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[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nobody likes ted cruz on either side and he still keeps getting votes.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You mean Senator Rafael Cruz from Canada?

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hey, don't blame us for this guy!

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] protist@mander.xyz 9 points 11 months ago

With all their beady little eyes and flappin' heads so full of lies

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And the US can keep him, no need to bring him back up North.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

We may be a dumpster fire of a nation, but piling on more trash won't make it better.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There was a comment made on Nextdoor (yeah, I know) that called him a good leader. I responded (yeah, I never learn) by simply saying good leaders don't leave a crisis like he did for Cancun during the power grid failure. People came in droves to defend him. "What did you expect him to do", "A lot of people left for vacation", "It wasn't his fault the power went out".

This is from people who were directly impacted by it! There is no hope for them.

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Ah yes he's not responsible for.... Infrastructure?

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

It'd be a lot cooler if you did.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

so it has been 6 years since Beto, he got close, hopefully his new guy makes it

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

O'Rourke is such a fucking moron. What kind of pants-on-head, helmet-wearing, short-bus riding, genetic defect of a village idiot tells people in Texas, "Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47"? And it's going to be even worse now, because more and more Democratic-leaning voters own firearms than did in 2019. It's so goddamn infuriating, because by every possible metric, Cruz is a godawful human and has zero principles.

If Dems dropped gun and magazine restrictions/bans entirely, and never brought it up again, they could peel off significant numbers of single-issue Republicans, just like Republicans could peel off a lot of single-issue Democrats is they entirely dropped abortion/birth control restrictions/bans. (And, in both cases, you're better off addressing root causes.)

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

in another 6 years it'll be this guy and other one after that. i stopped believing in meaningful democratic prognostications in texas 35 years ago.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

October 21st, early voting starts.