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Ted Cruz is a lickspittle traitor who blamed his daughters for his leaving the State during an emergency and tried his hardest to overthrow the government.
Nothing would make me happier than to throw him out of office kicking and screaming on his wolf-scrotum-looking face.
And that's the nicest thing I can say about him.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!
Remember Trump trashing his wife and father during the primary a few cycles ago and Ted working the phone bank after being thrashed?
Hey now, that association is very unfair to wolf scrotums.
I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.
Neoliberals lying to him to get him to resign is still so fucked up.... They just didn't want the competition.
For those that don't remember:
The party leaders kept telling him the only way he could get an investigation to clear his name was to resign. And as soon as he resigned they said an investigation would be pointless since he already resigned...
At the time it was one of the worst things modern dems had done, but they quickly eclipsed that.
“The Democrats are coming after me, they are gonna spend more than $100 million this year, George Soros is already spending millions of dollars in the state of Texas,” Cruz told Sean Hannity.
I don't know whether or not it's true that Soros has done this, but I do know it's super weird that he's such a boogeyman to the right. He's basically synonymous with The Devil in their playbook of riling up their base.
Anyway, it's nice seeing them hate a billionaire for a change.
George Soros is a Jewish man who has spent lots of time and money fighting Soviet influence in eastern Europe.
Of course Republicans hate him.
It is a dogwhistle. For the Repub's voting base, which is Nazis, they understand he is talking about "Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
They'd probably rather talk about a billionaire Democrat donor than acknowledging that billionaire Republican foundations are basically what funds their party.
Preemptive spin, or projection or whataboutism or guilt or something. Defense by offense. I doubt either party really wants to hang a lantern on their funding.
What is the GOP going to do when Soros passes? He has been their boogeyman for so long they will need to replace him somehow.
"Soros" is mostly a way of saying "Jew" with plausible deniability. There are plenty of other ways to do that
They tend to list the rothschilds or whatever. They'll come up with more bullshit, they always do.
Mostly they like to scapegoat soros because he's jewish even though he's got like 1/10 the funds of musk
Bill Gates is up next. They had a trial run already with COVID conspiracies.
They’ll start a conspiracy theory about how he didn’t really die, and is actually immortal on account of all of the adrenochrome injections harvested from trafficked children by the satanic democratic cabal.
I am now dumber for having written that.
He'll just be replaced by the Ghost of Soros in a very effective Scooby-doo-esque campaign because that's how their base rolls.
They'll have Elon Musk spread more lies on Twitter about migrants illegally voting or something.
In red Texas, they vote AllRed?
I'll be happy to see Ted voted out.
Oh sheet a footballer? Ted is cooked. They all claim to be christian but we know who the true god of Texas is. The almighty pigskin.
Nobody in Texas outside of Dallas or Houston cares about the NFL, though. It matters more that he played college ball at Baylor, I think.
I thunk it also matters that he wasn't very good. According to his Wikipedia page, he only played in 32 games over 4 years as a pro. That probably saved his brain from CTE.
The guy went on to get a law degree and a career in government, so you’re probably right. His brain didn’t get scrambled too badly from the NFL.
These headlines come out literally every time he's up for reelection. And he wins so easily. I feel like it's just clickbait. Or worse, calls for donations for a doomed campaign
Better red than Ted?
Here in Texas, we can vote all blue AND Allred, at the same time.
You should be this man's campaign manager, because that might actually work on Texans
I enjoy calling his office and asking how much money the RNC has sent. They sigh, I giggle.
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Maybe he could run off to a tropical destination while this blows over, too.
Ted Cruz is a spineless snake-swine with no sense of morality and definitely no desire to do what's right for anyone but himself.
Anywhere else in the world he would expect to lose it
I’ll be doing my part to see this asshole off to Cancun or wherever the fuck else for good.
Vote, y’all!
Nobody likes him, not even his own constituents. They're just idiots who vote R without even thinking about the alternative because reality causes cognitive dissonance.
I don't think he's wrong with this, but he kinda implies that the candidate with the most campaign money wins. Such a great democracy.
Please, and fuck Ted Cruz. Piece of fucking shit.
Fire the Canadian already
Send him back, we don’t want him.
If a Democrat wins a statewide election in Texas that would send shockwaves through the American political norms. It'd be the Georgia 2020 Senate elections and runoffs but on steroids. Serious Republicans know that when (not if) Texas becomes a presidential election swing state it's just about over. The Democrats could ignore Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida to focus solely on winning Texas... meanwhile a cash strapped GOP would have to fight in Texas while also spending money in all those other swing states. They haven't had to really fight for Texas since like 1980, they might not even have the ground game infrastructure to pull it out of a tail spin if Texas goes purple. The Republican party would still be around in the Senate, House, and governor's mansions, but hope for a Republican president would be over for like a decade at least... if the party doesn't crumble from such an event, with donors fleeing to found new parties.
Why do you think the Republicans have been so focused on turning Florida and Texas into such distasteful MAGAt breeding grounds? They know if they lose either one, they're done for.
Ted is one of the biggest AIPAC recipients this is great news.
Well, well, well...here come the consequences.