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submitted 7 months ago by robocall@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Fuck you, Ted.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Not surprising. Many Texans thought it was not funny.

[-] moitoi@feddit.de 7 points 7 months ago

Why not Florida? Oh, I see...

[-] Haha@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Wow yeah he really got slammed… sure…

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 7 months ago

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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[-] Misconduct@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I'm confused because this seems to be clearly from a fake account? Like, fuck that piece of shit, but this doesn't even seem to be real? Is that the joke and I'm just being dense?

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[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

'No shame' comedy just makes you look crass and uncaring.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

And those morons will vote him back in.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Make the lowest person feel like trey are slightly better than another target group and they will latch on to you for dear life until they die. Just for the chance at finishing the game with at least a couple of points on the board (as they score or at least).

The people that vote for this know they have wasted their selfish, empty lives. They know are shells of humanity without any worth, and republican politics are always the last shelter welcoming them in from that cold reality. The Republican party is the detective dollar store pooper scooped placed lovingly in the filthy, disgusting gutter to catch the shit that made it that far and that low.

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