RunningMn9 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:27 pm
Those are some ill-fitting closes. But that totally looks like an overnight bag.
An experienced traveler can get a week's worth of clothes in that size bag.
I used to go to Europe with a bag not much bigger for a couple of weeks. Roll everything. Fold a suit on top and close it up. It helped that I was on a Fortune 5s tab so hotel laundry service saved me from checking a bag. Nothing worse than checking a bag on any international flight.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:05 pm
by Ralph-Wiggum
Paingod wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:21 pm
Any word on when those flight plans were originally booked? The only shred of plausible deniability would be if they originated anytime before the blackouts. Then maybe he was just heartlessly taking a planned vacation during a crisis instead of deliberately abandoning his constituents.
I read a report that the original ticket was for a flight back on Sunday and the new tickets were purchased this morning at 6:00 AM.
Paingod wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:21 pm
Any word on when those flight plans were originally booked? The only shred of plausible deniability would be if they originated anytime before the blackouts. Then maybe he was just heartlessly taking a planned vacation during a crisis instead of deliberately abandoning his constituents.
I read a report that the original ticket was for a flight back on Sunday and the new tickets were purchased this morning at 6:00 AM.
Who is going to make sure his daughters get back safely??????
What a horrible dad!!!!
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:08 pm
by Daehawk
They should have arrested him as an illegal alien.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:49 pm
by Alefroth
I'm just glad he's able to get some time off from his grueling schedule.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:56 pm
by Little Raven
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:10 pm
by Carpet_pissr
Paingod wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:21 pm
And he brought his bag back. Left the tote.
Based on that pic he appears to have eaten the tote.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:03 pm
by Defiant
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:12 pm
by Smoove_B
Totally pre-planned and not at all thrown together.
NEW w/ @npfandos
: There are Heidi Cruz group text messages.
"Anyone can or want to leave for the week?"
Inside the planning of Ted Cruz's Cancún trip, and their escape from a "FREEZING" house
Left the family dog at the house too. Security was feeding and letting it outside. Sociopath.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:28 am
by Pyperkub
Smoove_B wrote:Totally pre-planned and not at all thrown together.
NEW w/ @npfandos
: There are Heidi Cruz group text messages.
"Anyone can or want to leave for the week?"
Inside the planning of Ted Cruz's Cancún trip, and their escape from a "FREEZING" house
Left the family dog at the house too. Security was feeding and letting it outside. Sociopath.
Holy crap he is just 50! I thought he was at least 65. Im 52 this year and he looks so much older.
Wait I was 35 when I came in here.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:13 am
by Scraper
Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:17 am
Holy crap he is just 50! I thought he was at least 65. Im 52 this year and he looks so much older.
Wait I was 35 when I came in here.
Old people, Lol.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:41 am
by Jaymann
Now Cruz is saying he was in Cancun for a meeting of an international voter fraud commission.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:53 am
by Carpet_pissr
I think he should go with an alien abduction story. His base would believe that more quickly than "I wanted to be a good Dad by spoiling my entitled kid even more" shtick.
And being who and what he is, it's not too late to add that into the mix, or just change to that completely, as if he had never made the other excuses!
"Kids? I don't have kids! You liberal media are so full of lies! Let's ask my good friend Matt Gaetz about this phantom kid shit you're complaining about"
I look forward to seeing Cruz defending some corruption scandal in the future by stating something like "hey, like everybody else, I just wanted to be a good dad and buy my kid her second Porsche Cayman (NOT the more expensive 911, so it's not like I'm spoiling her!). I mean, the other one is a 2017 model! Do you know how badly she would have been teased by her friends at school if she DIDN'T get a later model year? I mean you all see that, right?"
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:10 pm
by Jaymann
AOC has done more for Texans in one day than Cruz in his entire career.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:13 pm
by LawBeefaroni
Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:10 pm
AOC has done more for Texans in one day than Cruz in his entire career.
I'm sure there are some very wealthy Texans that would disagree with that assessment.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:37 pm
by RunningMn9
ImLawBoy wrote:
RunningMn9 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:27 pm
Those are some ill-fitting closes. But that totally looks like an overnight bag.
An experienced traveler can get a week's worth of clothes in that size bag.
I was being sarcastic. That’s how I would pack for a two week trip.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:58 pm
by Smoove_B
I think it's awesome that from the NYT article, the private school his kids are attending strictly forbids the kind of travel they planned, requiring them to then not attend school for two weeks upon return. And the NYT knows this because a few parents from the school contacted the NYT and quickly provided them with copies of the policy. Again, seems totally reasonable that a trip violating the school's policy would have been planned so far in advance *and* still taken despite knowing the consequences for doing so. So weird that this previously scheduled trip (ha!) just happened to fall in the middle of a random school week and during a power outage crisis.
Regardless, for someone that is so very much hated, it's amazing (to me) that he's not only electable but also highly visible and vocal.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:01 pm
by Daehawk
I think he went to Jamaica for the 4th of July last year.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:19 pm
by Jaymann
Cruz tweet: I'll believe in climate change when Texas freezes over.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:40 pm
by Ralph-Wiggum
Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:19 pm
Cruz tweet: I'll believe in climate change when Texas freezes over.
I think that was determined to be fake, unfortunately.
Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:19 pm
Cruz tweet: I'll believe in climate change when Texas freezes over.
I think that was determined to be fake, unfortunately.
It was, but still funny.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 1:16 am
by Defiant
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 2:32 pm
by Smoove_B
A Ted Cruz PAC paid $1.2 million (80% of it's budget) to the company that published Cruz's book? That seems totally legit
Legal experts tell Salon that if the money was for promotional book sales, as the filings may suggest, then the leadership PAC could be using Reagan Investments as a pass-through to allow Cruz to keep the royalties, which are generally between 10% and 15% for hardcover books, and about half that for paperbacks. Political candidates are not allowed to do that through their campaign committees. But the identity of Reagan Investments itself poses a mystery.
Twitter has permanently suspended right-wing activist James O’Keefe over secretly filmed CNN videos.
The tech giant’s action comes after O’Keefe released the first instalment of a three part “#ExposeCNN” campaign filmed with hidden cameras.
His first video featured a CNN employee, Charles Chester, talking to an undercover journalist about his views on the news network’s coverage of the 2020 presidential election.
Twitter says that O’Keefe’s account “was permanently suspended for violating the Twitter Rules on platform manipulation and spam.”
...
Mr Chester, a technical director for the network, made his comments when he believed he was on dates with a woman posing as a nurse.
“Look at what we did, we got Trump out,” Mr Chester said in the first video released by O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.
“I am 100 per cent going to say it. And I 100 per cent believe it that if it wasn’t for CNN, I don’t know that Trump would have got voted out.”
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:38 pm
by Carpet_pissr
He’s also 100% full of bullshit.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:41 pm
by Isgrimnur
This is known.
The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:48 pm
by Carpet_pissr
Ooooooooohhhh!!
Wait, we’re talking about Chester, right? Is he even real?
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 12:09 am
by Alefroth
And if it wasn't for Fox, he wouldn't have been voted in.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 8:04 am
by LawBeefaroni
Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:38 pm
He’s also 100% full of bullshit.
Now why would a guy on a date try to over-inflate the importance of his job? Consider me stumped..
Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:38 pm
He’s also 100% full of bullshit.
Now why would a guy on a date try to over-inflate the importance of his job? Consider me stumped..
Seriously. O'Keefe is pure slime. I love the idea of an "Undercover journalist". Nothing says integrity like faking being on a date.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Mon May 03, 2021 11:52 pm
by Kraken
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Wed May 05, 2021 12:16 am
by Kraken
The definitive biography.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 3:27 pm
by Isgrimnur
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 4:22 pm
by stessier
I thought that must be parody...sigh.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 4:48 pm
by ImLawBoy
I'm pretty sure it's Cruz trying to be funny, but he's not very good at it.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 5:01 pm
by malchior
ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 4:48 pm
I'm pretty sure it's Cruz trying to be funny, but he's not very good at it.
I don't think it is. We had right-wingers saying this exact phrase in some venues related to the Colonial pipeline hack.As if Biden has anything to do with shitty, incompetent cybersecurity at a private company. I think we can't give them much benefit of the doubt anymore.
Re: The Ted Cruz Train Wreck
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 5:14 pm
by Holman
It must hurt to be Ted Cruz.
He worked through his education and early legal career with the aim of becoming some kind of leading conservative intellectual, and now he's down to tongue-laundering Donald Trump's sweaty underwear because that's what the base demands.
