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The Zodiac gets a well deserved smack down (Original Post) 634-5789 Aug 2021 OP
Perfect malaise Aug 2021 #1
What he sadi! 2naSalit Aug 2021 #2
Rafael, the perpetually lying piece of shit. dalton99a Aug 2021 #3
How long do these grifters thinks they PatSeg Aug 2021 #25
Cruz and a herd of other GOP will lie and twist until PufPuf23 Aug 2021 #28
I think that gradually over time PatSeg Aug 2021 #29
I'd have probably said xenophobic in his particular case, but ... yeah, everything else (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Aug 2021 #4
No, racist. Anti-Mexican. lagomorph777 Aug 2021 #35
Well, Mexico is a country not a race, and he's kinda Latino himself, so (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Aug 2021 #36
I get that. MAGAts don't. lagomorph777 Aug 2021 #37
Ted Cruz is the kind of asshole... alterfurz Aug 2021 #5
The Zodiac - I've not heard that nickname for Cruz. ??? -nt CrispyQ Aug 2021 #6
Somebody (it might have been Trump, I don't remember) Haggard Celine Aug 2021 #11
And he looks so sinister and evil PatSeg Aug 2021 #26
Someone, maybe first on DU, claimed that he... reACTIONary Aug 2021 #12
Because Cruz LOOKS Like The Zodiac Killer GB_RN Aug 2021 #14
OK, so I gogled a bit... reACTIONary Aug 2021 #24
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see much of a resemblance. ShazzieB Aug 2021 #33
Everybody hates Ted Cruz... DickKessler Aug 2021 #7
Last week it was Lt. Governor Patrick blaming black people. Lonestarblue Aug 2021 #8
it wasn't this week, it was 5 and a half weeks ago, and it keeps being posted here as a 'new' thing Celerity Aug 2021 #17
So, if Mexicans are such dangerous wnylib Aug 2021 #27
A thing of beauty! Delphinus Aug 2021 #9
Cruz is the type Moebym Aug 2021 #10
Snakeyes is the kind of person little children recognize as someone whose lap is off limits... cayugafalls Aug 2021 #13
K & R for BOOM! Tommymac Aug 2021 #15
What you said, Michael Marshall Smith! calimary Aug 2021 #16
Recommended. H2O Man Aug 2021 #18
Yet somehow it's worse in NE Texas but not El Paso IronLionZion Aug 2021 #19
Trump's fuckhead cultists fully embrace Nazi and Nazi-style rhetoric Orrex Aug 2021 #20
It is heartbreaking to think of refugees coming here, escaped from horrors, only to find out CharleyDog Aug 2021 #21
Is he talking about his fellow Hispanics? keithbvadu2 Aug 2021 #22
Nice Sharp Putdown colsohlibgal Aug 2021 #23
I watched CNN which had an excellent and exact black Dr. jimlup Aug 2021 #30
Trump's cuck said what? LudwigPastorius Aug 2021 #31
It happens every time he says anything - what's that definition of mental illness? UTUSN Aug 2021 #32
Wow another tweet that has no effect on anything greenjar_01 Aug 2021 #34

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
25. How long do these grifters thinks they
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 05:40 PM
Aug 2021

can keep up this charade? Now they just lie about anything and everything. Surely on some level, they must know that they can't sustain this forever. Or maybe they lie so much, they don't even know what the truth is anymore. I've been around compulsive liars and they often lie like other people breath.

PufPuf23

(9,861 posts)
28. Cruz and a herd of other GOP will lie and twist until
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 05:59 PM
Aug 2021

a substantial stops believing what they say.

I don't see an end of it soon unfortunately and at a loss as to the best track forward.

Plow forward; keep our house in order; enact fair progressive egalitarian legislation and policy when not blocked; and hope some of the cult notices that their lives are better.

These cheaters and grifters need to pay a cost for their malfeasance. Les than severe punishment of the 1/6 participants and what is going on in media about the Afghanistan exit is troubling.

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
29. I think that gradually over time
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 06:04 PM
Aug 2021

they will start losing support. They really aren't offering their base anything aside from perpetual outrage and that doesn't pay the rent or medical bills. There will always be hardcore MAGA types, but so many others are going to lose interest. Maybe Cruz has been saving his money and he can just retire to Cancun.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. I'd have probably said xenophobic in his particular case, but ... yeah, everything else (nt)
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 02:17 PM
Aug 2021

alterfurz

(2,681 posts)
5. Ted Cruz is the kind of asshole...
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 02:24 PM
Aug 2021

...other assholes look at and say, "Now THERE'S an asshole!"

In a party filled with Trump lickspittles, toadies, and ass-kissers, "Fled" Cruz might well be the smarmiest crapweasel of them all.

Haggard Celine

(17,822 posts)
11. Somebody (it might have been Trump, I don't remember)
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 02:50 PM
Aug 2021

accused Cruz of being the Zodiac Killer in the 2016 race. It was stupid because Cruz was born too late to be the Zodiac Killer, but people dust off the insult and use it once in a while because Cruz is such an asshole.

reACTIONary

(7,165 posts)
12. Someone, maybe first on DU, claimed that he...
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 02:58 PM
Aug 2021

.... was the Zodiac Killer. Can't remember why; it was a parody of all the weird conspiracy theories going around. It might have been a reaction to TFG claiming his father was involved in the Kennedy assination.

GB_RN

(3,560 posts)
14. Because Cruz LOOKS Like The Zodiac Killer
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 03:17 PM
Aug 2021

Check out the sketches of the Zodiac Killer and then look at Raphael’s pictures. Eerily similar.

ShazzieB

(22,593 posts)
33. Maybe it's just me, but I don't see much of a resemblance.
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 11:24 PM
Aug 2021

The nose, in particular, is way off. Cruz has a rather *cough* distinctive nose, and that ain't it.

Lonestarblue

(13,481 posts)
8. Last week it was Lt. Governor Patrick blaming black people.
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 02:30 PM
Aug 2021

This week it’s Cruz blaming illegal immigrants. Republican idiots need to get their stories straight!

Celerity

(54,411 posts)
17. it wasn't this week, it was 5 and a half weeks ago, and it keeps being posted here as a 'new' thing
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 03:37 PM
Aug 2021

wnylib

(26,024 posts)
27. So, if Mexicans are such dangerous
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 05:47 PM
Aug 2021

spreaders of covid, why did he go there to escape the Texas freeze, and expose himself and his family to ... Mexicans?

Moebym

(1,033 posts)
10. Cruz is the type
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 02:34 PM
Aug 2021

Who as a boy would put poop in other boys' gym shorts and then ridicule them for crapping their pants. Allegedly.

He's an irredeemable troll.

cayugafalls

(5,960 posts)
13. Snakeyes is the kind of person little children recognize as someone whose lap is off limits...
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 03:05 PM
Aug 2021

This has been a public service announcement.

IronLionZion

(51,272 posts)
19. Yet somehow it's worse in NE Texas but not El Paso
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 04:01 PM
Aug 2021

so they must have moved quickly away from the blue counties on the border and got into the red counties outside Dallas and Houston because they're sneaky like that

Orrex

(67,115 posts)
20. Trump's fuckhead cultists fully embrace Nazi and Nazi-style rhetoric
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 04:37 PM
Aug 2021

All of this bullshit about "illegals spreading pestilence" is a clear echo of Nazi propaganda to dehumanize Jews.


What a surprise that Trump's cult of ignorant, racist fuckheads would rally behind the same mode of thinking.

CharleyDog

(816 posts)
21. It is heartbreaking to think of refugees coming here, escaped from horrors, only to find out
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 04:46 PM
Aug 2021

what a terrible place this can be, racist, xenophobic, scapegoating the most vulnerable. The rest of us have to work doubly hard to overcome our history/current actions of hatred.

colsohlibgal

(5,276 posts)
23. Nice Sharp Putdown
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 05:00 PM
Aug 2021

One wonders where we are headed with one party having copious numbers of people either off their rocker or covering for those off their rocker. We are headed toward a reckoning, hopefully sanity wins.

jimlup

(8,010 posts)
30. I watched CNN which had an excellent and exact black Dr.
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 06:44 PM
Aug 2021

He patiently and scientifically slammed the stupid TX yahoo with science.

Black American's are only 13% of the population. They are not the reason the pandemic is still with us.

UTUSN

(77,795 posts)
32. It happens every time he says anything - what's that definition of mental illness?
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 08:05 PM
Aug 2021

Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome.






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