{"id":61685,"date":"2026-09-04T12:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=61685"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:58:34","slug":"just-saying-democrats-need-to-grow-a-pair-at-the-starting-gate-and-need-new-blood-in-leadership-roles-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=61685","title":{"rendered":"JUST SAYING:  Democrats Need to Grow a Pair at the Starting Gate and Need New Blood in Leadership Roles in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Talarico EXPOSES Ken Paxton\u2019s Record\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cFJaM54q39E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"html-div xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1n2onr6\">\n<div class=\"html-div xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1n2onr6\">\n<div class=\"xmjcpbm x1n2onr6\">\n<div class=\"x78zum5 x14ju556 x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1n2onr6\" data-ad-rendering-role=\"image\">\n<div class=\"x6s0dn4 x1jx94hy x78zum5 xdt5ytf x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1n2onr6 xh8yej3\">\n<div class=\"xqtp20y x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1n2onr6\">\n<div class=\"x10l6tqk x13vifvy\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 25px;\">JUST SAYING<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 25px;\">BY RAUL HERNANDEZ\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"html-div xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1n2onr6\">\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57285\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DEMOCRATIC_PARTY_1724195957.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3558 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Vote-Florida-DMV.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Vote-Florida-DMV.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Vote-Florida-DMV-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/>It is about time Democrats start being more vocal and passionate and LOUD to when they come out of the starting gate and announce they are running for office.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">What&#8217;s the saying? Act like you belong there.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Talarico is by far the best candidate to come out of Texas in a while and yet, he is running neck and neck against a Republican demon masquerading as a political angel of light \u2014 endorsed by an orange being who gives the devil competition in lying.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Talarico should be up by 15 points at least.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Paxton is running on we (The Republicans) will fix the Lone Star State&#8217;s problems after dozens of years at the helm while pillaging and plundering the state.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28782 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/>Talarico&#8217;s speech is excellent. He must have fired the same PR people the Democrats nationwide hire each election year \u2014 same BS: &#8220;I will fight for you.&#8221; &#8220;I will make sure your voice is heard.&#8221; or &#8220;My pledge is to work hard&#8230;etc.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Then, there is the classic: &#8220;When they go low, we go high.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Please, STFU with all that.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Please bring a torch to a gunfight with nefarious, lying, loud-mouth characters after growing a pair or even as Teddy said: &#8220;Speak softly and carry a big stick.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">May I add: Pack a big pair of lungs and bombard them with facts instead of cookie-cutter garbage.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Talarico&#8217;s speech is powerful, simple, inspiring, passionate and void of regurgitated mealy mouth BS.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">If Paxton, a corrupt inbred with the moral scruples of a sewer rat, wins this election, then Texas education system is badly broken or the Lone Star State has millions of morally bankrupt wonders.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Put the Democrat Leaders and Deadwood in Congress Out of Office<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24538 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/o-BERNIE-SANDERS-facebook-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/o-BERNIE-SANDERS-facebook-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/o-BERNIE-SANDERS-facebook-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/o-BERNIE-SANDERS-facebook-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/o-BERNIE-SANDERS-facebook.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In D.C, the two Democratic clowns that need to step down are Jeffries and Schumer<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Jeffries loves to run to mics and do his best impersonation of Barack Obama with the neatly placed pauses and waving hands because he thinks that will endear him to voters.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Jeffries recently said he met with Trump&#8217;s son-in-law and fellow grifter\/scavenger\/envoy to talk about &#8220;housing&#8221; is an insult to the intelligence of most people. Jeffries is doing this on the taxpayers&#8217; dime.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Meanwhile, he is quiet as cemetery mouse until he spots a camera.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Chuck &#8220;I wrote a sternly worded letter&#8221; Schumer is useless gasbag, career politician who also loves to trot out when he sees media cameras.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Both Jeffries and Schumer love AIPAC money from Netanyahu-hugging American billionaires. Campaign money used to fuel wars and genocides.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">How about new blood at leadership positions: Jamie Raskin as Speaker of the House, AOC or Ayanna Pressley? 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