Guess which US Senator from Texas flew to Cancun while the state was freezing to death and having to boil water? pic.twitter.com/fNY00EmMMR
— Gene Wu (@GeneforTexas) February 18, 2021
Just 24 hours after landing in Cancún, Mexico with his wife and kids, Senator Ted Cruz has returned to Texas with his head hanging in shame.
The quick turnaround maybe probably has everything to do with the outrage sparked by his last-minute vacation getaway, escaping to warmer climates (during a global pandemic) while his constituents, millions of whom are still without power and heat, battle a deadly winter storm.
After photos of Cruz jetting off to the Mexican resort town hit the internet yesterday, both Ted and his wife Heidi’s names trended on Twitter, along with “Teddy,” “US Senator,” and “Zodiac Killer,” a nickname that has been bestowed upon the antigay senator.
And now, the memes…
How about we take this to the next level?
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missvamp
normally i’d laugh at these memes, but as a texan- they just make me angry. he’s a useless, heartless piece of human garbage.
cuteguy
I don’t understand what it will take for this state to vote blue. The GQP doesn’t care about you or anybody but themselves. They preach and preach so called family values, but they only care about WASPy men. I don’t get it
whatsaywhat
You can’t blame Cruz on the WASPs.
He’s a Catholic of Cuban provenance. Until about 40 years ago, wouldn’t have been allowed within 100 feet of a WASP country club unless he was on staff or paid entertainment.
cuteguy
@whatsaywhat
This m0ron gave up his Canadian citizenship, you don’t think he will renounce his Cuban heritage as well as long as he can lick the boots of WASPs? How can you defend this sick man?! And my question was is how can Texas keep voting him in office just bc he’s part of the GQP? This man is sick and should not be in public office. He doesn’t care about anyone, not even his “ugly” wife (what his lord trump called her)
WSnyder
Sorry Texas but you had the chance 2 years ago to dump this turd and get Beto O’Rourke instead but you decided to stick with Ted. [Yeah it was close at only 3%]. Y’all will likely forget this by the time he’s up for election again in 2024 and you’ll send him back to DC yet again.
BTW, have to ask, what do you think about this ‘BS Climate Change’ thing? Still BS?
WSnyder
Watching some of the moronic Conservatives defending Cruz like: What’s he suppose to do, get a blowtorch and defrost pipelines? or ‘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.’ or ‘only escorted his daughter on a trip to Cancun as a father’.
MEANWHILE: Beto O’Rourke was volunteering at a phone bank making welfare calls to Senior Citizens checking to make sure they were OK and giving them advice and providing resources.
Not expecting Ted to climb into a lift truck and hang some cables but Christ, getting on a plane [during a Pandemic no less] and going on vacation with the family is just asinine.
Openminded
Dick move by a dickhead but honestly, the state would have probably got more done if he’d stayed in Cancun. Climate change, no doubt, plays a big part in this historic cold weather but the fact that the power grid was inadequate has been well known for many years. Obvious thing for Texans to do is throw out EVERYONE involved in ignoring this deficiency in the power grid. Same goes for the rest of America. Our infrastructures are failing faster than we are rebuilding.
Cam
Republicans have been in control of the state for decades. They failed.
darkanser
It’s interesting there’s a meme of Cruz showing up on a beach with Chris Christi. When I first heard this story my mind went to Christi and his family enjoying a state-run beach in N.J. in July 2017 which was closed to every one else due to his and his allies’ support of a government shut-down. Birds of a feather.
Liquid Silver
And they’ll keep re-electing him over and over again. Why? Because people are sad, sad creatures.
JB
Hard to believe this idiot is an Ivy League graduate, or a graduate from any college. I guess there’s stuff some people just don’t get from book learnin’.
Roger Doremus
Flyin’ Ted increasingly looks like a grizzled Hermann Göring (their politics have some similarities). All Fled needs is a silly Mission Impossible military ensemble and just a smidge of rouge.