Opinion
“Joe Rogan’s Latest Guest Might Turn Texas Blue,” Politico reports. “Democratic Texas state representative may not yet be a household name nationally but he is weighing a dark horse bid for the U.S. Senate, and the appearance on [Joe] Rogan’s show released Friday can only boost his cred as a rising star for a party desperate to connect with young men and other disaffected voters. At one point, Rogan told him, ‘James Talarico, you need to run for president.’”
Shades of Shawn Ryan cozying up to Gavin Newsom…
Rogan has the right platform for a candidate seeking to “boost his cred as a rising star for a party desperate to connect with young men and other disaffected voters” because of the political demographics his show attracts, and Talarico notes “the podcaster who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024 is still up for grabs for Democrats going forward.”
That podcaster also endorsed socialist Bernie Sanders. That Rogan plays both sides of the political street may reflect a contradiction of core principles or may prove him to be a cynical opportunist with a formula for drawing in men who haven’t figured out that two sides of an argument are generally the right one and the wrong one.
Talarico is on the wrong side of guns. Among his “key votes,” he OPPOSED:
- Requiring Hotels to Permit Guests to Carry Firearms to Private Rooms
- Authorizing Permitless Handgun Carry to Adults 21 and Older
- Prohibiting Contracts with Companies That Discriminate Against Gun Industry
- Prohibiting the Enforcement of New Federal Gun Laws
- Authorizing Handguns on the Premises of Places of Worship
- Authorizing Law Enforcement Officers to Carry on School Property
That and he supported Beto (“Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15”) O’Rourke and Colin Allred (private armed security for me but no guns for thee), among other extremist gun-grabbers.
“We have ignored God’s messengers,” he declares as the basis for imposing his religious dogma on his countrymen. It’s fair to wonder, if Talarico doesn’t respect the Second Amendment mandate that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” why the First Amendment’s prohibition of theocratic rule would slow him down. Look no further than the Presbyterian Church he belongs to. It has been a leading voice in demanding draconian citizen disarmament diktats, and that can be traced back to early church influencer John Calvin, who taught “the use of the sword ought to be permitted unto no man, to resist evil,” and to do otherwise is an offense to God — with a big “Only Ones” exemption for governments.
Essentially, what they’re doing is misapplying the Romans 13 assertion that governments are ordained by God and to resist them is resistance to God and deserving of damnation — and if they line us up at the lime pit, at least we were meek about it. Without getting too deep into the weeds, Rev. Samuel Rutherford wrote in 1644’s Lex, Rex (The Law and the Prince):
“That power which is contrary to law, and is evil and tyrannical, can tie none to subjection, but is a mere tyrannical power and unlawful; and if it tie not to subjection, it may lawfully be resisted…while king and parliament do acts of tyranny against God’s law, and all good laws of men, they do not the things that appertain to their charge and the execution of their office; therefore, by our Confession, to resist them in tyrannical acts is not to resist the ordinance of God.”
A 1747 Philadelphia sermon comes to mind:
He that suffers his life to be taken from him by one who has no authority for that purpose, when he might preserve it by defense, incurs the Guilt of Self Murder since God has enjoined him to seek the continuance of his life, and Nature itself teaches every creature to defend itself.
Without resistance to tyranny, the American Revolution, and all that Democrats like Talarico are trying to undermine, would have never happened.
This is what Politico thinks will do damage control for the party’s disparagement of traditional American men, and this is what Joe Rogan thinks should run for president…? Any politician who wants to disarm them is not their friend, and any “influencer” who aids and abets oath-breaking control freaks is — at best — a dead end and a waste of time, and at worst, a shill for the state whose enabled popularity is useful to its ends.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
