Ted Cruz accuses Democrats of weaponizing white supremacy to attack Republicans

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Carnival Cruz is mad that Democrats are using facts against republicans. The GOP is the party white supremacists and pointing that fact hurts Carnival Cruz's feelings

Link to tweet

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Ted-Cruz-accuses-Democrats-of-weaponizing-white-17228564.php?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=twitter.com

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz this week accused Democrats of focusing excessively on white supremacist violence, while overlooking attacks on white people, police and Jewish and Asian Americans, in an effort to inflict political damage on Republicans.

“Unfortunately, we see over and over again efforts to politicize acts of violence,” Cruz said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on domestic terrorism, where he alleged that Democrats in Congress “try to use the charge of ‘white supremacy,’ which is undoubtedly evil, bigoted and wrong, and weaponized by their own party, they try to use that as a proxy for attacking a political party they disagree with.”....

The Texas Republican’s remarks drew a swift rebuke from U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who noted that the vast majority of “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” investigated by the FBI in 2020 were white supremacists.

Federal law enforcement data and expert studies have shown that terrorist attacks by violent extremists have risen sharply in recent years. The trend has been driven largely by white supremacists and the far right, though left-wing extremists accounted for an increasing proportion of terrorist attacks and plots in the U.S. last year.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. An overcooked noodle with a beard.

[Trailrider1951]

5. More like an overcooked dumpling

His backside is too wide to be called "noodle".

[jimfields33]

15. He's so weird. He is a person of color.

[LastDemocratInSC]

19. If he wore some fatigues and a matching hat

he would look just like Fidel Castro.

[Skittles]

2. when these fuckers talk about POLITICIZING issues

THAT IS ALL REPUKES DO

[Bleacher Creature]

3. He's right.

If you're a white supremacist, we will use it to attack you politically. Shocker!!

I mean, if the hood fits . . .

[dchill]

4. Ted Cruz & Ilk weaponized white supremacy long ago.

The weapon is an AR-15 carried by a disturbed, Foxwashed 18-year-old.

[GoneOffShore]

7. They carry CRUZR-15's - the Cancun model.

[NCLefty]

6. Ted Cruz is weaponizing stupidity. n/t

[Hekate]

8. When will the human hagfish just go away?

[Nululu]

9. White Supremecy comes pre-weaponized

The GOP gave them a home . They whine when people point it out. Whining is their default state of being.

[jcgoldie]

10. Ohhh... you're trying to take advantage of the fact that I'm a fucking racist!

How dare you!

[myohmy2]

11. "...they try to use that as a proxy for attacking a political party they disagree with."....

...they try to use that as a proxy for attacking a political party FULL OF WHITE SUPREMACISTS...

...if teddy would just wipe trump's cum from his face and plugged ears and listened to what the man and others have said over the years, he would realize the Republicans are now the party of White Supremacists...

...sorry teddy if reality bothers you...

...

[texasfiddler]

12. Ted Cruz is OK with white supremacy. They vote for GOP.

He is worried about the Jewish and Asian vote in 2022. That is the cliff notes version of his statement. Ted Cruz is 100% political and 0% moral. He throws his own family under the bus for political gain.

[DFW]

13. Ted Cruz would accuse Democrats of practicing bipedalism

Just because most of them have two feet.

[Emile]

14. Did he come all the way up from Cancun to give us

this important message?

[Botany]

16. Cruz, " ... acts of violence and trying to use the charge of white supremacy ...."

Now after violently attacking the US Capitol and illegally breaking into it to stop the constitutionally
prescribed transfer of power to the legally elected new President why would anybody think this member
of Y'all Cada is a white supremacist?

[modrepub]

17. Rafael not Ted

Why is he allowed to change the name his parents gave him? And make sure you say Canadian Rafael Cruze; that country's gain is our loss.

[tanyev]

18. Guy who tried to weaponize Dr. Seuss to attack the Affordable Care Act sez wut??

[Paladin]

20. Somebody let me know when Cruz does something smart.

It's been years since he's done so. Just goes to show what you can get away with, if you've got an (R) by your name.

[Blue Owl]

21. Go eat some more boogers Ted

[Novara]

22. Okay, the world is just too stupid to live in.

[Baked Potato]

23. Translation: Long Con is failing, we're fucked. Nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. Ted Cruz's Jan. 6 ties are deeper than we thought

Carnival Cruz has a long and sick relationship with Eastman. That relationship is going to be discussed in the Jan 6 Committee hearing which is why Carnival Cruz is worried. Carnival Cruz was very involved in the coup efforts and worked hard to overthrow our democratic form of government

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ted-cruz-s-ties-trump-jan-6-are-worse-we-n1293872?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

It’s widely known that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is a shameless opportunist. But could he be even more shameless and opportunistic than we believed?

Potentially yes, according to a report from The Washington Post published this week detailing just how closely Cruz worked with then-President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election results. Reporter Michael Kranish also revealed that Cruz has known Trump’s attorney John Eastman — who authored legal memos he hoped would be used to deny the certification of the election — for decades. That raises questions over whether Cruz coordinated directly with the White House on legal strategy designed to undermine the election......

According to the Post, Cruz and Trump began working on plans to undermine the election two days after Election Day, to the surprise of many of Cruz’s aides. Cruz spoke to Trump directly on the phone, acted as a Trump surrogate spreading 2020 disinformation on Fox News and pitched himself as a legal asset because of his experience working with George W. Bush’s campaign during the recount of the Florida vote in 2000. Among other things, Cruz agreed to represent Pennsylvania Republicans’ attempt to block certification of their state’s presidential results before the Supreme Court. (The Supreme Court didn’t end up taking the case.) And as Cruz backed a lawsuit arguing that Texas had the authority to throw out election results in several other battleground states, some of his advisers worried he was turning his back on his conservative federalist principles.

But perhaps the most shocking possibility raised by the Post’s reporting is the implication raised by Cruz and Eastman’s friendship. Cruz and Eastman met while clerking for then-U.S. Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig nearly 30 years ago. Cruz’s plan calling for the Senate to delay the certification of the 2020 election results seemed to be running on a “parallel” track to Eastman’s legal memo......

The main point here is not to indict Cruz. Here we have a politician obsessed with keeping his finger on the pulse of the party, who felt that his own presidential prospects would be enriched by trying to overturn an election. More important than Cruz as a self-aggrandizer is Cruz as a signpost of the direction of the party. Cruz is a consummate follower of trends — and he's continually shown us that the Republican Party is sliding rapidly toward outright disdain for democracy.

I am looking forward to Carnival Cruz's role in the insurrection being exposed

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. Sen. Ted Cruz Is Getting Pretty Uncomfortable Over His Alleged Ties to the January 6 Coup Attempt

Carnival Cruz is worried which makes me smile

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https://secondnexus.com/ted-cruz-eastman-memo-republican

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the latest GOP official and sometime Trump ally to experience scrutiny over his role in the attempted overturning of the 2020 presidential election. Per reporting by The Washington Post, the January 6 Commission wants to know what if any communications Sen. Cruz had with Trump’s attorney, John Eastman, who was the author of an infamous plan to stage a soft coup on January 6 using Vice President Pence to declare the election for Trump.

The Committee’s interest in Sen. Cruz may be heightened now that Eastman has been ordered to produce documents formerly withheld by him under claims of attorney-client privilege. Judge David Carter, who overruled those claims in large part, noted that some of the listed recipients of communications were third parties and therefore claims of privilege did not properly extend to them. Whether Sen. Cruz is among them remains unknown, but there are some clues that suggest Eastman and Cruz were in some kind of cahoots with respect to January 6 and the White House effort to undo the election.

The most obvious connection lies in the first draft of his memo, in which Eastman noted that they would need “someone” like Sen. Cruz to help them out:

“Assuming the Electoral Count Act process is followed and, upon getting the objections to the Arizona slates, the two houses break into their separate chambers, we should not allow the Electoral Count Act constraint on debate to control. That would mean that a prior legislature was determining the rules of the present one — a constitutional no-no (as Tribe has forcefully argued). So someone – Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, etc. – should demand normal rules (which includes the filibuster).

This part of the plan thus raises a serious question: Did Eastman or anyone else in the White House speak to Sen. Cruz about moving to demand that “normal” rules, including the filibuster, apply in the debate over electoral objections? That is not the kind of thing you’d normally expect to happen on its own. Rather, it is procedurally involved and would require some discussion and coordination. But to even get to the point of asking, someone likely would have had to explain the entire plan to whichever senator they were relying on to do this......

Specifically, if Sen. Cruz knew that the lynchpin of a coup plan in which he participated involved a brazenly illegal declaration of a Trump victory by Vice President Pence in order to throw the electoral count into chaos, then he stands in the same harsh and “likely” criminal light as the former president and John Eastman.