Sometimes, I admire Cruz
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I have to disagree.
(and no, I didn't go through the comments)
I think it's unseemly and unprofessional to berate current members of congress by another member of congress. I didn't approve when AOC did it, and I don't approve now.
Keep your disagreements private, or in chambers.
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Hard to admire a man that throws his little girls under the bus after flying to Cancun.
Or a guy who campaigns for a man who publicly insulted his wife’s looks and his father’s integrity.
But we can agree to disagree I guess
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Trump would have been challenged to a duel back in the day. 10 paces and boom, try to hit the big orange target.
Instead, unaccountably, Cruz chose not to throw away either his life or his career. Certainly, most of us would have thrown our careers away at the very least in the face of a besmirchment of our honor like that. I think we all have stories of upending our lives over a childish insult. It’s what real honorable men do. High five, gents!
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Trump would have been challenged to a duel back in the day. 10 paces and boom, try to hit the big orange target.
Instead, unaccountably, Cruz chose not to throw away either his life or his career. Certainly, most of us would have thrown our careers away at the very least in the face of a besmirchment of our honor like that. I think we all have stories of upending our lives over a childish insult. It’s what real honorable men do. High five, gents!
@horace said in Sometimes, I admire Cruz:
Trump would have been challenged to a duel back in the day. 10 paces and boom, try to hit the big orange target.
Instead, unaccountably, Cruz chose not to throw away either his life or his career. Certainly, most of us would have thrown our careers away at the very least in the face of a besmirchment of our honor like that. I think we all have stories of upending our lives over a childish insult. It’s what real honorable men do. High five, gents!
It’s interesting that you frame Cruz’s choices as ignoring being cucked by Trump or throwing away his political career.
I’m not even necessarily saying you’re wrong.
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He’s asking when these two elected Republicans that never pretended to join the Trump cult when they’re going to get their own show on MSNBC.
MSNBC is a network that is the left wing analog of Fox
news. He managed with the addition of a single adjective to point out that it winks be low rated, a swipe at the network itself. -
Thanks, I kind of got that part, but what left me a little puzzled was the "Damn son Liz brought the heat on you!" tweet that he reacted to.
@klaus said in Sometimes, I admire Cruz:
Thanks, I kind of got that part, but what left me a little puzzled was the "Damn son Liz brought the heat on you!" tweet that he reacted to.
It’s more understandable if you put a comma after the word ‘son’.
He’s referring to this tweet from Liz to Cruz.
(Liz by the way is the daughter of former VP Dick Cheney)
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@horace said in Sometimes, I admire Cruz:
Trump would have been challenged to a duel back in the day. 10 paces and boom, try to hit the big orange target.
Instead, unaccountably, Cruz chose not to throw away either his life or his career. Certainly, most of us would have thrown our careers away at the very least in the face of a besmirchment of our honor like that. I think we all have stories of upending our lives over a childish insult. It’s what real honorable men do. High five, gents!
It’s interesting that you frame Cruz’s choices as ignoring being cucked by Trump or throwing away his political career.
I’m not even necessarily saying you’re wrong.
@xenon said in Sometimes, I admire Cruz:
@horace said in Sometimes, I admire Cruz:
Trump would have been challenged to a duel back in the day. 10 paces and boom, try to hit the big orange target.
Instead, unaccountably, Cruz chose not to throw away either his life or his career. Certainly, most of us would have thrown our careers away at the very least in the face of a besmirchment of our honor like that. I think we all have stories of upending our lives over a childish insult. It’s what real honorable men do. High five, gents!
It’s interesting that you frame Cruz’s choices as ignoring being cucked by Trump or throwing away his political career.
I’m not even necessarily saying you’re wrong.
I don't know that he ignored it. Perhaps he slapped Trump with a white glove behind closed doors. But I do know that TDS sufferers would have gleefully watched if the insult had resulted in Cruz throwing a tantrum or making any other choice that would have prevented him from being effective in his political career. But his reaction was not geared towards pleasing TDS sufferers. Now, the only drawback of his chosen responses is that he must live down sanctimony on the internet from TDS sufferers. I suspect he will survive.
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@xenon said in Sometimes, I admire Cruz:
@horace said in Sometimes, I admire Cruz:
Trump would have been challenged to a duel back in the day. 10 paces and boom, try to hit the big orange target.
Instead, unaccountably, Cruz chose not to throw away either his life or his career. Certainly, most of us would have thrown our careers away at the very least in the face of a besmirchment of our honor like that. I think we all have stories of upending our lives over a childish insult. It’s what real honorable men do. High five, gents!
It’s interesting that you frame Cruz’s choices as ignoring being cucked by Trump or throwing away his political career.
I’m not even necessarily saying you’re wrong.
I don't know that he ignored it. Perhaps he slapped Trump with a white glove behind closed doors. But I do know that TDS sufferers would have gleefully watched if the insult had resulted in Cruz throwing a tantrum or making any other choice that would have prevented him from being effective in his political career. But his reaction was not geared towards pleasing TDS sufferers. Now, the only drawback of his chosen responses is that he must live down sanctimony on the internet from TDS sufferers. I suspect he will survive.
@horace said in Sometimes, I admire Cruz:
Perhaps he slapped Trump with a white glove behind closed doors.
That's the first time I've heard it called that.
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@klaus said in Sometimes, I admire Cruz:
Thanks, I kind of got that part, but what left me a little puzzled was the "Damn son Liz brought the heat on you!" tweet that he reacted to.
It’s more understandable if you put a comma after the word ‘son’.
He’s referring to this tweet from Liz to Cruz.
(Liz by the way is the daughter of former VP Dick Cheney)
@jon-nyc Thanks. So Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are presumably moderate Republicans (I assume Trump would call them RINO) and Ted Cruz is not (or sides with Trump?) and they sling mud at each other.
The phrase "bring the heat" wasn't very familiar and I was confused because I thought it meant Cruz would be in heat
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@jon-nyc Thanks. So Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are presumably moderate Republicans (I assume Trump would call them RINO) and Ted Cruz is not (or sides with Trump?) and they sling mud at each other.
The phrase "bring the heat" wasn't very familiar and I was confused because I thought it meant Cruz would be in heat
@klaus said in Sometimes, I admire Cruz:
@jon-nyc Thanks. So Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are presumably moderate Republicans (I assume Trump would call them RINO) and Ted Cruz is not (or sides with Trump?) and they sling mud at each other.
The phrase "bring the heat" wasn't very familiar and I was confused because I thought it meant Cruz would be in heat
Bring the heat? Oh, that's just a verbal spat. "Bring it", might be up to fisticuffs. "Bring the heater" has more serious overtones, especially in Chicago.
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@jon-nyc Thanks. So Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are presumably moderate Republicans (I assume Trump would call them RINO) and Ted Cruz is not (or sides with Trump?) and they sling mud at each other.
The phrase "bring the heat" wasn't very familiar and I was confused because I thought it meant Cruz would be in heat
@klaus said in Sometimes, I admire Cruz:
So Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are presumably moderate Republicans
Can’t speak to Kinzinger but I wouldn’t necessarily consider Liz Cheney moderate although she is to the right side of the aisle more so than a paleo -
conservativeRepublican. Possibly a neo-con by pedigree on her father’s side but most definitely not a Trump republican by any stretch of the imagination. -
Well, whatever she is, a Republican ain't it...
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