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Mr. Jones Offline
#1 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 11:29 AM EST
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Ted Cruz....is always in the news lately...
He was asked to step down as Texas senetor due to his speech before the capitol rioTS...he skirted that so far...

Then this past summer he chastised California for their in ability to provide basic needs like electricity to it's constitutants And called them a third world nation...

Now Texas is in a deep freeze and no power or drinkable water....
So what does CRUZ DO?
He GOES ON VACATION TO CANCUN , MEXICO with his family and they get photo graPheD
LeavinG froM the HousTON airpORt...

Now the "jig is up" for teddy and he's flying back to Texas today...
AlledGEdly...

What a dumb f*c...
Smooth light Offline
#2 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 12:01 PM EST
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The more we think they change the more they stay the same.

Same as it ever was...talking heads.
rfenst Offline
#3 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 1:28 PM EST
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I think wasting vacation money on Cancun, especially this time of year, is punishment enough!
LOL>
JadeRose Offline
#4 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 2:13 PM EST
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Fled Cruz
ZRX1200 Offline
#5 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 2:19 PM EST
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Good to see the Cheeto outrage has found new piñatas.

Olé!
RayR Offline
#6 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 2:48 PM EST
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I think it's just a diversion because they want avoid talking about Senile Joe fog and his CNN Town Hall.
tonygraz Offline
#7 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 2:54 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
I think wasting vacation money on Cancun, especially this time of year, is punishment enough!
LOL>


President's week is prime time and has high rates for accommodations. Might be a bit cool, but not early January cold. Never been there in February, March was windy- April was good- got hot in may and stayed that way until September. I liked October and December wasn't bad until you arrived after the trip back in NY/NJ?CT.

NOT MY IDEA OF PUNISHMENT !

More like political stupidity.
fiddler898 Offline
#8 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 5:17 PM EST
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(Borrowed, not mine.)

In January, Texas Republicans introduced a bill to secede from the United States.

Yesterday, the Texas governor and both senators (including Ted Cruz) asked Biden for an emergency declaration because their private electrical grid failed.

Several years ago, Cruz voted against federal relief for New England states affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Last year during rolling blackouts in California, Cruz and several other Texas Republicans shredded California Democrats for supposedly being at fault for the outages.

Texas, a red state, did not go for Biden.

Biden granted the emergency declaration without making fun of Texas, without bringing up the secession bill, without pointing out all the **** Cruz has said about him, and without criticizing the state’s decision to get off the national grid to evade federal regulations.

He just did it. Because Texans are Americans, too. And they’re hurting, and need relief.
Mr. Jones Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 5:49 PM EST
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It's gotta be rough down there...

When I lived in camp hill in a very rich neighborhood,
Our power would go out for days...and I mean several days
In winter and summer at least once or twice a year...
Mostly massive trees knocking down the lines or old 1950' transformer s blowing up,or ice storms all the time.

The hospital nearby always got priority...
We we were always last ...
I guess being beside the country club was the real reason and a grudge was held by someone?

Well @ least we had A NATURAL GAS FURNACE FORCED AIR AND NATURAL GAS WATER HEATER AND A YUGE GAS LOG VENTED? FIREPLACE....
THAT FIRE PLACE KEPT it at 50-55 and you could always take a hot shower and the water always ran no matter what ...

It really wasn't too bad...

But these Texans have it rough, freezing pipes bursting, no water , no heat...it's bad and it's for 5+ more days AFTER the last 3???..
DrafterX Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 5:54 PM EST
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Meanwhile, Cuomo sentences thousands of FOGs to death and nobody says a word... Not talking
fiddler898 Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 6:00 PM EST
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With all the Whataboutisms available, your choice to avoid Hillary, Obama, Mitch, and PeeWee Herman is quite revealing...
delta1 Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 6:36 PM EST
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Cruz prolly thought when he scheduled his Cancun vacay that the center of the US Oil and Gas industry can not possibly experience another power outage like the one in 2011...

not after after all his efforts to make sure it wouldn't happen again, right?.... he does such great work, providing for his peeps...

and since climate change is not real, that can not be an excuse
HockeyDad Offline
#13 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 6:36 PM EST
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fiddler898 wrote:


Biden granted the emergency declaration without making fun of Texas, without bringing up the secession bill, without pointing out all the **** Cruz has said about him, and without criticizing the state’s decision to get off the national grid to evade federal regulations.



The are three electrical grids in the US. Western, Eastern, and Texas. Texas never got on one of the interstate grids and does not participate in interstate power sales. That decision was made before President Biden was born.
delta1 Offline
#14 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 6:40 PM EST
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yeah...can't blame them for their incompetence...

who could've predicted this severe weather, and that it would have such nasty consequences?


CA should load up all their excess overgrown timber and truck it over to TX for them to use as heating fuel...
HockeyDad Offline
#15 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 6:42 PM EST
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I bet all the Californians in Austin and North Dallas come moving back to Cali after this!
delta1 Offline
#16 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 6:44 PM EST
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we're gonna need more language re-education camps for those repatriates to get rid of those weird accents
HockeyDad Offline
#17 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 6:47 PM EST
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I can hear in now: y’all need to get on the 101 to the 80
Burner02 Offline
#18 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 7:07 PM EST
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People Who Moved To Texas From California Finally Feeling At Home Now That Power Is Out

AUSTIN, TX—Thousands of people who escaped the desolate wasteland of California have found new opportunities by moving to Texas. To help them feel right at home, even the weather is extending some Texas hospitality by knocking out power stations-- giving the former Californians a taste of the blackouts they're used to.

"Ah... just like old Gavin Newsom used to do back in Cali," said local resident Alice Muggins while lighting candles around the house. "I just wasn't used to having electrical power all the time and it felt really weird. Now, it feels a little more like home!"

According to sources, former Californians are helping people in their Texas communities who have never experienced something like this before. From how to prepare food without electricity to how to use an emergency generator, the Californian immigrants to Texas have been instrumental in keeping their communities alive in the midst of the outages.

California Governor Gavin Newsom attempted to gloat in a Facebook Live post, but his phone died and he was unable to charge it due to a power outage.
BuckyB93 Offline
#19 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 7:12 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
The are three electrical grids in the US. Western, Eastern, and Texas. Texas never got on one of the interstate grids and does not participate in interstate power sales. That decision was made before President Biden was born.


You sure about this? TX didn't become a state until 1845 and Edison didn't light up Manhattan until 1882. Yeah... I guess the timing is about right, late 1800's to early NINE! teen hundreds.
rfenst Offline
#20 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 7:34 PM EST
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tonygraz wrote:
President's week is prime time and has high rates for accommodations. Might be a bit cool, but not early January cold. Never been there in February, March was windy- April was good- got hot in may and stayed that way until September. I liked October and December wasn't bad until you arrived after the trip back in NY/NJ?CT.

NOT MY IDEA OF PUNISHMENT !

More like political stupidity.

Cancun sucks. That was my point.
Mr. Jones Offline
#21 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 7:53 PM EST
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He prolly got robbed at gun point on the bus to the mAyan ruinNS and was bRoke.....so he had to comE home...
Krazeehorse Offline
#22 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 8:07 PM EST
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So is Cruz supposed to get on a climbing belt and start working on turbines? Not exactly sure why (beyond optics) he needed to be in Texas.
BuckyB93 Offline
#23 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 8:41 PM EST
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I heard that he's afraid of heights so they'll just have him scraping the snow off the solar panels.
HockeyDad Offline
#24 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 8:43 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
Cancun sucks. That was my point.


You’re just still mad that you drank all that tequila and got that stupid tattoo there!
Smooth light Offline
#25 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 9:08 PM EST
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Just dad making sure his wife and kids safe there, that's what father do. Now he's back to work. You would do the same.(it's not like a senator needs to worry about personal heat, elec and water.
frankj1 Offline
#26 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 10:51 PM EST
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yeah. I always flew with my family to drop them off and then came home to work during calamities.
HockeyDad Offline
#27 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 11:18 PM EST
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When an electrical grid collapses, the last thing you need is a US Senator.
frankj1 Offline
#28 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 11:20 PM EST
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so instead of saying that he lied?
Been showing a lot of character the last 4 years...none of it good.
BuckyB93 Offline
#29 Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2021, 11:52 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
so instead of saying that he lied?
Been showing a lot of character the last 4 years...none of it good.


If your looking for a politician with upstanding character you'll be hard pressed to find one. You'd have a better chance finding a authentic Cuban cigar in Cancun.

twenny NINE!

(that's 2 in one page)
Burner02 Offline
#30 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 6:25 AM EST
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BuckyB93 wrote:
If your looking for a politician with upstanding character you'll be hard pressed to find one. You'd have a better chance finding a authentic Cuban cigar in Cancun.



+1
tonygraz Offline
#31 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 8:13 AM EST
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Cancun ain't what it used to be. Doesn't Cruz have a Cuban connection or was that his father ?
RayR Offline
#32 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 9:03 AM EST
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I concur with Krazeehorse and HockeyDad, what exactly do you expect a U.S. Senator to do about it?
teedubbya Offline
#33 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 9:47 AM EST
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Texans deserve him. How stupid of him, and his kids and his ugly wife since it’s all their fault.
Gene363 Offline
#34 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 10:03 AM EST
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RayR wrote:
I concur with Krazeehorse and HockeyDad, what exactly do you expect a U.S. Senator to do about it?



It's just an excuse to impune a conservative. The same old lefty story, if you have no valid argument, attack the person.
teedubbya Offline
#35 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 10:12 AM EST
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It was just really dumb politically. Right or Left. If it was a lefty the same would be made of it. Incredibly stupid of him.
Gene363 Offline
#36 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 10:17 AM EST
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teedubbya wrote:
It was just really dumb politically. Right or Left. If it was a lefty the same would be made of it. Incredibly stupid of him.


So Biden should fly down to Texas and sit in a cold dark room.
teedubbya Offline
#37 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 10:25 AM EST
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Not sure how that really equates but ok.
teedubbya Offline
#38 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 10:26 AM EST
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It was a dumb move politically regardless of party. Cruz knows this.
RayR Offline
#39 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 10:29 AM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
It's just an excuse to impune a conservative. The same old lefty story, if you have no valid argument, attack the person.


You mean like TW?Think

You can see it with the leftist reaction to Rush Limbaugh's passing too.

A Lot of Folks Are Very Happy Rush Limbaugh Is Dead: ‘A Coward and White Supremacist’.

https://www.thewrap.com/a-lot-of-folks-are-very-happy-rush-limbaugh-is-dead-a-coward-and-white-supremacist/

As if just saying he was a racist is proof enough.
Of course you'd have to not recognise that his long time producer, James Golden ("Bo Snerdley,") is black.
teedubbya Offline
#40 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 10:41 AM EST
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Let’s say my team is the KC Chiefs. If they make a dumb mistake it’s ok to say they did. Fans of other teams can say they did, but gasp, so can Chiefs fans or chiefs players and coaches. It’s just reality.

This was a really dumb mistake by Cruz regardless of team. Why would anyone want to say differently. It was an unforced error.

It’s not hard unless you are so far up the left right ass you can no longer be objective.
RayR Offline
#41 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 11:54 AM EST
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So he took some time off and took his family to Cancun. So what? Does every move a politician makes on his own time have to be a political statement? I don't think the left was crying foul when the Obama's took all those massively expensive vacations at the taxpayers expense.
Would he not going on vacation make the feckless proles feel better? Would that have had any impact on fixing the problems with the grid?
DrafterX Offline
#42 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 12:04 PM EST
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Cruz shoulda taken Oprah with him... then it would be ok.... Mellow
delta1 Offline
#43 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 12:24 PM EST
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we expect our leaders to be at the wheel and involved: in response, planning, recovery during EMERGENCIES when lives are being lost and are at risk...manage and mitigate threats to public safety...it's the basic purpose of government, even small government in Texas...

if Texans are happy with what Ted Cruz did, they're the ones who matter...let them decide who their leaders will be...

I was not happy when Nancy Pelosi was caught getting her hair done when all salons were shut down...I was not happy when Gavin Newsome held a dinner celebration with a few high rollers at a fancy restaurant when dining in was prohibited... if they run for office again, those images will be targeted by their political opponents, and may determine their fate...just as this will have some bearing on Cruz's political future

running off to Mexico when there is a state wide power outage and water shortage sure looks bad for someone who aspires to be POTUS...he may've ruined his chances to remain senior Senator for Texas, much less POTUS, unless Texans have bigger hearts and supplies of forgiveness than we give them credit for...

the majority of Americans have already judged Cruz...
DrafterX Offline
#44 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 12:30 PM EST
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AOC was reelected..... explain that... Mellow
delta1 Offline
#45 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 12:35 PM EST
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the peeps she represents in her district love her...they're the ones who vote for her....the rest of the outside noise makers don't matter

we'll see how much love Cruz has when he comes up for re-election...noise from outside Texas won't matter...

but if he runs for POTUS, as it seems he was thinking about...he's in a deep hole
Smooth light Offline
#46 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 12:35 PM EST
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Can't be POTUS he's Canadian, Trump took care of that.
Now there's something the left thank him for.
delta1 Offline
#47 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 12:39 PM EST
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he was born to an American citizen in Canada...

George Romney was born to American citizens in Mexico, and he qualified
DrafterX Offline
#48 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 12:42 PM EST
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Obama was born in Kenya and he bluffed his way in... Mellow
delta1 Offline
#49 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 12:43 PM EST
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that settles it...Cruz can run...
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#50 Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2021, 12:48 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
Cruz shoulda taken Oprah with him... then it would be ok.... Mellow

Why do you hate Oprah?
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