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Ted Cruz slammed for ‘join me in Cancun’ joke as Texas braces for deep freeze
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Fuck you, Ted.
Not surprising. Many Texans thought it was not funny.
Wow yeah he really got slammed… sure…
Why not Florida? Oh, I see...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Texans, with the freeze coming, wrap your pipes, cover your plants, stay off icy roads & keep your family safe.
Amid warnings of severe weather conditions, which will affect more than 200 million Americans this week, Cruz seized the opportunity to make yet another joke about the time in February 2021 when he left his fellow Texans suffering record-cold temperatures and power outages to stay in sunny and warm Cancun, Mexico.
Cruz was widely criticized for his actions, leading him to fly back to Texas from Mexico almost immediately after saying he went on the trip because he wanted to “be a good dad.”
“Feels a bit odd to joke about getting caught going to Mexico while your constituents froze for a week and at least 246 people died but here we are,” another person said.
Texas deserves a leader who will step up for our state, not abandon us in a crisis,” former NFL linebacker and Congressman Colin Allred wrote on X.
For Cruz, who abandoned suffering Texans for the Ritz in Cancun, it’s all one big joke,” former NSNBC host Mehdi Hasan wrote.
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I'm confused because this seems to be clearly from a fake account? Like, fuck that piece of shit, but this doesn't even seem to be real? Is that the joke and I'm just being dense?
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'No shame' comedy just makes you look crass and uncaring.
And those morons will vote him back in.
Make the lowest person feel like trey are slightly better than another target group and they will latch on to you for dear life until they die. Just for the chance at finishing the game with at least a couple of points on the board (as they score or at least).
The people that vote for this know they have wasted their selfish, empty lives. They know are shells of humanity without any worth, and republican politics are always the last shelter welcoming them in from that cold reality. The Republican party is the detective dollar store pooper scooped placed lovingly in the filthy, disgusting gutter to catch the shit that made it that far and that low.