Patron saint of dumb ideas Ted Cruz is getting a taste of his own medicine on Twitter this week.
Cruz apparently thinks the recent threat on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s life was inspired by “deranged rhetoric” from the left. This is being responded to online by people mockingly attributing the threat to the same thing Cruz attributed the Uvalde shooting to last month: Kavanaugh must have too many doors.
Related: Pete Buttigieg slams Ted Cruz’s obsession with doors in the wake of school shooting
Context: In the days following the Uvalde shooting, Cruz’ team cooked up the brilliant idea of blaming the tragedy on the school having more than one entry point.
Sen. Ted Cruz at Robb Elementary school today. Sharing his thoughts on the shooting pic.twitter.com/OpnhIm5TlT
— Simone De Alba (@Simone_DeAlba) May 25, 2022
This wasn’t even some wacky one-off — Cruz made this point publicly multiple times.
Cruz: Have one door… and have that one door, armed police officers at that door. If that had happened.. when that psychopath had arrived, the armed police officers could’ve taken him out… pic.twitter.com/YnOCDs9GAZ
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 25, 2022
Well, now that he seems to have completely abandoned Uvalde (and the other numerous instances of gun violence since) in favor of hand-wringing over one threat to Brett Kavanaugh, people on Twitter are all too happy to remind him what the real threat is.
Tell him to move to a house with one door. Problem solved
— TWalsh (@hogan_1969) June 9, 2022
What? Does k have more than one door? Doesn’t he own a gun? What was the problem then?
— kris G🕷 (@Kmgtexas) June 9, 2022
Maybe Brett shouldn’t have so many doors.
— Cupcake Boner (@cupcakeboner) June 9, 2022
— Diletta, Suburban Curmudgeon (@lividddh) June 9, 2022
Maybe he should have had armed security to protect him.
Oh wait! He did!— Mark C. Stevens (@markcstevens14) June 9, 2022
Many offered the same sentiments extended to shooting victims by the right in times of need:
Hey Ted, stop politicizing this. Now is not the time. We are currently engaging in thoughts and prayers.
— Patricia Hernandez (@bluetsunami22) June 9, 2022
Maybe some thoughts and prayers???
— Jeff Post (@post_jeff) June 9, 2022
Thoughts and prayers .
— Regy (@ReginaWilhelmi1) June 9, 2022
Amid all the dunking was the common sense core at the heart of the issue.
If y’all would pass gun legislation, the Justices and the rest of us would all be much safer.
— That Girl….🇺🇦 💙💛 (@Nu_Age_Girl) June 9, 2022
Then again, with legislators like Cruz, we’re not holding our breath that common sense will ever win out.
Related: Ted Cruz responds to Texas school shooting in the worst possible way
white-queer-african
What a fu*cking moron!
Apologies. That should read two morons.
Cruz and Kavanaugh. Two peas in a pod!
scotty
we hold these truths to be self-evident.
Jim
Ya gotta remember good verbal skills does not equate to intelligence.
Jaquelope
I’m not even sure he has good verbal skills.
Max
it’s certainly one thing if someone believes in the same policies as these elected officials. but dammit, at least have them have working brains and not be morons.
rand503
According to gun enthusiasts, the founding fathers wanted us all to have guns so that if the government ever goes into tyranny, we can show up with guns and threaten them. They say that a government should always be afraid of the people.
So just use that argument against them. We have guns too, and we should be able to use them to shoot government officials who threaten our freedoms and want to install their tyranny.
That should shut them up.
woodroad34
A Senator represents a whole state (Congresspeople represent a district in that state). Ted Cruz is literally the face of all of Texas. I guess when you’re a large state you have to have a large moron representing you.
Kangol2
Even with Princeton and Harvard degrees Ted doesn’t seem to grasp the basics of public safety, including what might happen with just one door–mode of entry/egress–in the instance of a fire or similar calamity. Then again, Ted Cruz is full of sh!t and a total fake and phony, and would never criticize the NRA or gun manufacturers, or his cult leader Don the Con these days, so he should just be mocked and ignored, whenever possible.
HenryCameron
One entry doesn’t mean the building only has one door. It has one door designated for public entry. It can still have as many emergency exit doors as needed for safety. Those doors only open from the inside, and they are often designed so that an alarm sounds when they are opened. Go to pretty much any building where you have to go through security to get in and that’s going to be the setup they have.
johncp56
moronic bloated Tick, to keep side-stepping gun laws is criminal, this second amendment right is a 70s-80s NRA con scam needs to end, what is the number of people that needed to protect their homes!!!??? IF you need to have and use a ?NR15 ? rifle join the military and protect us all, not killing children
OhHellNo
Boy, imagine what incriminating video the NRA and Trump have on this loser.
Ronbo
Did either politician take a shot like the grade school kids? No, they only play the bully’s assistant keeping killers well-armed.
Shouldn’t we listen to the people who were actual victims – not the victimizers? In Ted and Brett’s MADD, MADD world, drunk driving is the proper way to protest all the innocent people who got in their way of their car.
We live in strange times when evil wins the hearts and minds of voters. ‘Kids or… their Killers’ really should not be a choice that we are losing.