Ted explains himself.

[My Pet Orangutan]

I was taking care of my family, the same way that Texans all across the state were taking care of theirs.



Sen. Ted Cruz faces storm of controversy for flying to Cancun as Texas grapples with power outages caused by severe weather
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/ted-cruz-cancun-texas-storm/2021/02/18/ff0fd950-71ea-11eb-93be-c10813e358a2_story.html

...

In an exchange with reporters outside his home in Houston on Thursday night, Cruz said he decided to return from Cancun, after flying there Wednesday, because he -

didn’t want all the screaming and yelling about this trip to distract even one moment from the real issues that I think Texans care about..

It was obviously a mistake, Cruz said of his decision to go on the trip. In hindsight, I wouldn’t have done it. I was trying to be a dad.

Leaving when so many Texans were hurting didn’t feel right, and so I changed my return flight and flew back on the first available flight I could take Cruz said ...

From the moment I sat on the plane, I began really second-guessing that decision and saying, ‘Look, I know why we’re doing this, but I’ve also got responsibilities.’ . . . I needed to be here, and that’s why I came back, and then as it became a bigger and bigger firestorm, it became all the more compelling that I needed to come back,

[Laelth]

1. Ah, the First Rule of Holes.

Evidently, Pleasure Cruz hasn’t learned that one yet.



-Laelth

[LearnedHand]

4. +1000 for "Pleasure Cruz"

[LearnedHand]

2. You know this accounting of his interior monologue is accurate

[My Pet Orangutan]

3. " From the moment I sat on the plane ..."

[LearnedHand]

8. And an excellent choice of pics, may I say

Truly better than 1000 words for this flaming shitbag.

[underpants]

10. That is a classic

Both from the bullshit meter to him sitting ON a plane

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. "Damn papparazzi caught me! Slither home!"

[onecaliberal]

5. Strains credulity. Clueless.

[Walleye]

6. As he sat on the plane watching everybody take cell phone photos of him

He really thought he could be president?

[LearnedHand]

11. I am truly grateful that Republican dumpster fires like Cruz

Haven’t caught on that their every lie and cheat is recorded on someone’s cellphone.

[torius]

9. As it became a bigger and bigger firestorm lol

More like s---storm. He doesn't even pretend he suddenly got a sense of duty.

[LearnedHand]

12. "In hindsight..."

Translation: “if I’d have known people would post pictures of me and my suitcase...”

Arrogant, selfish, heartless, entitled, Texan dumbass

[WVreaper]

13. Soon to reach China.