So he toured the Parthenon during 4th of July weekend, 24 hours AFTER people were caught in the flood.
Rafael Cruz just doesn’t love Americans does he?
I don’t know how many of these disasters happen in Texas, but this guy manages to dodge them with stunning accuracy.
If he weren’t in a leadership role it would be amazing.
I don’t think he has any advanced warning, he probably just is on vacation so much, the odds are in his favor that he’ll be out of state when something bad happens.
When you’re a useless lazy piece of shit like him, of course you’ve fucked off to anywhere else but where the work is.
Don’t a lot of bad things also tend to happen in Texas, given the awesome management team they’ve got there?
To be fair, it is also a huge state, with a lot of surface area. So it’s not unreasonable that they catch more natural disasters than a tiny state.
What is unreasonable is that it’s handled terribly every time. You’d think all those disasters would eventually gain them some experience.
I don’t see Alaska facing these problems.
That becomes more of a philosophical exercise: If a disaster occurs in Alaska when no one is there to experience it, is it still a disaster?
He like many senators, has a house in the state he represents and it’s marked his primary address on his taxes.
But Cancun Cruz the disgrace to Canada doesn’t spend any time there.
He’s some kind of indicator species. When he migrates, it’s time to stockpile water and food. Way cheaper than expensive satellites or weather balloons.
I had a team leader ten years ago or more when I worked in a incident management room, where he would be the duty manager for the south of the UK.
You could tell something was going to happen or a griefy job was coming in, because he’d nip out for a fag for fifteen minutes just seconds before the first phone call would come in.
It was almost impressive, and once most of the policy or callout decisions had been made, he’d come back in with a cup of tea oblivious to the whole thing.
Absolute legend of a bloke really, I was just jealous that I didn’t have that sixth sense.
I have a coworker like that with our office phones. Our phone system rolls over to ringing the entire office if the original person doesn’t pick up. Phone lines will be dead silent all day long. Then this one coworker goes for a quick 15 minute walk, and instantly gets six phone calls back-to-back, which inevitably rings the rest of the office for each call. Then as soon as the last call wraps up, she casually strolls back in from her walk.
It’s incredible really. I should ask him for lottery numbers or stock tips.
I don’t smoke, so… I’ll be away for half an hour to the bathroom while shit hits the fan. Kthxbye!
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If you’re in the bathroom and it’s hitting the fan, you’re doing it wrong.
Hey, I’m not telling you how to poop and I expect the same from you.
I’ve had the reverse: a few times I’ve connected into the shop just as things were falling apart. It’s hard to prove your innocence when you’re the only admin on the system just as it all goes to hell.
I don’t know about cheaper considering his chronic vacationing is on the taxpayer’s dime.
Oh you mean evil liberal weather manipulation devices?
Jewish space lasers, we all know them. MTG go pew pew!
Texas’s infrastructure is so horrible that you honestly don’t need a lot of warning to get the hell out.
Even “those clouds look kind of dark” is good odds of SOMETHING that will cause a disaster to some level.
and people whose kids died will still vote for him
Honestly, it’s constituencies like Cruz’s that I have essentially zero sympathy for. The fact that he keeps getting reelected when he’s an extremely obvious limpdick, servile, malicious fascist is a reflection on the caliber of the voters across the state. So, hope you enjoy all those catastrophic weather events that are definitely not caused by totally-made-up-and-definitely-not-real-or-life-threatening climate change (/s because internet)
It’s the antithesis of “vote blue no matter who”.
“Vote red, if your kids are brown bread”.
I actually feel dirty just writing that.
Should I feel proud or embarrassed that I have no clue what “your kids are brown bread” means?
I assumed that it meant “toast.”
Ohh, that makes sense. When I read “brown bread” I think whole grain, not toast, so I didn’t make that connection.
Depends how want to feel really! It’s rhyming slang for “dead”. Apologies if it wasn’t clear.
You could’ve just said dead in the context of the floods
If Musk wanted to make an impact with his new political party, he should go after Cruz’s seat. Nobody likes Cruz, even in his own party, but Texans won’t vote for a democrat.
Ultimately, I hope his new party splits the GOP vote, but for that to happen they have to have a decent chance to win a few seats.
i’m definitely overly pessimistic at this point, but i think this “new party” is going to go exactly nowhere. but if it does, and it splits the R vote, then i guess that’s something
I’m optimistic, because either it works, and it splits the GOP vote, which makes it easier for Democrats to be elected. Or it doesn’t work, and it costs Musk and others massive amounts of money for no real purpose.
Both those scenarios are good, and they’re the only 2 realistic scenarios I think could happen.
i think it’s equally likely that the whole thing is just orchestrated timed planned reality tv bullshit fake drama and musk never intends to follow through on whatsoever. why? because they’re fucking psychopaths and want to fill the newsfeed up with bullshit to draw attention away from the fascism
i honestly hope i’m wrong
Musk has a new party?
Why dont Republicans want to deport Cruz? I dont get it.
They would, but he’s never in the country. Always galavanting as far from his constituents as he can.
I mean, you would too if they were your constituents. They voted for him, after all.
My guess is that he’s useful to them, for now.
They’ll eventually cast him aside like the trash he is. He either doesn’t know it, or he’s in denial.
He’s got that magic R next to his name
He got swept up in a torrential flood of not-caring-for-america.
Not just American, but his own constituents.
Unfortunately the morons will vote for him no matter what he does (or doesn’t do).
I don’t know how the fucker keeps winning, I’ve never met anyone who admitted to voting for him.
I legit thought Allred was it. I donated to his campaign the second I heard he was running.
He had the political chops since he had turned a deep red district in Dallas blue for the first time ever, and held it every time he was up for re-election.
He’s a former NFL player, which I thought was going to be a big deal to the backwater Texans.
He is Black, so all the racist Texans could point at him and be like “We CAN’T be racist! We voted for a BLACK man to be our SENATOR!”
And finally, he didn’t fucking have the devastating out-of-context Beto sound bit “Hell yeah we’re taking your guns!” to plague him endlessly.
FUCK I let myself get so optimistic, and I’m still really, REALLY bitter about it.
Anyone notice how he never spends the fucking 4th of July in America?
I mean, he isn’t really American. He is Canadian.
I do not like that man Ted Cruz
I do not like his far right views
I did not select his name in the ballot box
I did not watch him on Fox
I did not like him on a trip.
I wish I wish his state would flip.
I do not like that man Ted Cruz
Why does he bother saying things like this? He can just say “Fuck you all, you’re going to re-elect me no matter what I do.” And they will.
Celebrating independence day touring Europe after supporting a fascist who is the antithesis of “independence” and the embodiment of everything Americans fought against.
Shitty American.
At least he was in Greece and not Moscow - like some congresscritters I could name.
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I think very few Texans ever voted for Cruz because they actually like or know about him. He has the R next to his name and that’s good enough.
100% this they’ll always vote R or abstain from voting. The argument abstaining from voting causes low voter turnout, which elects elects more Rs doesn’t matter.
Honestly, I think that’s depressingly common the world over.
Ted Cruz is exactly the neighbor you think he is. A fucking creeper. https://youtu.be/eZzD1L1XXCc
I believe ted cruz has the most punchable face in politics. I don’t even think you’d hurt your hand. It just looks soft and squishy.
Ajit Pai when he was around.
Woah woah woah. His punchability doesn’t compare to the absolutely smashable Mitch McConnell
the absolutely smashable Mitch McConnell
I just wanted to quote you out of context.
I’d go with Marjorie The Gathering myself. Yeah yeah you’re not supposed to hit a woman, but I’m not convinced she’s even human let alone a woman.
I think that bad built bleach bond basic bitch is actually the victim, she’s the poster child for FAS. no eye brow ridge, soft features, tapioca brains… that level of crazy isn’t typical.
The best description of her I’ve read is that she looks like a serial killer who is wearing the face of one of her victims as a mask.
that is great
I’d be afraid of him retracting his head back into his shell and hitting that instead.
I imagine it would feel a bit like punching a pile of dried leaves.
Mike Johnson’s comes to mind
You’ve never seen christopher pyne
Pyne’s voice enhances punchability by a factor of at least 10. Embodiment of the word snivelling.
He’s that little shit that hangs with the bullies and thinks he’s a big man as long as they have enough distraction to not turn on him.
Kind of how Australia has been know to chase big bro USA into a fight, then stand behind him, pointing its finger and antagonising the other side from behind the big bro shield?
Please, we’re such tiny shits we’re not even noticed
Until someone knocks out big bro. Or he gets annoyed and tells you to rack off. or someone retaliates while he’s not around…
…Matt Gaetz enters the chat.
(or Stephen Miller. Or Curtis Yarvin. Or Roger Stone. Or Richard Spencer. Or Donnie Jr. )
They lie.
We know they are lying.
They know that they are lying.
They even know that we know they are lying.
We also know that they know we know they are lying.
They, of course, know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying.
Yet they still lie.
In Russia, the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
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In the U.S. the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country. shrugs Must be all that money.
SeeMarkFly (2025)
With a username like that, I’d highly recommend staying away from buildings with windows that extend beyond the first floor.
And never suggest reasonable solutions to problems in a conference room above the third floor.
“I came as fast as I felt like”
A Zodiac Killer is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
Cancun Cruz is in Greece this time, must be nice.
Texans keep re-electing him so I guess they’re good with his actions
He’s in tight with O&G, his wife literally works for Goldman Sachs, and he’s jumped into Opus Dei. The man has more money and institutional support than any three other Senators you could name, despite being a turd in the Texas punch bowl the rest of the year.
Meanwhile, his most competent opponents have been the Skateboarding Take Your Guns guy chanting “demographics is destiny” to a bunch of conservative Latinos and the Linebacker in sheriff cosplay who ran on being tougher on the border than Republicans.
When your options are constantly Republican or Republican Lite, is there any surprise when the Republican wins?
