“It’s a little too quiet” - US Politics February 2021

"Wanting to be a good dad"--keystroke.

Cruz’s return flight was booked for Saturday so this is such an easily debunked lie

Lyin' Ted at it again.

If Ted Cruz was my dad I’d probably consider walking out in front of a bus

Their mom could gone with them.

I'm fairly certain she did and was in some of the photos. It's just a flat out bullshit statement.

Spoke to a source at United Airlines, Senator Ted Cruz rebooked his flight back to Houston from Cancun for this afternoon at around 6 a.m. today (Thursday). He was originally scheduled to return on Saturday.https://t.co/QV9xgibIQ9

— Edward Russell (@ByERussell) February 18, 2021

I'm rofl that Katie Porter tagged @ratemyskyperoom

aw Ted, Just Admit It

Nah, these morons will never admit it, because they love the chance to hammer home the "lying media" narrative, no matter that it is clearly bullshit.

But one can hope. Feel like this was way worse a fail than any hurricane fumbling.

https://i.imgur.com/3uqBSTN.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/0y9psO4.jpg

sorry jon I shld have just done this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CpRCc4Jre8

Haha, got it. Didn't catch the reference!

Ted's daughter's are 10 & 12 years old... was it really their idea to go to Cancun of all places? DisneyWorld, maybe.. but.

Senator Ted Cruz carries his luggage at the Cancun International Airport before boarding his plane back to the U.S., in Cancun, Mexico. Photo by Stringer pic.twitter.com/KKDtldAXoE

— corinne_perkins (@corinne_perkins) February 18, 2021

yeah I really think the vacation was his idea and he's blaming his daughters because he has no respect for his own family

well they are related to Ted Fucking Cruz

I'm guessing the vast majority of Americans would be mystified by the idea that your small children can dictate the timing of an impromptu Mexican vacation

Did Cummings start a staycation trend.
Will people start taking a Cruz too?
Down mexico way, like?

That Cruz statement reads like the hastily-cobbled excuse of someone who called in sick at work and then got spotted on tv in the crowd at a basketball game.

He's just...such a deeply pathetic douchewad. I can understand how GOPers get behind swaggering intransigent dick-swinger assholes but I'll never understand how anyone can look at this human dishrag and think 'that's my guy!'

so he flew to cancun for one day?

"Daddy, school is cancelled and Texans are dying of carbon monoxide poisoning while sheltering in their cars... Can we go to Mexico?1 Please??"

"Okay, hon.. I think we can make that happen."

that Cancun airport photo is as CYE as it gets

i wish ted cruz a very die

I'm guessing the vast majority of Americans would be mystified by the idea that your small children can dictate the timing of an impromptu Mexican vacation

― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, February 18, 2021 2:15 PM (three minutes ago)

all the 10-year-old children of Republicans I know will not shut up about their favorite pibli joints in Tulum

breastcrawl- tee hee

the 12-year-olds are more like "ugh Cancun, let's go to Merida, it's much more chill"

Stringer Bell, freelance AP photographer

breastcrawl- tee hee

Anxo, a Washington, D.C.-based cidery, unveiled its "Cruz in Cancun" drink on Thursday. The rapid-response coconut rum concoction comes complete with ample mockery of the lawmaker's much-panned trip to Mexico.

In a Thursday tweet promoting the $12 beverage, Anxo wrote, "He may have left his constituents to suffer with no electricity, no safe drinking water, no heat, etc... But that doesn’t mean Ted can’t have some good old-fashioned fun in the sun!"

An altered image on the label of the to-go libation shows Cruz sporting a sombrero and sunglasses while clutching a tropical cocktail.

Did Cummings start a staycation trend.
Will people start taking a Cruz too?
Down mexico way, like?

― Stevolende, Thursday, February 18, 2021 2:17 PM bookmarkflaglink

very good poem, A+

lol that it was so easy to guess lyin' ted's tactics
also: oldie but goodie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplpSfaouP8

I especially liked the part where he not only blamed his daughters but elevated his own status as an amazing father for having indulged their wishes. I've seen sea anemones with more spine. Like sea anemones who don't wear a suit and call themselves Ted Cruz, I mean.

my daughters asked me to take them to Mexico.
I hate them but I did it because I'm a great father.
take my picture.

Wish he would just Die Cruz'ng

I did like Cruz in Mad Max though...

https://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/2017/F/5468.jpg

Master Blaster?

trying to come to with a Die Kreutzen joke

That's German for The, Cruz, The

Ted Cruz more like Ted Crude, like high viscosity crude oil, because he's such a oily smirky greasemonster. Ted Crude, more like Dead Dude, like what his whole family wishes he was every time he tries to hug them and then blames some shit he did on having tried in vain to hug them like the dad paragon he is.

I appreciate that the detestability of Ted Cruz has survived the Trump era intact. It's like a lodestone of repulsion, immune to outside effects.

but, really, the detestability of the entire GOP has emerged from the Trump era with only some mussed up hair and a couple of scuffs

Oh I think GOP detestability has gone through the roof! But Cruz's was already at a peak level of its own.

he was too much of an unlikeable asshole to get the nom in a year where GOP voters were determined to nominate an unlikeable asshole

Ted Cruz is the embodiment of taking a huge bite of something and realizing that it's rotten. Or the embodiment of stepping barefoot in cat barf. Maybe both?

just when you're convinced there is no more punchable face than Don Jr.'s, Lyin' Ted appears in the media and reminds you that yes, yes, there is.

meanwhile Eric Trump is like that movie Multiplicity, he must have been a copy of a copy

The embodiment of taking a huge bite of something and realizing that it's cat barf

I don't want to give him a direct link for any eyeballs, but this is some amazing spin from Dinesh D'Souza:

What could @tedcruz do if he were here in Texas? I’m hard-pressed to say. If he’s in Cancun, that means he’s not using up valuable resources of energy, food and water that can now be used by someone else. This is probably the best thing he could do for the state right now

He's still taking up valuable resources of oxygen, food and water on the planet, though. Does D'Souza have any suggestions for how Cruz might resolve this?