Atheist Amanda Marcotte's Joyful that Talarico’s Campaign 'Could Do Lasting Damage to the GOP'

Newsbusters ^ | September 23, 2026 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Over at Salon.com, atheist Amanda Marcotte is in a state of joy over her belief that notorious biblical cherry picker James Talarico, could be an "existential threat" to the beliefs of Republican Christians during the course of his Texas campaign for the U.S. Senate.

It is no error or slur to label Marcotte as an atheist since she herself flat out admitted it. In fact her brand of atheism goes beyond merely tolerating religion to outright hostility of Christianity in particular as you can see in "Salon’s Marcotte: ‘Merry Christmas!’ Is Conservative Code For ‘F**k You!’."

With an attitude like that you can read Marcotte's Monday story, "James Talarico’s campaign could do lasting damage to the GOP," with a huge grain of salt as she engages in the obvious pretense of somehow supporting Christianity but only in a very liberal cherry-picking way which nixes large sections of the Bible in order to reinterpret it as Socialist/Woke dogma much as her candidate hero has done.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: clickbait; freaks; freaksversusnormals; jamestalerico; senate; woke

[PJ-Comix]

When you can name your favorite Trans person without pause, that is a strong Tell you are using Christianity as strictly performative shtick to gain higher public office in a conservative state.

[BenLurkin]

Hey lady, Merry Christmas!

[Gay State Conservative]

He’s a faggot...an atheist...and a Maoist. Apart from in Austin,college towns and one or two other spots,where with the depraved punk get any support?

[Kudsman]

Onward unChristian Uterus people!

[Sarah Barracuda]

Which is why Talefreako is going to lose. NO WAY DOES TEXAS lower themselves to electing a jackass like that who hates Christians, hates Texas and pretty much hates everything that we stand for

[antidemoncrat]

“atheist Amanda Marcotte”

I wonder if some folks died, went to Hell and then were revived would preach a different story than they are now?

[lado]

In my experience, most ‘atheists’ today are simply people who hate Christians. I’d guarantee Amanda here wouldn’t have anything bad to say about Muslims, and would probably don the burka if they commanded her to.

[ken in texas]

I certainly hope he loses. Unfortunately, there seem to be a lot of people around who will fall for anything. Check out: Evangelicals For A Better Future:

[PJ-Comix]

I’d guarantee Amanda here wouldn’t have anything bad to say about Muslims, and would probably don the burka if they commanded her to.

So she would remain complacent even after the Muslims toss Talerico off a rooftop?

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Who will interview Marcotte after he loses? A. No one. Presenting her opinion as news before the election is an attempt to amplify the anti-Paxton perspective in news. But, like Beto O’Rourke after his loss(es) to Ted Cruz - a disappearing act, both for the candidate and the media voices who promoted him. Yawn.

[gildafarrell]

Atheists are foul talking smelling curds of manure.

[jonrick46]

This shows how far these Lefty male strumpets are willing to sell themselves for the pocket change thrown at them by their Marxist masters.

[jonrick46]

I thought Amanda Marcotte was a trans. I want to correct: she’s a Lefty strumpet.

[T. Rustin Noone]

She’s wrong...

“Well, Bless your heart, Darlin’” is the Christian way to tell
someone to go f*ck themselves.