Cruzin' around the bend of sanity

[packman]

In a startling address to constituents, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) recently talked about controversial COVID-19 conspiracist Joe Rogan becoming the “president” of Texas if the state secedes from the union.

“I’m not there yet,” Cruz told an audience last month at Texas A&M University about Texas seceding from the United States — popularly known as “Texit.”

But “if there comes a point where it’s hopeless, then I think we take NASA, we take the military, we take the oil,” he said to loud applause.

Asked if he would also take Rogan, a Texan, Cruz responded: “Joe Rogan, he might be president of Texas!”

When Cruz was asked by a member of the audience about the possibility of seceding, he said he “understood the sentiment.” But he added that he wasn’t ready for it — yet.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-joe-rogan-texas-secession_n_6188864ce4b055e47d7c1480

[pwb]

1. Go ahead and leave.

Fuck y'all then.

[Midnight Writer]

2. Ted Cruz- Giving Handjobs to Seditionists and Secessionists

[lapfog_1]

3. you ain't takin the military

and NASA doesn't want to be located with a state run by morons.

I hope they understand that NASA Johnson is a backwater in the NASA list of facilities.

HQ - Washington DC
Goddard - Maryland
Ames and JPL - California
Kennedy - Florida
Johnson - Texas
Glenn - Ohio
Langley - Virginia
Marshall - Alabama

That's the list I dealt with in my 10 years with the agency... ranked in the frequency in which I contacted them.

[Walleye]

4. How do they plan to get past the US Army and Marines to take our stuff.

It’s all just so much hot air

[Hotler]

5. I would bet a 1/3 of the military are white supremacist (Nazi). nt

[malaise]

6. Rec for the title

[Docreed2003]

7. Texas won't be taking shit

Cruz know this, but he does love throwing red meat to their butter base.

[tanyev]

8. Ted will be giving orders from his beach chair in Cancun.

[AngryOldDem]

9. They continue to advocate sedition.

They’re now inching closer to treason.

This isn’t funny. He may be full of shit, but remember, that’s what a lot of folks said when Trump rolled down the escalator in 2015.

Never underestimate the power of this kind of rhetoric. This continuing drumbeat of wanting to destroy the system and democracy scares me. Sorry if I fail to see the joke.