Ted Cruz slammed for ‘join me in Cancun’ joke as Texas braces for deep freeze
Ted Cruz slammed for ‘join me in Cancun’ joke as Texas braces for deep freeze
‘It wasn’t funny then and it’s not funny now’ one person wrote
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.
It’s funny because people are going to die and he’s making fun of them before they do.
They will vote for him on the way to the graveyard
And as they die they will blame Obama for the loss of power.
Comedy is all about timing after all.
If you're sick as a dog, you say: 'God I gotta make it.' Even if you vote and then pass away, it's worth it.
Donald Trump, ordering his cultists to sacrifice themselves for his primary race, just yesterday
lol over 200 people died when I went to Cancun lol get it guys? Get the joke?????
What an ass.
Classic Republican humor!
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.
If Ted Cruz sees his shadow in Cancun there will 6 be weeks without power in Texas.
This is a top tier comment. Thank you.
Get DeBlasio down there to drop his ass
People died.
It's Ted Cruz, are we expecting tact or class?
to be fair, getting ted cruz out of the country is bipartisan
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Come on and JAM!
Really got'em!
O SHIT HE GOT SLAMMED
DID YOU SEE IT
I refuse to give any clicks to any headlines that use the word slammed or any derivative or synonym thereof
Unless it's a wrestling news website
Or if it's followed by welcoming you to the jam
Or an article about doors.
Maybe wrestling news sites should steal political news sites headlines.
"Wrestler A CRITICISED for using unsportsmanlike move on Wrestler B"
Never click anything from The Independent. They're clickbait shit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bold of you to assume taxpayers fund the majority of his income. Ted Cruz is an extremely corrupt politician.
How silly of me.
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
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.
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.
Flapping mouths and getting "slammed" is never news. Yeah he sucks we get it.
He's a real piece of shit of course but this isn't real. Y'all know that right?
Let them eat cake.
There are so many unserious people in power right now it is crazy.
How many times can someone get slammed before it kills them?
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Gosh, Texans have no chill /s
No, that's the problem. They have too much chill.
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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
He has a savage wit.
He wrote a comic called "Supply side Jesus" it's pretty funny.
Fuck you, Ted.
Not surprising. Many Texans thought it was not funny.
Wow yeah he really got slammed… sure…
Why not Florida? Oh, I see...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Texans, with the freeze coming, wrap your pipes, cover your plants, stay off icy roads & keep your family safe.
Amid warnings of severe weather conditions, which will affect more than 200 million Americans this week, Cruz seized the opportunity to make yet another joke about the time in February 2021 when he left his fellow Texans suffering record-cold temperatures and power outages to stay in sunny and warm Cancun, Mexico.
Cruz was widely criticized for his actions, leading him to fly back to Texas from Mexico almost immediately after saying he went on the trip because he wanted to “be a good dad.”
“Feels a bit odd to joke about getting caught going to Mexico while your constituents froze for a week and at least 246 people died but here we are,” another person said.
Texas deserves a leader who will step up for our state, not abandon us in a crisis,” former NFL linebacker and Congressman Colin Allred wrote on X.
For Cruz, who abandoned suffering Texans for the Ritz in Cancun, it’s all one big joke,” former NSNBC host Mehdi Hasan wrote.
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And those morons will vote him back in.
I'm confused because this seems to be clearly from a fake account? Like, fuck that piece of shit, but this doesn't even seem to be real? Is that the joke and I'm just being dense?
it was definitely real:
He looks better as a neckbeard.
Lol next headline
Ted Cruz CRUCIFIED for Cancun joke
These are the headlines we need, someone give this man a job!
'No shame' comedy just makes you look crass and uncaring.
Hear me out: this was tactless and in poor taste, but it is funny and I even think this might be a real Ted Cruz joke. You don’t often see self awareness in a politician at that level, and I almost respect it?
I felt really bad for Texans last winter when it got cold and their third world electrical grid shit out. This year, all I can think is “so why the fuck are you still living in Texas?”
Considering a lot of people are struggling just to keep up with rent/food/bills; you think they had the opprotunity to move out of Texas and start a whole new life in another state? New job, new apartment, new social supports. In a state that likely has a higher cost of living if you're trying to flee the GOP death cult. Easy right?
Your privileged take is almost as tone deaf as Cruz's joke tbh.
Self awareness would be an apology, not "Huck Huck I don't care who dies as long as they aren't rich like me, lol". We see real self awareness from more leftist Congress critters all the time, although the capitalist media tends to paint it as bad, somehow. I'm glad you only "almost respect" this tone deaf statement.
Because, for whatever reason, we are stuck here.
I'm glad you seem to have the freedom from responsibility, coupled with the funds and work that can allow that.
Most people don't.
Agreed, that joke is funny as shit.
If it had been your grandparents that died in Texas last winter would you still be laughing? Or are callous jokes about people freezing to death while politicians hide in the tropics only funny when it's someone else's family?