Fled Cruz

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Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 123 pts · 213d (21 replies)

That's what he does. He runs home when the cold comes.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 213d (18 replies)

I still don't understand why people call him Ted...

His name is Raphael, and always was up until he needed to trick white supremacists into thinking he was white too

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 42 pts · 213d (12 replies)

And he's Canadian.

normonator@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 213d (11 replies)

Forget about that part. We got rid of him, he's your problem now.

halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 213d (1 reply)

Aren't you people supposed to be nice?

The polite thing to do would be to pick up your own garbage and toss it yourself.

/s

VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 213d

He self advertised as pure scum being and the americans from the south grabbed him like he was made of gold. You took it you keep it.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 213d (7 replies)

You can't just dump your garbage over here. Dispose of it properly by yourself. Compost that shit.

HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 213d (6 replies)

Garbage moved of it's own accord. You guys fucked Beiber up, you get Fled.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 213d (5 replies)

Bieber was always like that. Don't put that shit on us.

fartographer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 213d

Modern day Dead Parrot sketch

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 213d

Didn't he get fucked up by Drake? Who's famously Torontan.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 213d

yeah we scraped that shit off our shoe....

Dojan@pawb.social · 2 pts · 213d (3 replies)

Raphael is too pretty a name to be wasted on a sack of shit like him.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 213d (2 replies)

Calling him a sack of shit is an insult to shit.

Dojan@pawb.social · 2 pts · 212d (1 reply)

Honestly yeah. If my dog’s shit was on the rail, and Cruz was on another rail, I’d redirect the trolley to hit Cruz to save my dog’s excrement.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 212d

LOL

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 213d

Rafledael?

prettybunnys@piefed.social · 7 pts · 213d (1 reply)

Canada?

Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 213d

Oh shit, I made the mistake of thinking his name suggested his cursed origin.

FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 74 pts · 213d (2 replies)

Is this that same Cruz who called to stop attacking pedofiles? The same one who went to Cancun? The one ended up working like a dog for a man who insulted his wife? Or is it the one who staged immigrants crossing the border?

That Cruz?

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 213d

Yeah he also once ran for human president.

Cuck Cruz

RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 212d

The one that Texans keep electing despite that mountain of insanity.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 213d (5 replies)

As long as Texans are dumb enough to vote for this asshole again and again, he does not need to worry.

AquaTofana@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 213d (1 reply)

And they are, which is so fucking frustrating. I will never not be salty about Colin Allred losing to him. I really thought they'd be irate over him fleeing Snowpocalypse and Texans actively dying INSIDE their homes in 2021.

But no, he won the fucking popular vote. Again.

Also, as someone who moved from Texas to Cali: Fuck off Fled Cruz we don't fucking want you or your ilk in this state.

Also, also, I find it extremely funny that he's leaving Texas ahead of the winter storm again, and I'm heading back to Texas tomorrow to surprise a friend for her birthday. I wish I wasnt living through Snowmaggeden 2: Electric Boogaloo to be quite honest.

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 4 pts · 213d

Raphael Cruz is a living embodiment of the power of having an R beside their name.

Jango_Fettish@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 213d

They actually think that though.

tresspass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 213d (1 reply)

There are plenty of Texans who vote left or can be persuaded to as well. I've learned recently that Texas politics are way more nuanced than I realized. The good Texans that want to work together should be invited into the coalition.

hector@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 212d

It is a lack of popular reform candidates that loses. The dems run as republican light, not champion of workers. Nothing will change their strategy either they need to be forced out of the party but it is too late with elections being rigged.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 41 pts · 213d (5 replies)

Sonofabitch.

Welp, good luck Texans.

Your grid is going down again.

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 213d (2 replies)

Ah yes the yearly service interruptions brought to you by the superior free market.

What is wrong with a company spiking the price of electricity by 4,000%? Don't like it just switch to another company that will do the same thing. Choice is wonderful.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 213d

You second college class in MacroEcon, or an AP Macro Econ course... generally goes over how cartels are bad, and the government tends to run utilities because if they don't, you get the exact situation that Texas has.

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 212d

The last time hell Texas froze over Centerpoint Energy decided to socialize their losses to all of their customers, including those not in Texas. I live in MN and I had to pay for their stupidity. And what other company? Lucky you getting a choice which company fucks you over.

hector@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 212d (1 reply)

Damn renewable energy! Thank god dynamic pricing will keep energy companies going, those 10k dollar bills for one week after the grid mostly fails because they declined to winterize their infrstructure blessedly help repair the grid! (Or some shit, what are we going with on this again?)

Hope you all have automatic withdrawala on your accounts still, suckers. /s

j_elgato@leminal.space · 4 pts · 212d

The Texas power grid doesn't fail - it functions perfectly.

The only issue with it is this weird misconception that it's purpose is to deliver energy, rather than to transfer wealth upwards...

FrowingFostek@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 213d

And they'll reelect him next round too.

human@slrpnk.net · 29 pts · 213d (1 reply)

Someone needs to check his house for abandoned dogs.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 213d

Kristi can deal with those.

danc4498@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 213d

Again?

AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 213d

And he'll still get re-elected. He doesn't give a fuck about his supporters but they don't care. Being left for dead in the cold is still better than voting for a lib amirite?

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 213d (1 reply)

Fled knows California is nice, because of the taxes.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 213d

It's also the freedoms

lemonhead2@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 213d (3 replies)

he doesn't have a private plane?

RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 213d (2 replies)

Those planes are Effing expensive

mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 213d (1 reply)

I can take solace in the fact that for all the selling out and boot licking this guy does, he still has to fly commercial.

Rothe@piefed.social · 14 pts · 213d

It is always astounding how cheap they are willing to sell their souls and self-respect. But I guess it is so cheap because there was nothing there to begin with.

nexguy@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 213d (4 replies)

~~He said he will be back before the storm... so he is going on a 24hr vacation out if the country? ~~

Edit: Oh I thought I read cancun somewhere

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 213d (1 reply)

Last time I was there, Laguna Beach was very much inside of the US, ridiculous right wing rhetoric about California being "unamerican" aside.

That said, I'd trust 100% human Senator Ted Cruz to beat the 100m world record before I trust him to be telling the unvarnished truth.

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 213d

Supposed to rain today in Laguna Beach which makes this even stupider

TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 213d (1 reply)

Laguna beach is in the same country, just California

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 213d

For now.

user_name@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 213d (2 replies)

Like clockwork.

dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 213d (1 reply)

I was gonna say. Didn't he do this last time when everyone's water pipes froze and the power went out?

KhantoBlackhand@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 213d

Yep Cancun Cruz loves to act like foreskin and disappears when things get hard. 

crystalmerchant@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 213d (2 replies)

Wtf surprised he doesn't fly private

rekabis@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 213d (1 reply)

This. Hella surprised he’d risk muggle transport and be recognized and called out.

Tilgare@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 212d

Again. It has happened twice before, and he keeps doing it. Fucking ghoul.

MunkyNutts@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 213d (1 reply)

Never heard of the Waffle House Index, I find it comical that the FEMA uses it, informally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 213d

Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. It really only works in the South though. Trying to think of what the New England equivalent would be... Dunks index? Society would start breaking down if the plow guys can't get their iced coffee fix. Cup rattling sounds

Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 213d

Honestly he did less harm as the Zodiac Killer.

Zoabrown@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 213d

Patterns like this are why people notice optics so quickly—leadership moments tend to stand out most when things get tough

tehn00bi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 213d

He’s not on a chartered flight? I find that hard to believe.

Etterra@discuss.online · 8 pts · 213d

Twice is a coincidence, thrice is a pattern.

bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 213d (6 replies)

lol he flies commercial?

infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 213d (4 replies)

And coach, at that. Makes me wonder if it's AI. But congresspeople aren't always lavish and rich outside of their day jobs, and we know that Cruz is a glutton for degradation.

bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 213d (1 reply)

I wonder how long the flight was.

"Hey Ted, Ted, Ted, Ted, Ted, Ted Cruz....can you hear me?... hey! hey! Ted! TED! TEDDY! Remember when Trump called your wife a fat pig? Hey, answer me! Hey, Ted listen, listen, listen, listen, over here Ted....Hey. Hey. Ted, will none of those rich dudes let you barrow a private jet? Do you clog the toilets up or what? Ted, Ted, Ted, Teddy! Teddo! Teddoboy!"

f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 213d

He's a fan of deadnames, so he's Rafael.

Rafael Edward Cruz.

itistime@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 213d

Absolutely real. There are other publicly documented flights, including well before any genai bordering realism. It’s a pattern. He does travel with at least guard at times, maybe always. There was a somewhat recent pic with his wife looking pretty annoyed at the dude snapping the shot. Made me smile imagining that she probably argues with him to have more separation from the pleebs somehow, but he is too cheap or some shit.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 213d

Dems need a Mamdani or a Platner in Texas.

Not milquetoast conservatives like Beto O'Rourke.

Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 213d

Shitbags can be frugal too. Lol. Lord knows his bribes are enough to fly business

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 213d (2 replies)

Our overlords. The idle rich.

organ@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 213d (1 reply)
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skisnow@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 213d

He can definitely afford business class, I guess flying in the back is some sort of attempt at man-of-the-people posturing. $10.4M according to https://www.quiverquant.com/news/Senator+Ted+Cruz+has+filed+a+new+financial+disclosure+-+here%E2%80%99s+what+we+see

What's fucked up is that it doesn't even put him in the top 100 highest net worth in Congress.

SparroHawc@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 213d

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

To Laguna Beach, apparently.

(I kid. Calling Cruz 'tough' is like calling meringue 'dense'.)

Mauriciobravo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 213d

Honestly, patterns like this feel funny because they tap into shared experience—people notice routines and coincidences. Even if it’s tongue-in-cheek, it’s a reminder how we all look for signals when things feel uncertain.

Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 213d

rafael is such a little shit.

HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 213d

Oh lord he back on his bullshit.

never off his bullshit

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 213d (1 reply)

This "man" is no leader.

InputZero@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 213d

Of course not. He's a Republican.

altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 213d (1 reply)

No no, forget numbers:

Three areas if you're pink you're so screwed. Get food and hunker down for a week. Light pink? You're only lightly screwed. Green, prepare to swim.

Next time pick a politician who can control the weat...actually, Ned Rooze can't control thr weather so he is practically useless. I can understand him leaving. He's what we would call a chicken.

Xylian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 212d

Having a house made out of bricks and cement would be useful just like how it is in EU. How many houses get destroyed because they are just made out of wood, plastics and paper walls (dry wall)?

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 213d

Yeah, that's his move. Such a leader.

fox2263@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 213d

Silly Rafael

wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 212d

This isn't the first time he's done this exact thing

itistime@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 213d

If anyone would like to meet poopoo head in person in an unusual context now you know a pattern…

genericuser2000@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 213d

A truly great American, the most spineless of the spineless! Truly something they can all look up and aspire to. Keep showing them how it's done Fled!

Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 213d

Let's be real, what good would it do anyone if a senator becomes another victim of a natural disaster.
He's a politician. Not a first responder.