Campaign mocks candidate as 'vegan' over potato, egg & cheese taco

DBdant158

Talarico did say he's been eating Texas BBQ since before Paxton's first indictment. 😏

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯)97

Also…when did egg and cheese become vegan?

Mad_as_hell (Maddie)67

When did vegan become a slur?

RI Smith35

Eggs and dairy: core components of the vegan diet

Curly sue32

Talerico had a great response. "I'm an eighth-generation Texan. I've been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton's first indictment".

No Ka Oi15

Says the guy whose wife cited "biblical reasons" in their divorce....

Donalyn13

Vegans are awesome... but they don't eat eggs or cheese. God these assholes are stupid.

Monitor Lizard12

a) I wish this would fall out of the discourse because it sounds awesome and makes me hungry b) I know it's obvious, but I'm hung up on Cheese. Famously Not Vegan

Shane Johnson11

People eating what they like is a threat to America? This is truly their core, control of every facet of our lives.

fsquared11

Talarico will eat him for breakfast - and that should put the whole "vegan" thing to rest quite definitively.

Michael Planey10

As if potato, egg and cheese is vegan 😂

Eric10

If you eat eggs, you're not vegan... right?

Elizabeth Wingfield9

Eggs, cheese and butter are not vegan!

PeteO'L 🇦🇺 🇮🇪 🧷 🐸 🚲8

I believe God IS non-binary. We're all supposed to be created in their image. Guys, Girls, Trans, Gay, Straight, Lesbian, the WHOLE rainbow- and yes, NON-BINARY!!

In what world are eggs and cheese vegan?

lwilde11.bsky.social7

Vegans don't eat eggs or cheese. Typical ignorant Repug ignorance.

justicejunkie52.bsky.social6

Paxton, the most corrupt AG ever, has reduced his buddy’s sentence for raping a little boy over a 3-yr period to less than 30 days ( he originally reduced the years his pedo buddy was to serve to a mere 60 days but this was reduced further for “good behavior.” Btw, Paxton is lying about Talarico!

onefinekitty.bsky.social6

Wow! A person who doesn’t kill & eat animals & thinks a supernatural being may not be a white male! That is really threatening . . . to the most ignorant among us!

Woke Nora6

That sounds right on point for that crooked sleaze Paxton. His own staff accused him of corruption in 2020. He ended up apologizing to them & paying out $3.3 Million in taxpayer money to settle with them.

Brian Morans6

I love how Republicans think that's what people care about when gas is over $4.50 a gallon, inflation is heating up at 3.8%, and there's no end in sight for an idiotic war of choice Trump bumbled into like a moron.

Chrisser5

lol -egg & vegan …the R’s are idiots

LeCaffeinated5

Vegans are known for their love of cheese and eggs

Very Demure Very Cunty5

Eggs and cheese are not “vegan”. I should know, I’m a ten year vegan

Sarafiyah5

In Texas they believe eggs come from plants.

Missy and Tilly Corgi5

And they are so stupid to realize that you can't eat cheese if you were vegan....

terps3040.bsky.social4

Eggs are not Vegan. Idiots

Dr Robin4

Somebody should provide the GOP with a dictionary. Aside from not being able to pronounce word vegan correctly, they don’t know the definition.

Karen Roze4

Haha. I thought “oh? He’s vegan? That’s fucking cool” then I’m like wait eggs? Cheese? lol Paxton, what an ass

Nora Mae4

The vegan comment is because of cattle farmers from TX will be voting and stereotypically vegans are hippie liberal types. Plus, MAGA can’t debate so they label their enemy. Which works for Trumps thus far

mbarrows.bsky.social4

Paxton is so stupid he doesn’t know what a vegan eats

Also, why would anyone care if he is a vegan? On the other hand, why doesn't anyone care that his opponent is a corrupt criminal?

Lee Murray (she/her)4

…and even if Talarico is a vegan or a vegetarian, who the fuck cares? What the fuck is wrong with these lunatics?

ny2sf.bsky.social4

Paxton does not know the definition of “ vegan” or the difference between biological sex and gender. Talarico is a meat eater

Denverite4

I get the sense they don’t even know what vegan means if they think eggs and cheese are vegan

JL pSmith4

Ummmm, egg = not vegan… also cheese = not vegan. MAGA = not smart.

Xenomorph4

Especially once you consider that eating eggs and cheese is the opposite of vegan.

Clara McK4

It’s not even a vegan order 🙄 I’d never heard Paxton speak before tonight. He seems like Trump, maybe even slicker.

GeorgeAtomic⚛️RadioActive☢️4

Why are republicans allowed to lie but democrats are tied to a stake & red ants 🐜 given a meal?

Karen H3

If he had an egg & cheese, then...oh nevermind

Llewellyn 🇺🇦🇵🇸3

Weird how those aren't all vegan ingredients. In fact, they aren't even mostly vegan ingredients. They are mostly egg and cheese.

JAMPH3

If you are not constantly signalling your masculinity in the most brain-dead obnoxious ways then you're a sissy according to these people.

kropadope428.bsky.social3

This whole time I'm thinking what's wrong with him being a vegan? So focused in on disputing their heinous cultural vomit that I, in the moment, forget they're also complete liars.

nperezbowman 3

a couple of observations...vegans do not eat eggs or cheese. the very essence of God is spiritual...no gender necessary...sort of non-binary? right?

Liberty3

Imagine thinking being a vegan is an insult. They have issues.

Hillary Hillarious3

Every vegan I know orders liquid chickens and cow milk curds.

Dan Thiell3

Look, if you're not having a half rack of ribs for breakfast, should you even be allowed to vote?

Leena St. Michael3

Vegans don’t eat eggs or dairy. 🙄

Deno Tas3

Ken Paxton doesn't know what a vegan is and why that's bad news for James Talarico

Interesting Chips 🌿🙂✝️💀3

If he doesn't eat beef, he's a threat to my way of life! What a radical!

EuphoricFuzion🕯️3

Yeah, because flimflam works. What @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social needs to do is Tiktok clips of Talarico eating in restaurants all over Texas. Start with BBQ spots, but then do everything else. "I support all Texas food service businesses, from BBQ to Veigh-gan"

green496.bsky.social3

Yum, everyone knows vegans love eggs and cheese

Blobert v3.03

Paxton is an adulterer and a criminal.

drmccoy1969.bsky.social3

Have these old white dudes never eaten…a breakfast burrito?

Stevie Z3

Anyone with an IQ over 50-- which excludes 50% of white Texans-- knows that egg and cheese are not vegan.

lih83.bsky.social3

Even if he IS vegan, why do they care what someone eats or doesn't eat? And exactly who thinks God has a reproductive system of ANY kind? What absolute knuckleheads!

wookiehopper2

Talarico's response to this should just be a 10 second silent video of him eating one of those giant ren fair turkey legs, starting at the camera

Axe2

Pretty sure that still counts as vegan in Texas

Sharon Machlis2

Way beside the point, but if you're eating eggs and cheese you're not a vegan.

Punk Rockies2

Nothing wrong with being vegan anyway

⭕️AntelopeAdamantium⭕️2

Trying to label Talarico as a “vegan!” For eating … eggs is hilarious. Paxton is scared

ab4aoc.bsky.social2

This guy thinks god has a penis!!!

Jenz2

To be fair, I’m pretty sure he was accused of being vegan way before the taco order.

Adam Skillin2

He's, at a minimum, a lacto-ovo-Presbyterian.

Alex2

My opponent believes 7 is the number, that we could fit 7 angels on the head of a pin, and he not only believes this, but he propagates this obvious heresy in defiance of all natural common sense and faithfulness to our traditions!

FishingStepDad2

That combo is just a basic combo like hash browns on a breakfast sandwich

Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU2

If he eats eggs he isn't a vegan, for starters.

Granny Zee2

Since beef prices are up 50-75%, there are a lot of Texans going Vegan because they can't afford brisket.

carlglo.bsky.social2

So trite so old and so obviously corrupt!

🦊 🩵🐦‍⬛ Fox & Crow, for Bartleby Endeavors 🎥2

Some people are saying he’s a homo sapien as well.

Collette Snowden2

Vegans don't eat eggs or cheese. They never let facts interfere with nonsense.

Frank Walker2

And btw, if he were a vegan he wouldn’t eat anything that had animal products in it, such as eggs or cheese.

CatFrat2

Potato egg and cheese is one of the best breakfast taco though. That and egg rice and cheese

CatFrat2

Where did the “six biological sexes” thing come from?

Andrew Tobolowsky62

I feel like this is going to be the first major, highly visible election where Republicans try to talk to the rest of us the way they talk about each other and it's gonna get real weird

Jed Douglas38

This is what the RNC does to a Christian seminarian. It’s never been about Christian values.

Geoffrey Hoytsman24

That amount of physical/mental abuse the target audience of this suffered from their fathers has to be absolutely staggering.

CharleyM23

This GOP mug is threatened by vegans. A true indication of how frightened, weak and pathetic the party is right now.

aghost2most.bsky.social21

Don't let that distract you from the fact that Ken Paxton is a pedophile protector

eddiethebulldog.bsky.social16

“He wants to mutilate children”. I’d sue him for defamation.

Andrew Higgins15

Here is the problem; the audience they are speaking to is not looking for nuance. They want to be told what to think and what to do. They are looking for cognitive relief and the republicans are giving it to them.

Kristine Rudolph14

Real Texans are familiar with breakfast taco culture.

Eggman12

also, potato/egg/cheese is an absolutely bog-standard breakfast taco order in tx. exactly zero texans have ever thought of that as vegetarian. but, alas, we know none of that matters

Lindsay 🇨🇦11

Why do they need to think God has a gender?

Rumpole of the Bayou9

The potato egg & cheese taco is Texas vegan Like California sober

Stressed_Scientist8

Not sure the "wants to mutilate children" disgusting BS is really going to fly for anyone outside of MAGA when Paxton basically pardon a pedophile he knew but sure.

kobenhavn-kbh.bsky.social8

You forgot: - NYT devotes an entire article to his taco order

Kevin A5

The tortilla most likely had lard in it too, so it wasn’t even really vegetarian

The Salon Group NYC5

You know how you can tell that Talarico isn’t a vegan? He doesn’t tell you every 5 minutes that he’s a vegan.

reliablerip.bsky.social5

Potato, egg and cheese breakfast taco is a staple at Texas’ favorite burger chain, Whataburger

my_random_name4

That’s a breakfast burrito! 🌯 <——— THIS

markalanlongo.bsky.social4

Hilary was right about a lot…. Texas republicans are deplorable…

WayneS 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 - Elbows up!3

Why do these GOP idiots think calling people names is appealing to the masses? Sure, it gives their nutjob base a woody, but that base is dwindling quickly as they finally get affected by this shit. People want serious leadership back, not this petulant toddler-like crap.

Annmarie3

I would gladly have a potato egg and cheese taco from Texas (god I miss those with the homemade tortilla) until meat doesn't cost the equivalent of my entire grocery bill.

dacecampbell.bsky.social3

And the real proof he's not vegan? He doesn't tell you about it every 10 minutes! 😅

Shawn Foss3

Wait...he's not vegan or even vegetarian?? You're telling me the very dumb thing the republicans are attacking Talarico over isn't even true?! It's such a flimsy line of attack even if it were true - like who gives a shit if he's a vegan? - but it makes it so much funnier that it's not.

saiafish / Insubordination Films3

The absurdity of it is that his voters believe it. What a herd of fools.

86 ➡️ DJT3

In fairness to Joe, he IS speaking directly to the DUMBEST cable TV audience in America, so there’s a fair chance they will be nodding along and agreeing with him. smartest < smarter < smart < MID > dumb > dumber > dumbest

joywarrior24-7.bsky.social2

I finally understand! Years ago I was labeled “the vegan trainer” by cattle reps in my pharmaceutical company. I ate steak - but I was a successful single woman from California. I never understood how insulting it was since I think vegans are cool…

Club Кожедуб2

In Texas we are watching with bemusement as the Republican talking points LLM cranks up to polarize potato egg and cheese tacos as a sicko lib signifier. Maybe next they will call the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders feminazis

Barbala ✌️❤️🌱Ⓥ 🪷2

And having compassion for animals is not a character flaw. Using vegan as an insult is moronic.

Chucky Dub2

- “he’s crazy for thinking that God probably doesn’t have a penis”

sinner for disease control2

guy on fox news looks like a potato, egg, and cheese burrito that was turned into a man by a witch

Charlie Mas2

For those unfamiliar with authentic Mexican cuisine, potatoes are a commonplace ingredient in a burrito or a taco. Any Texan should know that. As for eggs and cheese, yeah, them too.

Rando Brando2

The GQP mob all repeat the same lines like wind-up automatons. It's crude, but effective. Maybe Dems could learn something here, but nah.

Let's rewind to 19952

It's hilarious this is all they have on him

mobrantley2

Rs don't understand breakfast tacos?

Rudi2

Wait, THAT’S where the vegan shot came from??? That’s a staple breakfast taco here what?

jtadetroit.bsky.social2

The same people the DNC thinks they can work with

CDRE Fool Mental Jackass VI2

This is how stupid they are, and how stupid they think everyone is. And yet, the number of people who think they can ride the stupid…

The Evil Betty19

That's not how proper christian anger works. You're supposed to internalize your negativity until it becomes a mental illness.

Jack Pondit15

Yep, the whole vegan thing is just the same Republican playbook of trying to position themselves as tougher and more masculine than weak democrats. The way to fight it not to deny it or try to rationally explain why that is stupid, it is to hit them back harder.

Kevin Wardrop14

He needs to say "I know you're used to Republicans who want to force you to eat what they like and do what they want, I just want you to have a good life and be able to afford things like your parents did"

Jon Hendry9

Better would be "They want you to be talking about my taco order instead of $7 gas because they think you're idiots"

Steve in Chicago8

That's the EXACT message I want. I watched Paxton's speech, which could have been a chance to extend an olive branch to Cornyn, lay out an agenda and go after anywhere they think Talarico is vulnerable and he just repeated the Trump drivel about his taco order and whatever that six gender thing is.

vILLAGE GENIOUS2

Is there any other job interview where you can rant about veganism, testosterone, and children's genitals without getting hauled away by security or do we only let candidates for our highest legislative offices do that

Joel110

It’s not really the point but saying food with egg and cheese is somehow vegan is just amazing

Daniel Radosh34

The cisgender thing is a bluesky urban legend actually

Matt Vadnais22

What kind of vegan eat eggs?

c0nc0rdance13

Just clarifying that it (probably) wasn't confusion about cisgender/six gender. Of course, I doubt they know the real basis for the claim.

Zegs13

Is it woke to like delicious breakfast tacos?

Brad Groatman13

I heard he also once used Comic Sans

EARNED MY SPURS: REPUBLICANS MADE ME AN UNINTENTIONAL VEGAN 🐎11

yep, that's all they've got. I never knew that my favorite breakfast tacos (egg and potato) qualified me as a vegan until R's started this stupidity.

Melissa Jo Peltier9

The thing is, that astroturf fake “issue” BS is still working on ⅓ of Americans… …& who knows how many Texans? One huge plus - Paxton has the negative charisma of an uglier & more obviously corrupt JD Vance.

lovemysadie.bsky.social7

and so, what if he was vegan? How many more years do we have to put up with this?

Cath RN, PhD6

But Paxton’s resume is more impressive to them: -Impeached for bribery -Indicted on 2-counts securities felony fraud -Adultery -Trying to overturn elections -Attacking whistleblowers -Abusing his office for political points -Evading subpoenas -Contesting election results -Mortgage fraud

Elite goblin Fruit Merchant.6

well he did say that God is nonbinary, which probably is a big deal if you've been deeply religious your whole life without ever having a single serious thought about the nature of the divine

D Lavoie6

The "six genders" thing is semi-real. Talarico was saying in a committee hearing that the state's bathroom and sports ban would be impossible to enforce because what about intersex folks. He then said that scientists have shown there are six sexes (XX, XY, X, XXY, XYY, and XXXY).

JustJoan 📎🧷5

As a Texan, yesterday's R primary has me either embarassed or impressed. Embarrassed because so many Texans voted for such vile person OR Impressed that maybe Rs voted for Paxton to help increase Talarico's chances to win. I hope it's the latter.

marbd.bsky.social4

Eggs and real cheese aren’t even vegan

Rick Kronberg3

Sir I believe he thinks Santa Claus may not be white.

MissMerkin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿3

Vegans don’t eat cheese or eggs. But yeah, OK.

Ostrich and 12.5k others3

Egg and cheese, famously both vegan options

Ellz3

Clutching at straws and showing their asses in the process

Renee Babcock2

That's not even a vegan taco it's a white people taco. Also a delicious taco.

mzrad.bsky.social2

Rs are so ignorant: eggs and cheese are not vegan, as you well know! GAGH

Stace RN Resists 📎💙 OR2

Kevin, I’m right there with you! Their stupidity is as relentless as it astounding! Let them continue with their Craptacular nonsense as it makes them look so bad…

P Collirigger2

Honestly, the six-genders thing might be their strongest play.

mixmastermind.bsky.social2

One of the least vegan foods around that isn't ice cream.

Mimey2

Sadly it'll probably be enough to win Paxton the election. Unfortunately the GOP's media control is such that a lie like that will be repeated, and because it's done in such a derogatory manner, people will take it as a negative and thus choose not to vote for him.

Jillbles2

...But egg and cheese are definitely not vegan? Not that being accurate matters to these people of course, but... what?

☮☮😸😸☮☮2

Unfortunately I watched reporters on MS Now interviewing voters. There are a LOT of people who voted Paxton "because he represents Republican values". I felt a little ill after that. So many supremely stupid people.

David Gustof2

Unfortunaley there are many stupid voters here in Texas.

Greg Gentry2

TIL that Texas Monthly has a Taco Editor (www.texasmonthly.com/contributors...) and that Texas NPR has Tacos of Texas Podcast (www.npr.org/podcasts/102...). With taco journalist Mando Rayo endorsing the egg, potato and cheese taco I don't think R's are going to win on this issue.

A.C.Lander2

They're like 5th grade bullies. They make up lies about people they don't like and actually believe them.

Shawn Foss79

I see that Donald mishearing 'cisgender' as '6 genders' has now been fully integrated into his lexicon the same way he thinks 'asylum seekers' came from insane asylums.

David Ho77

Trump referred to Pete Buttigieg as Alfred E. Neuman in 2020 and Pete responded, “I’ll be honest. I had to Google that. I guess it's a generational thing.” 😆

Kygosi35

Pretty sure that if you don’t eat meat with every meal, that’s how you turn gay or trans or something

Comfortably Numb25

I thought they were calling him a hypocrite at first, like "he says he is a vegan, but he eats animal products" but that was giving them too much credit

Pé 🍺🧿24

I've had some absolutely transcendent potato tacos, so if you're not eating them because they don't have meat, you're missing out.

Thor Benson24

He's reusing the Buttigieg insult? No juice

WorfWWorfington17

I would die very happy right now if Jasmine Crockett produced genealogy showing that Davy was indeed her ancestor.

Craig Winston16

Hey MAGA where do eggs come from? Where does cheese come from? Vegan means no animals in the food.

Hillbilly_Ivy_League11

I get all the dog whistling here but I wish Talarico’s team would say something like “why does this matter? Does what I eat put food on your own table? Does it bring down the cost of your meal?” (maybe they have but I haven’t heard it.)

The Infinitely Prolonged10

It's not really beside the point, their MO is to paint it all as "weird shit liberals do, and it's dangerously effeminate to even care about the details."

Couchman6

Ah yes, egg and cheese. The staple of the vegan diet.

Marco3

Texas republicans are a special kind of proudly ignorant trash.

Davis X. Machina3

It's stupid, and worse, a missed opportunity - because calling him an ovolatarian would sound even scarier.

David Ralin2

“Vegetarian” has four more syllables than the word they want to use.

Peace, Truth, Science2

Talarico is making them go deep into the weird. Dems need to exploit the shit out of it this time.

Mark, The Curator5

the lore in no way diminishes how fucking stupid they are

Rob Pegoraro 3

If the taco started with a flour tortilla, decent odds it was made with lard anyway.

Bill Buchman3

How stupid does one have to be for this attack to register as meaningful? Let me try this out - 'I personally have never witnessed Paxton eat any animal based food so I'm just going to assume he's vegan'

Andy3

Dave, no one wades through the anthropological political bullshit to explain it quite like you. Always impressed by you and your work.

bitemedeluxe.bsky.social2

However, it does underscore that the party that has dominated Texas politics for a generation is now running on nothing but the fumes of grievance and culture war bullshit.

kn1feysp00ney.bsky.social2

“There are no pronouns in the bible.” The performative thoughtlessness is the point.