I dont live in Texas, and maybe wasnt watching quite as much coverage of Talarico as the people that voted for him, but one of the lines he used early on that I remembered was something like that he wanted the border to be like a front porch: A nice "welcome" mat, but a lock on the door.

What do you "may be"? They just gave you evidence he said it again yesterday. And not just again but this actual quote, not just a rehash of what you posted. You tried to falsely malign them by suggesting they were posting old information. But they didn't.

My point is he's been saying it before the election too. He was still hired.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/14/politics/video/im-a-border-security-democrat-james-talarico-on-immigration-digvid-vrtc

It may be, but he also said it in october.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/14/politics/video/im-a-border-security-democrat-james-talarico-on-immigration-digvid-vrtc

Exactly which statements did he make in this video that you disagree with? He's rightfully acknowledging that if anything is going to get done, Trump will have to be on board, and as said elsewhere almost no politicians in America are advocating for open borders, but Talarico does say he would like to "pass a pathway to citizenship for our neighbors who have been here for years, for decades, so they can come out of the shadows." In everyday parlance that sounds like he would like to have a way to naturalize illegal immigrants. How does that compare to the current actions?

I got really bad news for you

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/talarico-want-republicans-said-mean-182024558.html

Post election BTW.

There's also other dems who ran on working with Trump

https://turek4iowa.com/news/new-josh-turek-for-iowa-releases-new-ad-i-35/

You seem to be conflating democrats with the left, we are not the same thing. What liberal perceive as leftist infighting is us correcting democrats that they are not on the left.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TuawAR779V8

It seems it's from yesterday.

There’s basically no one in politics that is an “open borders” anything. There are some, but not many, people who want full open borders. Saying you’re going to be aware of the border security and being willing to fix the issues with it currently seems pretty normal to me, borders do matter to the very vast majority of American voters.

Talarico saying he's willing to work across the aisle is old news. It's also being used as fodder to cause infighting on the left. The bots got your nose, buddy. If Talarico does anything that hurts ordinary people, I'll be the first to condemn it, but I'll believe it when I see it and not because some Russian bitch bot posted old news from CNN with a bullshit byline. This is the left's greatest flaw - gullibility.

Fake news, it's from 7h 29m ago.

Yep.

Note that OP also:

• talk about ‘blue MAGA’ as if it’s a legitimate problem (it’s not)
• frequent doomer rhetoric
• From just a brief glance, seems they almost exclusively promotes lefitst infighting of various degrees

Even if they’re not a bot, they may as well be one.

It's from a month ago. They didn't want to bring it up then because it would help Talarico. Now they post non-linked quotes with no date.

This is from October? First of all, it's CNN, you never fucking know what might come out of their news room.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/14/politics/video/im-a-border-security-democrat-james-talarico-on-immigration-digvid-vrtc

Y'all are acting like Trump was ever interested in "fixing" the border. Or even attempting to reform it.

Democrats have a multi-decade history of doing these kind of things. They talk one thing in the primaries to keep the disenfranchised voters lured back into the party with hopes of change, only to make a 180 the moment the polls close.

When my elderly father makes demands we usually nod and agree to make him happy, then ignore it.

I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt for now.

Please tell me this bullshit we don't need a single Democrat working with Trump.

By all means, feel free to keep fedposting.

So sit down shut up and follow the rules? Lmao you definitely have some takes.

Are you just a wrecker who hopes voting blue and throwing Molotov cocktails works? The time and energy you expend being angry and making hateful, baseless accusations would do so much more if you would follow the suggestions.

Edit: salty? I reject you projecting your shadow onto me. Return to sender.

Empty handed. Gassed. Got nothing. Just salty to be salty. Its good when conservatives lose power actually. We know democrats suck thats not the point. But because your butterfly revolution didnt flutter on in this time, like it never will, you're pissed everyone didnt write in PSL or some shit on every entry when nothing was done to accomplish that. Take this: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert and maybe you can feel more than negativity again. The world has always been dark.

I'm not the one saying "throw Molotovs."

https://kbin.earth/m/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world/t/3350832/-/comment/15325938