Updated: Cancun Ted
UPDATE: Yep, it’s true. Caught red handed fleeing the power crisis in Texas, he’s been caught again booking a coach ticket and putting himself on the upgrade list for a flight back today. This is only getting better. Welcome back to our world, Rafael.
Here’s the upgrade list for this afternoon’s flight from Cancun to Houston.
Looks like @tedcruz is on his way back, @danpfeiffer. He’s just narrowly missing the upgrade list
That’s assuming that “cru, r” is him. And I do. pic.twitter.com/CqfKa5rJfG
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) February 18, 2021
ORIGINAL POST: Yesterday evening, Ted Cruz’s twitter feed went quiet. Now, Ted loves him some Twitter, not as much as Trump did, but still likes to spout bullshit and hyper partisan insults multiple times per day. He’s a prolific retweeter, but hasn’t done so for hours. Why, you ask? Apparently, Lyin’ Ted is coordinating his relief efforts for Texans freezing in the dark from…wait for it…the beach in Cancun. That’s right, folks, reports started emerging last night that Ted and his family were photographed multiple times on a United flight to Cancun yesterday afternoon. Several people have confirmed the report including an advisor to Jon Ossoff.
Ted Cruz has flown to Cancun with his family while Texans are freezing and have no water or electricity pic.twitter.com/46fKMvnDJD
— Edward Hardy (@EdwardTHardy) February 18, 2021
Meanwhile, Beto lead an effort in Texas yesterday making wellness calls to 151,000 senior citizens and getting people to warming centers. Let’s be frank: Texas voters are stupid. First, many don’t even show up to vote. When they do show up, they vote for a carpetbagger like Cruz because he knows how to push rightwingers’ buttons. Only in Texas can some one of Latino descent can style himself as an anti-immigrant white supremacist and get away with it. Cruz doesn’t care if you live or die; that’s a given based on his heartless taunting and incendiary rhetoric he regularly spouts. To help himself politically he actually bent the knee to Trump even after he insulted Cruz’s wife and accused his father of being a conspirator in the JFK assassination. He objected to the electoral vote to suck up to Trump. With his reputation, Cruz going off to Cancun in the middle of a statewide crisis is totally believable. We’ll monitor this story. Oh, and Lyin’ Ted is now Cancun Ted.
cancun cruz has a better ring
1busTED and mistrusTED and we should all be disgusTED
2To be henceforth known as Fled Cruz.
3Only in Texas can some one of Latino descent can style himself as an anti-immigrant white supremacist and get away with it.
Rubio does that too.
4Maybe Ted will come down with a severe bowel evacuating case of Montezuma’s Revenge
5There we go, not sending Mexico our best again.
6If his IQ slips any lower, we’ll have to water him twice a day
~ Molly Ivins
7I never thought he was too smart, but you’d think even he could see the bad optics here, and refrain. I guess he’s even stupider than I thought.
8I just heard a report that he is immediately flying back to Texas as soon as he heard we was busted. Except, there’s another report that his staff has called the Houston police to get him home from the airport. This is just hysterical.
9@althea89157 on Twitter this morning: Ted and Heidi fled to Mexico with their family for a better life, in essence. The irony.
10EJ and others, is there someplace to donate that can help?
The problem with Cancun Ted and the rest of the Rs, is that they want power but have no interest in governing.
11And here I was worrying that with trump out of the way, there wouldn’t be sufficient stupid left to keep me amused.
12DetesTed floundering his way back to Houston won’t help Texas, but it will make vacation more enjoyable for Heidi and their girls.
13Do all Republicans flee to Cancun. The woman from Midland who was arrested for the January 6th assault on the Capitol, bailed herself out and then asked the judge to let her leave the country to go on her Cancún vacation. BTW did she come back?
14Alan, it’s easier for Cuban-Americans to be anti-immigrant. They were allowed to jump the line for fifty-plus years as long as they could get one foot on a Florida beach. Anti-Castro Cubans are honorary Americans, not subject to deportation or having their children taken away at the border, and they often vote accordingly.
15Poor Ted.
16He tried to jump the shark and get away with it.
Came up short & Twitter ate him alive.
Jenny Cudd, the Midland florist who visited DC on 1/6 is starting her vacation near Cancun today. They just missed each other, again.
17The beauty parlor has been ahead the the Washington Post, but the Post’s latest report has this interesting point:
“New rules put in place by the Biden administration require all passengers on planes returning to the United States to have a negative coronavirus test result before boarding their flight.
“According to CDC guidelines, once Cruz returns, he should stay home for seven days to quarantine, and get tested three to five days after traveling. If he chooses not to get tested, he should stay in quarantine for 10 days to avoid possibly infecting others.”
18I believe when traveling on an air vehicle now days one has to use the name on a birth certificate or passport. Raphael is the name on those documents I surmise.
19BTW, I heard that Beto is organizing efforts to help freezing and hungry Texans. Texans chose Cruz over Beto why?
20With apologies to the motivational poster industry-
When the going gets tough, the “tough” get going.
21I’m just gonna leave this right here:
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22Cheryl @20:
23The short answer IMHO is that so many Texans only heard anything Beto said from Fox. So edited clips that were then foxsplained to translate from devil worshippen socialism talkin’ to what he REALLY meant. Beto came within 2.6 points which is amazing in today’s Texas politics. And yeah, close only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades. But I saw him speak twice, and I’ll go to my grave believing that if more people had actually heard both candidates campaigning for themselves, Beto would’ve handed Cancun cruz his ass.
Rich in Fla @22, OMFG! That pic [photoshopped, natch] is a gd hoot!
24Fatcat Chris Christie stressing out his beach chair [careful, y’all cannot unsee it], after making a public beach ‘private’ [pissing off hundreds of NJians], and Cancun Cruz arriving to parteaay, with his overstuffed suitcase; both wearing shit-eating grins!
Buttermilk Sky @ 15.
It can no longer be said, now that we are on the third and fourth generation of Cubans who fled communism, but for the first generation it is true that every Cuban who fled communism was a Cuban who did not flee fascism.
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