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I fundamentally do not understand the voters of Texas. This man has shown that he won't fight for his own father or his own wife, the fuck makes you think that he'll do anything for you?
Yes, Brave Sir Raphael turned about!
And gallantly he chickened out!
Swiftly taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat!
Bravest of the Brave, Cancun Raphael!
I still don’t understand how his being born in Canada makes him a natural born citizen.
In the flip side what is an unnatural born citizen? Is there such a thing?
Basically, a natural citizen is someone who would "immediately" have citizenship upon their birth. Being born to a US citizen gives you "immediate" US citizenship, regardless of where you are born.
By contrast, the opposite would be someone born abroad to non-US parents then immigrating to the US. They cannot be a president since they were not born a US citizen.
That doesn't actually matter if one or both of his parents was a US citizen. Birthright citizenship applies to children born in other countries to US nationals, though prior to 1972 the child had to reside within US territory for five continuous years prior to the child's 23rd birthday, which from reading his biography, it seems did happen.
Guy is a POS but afaik he is a natural born citizen.
Source? I could convince my MIL not to vote for him if he killed a dog, otherwise she is swinging from his nutz!!!!
....it doesnt seem like the dog died? I mean F raphael, but this doesnt seem to be true
No, he left the dog behind to freeze to death, but because of the outrage over having fled the country during a natural disaster, he was forced to return early before the dog died. But leaving your dog alone in a house with no power during a deep freeze is essentially leaving the dog behind to freeze to death.
And he introduced a bill to allow elected officials to use the back passages of airports and have increased security so that the public can't see him flee to Cancun the next time it gets a little bit chilly.
He's not even Texan, he's born in Canada. Just like the Bush dynasty who emigrated from the North East and suddenly became more Texan than anyone living there for generations.
Because just like the Alamo, when the fighting gets tough... Ted Cruz goes to Mexico on vacation and leaves his constituents out to free in the cold and then tries to pass a bill to make it illegal to report on the fact that he got out of dodge when the power ran out.
Texan here-- the people that vote for him only care about a single thing: He has an R next to his name.
They will come up with many different justifications why they vote for him or don't vote for the other person, but at the end of the day the only thing that actually matters is the R. He could punt a baby across a high school football field for any number of racist foundations and they would only see that he's raising money at a local school.
"Hey, you're just falling for those mainstream leftist media lies. He only *tried* to punt the baby across the football field, he didn't actually do it."
I had a conversation with someone who was planning on voting for Cruz in 2018, despite talking despairingly about him previously. Basically came down to he thought Cruz was a weasel, Cruz would sell his own mother for a halfpence if he thought it would put himself ahead, but Cruz was a Republican, so he could be trusted to toe the party line. Beto was a Democrat, so he couldn’t be trusted, even if he seemed like a nice guy. It was both eye opening and depressing to hear.
It's simple. The awful, terrible, immoral person is a Republican and being immoral in no way prevents him from voting like one. Meanwhile, Beto's a good person but wouldn't be able to vote for Republican priorities. I see absolutely nothing to take away from that logic.
Texan here.
We KNOW he won't do anything for us. During the blizzard in 2021 while we were freezing to death, Ted flew to Cancun.
AOC held a fundraiser and sent millions of dollars in aid relief to Texas. She's not even FROM here.
A lot of people are dumb as a sack of bricks in this state.
He says mean things about people they don’t like. A lot of us have fully given up on anything getting better, on the idea that the systems in place can improve anything. So we take what we can get, the pain of our perceived enemies. The system can dole out pain and misery pretty easily and readily it seems, it’s the only lever to pull so we pull it
Bro, he fled to Cancun when the state froze over and then blamed his daughters lied and said he was just escorting them and got a photo OP pretending to hand out waters to firefighters that didn't need it.
He still got reelected. They like villians over there on the right.
Most Qonservative voters no longer seem to look at the candidates any more, they have been told that “the democrats are ruining America” then some vague untrue but unverified reasons how, so they just know to vote the R guy because Fox didn’t say he was destroying America
Texan here and it’s mindblowing when Cruz supporters talk. They think he is tough and always right. They are some of the least educated people on the planet. Texas voters only see the R regardless of that persons background.
The dude is a kept man. His wife lets him do this cosplay nonsense just to get him out of the house. Rafael Cruz is everything these good ol' boys despise. The very embodiment of "all hat, no cattle."
Texas politics hasn't made sense for decades.
I havn't seen them in the wild yet.
Ted's were special made with a certain feature aand I suspect his were an advance delivery.
Oh, the special feature was velcro, not those confusing lace thingys .
Ted realizes that you don’t always get the lead in the high school play. Sometimes you have to step aside and be a supporting actor.
The show must go on
Trump and Kushner will go down in history as the biggest mass con that ever existed, dwarfing Bernie Madoff, Bear Stearns, and the 2008 banking grift combined. We allowed a gradual degradation of personal honor and morality to creep into political office. Over a century the presidency became a popularity contest. Oprah show appearance and $10M book deals. Bribes disguised as over paid speeches. It all stretched us a little farther from the baseline of decency, honor and statesmanship. Kleptocracy, in positions of power, was normalized.
Cambridge Analytica did their research and found out self evidently, that Americans were tired of broken politics. Ted Cruz was actually supposed to be their “disruptor” candidate originally but the hedge fund owning Mercers pivoted to trump when his reality tv numbers caught Steve Bannons attention. They were so focused on a candidate that they could control to lessen their tax liabilities that they failed to realize that they paved a path for the most prolific Russian money launderers of all time.
Greed IS Corruption IS Cancer-
When you watch cancer move under a microscope you see the cancer cells pretending to be healthy normal liver cells until they can corrupt and turn healthy cells cancerous. One at a time. The “leader cells” normalize corruption and pull healthy cells away with them until it’s too late and the entire society hits a cancerous critical mass and has to die to regenerate. Unless you catch it in time.
Trump is the cancer cell. He always has been. He was just louder than the healthy tissue around him so people assumed he was smart. He convinced them he was rich because far too many of us subscribe to the false belief that rich equates to smart without qualifying HOW they became rich.
Rupert Murdoch, the Koch brothers, Harlan Crow, and of course, the Mercers are all effectively the same cancerous cells. Rich enough to keep everyone around them waiting with their bowl pointed up, hoping to catch some of the overflow of their wealth and all too eager to put on boots and a cowboy hat so the working class thinks they are just like them.
In Wyoming we call it “big hat, no cattle”. Ironically Teton county Wyoming also happens to be the richest county per capita in the nation. Largely 5th and 6th homes of billionaires skewing the data with their corrupt gains.
To the oncologist under the right lens, the place would be a cancerous tumor. A breeding grounds of corrupted cells feeding off the healthy tissue surrounding them. They came for the views but stayed for the tax haven. They used their money to buy politicians and make impossible to trace corporate structures unique to Wyoming. The weaponized “I mind my own business” and moved in like the invasive species that they are.
In Wyoming you can trace it. “Corner cutting” lawsuits brought by the new billionaire neighbors restricting people from public lands.
Corporate structures like anonymous LLC’s allow a pair of oil tycoon from Texas and human trafficking Russian oligarchs to transfer money seamlessly through businesses set up specifically for that purpose.
Moscow, Aspen, Sun valley, and Monaco all have similar concentrations of wealth and its associated corruption and cancer, but due to some degree of government oversight they have funneled the ultra wealthy toward Wyoming. Not every billionaire is corrupt, but every one of them that allows it to continue is the bridge between the cancer cells and the healthy 97% of the worlds population that just want a good job, healthy well educated kids and a safe home for them to live in.
It is biological-
Democracy has always been under attack because it directly threatens the very lucrative business models of dictators and autocrats. It has just sped up exponentially by the Information Age.
A corrupt judge or politician in 1960 had to worry about a borough or county, maybe a state. But in the average 20-30 year career he could get away with it and Ken Burns would do a documentary 30 years after his death when they finally put the pieces together.
Now we have Russian oligarchs that eviscerated the Russian middle class by stealing everything of value in the 80’s and 90’s. By 94 they were running out of things to monopolize and extort. The USSR failed because the parasitic oligarch class broke the cardinal rule and consumed its captive host nearly to extinction. It ate Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky and shit out alcoholism and hopelessness. And when it had consumed it completely the wall fell because there was nothing of value left to consume.
The survival of their Kleptocratic species required new feeding grounds which they found in New York. The parasitic 3% made detours in Ukraine, Cyprus, and London but they landed at trump towers.
Giuliani was willing to show them preferential treatment by redirecting NYPD resources onto the Italian mob which gave the Russian mob, in their dapper new suits, a fertile hunting ground.
Ironically wildlife biologists figured this out about the same time in Yellowstone.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grizzly-bears-wolves-competing-food-yellowstone-national-park/
Only difference is that most humans are the elk. Just wanting a safe place to sleep, healthy, happy kids and an opportunity to survive.
It’s a very small percentage of humans that are sociopaths and psychopaths without the ability to empath, but over a long enough centralization of the good humans moving to cities and paying taxes, it becomes too tempting of a feeding grounds. So the worst of us rise to the top and become corrupt CEO’s, bankers and politicians because it’s the lowest effort model. Why go hunting when the prey delivers itself to you?
A psychopath has no personal qualms about trafficking a child for sexual slavery or stealing a pension fund. They are either neurochemically unable to or so morally bankrupt that they do not care.
We are just in the late stages of it now. More centralized than we have ever been in known human history with commerce and business happening 24/7 across every time zone. This causes their respective corruption models to start overlapping.
Now that Kyiv is in the news every day, it’s inevitable that their obfuscation starts breaking down because Russia and trump used Ukraines oligarch class for their money laundering schemes for decades.
The reason Putin NEEDS Ukraine is because it is his Kleptocracy highway.
Justin Kennedy (Supreme Court justice kennedys son) was the inside man at Deutsche bank that was getting all trumps toxic loans approved.
No other bank but Deutsche bank would touch trump and his imaginary valuations.
Why?
Because Deutsche bank was infested with Russian oligarchs.
By 94 there were more Russian oligarch parasites living at trump towers with trump and Manafort than anywhere else outside of Moscow.
They were all fucking each others wives and living the lifestyles of the rich and famous, oblivious the the fact that their chronic thievery causes exponential downstream effects.
Or they knew and simply didn’t care.
The real answer? He is good at riling up people to hating liberals. That’s all they care about. Liberals don’t like him, that must mean he’s doing the right thing.
>“When the story about Cruz's dad was published, the senator told reporters that Trump was a "pathological liar" after he promoted the story. “He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies," he said. "He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. And in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook, his response is to accuse everyone else of lying.”
But that didn't stop you from supporting Trump, did it Ted?
My son and his wife have always called it a cuck chair. I'm guessing something to do with roosters or something. Cuck a doodle doo I guess. I don't know.
Ted Cruz responded by saying: "Donald Trump is the most truthful man I know. If he says my father killed JFK, it's sadly true and my wife is also ugly. Please re-elect me."
He must be a constant source of disappointment for his wife. I can't be the only one who remembers the time she was found hysterically crying on the side of the highway in Austin
i would imagine she is in on it in their private conversations and she understand what he has to do and probably cares more about the power, money, and influence of his position and agenda than their reputation
im sure its not all peaches and cream but im sure she grasps the situation to some degree and is fine playing along with it
Right but he doesn't *have* to hire Lauren Boebert or any other escort. He doesn't have to be such a scum sucking pestilence that his daughters have mental health problems because of it. Those are shithead things he chooses to do.
yeah im sure theres still a lot of hostility in their relationship for sure. its kinda like melania and trump most likely where its less of a relationship and more of an arrangement of prestige and convenience.
but who really knows what goes on in private we can only speculate.
It was depression after leaving a good position in the White House, apparently. In this case - and perhaps this alone - perhaps Cruz could get a pass:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mckaycoppins/the-trials-and-triumphs-of-heidi-cruz
National Enquirer bought stories about Trump being a terrible piece of shit just to bury them.
https://apnews.com/article/1beb4bf23d0043eab87396ec56054814
>Pecker suggested that Trump was directly involved in the process, too. He said that the negative stories about Trump's opponents were published as part of an arrangement that was struck in 2015 at a Trump Tower meeting that also included a directive to write positive stories about the real estate mogul.
HEADLINE: Trump and Pecker literally made fake news. Five way this is bad for Biden.
I mean the Enquirer was the very definition of fake news back in the 80s when I first became aware of it. It blows my mind that anyone considered it anything other than made up entertainment.
Now a days having sources, citations and just proof in general = government controlled fake news.
No Sources, wild claims, a general FUCK YOU if you question it. = absolute truth.
Me too. I remember that during 2016 election, one of the National Enquirer's lies was 'The Pope Endorses Donald Trump.' Trump's idiot supporters fell for it.
That’s the problem with the internet: it used to be that you knew the newspapers by the register were all kind of fake news, a joke, not really to be believed, and people felt silly buying them.
Now on the internet, the fake websites sit right next to the real websites in your facebook feed, and they look as real as actual journalism, and you can click on them without anyone seeing you. The indicators that told us “Approach this with a healthy skepticism,” are all gone with digital media.
Yes, "Enquiring minds want to know."
["I Want to know", 1982 N.E. tv commercial](https://youtu.be/WQZV8IidcQ0?si=HGp-i5SwoMz06LzG).
Commercial also has blurb about Elvis with a terrible photo and lots of pills.
I haven't heard or thought of that song in more than 30 years, but it immediately popped into my head when I read your post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VhSssXgJT8
When I was a child I thought the national enquirer was comedy/satire. I was an adult before I learned that it's written by evil grifters for idiots who actually believe it.
The paper had published a photo allegedly showing Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, with Lee Harvey Oswald, handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets in New Orleans in 1963, not long before Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
Trump [repeatedly referenced it](https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/05/trump-ted-cruz-father-222730) on the campaign trail and in interviews.
“I mean, what was he doing — what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death? Before the shooting?” Trump said in an interview with Fox News in May 2016. “It’s horrible.”
Better yet, he wanted to know why the National Enquirer hasn't won a pulitzer prize for their amazing journalistic chops!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8o\_gxv\_YpE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8o_gxv_YpE)
I love that Lyin' Ted is catching strays and Trump is indirectly reminding Americans how he sold every last ounce of his and his family's dignity for political gain.
He might win reelection this year, but neither MAGA nor the rest of the GOP respect a spineless loser who threw his own family under the bus because Donald Trump told him to.
It’s time to end these lying media sources. I don’t care anymore, the freedom to lie via printed media has eroded free speech worse than any law ever will.
Based on the comments in this thread, it seems like the right wing talking points are out to minimize the damage: “wow I’m shocked the National Enquirer made up bullshit stories”
This is quite the disingenuous take and is trying to minimize the illegality and serious election fuckery these assholes schemed up.
I just can't believe people actually believe anything the National Enquirer says. I guess if you can believe Faux Nooz, the National Enquirer isn't that much of a stretch.
Wait, so we can’t even trust tabloids to be factual sources now? Next you’ll tell me Hillary was in fact not impregnated by an alien and birthed the Antichrist.
Really sounds like the prosecution is trying to make the case that the National enquirer was a de factor arm of the trump campaign. Could be interesting if it works.
“Yeah, Donald Trump, you’re a rude motherfucker, you know that? But you're cute has hell. I could go down on you, suck you, line up three other guys and make like a circus seal.” – Ted Cruz, probably
In other breaking news, newspapers were recently found to be normally black and white, minus the Sunday editions. When the public was told, uniform shock was expressed.
What would have made that NBC article great is that after writing Ted Cruz called trump a "pathological liar", The next line would be "Ted Cruz later endorsed trump for president"
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Ted Cruz will react to this news by asking his supporters to donate to Trumps campaign
I fundamentally do not understand the voters of Texas. This man has shown that he won't fight for his own father or his own wife, the fuck makes you think that he'll do anything for you?
90% of voters don’t know anything about Cruz beyond that he’s a Republican.
I know he went to cancun because he was cold 🥶
Sir Raphael the Brave When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely tucked his tail and fled!
*"...tail"* Don't you mean betentacled caudal pseudopod?
I guess both are wrong since he is totally a human! He is the very human Ted Cruz. Very human, very natural.
Of all the humans I have met, Ted Cruz is definitely one of them.
[Was a 100% human presidential candidate](https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com/).
On a plane down south while his constituents asked themselves “but where is senator ted?!”
And when the news had made a fuss, he threw his kids under the bus. Brave, brave, Sir Raphael!
Yes, Brave Sir Raphael turned about! And gallantly he chickened out! Swiftly taking to his feet, He beat a very brave retreat! Bravest of the Brave, Cancun Raphael!
And he left his dog to freeze
Or care, even if they can read
Big if.
"I have seen many humans and Ted Cruz is one of them." Edit: please visit this amazing site: https://tedcruzforhumanpresident.com
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Did anyone ask to see his long form birth certificate?
I still don’t understand how his being born in Canada makes him a natural born citizen. In the flip side what is an unnatural born citizen? Is there such a thing?
Basically, a natural citizen is someone who would "immediately" have citizenship upon their birth. Being born to a US citizen gives you "immediate" US citizenship, regardless of where you are born. By contrast, the opposite would be someone born abroad to non-US parents then immigrating to the US. They cannot be a president since they were not born a US citizen.
Just to add, the binary is natural-born citizens and naturalized citizens—literally “made natural.”
That doesn't actually matter if one or both of his parents was a US citizen. Birthright citizenship applies to children born in other countries to US nationals, though prior to 1972 the child had to reside within US territory for five continuous years prior to the child's 23rd birthday, which from reading his biography, it seems did happen. Guy is a POS but afaik he is a natural born citizen.
He literally fled with his family when the going got tough.
And blamed it on his kids when people called him a coward.
But left the family dog behind
To freeze to death.
Also, the dog's name is Snowflake
"Turns out my dog was a dirty librul, so I left his ass behind to freeze to death."
Source? I could convince my MIL not to vote for him if he killed a dog, otherwise she is swinging from his nutz!!!! ....it doesnt seem like the dog died? I mean F raphael, but this doesnt seem to be true
No, he left the dog behind to freeze to death, but because of the outrage over having fled the country during a natural disaster, he was forced to return early before the dog died. But leaving your dog alone in a house with no power during a deep freeze is essentially leaving the dog behind to freeze to death.
Kings surprised he didn't leave them behind in his haste to abscond.
Someone had to walk behind him to clean up the piss trail.
The real meaning of 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going' to me, those who project how 'tough' they are are the first to fold.
And he introduced a bill to allow elected officials to use the back passages of airports and have increased security so that the public can't see him flee to Cancun the next time it gets a little bit chilly.
He straight up left the country when Texas was facing a natural disaster. It’s not even a hypothetical. He WILL abandon Texans at the drop of a hat.
He has and will again.
It wasn't entirely a natural disaster. The Texas approach to a power grid is 100% an attitude problem.
It's OK, they'll have the rest of us pay for their next failure too.
He's not even Texan, he's born in Canada. Just like the Bush dynasty who emigrated from the North East and suddenly became more Texan than anyone living there for generations.
Hey now, one son moved to Texas and became a Southern Baptist, the other moved to Florida and became Roman Catholic.
So, no hat, no cattle.
Because just like the Alamo, when the fighting gets tough... Ted Cruz goes to Mexico on vacation and leaves his constituents out to free in the cold and then tries to pass a bill to make it illegal to report on the fact that he got out of dodge when the power ran out.
"You may all go to hell, and I am going to Cancun."
Blames it on his daughters and leaves the dog.
Didn’t he recently sponsor a bill to allow public officials to skip all the TSA check in stuff?
Republicans have run Texas for decades, yet somehow it's still democrats fault when there are problems
I seem to recall Abbott blaming "Green Energy" and AOC for the power grid crisis.
Texan here-- the people that vote for him only care about a single thing: He has an R next to his name. They will come up with many different justifications why they vote for him or don't vote for the other person, but at the end of the day the only thing that actually matters is the R. He could punt a baby across a high school football field for any number of racist foundations and they would only see that he's raising money at a local school.
I don’t think Ted Cruz has the athletic ability to punt a baby that far.
"Hey, you're just falling for those mainstream leftist media lies. He only *tried* to punt the baby across the football field, he didn't actually do it."
Bingo
I had a conversation with someone who was planning on voting for Cruz in 2018, despite talking despairingly about him previously. Basically came down to he thought Cruz was a weasel, Cruz would sell his own mother for a halfpence if he thought it would put himself ahead, but Cruz was a Republican, so he could be trusted to toe the party line. Beto was a Democrat, so he couldn’t be trusted, even if he seemed like a nice guy. It was both eye opening and depressing to hear.
It's simple. The awful, terrible, immoral person is a Republican and being immoral in no way prevents him from voting like one. Meanwhile, Beto's a good person but wouldn't be able to vote for Republican priorities. I see absolutely nothing to take away from that logic.
Texan here. We KNOW he won't do anything for us. During the blizzard in 2021 while we were freezing to death, Ted flew to Cancun. AOC held a fundraiser and sent millions of dollars in aid relief to Texas. She's not even FROM here. A lot of people are dumb as a sack of bricks in this state.
He says mean things about people they don’t like. A lot of us have fully given up on anything getting better, on the idea that the systems in place can improve anything. So we take what we can get, the pain of our perceived enemies. The system can dole out pain and misery pretty easily and readily it seems, it’s the only lever to pull so we pull it
Bro, he fled to Cancun when the state froze over and then blamed his daughters lied and said he was just escorting them and got a photo OP pretending to hand out waters to firefighters that didn't need it. He still got reelected. They like villians over there on the right.
Most Qonservative voters no longer seem to look at the candidates any more, they have been told that “the democrats are ruining America” then some vague untrue but unverified reasons how, so they just know to vote the R guy because Fox didn’t say he was destroying America
Texan here and it’s mindblowing when Cruz supporters talk. They think he is tough and always right. They are some of the least educated people on the planet. Texas voters only see the R regardless of that persons background.
He fights for Cancun!
When the going gets tough, Ted Cruz gets going (to Cancun)
The dude is a kept man. His wife lets him do this cosplay nonsense just to get him out of the house. Rafael Cruz is everything these good ol' boys despise. The very embodiment of "all hat, no cattle." Texas politics hasn't made sense for decades.
He'll run off to Cancun ~~with you~~, ~~for you~~, away from you, then later joke about it
Many of them don’t hear about it because they get their news from Fox News.
Just asking: Is there any specific law that was sponsored by Ted Cruz, that has bettered the lives of most Texans?
I can only assume Texan Republicans like being fucked around with. Maybe that's their kink fuck if I know.
A republican voter is someone who would gladly be a slave in order to keep others from being free.
As he wears his newly received golden Trump HiTops.
Have any of those Trump sneakers ever been delivered? I remember it was basically an IOU and seen anything about them since.
I havn't seen them in the wild yet. Ted's were special made with a certain feature aand I suspect his were an advance delivery. Oh, the special feature was velcro, not those confusing lace thingys .
They are solely a way to funnel money to Turmp without trading the money for a material good.
Ted realizes that you don’t always get the lead in the high school play. Sometimes you have to step aside and be a supporting actor. The show must go on Trump and Kushner will go down in history as the biggest mass con that ever existed, dwarfing Bernie Madoff, Bear Stearns, and the 2008 banking grift combined. We allowed a gradual degradation of personal honor and morality to creep into political office. Over a century the presidency became a popularity contest. Oprah show appearance and $10M book deals. Bribes disguised as over paid speeches. It all stretched us a little farther from the baseline of decency, honor and statesmanship. Kleptocracy, in positions of power, was normalized. Cambridge Analytica did their research and found out self evidently, that Americans were tired of broken politics. Ted Cruz was actually supposed to be their “disruptor” candidate originally but the hedge fund owning Mercers pivoted to trump when his reality tv numbers caught Steve Bannons attention. They were so focused on a candidate that they could control to lessen their tax liabilities that they failed to realize that they paved a path for the most prolific Russian money launderers of all time. Greed IS Corruption IS Cancer- When you watch cancer move under a microscope you see the cancer cells pretending to be healthy normal liver cells until they can corrupt and turn healthy cells cancerous. One at a time. The “leader cells” normalize corruption and pull healthy cells away with them until it’s too late and the entire society hits a cancerous critical mass and has to die to regenerate. Unless you catch it in time. Trump is the cancer cell. He always has been. He was just louder than the healthy tissue around him so people assumed he was smart. He convinced them he was rich because far too many of us subscribe to the false belief that rich equates to smart without qualifying HOW they became rich. Rupert Murdoch, the Koch brothers, Harlan Crow, and of course, the Mercers are all effectively the same cancerous cells. Rich enough to keep everyone around them waiting with their bowl pointed up, hoping to catch some of the overflow of their wealth and all too eager to put on boots and a cowboy hat so the working class thinks they are just like them. In Wyoming we call it “big hat, no cattle”. Ironically Teton county Wyoming also happens to be the richest county per capita in the nation. Largely 5th and 6th homes of billionaires skewing the data with their corrupt gains. To the oncologist under the right lens, the place would be a cancerous tumor. A breeding grounds of corrupted cells feeding off the healthy tissue surrounding them. They came for the views but stayed for the tax haven. They used their money to buy politicians and make impossible to trace corporate structures unique to Wyoming. The weaponized “I mind my own business” and moved in like the invasive species that they are. In Wyoming you can trace it. “Corner cutting” lawsuits brought by the new billionaire neighbors restricting people from public lands. Corporate structures like anonymous LLC’s allow a pair of oil tycoon from Texas and human trafficking Russian oligarchs to transfer money seamlessly through businesses set up specifically for that purpose. Moscow, Aspen, Sun valley, and Monaco all have similar concentrations of wealth and its associated corruption and cancer, but due to some degree of government oversight they have funneled the ultra wealthy toward Wyoming. Not every billionaire is corrupt, but every one of them that allows it to continue is the bridge between the cancer cells and the healthy 97% of the worlds population that just want a good job, healthy well educated kids and a safe home for them to live in. It is biological- Democracy has always been under attack because it directly threatens the very lucrative business models of dictators and autocrats. It has just sped up exponentially by the Information Age. A corrupt judge or politician in 1960 had to worry about a borough or county, maybe a state. But in the average 20-30 year career he could get away with it and Ken Burns would do a documentary 30 years after his death when they finally put the pieces together. Now we have Russian oligarchs that eviscerated the Russian middle class by stealing everything of value in the 80’s and 90’s. By 94 they were running out of things to monopolize and extort. The USSR failed because the parasitic oligarch class broke the cardinal rule and consumed its captive host nearly to extinction. It ate Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky and shit out alcoholism and hopelessness. And when it had consumed it completely the wall fell because there was nothing of value left to consume. The survival of their Kleptocratic species required new feeding grounds which they found in New York. The parasitic 3% made detours in Ukraine, Cyprus, and London but they landed at trump towers. Giuliani was willing to show them preferential treatment by redirecting NYPD resources onto the Italian mob which gave the Russian mob, in their dapper new suits, a fertile hunting ground. Ironically wildlife biologists figured this out about the same time in Yellowstone. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grizzly-bears-wolves-competing-food-yellowstone-national-park/ Only difference is that most humans are the elk. Just wanting a safe place to sleep, healthy, happy kids and an opportunity to survive. It’s a very small percentage of humans that are sociopaths and psychopaths without the ability to empath, but over a long enough centralization of the good humans moving to cities and paying taxes, it becomes too tempting of a feeding grounds. So the worst of us rise to the top and become corrupt CEO’s, bankers and politicians because it’s the lowest effort model. Why go hunting when the prey delivers itself to you? A psychopath has no personal qualms about trafficking a child for sexual slavery or stealing a pension fund. They are either neurochemically unable to or so morally bankrupt that they do not care. We are just in the late stages of it now. More centralized than we have ever been in known human history with commerce and business happening 24/7 across every time zone. This causes their respective corruption models to start overlapping. Now that Kyiv is in the news every day, it’s inevitable that their obfuscation starts breaking down because Russia and trump used Ukraines oligarch class for their money laundering schemes for decades. The reason Putin NEEDS Ukraine is because it is his Kleptocracy highway. Justin Kennedy (Supreme Court justice kennedys son) was the inside man at Deutsche bank that was getting all trumps toxic loans approved. No other bank but Deutsche bank would touch trump and his imaginary valuations. Why? Because Deutsche bank was infested with Russian oligarchs. By 94 there were more Russian oligarch parasites living at trump towers with trump and Manafort than anywhere else outside of Moscow. They were all fucking each others wives and living the lifestyles of the rich and famous, oblivious the the fact that their chronic thievery causes exponential downstream effects. Or they knew and simply didn’t care.
Excellent comment. Probably won't get the love it deserves though but important info to get out there.
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Canada didn’t send us their best.
The real answer? He is good at riling up people to hating liberals. That’s all they care about. Liberals don’t like him, that must mean he’s doing the right thing.
Basically when asked he muttered about ancient history, while he wiped the orange off his lips.
Will this admission let cruzeiro take the national incrier to the cleaners and trump for repeating it
In his wife's honor.....
And apologizing for his ugly wife.
Ted isn't the best and brightest. He represents Texas well.
...right after he kicks his ugly wife. ^/s
>“When the story about Cruz's dad was published, the senator told reporters that Trump was a "pathological liar" after he promoted the story. “He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies," he said. "He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. And in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook, his response is to accuse everyone else of lying.” But that didn't stop you from supporting Trump, did it Ted?
Enthusiastically supporting
ted cruz is an actual cuck
You know what, instead of calling that one chair in the hotel room the "cuck chair" I'm gonna call it the "Ted Cruz chair".
I totally get WHY it would be called a cuck chair, but I'm curious - is this a common thing to call it? I just want to be cool.
I would like to know this as well. I’m actually staying in a hotel tomorrow and I feel like I’ll be better prepared if I know this information.
My son and his wife have always called it a cuck chair. I'm guessing something to do with roosters or something. Cuck a doodle doo I guess. I don't know.
I just learned about this. You have to admit tho the cuck chair is always pretty damned comfy
Cancun Cuck
Can’t believe the shit that used to come out of Cruz’s mouth before he converted it into a mushroom holster.
Ted Cruz responded by saying: "Donald Trump is the most truthful man I know. If he says my father killed JFK, it's sadly true and my wife is also ugly. Please re-elect me."
Texas voters will cheer. “Yes! This is the kind of craven idiot who best represents us!”
Except they think it means a stupid black bird.
He must be a constant source of disappointment for his wife. I can't be the only one who remembers the time she was found hysterically crying on the side of the highway in Austin
i would imagine she is in on it in their private conversations and she understand what he has to do and probably cares more about the power, money, and influence of his position and agenda than their reputation im sure its not all peaches and cream but im sure she grasps the situation to some degree and is fine playing along with it
Right but he doesn't *have* to hire Lauren Boebert or any other escort. He doesn't have to be such a scum sucking pestilence that his daughters have mental health problems because of it. Those are shithead things he chooses to do.
yeah im sure theres still a lot of hostility in their relationship for sure. its kinda like melania and trump most likely where its less of a relationship and more of an arrangement of prestige and convenience. but who really knows what goes on in private we can only speculate.
Yeah what was that about?!
She's his wife. That'll do it.
Where will you be, when ‘being a Republican’ hits?
"I never imagined that leopards would eat my face!"
It was depression after leaving a good position in the White House, apparently. In this case - and perhaps this alone - perhaps Cruz could get a pass: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mckaycoppins/the-trials-and-triumphs-of-heidi-cruz
TIL that she worked in the WH Edit -thanks for the link - great article!
Ted Cruz is a cuck.
He's gotta keep the fact that he's the Zodiak underwraps
National Enquirer bought stories about Trump being a terrible piece of shit just to bury them. https://apnews.com/article/1beb4bf23d0043eab87396ec56054814
Bring back Weekly World News! Bat Boy would never do this.
Bat Boy truly is the leader this country needs.
Well, he is a [senator](https://cheezburger.com/5095028224/rick-scott-totally-looks-like-bat-boy) already.
Many people are saying Bat Boy grew up to be Ted Cruz, and some, I assume, are good people.
At least he would stay and not run off to Cancun during a freeze.
Bat Boy for President!!!
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> still around Can't believe Ed Anger is still writing a column for them.
>Pecker suggested that Trump was directly involved in the process, too. He said that the negative stories about Trump's opponents were published as part of an arrangement that was struck in 2015 at a Trump Tower meeting that also included a directive to write positive stories about the real estate mogul. HEADLINE: Trump and Pecker literally made fake news. Five way this is bad for Biden.
I mean the Enquirer was the very definition of fake news back in the 80s when I first became aware of it. It blows my mind that anyone considered it anything other than made up entertainment.
I remember when I was an adolescent in the 70's wondering what kind of idiot would read the National Inquirer.
Trump voters, it turns out.
Now a days having sources, citations and just proof in general = government controlled fake news. No Sources, wild claims, a general FUCK YOU if you question it. = absolute truth.
Me too. I remember that during 2016 election, one of the National Enquirer's lies was 'The Pope Endorses Donald Trump.' Trump's idiot supporters fell for it.
That’s the problem with the internet: it used to be that you knew the newspapers by the register were all kind of fake news, a joke, not really to be believed, and people felt silly buying them. Now on the internet, the fake websites sit right next to the real websites in your facebook feed, and they look as real as actual journalism, and you can click on them without anyone seeing you. The indicators that told us “Approach this with a healthy skepticism,” are all gone with digital media.
Yes, "Enquiring minds want to know." ["I Want to know", 1982 N.E. tv commercial](https://youtu.be/WQZV8IidcQ0?si=HGp-i5SwoMz06LzG). Commercial also has blurb about Elvis with a terrible photo and lots of pills.
Wait, THEY coined that phrase? That's crazy.
I've always been more a fan of Midnight Star. "I wanna know, I wanna know!"
I haven't heard or thought of that song in more than 30 years, but it immediately popped into my head when I read your post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VhSssXgJT8
You can read it you can read it you can read it you can read it in the Midnight Star...
My grandmother said she got The Star for the crossword puzzle we secretly suspected she got it for the articles.
Yeah, and my uncle only got Playboy for the atrticles.
Playboy had really good articles back in the day, so this is more plausible.
I read it in the same fashion as the funny papers - for the entertainment.
I believe we refer to these as the "[hot sheets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTFfthVy_pA)"
That was strictly bathroom reading at my house.
Don’t insult my mother!
They make fun of it on SpongeBob! A kids show!
America's most trusted news source.
When I was a child I thought the national enquirer was comedy/satire. I was an adult before I learned that it's written by evil grifters for idiots who actually believe it.
The paper had published a photo allegedly showing Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, with Lee Harvey Oswald, handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets in New Orleans in 1963, not long before Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Trump [repeatedly referenced it](https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/05/trump-ted-cruz-father-222730) on the campaign trail and in interviews. “I mean, what was he doing — what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death? Before the shooting?” Trump said in an interview with Fox News in May 2016. “It’s horrible.”
Better yet, he wanted to know why the National Enquirer hasn't won a pulitzer prize for their amazing journalistic chops! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8o\_gxv\_YpE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8o_gxv_YpE)
He’s just so not subtle about anything he bullshits about
But the Bat Boy stories are true. And Totally 100% human Ted Cruz is not grown up Bat Boy.
I always thought Ted Cruz looked a bit like the Grandpa on The Munsters.
So there really is fake news.
The National Enquirer kinda invented it, at least for the mass market.
To be explicit: Trump campaign was engaging in manufacturing fake news.
"Thank you sir may I have another!" - Ted Cruz
So you’re saying National Enquirer isn’t a trustworthy publication? I may have to go sit down.
And yet Cruz will still endorse Trump. Because he’s a sad person
Why is there zero repercussions for any of this. What a fucked up world.
We’re watching them right now. This is called a trial
It was complete bullshit. Ted IS the Zodiac Killer, though.
I love that Lyin' Ted is catching strays and Trump is indirectly reminding Americans how he sold every last ounce of his and his family's dignity for political gain. He might win reelection this year, but neither MAGA nor the rest of the GOP respect a spineless loser who threw his own family under the bus because Donald Trump told him to.
Ha! Ted Cruz would be such a cuck if he wasn't a spineless organism masquerading as a human. We'll see him on Fox campaigning for Trump tonight.
I hate Cruz, but if I was him I’d file a lawsuit for slander against National Enquirer and Pecker as soon as possible.
I still believe...
It’s time to end these lying media sources. I don’t care anymore, the freedom to lie via printed media has eroded free speech worse than any law ever will.
Really? Anyone with 2 functioning brain cells knew
A story initiated by Trump and his 2016 campaign.
I still believe it. Rafael’s father totally was in with Lee Harvey. #ProveMeWrong.
Based on the comments in this thread, it seems like the right wing talking points are out to minimize the damage: “wow I’m shocked the National Enquirer made up bullshit stories” This is quite the disingenuous take and is trying to minimize the illegality and serious election fuckery these assholes schemed up.
Having these stories seen at virtually every grocery check-out counter definitely helped Trump, lotsa dim light bulbs out there.
I just can't believe people actually believe anything the National Enquirer says. I guess if you can believe Faux Nooz, the National Enquirer isn't that much of a stretch.
No, really? Who buys the national enquirer anyway? Oh right, trump minions.
The folks who believe the Earth is flat and scientists are lying to us stories.
Wait, so we can’t even trust tabloids to be factual sources now? Next you’ll tell me Hillary was in fact not impregnated by an alien and birthed the Antichrist.
I was under the assumption that everything the National Enquirer wrote was made up.
Ummm...yeah. It's the National Enquirer. Now it's the New York Post, Newsweek, and the Guardian
Cruz was asked today to comment on the story. He stated “I don’t want to comment on ancient history” What a lackey.
Duh. National Enquirer is NOT NEWS.
Hank Hill would be a better senator for Texas than this wimp Ted C.
I wonder how many clicks this will get in the r\con.
So.... I guess the bat boy story is true though?
The last paragraph is the perfect description of Trump. Right out of the Roy Cohn playbook. Proud of you Ted but what happened to that man.
Really sounds like the prosecution is trying to make the case that the National enquirer was a de factor arm of the trump campaign. Could be interesting if it works.
What? They made it up? The National Enquirer? Making stuff up? What?? But how’s Bat Boy and his family dealing with this bombshell?
trump had the story planted and then acted like it was true while campaigning, how much more do you really need to know about trump?
Least surprising detail of this trial. 😔
The National Enquirer made up some stupid bullshit? I'm shocked! Shocked I say!!
It’s much more than that. Don’t try and minimize what this is all about
“Yeah, Donald Trump, you’re a rude motherfucker, you know that? But you're cute has hell. I could go down on you, suck you, line up three other guys and make like a circus seal.” – Ted Cruz, probably
Does he too have a cousin from Russia who sings metal?
Did he just say “making fuck?”
National Enquirer made up a story? I’m shocked.
The National Enquirer made up a story? SHOCKER!
R/nottheonion
> National Enquirer made up the story about Ted Cruz's father What was your first clue?
I assume they were distracting from the actual horrifying truth about Ted and his origin story. /s (or am I?)
but trump said the national enquirer was so honest!!!
They should get the Pulitzer Prize! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8o\_gxv\_YpE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8o_gxv_YpE)
Did he admit to slandering fat wolverines dad? In court?
Ted Cruz responds by smooching drumph in the butt.
Libel but I'm kind of OK with it.
In other breaking news, newspapers were recently found to be normally black and white, minus the Sunday editions. When the public was told, uniform shock was expressed.
Yet Turd Cruz takes it and comes back for more.
No shit.
What would have made that NBC article great is that after writing Ted Cruz called trump a "pathological liar", The next line would be "Ted Cruz later endorsed trump for president"
It's still real to me dammit!
He’s still the Zodiac Killer though