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McPickle 6 points ago +7 / -1

why? optics of what? i'm sure you would cancel your pre-paid vacation because the media wants to F with you even while on vacation. He's not the Governor nor a mayor.

Stop reading whatever media source you do. The MSM is using this guy to talk about anything other than failed green energy and the kick in the balls global warmists should be taking. Instead you are accepting their Overton Window.

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projectfreedom 5 points ago +5 / -0

Exactly, have an up-vote. Optics is a Marxist game, we don't deal in gift wrapped turds.

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TedDidNothingWrong [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

If I were senator and my state was freezing to death? Yea I’d stay.

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Brethern123 3 points ago +4 / -1

So dumb

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IdahoMAGAmom 2 points ago +4 / -2

i don't understand the outrage over this.

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DahnaldTrump 2 points ago +3 / -1

Optics? Who fucking cares about optics? You honestly think they won’t create the optics they want regardless of reality? Did you forget about “the worst attack on our nation since 9/11” that happened on January 6th? Fuck optics and fuck the people who think that if one person suffers than that means everyone must suffer. I don’t even give a shit about Ted Cruz but him staying is meaningless. Doubt his house would have been freezing and uninhabitable

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TedDidNothingWrong [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

Optics matter. They easily play their base with optics.

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DurhamNeedsToHurry 1 point ago +2 / -1

They mainly play to their base with bullshit.

Like the fact that it's his FAMILY, not him.

Stop being a creep and leave the man's family alone

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TedDidNothingWrong [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

He fled with his FAMILY.

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communityguy 2 points ago +3 / -1

Ted Cruz is a piece of shit and this latest thing is just the tip of the iceberg

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Return_Of_The_LAMFF 1 point ago +3 / -2

Why is his family enjoying Cancun an issue? I get it that he's a fucking moron. But why should people with means suffer in Texas if they can get out of state for a bit?

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TedDidNothingWrong [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

He should have stayed

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Return_Of_The_LAMFF 1 point ago +1 / -0

Obviously. That's not my argument.

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buckfoomers 0 points ago +4 / -4

Because that's not something a leader, a representative, should do.

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Return_Of_The_LAMFF 3 points ago +4 / -1

I agree it was extremely bad optics for Cruz and will likely cause him to lose his senate seat. But what does his family going to Mexico have to do with that, they must suffer as well?

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Jackietreehorn 2 points ago +2 / -0

By the next time Ted Cruz comes up for reelection Noone will remember this.

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Return_Of_The_LAMFF 1 point ago +1 / -0

I strongly disagree.

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projectfreedom 3 points ago +3 / -0

Go into detail on that leader bit. Who does he lead?

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buckfoomers 1 point ago +3 / -2

Himself and his family to Mexico, apparently, instead of organizing anything to help the people he represents.

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projectfreedom 3 points ago +3 / -0

Ted Cruz, the individual could have done more, granted. So could you, so could I. Ted Cruz, the senator, not so much.

In vetoing a bill in 1887 that would have appropriated $10,000 in aid for Texas farmers struggling through a drought, Cleveland wrote:

I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution; and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune."