Ted Cruz flees Texas during a disaster to enjoy warm vacation in Cancun

[Winehole23]

No help stay/no help go

No help cancels out

All you have left is stay vs go

Comes down to optics.

More cheap cynicism: "it's all optics."

Does money donated for disaster relief have any non optical qualities?

For example, can it be spent to alleviate urgent needs?

[Winehole23]

I donated more than you.

Good for you, good for others.

[ChumpDumper]

DMC trying to big time charitable giving now.

He donated his truck.

No big deal.

[Bogie]

DMC trying to big time charitable giving now.

He donated his truck.

No big deal.

actually he donated the Google image of said truck

[Winehole23]

DMC is filling up the card this morning, is anyone else playing?

[ChumpDumper]

DMC is filling up the card this morning, is anyone else playing?

[Winehole23]

"he got on a plane!"

"Cornyn? Who knows?"

I'm not outraged, I've been clowning Cruz since word one. So have a lot of other posters.

Your outrage over that is con uous, tbh.


(Correction: Having refreshed my memory, I see that I started clowning your take at word one, then quickly settled in to jeer at Ted Cruz along with others. Sorry for the mistake.)

[boutons_deux]

SNL imagines upcoming Ted Cruz apology tour in brutal cold open



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuaJ6J9iTb4&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=Sa turdayNightLive

https://www.rawstory.com/snl-saturday-night-live-tonight-2650678729

[Winehole23]

You don't have to disagree with everything on a kneejerk basis to prevent an echo chamber. Sometimes it's fun to laugh with other people.

The stick up DMC's ass has a stick up it's ass.

[pgardn]

Teddy called the mayor of Austin a hypocrite for fleeing because of the virus and Fat Slick Chris Christie the same after he beached himself.

So Fled Cruz is now a hypocrite^2
And a liar. "I just dropped the fam off at the airport"

[pgardn]

The stick up DMC's ass has a stick up it's ass.

Leading to rotting bowel syndrome.
That first stick expanding has damned the noxious flow of BS.
Expect an explosion.

[Winehole23]

Teddy called the mayor of Austin a hypocrite for fleeing because of the virus and Fat Slick Chris Christie the same after he beached himself.

So Fled Cruz is now a hypocrite^2
And a liar. "I just dropped the fam off at the airport"

Lies and hypocrisy are a matter of optics, pure optics. posting and lying to the press are more or less what we're paying Ted Cruz to do. Expecting him to do anything else, even during an historic emergency, is naive and fake outrage.

[pgardn]

Lies and hypocrisy are a matter of optics, pure optics. posting and lying to the press are more or less what we're paying Ted Cruz to do. Expecting him to do anything else, even during an historic emergency, is naive and fake outrage.

Yes it is for his position.

That being said, would you ever do business with bag like this?
Maybe its good he is in politics where it is expected.

[Winehole23]

Yes it is for his position.

That being said, would you ever do business with bag like this?
Maybe its good he is in politics where it is expected.

Ethical flexibility is a useful political trait. The question is, to what end?

To do something good for people or to propel oneself to greater power and glory? The means matter, but so do the ends.

[pgardn]

Ethical flexibility is a useful political trait. The question is, to what end?

To do something good for people or to propel oneself to greater power and glory? The means matter, but so do the ends.

This is exactly the type of guy Trump would ask to lead a fact finding mission.
Except that Trump really thinks he is worthless and weak. Trump has tried to push Cruz off his "2024 WAVE"

[FlAVaK]

[DMC]

I wouldn't disagree if someone said Cruz is a worthless piece of . I would only disagree if they said "because he went to Cancun". Cancun has nothing to do with it.

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

I wouldn't disagree if someone said Cruz is a worthless piece of . I would only disagree if they said "because he went to Cancun". Cancun has nothing to do with it.

Cruz being a worthless POS was more or less the settled opinion before this happened. This episode is nothing more than a cherry on top of the sundae.

[Adam Lambert]

Good job, Ted.

And good job everyone who applied pressure and forced him to realize the error of his ways, even if GOP sycophants refuse to.

[DMC]

Cruz being a POS was more or less settled opinion before this happened. This episode is nothing more than a cherry on top of the sundae.

Which is why I started with "no fan of Cruz".

Him being a POS doesn't suddenly create a new mathematical paradigm where "do nothing" suddenly means do more here than in Cancun.

[Winehole23]

Which is why I started with "no fan of Cruz".

Him being a POS doesn't suddenly create a new mathematical paradigm where "do nothing" suddenly means do more here than in Cancun.

No one said it did.

[ChumpDumper]

DMCNaCl still spinning

[DMC]

No one said it did.

If you spent more time remembering what you said and less time trying to be interesting, you'd be more interesting.

[Winehole23]

If you spent more time remembering what you said and less time trying to be interesting, you'd be more interesting.

You're shadow boxing. I didn't say anything about Ted's overnight trip to Yucatan creating a new political calculus.