Ted Cruz has been slammed for joking that Texans should “join me in Cancun” as the state braces for a deep freeze.

“Texans, with the freeze coming, wrap your pipes, cover your plants, stay off icy roads & keep your family safe. And, if it gets too damn cold, join me in Cancun!” he wrote on X.

  • @hperrin
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    2989 months ago

    It’s funny because people are going to die and he’s making fun of them before they do.

  • @Rapidcreek
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    1799 months ago

    And they keep voting this asshole back into office. Texas, go figure.

    • PugJesus
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      1289 months ago

      Look, sure, Ted Cruz might be a miserable, pathetic, cowardly, repulsive excuse for a human being who licks boots at every opportunity and is more than willing to sell out his constituents and his country for the smallest of kickbacks. But have you considered - Democrats think LGBT folk are human beings???

      Clearly, Texas has no choice but to vote for Ted Cruz.

    • FuglyDuck
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      209 months ago

      they like big things in Texas. doesn’t really matter what it is, just that it’s big.

      And this guy is pretty much the biggest asshole they’ve got.

      • @AbidanYre
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        109 months ago

        “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”

        • Al Franken
    • Kalkaline
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      179 months ago

      I’m voting for Collin Allred, I’m just one vote though.

      • Whirlgirl9
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        199 months ago

        i’m joining you…so that’s 2 of us…oh and my husband…3! 3! people who don’t want that POS in the Senate.

        • @AquaTofana
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          89 months ago

          My husband and I are votes 4 and 5 for Allred too!

          Fuck Fled Cruz!

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      You mean while he fled his constituents during a state of emergency?

      No more sugar coating shit.

      The Democrats do this shit too in their own way, at their own peril. At all of our peril.

  • @HonorIsDead
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    9 months ago

    If Ted Cruz sees his shadow in Cancun there will 6 be weeks without power in Texas.

  • @crystalmerchant
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    599 months ago

    I refuse to give any clicks to any headlines that use the word slammed or any derivative or synonym thereof

    • @Son_of_dad
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      309 months ago

      Unless it’s a wrestling news website

      • Lad
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        39 months ago

        Maybe wrestling news sites should steal political news sites headlines.

        “Wrestler A CRITICISED for using unsportsmanlike move on Wrestler B”

    • @ExfilBravo
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      69 months ago

      You don’t like your headlines reading like a bop-it toy?

      BOP TED CRUZ!

      SLAM TED CRUZ!

      SH**T TED CRUZ! (in the face)

      • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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        119 months ago

        Have you personally slammed someone?

        Have you met anyone who has?

        What did it look like?

        • @[email protected]
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          99 months ago

          That’s between me and my only fans.

          I have actually met a couple pro wrestlers

          Pretty fricken gnarly dude

        • @chiliedogg
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          49 months ago

          It happened once in nineteen ninety eight.

          • @Rentoraa
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            19 months ago

            I think I remember that. Wasn’t there a table involved?

          • @NegativeInf
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            129 months ago

            But it carries no weight when everyone’s “slamming” everything in every headline. Maybe be less clickbait and more informative.

            • Lad
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              49 months ago

              I look forward to the day someone uses this headline and I open the article to see somebody actually get chokeslammed

            • Doc Avid Mornington
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              28 months ago

              That’s a fair take. I don’t really agree, as to me, it is just a popular idiom meaning that people reacted negatively to something and either criticized it or mocked it harshly - I don’t think it has to carry a lot of weight - but I do think it’s perfectly valid that you think it does. That’s not, however, what I get from the comment I was responding to, at all.

        • @[email protected]
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          Greg Gianfirte has. Can we use that in headlines when we talk about him? It’s accurate in that case.

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    Who keeps voting for this professional gimp? Do you guys get off on making your own lives worse? Has he done anything to help you or people you know? It’s not a sports team, you don’t have to be loyal, it’s just a bad politician.

    • @GlendatheGayWitch
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      They get off on making others’ lives worse, even when it brings theirs down. Remember Cruz was part of the Tea Party, the super crazies that threw the republican party even further right and helped pave the way for Maga.

  • @[email protected]
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    449 months ago

    Read the room, asshole.

    Enjoy taxpayer-funded trips to Cancun while you can, because you’re on the ticket in November, and you won’t have the benefit of being in an off-year election or Conservative Californians this time.

    • PorradaVFR
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      219 months ago

      Unfortunately he’ll still win. Remember Uvalde voted for Abbot after the school shooting. After it exposed the absolute incompetence of their leadership they said “yep that’s who we want”. Cruz is sadly safely in his seat.

      • @[email protected]
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        109 months ago

        He’s not. His polling numbers in the off-years coupled with the guaranteed higher voter turnout and Millennials and Gen Z showing up to vote should worry him.

        • PorradaVFR
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          I’d be very very happily surprised - I hope you’re right!

          • @[email protected]
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            I get your original sentiment, though, and I agree that it’s not a guarantee that he’ll lose. But it’s going to be an uphill battle for him, because even if he doesn’t lose to a Democrat, he might lose to a less-worse Republican.

    • @marx2k
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      59 months ago

      Keep in mind that this is the same state that overwhelmingly voted for Abbot AFTER hundreds died in the cold snap and he went on fox news and blamed the green new deal for texas’ power failures…even though it was due to natural gas lines freezing up and renewables overperformed.

      Texas still voted that idiot back in.

      This Texas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Prayer_for_Rain_in_the_State_of_Texas

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        Yes, and also, Ted Cruz isn’t Abbott. Abbott ran against Beto, who made that gaffe about taking people’s guns away. Additionally, the turnout for the gubernatorial election was abysmal. Something like 24-30%, iirc.

        Since Nov 2024 is the presidential election, which typically sees at least 60% turnout, and Trump and Republicans have been leaning hard into Fascism and these culture war issues, I expect Ted to have to actually fight for his seat.

        I’m not saying he’ll definitely lose, but I don’t think this is going to be a cakewalk for him.

  • littleblue✨
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    439 months ago

    Wait. Texas hasn’t lynched his ass yet? Damn. I just assumed those cowboys’d getterdun already. Hunh. Must be more talk than walk, I guess.

    • @Son_of_dad
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      199 months ago

      Texas deserves what it voted for at this point

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        Yes, the children who aren’t even old enough to vote and the people who vote blue clearly deserve to freeze to death while the politicians other people put in power make callous jokes about it.

        • @AquaTofana
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          89 months ago

          I mean, I’m a Blue voter here who will leave the moment my work contract is up.

          At this point, I’ve also thrown up my hands and been like “Fuck it. Those of us who tried, tried. Texas deserves what it gets.”

          I’ll keep voting Blue until I bounce somewhere else, but idk how else you want us to feel. It’s like screaming into a void here. Abbott had already pushed the 6 week “heartbeat bill”, before he got re elected in 2022. That didn’t scare Texans then.

          It feels like people want oppression here.

        • @Son_of_dad
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          69 months ago

          So what should we do? Storm Texas and remove their elected official cause they’re not good for the people who didn’t vote for him?

  • katy ✨
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    “i like ted cruz more than most of my other colleagues like ted cruz. and i hate ted cruz.” - al franken

      • @blazeknave
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        129 months ago

        And now his dumbest shit will be his legacy. Never forget he stepped down while these treasonists stick to their playbook.

  • @recapitated
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    339 months ago

    Flapping mouths and getting “slammed” is never news. Yeah he sucks we get it.

  • @stoly
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    289 months ago

    he was SLAMMED, SLAMMED I tell you!

  • @Suavevillain
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    229 months ago

    There are so many unserious people in power right now it is crazy.

  • @afraid_of_zombies
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    208 months ago

    $1,000 dollars to anyone who has video evidence of him getting it on with a rent-a-boy. Completely serious. I will give a grand to anyone who can out him to his conservative family values base. Send me the video and how to pay you. Spend the money however you like.

    • Bakkoda
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      88 months ago

      I’ll chip in a few bucks. Let’s get this going.

    • @Psythik
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      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        68 months ago

        I can’t afford 30k. I can afford 1k. And yes I am serious. This guy has been shit and shitting on the innocent his whole life and I want to take home down.

        1000 bucks from me. Spend it on blow, spend it on hookers, spend it philosophy textbooks, whatever. Get me that footage and the money is yours.

        • @[email protected]
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          18 months ago

          His supporters will call it a deep fake and ignore it. Outside of your electoral system or a bullet, these people are untouchable.

    • @ohlaph
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      38 months ago

      I’ll pitch in $12-15.