Beto ridicules Cruz for posting video claiming he encountered 'cartel members' at the Mexican Border

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Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke ridiculed Sen. Ted Cruz after he posted videos of himself at the Mexican border on Friday in which he claimed that he had encounters with "cartel members" and "human traffickers."

In a blurry video posted on Twitter, Cruz claims he is at "the shore of the Rio Grande," and has been "listening to" and "seeing" cartel members who have been taunting border control officials.

"That's Mexico and you can see there are three smugglers right there standing on the Mexican side looking at us. They have been shining their flashlights at us, they are yelling at us," Cruz says in the blurry footage. The video did not show any of the alleged smugglers.

Cruz was in the Rio Grande Valley with more than a dozen other Republican senators to draw attention to what they are calling President Joe Biden's "border crisis," The Hill reported.

The Texas senator also tweeted video footage of one of the facilities, writing: "These are the Biden cages. (Faces blurred.) Thousands of kids, in the midst of a pandemic, crammed in at 1500% capacity."

O'Rourke, who unsuccessfully ran against Cruz for his senator seat in 2018, hit back on Friday, writing in a lengthy Twitter thread: "You're in a Border Patrol boat armed with machine guns. The only threat you face is unarmed children and families who are seeking asylum (as well as the occasional heckler)."

"If you're looking for a crisis to cosplay Senator for, I'm happy to point you in the right direction," O'Rourke added.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/beto-orourke-ridicules-ted-cruz-for-posting-videos-claiming-he-encountered-cartel-members-at-the-mexican-border

[5X]

1. The Republican Caravan of Crisis.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

25. Great meme - Republican Caravan Of Crisis

GOP - Gang Of Poseurs

[Midnightwalk]

2. If cruz really thought they were cartel

He wouldn’t have stopped running until he got to Cancun.

[rurallib]

20. and would have been followed by a trail of the drizzly shits

[UTUSN]

3. K& big R#5 - him, Lindsey & CORNYN, as if Geraldo had stormed a raid on CAPONE's vault!1

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They probably had a picnic feast of catered scrumptious fajita tacos.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[jcgoldie]

5. Turns out...

The dangerous cartel members were 6 year old girls trying to get the senators to buy chicles and little bobblehead toys. In Ted Cruz' defense those little kids can be impossible to turn down I know I have 2 dozen of those stupid little turtles...

[COL Mustard]

13. Ah, So You're A McConnell Fan, Eh?

Now the dirty truth comes out!

[burrowowl]

17. Or little boxes where a snake comes out and pricks you when you open it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. K&R

[Midnight Writer]

7. Six months ago Cruz and his friends were all in favor of thousands of kids in "Trump cages".

[WHITT]

8. If

you lookup 'jackass' in the dictionary, there should be a picture of Ted Cruz.

[Xipe Totec]

9. The were not cartel members; they were Carta Blanca club members

A notorious group of grillers and bbq-ers who prefer to drink Carta Blanca beers.

[Marcuse]

10. Raphael is a tough guy from a long line of tough guys. His dad killed JFK.

[CaptainTruth]

11. Careful, those "cartels" are armed with Iraqi WMDs.

How many times will gullible people fall for GOP fear mongering?

[EarnestPutz]

12. High speed patrol boats with four big outboard motors and four (!) 50mm machine guns....

....mounted along the gunnels. Someone else used the term "cosplay" and here we have it in spades.

[jmowreader]

27. They were 7.62mm machine guns

Where, exactly, they got four M240 machine guns is the next question. You can’t just go to a gun store and buy them - they came out after 1986, the last year a machine gun in civilian hands could have been made. What military unit loaned four state-of-the-art general purpose machine guns and 800 rounds of ammo for them to the Republicans for a photo opportunity is the next question we need answers to.

[LymphocyteLover]

14. this is ripe for a good parody-- the Cruz Witch Project or something like that

[Roy Rolling]

15. Thinking the same thing

TikTok and Twitter do your thing. Anybody with a bot and flashlight, water not essential.

[Rocknation]

16. If they really were cartel members

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he wouldn't have made it back


rocktivity

[2naSalit]

19. +1

[2naSalit]

18. OOOOH! They were waving their flashlights at him...

How scary!

[marble falls]

21. Hey, Ted! Cool story, bro!

[Rstrstx]

22. Sigh, Cruz was trying to sneak back into Mexico again and got caught - again

When will he learn?

[Martin68]

23. I'm waiting for Cruz to eventually collapse in a heap of humiliation and ridicule once he loses

credibility with even most hard core deplorables.

[Oppaloopa]

24. Maybe they were filming the tv show The Mayans MC.

[Jay25]

26. Trump left a human rights disaster for President Biden, with republicans assistance.

They still haven’t accounted for the children that went missing when Trump was in office. Congressional Democrats were denied entry when they went to check on the children under the previous administration. And this bastard is pretending to give a damn about kids in cages now?

I’m so tired of the games republicans play and get away with. Can you imagine the psychological damage, emotional trauma these kids have/are going through?
The past 4 years went far past politics, repubs took us into a place of pure hate and evilness, so bad it’s still here today. It’s like a constant onslaught from these malignant parasites, and I’m tired of it.

It’s time for America to get out of this bullshit alt-reality that they created and hold them accountable Let the investigations begin;
Hold them accountable for not taking appropriate action against covid,
Make sure stimulus funds went where they were supposed to and if not haul those accountable into court,
Get rid of the Trump appointees that you can and the ones that you can’t, put them under a microscope,
Get the resources needed to find the missing children and those involved should be interrogated and held accountable,
Get an inspection on the ES&S voting machines and the owner, Trump was too damn sure about voter fraud and we know it wasn’t Dominion.

A short list of some of the things that need to be investigated. Had to blow off some steam, just tired of the continuous games that they play. Too much has been lost over the past 4 years and they seem to be getting worse.

[MurrayDelph]

28. Very easy way to tell if Cruz actually had a close encounter with any cartel members or smugglers

Check the color of his khakis; if they ain't two-toned, he did not.

[LymphocyteLover]

29. LOL!

[LymphocyteLover]

30. As stupid as this is, I have to think there are segments of the GOP base that will eat this up

though by now, the question is really, what WON'T they believe?