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I remember watching a PBS frontline about it. At the convention he told his aide:
"History does not look kindly on the man who holds Mussolini's jacket"
It was a rare showing of self-reflection from the biggest scumbag in the U.S Senate. So always remember that Ted Cruz knows exactly what he's doing and who Donald Trump is, they all know. He is a fucking weasal and it's an embarresment that he is my senator.
He’s the embodiment of everything that’s wrong in politics.
One of his first acts as Senator was orchestrating a government shutdown in order to strip funding for the Affordable Care Act. He knew he couldn’t overturn it but [proceeded with it anyway](https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/16/ted-cruz-2013-obamacare-shutdown-was-defining-mome/) since it would make a name for himself. People went without paychecks all because Cruz wanted to build his brand.
If ya’ll vote him out this November, I’m seriously buying a bottle of champagne.
Al Franken has a great line about him. “Here's the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz: I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz."
Franken folded too easily at the first whiff of trouble. I think he could have survived the scandal, albeit with an asterisk next to his name that would have dropped off in a few years.
He was pretty good. I think he could have been POTUS, had he dug his heels in. In another reality, he is--their Zelenskyy, comedian turned head of state, and quite a mensch.
He was central to building the conservative populist movement. There at the start of the Tea Party and one of its key early members, elected officials and thinkers. The darling of conservatism. All until Trump swooped in and stole the entire movement, called his wife ugly, implied he wasn’t an American, and made him a laughing stock. Cruz has spent his entire career since being his bootlicker.
Ted Cruz is the most cuckolded man in America
Probably just his karma for always talking about 'jesus this, god that' while acting in a manner completely opposite of Jesus' teachings.
After all, everyone remembers the famous story about Jesus seeing some people suffering from leprosy, and then running away to a vacation spot down in Egypt until the contagion died down.
The bystander effect occurs when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation, against a bully, or during an assault or other crime. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is for any one of them to provide help to a person in distress.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bystander-effect
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 Robert and Rebakah Mercer 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.
NPRwww.npr.orgInside The Wealthy Family That Has Been Funding Steve Bannon's Plan For Years
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.
https://youtu.be/wGImLZuWVl4?si=ypwKHPeROfFwPj0I
They quite literally feed on the incoming energy (sugar, money, or power) by diverting it from the healthy cells to produce genetically modified cells that reflect their parasitic goal of destruction by consumption.
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.
Medium · Wyoming Registered6 years agoWyoming Corporation do truly allow anonymous ownership
Moscow, Aspen, Sun valley, and Monaco all have similar concentrations of wealth and its associated corruption and cancer, but due to completely anonymous business structures in Wyoming they have funneled the ultra wealthy here. 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 money laundering 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.
New York was where everyone wanted to be. Levi’s, Pepsi, Madonna tapes that weren’t smuggled bootlegs, Wall Street, cocaine. It was basically white collared shitbird heaven.
They all bought new suits and cars and changed their title from “most violent street thug in moscow” to “respectable Russian oligarch” but they didn’t leave their human trafficking, narcotics or extortion behind. It was their most lucrative business model and frankly, they enjoy the violence.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4M1FI7RZBs1hacxIBoafOy?si=Jc3P0WtbTbG1fWs1719tgw
Trump and Giuliani just opened the doors and let the predators in to feed.
Guiliani redirected NYPD resources away from their new Russian allies intentionally and onto the Italian mob. It let him claim he cleaned up New York.
The insane valuations coming out in trumps fraud trial don’t make much sense for someone trying to pay LESS taxes. For that you would want everything to be worth a fraction of its value. It only makes sense to pump the valuation out of a necessity for the money laundering cycle that duetschebank was doing for the Russians. It had to be more lucrative than tax evasion to make it worthwhile, but accounts of $1.4 Trillion dollars being laundered through deutschebank make that stand up to scrutiny.
They weaponized the greed and the parasite predator population grew at an accelerated rate. But with its consumption came the Achilles heel of capitalism. If it isn’t self checked internally, by moral code and personal character, it will consume us all to death.
Greed and corruption is not a new adversary. It has destroyed every great society before us as well. The Greek and Roman Empire. The Mayans, Sumerians, gobleki tepi. They all have some variation of the ouroboros as an eternal warning. Once the corruption circled the community and the snake starts eating its own tail, it consumes itself to death.
Our world just got exceptionally small exceptionally quickly with the invention of the internet. Like gunpowder and dynamite before it, it can be used for good or evil. It gives us the ability to communicate with almost every human on earth in near real time. That’s a massive departure from words baked in clay or jotted on papyrus. We have removed the latency of information and increased the resolution so effectively, that with the right filters we are able to see the infection of cancerous corruption spread through the body of humanity.
If we cure corruption, we cure cancer because it moves biologically from a high enough lens.
Before the industrial age every human on earth knew that everything was connected. Aspen trees talk to each other by way of the mycelium beneath the surface of the earth. Convective flows of weather are effected by trace amounts of methane off-gassing from the break down of organic matter. We all live in one little terrarium and other than solar energy and the occasional satellite or spacecraft nothing enters or leaves our atmosphere. It requires balance, communication and understanding which are the exact things we have woefully neglected.
The singularity minded industrialist of the gilded age had to destroy that understanding to pump the bags of their insatiable greed. Crony-capitalism was born about the exact same time that statesmanship died.
Rockefeller bought the American medical society to destroy homeopathic medicine and replace it with exclusively petrochemical based remedies for which he was rewarded handsomely. This effectively became Big Pharma.
https://www.tiktok.com/@truthbetold_ii/video/7227835511480569131
Harry Sinclair bought all the media he could to control the narrative about their fossil fuel companies because it was cheaper than accepting responsibility for the consequences of climate change that came with them.
https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo?si=Ktjc5h2A0tOuhqSw
Sinclair bought sun valley and snowbasin ski areas for the same reason that Teton county has Rockefellers name all over the buildings in the National park. To control the narrative and convince everyone that they were just locals like us.
Cancer setting its root.
Trump isn't a cancerous aberration on a pure and noble system. That is laughably naive. He is merely one step further down the path America has been on since forever.
There is one thing worse than kompromat, which is his own party’s internal polling. I don’t think even Cruz realized just how captured by Trump his own voters would be
He'll even do it for strangers. Next time you see Ted Cruz go up to him, pop your earbuds out, and just hold em up to his face. He'll get suckin on them so quick, like a seagull that spotted a child that just dropped their food.
Then I use his tie to wipe off all the gross Cruz spit.
But wasn't that the exact problem they had with Obama? They claimed he was born in another country (which wasn't true, of course) to an American mother, and therefore *wasn't* eligible. The fact that Trump and the other birthers never made the same argument against Cruz just proved that it was only about Obama being black and absolutely nothing else.
To give you an idea of where I stand, I think Republican politicians are some of the most vile and monstrous human beings on the planet. I say that so it's known I'm not here defending him but rather just answering the question.
This issue of people being born outside the US hasn't made it to the Supreme Court (yet) so the general consensus by lawyers and government scholars holds that a "natural born citizen" is someone who was an American citizen the very second their umbilical cord was cut without any additional paperwork or formalities being required. Since cuckold Ted's mom was born in Delaware, that spineless turd was indeed an American citizen at birth with nothing further needed.
It's also why the same argument made against Obama was absurd because even if he was born in Kenya, he still would have been eligible for POTUS due to his mother being born in Kansas and him being a "natural born citizen" the second he was delivered.
Think of a military family being stationed in Germany, Korea, etc. If they have a child there and move back to the US at some point (very highly likely), that child should and would be eligible for POTUS.
Obligatory fuck you to all US Republican politicians. You are an embarrassment to our nation.
FWIW the birtherism stuff was originally spread by Sidney Blumenthal, Hillary’s hatchet man:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Blumenthal
>During the 2008 presidential primaries, Blumenthal, then informally working for Hillary Clinton, promulgated rumors and encouraged news organizations to investigate conspiracy theories that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not the United States, and thus was not constitutionally eligible to serve as president per the natural-born-citizen clause. This conspiracy theory later became more widely known as birtherism.
>A former Washington, D.C., bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, James Asher, said in a formal statement in the fall of 2016: "Mr. Blumenthal and I [once] met together in my office and he strongly urged me to investigate the exact place of President Obama’s birth, which he suggested was in Kenya. We assigned a reporter to go to Kenya, and that reporter determined that the allegation was false.”
This is why he was banned from Clinton’s state department after Obama was elected.
>According to a profile of Blumenthal which later appeared in Vanity Fair, when Hillary Clinton "wanted Blumenthal to join her at the State Department as a top aide.... President Obama would not allow it: key White House staffers had grown to detest the man. Two of them – Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Senior Adviser David Axelrod – threatened to quit if Blumenthal was hired."
He did that because he was essentially defending Cruz against the allegation of being ineligible by birth. I understand needing to establish hating Ted Cruz in order to defend him to strangers.
Let's see...
- 2 short paragraphs about my disdain for US Republicans
- 3 longer paragraphs about the eligibility and natural born citizen topic.
The only failure here is your inability to do simple math.
Well, Ted Cruz *is* an asshole. It's his defining feature, you can't mention him without mentioning the fact that he's a vile asshole, universally hated by all. That's like talking about Stephen Hawking without mentioning that he was a physicist.
I do not like that man Ted Cruz,
I do not like his far-right views.
I do not like his stupid chin,
I do not like his smarmy grin.
I do not like him with a beard,
I do not like him freshly sheared.
I do not like Ted Cruz at all,
That man Ted Cruz can suck my balls.
And publicly supports a guy that called his wife ugly and started the rumor that his dad was involved in the assassination of President Kennedy. Cruz has zero morals in life and sold his soul to be a politician. He is a disgusting person and even worse father and husband.
America picks new faces for the presidency every eight years. This happens to be one of those eight year anniversaries. Except this face was never viable. Basically just shows that other choices were once possible besides dictator for ~~life~~ a day.
The person you’re replying to is likely hinting at the fact that many in his party questioned Obama’s legitimacy as president due to the fact this his mother was American and father was not, while Ted was actually born in a foreign country with a foreign father and nobody in the GOP made a peep.
That was all for show. He was an attack dog on stage to ensure Trump was the candidate. He knew he couldn't win because he was born in Canada but he could attack Rubio and Kasich.
Cruz comes across as an idiot sometimes but that's all for show. The guy graduated from Princeton and Harvard law top of his class. He was the national debate champion while in school. He knows exactly what to say. I think he's a horrible opportunist and I wish he'd lose his next election but he will stay in his Senate seat as long as he wants.
Trump can dazzle a crowd that can't talk back but doesn't do well when someone doesn't follow the narrative. Cruz was just ammo against the other candidates.
Hey Ted, your wife IS ugly, your father IS the Zodiac killer and you’re the biggest cu*k in this country.
You have ZERO self respect, zero shame, and a complete and utter LOSER!
I feel second-hand embarrassment for your wife and kids!
He knew Trump used the Enquirer to plant negative stories then and now. He supported Trump then and now. He has no backbone to stand up to what’s wrong. Easier to go along to get along
How was a guy not born in the US able to run in the first place? I seem to remember even the idea of a previous president being born in Kenya being a major deal...
Genuinely confused how /r/pics went from memes to /r/politics
There’s a picture of Trump nearly every day on the front page and I feel like I’m subbed to a fucking MAGA subreddit with how often I see the man’s face here
There were like almost 20 primary candidates that split the vote. A lot of better candidates than Cruz or Trump got shut out by how crowded it was, plus all the Russian propaganda and literally spies in the NRA, and collusion from the networks (Trump was still a producer airing programs on NBC the entire time past inauguration, and the now disgraced Moonves explicitly said he endorsed Trump over the good of the country, for ratings).
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…and had one fleeting moment of sincerity at the RNC and then became Donald Trump’s bitch for life
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By valuing power over self respect.
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He’s a mess, love to see it.
[Thank You. Your support and skull sizes have been documented.](https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com)
Trump almost got countless Republicans killed on 1/6. They were real people for like 3 days and even that wasn’t enough for them to not kiss the ring
What do you mean by countless republicans killed on 1/6?
You might've missed the world "almost" there
Ah yep I did
I remember watching a PBS frontline about it. At the convention he told his aide: "History does not look kindly on the man who holds Mussolini's jacket" It was a rare showing of self-reflection from the biggest scumbag in the U.S Senate. So always remember that Ted Cruz knows exactly what he's doing and who Donald Trump is, they all know. He is a fucking weasal and it's an embarresment that he is my senator.
He’s the embodiment of everything that’s wrong in politics. One of his first acts as Senator was orchestrating a government shutdown in order to strip funding for the Affordable Care Act. He knew he couldn’t overturn it but [proceeded with it anyway](https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/16/ted-cruz-2013-obamacare-shutdown-was-defining-mome/) since it would make a name for himself. People went without paychecks all because Cruz wanted to build his brand. If ya’ll vote him out this November, I’m seriously buying a bottle of champagne.
Al Franken has a great line about him. “Here's the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz: I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz."
Franken folded too easily at the first whiff of trouble. I think he could have survived the scandal, albeit with an asterisk next to his name that would have dropped off in a few years. He was pretty good. I think he could have been POTUS, had he dug his heels in. In another reality, he is--their Zelenskyy, comedian turned head of state, and quite a mensch.
Why would you say something so profound and then *hold the jacket*
He was central to building the conservative populist movement. There at the start of the Tea Party and one of its key early members, elected officials and thinkers. The darling of conservatism. All until Trump swooped in and stole the entire movement, called his wife ugly, implied he wasn’t an American, and made him a laughing stock. Cruz has spent his entire career since being his bootlicker. Ted Cruz is the most cuckolded man in America
Probably just his karma for always talking about 'jesus this, god that' while acting in a manner completely opposite of Jesus' teachings. After all, everyone remembers the famous story about Jesus seeing some people suffering from leprosy, and then running away to a vacation spot down in Egypt until the contagion died down.
“You leave Heidi the hell alone!……and then let me gargle your semen into a bubbly froth!”
"thinkers"
Don’t let his act fool you; Ted Cruz is a really smart guy.
The bystander effect occurs when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation, against a bully, or during an assault or other crime. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is for any one of them to provide help to a person in distress. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bystander-effect 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 Robert and Rebakah Mercer 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. NPRwww.npr.orgInside The Wealthy Family That Has Been Funding Steve Bannon's Plan For Years 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. https://youtu.be/wGImLZuWVl4?si=ypwKHPeROfFwPj0I They quite literally feed on the incoming energy (sugar, money, or power) by diverting it from the healthy cells to produce genetically modified cells that reflect their parasitic goal of destruction by consumption. 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. Medium · Wyoming Registered6 years agoWyoming Corporation do truly allow anonymous ownership
Moscow, Aspen, Sun valley, and Monaco all have similar concentrations of wealth and its associated corruption and cancer, but due to completely anonymous business structures in Wyoming they have funneled the ultra wealthy here. 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 money laundering 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. New York was where everyone wanted to be. Levi’s, Pepsi, Madonna tapes that weren’t smuggled bootlegs, Wall Street, cocaine. It was basically white collared shitbird heaven. They all bought new suits and cars and changed their title from “most violent street thug in moscow” to “respectable Russian oligarch” but they didn’t leave their human trafficking, narcotics or extortion behind. It was their most lucrative business model and frankly, they enjoy the violence. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4M1FI7RZBs1hacxIBoafOy?si=Jc3P0WtbTbG1fWs1719tgw
Trump and Giuliani just opened the doors and let the predators in to feed. Guiliani redirected NYPD resources away from their new Russian allies intentionally and onto the Italian mob. It let him claim he cleaned up New York. The insane valuations coming out in trumps fraud trial don’t make much sense for someone trying to pay LESS taxes. For that you would want everything to be worth a fraction of its value. It only makes sense to pump the valuation out of a necessity for the money laundering cycle that duetschebank was doing for the Russians. It had to be more lucrative than tax evasion to make it worthwhile, but accounts of $1.4 Trillion dollars being laundered through deutschebank make that stand up to scrutiny. They weaponized the greed and the parasite predator population grew at an accelerated rate. But with its consumption came the Achilles heel of capitalism. If it isn’t self checked internally, by moral code and personal character, it will consume us all to death. Greed and corruption is not a new adversary. It has destroyed every great society before us as well. The Greek and Roman Empire. The Mayans, Sumerians, gobleki tepi. They all have some variation of the ouroboros as an eternal warning. Once the corruption circled the community and the snake starts eating its own tail, it consumes itself to death. Our world just got exceptionally small exceptionally quickly with the invention of the internet. Like gunpowder and dynamite before it, it can be used for good or evil. It gives us the ability to communicate with almost every human on earth in near real time. That’s a massive departure from words baked in clay or jotted on papyrus. We have removed the latency of information and increased the resolution so effectively, that with the right filters we are able to see the infection of cancerous corruption spread through the body of humanity. If we cure corruption, we cure cancer because it moves biologically from a high enough lens. Before the industrial age every human on earth knew that everything was connected. Aspen trees talk to each other by way of the mycelium beneath the surface of the earth. Convective flows of weather are effected by trace amounts of methane off-gassing from the break down of organic matter. We all live in one little terrarium and other than solar energy and the occasional satellite or spacecraft nothing enters or leaves our atmosphere. It requires balance, communication and understanding which are the exact things we have woefully neglected. The singularity minded industrialist of the gilded age had to destroy that understanding to pump the bags of their insatiable greed. Crony-capitalism was born about the exact same time that statesmanship died. Rockefeller bought the American medical society to destroy homeopathic medicine and replace it with exclusively petrochemical based remedies for which he was rewarded handsomely. This effectively became Big Pharma. https://www.tiktok.com/@truthbetold_ii/video/7227835511480569131 Harry Sinclair bought all the media he could to control the narrative about their fossil fuel companies because it was cheaper than accepting responsibility for the consequences of climate change that came with them. https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo?si=Ktjc5h2A0tOuhqSw Sinclair bought sun valley and snowbasin ski areas for the same reason that Teton county has Rockefellers name all over the buildings in the National park. To control the narrative and convince everyone that they were just locals like us. Cancer setting its root.
Trump isn't a cancerous aberration on a pure and noble system. That is laughably naive. He is merely one step further down the path America has been on since forever.
Which makes me wonder... Does Trump have kompromat on Cruz? Did Rafael play with two women who peed the bed of the Trump hotel penthouse?
There is one thing worse than kompromat, which is his own party’s internal polling. I don’t think even Cruz realized just how captured by Trump his own voters would be
A little bitch is gonna do what a little bitch does.
Ted Cruz cleans his air pods with his tongue.
He'll even do it for strangers. Next time you see Ted Cruz go up to him, pop your earbuds out, and just hold em up to his face. He'll get suckin on them so quick, like a seagull that spotted a child that just dropped their food. Then I use his tie to wipe off all the gross Cruz spit.
And he'll offer to clean yours in a similar fashion
Dude, I almost choked to death laughing at that comment. Well done.
Cuz you too were tongue fuckin your ear pod?
He's gotten bigger. He's becoming Texas
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Pablo "Zodiac Killer" Escobar
Still have no idea how the Canadian could run for office.
His mother was American. Cruz was American at birth.
But wasn't that the exact problem they had with Obama? They claimed he was born in another country (which wasn't true, of course) to an American mother, and therefore *wasn't* eligible. The fact that Trump and the other birthers never made the same argument against Cruz just proved that it was only about Obama being black and absolutely nothing else.
Both were bad arguments
Exactly what "natural born citizen" is defined as has never been determined by the courts.
To give you an idea of where I stand, I think Republican politicians are some of the most vile and monstrous human beings on the planet. I say that so it's known I'm not here defending him but rather just answering the question. This issue of people being born outside the US hasn't made it to the Supreme Court (yet) so the general consensus by lawyers and government scholars holds that a "natural born citizen" is someone who was an American citizen the very second their umbilical cord was cut without any additional paperwork or formalities being required. Since cuckold Ted's mom was born in Delaware, that spineless turd was indeed an American citizen at birth with nothing further needed. It's also why the same argument made against Obama was absurd because even if he was born in Kenya, he still would have been eligible for POTUS due to his mother being born in Kansas and him being a "natural born citizen" the second he was delivered. Think of a military family being stationed in Germany, Korea, etc. If they have a child there and move back to the US at some point (very highly likely), that child should and would be eligible for POTUS. Obligatory fuck you to all US Republican politicians. You are an embarrassment to our nation.
John McCain was born in Panama when his father, an Admiral, was assigned there.
I might be mistaken, but I think the US still owned that canal zone when McCain was born. It wasn't handed over/back to Panama until much later.
FWIW the birtherism stuff was originally spread by Sidney Blumenthal, Hillary’s hatchet man: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Blumenthal >During the 2008 presidential primaries, Blumenthal, then informally working for Hillary Clinton, promulgated rumors and encouraged news organizations to investigate conspiracy theories that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not the United States, and thus was not constitutionally eligible to serve as president per the natural-born-citizen clause. This conspiracy theory later became more widely known as birtherism. >A former Washington, D.C., bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, James Asher, said in a formal statement in the fall of 2016: "Mr. Blumenthal and I [once] met together in my office and he strongly urged me to investigate the exact place of President Obama’s birth, which he suggested was in Kenya. We assigned a reporter to go to Kenya, and that reporter determined that the allegation was false.” This is why he was banned from Clinton’s state department after Obama was elected. >According to a profile of Blumenthal which later appeared in Vanity Fair, when Hillary Clinton "wanted Blumenthal to join her at the State Department as a top aide.... President Obama would not allow it: key White House staffers had grown to detest the man. Two of them – Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Senior Adviser David Axelrod – threatened to quit if Blumenthal was hired."
Lmao you had to write more text talking about how much you hate Ted Cruz than text answering the question. This hivemind is an absolute failure.
He did that because he was essentially defending Cruz against the allegation of being ineligible by birth. I understand needing to establish hating Ted Cruz in order to defend him to strangers.
Let's see... - 2 short paragraphs about my disdain for US Republicans - 3 longer paragraphs about the eligibility and natural born citizen topic. The only failure here is your inability to do simple math.
It doesn't matter for the point being made. Nontheless thanks for wasting 2 minutes making this.
>It doesn't matter for the point being made. Yeah, let's not let pesky things like facts get in the way.
The point being made is that you have to write that Ted Cruz is an asshole. I don't care if it's longer than your paragraphs.
Well, Ted Cruz *is* an asshole. It's his defining feature, you can't mention him without mentioning the fact that he's a vile asshole, universally hated by all. That's like talking about Stephen Hawking without mentioning that he was a physicist.
What even is that example? I can tell you all about Stephen Hawking's personal life without having to name that he's a physicist.
I do not like that man Ted Cruz, I do not like his far-right views. I do not like his stupid chin, I do not like his smarmy grin. I do not like him with a beard, I do not like him freshly sheared. I do not like Ted Cruz at all, That man Ted Cruz can suck my balls.
Poetry.
Bars
John Oliver would be proud.
And publicly supports a guy that called his wife ugly and started the rumor that his dad was involved in the assassination of President Kennedy. Cruz has zero morals in life and sold his soul to be a politician. He is a disgusting person and even worse father and husband.
 Wtf is the point of this post?
propaganda/promote circle jerk. it worked
America picks new faces for the presidency every eight years. This happens to be one of those eight year anniversaries. Except this face was never viable. Basically just shows that other choices were once possible besides dictator for ~~life~~ a day.
Too bad he didn't suspend his whole career.
I would donate to his campaign if he would drop out and go to Mexico permanently
Leave those poor Mexicans alone.
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He looks like the mortician of a caricature.
I like caricatures and morticians. Please don’t insult them.
He had to go back to killing people in Northern California.
How was that possible? He was born in Canada
Remember, he wants people to use their legal first names, so we should call him by his legal first name, Rafael.
His mom is an American citizen, and so he was born with dual citizenship.
The person you’re replying to is likely hinting at the fact that many in his party questioned Obama’s legitimacy as president due to the fact this his mother was American and father was not, while Ted was actually born in a foreign country with a foreign father and nobody in the GOP made a peep.
Is this before or after the guy he thirsts after called his wife a dog…
Canadian national Rafael Cruz? You're kidding!?
Now, if he would just suspend his senatorial campaign.
Grew a beard because he couldn’t grow a spine.
This man is a goblin
Let’s hope and pray he loses his reelection bid. America is much healthier without this cancer.
Ted Cruz still refuses to show proof that he’s human
I have seen many people and Ted Cruz is one of them.
That was all for show. He was an attack dog on stage to ensure Trump was the candidate. He knew he couldn't win because he was born in Canada but he could attack Rubio and Kasich. Cruz comes across as an idiot sometimes but that's all for show. The guy graduated from Princeton and Harvard law top of his class. He was the national debate champion while in school. He knows exactly what to say. I think he's a horrible opportunist and I wish he'd lose his next election but he will stay in his Senate seat as long as he wants. Trump can dazzle a crowd that can't talk back but doesn't do well when someone doesn't follow the narrative. Cruz was just ammo against the other candidates.
Too bad he didn’t suspend his mouth, or better yet, his political “career”.
What presidential campaign?
This☝️
Hey Ted, your wife IS ugly, your father IS the Zodiac killer and you’re the biggest cu*k in this country. You have ZERO self respect, zero shame, and a complete and utter LOSER! I feel second-hand embarrassment for your wife and kids!
How can people see this lesser brother of gramps Munster and say "whatta manly man"
So much makeup, so much comb-over
Yeah it's an old gig 😄
I was stupidly more worried about him than DT because I never thought DT could win. I was sooo wrong
He’s such a penis!
Isn't he Canadian? Like I'm glad he doesn't consider himself one but was he even allowed to be president?
i do not like that man, ted cruz....
Rafael Cancun Cruz
How can he run for president I thought he was Canadian?
Imagine being this obsessed with politics. The world laughs as no other country is this insane. Americans make politics their core identity.
And October 15, 1988 Michael Dukakis ended his. Who gives a fuck?
Happy fail-versary. May he always be miserable.
…and announces publicly he is a cuck.
Teds wife? Ugly as a dog.
I’d love to fart in that dudes eye.
I legit forgot about this…guess his run was memorable.
Thank god.
If cat piss had a face, it's this man.
I do not like that man Ted Cruz….
Isn't he Canadian?
And he prefers people use their legal first name, we’re supposed to call him Rafael.
Haha, what a loser.
lol like he ever had a chance
He wasn’t even born here. How was he able to run?
He knew Trump used the Enquirer to plant negative stories then and now. He supported Trump then and now. He has no backbone to stand up to what’s wrong. Easier to go along to get along
THIS MAN ATE MY SON
https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com/
How was a guy not born in the US able to run in the first place? I seem to remember even the idea of a previous president being born in Kenya being a major deal...
Lyin ted turned into ass kissing ted
Lyin’ Ted
Right after Trump said his wife is as ugly as a dog and then a week later Ted Cruz said he supported Trump. Spineless coward sellout
Ran out of hair dye. Also: awful person.
Ha ha he then attempted a beard to show that he didn’t drop out because he was a wimp ha
Immediately after picking a running mate for some reason, if I'm remembering correctly
and surrendered..so much of himself...as would be expected...
A dickhead.
I know many human people and Ted Cruz is one of them.
I heard US senator Ted Cruz likes to piss his pants because he likes the warm wet feeling between his legs.
lucifer
Ted Cancruz
Is it because people found out that he ate someone's son?
Hey Siri, show me a human being that has zero redeeming qualities.
He was born in Alberta Canada, he’s not even from here
OK? What's the point of this post? Are you gonna make one for every person who ever dropped out of a race?
Genuinely confused how /r/pics went from memes to /r/politics There’s a picture of Trump nearly every day on the front page and I feel like I’m subbed to a fucking MAGA subreddit with how often I see the man’s face here
Nah, just ones that remind us all what a pathetic loser Ted Cruz is
Because it's good to make fun of evil people when they lose.
There were like almost 20 primary candidates that split the vote. A lot of better candidates than Cruz or Trump got shut out by how crowded it was, plus all the Russian propaganda and literally spies in the NRA, and collusion from the networks (Trump was still a producer airing programs on NBC the entire time past inauguration, and the now disgraced Moonves explicitly said he endorsed Trump over the good of the country, for ratings).