He could have used that as a great opportunity to shit all over Biden and the left and expose their inaction. Instead he went on vacation, as if the senators don't get enough vacation time already.
"Remember when TX had massive flooding and President Trump acted within hours to help the people? Compare that to today, TX is in dire straits and Joe Biden is to busy playing Mario Cart with his crackhead son."
Right. Cruz was not only absolutely retarded to do this, it showed his total lack of self awareness as a conservative senator. It allowed the left to do what the left does. Dumb, dumb, fucking dumb POS. Primary this thug, he has no center. He is very dangerous for the Trump movement.
Stop being a faggot worrying about what the left thinks. He could have gone door to door personally delivering homecooked meals and blankets and they’d still find a reason to shit on him.
We’re five years in. The left doesn’t give a fuck about good optics. Name a single time that has EVER worked in our favor. Get that through your skull.
Ahh yes, because good optics have worked SOOOO WELL for us in the past.
Who fucking cares about “good optics”? You guys will shit on Cruz for “apologizing” to the left yet whine about good optics & “ugh why couldn’t you have done the thing to make the left less angry!!! Now they’re going to write headlines about us!! Why can’t you do what I believe they would find acceptable?!”.
Maybe you’re new here, but good optics don’t work in our favor. They never have and they likely never will and it’s best you learn that sooner rather than later. Stop being a pussy worrying about muh optics when these people want you dead and your children in reeducation camps. Let them be fucking outraged.
If your options are "Bad optics and no real benefit" or "good optics and no real benefit", you always go for the latter unless your brain is as smooth as an ice rink. Don't let optics get in the way of getting shit done, but never abstain for the small investment required to create it. Its a time-proven political currency of unimaginable worth.
If you can create good optics, you create good optics. If there is no other way, then fuck it, you have work to do. But if all you have to do is cancel an already ill-advised vacation and lift some food packets, you shouldn't be a retard and just do it. Simple as
Have you ever heard of something called a shit test? The redpill fellas use it to describe relationship testing that women can do to their men to undermine his confidence and generally be an emotional manipulator. You know what the best defense against them other than not dating shitty women that use the tactic? Don't acknowledge it.
They call it maintaining mental frame. Don't let yourself get wrapped up in a person's emotional frame because it's a shitty game that you can't win. Leftism is a societal shit test. The best way to combat them is to not acknowledge their bullshit when they push it. We all knew their stupid push to attack Ted Cruz was just s dumb attack to misdirect attention from the real dickheads. Don't make memes. Don't defend Cruz. Cruz should have never said a god damn thing let alone apologize.
It's better to calmly call out shit tests and rebuke them for the childish bullshit they are. Shit tests operate on plausible deniability, you need to establish early on you are aware of what they are doing and you will not be putting up with it.
We all know the press will rip you apart or make you look great. That's not news. Why Cruz didn't forsee the shitstorm incoming is an issue. But he also should have been there in the first place. Maybe he's more ruling elite than we'd like to think.
I’m sorry, are you expecting the press to make Cruz look good had he stayed home and personally handed out boxes of food to all the people freezing to death? LOL.
Oh to be this naive, thinking good optics will make the media report fairly and honestly on a republican. That’s adorable.
For one, it does matter. Just because you're a republican you can't say 'fuck all optics.'
Secondly, even without the media, he should have done the right thing and helped the people he represents during this shitshow, instead of going on a tropical vacation.
Punishing us for being a red state. Plus the Leftists with TDS are so evil that the thought of conservative Christians suffering and dying delights them...
Yeaaaa, but... if Cruz had been less of a blow-hard, phony blob fish through the past FOUR YEARS, we may not be SUFFERING a Chi-com president right now. The real damage Cruz did is in the past, with his apologies, his weakness and his misunderstanding of MAGA.
more like: his social media team's misunderstanding of MAGA.
They have been parading around these halls for the past six months trying to bolster his rep here thinking that we are just dumb hayseeds who can't connect the dots. They don't understand that being branded disloyal is a scarlet letter you can't erase.
Honestly, the protracted Ted Talks™ in the Senate about Silicon Valley's abuse of the First Amendment really had me there, for awhile. However, when nothing materialized despite all the facts being laid out for everyone to hear, I started to wonder why Ted wasn't aggressively pushing this issue back during the first two years when we had the power to do something.... back when the GOP 'establishment' was thinking it might still be able to impeach the American peoples' most vital and true representative. Now, here we are, and Ted has done nothing about it, aside from the talk.
Usually when Congress wants to look like they're helping, they pass resolutions or censure people. Has Cruz tried proposing a resolution to censure the snow?
Saying Joe Biden has done nothing to help Texas is a damn lie. Joe personally signed an executive order demanding that Harbor Freight open earlier until they sold out of Chinese generators. (Two masks were required to enter the store).
Been saying for years, these cucks have women--daughters, wives, sisters, mothers behind them crying, whining and begging them to do things their way. This is exactly what happened to him and he was too weak to say no to his daughters. 'Daddy, please....!"
Right. Is it not governers job to handle this? Senator has nothing to do with it. The left just wants another Emmanuel Goldstein for their 5 minutes of rage.
yep either we keep cruz or face a democrat who would certainly califonia our texas. which that is the whole point of the winter storm. to turn texas blue and put blame on the republicans.
I think we can all agree that while Ted wasn't the guy responsible for fixing the mess local level politicians made, his trip was still not a great choice from an optics standpoint. But hey, the Senate wasn't in session, and he wasn't hired to take care of local management. Best he coulda done is like, walk around and hand out blankets or something.
Worse though, was his bitching out and coming back home because twatter threw a fit.
Cruz is at the federal level and can do nothing at state level. Also the DOE wouldn’t allow us (Texans) to turn up energy production cuz co2 levels and climate change.
The guy who runs DOE is potato appointee
None of these politicians have any real consequences. Let people criticize Ted Cruz as much as they want. He deserves some social pressure whether we agree with what he did or not.
The dog wars are pretty funny/outrageous too! The right is saying Biden's dog looks uncared for, the left is screaming Cruz left his dog alone (he didn't, there was a caretaker in the house)!
This is what I say about Rand Paul. Not to mention nobody is perfect all the time. But until enough people slip in at lower levels, we need people like this who are 95%+ MAGA. Trump opened the door. Until we have enough force to keep the door open for good, we need people who can play the shitty game at least a little, to keep it from immediately closing again. Romneys, Kasich, Bushes, and Cheneys would all be too happy to help the DNC commies close it if they didn't have resistance.
The absolute state of the Media.
Even Cuomo felt smug enough to pile on and tell Cruz to resign.
🤡 Be Democrat and kill hundreds of elderly: get a pass from the media.
🤡 Be a Trump supporter. Go on vacay: get accused of being a mass murderer.
It was retarded from an optics standpoint. The right thing to do is to take on volunteer work if you are in a position as an elected representative
He could have used that as a great opportunity to shit all over Biden and the left and expose their inaction. Instead he went on vacation, as if the senators don't get enough vacation time already.
"Remember when TX had massive flooding and President Trump acted within hours to help the people? Compare that to today, TX is in dire straits and Joe Biden is to busy playing Mario Cart with his crackhead son."
And picking Luigi
No one picks Luigi
Right. Cruz was not only absolutely retarded to do this, it showed his total lack of self awareness as a conservative senator. It allowed the left to do what the left does. Dumb, dumb, fucking dumb POS. Primary this thug, he has no center. He is very dangerous for the Trump movement.
He ate a booger on tv. Self aware, he is not.
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Stop being a faggot worrying about what the left thinks. He could have gone door to door personally delivering homecooked meals and blankets and they’d still find a reason to shit on him. We’re five years in. The left doesn’t give a fuck about good optics. Name a single time that has EVER worked in our favor. Get that through your skull.
Ahh yes, because good optics have worked SOOOO WELL for us in the past.
Who fucking cares about “good optics”? You guys will shit on Cruz for “apologizing” to the left yet whine about good optics & “ugh why couldn’t you have done the thing to make the left less angry!!! Now they’re going to write headlines about us!! Why can’t you do what I believe they would find acceptable?!”.
Maybe you’re new here, but good optics don’t work in our favor. They never have and they likely never will and it’s best you learn that sooner rather than later. Stop being a pussy worrying about muh optics when these people want you dead and your children in reeducation camps. Let them be fucking outraged.
If your options are "Bad optics and no real benefit" or "good optics and no real benefit", you always go for the latter unless your brain is as smooth as an ice rink. Don't let optics get in the way of getting shit done, but never abstain for the small investment required to create it. Its a time-proven political currency of unimaginable worth.
If you can create good optics, you create good optics. If there is no other way, then fuck it, you have work to do. But if all you have to do is cancel an already ill-advised vacation and lift some food packets, you shouldn't be a retard and just do it. Simple as
And Joe Biden was playing marokart! Where are those headlines?
True. Also, fuck Ted cruise for being a do nothing establishment slime bag
ted is still a cuck tho
Have you ever heard of something called a shit test? The redpill fellas use it to describe relationship testing that women can do to their men to undermine his confidence and generally be an emotional manipulator. You know what the best defense against them other than not dating shitty women that use the tactic? Don't acknowledge it.
They call it maintaining mental frame. Don't let yourself get wrapped up in a person's emotional frame because it's a shitty game that you can't win. Leftism is a societal shit test. The best way to combat them is to not acknowledge their bullshit when they push it. We all knew their stupid push to attack Ted Cruz was just s dumb attack to misdirect attention from the real dickheads. Don't make memes. Don't defend Cruz. Cruz should have never said a god damn thing let alone apologize.
It's better to calmly call out shit tests and rebuke them for the childish bullshit they are. Shit tests operate on plausible deniability, you need to establish early on you are aware of what they are doing and you will not be putting up with it.
Cruz cucked to them, so why should you or I waste any breath defending this pussy lol...??
We all know the press will rip you apart or make you look great. That's not news. Why Cruz didn't forsee the shitstorm incoming is an issue. But he also should have been there in the first place. Maybe he's more ruling elite than we'd like to think.
I’m sorry, are you expecting the press to make Cruz look good had he stayed home and personally handed out boxes of food to all the people freezing to death? LOL.
Oh to be this naive, thinking good optics will make the media report fairly and honestly on a republican. That’s adorable.
For one, it does matter. Just because you're a republican you can't say 'fuck all optics.'
Secondly, even without the media, he should have done the right thing and helped the people he represents during this shitshow, instead of going on a tropical vacation.
Nice try, but it doesn’t mean Ted Cruz is less than feckless! He loves being on TV. That’s it! He has done nothing for Texas!
Punishing us for being a red state. Plus the Leftists with TDS are so evil that the thought of conservative Christians suffering and dying delights them...
Yeaaaa, but... if Cruz had been less of a blow-hard, phony blob fish through the past FOUR YEARS, we may not be SUFFERING a Chi-com president right now. The real damage Cruz did is in the past, with his apologies, his weakness and his misunderstanding of MAGA.
more like: his social media team's misunderstanding of MAGA.
They have been parading around these halls for the past six months trying to bolster his rep here thinking that we are just dumb hayseeds who can't connect the dots. They don't understand that being branded disloyal is a scarlet letter you can't erase.
Honestly, the protracted Ted Talks™ in the Senate about Silicon Valley's abuse of the First Amendment really had me there, for awhile. However, when nothing materialized despite all the facts being laid out for everyone to hear, I started to wonder why Ted wasn't aggressively pushing this issue back during the first two years when we had the power to do something.... back when the GOP 'establishment' was thinking it might still be able to impeach the American peoples' most vital and true representative. Now, here we are, and Ted has done nothing about it, aside from the talk.
Cruz made a PR blunder. Meanwhile Cuomo is still a mass murderer and Biden (I'll just pick one) said the treatment of Uyghurs is a cultural thing.
Joe Biden doesn’t care about Texas children and seniors.
Naw, he's a weakling. He chocked, as POTUS would tweet.
Smells like Katrina... pretty soon instead of sending water he'll be sending FBI to round up guns for everyone's safety.
riiiight either .win is full of retards now or they are three letter agency plants
Usually when Congress wants to look like they're helping, they pass resolutions or censure people. Has Cruz tried proposing a resolution to censure the snow?
Saying Joe Biden has done nothing to help Texas is a damn lie. Joe personally signed an executive order demanding that Harbor Freight open earlier until they sold out of Chinese generators. (Two masks were required to enter the store).
Been saying for years, these cucks have women--daughters, wives, sisters, mothers behind them crying, whining and begging them to do things their way. This is exactly what happened to him and he was too weak to say no to his daughters. 'Daddy, please....!"
Right. Is it not governers job to handle this? Senator has nothing to do with it. The left just wants another Emmanuel Goldstein for their 5 minutes of rage.
Why are people defending Cruz? Has everyone forgotten he is a backstabbing pile of shit? He was just a RINO in lion’s clothing.
yep either we keep cruz or face a democrat who would certainly califonia our texas. which that is the whole point of the winter storm. to turn texas blue and put blame on the republicans.
I think we can all agree that while Ted wasn't the guy responsible for fixing the mess local level politicians made, his trip was still not a great choice from an optics standpoint. But hey, the Senate wasn't in session, and he wasn't hired to take care of local management. Best he coulda done is like, walk around and hand out blankets or something.
Worse though, was his bitching out and coming back home because twatter threw a fit.
They can both be shitbags at the same time.
Don't be a Cruz apologist.
The dumbass shouldn't have apologized, his voters thought less of him for doing that even though he thinks that was supposed to be a PR stunt,
I know. What the fuck should he have done? Joe, get off your wrinkly ass!
What people forget is that Kamalla is in charge of the Texas situation and she decided to go to California and vacation instead!!!
Worry about both and stop sucking a rhino's cock.
Cruz is at the federal level and can do nothing at state level. Also the DOE wouldn’t allow us (Texans) to turn up energy production cuz co2 levels and climate change. The guy who runs DOE is potato appointee
Texas Ted didn’t do nuffin
Been saying it since day 1, Get mad at the Governer, not the Senator. Senators only go to DC To represent.
None of these politicians have any real consequences. Let people criticize Ted Cruz as much as they want. He deserves some social pressure whether we agree with what he did or not.
It’s to redpill the rest of the sheep. It’s all going to be resolved soon. That’s not joe biden.
This will happen to Florida too during hurricane season. The media won't call out this regime for their response to the cold in TX
The dog wars are pretty funny/outrageous too! The right is saying Biden's dog looks uncared for, the left is screaming Cruz left his dog alone (he didn't, there was a caretaker in the house)!
Wait just a fucking minute. Wasn't Ted Cruz on vacation before the Texas storm began.
This is what I say about Rand Paul. Not to mention nobody is perfect all the time. But until enough people slip in at lower levels, we need people like this who are 95%+ MAGA. Trump opened the door. Until we have enough force to keep the door open for good, we need people who can play the shitty game at least a little, to keep it from immediately closing again. Romneys, Kasich, Bushes, and Cheneys would all be too happy to help the DNC commies close it if they didn't have resistance.
To take a line from President Reagan: "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm Joe Biden and I'm here to sniff."
national guard is busy guarding our phony election
We know Cruz is doing fcuk all but then he is not holding the Office of the Robber Baron President
Senator.... Can't fix anything....
Why do we have senators again?
Stealing our money and elections