Ted Cruz Just Released the First Presidential Campaign Ad of 2020

[dixiegrrrrl]

That's the only possible explanation for the smarmy, self-congratulatory five-minute video his dead (or undead) campaign released this weekend, featuring a Cruz staffer musing to an unseen audience about the nature of loss, regret, and the nobility of failing to stop a candidate whose angry nativism and fearmongering was only a shade darker than Cruz's. "Ted Cruz didn't lose, our campaign for president lost," the staffer intones, which I guess is technically true—but still, Cruz definitely didn't win.

Then Cruz himself appears and calls his losing campaign's staff "the finest team in politics I've ever seen, and I suspect has ever come together" and tells them, "Everyone here has poured your hearts into this journey... We left everything on the field." This is accompanied by footage of white people, presumably Cruz supporters, smiling, talking, or just sort of standing around—a montage that manages to be actually pretty dang uplifting and cathartic thanks to some Explosions in the Sky–sounding music that could turn eating pancakes into an emotional climax. The final shot is Cruz's campaign bus driving through a white-light-drenched landscape, followed by the words "TO BE CONTINUED..."

http://www.vice.com/read/oh-god-we-have-another-one-of-these-fucking-things-ahead?utm_source=vicefbus

where's the damn puke emoticon when ya need it??????????

[Takket]

1. here ya go!!!!!!!

[RKP5637]

2. Here's some more. I always keep a few extras handy.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Never enough for him, tho.

He reminds me of the ant, floating down the Thames on his back, yelling "open the drawbridge!!!"