The Ben Shapiro Show - August 07, 2026


The Event James Talarico Doesn't Want You Asking About


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8 minutes

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158.29

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1,356

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00:00:00.000 It does boggle the mind.
00:00:01.000 Texas Senate candidate James Tallarico, sorry, Tallarico, is a howdy doody weirdo who went to an Austin Pride event where an 11 year old boy, drag queen named Queen Kiki, performed alongside another drag queen named Sidonia Face.
00:00:15.000 Sidonia Face.
00:00:15.000 Get on it.
00:00:18.000 Yeah, it's full scale child abuse.
00:00:19.000 Something like this should be making Tallarico completely unelectable in the great state of Texas.
00:00:23.000 So, why is Tallarico ahead of Republican candidate Ken Paxton in literally every recent poll?
00:00:29.000 Let's dive in.
00:00:30.000 So, Captain lying about who he is is James Tallarico over in Texas.
00:00:35.000 James Tallarico is, again, sort of cosplaying as a religious, howdy-doody type who just loves transing the kids.
00:00:43.000 He tries to avoid the transing the kids conversation, but this is the game.
00:00:47.000 This is the game.
00:00:49.000 So, here is one of the most irritating things that I find people doing on the left selectively citing the Bible when they clearly don't believe in many of the core beliefs of the Bible.
00:00:58.000 It's very, very irritating.
00:01:00.000 So, James Tallarico is out there doing the sort of Pete Buttigieg's routine.
00:01:05.000 He says that if Jesus came back today, both parties would be uncomfortable with Jesus.
00:01:10.000 Well, I mean, the Democratic Party would be uncomfortable with Jesus for about a thousand reasons if Jesus were to come back today.
00:01:17.000 Like a lot of them, up to and including the fact that Jesus lived as a Jew.
00:01:23.000 So they wouldn't like that very much.
00:01:24.000 But that would be like, you know, number five or six on their list of reasons not to like Jesus.
00:01:28.000 Anyway, here is James Tallarico talking about how both parties would be uncomfortable with Jesus.
00:01:32.000 Well, I mean, again, Jesus is anti, probably the New Testament.
00:01:37.000 Traditional Christianity, not in favor of what, 97% of the Democratic platform at this point?
00:01:45.000 If Jesus came back today, which political party do you think would be most uncomfortable with him?
00:01:49.000 I think both political parties would be deeply uncomfortable.
00:01:52.000 I think Jesus is far more radical than any political party.
00:01:59.000 And when I say radical, I don't mean extreme.
00:02:01.000 The word radical comes from the Latin word for root.
00:02:05.000 So Jesus goes to the root of our problems and he.
00:02:08.000 Calls us to a deeper love, a deeper justice, a deeper peace.
00:02:13.000 And so I think he would challenge both political parties to keep working toward a more radical vision for democracy, more rights, more opportunities for more of our neighbors.
00:02:26.000 That's a take.
00:02:27.000 That's a take.
00:02:29.000 Also, James Tallarico, you know, he's speaking normal Dem language.
00:02:32.000 He's saying that trickle down economics is theft and all the rest of this kind of stuff.
00:02:37.000 Republicans and some Democrats.
00:02:39.000 Sold the false gospel of trickle down economics.
00:02:47.000 That idea that the best way to grow the economy is to let the rich get richer and forget about everybody else.
00:02:55.000 That the best way to motivate wealthy people is to give them money.
00:03:01.000 And the best way to motivate the rest of us is to take it away.
00:03:06.000 Someday, somehow, they told us the gains would trickle down to the rest of us.
00:03:12.000 Trickle down economics.
00:03:14.000 Is not a theory, it is theft.
00:03:17.000 For 50 years,
00:03:22.000 for 50 years, billionaire mega donors and their puppet politicians have been stealing from the American people, stealing the wealth that we created with their bribes, their bailouts,
00:03:38.000 and their billionaire tax breaks.
00:03:41.000 I mean, again, stealing from like every taxation is a taking from someone.
00:03:49.000 As for the notion that the wealth transfers in the United States move up, not down, I would love for him to look at just a chart of tax expenditures in the United States, because that's obviously not true, obviously.
00:04:02.000 And here's the thing that is typical sort of Democrat speak.
00:04:05.000 Okay, fine.
00:04:05.000 We've been doing this crap since John Edwards in 2004 and long before.
00:04:09.000 But the real story about Tallarico is that Tallarico is a wildly radical candidate, he is extraordinarily radical.
00:04:15.000 In 2021, he headlined a drag queen show with children.
00:04:19.000 According to the Washington Free Beacon, he headlined an LGBTQ festival that featured the absolute cutest and youngest of our drag performers, an 11 year old boy, Drag Queen, who goes by the stage name Queen Kiki.
00:04:34.000 A horrifying child abuse.
00:04:37.000 He was up for it.
00:04:39.000 Tallarico and Queen Kiki, a local preteen named Keegan, were the biggest attraction.
00:04:45.000 The group wrote We will be hosting numerous speakers, such as State Representative James Tallarico, talented musical guests such as Venus Loves Mars.
00:04:53.000 And the absolute cutest and youngest of our drag performers, Queen Kiki.
00:04:58.000 By the way, some of the other performers included a drag queen named Sidonia Face.
00:05:06.000 You get it?
00:05:07.000 Sit on your face.
00:05:11.000 Yeah, all the best people.
00:05:13.000 That dude, as senator from Texas, Republicans would really have to blow it for James Tallarico to be leading in the polls right now.
00:05:21.000 So I wonder where the polls are right now.
00:05:22.000 You know, I'm going to go check them out.
00:05:23.000 Republicans would have to do a pretty crappy job for James Tallarico to actually win.
00:05:27.000 That tendency in Texas.
00:05:28.000 I mean, that thing should not even be close to competitive.
00:05:30.000 Hold on.
00:05:30.000 I'm just going to pull this up right now.
00:05:33.000 Oh, no.
00:05:35.000 Oh, no.
00:05:36.000 James Tallarico is now leading in the last four consecutive polls in Texas.
00:05:41.000 Now, maybe, listen, it's a summer bump.
00:05:43.000 Maybe all the Republicans come home.
00:05:44.000 But Jesse Waters is not wrong when he says that Ken Paxton ought to, you know, leave his house and start talking about James Tallarico at a certain point here.
00:05:54.000 You got to hit him on the issues.
00:05:54.000 I agree.
00:05:56.000 And Paxton should be doing that.
00:05:58.000 Where's Paxton?
00:06:00.000 I've seen Mitch McConnell more than Paxton.
00:06:02.000 And McConnell's been in the hospital all summer.
00:06:05.000 Get out of your hole, Paxton, and do something.
00:06:08.000 I can't win this race for you.
00:06:10.000 It's not on Fox.
00:06:11.000 Go raise some money, do a hit, and lay the lumber to this guy.
00:06:16.000 I mean, he's younger and he's got a little energy and he's new or whatever.
00:06:19.000 But come on.
00:06:20.000 If you lose this seat for Republicans in Texas, you should seek asylum in Mexico.
00:06:28.000 Okay, again, a few things here.
00:06:31.000 One, obviously, Jesse's correct.
00:06:33.000 Two, maybe people should have thought about whether it was a good idea to nominate Paxton, a deeply flawed candidate, before nominating Paxton, a deeply flawed candidate in Texas.
00:06:43.000 You can dislike John Cornyn as much as you want.
00:06:45.000 Cornyn would have cleaned Tellerico.
00:06:46.000 Anyway, James Tellerico, you know, he's a weird dude and he's kind of doing this routine where maybe he's engaged, maybe he's not engaged, maybe he's straight, maybe he's not the most straight guy.
00:06:56.000 You know, kind of hard to tell.
00:06:57.000 I don't know.
00:06:58.000 I don't know.
00:06:58.000 In any case, he says that the real problem in America is top versus bottom, which.
00:07:05.000 Mm. Mm.
00:07:07.000 Different language, my dude.
00:07:12.000 They don't see red or blue.
00:07:15.000 They only see green.
00:07:18.000 They see us.
00:07:20.000 They see us as people to rip off.
00:07:23.000 They see us as one opposing team.
00:07:26.000 So we might as well start acting like one.
00:07:30.000 It's time.
00:07:37.000 It's time.
00:07:39.000 It's time for us to come together across these manufactured divisions to take on the people at the top who have been screwing us over for far too long.
00:07:51.000 Because the real fight in this country is not left versus right, it's top versus bottom.
00:08:04.000 Did he test out this language?
00:08:06.000 I mean, he's been using it in like all of his campaigning.
00:08:08.000 Top versus bottom.
00:08:10.000 Are you a top or are you a bottom?
00:08:12.000 James Tellerico wants to know.
00:08:15.000 Uh, I don't know, man.
00:08:16.000 I don't know.
00:08:17.000 Texas?
00:08:18.000 You want this, Texas?
00:08:18.000 Really?
00:08:19.000 Really?
00:08:19.000 I know.
00:08:20.000 Ken Paxton's got his, what?
00:08:20.000 This?
00:08:21.000 This one?
00:08:22.000 Him?
00:08:23.000 Seriously?
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