Ted must be feeling pretty good about those comments. “Slouch” is the best thing that sniveling little traitor has ever been called.
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And (at least on his flight back) bought an economy-class ticket and didn’t quite have the status to get upgraded…
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something something
wipe off shoes.
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I sincerely believe that a big part of Australia’s competent handling of the pandemic is because Scotty from Marketing noticed he was hanging by a thread after the bushfires. Rather than fuck things up further, he actually let grown-up experts handle the unfolding crisis. And fuck me, it worked.
His popularity now stems a lot from people watching in horror at overseas news about the pandemic body counts.
Some perspective: it’s been weeks since we had a COVID death in this country. When somebody catches COVID, somewhere in the country, it makes the national news. The country freaks out when there are over 10 new cases - not deaths - in a single day. The total COVID death toll since Feb 2020 is less than a thousand people.
This is a country of 25 million people.
I think the man’s a turd, but that kind of outcome will buy him a lot of political capital. Which is a shame, because this kind of competent thoughtful response is seriously off-brand for him. It really feels like bait-and-switch.
[edit: 25 million, not 20 million]
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What I learned from the debacle is that his first name is really Rafael. I can see why he would hide this from the white lives matter crowd.
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As I mentioned on the other thread, perhaps he meant to join the “work-related bonding retreat?”
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That’s it exactly. I’m a Texan (born and raised) and this won’t really “haunt” him at all in the state itself. Texas Republicans hate the poors, brown people, and the libs SO MUCH that they’d vote for ANY so-called conservative. Hell, they voted for Donald f-ing Trump twice.
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Hmmm… I wonder how the Texit movement is coming along these days? Y’know, two whole weeks after it made the news.
“Texit,” named after the British referendum to leave the European Union, refers to the process of Texas exiting the United States to become an independent, self-governing nation.
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People saying this event will hurt Cruz at election time are living in the past. Today’s GOP voter doesn’t give the least bit of tiny fucks about an old fashioned gaff like this. Seriously, nobody will remember this at all. All that will matter is how Trumpy you are and how fascist you are. The party has moved so far beyond this kind of stuff, and it’s foolish (maybe even dangerous) to be producing videos pretending things are still normal and GOP voters still care about this kind of thing.
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That sounds like an great ad, if you are going after the “fact based community.” There will be a significant push-back from the fake news crew, but they would never vote blue anyway. If we could just demoralize them enough to stay home!!
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(He’s not. He’s really truly not.)
This is the origin of the “flag, do not engage” rule. Putting a lot of effort into a thorough dismembering of an obvious troll only to see it vanish down the memory hole is disappointing. Been there, done that, learned a lesson.
(damn consecutive replies rule. Tough when you are catching up on a thread!)
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Meanwhile, favorite GQP punching bag AOC does more for Texas than anyone in the Texas GQP. They’ll still hate her, of course.
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Our population is 25 million.
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But what will resonate with those voters is calling him a coward over this situation and his response.
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I hear what you’re saying, but I’m honestly not convinced that’s true.
Trump fomented an overthrow of the government, and still has 70% support among Republicans. In my view, that’s the bar now. Anything less than “insurrection” will not even cause Republicans to blink while they vote for their guy. In a few years, people are going to remember Cruz took an ill-timed vacation? No way.
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It’s all about how you position it. He didn’t take a vacation, he ran away. He ran away from a crisis in Texas and when he was called out on it, he didn’t own it, he wriggled like the slimy lawyer he is. He’s a loser and has no place representing Texas.
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It’s true that cowardice will not resonate well with his base, but for them it will be nowhere near enough to make them vote blue. It does set the stage for an even trumpier primary challenge, though.
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Not that this will help. They will just accuse her of “ruining the rugged independence of Proud Texans ® everywhere with her helpful attitude.”
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I dunno; depends on how many die.
Kill enough of your constituency, and eventually they stop voting for you…one way or the other.
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Whoops.
