Ted Cruz retweets w/o reading an account name

He removed it after someone made him aware of the blunder

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17 Comments

fireweed@lemmy.world · 81 pts · 10d (7 replies)

Was this a funny coincidence, or did OOP change their name after they saw that Cruz had retweeted them?

fake@sh.itjust.works · 67 pts · 10d (4 replies)

They definitely changed their name.

cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 10d

That does seem the most likely

fireweed@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 10d (2 replies)

Takes one fake to recognize another

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 10d (1 reply)

Says someone who I suspect is NOT a Chamaenerion angustifolium at all!

#Hypocrisy #Plantcrimes

fireweed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d

Excuse me, I go by Epilobium angustifolium thankyouverymuch

EvilBit@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 10d

Either way, the Dolly poster is a legend. Anyone who gets a reply from Ted Cruz has the obligation to change their name thusly.

yonderbarn@lazysoci.al · 5 pts · 10d

Fucking genius

nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 36 pts · 10d (2 replies)

Damn he didn't have to remove it just because it was tiny

huppakee@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 10d

We dont know the reason(s), it was only stated when it was removed (after he was made aware of the blunder) but not why it was removed.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 10d

It wasn't him it was a pimple doctor in Cancun

InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 10d (2 replies)

Ted Cruz seems rather chill about being an online lolcow. I feel he did read it. I'm sure he's framed many of Internet Comment Etiquette's tweets too.

very_well_lost@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 10d (1 reply)

Right? Everything about Cruz's public life suggests to me that he has a massive humiliation fetish.

yonderbarn@lazysoci.al · 10 pts · 10d

Right wingers always have the most demented kinks

FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 17 pts · 10d

How does this moron keep stepping in it? Nobody likes you, stop acting like you're part of the masses.

halfapage@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d (1 reply)
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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 10d

"Say it again, but slower."

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 2 pts · 7d

Not to defend Ted Cruz but that account could’ve changed its display name after he retweeted it, but it’s still fun anyway.