Sen. Ted Cruz insulted a 'woke, emasculated' U.S. Army ad. Angry veterans fired back.

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Source: Washington Post



By Katie Shepherd May 21, 2021 at 4:20 a.m. CDT

The first half of the TikTok video shows a muscular Russian man with a shaved head doing push-ups, jumping out of a plane, and staring down the scope of a rifle. The second half shows a brightly animated U.S. Army ad telling the true story of Cpl. Emma Malonelord, a soldier who enlisted after being raised by two mothers in California and graduating at the top of her high school class.

The U.S. Army said its ad showcases the “the deeply emotional and diverse” backgrounds of its soldiers. But to Sen. Ted Cruz, who retweeted the TikTok on Thursday, the contrast with Russia’s campaign instead made American soldiers “into pansies.”
The United States Army's animated ad focused on soldier diversity drew condemnation from some conservative lawmakers in May. (GoArmy)
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His jab did not sit well with critics, including many former service members, veterans groups and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who is a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel.


“Holy crap,” Duckworth tweeted Thursday, mimicking Cruz’s words. “Perhaps a U.S. Senator shouldn’t suggest that the *Russian* military is better than the American military that protected him from an insurrection he helped foment?”


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“Ted Cruz attacks a US Army soldier for telling her story, says he prefers Russians,” VoteVets, a liberal political group that advocates for veterans running for office, said in a tweet responding to Cruz. “Because Ted Cruz is a sedition-loving traitor.”
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"In the hours after Cruz’s quip, #emasculaTED trended on Twitter."



Sen. Ted Cruz insulted a “woke, emasculated” U.S. Army advertisement. Angry veterans fired back.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) heads to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

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[Probatim]

1. He's so very punchable.

[SwannieK]

56. One of the most despised losers on the planet

"Why do people instantly hate Ted Cruz?
Because it saves time!"

Heard this last night and laughed like hell

My question is this...why does he continue to walk around with a skunk pasted to his chin? Sure doesn't do much to cover his ugliness!

[PatSeg]

64. "Because it saves time!"

Hilarious and very true!

The facial hair helps disguise his increasingly fat face, especially the double chin. If only he could grow enough to cover more of it.

[SwannieK]

66. Well, it aint working!

Even facial hair fails in disguising his fat face nor extreme ugliness (and nothing can hide his pointed and ever-expanding Pinocchio nose!)...maybe he should try pasting a bigger skunk or maybe a hyena on his triple chin?

[PatSeg]

67. Yeah, he's pretty hopeless

Inside and out! He should have been a televangelist, he's a natural bullshitter.

[SwannieK]

68. Ugly is as ugly does!

Whenever I call these losers ugly, that is exactly what I am referring to...inside and out...especially inside!!

[BobTheSubgenius]

60. I find that there are so many of them, I fear for our knuckles.

Clearly, a different technique is needed, or a softer target.

[Lovie777]

2. That's republicans . .....

anger the US Military and promote the Russian Military. The republicans can never say they are pro-Military nor pro-Police, nor pro-Constitution, nor pro-Life, nor pro-Democracy, nor pro-health, nor Pro-civil rights of any kind, et al.

Asshole Cruz is not alone in this thinking.

[JaneQPublic]

3. "Kremlin Cruz"

That's the way Brian Williams identified him last night on his show.

[tanyev]

4. Senator who fled to Cancun when his state was in crisis is calling U.S. soldiers pansies?

[PaulRevere08]

51. And went full tRump-cuk when his wife was insulted and demeaned.

[Submariner]

5. Ted Cruz TX [phone] +[phone]

[Scalded Nun]

6. GOP Traitor + Coward

[greenjar_01]

7. Cruz's view is despicable, but I'm old enough to remember Bill Maher and Elissa Slotkin

goofing on a similar ad for the CIA.

Oh, right, that was in Bill Maher's show ... checks notes ... two weeks ago.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. half of them are punchable . when are we going to loose this drip?

[MineralMan]

9. When Did You Serve, Ted, You Smarmy, Pathetic, Asshole?

That beard, by the way, does not hide your weak mouth and simpering face, you creep!

[SKKY]

10. Because nothing says "manly" like kissing the ass of the guy who...

...repeatedly called your wife ugly.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

13. Very true!

If Turd Cruz wants to talk about emasculation, he should go look in the mirror.

Is there ANYONE who truly likes this guy?

[papa3times]

11. Ted Cruz aka Fat Ted Cruz

is as fat and disgusting as his Dear Leader Fat Donnie Trump! He needs to go through some Army basic training and correct the problem right after he goes and fucks himself!

[marble falls]

12. Teddy, Teddy, Teddy. Even those who vote for you hate you. Your few friends claim they ...

... hate you. Just try a couple of STFU tablets and call us in a decade or two for a checkup.

[Miguelito Loveless]

14. Can we load his overfed ass into a C130

give him a parachute, rifle, and full combat dress, then dump him out into Afghanistan as rearguard for our forces as they withdraw?

Slap a camera on his helmet and we have a pay-per-view event that'll make billions.

[usaf-vet]

17. Won't it get boring watching the helmet cam looking down at his knee and feet as....

...he lays down in his latest hiding spot curled up in the fetal position.

[MarcA]

33. Agreed. Or have a SEAL team dump him in Siberia. n/t

[llashram]

15. never served a day in his

miserable, disgusting existence... to hell with t. cruz.

[Mysterian]

16. I don't remember seeing Teddie in any of the infantry units in which I served

We would whip the snot out of the candy ass Russians before breakfast.

[RMVet]

29. Yeah!

And I don't remember seeing Rafael Edward Cruz at any of my duty stations either. Seems to me he served exactly 10 years, 5 months, and 29 days less than me ...which amounts to a big fat "0" time on active duty. It does him no good to anger Vets. Why doesn't he realize this?

[riversedge]

18. @atrupar: I expect less than nothing from Ted Cruz, but retweeting Russian military propaganda is a

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I expect less than nothing from Ted Cruz, but retweeting Russian military propaganda videos is a new low

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[PurgedVoter]

19. Ted should really be more careful and avoid using the word "emasculated"

When Ted became Failure 45's blow up doll it should have realized that all gender slurs were now off the table.

[llashram]

21. +

true...

[Haggard Celine]

20. Shut up, Ted. Don't you have enough boogers to eat?

[BlueAJ]

22. "Emasculated" senators

He should worry about tweets about "emasculated" senators fleeing to a tropical beach while their state is in crisis.

[Generic Other]

23. My veteran dad would have

Called him a slacker coward, grabbed him by the collar and lifted the fat fuck off the floor before making some comment about not even being manly enough to defend his wife. It is what dad did to a colonel that landed him in Korea after serving as a combat infantryman in the Battle of the Bulge. This sort of worm always put my dad’s nose out of joint!

[Aristus]

24. The men and women I served with in the Army didn't run away when the going got tough, Ted.

Not to Cancun, or to anywhere else...

[Best_man23]

25. My name for him going forward is Red Cruz

Red Cruz retweets Russian Propaganda, Moscow's Agent Governing America.

[speaknow]

26. That's what's GREAT about America we even

let non American's become Senators !
Good God what is wrong with this country,
How did we ever let a Che' become a Senator.
Ya, I herd it all he's super educated, so was
Castro and Che'
Dear Texas voters, you don't like Biden being
President But you voted for that foreign MF
become your Senator, is something wrong
with your brain.

[sarge43]

27. Flashback to the Devonian

A woman AF lieutenant colonel once remarked, "This isn't a white, male, Protestant air force; it's just run like it is."

Clue phone Teddy, the US armed forces is as diverse as the country it protects and if that's "woke", then this whole nation is "woke". Have a problem with that, immigrant's son?

You owe Senator Duckworth an apology.

[ananda]

28. Yeah, those comments are priceless!

Jeff Tiedrich: why are you tweeting out Russian propaganda videos, Comrade Senator Fidel Emasculated Cancun?

Kevin M. Kruse: Do you have any other Russian propaganda videos you'd like to promote, senator?

BrooklynDad_Defiant!: LMFAO, the guy who carried the balls of the asshole who called his wife UGLY is talking about "emasculated."

Maybe sit this one out, Fled Cruise.

[Warpy]

30. Hey, Kremlin Ted, toxic macho ads were no longer selling all that well

plus the military has found out just how capable women warriors are, usually more capable than dimwitted macho head cases, even though women are always having to look over their shoulders to avoid those macho headcases intent on rape.

Russia has yet to find out how capable women are in the military, they're still an extremely sexist culture, which is why Putin is so tied into knots over the fact that some men and women are homosexual.

So, Teddy boy, maybe it's time to leave this "emasculated" country and go where you're really more comfortable. Russia is just your style.

(ETA: I found the ad a little soppy and erring on the side of Wonder Woman. They're still trying to find their way in appealing to woman warriors)

[Ferretherder]

63. Perhaps TODAY'S Russia may be an extremely sexist culture, but,...

...the Russian military that faced Hitler's forces during his 'Operation Barbarossa' relied heavily on women joining the men in military roles, not just as nurses and cooks and such, but also as battlefield engineers, snipers and even fighter pilots, machine gunners, and tank drivers!

[Warpy]

65. Right, they threw everything and everyone they had against the Nazis

The Soviet system sought to integrate women fully into the workforce. They women wryly said that Communism freed them to do twice as much work, since husbands found it beneath their dignity to do their share at home, rather like the feminist "having it all" 70s here, when having it all meant doing it all.

Yeah, old Teddy would feel right at home over there now, super comfy in a racist, homophobic, and sexist country. I wonder how comfy they'd be with Ted, though, I think he might have a little too much melanin for them.

[Paladin]

31. I can't remember the last time Cruz did something smart.

Trust me, that's not a complaint.

[70sEraVet]

32. By no means taking Cruz's side, BUT

A cartoon? The Army was just ASKING for it! They could have highlighted the benefits of diversity by showing female recruits training with their male counterparts, couldn't they?

[East-A-Squared]

34. Move to Russia, Ted.

[Bayard]

35. We're coming up on Memorial Day

Let's all remember that neither Cruz, nor any trumps, ever served in the military, but they feel free to denigrate it.

Contrast, Biden--how many times have we heard him say, "May god protect our troops"?

[rpannier]

36. Cancun Cruz

When the going got cold, Cancun Cruz fled the country

[IronLionZion]

37. Ted bravely fled to Cancun while Texas froze over

what a piece of shit. Time to turn Texas blue and throw Cruz out.

The ad is also anti-woman

[HubertHeaver]

38. Of course Ted likes the Russian military.

After all he is Cuban.

[48656c6c6f20]

39. So. Still the most despised

Asshole in America awardee? What's that 10 years in a row now?

[Jilly_in_VA]

41. Rafaelito, who never served anyway,

wouldn't have survived basic training. He'd have been crying every night in his bunk because some female recruit kicked his ass at something that day. You can bet on that.

[smb]

71. Yep

He would have either keeled over from the physical exertion or gotten beaten to a pulp when the rest of the unit got sick of his crap and treated him to a Code Red.

[NBachers]

42. So, what branch of military service did you serve in, Teddy?

[onlyadream]

43. Such a sexist thing to say.

I guess it's easier to think of soldiers as nothing but fighting machines, with no feelings, family or history. What else can you expect from the likes of Cruz?

[Hekate]

44. How does he even have the balls....

Oh right, they’re in Trump’s golf bag.

Backpfeiffengesicht illustrated, yet again.

[monkeyman1]

62. to fat ! hasn't seen his private part's in yr's.

[Baked Potato]

45. Cruz is deploying his WormTongue.

May a million head lice invade his drool-catcher beard.

[ladym55]

46. And Texas continues to send this a$$hat to the Senate

I don't get it. He is a slimy national embarrassment.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

47. You can't make this stuff up!

Think of stupid and then go way past that. There you will find Ted.................

[Renew Deal]

48. The US is going with the idea that the Army is a job.

The US also has sci-fi ads showing all the cool toys people can play with. It's just different approaches.

[Aviation Pro]

49. Tell you what, fuckface

Throw on a ruck and come meet me and we'll see whether your non-rated, motherfucking ass can hang, assclown.

[Aviation Pro]

50. I am so sick and tired of these no-time-in-service, fuckwits

Appropriating my sacrifice and service to the nation. Fuck all of these seditionists.

On Nov. 8, 2022, I will again validate my service to our nation.

[Hortensis]

72. Most interesting for what Far-right Cruz thinks we should admire and aspire to.

A scary-fascistic killing army? Be very scared -- we should have it and don't!? Scary to admire an army of near-robotic killers that could be turned on anyone as needed.

Enormously simple minded also. Does the Republican base really think wars are won by man-to-victim combat?

[IcyPeas]

52. ted cruz, an douchebag in search of the most clicks.

whoever gets the most clicks wins.

[Grokenstein]

54. Naturally, he doubled down on his douchebaggery

with some LOL U TRIGGERED, even while backtracking:

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[IcyPeas]

55. in regards to their tweets this is the only thing they care about (in red)

[SwannieK]

53. The GOP's Hero Speaks!

Don't let your detractors upset you, after all, we all know just how brave you are and how hard you fought for and defended the great state of Texas in the raging Battle of Cancun

[onetexan]

57. damn fool Cruz is looking more like sasquatch every day

[Marcuse]

58. Holy crap!

[Martin68]

59. No one likes Ted Cruz. He is a loose cannon on deck who endangers everyone with his random

attacks on responsibility, decency, and competence./

[Permanut]

61. This veteran is calling Cancun Cruz a coward..

and still puzzled why any military or veteran would support this slimy piece of garbage, or any Republican, for that matter.

[COL Mustard]

69. Remind Me Again Which Branch Of The US Military

Pussy Ted served in?

Oh, that's right...NONE........

Pussy pussy pussy.

[smb]

70. Cheato's Personal Accu-Jack Is In No Position To Talk nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

73. Congrats Brian Williams, you hit a nerve!

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[haele]

74. Okay, so he prefers a bunch of fake Ivan Drago clones -

And an over-the top slick propaganda production promising the majority of not very well in shape young Russian men that they can be Super-Warriors just like the top Athletes and Celebrities on their TVs while they're waiting on their next gig job.

The US Army ad is promising everyone can join, become "better" if they need to, and still be able to make a career supporting their country. Something sugar coated but mainly realistic.

The Russian Ad is Paul Voorhees "Starship Troopers" ad.

Masculine X11 for the wannabes who need to get the chicks....

Haele

[LetMyPeopleVote]

75. Defense Secretary Dismisses Ted Cruz's Claim U.S. Military is 'Emasculated':

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