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(108,035 posts) Fri Feb 19, 2021, 01:41 PM Feb 2021

And Ted cruises for more abuse

How Ted Cruz Became the Least Sympathetic Politician in America

On Monday, Senator Ted Cruz urged his constituents to “stay home,” warning that winter weather beating down on Texas could be deadly. On Tuesday, he offered a shrug emoji and pronounced the situation “not good.” Then, on Wednesday, he decamped for a Ritz-Carlton resort in sun-drenched Cancún, escaping with his family from their freezing house.

And on Thursday, many Americans who had been battered by a deadly winter storm, on top of a nearly yearlong pandemic, finally found a reason to come together and lift their voices in a united chorus of rage.

FlyinTed, a homage to Donald J. Trump’s “Lyin’ Ted” nickname, began trending on Twitter. TMZ, the celebrity website, published photographs showing a Patagonia-fleece-clad Mr. Cruz waiting for his flight, hanging out in the United Club lounge and reading his phone from a seat in economy plus. The Texas Monthly, which bills itself as “the national magazine of Texas,” offered a list of curses to mutter against Mr. Cruz.

For a politician long reviled not just by Democrats but also by many of his Republican colleagues in Washington, Mr. Cruz is now the landslide winner for the title of the least sympathetic politician in America. After leaving freezing Texans to melt snow for water while he traveled to go work at the beach, Mr. Cruz offered little more than the classic political cliché — time with family — as an explanation, citing his daughters’ desire to go to Cancún as the reason for his trip. Even his dog became a player in the drama after a report that the Cruz family had left the aptly named Snowflake behind with a security guard, stirring fresh outrage on social media.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-ted-cruz-became-the-least-sympathetic-politician-in-america/ar-BB1dPLUl?li=BBnb7Kz

Ted Cruz's explanation for his Cancun trip made things worse

Look, it's bad enough to leave the country for a resort town when a) you're a United States senator and b) your state is dealing with widespread power outages and frigid temperatures. It's worse when you blame your kids for your decision to leave.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ted-cruzs-explanation-for-his-cancun-trip-made-things-worse/ar-BB1dPAaJ?li=BBnb7Kz

'Don't let him back in': backlash as Cruz caught leaving Texas for Mexico

“Complete and utter hyprocites,” tweeted Senator Ted Cruz back in December, when Steve Adler, mayor of Austin, was caught directing residents to stay at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus while at his holiday home in Cabo, Mexico.

But Cruz is now eating a slice of humble pie – after being caught hopping on a flight to Mexico just days after telling Texans to stay home during a storm that has left millions of Texans without heating, hot water or power. Cruz was pictured on a flight to Cancun while millions in his state are without power, and adults and children have died while trying to keep warm.

In a battle of blame-shifting, politicians across the country have blamed everything – from being weak to “socialism” – for the storm’s effects. Governor Greg Abbott went on Fox News on Tuesday to point the finger at renewable energy for the storm, though the Texas grid is overwhelmingly run on gas and oil.

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Previous tweets by Cruz also resurfaced this week – of the senator mocking California during its own extreme weather event during the wildfires last year, claiming it was “unable to perform even basic functions of civilization like having reliable electricity”. When reminded of this comment, he simply tweeted: “I got no defense. A blizzard strikes Texas & our state shuts down. Not good.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dont-let-him-back-in-backlash-as-cruz-caught-leaving-texas-for-mexico/ar-BB1dO0kc?li=BBnb7Kz