Ted Cruz: "Have you noticed in how many movies how often rabid environmentalists are the bad guys?

[soothsayer]

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yock
@LByock
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Feb 1, 2021
Hi, @SenTedCruz, Watchmen writer/producer here. Literally what the fuck are you talking about?

Jason Campbell
@JasonSCampbell
Sen Ted Cruz: "Have you noticed in how many movies how often rabid environmentalists are the bad guys? Whether it's Thanos or go to 'Watchmen.' The view of the Left is people are a disease"
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Lila Byock
@LByock
Get our name out of your thin mouth.

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[Zoonart]

1. So, Ted... you cannot distinguish between reality and fiction?

Got it.

[nattyice]

2. You mean Ghostbusters wasn't real?

[Zoonart]

4. LOL... ask Venkman.

[Midnightwalk]

25. Cruz is an expert on slime.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. you ever notice how that is less often than...

radical Islamists
far right extremists
brown skinned drug dealers
Russians
Bikers
Gun runners
organized crime families

[Make7]

5. Corrupt politicians. ( n/t )

[Blue Owl]

6. Hey Ted did you ever notice the floor of the movie theater is sticky

Just like your slime trail?

[NCjack]

7. No Sen. Qruz, I have not noticed that. But, I have noticed from the John Wayne

era to now, US Senators are portrayed as craven and purchased.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Go Back Further

We can go to Jimmy Stewart when Wayne was not close to that star level!

[NCjack]

12. I accept your correction. Thanks.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Not A Correction

An add on, only!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. What in the name of ass??! That's quite a logic pretzel. If Hollywood is as "leftist"

as he's claimed his entire sorry career. Wouldn't the environmentalists be portrayed as the heroes??!..... i know... I know.... don't look for sense where there isn't any....

[DFW]

9. I sure did

"Avatar" had such a sad ending (if you are a Republican).

[underpants]

11. Thanos? Environmentalist?

Cruz is an idiot.

[Iggo]

15. Thanos was the biggest litterer in the history of the universe.

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[genxlib]

13. Did you ever notice...

Some people have trouble distinguishing fiction from reality?

Even if his point were true (which it isn't), all that does is tell you that screenwriters have presented it that way. It says nothing about actual reality.

One of the worst books I have ever read was "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton. The bad guys in it are laughable eco-terrorists. Crichton was a right wing tool who argued against climate change and wrote a book with awful strawmen characters just so he could show the world how bad they were. What a hack that guy was.

[Eyeball_Kid]

17. Screenwriters are just storytellers. n/t

[Iggo]

14. You ever notice how many times it's corrupt right wing politicians?

(Credit to Make7. 😎👍🏽

[Towlie]

16. In movies any sort of "rabid" character will be a bad guy, even if it's a senator.

 
?

for example

And people are a disease - a life-threatening skin disease that Planet Earth has contracted. The biggest threat to our way of life is our way of life.

[PufPuf23]

19. Hey Ted, that may be the movies but you are a bad guy in real life

and hopefully you will lose your office, go to jail, and be mentioned in the talk of American history as Benedict Arnold.

Go find shit stains to eat.

[Ohiogal]

20. Why do I keep hearing people say

“Ted Cruz is very smart”?

More likely he’s a stupid man’s idea of a smart man.

[Vivienne235729]

21. You dumb piece of shit! They are the ones WARNING everyone before the disaster happens

While everyone is ignoring them. Jesus on a pogo stick! CRUZ is just heinous. I feel like every time he opens his mouth, it’s a crime towards humanity.

[TruckFump]

22. Yeah, I noticed that immediately in...

...Erin Brockovich.

[struggle4progress]

23. "Everything I know about America, I learned from movies!"

[Mike 03]

24. Throw this in his face

How white supremacists wield environmentalism to mask racism

Fascists like Brenton Tarrant weaponise environmentalism in service of white supremacism and the strategy is gaining popularity in mainstream politics.

“I am an Ethno-nationalist Eco-fascist.”

https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/how-white-supremacists-wield-environmentalism-to-mask-racism-25376

Or at least, we should keep this handy to fight Repukes who try to caricature environmentalists as left wing nutjobs.

Ted Cruz is a walking cliche, a flaccid mush of indecipherable ignorance.

To his point, I can only think of one feature film with a "rabid environmentalist" who is a villain, and practically nobody saw it. It is Night Moves, a low-budget film starring Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning.

It is actually a good movie with rookie mistakes (the camera is always too far away from the actors' faces--or the director doesn't like close-ups for some aesthetic philosophical reason) that suffers from the limitations of that low budget and a third act that goes a little bit haywire. But it is a movie that I've recommended to people who like offbeat movies.

[Aristus]

27. In "Ghostbusters", the EPA guy was the bad guy.

That was the Reagan Era, the only era in history in which trees caused pollution, to hear him tell it.

[tanyev]

26. Ted Cruz probably thinks Julia Roberts was the villain in that Erin Brokovich movie.

[Duppers]

28. Good one. He may.

He's such a dumbass.

[dansolo]

29. How many movies with smarmy politicians as the bad guy?