When Ted Cruz lies, he appears to be praying.
āWhen he lies?ā How exactly did the author establish a baseline?
I was wondering that too. I also wonder if itās possible to determine when Cruz, or, for that matter, any politician, is deliberately lying and then theyāre saying something that, however absurd, they genuinely believe. After all, in the words of George Costanza, āItās not a lie if you believe it.ā
And here I thought it had to do with the whole reptoid alien thing.
If you want creepy, go look up Tedās father Rafael Cruz. Rafael declared his son āthe anointed oneā and, as a Christian Dominionist, that means that Ted is āblessed by God as a Christian to lead the world in a biblical mannerā.
Ted has not denounced his fatherās crazy ideas and, in fact, seems to be quietly embracing it.
āBlame Canada!
With all their beady little eyes
And flappinā heads so full of liesā
I figured it was ad hominem and thus pointless, but now that you mention it, he does make this facial expression that is utterly befitting of a politician (in other words, repugnant). That tight-lipped thing he does, is both plaintive and pitying at the same time. āHey, Iāve done what I can, as for everyone else ā forgive them for they know not what they do.ā
Also, so help me, Cruz looks like Joseph McCarthy.
(Edited for spellingā¦ and P.S. @bizmail_ public I just saw your links. Iām on the same page. I grok. Pickinā up what youāre layinā down. Catchinā your drift. Smellinā what youāre steppinā in. Etc.)
Thatās some mighty fine reportinā there, son.
Whew! Good thing thereās nothing else important going on in the world or our govt these days. Whew! We all needed a refreshing breather to take superficial aesthetic potshots at people who we disagree with.
Canāt wait for his articles in 2014 about how Hilaryās cankles and crowsfeet distract from her core message.
When George Dubya Bush was lying, he usually had this deer-in-the-headlights look.
When George H W Bush was lying, heād sneer.
When Bill Clinton was lying, heād usually grin this grin that said of course heās lying, and he knows that you know that heās lying, and heās fine with you being in on the game, but his part in it was to do the lying and yours was to act as if you believed him about not inhaling or whatever.
Reagan was an actor; he read all his lines in character, whether he believed them or not.
Jimmy Carter didnāt lie; that would be wrong.
Gerald Ford probably didnāt lie much either; heād gotten the job by promising to pardon Nixon, had done that, and after heād gotten away with that, whatās the point in lying?
And Nixon, well, you could tell he was lying because his lips were moving, and if they werenāt moving, he was planning the next lie.
When Ted Cruz lies, his lips appear to move.
The creeps you can easily spot arenāt half as bad as the many more you cannot.
Critique would be valid if this was the New York Times. Also, you said āwhewā twice. Ten points from Gryffindor.
This is off the record; out of legal consideration; but a suitably cooperative anesthesiologist and some duct tape can get a baseline ānot lyingā belief state out of just about anybody. Sometimes they even wake up mostly undamaged.
Ted Cruz has a face meant to deceive. There is so much movement and expression going on with that face that you simply must pay attention, and thatās how he gets people to listen to what he says.
My folks love me and all, but if my father declared me āthe anointed oneā I would assume someone had slipped him crazy pills. Also, a world run in a ābiblical mannerā sounds like a horrid place to be a woman, a child, a minority, or really anyone other than āthe anointed oneā. Or, maybe thatās the point. {shudder}
I would assume that my dad just wiped something off of his hands using the back of my shirt, hair, etc.
Cankles and Crowās Feet ? At this point, what difference does it make ??? (evil grin)
Ted Cruz doesnāt look that much like McCarthy to me. He looks more like the illegitimate love-child of Pat Buchanan and Bill Pullman.
