Sen. Ted Cruz insulted a 'woke, emasculated' U.S. Army ad. Angry veterans fired back.
Source: Washington Post
By Katie Shepherd May 21, 2021 at 4:20 a.m. CDT
The first half of the TikTok video shows a muscular Russian man with a shaved head doing push-ups, jumping out of a plane, and staring down the scope of a rifle. The second half shows a brightly animated U.S. Army ad telling the true story of Cpl. Emma Malonelord, a soldier who enlisted after being raised by two mothers in California and graduating at the top of her high school class.
The U.S. Army said its ad showcases the the deeply emotional and diverse backgrounds of its soldiers. But to Sen. Ted Cruz, who retweeted the TikTok on Thursday, the contrast with Russias campaign instead made American soldiers into pansies.
The United States Army's animated ad focused on soldier diversity drew condemnation from some conservative lawmakers in May. (GoArmy)
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His jab did not sit well with critics, including many former service members, veterans groups and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who is a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel.
Holy crap, Duckworth tweeted Thursday, mimicking Cruzs words. Perhaps a U.S. Senator shouldnt suggest that the *Russian* military is better than the American military that protected him from an insurrection he helped foment?
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Ted Cruz attacks a US Army soldier for telling her story, says he prefers Russians, VoteVets, a liberal political group that advocates for veterans running for office, said in a tweet responding to Cruz. Because Ted Cruz is a sedition-loving traitor.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/21/ted-cruz-russia-army-emasculated/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main
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"In the hours after Cruzs quip, #emasculaTED trended on Twitter."
Sen. Ted Cruz insulted a woke, emasculated U.S. Army advertisement. Angry veterans fired back.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) heads to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
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(2,529 posts)SwannieK
(33 posts)"Why do people instantly hate Ted Cruz?
Because it saves time!"
Heard this last night and laughed like hell
My question is this...why does he continue to walk around with a skunk pasted to his chin? Sure doesn't do much to cover his ugliness!
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)Hilarious and very true!
The facial hair helps disguise his increasingly fat face, especially the double chin. If only he could grow enough to cover more of it.
SwannieK
(33 posts)Even facial hair fails in disguising his fat face nor extreme ugliness (and nothing can hide his pointed and ever-expanding Pinocchio nose!)...maybe he should try pasting a bigger skunk or maybe a hyena on his triple chin?
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)Inside and out! He should have been a televangelist, he's a natural bullshitter.
SwannieK
(33 posts)Whenever I call these losers ugly, that is exactly what I am referring to...inside and out...especially inside!!
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Clearly, a different technique is needed, or a softer target.
Lovie777
(12,278 posts)anger the US Military and promote the Russian Military. The republicans can never say they are pro-Military nor pro-Police, nor pro-Constitution, nor pro-Life, nor pro-Democracy, nor pro-health, nor Pro-civil rights of any kind, et al.
Asshole Cruz is not alone in this thinking.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)That's the way Brian Williams identified him last night on his show.
tanyev
(42,568 posts)PaulRevere08
(449 posts)Submariner
(12,504 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,236 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)goofing on a similar ad for the CIA.
Oh, right, that was in Bill Maher's show ... checks notes ... two weeks ago.
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AllaN01Bear
(18,261 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)That beard, by the way, does not hide your weak mouth and simpering face, you creep!
SKKY
(11,811 posts)...repeatedly called your wife ugly.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,967 posts)If Turd Cruz wants to talk about emasculation, he should go look in the mirror.
Is there ANYONE who truly likes this guy?
papa3times
(150 posts)is as fat and disgusting as his Dear Leader Fat Donnie Trump! He needs to go through some Army basic training and correct the problem right after he goes and fucks himself!
marble falls
(57,106 posts)... hate you. Just try a couple of STFU tablets and call us in a decade or two for a checkup.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)give him a parachute, rifle, and full combat dress, then dump him out into Afghanistan as rearguard for our forces as they withdraw?
Slap a camera on his helmet and we have a pay-per-view event that'll make billions.
usaf-vet
(6,189 posts)...he lays down in his latest hiding spot curled up in the fetal position.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)miserable, disgusting existence... to hell with t. cruz.
Mysterian
(4,588 posts)We would whip the snot out of the candy ass Russians before breakfast.
And I don't remember seeing Rafael Edward Cruz at any of my duty stations either. Seems to me he served exactly 10 years, 5 months, and 29 days less than me ...which amounts to a big fat "0" time on active duty. It does him no good to anger Vets. Why doesn't he realize this?
riversedge
(70,242 posts)@atrupar
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I expect less than nothing from Ted Cruz, but retweeting Russian military propaganda videos is a new low
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PurgedVoter
(2,218 posts)When Ted became Failure 45's blow up doll it should have realized that all gender slurs were now off the table.
Haggard Celine
(16,847 posts)BlueAJ
(15 posts)He should worry about tweets about "emasculated" senators fleeing to a tropical beach while their state is in crisis.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Called him a slacker coward, grabbed him by the collar and lifted the fat fuck off the floor before making some comment about not even being manly enough to defend his wife. It is what dad did to a colonel that landed him in Korea after serving as a combat infantryman in the Battle of the Bulge. This sort of worm always put my dads nose out of joint!
Aristus
(66,388 posts)Not to Cancun, or to anywhere else...
Best_man23
(4,898 posts)Red Cruz retweets Russian Propaganda, Moscow's Agent Governing America.
speaknow
(321 posts)let non American's become Senators !
Good God what is wrong with this country,
How did we ever let a Che' become a Senator.
Ya, I herd it all he's super educated, so was
Castro and Che'
Dear Texas voters, you don't like Biden being
President But you voted for that foreign MF
become your Senator, is something wrong
with your brain.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)A woman AF lieutenant colonel once remarked, "This isn't a white, male, Protestant air force; it's just run like it is."
Clue phone Teddy, the US armed forces is as diverse as the country it protects and if that's "woke", then this whole nation is "woke". Have a problem with that, immigrant's son?
You owe Senator Duckworth an apology.
ananda
(28,866 posts)Jeff Tiedrich: why are you tweeting out Russian propaganda videos, Comrade Senator Fidel Emasculated Cancun?
Kevin M. Kruse: Do you have any other Russian propaganda videos you'd like to promote, senator?
BrooklynDad_Defiant!: LMFAO, the guy who carried the balls of the asshole who called his wife UGLY is talking about "emasculated."
Maybe sit this one out, Fled Cruise.
Warpy
(111,277 posts)plus the military has found out just how capable women warriors are, usually more capable than dimwitted macho head cases, even though women are always having to look over their shoulders to avoid those macho headcases intent on rape.
Russia has yet to find out how capable women are in the military, they're still an extremely sexist culture, which is why Putin is so tied into knots over the fact that some men and women are homosexual.
So, Teddy boy, maybe it's time to leave this "emasculated" country and go where you're really more comfortable. Russia is just your style.
(ETA: I found the ad a little soppy and erring on the side of Wonder Woman. They're still trying to find their way in appealing to woman warriors)
Ferretherder
(1,446 posts)...the Russian military that faced Hitler's forces during his 'Operation Barbarossa' relied heavily on women joining the men in military roles, not just as nurses and cooks and such, but also as battlefield engineers, snipers and even fighter pilots, machine gunners, and tank drivers!
Warpy
(111,277 posts)The Soviet system sought to integrate women fully into the workforce. They women wryly said that Communism freed them to do twice as much work, since husbands found it beneath their dignity to do their share at home, rather like the feminist "having it all" 70s here, when having it all meant doing it all.
Yeah, old Teddy would feel right at home over there now, super comfy in a racist, homophobic, and sexist country. I wonder how comfy they'd be with Ted, though, I think he might have a little too much melanin for them.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)Trust me, that's not a complaint.
70sEraVet
(3,504 posts)A cartoon? The Army was just ASKING for it! They could have highlighted the benefits of diversity by showing female recruits training with their male counterparts, couldn't they?
East-A-Squared
(14,505 posts)Bayard
(22,100 posts)Let's all remember that neither Cruz, nor any trumps, ever served in the military, but they feel free to denigrate it.
Contrast, Biden--how many times have we heard him say, "May god protect our troops"?
rpannier
(24,330 posts)When the going got cold, Cancun Cruz fled the country
IronLionZion
(45,457 posts)what a piece of shit. Time to turn Texas blue and throw Cruz out.
The ad is also anti-woman
HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)After all he is Cuban.
48656c6c6f20
(7,638 posts)Asshole in America awardee? What's that 10 years in a row now?
Jilly_in_VA
(9,983 posts)wouldn't have survived basic training. He'd have been crying every night in his bunk because some female recruit kicked his ass at something that day. You can bet on that.
He would have either keeled over from the physical exertion or gotten beaten to a pulp when the rest of the unit got sick of his crap and treated him to a Code Red.
NBachers
(17,122 posts)onlyadream
(2,166 posts)I guess it's easier to think of soldiers as nothing but fighting machines, with no feelings, family or history. What else can you expect from the likes of Cruz?
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Backpfeiffengesicht illustrated, yet again.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)May a million head lice invade his drool-catcher beard.
ladym55
(2,577 posts)I don't get it. He is a slimy national embarrassment.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,577 posts)Think of stupid and then go way past that. There you will find Ted.................
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)The US also has sci-fi ads showing all the cool toys people can play with. It's just different approaches.
Aviation Pro
(12,172 posts)Throw on a ruck and come meet me and we'll see whether your non-rated, motherfucking ass can hang, assclown.
Aviation Pro
(12,172 posts)Appropriating my sacrifice and service to the nation. Fuck all of these seditionists.
On Nov. 8, 2022, I will again validate my service to our nation.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)A scary-fascistic killing army? Be very scared -- we should have it and don't!? Scary to admire an army of near-robotic killers that could be turned on anyone as needed.
Enormously simple minded also. Does the Republican base really think wars are won by man-to-victim combat?
IcyPeas
(21,893 posts)whoever gets the most clicks wins.
Grokenstein
(5,725 posts)IcyPeas
(21,893 posts)SwannieK
(33 posts)Don't let your detractors upset you, after all, we all know just how brave you are and how hard you fought for and defended the great state of Texas in the raging Battle of Cancun
onetexan
(13,043 posts)Marcuse
(7,488 posts)Martin68
(22,822 posts)attacks on responsibility, decency, and competence./
Permanut
(5,613 posts)and still puzzled why any military or veteran would support this slimy piece of garbage, or any Republican, for that matter.
COL Mustard
(5,906 posts)Pussy Ted served in?
Oh, that's right...NONE........
Pussy pussy pussy.
smb
(3,473 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)haele
(12,660 posts)And an over-the top slick propaganda production promising the majority of not very well in shape young Russian men that they can be Super-Warriors just like the top Athletes and Celebrities on their TVs while they're waiting on their next gig job.
The US Army ad is promising everyone can join, become "better" if they need to, and still be able to make a career supporting their country. Something sugar coated but mainly realistic.
The Russian Ad is Paul Voorhees "Starship Troopers" ad.
Masculine X11 for the wannabes who need to get the chicks....
Haele