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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Ted Cruz- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-11-02
You would be hard pressed to find a bigger coward in American politics from the past century than Sen. Ted Cruz.
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day posted profiles of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a man the general public finds the most loathsome and revolting personality in American government, with a “Frank Burns” energy he exudes to truly cement himself in that title. Sen. Cruz is one of the most willfully repugnant heels in the GOP these days, who revels in causing outrage among those on the left, as if it’s a form of sustenance he needs to survive day to day.
Ted Cruz (a.k.a. Rafael Cruz) has not only inherited an uncanny likeness to legendary “Red Scare” perpetrator Sen. Joe McCarthy, he has also adopted his tactics, making baseless claims to demonize anyone to the left of his far, far right agenda while sneering through media interviews where he plays the victim of a “vast liberal media conspiracy” when he’s called out for being a total douchebag (Cruz actually accused the moderator of the third GOP Primary debate of liberal bias in 2016 for asking him a question he didn’t want to answer about the debt ceiling).
It’s hard to pick any one single moment as Cruz’s potential lowest point in politics as among his most revolting moments included when he advocated for U.S. surveillance of Muslim communities to “patrol and secure” practitioners of Islam, when he sat down for an interview with the leader of the anti-gay hate group, the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, and spread lies about how transgendered people are sexually assaulting women in public bathrooms, when he blamed Democrats for not caring enough about violence against the LGBTQ community after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, and called a witness to testify in Congress who immediately accused our two Muslim Congressmen, Keith Ellison and Andre Carson, of being secret members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Sen. Cruz was the driving force behind the 2013 Government Shutdown, and then was shocked when his GOP colleagues held him accountable for it when it quickly proved a failed endeavor.
Opinion polls have shown that the more people who learn Ted Cruz exists, the more people polled also develop an unfavorable view of him, he decided to make a run for the White House in 2016, only avoiding being the biggest racist, sexist troll of the bunch because Donald Trump was in the mix. Ted Cruz once filibustered for 21 hours straight in Congress (which he ignorantly compared to the Bataan death march), and by “filibuster” I mean “talks ad nauseum while no other Congressional business was scheduled”. The highlight of that speech was perhaps when he misinterpreted the meaning behind the classic children’s book “Green Eggs and Ham” in regards to the Affordable Care Act, and interpreted to be about someone who was justifiably stubborn, rather than a tale of someone who should be open to new things. Without irony, he called himself a “modern day Galileo” for his brave stance in denying climate change AGAINST all science and reason, which is precisely the opposite of what Galileo did back during the Renaissance. Cruz single-handedly held up government aid to fix the lead-contaminated water system in Flint, Michigan for no particular reason except that he’s a pathetic clown.
Cruz is such a callous wanker that he actually started mocking Joe Biden while he was grieving over the loss of his son, Beau, and was not speaking publicly, and when news broke that former President Jimmy Carter was battling brain cancer, Cruz took it as a cue to bash his one term in office at the Iowa State Fair to garner Republican Primary votes. He considers the Supreme Court’s rulings on same sex marriage “the very definition of tyranny”. He has tried proving his manliness by placing raw bacon on the barrel of a machine gun, firing it repeatedly so it would get hot, and then eat it. Ted Cruz is a man whose honest goal is to see he U.S. Senate filled with himself and 99 other people just like his hero, legendary Senator and unapologetic segregationalist Jesse Helms. He is, in short, the most unlikable bastard in Washington, D.C. at the moment, and we’re talking about a place that features alleged child sex trafficker Matt Gaetz. When the late Sen. John McCain referred to him as a “whacko bird”, Cruz tried to spin it as a compliment and former House Speaker John Boehner has called Ted Cruz “Lucifer in the Flesh”, or alternatively, remarks that we would have to censor.
Seriously, everyone hates Ted Cruz, down to his own family, as evidenced by the above animated gif of his daughter recoiling in horror at the thought of getting a kiss from him, and the unedited, raw footage of his family awkwardly trying to come up with nice things to say about him during his presidential campaign. Before his campaign was over, he was utterly humiliated in moments like when he named a vice-presidential candidate on his ticket to help him get more support with Republican women… Carly Fiorina, who proceeded to fall off the stage when she was introduced at one of his rallies.
The oddest thing about the 2016 GOP Presidential Primary was that somehow, Donald Trump proved himself to be enough of a bullying thug that we almost… ALMOST felt bad for Ted Cruz. If there was ever a metaphor for Cruz being overshadowed by Trump, it was probably when he was literally speaking out against the sentient rancid tangerine at the RNC, and Trump’s plane buzzed his speech. I mean, when he got called “Lyin’ Ted”, we didn’t blink, because Ted Cruz is a prolific liar. But when Trump started outright clowning him and called his wife Heidi ugly, or accused Sen. Cruz’s father of being an accomplice in the assassination of JFK… Well, that was brutal. And it made it easy to understand why Ted Cruz went out on the third night of the Republican National Convention, and refused to endorse Trump. It was a stance most could agree with, not just because of Trump’s utter ignorance and unfitness for office… but that he personally had besmirched Cruz’s loved ones. Maybe for the first time ever, people nodded in approval for Ted Cruz for being a human being for once. Cruz promised he would not endorse Trump like a “servile puppy”.
But no, Ted Cruz isn’t a puppy, because that would mean he was lovable and a vertebrate. He is, in reality, a spineless jellyfish that came crawling back to endorse Donald Trump and actually phone bank for him about ten weeks later. He caved, and was broken. He voted for every horrible member of Trump’s “Cabinet of Horrors” as well as the GOP’s Senate attempt to try and repeal the Affordable Care Act that would have left 23 million people without health insurance and gutted funding from Medicaid.
Ted Cruz barely won re-election in 2018 against Beto O’Rourke, spending 2017 trying to stabilize his flagging polling numbers by continuing to pal around with members of Anti-Islamic hate groups, and show up and speak at their conferences. Well, that and he was trying to raise money by, y’know, sending out fundraising letters that lie and claim Planned Parenthood is using government dollars to perform abortions and that “millions of babies are being killed in the womb”. He has championed people with views or backgrounds as revolting as Brett Kavanaugh and Alex Jones, and tried to smarm-splain Star Wars to Mark friggin’ Hamill, of all people, to attempt to gain credibility, getting none.
Cruz was heckled out of restaurants in Washington, D.C after voting to put Brett Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court… and in June of 2019, that he came to the defense of a conservative pundit who was under fire for harassing a journalist from Vox with homophobic slurs (interesting battle you picked there, Ted)… In September of 2019, he tried arguing against gun control by blaming violence in Chicago (and getting its new mayor to tell him to cram it in his cramhole), then he tried to take a smarmy cheap shot on Twitter at Beto O’Rourke after his answer on climate change in the Democratic Primary debate, only to get ratio’ed and have most of the public mock him for his cluelessness on climate.
When word came that Brett Kavanaugh had a second accusation of sexual assault leveled against him, Cruz responded that people “need to let the anger go”, as if it’s wrong to be ANGRY ABOUT A SERIAL SEXUAL PREDATOR ON THE SUPREME COURT. But never forget that Ted Cruz is a repugnant, holier-than-thou Evangelical who will try and distract from say, the impeachment of Donald Trump, to be utterly repugnant, and refer to a boy receiving hormone blockers to undergo gender conversion therapy as “child abuse”.
Ted Cruz has had many flirtations with domestic terrorists, and then tried lying and claiming he never met any of the Proud Boys (he met their leader, Enrique Tarrio, in 2019), spent time screaming at reporters about mask mandates and shutting down businesses to save lives during the Covid-19 pandemic, asking reporters to investigate the nonexistent and undefinted “Obamagate” conspiracy theory, trying to taunt Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on science only to be called out for denying the science of evolution, and of course, the moment when he did our Senate proud by trying to arrange a wrestling match between actor Ron Perlman and Jim Jordan (really).
As 2020 approached, Cruz was spreading Russian propaganda about Hunter Biden in the hopes of getting Donald Trump re-elected, and then raging at reporters for calling him out on it. As the election approached and the narrative attacking Hunter Biden never helped Republicans gain traction, Cruz decided to, what else… pretend he never was pushing it, and blamed Donald Trump for its failure to stick.
Just… just look at these headlines from the past two years:
Seriously, the Senate GOP has a full rogues gallery of GOP scatophages, but Ted Cruz is somehow still perhaps the most loathsome guy in there (and that’s saying something). His most flattering quality really is that he resembles the Zodiac Killer. And this insufferable gaslighting tumor on our legislative process will be continuing to sabotage American politics and whining about somehow being the victim as long as his theocratic take on the country isn’t reality. He’ll keep that up until he’s no longer office, which right now isn’t until he faces re-election in 2024.
And we look forward to the election night when he’s rejected, as he should have been his whole life.
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