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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI saw that Cruz video with the bacon...
If that doesn't make people wonder about the mental health of the Republican party I don't know what will...we already know...
now we can enjoy saying "I told you so."

riversedge
(74,141 posts)Stuart G
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Agschmid
(28,749 posts)I think we'd be better off without them.
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Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Jim__
(14,577 posts)no_hypocrisy
(49,958 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,939 posts)... at least it wasn't Turkey Bacon.
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NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I'm just as crazy as Trump!
It has come to this: they're all trying to out-Trump Trump.
malaise
(280,521 posts)who will kill him/herself or take out some innocent person attempting to copy this fucking lunatic posing as a candidate for President.
Is there anything these ReTHUGs won't do for attention?
CTyankee
(65,557 posts)The guy shoots himself in the leg while showing off his prowess with a gun and a target. It's hysterical...
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)John1956PA
(3,612 posts)The absurdity of the video is beyond description. However, here are a few points which come to mind.
As Rachel stated in her debunking segment last evening, the weapon was not, as Cruz suggested, a "machine gun" which, of course, is an automatic weapon. In warfare, barrels of ground-mounted machine guns have become so hot due to repeated firing that they caused the weapon to fail because the steel of which they were made began to melt.
The hand-held automatic weapon shown in the archive video which Rachel presented displayed a flame plume from the top of its barrel. It is not known if that flame was from burning weapon oil, gases, or some other source. I am thinking that, after the weapon had been fired for about fifteen seconds, the barrel of that hand-held automatic weapon would be hot enough to sizzle a piece of pre-warmed bacon, but repeated firing would be necessary to thoroughly cook it.
The weapon which Cruz used in his video was, according to Rachel, an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. I think that it would have required many consecutive firings to cook the pieces of bacon which Cruz wrapped around the rifle's barrel and caused to be held in place with the over-wrapped aluminum foil. At the end of the video, Cruz is shown unwrapping the foil and using a fork to pull a morsel from the end of the wrap and eat it. I think that the morsel which Cruz ingested was cooked more than by just the barrel heat generated by Cruz's firing. I think that the bacon which Cruz nibbled from was pre-microwaved, wrapped on the barrel, and maybe even subjected to an outside heat source.
In any case, I think that the humor which Cruz aimed for by using the weapon in that stunt was sophomoric at best.
lostnfound
(16,831 posts)Darn, Arnie isn't qualified so who else can we get?
They are mockeries of themselves, parodies of themselves.
What weak, weak minds their base must have.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)What a waste of good and expensive ammo not to mention the damage it could do to a perfectly good gun.
Anyone who is that wasteful needs the 90% tax rate imposed on them to teach them not to waste their money that way. Epic fail from any side you look at it.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Even when he's trying to be a right-wing tool, he fucks it up. That was NOT a machine gun. I'm having a sad.
Gothmog
(157,519 posts)CTyankee
(65,557 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,477 posts)left and right.
Darb
(2,807 posts)They think that most people would think that is funny, or cool, or righteous. But I would dare to say that most people think he belongs in a rubber room.