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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts)
Thu May 21, 2015, 08:55 AM May 2015

Blerf blerf farble warble glub wub noop noop noop pzzzzcheeeezzz...

...because sometimes gibberish is the only proper response.

Ted Cruz: Gays Should Stop Advocating For Equal Rights Because, ISIS

Ted Cruz spent time with high-value donors in a private meeting Tuesday but was confronted by the media after the event. Reporters asked the 2016 Republican presidential candidate several questions about gay people and same-sex marriage, eliciting a rambling and frustrated response.

"Is there something about the left — and I am going to put the media in this category — that is obsessed with sex?," Cruz asked, as the Texas Tribune reported. Reporters actually weren't asking about sex, but rather same-sex marriage, which may reveal a clue about Cruz's thought processes on the issue.

"ISIS is executing homosexuals — you want to talk about gay rights? This week was a very bad week for gay rights because the expansion of ISIS, the expansion of radical, theocratic, Islamic zealots that crucify Christians, that behead children and that murder homosexuals — that ought to be concerning you far more than asking six questions all on the same topic."

Salon labeled Cruz's response "an amalgam of Islamophobia, religiosity, and a not-particularly-sensible shot at the left that included something about The Children."

The rest: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/ted_cruz_says_gays_should_stop_advocating_for_marriage_because_isis

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Blerf blerf farble warble glub wub noop noop noop pzzzzcheeeezzz... (Original Post) WilliamPitt May 2015 OP
doesn't it follow then, marym625 May 2015 #1
Sounds like the same logic a batterer uses Kalidurga May 2015 #2
Your thread title actually makes more sense than anything Cruz has ever said. 11 Bravo May 2015 #3
+1 daleanime May 2015 #7
'You people should be thankful... Cirque du So-What May 2015 #4
We're better than ISIS? ananda May 2015 #5
By his own reasoning ... surrealAmerican May 2015 #6
Even Word Salad is confused by Ted "Green Eggs & Ham" Cruz. Rex May 2015 #8
I love that GIF .. 1StrongBlackMan May 2015 #12
you know things are bad when even the kittehs are doing facepalms! niyad May 2015 #15
K & R Thespian2 May 2015 #9
This is the man who wants to be King of the Mountain? Jack Rabbit May 2015 #10
King Shit from Turd Hill. hifiguy May 2015 #23
Uhhh.....wtf? progressoid May 2015 #11
The right is more obsessed with sex than the left is. Initech May 2015 #13
my head hurts!! is it lack of caffeine, or lack of alcohol, that makes his comments unintelligible? niyad May 2015 #14
ummm, turddy boy, it is called PROJECTION--because NOBODY is as obsessed with sex as niyad May 2015 #16
I'd give up my sex obsession if they'd... SpankMe May 2015 #17
I'm a gay man Saviolo May 2015 #18
Cruz isn't the ultimate enemy, he's the distraction. lark May 2015 #19
Thanks for the translation, WRP! Duval May 2015 #20
Go ahead, Cruz..snarl at the reporters dixiegrrrrl May 2015 #21
Ye gads hifiguy May 2015 #22

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
2. Sounds like the same logic a batterer uses
Thu May 21, 2015, 08:58 AM
May 2015

Hey your arm is in a sling not a cast. At least I didn't kill you. Aw it's just a bruise it'll be gone in a week or so. etc.. etc.. add some nausea.

Cirque du So-What

(25,908 posts)
4. 'You people should be thankful...
Thu May 21, 2015, 09:15 AM
May 2015

...that we're not stoning your gay butts.'

The bar is set quite low when saying, 'We're better than ISIS.'

surrealAmerican

(11,358 posts)
6. By his own reasoning ...
Thu May 21, 2015, 09:27 AM
May 2015

... shouldn't Christians stop complaining about same-sex marriage, since they're not being beheaded here?

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
8. Even Word Salad is confused by Ted "Green Eggs & Ham" Cruz.
Thu May 21, 2015, 09:49 AM
May 2015

So gay people should just be happy with what they got...cuz...ISIS got a little bigger!?



Thespian2

(2,741 posts)
9. K & R
Thu May 21, 2015, 09:56 AM
May 2015

Never expect coherent reasoning from a demented psychopath...especially one who has no concept of truth...

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
10. This is the man who wants to be King of the Mountain?
Thu May 21, 2015, 10:43 AM
May 2015

It's a good thing that he's not running for president.

niyad

(113,075 posts)
14. my head hurts!! is it lack of caffeine, or lack of alcohol, that makes his comments unintelligible?
Thu May 21, 2015, 11:17 AM
May 2015

niyad

(113,075 posts)
16. ummm, turddy boy, it is called PROJECTION--because NOBODY is as obsessed with sex as
Thu May 21, 2015, 11:20 AM
May 2015

you reichwingnutjobs.

Saviolo

(3,280 posts)
18. I'm a gay man
Thu May 21, 2015, 11:36 AM
May 2015

And I don't think about gay sex as much as the rabid anti-gay-rights nutjobs do.

When they hear gay rights, all they hear is "gay sex" and think "Ick!" I'd love to ask anti-gay couples if they just got married for the sex.

lark

(23,065 posts)
19. Cruz isn't the ultimate enemy, he's the distraction.
Thu May 21, 2015, 11:43 AM
May 2015

He's too dumb to win over even the majority of Repugs outside of TX, but they put him in there to appease the teabagger loony base.
Walker, Bush, Christie, Kaisch - they are the ones I'm more concerned about.

 

Duval

(4,280 posts)
20. Thanks for the translation, WRP!
Thu May 21, 2015, 12:01 PM
May 2015

Now I understand what he said, perfectly! You always tell it like it is, and I'm loving your humor.


dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
21. Go ahead, Cruz..snarl at the reporters
Thu May 21, 2015, 02:36 PM
May 2015

who will REPORT how you are unable to be cool during a presser.
Voters really like candidates to be attacky mode over questions.

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