Ted Cruz has been slammed for joking that Texans should “join me in Cancun” as the state braces for a deep freeze.
“Texans, with the freeze coming, wrap your pipes, cover your plants, stay off icy roads & keep your family safe. And, if it gets too damn cold, join me in Cancun!” he wrote on X.
Lol next headline
Ted Cruz CRUCIFIED for Cancun joke
Gosh, Texans have no chill /s
No, that’s the problem. They have too much chill.
True 🥶
lol over 200 people died when I went to Cancun lol get it guys? Get the joke???
What an ass.
You mean while he fled his constituents during a state of emergency?
No more sugar coating shit.
The Democrats do this shit too in their own way, at their own peril. At all of our peril.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Texans, with the freeze coming, wrap your pipes, cover your plants, stay off icy roads & keep your family safe.
Amid warnings of severe weather conditions, which will affect more than 200 million Americans this week, Cruz seized the opportunity to make yet another joke about the time in February 2021 when he left his fellow Texans suffering record-cold temperatures and power outages to stay in sunny and warm Cancun, Mexico.
Cruz was widely criticized for his actions, leading him to fly back to Texas from Mexico almost immediately after saying he went on the trip because he wanted to “be a good dad.”
“Feels a bit odd to joke about getting caught going to Mexico while your constituents froze for a week and at least 246 people died but here we are,” another person said.
Texas deserves a leader who will step up for our state, not abandon us in a crisis,” former NFL linebacker and Congressman Colin Allred wrote on X.
For Cruz, who abandoned suffering Texans for the Ritz in Cancun, it’s all one big joke,” former NSNBC host Mehdi Hasan wrote.
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Read the room, asshole.
Enjoy taxpayer-funded trips to Cancun while you can, because you’re on the ticket in November, and you won’t have the benefit of being in an off-year election or Conservative Californians this time.
Bold of you to assume taxpayers fund the majority of his income. Ted Cruz is an extremely corrupt politician.
How silly of me.
How many times can someone get slammed before it kills them?
We should find out. Who volunteers to body slam Ted Cruz repeatedly?
Let them eat cake.
It’s funny because people are going to die and he’s making fun of them before they do.
They will vote for him on the way to the graveyard
‘No shame’ comedy just makes you look crass and uncaring.
Hear me out: this was tactless and in poor taste, but it is funny and I even think this might be a real Ted Cruz joke. You don’t often see self awareness in a politician at that level, and I almost respect it?
I felt really bad for Texans last winter when it got cold and their third world electrical grid shit out. This year, all I can think is “so why the fuck are you still living in Texas?”
Considering a lot of people are struggling just to keep up with rent/food/bills; you think they had the opprotunity to move out of Texas and start a whole new life in another state? New job, new apartment, new social supports. In a state that likely has a higher cost of living if you’re trying to flee the GOP death cult. Easy right?
Your privileged take is almost as tone deaf as Cruz’s joke tbh.
Self awareness would be an apology, not “Huck Huck I don’t care who dies as long as they aren’t rich like me, lol”. We see real self awareness from more leftist Congress critters all the time, although the capitalist media tends to paint it as bad, somehow. I’m glad you only “almost respect” this tone deaf statement.
Because, for whatever reason, we are stuck here.
I’m glad you seem to have the freedom from responsibility, coupled with the funds and work that can allow that.
Most people don’t.
“i like ted cruz more than most of my other colleagues like ted cruz. and i hate ted cruz.” - al franken
Why not Florida? Oh, I see…
