Talarico Walks Back ‘Six Sexes’ Claim, Calls Himself a ‘Border Security Democrat’

Oh, well...we're all OK then. Plausible deniably for his campaign.

Legal Insurrection  

Uh huh. Trans ok unless “unsafe” or “unfair”? Sounds suspiciously like the lies democrats use when they push unlimited abortion. Men playing in women’s sports is inherently unsafe, unfair and violative of women’s rights and privacy. 

"Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico backtracked on his previous transgender comments during a six-minute interview with Fox News.

"During a 2021 Texas State House Public Education Committee hearing, Talarico claimed there are six sexes. This is what went down during that hearing:

“The bill seems to think there are two,” Talarico said to Republican Rep. Cole Hefner, the bill’s sponsor.

“The one thing I want us to all be aware of is that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes.”

He added: “In fact, there are six, which honestly, Rep. Hefner, surprised me, too.”

Talarico explained that there are “six really common biological sexes” based on X and Y chromosomes — not just XX (female) and XY (male), but also single X, XXY, XYY and XXXY.

“The point is that biologically speaking, scientifically speaking, sex is a spectrum, and oftentimes can be very ambiguous,” he said, according to the news outlet.

"Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor asked Talarico if he still believed that:

No, I’ve missed the mark on some of my past statements. I will be the first to admit it. What I meant is that there are two sexes, and then there’s a small percentage of people with genetic abnormalities. Obviously, I didn’t say it correctly. There are not six sexes, there are two. And I think the reason that politicians in that convention center across the street want to talk about six sexes is because they don’t want to talk about $6 diesel. Everywhere I go across the State of Texas people are struggling to survive in this economy. They are struggling to afford the basics, groceries, gas, utilities, health care. And that’s what I’m going to be focused on from now until Election Day. . . .

 More.

How an amateur photographer captured firefighters’ sacrifice on 9/11

 The Independent  

"Sorrentino, who was off-duty on September 11 but raced to the scene to help out, said he remains haunted by the sound of alarms worn by the hundreds of firefighters who were buried under the rubble."

. . . "“I knew that this was gonna be something really big,” McLamb, now 45, told The Independent. He immediately got his 35 mm Canon Rebel 2000 camera and climbed to the top floor of the 10-story building, snapping photos until he ran out of film.

"One of his pictures — of a lone fire truck racing across the Brooklyn Bridge toward the burning twin towers — is among the most remembered from that terrible day, symbolizing the bravery and sacrifice of the city’s first responders.

"All six crew members on the Ladder 118 fire truck were killed when the south tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m. while they evacuated people from the adjacent Marriott Hotel." . . .

"Amateur photographer Aaron McLamb took a photo of Ladder 118 fire truck crossing the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan during the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers. The image has come to symbolize the bravery and sacrifice of that terrible day (Aaron McClamb)"

Below: The Ladder 118 fire truck, left, sits demolished following the collapse 

. . . "Less than a month later, McLamb’s photo appeared on the front page of New York's Daily News under the headline, “The last run of Ladder 118.”

"After 25 years, McLamb said he’s grateful he could document the doomed crew’s heroism." . . .More.

VIDEO: Pink Ladies For Homicidal Maniacs and Why I’m for Flock Cameras

 Ann Coulter   

"I got off a plane from Europe completely jet-lagged, wrote two columns, and the New York Times spent the week generating the rest of the show for me.:

- My last dinner in London.

- At least on one matter Americans crush the British.

- Why we should never consider having a woman president.

- Elite women claim the world is stacked against them.

- Another thing Trump did right.

VIDEO: Pink Ladies For Homicidal Maniacs and Why I’m for Flock Cameras by Ann Coulter   Read on Substack      More...

Adam Carolla goes off on Gavin Newsom & California during GOP midterm convention

"As a life long Californian…I approve this message"

"The Golden Gate bridge would never get done in CA today. The bridge engineers innovated to make the bridge possible. Ever wonder how they got those huge [cables] up on the towers? They invented, built and implemented machines that spun the cables in place. Ever wonder why there's a brick structure under the S end of the bridge? Joseph Strauss, chief engineer, recognized it as a significant pre-civil war fort. He ordered a redesign of the bridge to save this historic structure. These issues alone would have frozen the bridge, just like similar issues delayed the E span of the Bay Bridge 10 years and added 9 BILLION $ to the cost. Just like the 'train to nowhere' has taken 20 years and spent $15 BILLION to not lay any track."

The rhetoric of September 10 and September 11

 "The collegiate interpretation of both of these dates, September 10 and September 11, is hopelessly absurd."  Dr. Ben Voth

Ben Voth   "On September 10, colleges and universities will observe the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Kirk was assassinated on a Utah college campus while debating members of the campus community. Kirk was embroiled in an escalating ideological debate about how higher education changes the American mindset and presses political arguments that are at least debatable. His assassination was a high mark of incivility." . . .

. . . We can barely recount the agency and purpose of the act 25 years later because the government of Iran, in the form of radical Shia supremacism, chants every day in their state-run mosques at Tehran, “Death to America!” That rhetorical world has not fallen away, and our own political sphere entertains the absurd notion that America deserved those 3,000 deaths and more. September 11 produced a war on terror rhetorically constructed to deflect the underlying religious motives of the 9/11 attacks and yielded massive military occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. To avoid a 20th anniversary in Afghanistan, our troops were abruptly withdrawn in August of 2021, and now women live in unspeakable subjugation to an archaic, outrageous sectarian branch of Islam practiced by the Taliban." . . .  More...

Dr. Ben Voth is professor of rhetoric and director of debate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is the author of several academic books regarding political communication, presidential rhetoric, and genocide.

Who's Telling "Yarns" Now?

Ann Coulter   

"Trump can’t move fast enough to excise this nonsense from our public spaces. Burn down our cities, but leave our history alone."

"One of the greatest things President Trump has done for the country is to begin the long project of stripping our national parks and museums of anti-American bile.

"Earlier this year, I wrote about The New York Times’s special Fourth of July interview with Jia Lynn Yang, former national editor — and apparently quite an expert on U.S. history. Her main point was that Americans who are proud of their country are simpletons who believe in fairy tales. She then proceeded to emit a firehose of made-up stories of her own. (Someone needs to do a deep dive into those SAT statistics produced in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.)

"She claims we should discount inspiring stories about our founding because back then, history was nothing but “great stories that people like to tell over and over” that gave Americans “a sense of meaning.”

"Yang is confusing us with Africans. As we have been repeatedly told, “storytelling” is a primary source of African history. Indeed, the Western obsession with written records and documentation is a well-known example of “white supremacy.”

"But according to Yang, in the early days of our country, historians were just “rich guys … with a lot of time” on their hands, making up “great yarns.”

"Yes, like that slouch Justice John Marshall, who wrote a five-volume biography of George Washington, based on thousands of pages of public documents, privates diaries and the president’s original letters. Or the story of Paul Revere’s ride and the battles of Lexington and Concord based on 23 depositions signed by 94 eyewitnesses, including local minutemen, bystanders, alarm riders, and even three captured British soldiers, as well as Revere’s eight-pageaccount of his evening.

"Today, we have much more serious historians, like C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost, who wrote the book “A Black Queer History of the United States.” (A hint for those of you looking to do some early Christmas shopping!)

"To be fair, Yang doesn’t cite Snorton and Bost as examples of the “professional historians” she respects. The ones she cites are worse. They are Charles Beard and Annette Gordon-Reed. . . .More.

Women Should Rally Around Erika Kirk Instead Of Lindsay Clancy

Shawn Fleetwood  

This spiritual sickness isn’t going to be cured overnight. It’s a deeply embedded societal infection that’s going to require men and women of faith to step up and fight the battles that matter when they matter. And sometimes that starts with just saying “no” in the face of evil — even if it means standing alone. 

"American women far and wide are rallying together to support one of their own. This woman, they say, has suffered immensely and deserves the public’s utmost compassion. According to them, she is both a victim and a shining symbol of bravery and courage in the face of adversity.

"The female these women are talking about is not Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative icon Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated one year ago on Thursday. Rather, they’re referring to Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman recently on trial for killing her three young children in cold blood.

"It all sounds completely ridiculous and downright evil because it is. And yet, that’s the reality we find ourselves living in.

"All across the nation, these Real Housewives of TikTok and Clancy truthers are running to Clancy’s defense, demanding that she be declared innocent for a horrendous crime she doesn’t deny. They tell us that she is the real victim; that it’s actually her husband’s fault; and a host of other excuses needed to convince themselves that the woman with blood on her hands deserves to walk free.

"And if you thought this diseased mentality wouldn’t find its way into our justice system, think again.

"Since the case was declared a mistrial due to disagreement among the jury, three Clancy jurors — all middle-aged white women — have come forward to tell their side of the story on camera. And wouldn’t you know that one of their main objectives has been to attack the lone juror (a man) who reportedly refused to let Clancy off for her evil acts." . . . More.

Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. 

Lindsay Clancy Jurors Are Reminiscent Of The Covid Cult   

“When I see somebody out in the world who’s not wearing a mask, I instantly think, ‘You are a threat. Or you are selfish. Or you are a Covid denier and you definitely haven’t been vaccinated,” rabid leftist Rachel Maddow scolded on the old MSNBC". 

"Female juror on the male holdout: “He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay Clancy killed her children.'” . . . Dinesh D'Souza

. . . "Yes, the 11 are frustrated with the one. The judge was forced to declare a mistrial. A throng of pink shirt-clad Lindsay Clancy fangirls have been forced to cry into their TikTok accounts.  "But for now at least justice hasn’t died with the three little children Lindsay Clancy strangled to death. " . . . 

OMG! Several Lindsay Clancy jurors spoke and unwittingly indicted themselves   

. . . "Nothing, no claim of insanity, of “not responsible due to mental. Illness,” is a legal excuse for the cold-blooded murder of one’s own children.  There never is and can never be, an excuse for such a horrific crime.". . . Patricia McCarthy 

Where Is The “Climate Emergency” |

 Skating Under The Ice 

"What exactly is it that people are hyperventilating about? What are people afraid of, specifically? Just where is the “existential threat” folks rave about … or even a serious threat?"

"[NOTE: This is a copy of my post over at WattsUpWithThat.com. I have reposted it here because a commenter on X refused to read it at WUWT and insisted that I provide him with a copy from somewhere else. Yeah, I know it makes no difference, but here it is anyhow. All publicity is good publicity …]

"Despite my asking over and over in a host of forums, including in my previous post, to date, nobody has been able to tell me just what this supposed “CLIMATE EMERGENCY!!” actually is and where I might find evidence that it exists. Here are some facts for the folks who think that the climate is a real danger to humanity.

"As a prologue, to give some perspective for this whole analysis, here’s what all the climate alarmists benefitting from the “climate emergency” are in an uproar about." . . .

'You Have Stolen My Dreams And My Childhood,' Says Girl Currently Gracing Cover Of Time Magazine | Babylon Bee

. . . "According to sources, a girl who has a pretty awesome childhood, gaining fame and accolades and even being featured on the cover of Time Magazine lectured the nation for stealing her dreams and her childhood.

""You have stolen my dreams and my childhood," said the girl who had a pretty good childhood, sailing around the world, getting fame, fortune, and praise and also being entirely immune from criticism because she's both a brave activist and also just a child. "How dare you."

"Despite her scathing lecture laying out all the ways in which adults have destroyed her childhood, she's a sought-after speaker over whom most of the world fawns, garnering breathless media praise and attention for telling others how to live their lives. The girl is currently living out her exact dreams and having "one of the most awesome childhoods of all time," so it's unclear how her childhood was stolen from her." . . .

Climate narrative ‘obliterated’: Satellite images reveal massive bedrock collapse beneath glacier in Nepal

"For all the usual suspects whining that "climate change" caused the flood in Tibet, it turns out that it was caused by a collapse of the bedrock, not by melting glaciers." Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach) / X

Climate narrative ‘obliterated’: Satellite images reveal massive bedrock collapse beneath glacier in Nepal – ‘Turns out that the avalanche was triggered by the collapse of bedrock…not the glacier collapsing itself’ – Climate Depot

. . . "Initial satellite images taken on Wednesday were obscured by clouds and debris, making it possible to determine only that a section of the glacier had broken away from Langtang Lirung peak, near Nepal’s border with Tibet. Images taken the following day provided a clearer picture, showing that the bedrock beneath the glacier had also collapsed.

“It looked like there was not only this glacier that had failed, but a much larger chunk of the bedrock of the mountainside itself that had given way,” Shugar said.

Cook, a geomorphologist at Université Grenoble Alpes in France, said the resulting debris buried villages as it slammed into the valley floor. The steep and narrow terrain allowed the debris to maintain its momentum, while melting ice added to the flow of water and mud." . . .

"What caused the floods?
"Scientists had initially pointed to a glacier burst caused by rapid ice melt as a major factor behind the disaster. The US Geological Survey (USGS), which initially faced reports linking the event to an earthquake, later clarified that it was caused by the “break-off of a glacier”." . . .

Just as with TV preachers; here comes the plea for money, or else.

James Talarico Denies Jesus Is the Only Way, Says Allah Leads to Same Truth

Just as a "religious organization" refers to their messages at your door as "current truth" because of changes in their doctrine over the years.

 Breitbart     He's the go-to source for parody:

"Male and female he created them. And then He realized that was bigoted
 of Him, and made 7 more genders.": Good on the Lord for checking
 his privilege and doing better. - Talarico. (Babylon Bee)

"Democrat Texas Senate candidate James Talarico denied that Jesus Christ is the way to truth, saying Allah and other religious paths can lead people to the same divine truth.

In a newly resurfaced video, Talarico says Islam and Christianity are “equal pathways to truth,” rejecting the Christian teaching that Jesus Christ is the only path to salvation. Talarico said he views all religions as different paths leading to the same truth.

“I find that they’re all kind of equal pathways to truth. You know, that’s how I think, you know, I always think of all of the world’s faith traditions as like a circle with,” Talarico said. “That divine mystery of the universe in the middle. And we all have different names for that mystery.”

Talarico specifically included Allah, Nirvana, and the Great Spirit among the names he said people use for what he called the same “divine mystery.”

“Whether it’s God or Yahweh or Allah or Nirvana, the Great Spirit, whatever you call it, this is all, you know, different pathways to the same kind of fundamental truth of reality,” Talarico continued.

Talarico has made similar comments about religion before. As Breitbart News reported, he delivered a Texas House invocation in 2021 that referenced the Torah, Quran, Gita, Dharma, and First Epistle of John before concluding, “In all your many names, we pray.”

Talarico has also faced controversy over other statements about Christianity. He previously called Christianity the “most violent” religion and said it had done “more damage” to Islam than any other faith, Breitbart News reported. He has also said God is “beyond gender” and claimed that the Bible is “silent on abortion.” . . .

Marxist Talarico – this is his Church.

Schiff: Israel 'Certainly' Guilty of 'Ethnic Cleansing'

 Breitbart  

"And there should be investigations, because there may very well have been war crimes committed as well.”

"During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Story Is,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) stated that he wouldn’t say Israel is guilty of genocide “because genocide has a very specific legal meaning. I don’t think this meets the definition of genocide, but I think it’s certainly ethnic cleansing.”

"Host Elex Michaelson asked, “There [are] a lot of folks in the Democratic Party, in your caucus, who feel like Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, who has committed war crimes, that Israel is an apartheid state, and that the United States should not fund any military weapons to Israel because they are funding a genocide. What do you say to that?”

"Schiff answered, “Well, I voted against the last two arms requests of the administration for Israel, for a variety of reasons. First, I think they’re using excessive force in Gaza. I also think that the expansion of the war against Iran in Lebanon is not in the interests of either Israel or peace in the region. I also recently led a letter that over 40 of my Democratic colleagues joined, condemning the settler violence in the West Bank, which I think is just contributing to the loss of life and instability. And the proposed settlements, now, in a new settlement block that would effectively prevent a Palestinian state, I am vehemently opposed to. I do think Israel has a right to exist and exist as a Jewish state. I think it has a right to defend itself. But that right doesn’t go further to using excessive force to ethnically cleanse or destroy whole blocks of neighborhoods in Gaza or elsewhere.” . . . More.

Stay Home, Elect Socialists

Stay home and young skulls full of mush will choose who governs America.

Joseph Ford Cotto   

. . . "History will record who saw the danger and still stayed on the couch. America either keeps the strength she has begun to recover or yields it to people who despise the country that became greater than any other."

"The November midterms will determine whether the country keeps advancing under President Donald J. Trump. The alternative is Democrats dragging her backward into the abyss of malicious weakness and willful disorder.

Republican voters who sit this cycle out will hand power to a party that has been seized by its most radical elements. Those elements make no secret of their contempt for the country that virtually all Trump voters still love.

Democrats, from city halls to Capitol Hill, now answer to young activists who call themselves “democratic socialists.” Their warped worldview treats the majority-white West as a thief that stole its wealth from the nonwhite developing world. Their intent is to drain America of her capital so others, especially from Muslim countries, can exact revenge.

That is not hidden. It is the operating theory of the insurgent left that now holds the blue party hostage.

If Democrats take the U.S. House, the Senate, or both, they will spend the next two years doing everything within reach to derail the Trump administration. They will also try to wreck every Republican presidential bid in 2028. Pretending anything to the contrary is an especially pathetic form of self-deception. The stakes are that high.

Consider the blue record.

Just days ago, 192 House Democrats voted against a resolution denouncing socialism and the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America. Months earlier, nearly 100 House Democrats had already refused to condemn socialism. Their votes confirm what Trump has said: the radical left wants open borders, abolished police, shuttered prisons, taxpayer benefits for illegal aliens, voting by non-citizens, and policies that favor criminals over citizens.

Every Democrat in Congress voted against the largest tax cut in American history. They opposed ending taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security. They opposed Trump investment accounts for children and an expanded child-care credit meant to help 40 million families. The blue team now works to repeal the tax cuts that power the American economy.

Fifty-three Democrats voted against declaring Iran a state sponsor of terrorism. Trump is the first president in 47 years willing to confront a regime that chants “Death to America” and pursues nuclear weapons. Democrats, beyond the farthest reach of shame, chose the opposite side." . . .More.

Dr. Joseph Ford Cotto is the creator, host, and producer of News Sight, delivering sharp insights on the key events that shape our lives.  He publishes Dr. Cotto’s Digest, sharing how business and the economy really impact us all.  During the 2024 presidential race, he developed the Five-Point Forecast, which accurately predicted Donald Trump’s national victory and correctly called every swing state.  Cotto holds a doctorate in business administration and is a Lean Six Sigma Certified Black Belt.