Does Texas Senator Ted Cruz seem like the sort of person strangers rush to hug? Apparently, they do … according to him. Yesterday, Cruz sat down on Capitol Hill with truckers taking part in the so-called People’s Convoy. The convoy is circulating DC to protest against Covid mandates and a ragbag of other issues, such as ending ‘big tech censorship’.
Cruz praised the protestors saying, “What y’all are doing is incredibly important.” He also said many people appreciated what he himself was doing in speaking out against mask and vaccines mandates. This includes many in the airline industry.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) during meeting with D.C. trucker convoy:
“Almost without exception, every time I’m on an airplane, either the captain or a flight attendant will come up to me, will hug me and say, ‘Thank you for fighting for us.’” pic.twitter.com/27eoBrBlMb
— The Recount (@therecount) March 8, 2022
“Every week I fly back and forth to Houston,” Cruz said forcefully, jabbing his finger for emphasis. “Almost without exception, every time I’m on an airplane, either the captain or flight attendant will come up to me, will hug me and say ‘thank you for fighting for us.’
“Because I tell you, United Airlines, sadly Houston’s a hub of them, has fired thousands of pilots and flight attendants … this is wrong.”
In fact, Cruz’s claim of “thousands” is bogus. In October, United Airlines said it had fired around 230 cabin crew and pilots for failing to adhere to its strict covid vaccine policy. CEO Scott Kirby told CBS This Morning 99.7% of the Chicago-based airline’s 67,000 US employees had received the jab.
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Online, people were more interested in Cruz’s claims that pilots and cabin crew can’t stop hugging him. It prompted a collective eye roll.
I promise you strangers are not going over to Ted Cruz to hug him
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 8, 2022
We are all Ted Cruz’s daughter when he goes for a hug pic.twitter.com/QXOU5FOxcD
— RBG Is My Patronus (@RBGPatronus) March 8, 2022
Calling bullshit.
No one wants a hug from Ted Cruz.
Not even his own kids.pic.twitter.com/NhiqSrengD— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) March 8, 2022
In endorsing the white supremacist trucker convoy, seditious Rafael Ted Cruz says that flight crews left and right are hugging him to thank him for being a treasonous asshole.
I can assure you no one wants to look at him and touch him let alone hug him. He’s so pathetic.
— Ricky Davila 🌻🇺🇦 (@TheRickyDavila) March 9, 2022
Imagine having to make stuff like this up about yourself cause you’re so disgustingly sleazy
— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) March 8, 2022
No one has hugged you full stop
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) March 8, 2022
You would think, with all this hugging and fawning of public figures, someone would have memorialized just one of the occasions in pics or videos. Anyone seen any? 🙄
— Maudi63 🌻 (@maudi63) March 8, 2022
I found a bunch of pictures of Ted Cruz being hugged by pilots and flight attendants.
Here: pic.twitter.com/HHwjXXirnM
— Santiago Mayer 🌻 (@santiagomayer_) March 8, 2022
P.S. Your wifi has not dropped—the pun above is that there are no images of Cruz hugging cabin crew.
I was a flight attendant for 43 years and I can assure everyone that this never happened.
— Sandra Gordon (@DuchyLG) March 8, 2022
Did that happen? pic.twitter.com/t9eb20njvO
— Michael “a little stitious” Spencer (@spencer97m) March 8, 2022
Related: Ted Cruz’s chance of ever becoming president was just reduced to whatever is less than zero
Jim
Loved the NO but in yellow graph
TxCudlr
I LOVED LOVED that & busted out laughing my ass off when I read/saw that!!!!!!
lacciani
The people hugging him are really frisking him for drugs and alcohol.
cuteguy
It’s like if Adolf were to say that Jews rushed to hug him. All lies. Can Cancun Ted ever stop with the pathological lies?
Chrisk
NO ONE effing likes this dude. The right wingers will tolerate him just because he mimes their talking points.
Bob
Sounds familiar.. Isn’t that why they elected a useless moron like trump?? He almost destroyed the Repug party, but the 3 supreme court justices made it all OK.. sad
Fahd
The concepts of hug and Ted Cruz together do give rise to strong feelings of repugnance in decent people everywhere.
Another day, another set of Ted Cruz’s lies.
whereshouldistart
Leave it to Toad Cruz to have people trying to choke the living shit out of him and he thinks he’s being HUGGED.
The Accidental Polemicist
I’ve met Ted Cruz. I didn’t hug him, but I did shake his hand. Very nice guy.
Invader7
Did you get rabies vaccines afterwards ? And take a shower to wash off the sleaze he eminates???
The Accidental Polemicist
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” – Eric Hoffer
Heywood Jablowme
A Trump voter complaining about rudeness is like an arsonist complaining about smoke. – Heywood
Kinkslola
“Stupid is as stupid does” Forrest Gump
Kangol2
Good one, Heywood!
FlufferNutter
— Is he SURE they aren’t trying to restrain him???
Invader7
Actually they’re patting hinm down for weapons .. of just want to make sure he isn’t a robot !!!
GrizzleyMichael
Too bad they didn’t plant a bug on him to listen to his every stupid thought
[email protected]
He thinks Trump won the election, of course he thinks people are trying to hug him! What is so hard to understand about that? I am sure he is capable of many more delusions…
CKNJ
They hugged him tight so he could not get away when they hissed “F*ck you, you nasty little troll” into his ears.
Gay Press
That’s great. The UN-vaccinated are hugging him. Lets hope he doesn’t have a breakthrough infection and spread it to his colleagues in Congress.
Den
In fact, Cruz’s claim of “thousands” is bogus.
Of course it is. All the supposed firings and resignations over vaccination mandates were bogus. Most companies with mandates lost 1% of their at most. Funny thing is the right always wants to let “free enterprise” do its thing, spouting the mantra of “regulation is bad, let them regulate themselves”. But when businesses DO regulate themselves, in this case for sound public heath reasons, the right collectively shrieks like frightened infants.
If they were not such a danger to democratic governance, they would be entertaining as hell.
Kangol2
Toad Cruise is lying through this teeth! He’d be lucky if his wife hugged his phony @ss!
THAT Steve
The only reason to hug this man is to check for weapons or pick his pockets.
Terrycloth
What does he do when you take out his batteries. .what does he say when you pull the string on his back ?