Always look for the helpers
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He’s seems to have backed off the fairly ridiculous claim that he was just dropping off the girls. Also he and his wife have confirmed it was last minute.
Cruz, known to double down in the face of controversy, was contrite in an interview with Houston affiliate KTRK where he acknowledged the gravity of criticism coming his way both within the state and beyond.
I was trying to be a dad, and all of us have made decisions — when you've got two girls who have been cold for two days and haven't had heater power, and they're saying 'Hey, look we don't have school why don't we go, let's get out of here.' I think there are a lot of parents that would be like, 'Look, if I can do this great.' That's what I wanted to do," he told the TV station.
"[But] really from the moment I sat on the plane, I began really second-guessing that decision, and saying 'Look, I know why we're doing this, but I've also got responsibilities, and it had been my intention to be able to work remotely, to be on the phone, to be on the internet, to be on Zoom, to be engaged, but I needed to be here and that's why I came back."
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@jon-nyc said in Always look for the helpers:
Doesn't he need a negative Covid test within 72hrs of returning? I mean before boarding the plane?
Or is that just for us little people?
Only for the GOP.
@jolly said in Always look for the helpers:
@jon-nyc said in Always look for the helpers:
Doesn't he need a negative Covid test within 72hrs of returning? I mean before boarding the plane?
Or is that just for us little people?
Only for the GOP.
FoxNews went freaking mental over Obama riding a bike and wearing a tan suit.
Imagine if he'd done this!
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@jon-nyc Regarding number four.
There have been several occasions where I have traveled away from home and left our dog. We had someone come in and take care of him while we were away with walks and feedings.
Cruz did the same thing.
So the outrage can be turned down by about 25 to 30%
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@jon-nyc said in Always look for the helpers:
You probably had heat.
He has a fireplace and was able to heat that room.
And BTW, I saw Cruz interviewed on FOX Thursday.
Did he make a mistake? Yep. Did he correct his mistake? Yep.
It ain't like saying he voted to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord or opened the border to illegals.
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@jon-nyc said in Always look for the helpers:
You probably had heat.
He has a fireplace and was able to heat that room.
And BTW, I saw Cruz interviewed on FOX Thursday.
Did he make a mistake? Yep. Did he correct his mistake? Yep.
It ain't like saying he voted to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord or opened the border to illegals.
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@jolly said in Always look for the helpers:
He has a fireplace and was able to heat that room.
Smart for a poodle.
@jon-nyc said in Always look for the helpers:
@jolly said in Always look for the helpers:
He has a fireplace and was able to heat that room.
Smart for a poodle.
If you've got somebody looking after the dog, I assume they can build a fire, although poodles are supposedly pretty sharp.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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See my opening post in the thread.
Re Jr, it’s an odd comment even without the ambiguity. As if Cuomo isn’t getting plenty of heat from all sources.
@jon-nyc said in Always look for the helpers:
See my opening post in the thread.
As I said, this was politically stupid and the optics are bad. But, from a practical standpoint, how did his trip really affect Texans rather than causing an outrage?
The same legacy media that cared not a whit that Austin’s Democrat Mayor Steve Adler was in Cabo San Lucas while officiously demanding his subjects hide their faces behind masks on Thursday descended on Ted Cruz.
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@jon-nyc said in Always look for the helpers:
See my opening post in the thread.
As I said, this was politically stupid and the optics are bad. But, from a practical standpoint, how did his trip really affect Texans rather than causing an outrage?
The same legacy media that cared not a whit that Austin’s Democrat Mayor Steve Adler was in Cabo San Lucas while officiously demanding his subjects hide their faces behind masks on Thursday descended on Ted Cruz.
I think you need to add the ".com" to those searches.
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I think you need to add the ".com" to those searches.
@wtg said in Always look for the helpers:
I think you need to add the ".com" to those searches.
You're right. My bad.
New York Times on Cabo and Mayor Adler:
CNN - 1 story:
CNN on Newsom - 3 stories:
The NY Times had more stories.
Now, compare CNN's Coverage of Cruz in the last 36 hours:
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My shock over this isn't that Ted Cruz was so heartless that he took a holiday in the middle of a crisis.
It is that he was so dumb that he thought it wouldn't get sprayed all over the media, and make him look like a complete turd.
