Ted Cruz wants protection from real people, but not billionaire donors

[stevenkesslar]

So much for MAGA's fake and cynical populism.

Ted Cruz wants lawmakers to get security escorts through America’s airports

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The Texas Republican — infamously photographed by a gawker while en route to Cancún in 2021 — is proposing a bill amendment that would offer lawmakers a dedicated security escort at airports, along with expedited screening outside of public view. That could make it much less likely that the politicians’ comings and goings would become fodder for embarrassing news reports and late-night comedy mockery.

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There are “serious security threats facing public officials,” Cruz said Tuesday. “It’s important that we take reasonable measures to keep everyone safe.”

Turns out there were "serious security threats" at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, too.  But Cruz doesn't want to talk about that with constituents waiting in lines at airports, does he?

Cruz voted against a bipartisan bill that got the support of 68 US Senators to prevent another Jan. 6th from happening by closing the wormy loopholes Cruz himself wanted to use to steal an election.  Even more despicably, Cruz plotted with MAGA cultist Maria Bartiromo about how a Republican appointed commission could "legally" steal an election Biden won by 7 million votes.

If there is any Republican other than Trump who has created good reason for angry mobs to protest the cynicism and phoniness of MAGA populism, it's Ted Cruz.  I can only pray that some day I run into him at an airport.  So I can walk up to him and say, "You are a cynical man with no principles.  Other than your own empowerment, and giving huge tax breaks to the rich guys who fund your cynical campaigns."

[floridarob]

Al Franken on Ted Cruz:

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

[JKane]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[EmmetK]

On 2/4/2024 at 8:38 PM, stevenkesslar said:

So much for MAGA's fake and cynical populism.

LOL!

Senator Cruz is doing and saying EXACTLY what the voters of Texas sent him to do.

A University of Texas poll out this weekend shows Cruz decimating both of his expected demonrat challengers:

https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/new-uttexas-politics-project-poll-primary-voting-begins-texans-see-crisis-border

"In head-to-head contests, Cruz holds comfortable leads over both Allred (46% to 32%) and Gutierrez (45% to 31%) in hypothetical head-to-head match-ups early in the election year."

The uber left supporters of Dementia Joe on this site are beyond delusional. They attack Cruz and Trump, among others, who take positions that are at odds with their left-wing dogma, but are popular among the mainstream voters.

@JKane Care to post jpegs of that loser Collin Allred?  lol!

[stevenkesslar]

4 hours ago, EmmetK said:

They attack Cruz and Trump, among others, who take positions that are at odds with their left-wing dogma, but are popular among the mainstream voters.

YES!  YES!  YES!

The uber fascist anti-Semitic cannibalistic child blood drinking left is afraid of the most simple facts!  But you are BRAVE with facts, @EmmetK.  You speak truth to the uber left snowflake genocidal assholes who do not understand why Donald Trump is so popular.

Here's a simple fact!  If Donald Trump's policies were not popular, why did he win re-election in a landslide?  The only reason Dementia Joe got in is he sent his child blood drinking snowflakes to the Capitol to beat the shit out of cops and steal the election.  Fascist leftists!  Child blood drinkers!

What sickens me is how the Clinton child blood drinking crowd has infiltrated all the institutions we used to be able to trust.  So Trump's signature achievement was working class tax cuts for the working class.  Not the rich.  Okay, maybe Donald got a little tax cut but that is only fair as the leftist child blood drinking courts are trying to confiscate all his hard earned money. And a once reputable polling organization like Gallup just lies and smears Trump and says the tax cuts were UNPOPULAR and more people viewed them unfavorably than favorably.  THIS IS A LIE!  Yet all the leftist child blood drinking demented Biden cock suckers piled on.  And for some strange reason 46 % of people say the tax cuts benefitted large corporations and only 7 % said it benefitted them.  Child blood drinkers!  Liars!

Pussy invalid RINO John McCain killed what would have been an even more popular achievement of the Trump Presidency:  gutting Obamacare.  Again, the child blood drinking media made up horrific amounts of bullshit to the point where they said Trump had his lowest favorable ratings as POTUS while he was trying to gut Obamacare.  First, Trump had 100 % approval every day he was POTUS so that simply isn't possible.  Second, if Trump were going to be unpopular at all it would be his basic human decency he is just too nice.  Not anything about his wildly popular policies.  Those evil child blood drinking journalists just make shit up and now they are lying while they kill children and write stories about how Obamacare is popular thanks to Trump.  Such lies!  Child blood drinkers!  Hillary cock suckers!

All Biden has to do is remind people how popular Trump's tax cuts were and how people were unanimously in awe and delighted when he tried to gut Obamacare.  That will remind people very quickly how beloved Donald Trump is the sweetest most decent guy and all those demented invalid RINO cock sucking Biden supporters will be exposed for the crazy assholes they are.

And then there are the true Satanists.  You'd think it was bad enough they drink the blood of children but no they want to kill young babies they are sick cock sucking evil abortion murderers.  97 % of Americans support the fact that Donald Trump appointed the judges that overturned Roe v. Wade.  THIS IS A PROVEN FACT!  A fact the child blood drinking Clinton  cabal will not tell you but Donald Trump will.  So just based on America's almost unanimous hatred for the murdering Satanic abortionists Trump will win again in a landslide in 2024 like he did in 2020.  Decency and truth always wins over evil.

Thank you for informing us of THE FACTS @EmmetK you are BRAVE and TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EmmetK]

You get a GOLD STAR in ignoring the facts.

In case you forgot, you started this thread. You did it by trashing Ted Cruz. You used all of the left-wing, Trump-hating code words: despicable, MAGA cultist, MAGA populism, blah, blah, blah.
Of course in your response to my post, there was your usual endless nonsense, yet nowhere did you address the issue of Ted Cruz decimating his opponents in the polls. Ted Cruz' popularity with the voters who sent him to Washington twice, and will be sending him again in the fall, likely with a record landslide victory...
Just more of the same - more hypocrisy, more endless blather, yada, yada, yada

[stevenkesslar]

9 hours ago, EmmetK said:

In case you forgot, you started this thread. You did it by trashing Ted Cruz.

And everything I said is true.

Trump is a fake populist.  So is Cruz.  They want to cut taxes for the rich, like they are, and take away Obamacare.  Trump parades around as a populist while he breaks the law and rapes and sexually harasses and cheats and goes bankrupt.  And you send him money to bail his criminal and crooked ass out.

Some populism!  What a fighter for the people!

The thing people remember fondly about the Trump era is lower prices and no inflation.  So he will run on that.  Even though inflation hit hard all over the world after COVID, and was actually lower in the US than most of the industrialized world.  Had Trump been President, he would have had the same or worse.  But let him run on inflation.

We'll see how it goes when Biden reminds people how Trump's big victory for the working class was cutting taxes for billionaires like himself, and trying to screw people by taking Obamacare away.  Trump gutted Roe V. Wade.  2 in 3 Americans want to send aid to Ukraine and Trump is undermining that.  Trump is a rapist with women and a devoted cock sucker with Putin.  

9 hours ago, EmmetK said:

Trump-hating code words: despicable, MAGA cultist, MAGA populism, blah, blah, blah.

All true.  Trump is despicable, criminal, and crooked.  He leads a cult.  His MAGA populism is phony as can be.

[EmmetK]

8 hours ago, stevenkesslar said:

And everything I said is true.

Trump is a fake populist.  So is Cruz.  They want to cut taxes for the rich, like they are, and take away Obamacare.  Trump parades around as a populist while he breaks the law and rapes and sexually harasses and cheats and goes bankrupt.  And you send him money to bail his criminal and crooked ass out.

Some populism!  What a fighter for the people!

The thing people remember fondly about the Trump era is lower prices and no inflation.  So he will run on that.  Even though inflation hit hard all over the world after COVID, and was actually lower in the US than most of the industrialized world.  Had Trump been President, he would have had the same or worse.  But let him run on inflation.

We'll see how it goes when Biden reminds people how Trump's big victory for the working class was cutting taxes for billionaires like himself, and trying to screw people by taking Obamacare away.  Trump gutted Roe V. Wade.  2 in 3 Americans want to send aid to Ukraine and Trump is undermining that.  Trump is a rapist with women and a devoted cock sucker with Putin.  

All true.  Trump is despicable, criminal, and crooked.  He leads a cult.  His MAGA populism is phony as can be.

LOL!

On a thread THAT YOU STARTED about Ted Cruz, the above post mentions Donald Trump NINE times, and Ted Cruz once. How telling.

You don't want to discuss Cruz, because the policies and values that he espouses, which you hate, are wildly popular with the people that have elected him. 
When you got nothing, change the subject. You have mastered the art of obfuscation.

 

[stevenkesslar]

2 hours ago, EmmetK said:

You don't want to discuss Cruz, because the policies and values that he espouses, which you hate

Granted.  I did think Al Franken, an anti-Semitic child blood drinking Hillary cock sucker if there ever was one, had one of the best put downs of Cruz ever.  So, yeah.  You got me on that.

Frankly, it is hard to be opened minded about Ted Cruz.  It's just that so many in the uber-left nutso Hillary loving crowd have so many bad things to say about him.  And his values.  And his wife.  And his father.  And other stuff.

Times Donald Trump and Ted Cruz Insulted Each Other

Trump: Cruz is “worse than Hillary”

Trump: “How can Ted Cruz be an Evangelical Christian’

Trump: “You are the single biggest liar'”

Trump: “I will spill the beans on your wife!”

Cruz: “Real men don’t attack women”

Cruz: “Donald, you’re a sniveling coward”

Cruz: “Consistently disgraceful”

Cruz: “Nominating Donald Trump would be a train wreck”

Cruz: “Big government liberal”

Trump: Cruz’s father was somehow involved with JFK’s assassin

Cruz: “This man is a pathological liar”

Other than those few things, Trump and Cruz seem to be very decent and well-respected fellows. 

2 hours ago, EmmetK said:

You don't want to discuss Cruz, because the policies and values that he espouses, which you hate

But what did I say about Cruz that sounded hateful?  And how exactly are his values like Trump?  

[stevenkesslar]

On 2/19/2024 at 8:19 AM, EmmetK said:

https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/new-uttexas-politics-project-poll-primary-voting-begins-texans-see-crisis-border

"In head-to-head contests, Cruz holds comfortable leads over both Allred (46% to 32%) and Gutierrez (45% to 31%) 

The uber left supporters of Dementia Joe on this site are beyond delusional. They attack Cruz and Trump, among others, who take positions that are at odds with their left-wing dogma, but are popular among the mainstream voters.

Upon checking, I go back to my main point, @EmmetK.  You can't be trusted with facts.  What in God's name did facts do to you?  How bad does it hurt?

I was on 538 checking polls and I thought I'd see what they say about Texas.  So, you have one fact on your side.  There are a few polls done in January and February this year that show Cruz with a double digit lead over either potential Democratic opponent.  But there is another poll by NPA that shows Cruz and Allred in a dead even tie.  And an Emerson poll that shows Cruz just two points ahead of Allred.  Within the margin or error.  The YouGov-sponsored polls clearly paint a more optimistic picture for Cruz than the others.

Allred is actually doing better in polls against Cruz than Beto was in 2018.  Which was a good year for Democrats.  In 2018 the final RCP poll average showed Cruz beating Beto by 6.8 %, with individual polls ranging from a Cruz lead of 10 points to 3 points.  Cruz actually won by 2.6 points. 

The Emerson poll was closest to the final result, showing Cruz beating Beto by 3 points.  Emerson now shows Cruz beating Allred by only 2 points.  Again, that's within the poll margin of error.

We've heard that song about Texas going blue before.  As much as I wish Taylor Zakhar Perez was down there organizing the shit out of the state, which he did in Red White & Royal Blue, in reality the President's son is actually Hunter Biden.  So he won't be of much help in the way TZP's fictional son was.

 

That said, Cruz is unpopular, too.  And not just with most of his Senate colleagues.  Oh, and did I mention Trump treats Cruz like a piece of shit?  Being pissed on by Trump and running away to Mexico from a state with a power outage probably doesn't help Cruz with voters.

Cruz wants to gut Obamacare.  Cruz wants to gut abortion rights.  Cruz wants tax cuts for the rich.  Cruz is a phony who went to an elite school and pretends to be a populist.  Except when it comes to walking through airports.  If there is any red state US Senator who is disliked and phony and could lose in 2024, Cruz is the guy.

What's most interesting about those polls to me is there is seemingly no difference in a general election between Allred and Gutierrez as Democratic candidates.  I suspect some of that is it's early days and both may be relatively unknown.  Gutierrez wears the progressive label on his sleeve.  Allred is Mr. Moderation, with a strong helping of bipartisan compromise.  Which probably explains why Allred is way ahead in the Democratic primary.  People in Texas clearly want a moderate winner.

It may also be that for the uber-MAGA Trump crowd, all Democrats are part of the Deep State/uber-Left/child blood drinking Hillary cock sucking crowd.  The true MAGA folk will just send Trump their money as he pathologically lies and commits crimes.  No wonder you can't be objective about facts.  Or Allred's unlikely but definitely possible chances of winning.

What did facts do to you, @EmmetK?  What did they do to you?