The Brutalism of Ted Cruz

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/TheDailyEdge/status/700172795783856130

[FSogol]

1. K & R. n/t

[sharp_stick]

2. He is a repulsive guy

It's pretty telling when nobody who's worked with him in the past can think of a single decent thing to say about him.

[Dustlawyer]

27. Like Cruz said at 18, he is into world domination, money and power.

Oh, and he wants to be in a T&A movie!

[phantom power]

3. Sounds a lot like Scalia. And they both sound like Javert

All about the legalism, and process, and punishment. Nothing about actual justice. Especially for the powerless.

[PatrickforO]

4. Ted Cruz is 'running strongly among evangelical voters.'

That's because they also lack the so-called Christian virtues.

[AlbertCat]

15. Egg-zackly

It's holier than thou hubris mixed with a sense of entitlement that allows them to pass severe judgment over you.... but not themselves.... which is vanity.

[Wounded Bear]

22. Far too many evangelicals...

(which as a term refers to spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ BTW), are too embedded into the fundamentalist Judaistic legalism of the Old Testament. Hell, even most modern Jews don't adhere that strictly to the Old Testament, which is after all the Jewish "bible."

So for them, Teddy's position seems entirely legitimate. After all, if he is truly innocent, God will be merciful in the afterlife, right?

[Volaris]

25. That's because they think Justice equals Punishment.

It is rather old testament of them, isn't it.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. Even two years for shoplifting a calculator seems egregious.

A calculator costs what, maybe between five bucks and a hundred bucks or so for a cheap one to a semi-decent graphing one?

5-10 days in jail seems far more reasonable, even if a person IS a repeat offender. Better yet, fine them 10x what they stole or jail at a rate of a day per 20 bucks stolen maybe. And I say that goes for corporate crimes too. No more slap on the wrist fines. 10x damages. or jail time for the executives to the tune of a day per $20.

[malthaussen]

8. The problem with that idea is assessing blame.

Corporate crime is usually done by committee, so finding the "responsible" perpetrator is difficult. Imprison them all? While not without merit from an emotional standpoint, it opens a rather ugly can of worms. Another problem would be properly assessing both the value of the crime (I expect they steal a lot more than we know), and again, distributing the complicity among the criminals. It would be unjust to make Joe Blow, who personally underwrote a million dollars in bum mortgages, accountable for the entire 200 billion stolen by his bank, e.g. It would take a lot of work, and more importantly, would require institutional thinkers (bureaucrats) to properly assess and penalize the damage done by other institutional thinkers (banksters). Obvious conflict of interest there.

-- Mal

[AlbertCat]

17. so finding the "responsible" perpetrator is difficult.

Why must there be only one.

Perhaps the committee needs to look at....one at a time.

[dmr]

20. If corporate crime is done in committee, then why not charge

them of conspiracy?

As you can tell I'm not a lawyer.

[malthaussen]

28. Because then the Justice Department might have to take action.

As you can tell, I am a cynic.

-- Mal

[dmr]

32. Ha! Quit making sense.

[dem in texas]

29. Make him Work off the value of the Calculator

Would have been a better punishment and cost far less to the Taxpayer. Ted Cruz belongs to the ultra-conservative Christian movement that equates to what you are seeing in the Muslin movement. If Cruz were to be elected president, we would probably have jail for women fro having abortions and religious police on the patrol for gays and any infractions that Cruz and his ilk do not approve of. He scares the hell out me.

When he was talking about bombing until the ground glowed, the first thought that went through my mind was how many innocent people would be killed in something like that?

[Solly Mack]

6. He's mean and enjoys being mean.

Fucker.

[HughBeaumont]

7. The Dickishness is more like it.

When John McCain calls you "The Chief of the Wacko Birds" . . . let me reiterate, when the guy who thought Vice President Sarah Palin was a great idea . . . you know the guy's hamster done left the wheel.

[MineralMan]

9. Cruz is a Calvinist sort of Christian.

Humility, mercy, compassion and grace are not part of the dogma of that sect. Dominionism is, though. He was born with a defect, in that his heart is seriously underdeveloped. It's common among Calvinist types.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. His daddy thinks he's the second coming too,...so he's got that going for him.

[AlbertCat]

18. Cruz is a Calvinist sort of Christian.

Typical Southern Baptist IMHO.... "anything I do is OK (even when I don't actually do it), and anything you do is somehow subpar and deserves derision/punishment."

[hifiguy]

34. "The rules are for thee

but NOT for me."

[Octafish]

10. Hypocrites make great Pharisees.

"Cruz is a stranger to most of what would generally be considered the Christian virtues: humility, mercy, compassion and grace."

[olddots]

11. science should study his brain

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Well, They Can't Study His Heart

He doesn't have one, apparently.

[hifiguy]

35. Just as long as they don't put it in

a great white shark with a frikkin' laser beam on its head.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Most of those evangelical voters are against humility, mercy, compassion and grace....

They think that stuff is making America weak.

[Stuart G]

14. k and r...nt

[oldandhappy]

16. I have that he was vicious. This proves it.

[dmr]

21. There's no sense of decency. Shameful. n/t

[Xipe Totec]

23. Pharisaism - It pretty much describes Antonin Scalia as well nt

[Rex]

24. Cruz is an anarchist. He wants to destroy the government, so he can rebuild it into some kind

of Christian law enforcer. The man is insane and I fear criminally insane.

[hifiguy]

36. Whatever Trumpolini's faults, and they are too numerous to be catalogued,

he would never torch the world in hopes of bringing baby jeebus back. Cruz would in a second.

[Rex]

38. I think that is the biggest difference between the two, to end the world would mean the end of Trump

and so that will never happen. Cruz on the other hand would be gleeful to start WWIII with the Russians or China and then pretend God wanted it.

[hifiguy]

39. Yep. World war would also be very bad for tRump's real estate values.

[3catwoman3]

26. Humility, mercy, compassion and grace.

Cruz is 0 for 4 on those.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

30. Pharisaism--exactly.

He serves the god of punishment, lakes of fire and eternal suffering (for YOU. Not his pious self.)

[TeamPooka]

31. Ted Cruz is a kitty cat away from being a Bond villain. nt

[hifiguy]

37. Only because no cat could stand to be near him.

Cats are generally excellent judges of character, or the lack thereof.

[TeamPooka]

41. I pity that kitty. nt

[kath]

33. Another major publication that sorely needs a proofreader - "brutalism" is a style of architecture.

"Brutality" is probably the word they were looking for.

[dimple]

40. Poor, maligned brutalism

Brutalist structures are heavy and unrefined with coarsely molded surfaces, usually exposed concrete. Their highly sculptural shapes tend to be crude and blocky, often colliding with one another.

The line between brutalism and ordinary modernism is not always clear since concrete buildings are so common and run the entire spectrum of modern styles.

Designs which embrace the roughness of concrete or the heavy simplicity of its natural forms are considered brutalist.

Other materials including brick and glass can be used in brutalism if they contribute to a block-like effect similar the the strongly articulated concrete forms of early brutalism.

http://buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/b/brut.html

[robhalf4369]

42. What a hateful guy

We'll be screwed if he manages to win this year.