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Time Magazine
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Time Magazine
A Joe Rogan-Backed Democrat: James Talarico Draws National Attention
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME's politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Over the weekend, a lot of institutional Washington suddenly and enthusiastically discovered James Talarico, a seminary student and member of the Texas state House. The find came during an impressive outing for the 36-year-old Democrat on Joe Rogan's podcast in which the aspiring preacher espoused the same brand of sharp sound bytes that has earned him almost a million TikTok followers. Over more than two hours, Talarico explained to Rogan why a Texas law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms is 'un-Christian,' the coming political fights won't be about Left or Right but rather the top and the bottom of society, and how both parties get it wrong when they treat politicians like Messianic figures. 'James Talarico, you need to run for President,' Rogan said. 'We need someone who is actually a good person.' Still, Talarico's sudden place in the imagination of D.C.'s elites is not entirely unwarranted. He is seen as a dark-horse candidate to challenge Sen. John Cornyn's already dicey re-election bid in Texas, where a scandal-soaked Attorney General Ken Paxton may plausibly land a Trump endorsement for his primary challenge. Paxton is ahead in polling and is better-liked among Texas' MAGA base, but Cornyn, who's held his seat since 2002 and is still a power center in the Upper Chamber, is seen as a stronger candidate in the general election. Their fight to the March primary is already getting ugly, as Paxton's wife has recently filed for divorce 'on biblical grounds,' which Cornyn cited to The Washington Post as news that 'is going to tell a lot of people that there was more fire there where there was smoke.' Talarico might have some steps between his desk in Austin and the Resolute Desk, to be sure. Few have seen an ascent that clear-cut, although Barack Obama went from the Illinois state Senate to a national ticket in a harried four years. And the excitement the Texan is drawing might say more about the anemic state of the Democratic Party than Talarico's national prospects. There is a deep reservoir of talent on the Democratic side in the Lone Star State, many of whom are champing at the bit to face a potentially bruised GOP nominee at the top of the 2026 ticket. Former Rep. Colin Allred, who lost a bid for Senate last year against incumbent Ted Cruz, said he is racing next year for the seat against Cornyn. Rep. Joaquin Castro, too, is in the mix for the race. And former Rep. Beto O'Rourke on Sunday said he was undecided on running for the Democratic nomination himself; he unsuccessfully ran for Senator in 2018, President in 2020, and Governor in 2022. 'I'm very optimistic about Democrats' opportunity in 2026,' O'Rourke said on CNN's 'State of the Union.' Still, let's zoom out for a minute. For close to two decades, we've been just one election away from Texas turning blue. The last time a Democrat won statewide in Texas was 1994—a year before Windows 95 hit the market. Texas is in a record dry spell, and there's no point pretending otherwise. O'Rourke is high-water mark in recent memory, and he captured 48% of the vote in his 2018 campaign. He raised $80 million and impressed even those of us who went to Texas that October with plans to slag him. And, to his credit, Cornyn is a far less divisive figure than O'Rourke's rival in 2018, Sen. Ted Cruz. To his credit, Talarico sounds a whole lot different than the partisan Democrats or Republicans here in Washington. 'I think we need to start listening to Democrats who are in red and purple areas. There is something about living in a red state that makes you different from a national Democrat who lives in a blue city on the coast. I think we learn how to talk with people outside of our party in a more effective way, because it's a matter of political survival out here,' Talarico told Rogan. 'I can't pass anything in the Texas Legislature without getting Republican support, so I've had to find ways to build relationships and build bridges across partisan divides as a Texas Democrat.' Keep in mind, he is making these comments as national Democrats are weighing their own post-2024 reckoning. According to reporting over the weekend from The New York Times, their autopsy of the Joe Biden-turned-Kamala Harris Democratic ticket last year will avoid any real accounting for Biden's decision to run or any real choices Harris made. Instead, the focus of the still-being-written report is on outside allied groups' choices, a move that kind of avoids the point and spares the party and real accountability. Talarico might be able to put some distance between himself and national Democrats without too much effort. His studies of theology are not natural fits in the secular Democratic identity of late. His fluency on digital platforms may mesh neatly with a relatively younger cohort of Democrats who finally seem to be meeting voters where they are on social platforms while the Old Guard clings to a playbook from the 1990s rooted in buying television ads and postcards. And Talarico is so far outside the splash zone of partisan Washington that he might just be able to stand unstained by the ugliness of this town. Still, that so many Democrats spent the weekend obsessing over a relatively unknown figure in Austin, who represents about 200,000 people in a deep-blue district, shows the extent of their desperation. They failed to stop Trump's hugely unpopular tax- and spending-cuts package. They are heading into an August recess with an unhappy base and little to show for a completely shut-out-of-power reality. The midterms should be ripe for Democratic gains but the party has no one at the helm calling the shots. And there won't be a viable leader until Democrats pick a presidential nominee for 2028. Given the uncertainty drifting toward that moment, Talarico is just as plausible as anyone—blessed by a podcaster who helped Trump win the White House and the manosphere last year. It's long odds, but Democrats don't exactly have a guide to firmer ground in the offing. Make sense of what matters in Washington. Sign up for the D.C. Brief newsletter.
Daily Mirror
14-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mirror
'One year after he was shot, Donald Trump has built a private army'
A year ago today, a bloodied Donald Trump raised a fist to the world and vowed to "fight, fight, fight". The world's liberals slapped their foreheads that a 20-year-old who got 8 shots off couldn't have got one bullet on the right side of his ear, while the right-wingers rallied to back a candidate who now appeared to have divine protection. Mugs, hats, t-shirts, bogus claims that it was staged or a Leftist conspiracy all toughened up the "must we?" attitude of Republican voters who one minute saw a twice-impeached, adjudicated rapist, liar, business failure and convicted felon and the next, saw a saviour. The Messianic mutterings of QAnon and the Proud Boys became mainstream voter chow, and a landslide was inevitable. Trump was always going to win against a rambling, declining Joe Biden - but after dodging a bullet he won bigly, and then set about dismantling the nation's rules, institutions, economy, and friendships. He has been allowed to by an American people who have yet to notice the bullet hit them, instead. American politics are slightly more violent than Sicilian weddings, and it is an historical fact that every assassination, attempted or otherwise, serves only to sweep the target to power. Voters everywhere, but particularly in the US, take it hard when their right to choose is threatened. Even more so, when it's by someone who can't shoot straight. Most readers will know what happened next - the blizzard of executive orders, the pardoning of rioters we could all have sworn were in search of a Reichstag fire of their very own. But aside from some limited riots in Los Angeles, many seem unaware that Trump has built a growing private army financed by taxpayer dollars and granted insane powers of arrest and detention. American exceptionalism has long held that immigrants will ruin the country. Only the native tribes have any evidence to back that up, but the ones who shout it loudest are the whitest, biggest and most amnesiac part of the demographic, and consequently loudest. Their poster boy is Tom Homan, a former police officer promoted to Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Barack Obama but since boosted, via a stint as a Fox News commentator, to being ICE's intellectual and cultural leader. He talks about himself in the third person. He advocates picking on parents of children born in the USA with birthright citizenship, because "most parents don't want to be separated" and you can deport the next generation too. His budget has gone from $8bn to £28bn, and one of his henchmen just instructed deportations with as little as 6 hours' notice to countries a person has no connection to, and which do not have to be safe. ICE is now the best-funded agency of the US federal government, and its agents have powers that corrupt cops can only dream of. They can get a warrant without a judge. They can arrest someone for 'reasonable suspicion', which is the same as 'if they fancy it'. They can conceal their identities, making them immune from the sort of lawsuits and scrutiny police officers get. They have tear gas. The scant limits to their powers are rarely imposed, because their victims are generally deported out of reach of a complaints process. They are, in short, armed paramilitaries with all the powers of hell, coupled with the fervor unique to a job that attracts racists and provides weapons and deniability. The only difference between ICE and the Klansmen slave-hunters who terrorised Harriet Tubman is that, in the 19th century, there was somewhere safe in America to go to. ICE have, so far, arrested the elected financial controller of New York after he support a constituent in immigration court. They have arrested 57,000 'suspected' illegal immigrants, 71% of whom have been convicted of no crime and more than half not even suspected of a crime. They have deported American children, people with documents and the right to remain, on evidence as flimsy as insisting that papers are forged. Most are denied any meaningful legal representation, and they are predominantly Mexican and South American. According to Homan, who is determined to lead "the biggest deportation operation this country has even seen" since, presumably, the arrival of smallpox, the extra money will pay for agents, lawyers and judges ( wait, you can buy those? - Ed ), holding pens, and militarised raids on Democrat cities that traditionally protect their migrant workforce. If this isn't all screaming 'SS' at you yet, then you did not pay attention in history class. The one upside is that ICE arrests are, despite all the above, at an historic low. Sleepy Joe was better at this, and he took a nap every afternoon. But the embarrassing rates are why Homan and others are so vociferously vicious, and why their budget is now big enough to buy several countries a nuclear deterrent and the submarines to put it in. The longer that ICE fails, the more will be thrown at it, and the more its stormtroops will overreach. Next year Trump faces a test at the ballot box in the shape of the mid-term elections, which could remove his slim majorities in Congress. His approval ratings are below that of Obama and Biden, and keep dipping even below that of his first term. His MAGA fans are riled at Sudden Disappearing Jeffrey Epstein Client List, at the reversal of support for Ukraine, and the continuing presence of Hispanic faces. Trump's ear is all better, but his Messiah complex is not. ICE agents have raided schools, arrested leukaemia patients and 9-year-old girls. They are, in effect, a private army tasked with breaking the law, and you can bet your last taxpayer dollar that next year they'll patrol polling stations in case 'migrants' dare to vote. America is headed for a very uncivil war with itself - and now Trump has troops trained to "fight, fight, fight" for his idea of what's right.
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Jim Cramer on Intel Corporation (INTC): ‘Don't Expect the Stock to Go Up'
We recently published a list of . In this article, we are going to take a look at where Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) stands against other top AI news everyone is talking about. Jim Cramer in a latest program on CNBC talked about the ongoing 'rebellion' against the data center and the impact of tariffs on the broader market. Cramer said that data centers have been a key story in the stock market for months but now it's losing steam due to a variety of factors. He also mentioned the weakening economic indicators. 'I know these tariffs have people on edge. Consumer confidence indicators have just plummeted. Interest rates are sinking for fear of an economy gone soft. The key 10-year Treasury yield is back to where it was in mid-December when many thought we were looking at many more rate cuts than we've gotten. We have had to put rate cuts talk on hold. Now it's right back because there's a newfound paralysis—too many things happening at once, scaring people.' Cramer said that the 'seeds of doubt' about data center chip demand were sown following the launch of DeepSeek and the market is still reeling from its effects. READ ALSO: 7 Best Stocks to Buy For Long-Term and 8 Cheap Jim Cramer Stocks to Invest In For this article we picked 10 AI stocks the market is buzzing about these days. With each stock, we have mentioned the number of hedge fund investors. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter's strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 373.4% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 218 percentage points (). Number of Hedge Fund Investors: 68 Jim Cramer recently commented on Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)'s latest quarterly results on CNBC. 'I thought the cash flow was very good, better than I expected. The first quarter is historically not a great quarter for Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC); it will not be a great quarter. But I think they're trying to stabilize the ship by talking about how they have enough cash to be able to get through. There was no Messianic message about Intel. Don't expect the stock to go up, but perhaps the trajectory will not be just straight.' Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) latest results have increased fears the company will need a lot of time before seeing any kind of significant improvement. In the first quarter, the company sees revenue of $12.2 billion at the midpoint of its guidance, reflecting an 11-18% decline quarter-over-quarter. The company has also scrapped its plans to launch Falcon Shores, its next-generation AI GPUs. A few months back it was a key catalyst expected to debut in late 2025. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) Clearwater Forest AI data center server CPUs, which were set to use its 18A chip (similar to TSMC's 3nm nodes), have had their launch delayed from FY2025 to FY2026. These setbacks are likely to affect Intel's already struggling Data Center & AI business segment. Consensus expectations suggest the company won't see positive free cash flow for at least the next three years. Invesco Growth and Income Fund stated the following regarding Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) in its Q3 2024 investor letter: 'Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC): The chipmaker reported weaker-than-expected quarterly results as revenues declined and earnings were below expectations. Management also provided weaker guidance going forward; the stock fell on the news. We sold the position during the quarter. Overall, INTC ranks 7th on our list of top AI news everyone is talking about. While we acknowledge the potential of INTC as investment, our conviction lies in the belief that under the radar AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than INTC but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock. READ NEXT: 20 Best AI Stocks To Buy Now and Complete List of 59 AI Companies Under $2 Billion in Market Cap Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Jim Cramer on Intel Corporation (INTC): ‘Don't Expect the Stock to Go Up'
We recently published a list of . In this article, we are going to take a look at where Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) stands against other top AI news everyone is talking about. Jim Cramer in a latest program on CNBC talked about the ongoing 'rebellion' against the data center and the impact of tariffs on the broader market. Cramer said that data centers have been a key story in the stock market for months but now it's losing steam due to a variety of factors. He also mentioned the weakening economic indicators. 'I know these tariffs have people on edge. Consumer confidence indicators have just plummeted. Interest rates are sinking for fear of an economy gone soft. The key 10-year Treasury yield is back to where it was in mid-December when many thought we were looking at many more rate cuts than we've gotten. We have had to put rate cuts talk on hold. Now it's right back because there's a newfound paralysis—too many things happening at once, scaring people.' Cramer said that the 'seeds of doubt' about data center chip demand were sown following the launch of DeepSeek and the market is still reeling from its effects. READ ALSO: 7 Best Stocks to Buy For Long-Term and 8 Cheap Jim Cramer Stocks to Invest In For this article we picked 10 AI stocks the market is buzzing about these days. With each stock, we have mentioned the number of hedge fund investors. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter's strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 373.4% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 218 percentage points (). Number of Hedge Fund Investors: 68 Jim Cramer recently commented on Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)'s latest quarterly results on CNBC. 'I thought the cash flow was very good, better than I expected. The first quarter is historically not a great quarter for Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC); it will not be a great quarter. But I think they're trying to stabilize the ship by talking about how they have enough cash to be able to get through. There was no Messianic message about Intel. Don't expect the stock to go up, but perhaps the trajectory will not be just straight.' Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) latest results have increased fears the company will need a lot of time before seeing any kind of significant improvement. In the first quarter, the company sees revenue of $12.2 billion at the midpoint of its guidance, reflecting an 11-18% decline quarter-over-quarter. The company has also scrapped its plans to launch Falcon Shores, its next-generation AI GPUs. A few months back it was a key catalyst expected to debut in late 2025. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) Clearwater Forest AI data center server CPUs, which were set to use its 18A chip (similar to TSMC's 3nm nodes), have had their launch delayed from FY2025 to FY2026. These setbacks are likely to affect Intel's already struggling Data Center & AI business segment. Consensus expectations suggest the company won't see positive free cash flow for at least the next three years. Invesco Growth and Income Fund stated the following regarding Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) in its Q3 2024 investor letter: 'Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC): The chipmaker reported weaker-than-expected quarterly results as revenues declined and earnings were below expectations. Management also provided weaker guidance going forward; the stock fell on the news. We sold the position during the quarter. Overall, INTC ranks 7th on our list of top AI news everyone is talking about. While we acknowledge the potential of INTC as investment, our conviction lies in the belief that under the radar AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than INTC but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock. READ NEXT: 20 Best AI Stocks To Buy Now and Complete List of 59 AI Companies Under $2 Billion in Market Cap Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey. Sign in to access your portfolio
