With millions of Texas without power or water, Ted Cruz heads to Cancun for vacation

[ProudModerate2]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=430452.0

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=320997.msg7956578#msg7956578

Combine the USGD thread on Cuomo & the gubernatorial thread from the point at which only his latest scandal broke out, & you get - surprise, surprise - 5 pages. Add in the mention of his previous COVID scandals in the gubernatorial thread, & it's much longer than this thread.

So, pure disingenuousness of your failed attempt at a whataboutism aside, why are you literally just so wrong all of the time that it's not even funny anymore? Really, it's just so terribly sad.

Disingenuous?
Who would have thought?

[ProudModerate2]

https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1362811514172755969

I've seen multiple reliable sources saying that it is NOT a real tweet.

Though you have to admit, that it is still really funny.

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

https://twitter.com/barronjohn1946/status/1362580456793759744

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Mexico, the heat's so hot I just got to go.

[Ancestral Republican]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

Didn't like 50 Texans die? Also, didn't a bunch of them die of Covid? Also, didn't the lieutenant governor say he was willing to kill them for the stock market? Of all your red herrings this has got to be the dumbest.

[Alcibiades]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

Didn't like 50 Texans die? Also, didn't a bunch of them die of Covid? Also, didn't the lieutenant governor say he was willing to kill them for the stock market? Of all your red herrings this has got to be the dumbest.

This particular fit of whataboutery by Fuzzy is particularly disingenuous because virtually every Democrat on here hates Cuomo.

[Edu]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=430452.0

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=320997.msg7956578#msg7956578

Combine the USGD thread on Cuomo & the gubernatorial thread from the point at which only his latest scandal broke out, & you get - surprise, surprise - 5 pages. Add in the mention of his previous COVID scandals in the gubernatorial thread, & it's much longer than this thread.

So, pure disingenuousness of your failed attempt at a whataboutism aside, why are you literally just so wrong all of the time that it's not even funny anymore? Really, it's just so terribly sad.

lol, be prepared for Fuzzy to never post in this thread again

[Ancestral Republican]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=430452.0

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=320997.msg7956578#msg7956578

Combine the USGD thread on Cuomo & the gubernatorial thread from the point at which only his latest scandal broke out, & you get - surprise, surprise - 5 pages. Add in the mention of his previous COVID scandals in the gubernatorial thread, & it's much longer than this thread.

So, pure disingenuousness of your failed attempt at a whataboutism aside, why are you literally just so wrong all of the time that it's not even funny anymore? Really, it's just so terribly sad.

Does it ever blow your mind that you and Fuzzy share the same state?

[VAR]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=430452.0

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=320997.msg7956578#msg7956578

Combine the USGD thread on Cuomo & the gubernatorial thread from the point at which only his latest scandal broke out, & you get - surprise, surprise - 5 pages. Add in the mention of his previous COVID scandals in the gubernatorial thread, & it's much longer than this thread.

So, pure disingenuousness of your failed attempt at a whataboutism aside, why are you literally just so wrong all of the time that it's not even funny anymore? Really, it's just so terribly sad.

Good job, but you forgot to mention this:

[Nyvin]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=430452.0

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=320997.msg7956578#msg7956578

Combine the USGD thread on Cuomo & the gubernatorial thread from the point at which only his latest scandal broke out, & you get - surprise, surprise - 5 pages. Add in the mention of his previous COVID scandals in the gubernatorial thread, & it's much longer than this thread.

So, pure disingenuousness of your failed attempt at a whataboutism aside, why are you literally just so wrong all of the time that it's not even funny anymore? Really, it's just so terribly sad.

Good job, but you forgot to mention this:

Well, yeah, Cuomo does suck, that doesn't excuse Cruz though.

[brucejoel99]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=430452.0

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=320997.msg7956578#msg7956578

Combine the USGD thread on Cuomo & the gubernatorial thread from the point at which only his latest scandal broke out, & you get - surprise, surprise - 5 pages. Add in the mention of his previous COVID scandals in the gubernatorial thread, & it's much longer than this thread.

So, pure disingenuousness of your failed attempt at a whataboutism aside, why are you literally just so wrong all of the time that it's not even funny anymore? Really, it's just so terribly sad.

Does it ever blow your mind that you and Fuzzy share the same state?

Nah, I've been to rural North Florida before so I know what we unfortunately are.

[VAR]

Well, yeah, Cuomo does suck, that doesn't excuse Cruz though.

I meant that everyone on this forum hates Cuomo, which is why Fuzzy’s argument is fairly disingenuous

[brucejoel99]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=430452.0

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=320997.msg7956578#msg7956578

Combine the USGD thread on Cuomo & the gubernatorial thread from the point at which only his latest scandal broke out, & you get - surprise, surprise - 5 pages. Add in the mention of his previous COVID scandals in the gubernatorial thread, & it's much longer than this thread.

So, pure disingenuousness of your failed attempt at a whataboutism aside, why are you literally just so wrong all of the time that it's not even funny anymore? Really, it's just so terribly sad.

Good job, but you forgot to mention this:

https://i.ibb.co/pfL8fbL/4-B750047-C101-4-A8-C-999-B-51-E556140-A3-F.jpg

Well, yeah, Cuomo does suck, that doesn't excuse Cruz though.

But nobody except Fuzzy is trying to excuse Cruz. What we're doing (& what VAR was participating in there) is calling out Fuzzy on his bullsh*t claim that Atlas' Dems are excusing Cuomo & therefore have no leg to stand on by criticizing Cruz. In effect, we're trying to make clear for Fuzzy what you just said: "we all agree that Cuomo sucks, & here's the proof (which is what VAR was helping to share) that we agree with that, so you need to stop making up sh*t to excuse Cruz, Fuzzy, because he also sucks here."

EDIT: VAR beat me to it, & in a more succinct manner to boot

[GeorgiaModerate]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=430452.0

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=320997.msg7956578#msg7956578

Combine the USGD thread on Cuomo & the gubernatorial thread from the point at which only his latest scandal broke out, & you get - surprise, surprise - 5 pages. Add in the mention of his previous COVID scandals in the gubernatorial thread, & it's much longer than this thread.

So, pure disingenuousness of your failed attempt at a whataboutism aside, why are you literally just so wrong all of the time that it's not even funny anymore? Really, it's just so terribly sad.

Good job, but you forgot to mention this:

https://i.ibb.co/pfL8fbL/4-B750047-C101-4-A8-C-999-B-51-E556140-A3-F.jpg

Well, yeah, Cuomo does suck, that doesn't excuse Cruz though.

But nobody except Fuzzy is trying to excuse Cruz. What we're doing (& what VAR was participating in there) is calling out Fuzzy on his bullsh*t claim that Atlas' Dems are excusing Cuomo & therefore have no leg to stand on by criticizing Cruz. In effect, we're trying to make clear for Fuzzy what you just said: "we all agree that Cuomo sucks, & here's the proof (which is what VAR was helping to share) that we agree with that, so you need to stop making up sh*t to excuse Cruz, Fuzzy, because he also sucks here."

EDIT: VAR beat me to it, & in a more succinct manner to boot

Fuzzy demonstrates the tribalism that's consumed the Republican Party.  When a Democrat is a HP, most Democrats are quite willing to admit that.  But when a Republican is a HP, very few Republicans will admit it; their loyalty to the cult party is above all.

Similarly:

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1363142455453958144

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=430452.0

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=320997.msg7956578#msg7956578

Combine the USGD thread on Cuomo & the gubernatorial thread from the point at which only his latest scandal broke out, & you get - surprise, surprise - 5 pages. Add in the mention of his previous COVID scandals in the gubernatorial thread, & it's much longer than this thread.

So, pure disingenuousness of your failed attempt at a whataboutism aside, why are you literally just so wrong all of the time that it's not even funny anymore? Really, it's just so terribly sad.

Good job, but you forgot to mention this:

https://i.ibb.co/pfL8fbL/4-B750047-C101-4-A8-C-999-B-51-E556140-A3-F.jpg

Well, yeah, Cuomo does suck, that doesn't excuse Cruz though.

But nobody except Fuzzy is trying to excuse Cruz. What we're doing (& what VAR was participating in there) is calling out Fuzzy on his bullsh*t claim that Atlas' Dems are excusing Cuomo & therefore have no leg to stand on by criticizing Cruz. In effect, we're trying to make clear for Fuzzy what you just said: "we all agree that Cuomo sucks, & here's the proof (which is what VAR was helping to share) that we agree with that, so you need to stop making up sh*t to excuse Cruz, Fuzzy, because he also sucks here."

EDIT: VAR beat me to it, & in a more succinct manner to boot

We need to get back to a point where people aren't reflexively embracing or opposing things because of what the other side does or does not do and instead do so because it is the right thing to do.

[Fuzzy Bear]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

Didn't like 50 Texans die? Also, didn't a bunch of them die of Covid? Also, didn't the lieutenant governor say he was willing to kill them for the stock market? Of all your red herrings this has got to be the dumbest.

It's a valid observation as to the objectivity of the Forum as a whole.

[Blair]

Chances are, all other things being equal, if your congressman took a three day vacation to, say, Panama, and then came back, it's very unlikely you actually ended up worse off for it. Can we please not forget (or mislearn) how constituent services work?

https://twitter.com/blaireerskine/status/1362427403440705539

Broken clock moment.

This isn’t how constituent services work during a crisis. Staff are great at relying information or arranging pre-existing services but you need the office holder to be leading, organising and pushing on the response work- even for something relatively low-key, let alone a major crisis.

The people in agencies pick up the phone a lot faster and with a lot more fear when it’s the office holder calling rather than there 24 year old staffer! At least 50% of constituent services is pushing other agencies to change their practices

https://mobile.twitter.com/alfranken/status/1362956111725416450

[Joe Republic]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

Didn't like 50 Texans die? Also, didn't a bunch of them die of Covid? Also, didn't the lieutenant governor say he was willing to kill them for the stock market? Of all your red herrings this has got to be the dumbest.

It's a valid observation as to the objectivity of the Forum as a whole.

Except it wasn’t valid, as brucejoel and VAR proved for you, and you are conveniently ignoring.  Funny how you keep doing that.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

There is also the fact that many far left types would not hesitate to attack Cuomo even without this scandal and then with this nursing home scandal you have many more added as well, not to mention Republicans and conservatives that would be aghast by him prior to this knowledge anyway.

[2952-0-0]

In a completely bizarre twist, this showed up on my feed:

Who said grifters can't be funny?

[brucejoel99]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

Didn't like 50 Texans die? Also, didn't a bunch of them die of Covid? Also, didn't the lieutenant governor say he was willing to kill them for the stock market? Of all your red herrings this has got to be the dumbest.

It's a valid observation as to the objectivity of the Forum as a whole.

Except it wasn’t valid, as brucejoel and VAR proved for you, and you are conveniently ignoring.  Funny how you keep doing that.

15+ hours later without a response, so evidently, it was indeed too inconvenient for Fuzzy to acknowledge literal facts.

[7,052,770]

At least the people of Texas (A) are alive to boil the snow and (B) were not put in that position by Ted Cruz.  Those who died of COVID-19 in NY nursing homes, only to become falsified statistical items after their deaths were brought to that fate by Andrew Cuomo, and they are no longer alive.

We have 5 pages of thread of "outrage" against Cruz.  Where's the outrage thread against Cuomo?  Or is that inconvenient?  Why isn't that 5 pages long?

Didn't like 50 Texans die? Also, didn't a bunch of them die of Covid? Also, didn't the lieutenant governor say he was willing to kill them for the stock market? Of all your red herrings this has got to be the dumbest.

It's a valid observation as to the objectivity of the Forum as a whole.

Except it wasn’t valid, as brucejoel and VAR proved for you, and you are conveniently ignoring.  Funny how you keep doing that.

15+ hours later without a response, so evidently, it was indeed too inconvenient for Fuzzy to acknowledge literal facts.

He either

• Is brazenly trolling
• Did not read the brucejoel, VAR, or other responses
• Read them, but forgot about them before posting his followup comment

Honestly, it's really hard to tell which is right, or if it's some kind of combination.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Texas GOP Rep. Michael McCaul on Sunday delivered a pointed rebuke of Sen. Ted Cruz following his much-criticized trip to Cancun, Mexico, as a winter disaster rocked Texas last week.

"Look, when a crisis hits my state, I'm there. I'm not going to go on some vacation," McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs committee, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" Sunday.

"I know Mr. Cruz called it a mistake and he's owned up to that, but I think that was a big mistake and as for me, I was on the ground trying to help my people out and my constituents, and that's what we should be doing in a time of crisis," he added.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/21/politics/ted-cruz-cancun-texas-michael-mccaul-cnntv/index.html

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1095813726299742209

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1363984257539047426

I'd love to know who this was.