, James Talarico said it\u2019s \u201cexistential\u201d to reduce meat consumption to fight climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign\u2026 We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tz6K1aGYsy\">pic.twitter.com\/tz6K1aGYsy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bobby_LaVallley\/status\/2034003528516051016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>And this is James Talarico:<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>He\u2019s the proudly meat-free candidate who loves to sit down to a big ol\u2019 plate of beef ribs (that he\u2019s scared to touch directly with his hand, but please do not allow yourself to notice this). Whatever you think, voter, he agrees with <em>you<\/em>. Please state your preference so the candidate may  concur.<\/p>\n<p>Like the transition between seasons of your favorite show, now, we\u2019re meetin\u2019 New Model Texas Jimmy. Suddenly the letter G disappears from the end of his words, and he talks constantly about how hard he worked up there in the legislature to force Republicans to cut taxes in Texas, \u2019cause they didn\u2019t wanna until Ol\u2019 Jimmy told \u2019em to. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2026\/06\/24\/ken-paxton-slams-james-talarico-on-tax-break-votes-talarico-claps-back\/90665041007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">He\u2019s lying<\/a>, but you already knew that.)<\/p>\n<p>We should be about three weeks away from the day Talarico hauls out his favorite shootin\u2019 irons and heads out for a day at the range, and it\u2019s kind of surprising that his campaign hasn\u2019t rented him an old hunting dog yet. The shootin\u2019 range will turn out to be the place where he does his best thinkin\u2019, or something like that. If they don\u2019t keep an eye on him, he may start to reminisce about the year he went to state with the Dillon Panthers.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Drowning\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EraE-qv80QU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>If you watch carefully, or even not carefully, you\u2019ll quickly see two themes develop in Talarico\u2019s messaging: One, he\u2019s going to aggressively cut everybody\u2019s taxes. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Talarico Plan to Suspend the Gas Tax\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gK4doKaHN3Q?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>And two, he\u2019s going to give everybody a <em>lot<\/em> more free stuff from the government.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Talarico unveils LANDMARK childcare plan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kSxnZi9HKeA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>How does he reconcile those two themes, government having less revenue plus government spending a lot more money? Short answer: LOL. He\u2019s not trying to. He\u2019s for X, and he\u2019s for Not-X. He\u2019s for all of it. If you\u2019re lookin\u2019 to get paid, Jimmy\u2019s your man. Details TK, mumble mumble.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to watch a very nearly miraculous piece of sociopathic pandering, grab a cup of coffee and settle in:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Talarico Unveils Plan For Black Voters\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S341PHgiAi4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Ol\u2019 Jimmy\u2019s sick and tired \u2014 sorry, sick and <em>tahrd<\/em> \u2014 of watchin\u2019 black folk get taken advantage of by a society that lives on all their hard work and don\u2019t give \u2019em nothin\u2019 in return. When Jimmy goes up to that Senate, folks, why, he\u2019s gonna make it <em>rain<\/em>. The free stuff from the government is gonna roll like a mighty river runnin\u2019 on down to a black sea. <\/p>\n<p>The town hall questions all boil down to <em>shouldn\u2019t we get more free stuff<\/em>, and Ol\u2019 Jimmy agrees 110 percent. He has a <em>special plan<\/em> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-happening-trump-now-up-in-michigan-florida-pennsylvania-and-tied-in-wisconsin-and-black-hispanic-and-evangelical-vote-is-up-from-2016\/\" title=\"IT&#039;S HAPPENING! Trump Now Up in Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and Tied in Wisconsin -- And Black, Hispanic and Evangelical Vote Is UP from 2016!\">black voters<\/a>, see. It\u2019s more or less\u2026segregated. I mean, in a good way!<\/p>\n<p>But even if you\u2019ve failed to be black and don\u2019t qualify for Ol\u2019 Jimmy\u2019s special plan, your taxes are going to be much lower, and at the same time the government is going to take care of your children for free and give you a free doctor. Jimmy\u2019s just an ol\u2019 country boy, folks, but he ain\u2019t gonna stand for nothin\u2019 less.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s too early for polls to matter much, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2026\/07\/warning-signs-for-paxton-as-independents-some-non-maga-republicans-drift-toward-talarico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">early signs<\/a> aren\u2019t great. As the state\u2019s attorney general, Ken Paxton was impeached with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/05\/27\/ken-paxton-texas-house-impeachment-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">60 Republican votes<\/a> in the Texas House (before being acquitted in the state Senate), and more than a third of Texas Republican voters <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.npr.org\/primary-election-results-2026\/states\/TX.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chose John Cornyn<\/a> in the primary. Paxton needs to pull his party back together. <\/p>\n<p>Talarico has a more united party, with only some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmd.com\/2026\/07\/09\/jasmine-crockett-blasts-her-texas-democratic-primary-loss-as-racist-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anger among black voters<\/a> over the defeat of Jasmine Crockett, and he seems to be dragging over some Republican squishes. He just needs to lie and pretend to love tax cuts for a few months.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s good enough at pretending. If you doubt that, watch.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chris Bray is a senior correspondent at The Federalist and a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army. He has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Jimmy Talarico: simple, country, tax-cutting, border-loving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2639515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/the-preacher.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[47063,59577,5894,83602],"class_list":["post-2639513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-conservative-views","tag-james-talarico","tag-politics","tag-tax-opposition"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/the-preacher.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639525,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639513\/revisions\/2639525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2639515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}