In the face of a historic winter storm that blew out the state s power grid, leaving more than 1.37 million in his own hometown and more than four million statewide in the dark and cold for the bulk of this week, most politicians might have shied away from the glaringly bad optics of getting the hell out of Texas and heading to warm, sunny, fully-powered Cancún. But then, most politicians are not our very own junior Texas senator, Ted Cruz.Â
Cruz and his two daughters took off for Cancun on Wednesday, a trip that he explained as the result of his being a good father in the face of massive blowback and criticism. Cruz was slated to stay in Mexico through Saturday, reports say, but is now coming back this afternoon. But that was too late to ward off the Twitter users who have been having a very good time venting their disgust at a Texas elected official heading to Mexico while the people he represents shiver back home in the Lone Star State. Here are some of the funniest takes
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In the words of Saint Morrison, “This is the end.” The Lincoln Project has come crashing down. It’s done. It’s finished. The group was supposedly a country first operation made up of principled conservatives determined to defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election. There was talk about character and all, but the irony is that as more details come out about this operation the more Trump sounds like a saint. I’m not kidding. We have stories of sexism and toxic work environments. It s a trainwreck.
Then, the sexual harassment scandal from one of their co-founders, John Weaver, engulfed LP which led to its eventual demise. Weaver sent a series of highly inappropriate messages to dozens of young men. Some of the men he contacted were underage at the time. The initial contact may not have been lurid, but still part of a pattern of behavior that is not acceptable by any social standard. When did the rest of this crew know ab
Acosta s tweet raised plenty of eyebrows on social media. Not sure I follow? GQ Magazine correspondent Julia Ioffe reacted. He s gone, Jim. Let him go, Daily Caller reporter Chuck Ross urged the CNN star. Jim Acosta ceases to have a career unless literally everything is somehow actually about Trump Being Bad, National Review writer Alexandra DeSanctis concluded. Somehow you made it through, and we re proud of you. Thank you for service! New York Post syndicated columnist David Harsanyi exclaimed. TBH I don’t see Kayleigh McEnany threatening to destroy someone though, Lafayette Co. president Ellen Carmichael recalled.
Others mocked Acosta for a tweet he posted an hour earlier knocking the Trump impeachment defense team on the subject of whataboutism.