Sen.Cruz arrives back in Texas with armed police escort
Ted Cruz touched down in Texas on Thursday afternoon with an armed police escort amid outrage over his 24-hour trip to Mexico during a catastrophic storm in the Lone Star State.
He could be seen chatting with two police officers who escorted him off his flight and through a barrage of thrown hedgehogs at Houston’s George Bush Airport by a group of irate flyers trying to escape the Texas tragedy.
Cruz set off a literal political maelstrom of thrown hedgehogs on Wednesday evening when he was photographed boarding a flight to Cancun as millions of Texans braced for their fourth day without power or safe drinking water and toilets full of frozen turds.
Cruz said that he was only chaperoning his daughters, ages 12 and 10, on a flight and was headed back to the US, and that he didn't even have one margarita, or get one drop of pool water on his body, and that his daughters were perfectly fine where he had left them, alone in the hotel .
At least 30 people have died, including a woman and young girl who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning when they sat in an attached garage while a car was running because there was no heat in their home.
The alteration of the sign to indicate 2 "brane" dead from CO was in very bad taste OP.
You are an asshole and a "sac" of shit.
Cruz on Thursday admitted his getaway to Cancun was a "mistake" as texts revealed his wife wanted them to flee "FREEZING" Texas. The senator expressed his regret as text messages emerged allegedly showing his wife Heidi planning the Cancun trip to escape the “FREEZING” weather in Texas.
Heidi Cruz wanted her family to stay at the Ritz Carlton in Cancun, Mexico, and noted that the room price was $309 per night, according to the texts obtained by The New York Times.
She texted on Wednesday that the Cruz home was “FREEZING” and invited others to fly to the Ritz Carlton where they had stayed “many times.”
“Anyone can or want to leave for the week?” wrote Heidi Cruz, who is a managing director at Goldman Sachs.
Cruz shoulda let his wife take the 2 kids and manned it out at a warming station handing out hot drinks to victims. files.catbox.moe/6rtnfz.webp
This shit is so ridiculous. His physical presence would not change the conditions or circumstances of what's happened. I'm a native Texan and the problem is that no one knows how to handle the cold.
Wind turbines froze up, because they were not set up to handle a polar vortex, because its Texas.
Using 30 victims of a natural disaster to enact a political vendetta is unseemly.... But the norm.
Jason Thompson
He could've at least done fucking something with his political clout. AOC raised 1 million for Texas, why the fuck couldn't he?
Wyatt Phillips
You're from Texas and you don't even believe your politicians can help you? Wow your state truly is FUCKED. Good luck schlomo.
Jeremiah Murphy
He's a federal official and has no direct jurisdiction over Texas, yes, but he's still an influential person within his state who very much could pull some strings to help relief efforts. Plus he at least owes some modicum of solidarity to his constituents to not fly off to the tropics for a vacation while they're freezing to death at home.
Kevin Hernandez
I wish you people were here to help us in california when out state burned an entire city to the ground, killed nearly 100, destroyed 19,000 homes, and made thousands homeless with the California State Utility Board's mismanagement of public utilities they burned down the town in 2018. Every year now power is shut off scores of cities because its cheaper than investing in infrastructure or paying wrongful death lawsuites But hey, california votes democrat so nobody cares, we gotta get them texans! their the real villians, having a sub-zero very uncommon snow storm come through and being underprepared for it
If i didnt know any better i'd say "a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information" has been happening the last couple years
Matthew Bell
He could've help distribute kerosene heaters. Or hot drinks at a warming centre. Send his wife and kids to mexico, but stay in public view himself. Crack open a window a little for ventilation, and they work great. I used them In Ontario during the ice storm in 2013 when we were without electricity for a week and the temp dropped to -5 F.
We kept the CO detector going, and it didn't even register.
Ayden Young
why the fuck are spoilers even enabled on news
Nicholas Wood
Your CO detector was broken and you should have died. Please refrain from giving others shitty advice
Owen White
Fuck off Ben Shaprio
Andrew Watson
>Sen.Cruz arrives back in Texas with armed police escort and ? where is famous democracy shooting in Texas now? why are they not shooting? are you sure he landed in Texas? why are they not starting the battle of Ted Cruz already?
Owen Lopez
No, I have been using kerosene heaters in cabins for years. With proper ventilation, they are fine.
>NOOO YOU CANT JUST TRAVEL YOU CANT JUST SPEND TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY WAAAAAH
seethe harder. Meanwhile dozens of liberal politicians broke their own COVID lockdown guidelines, threw extravagant mask less parties with no social distancing, and travelled all over the country but the leftist media never lynched them for it. This is bipartisan MSM smear campaign PLAIN AND SIMPLE. Fuck off with your propaganda. There’s 3 threads about this already you are a very obvious shill spamming the board
Parker Stewart
Beto's not even a politician at this point and even HE pulled his weight. What's Cruz's excuse? Republicans are so ideologically cucked they'd gladly whore their mothers if their favorite politician got a stiffy.
Connor Bell
Their screw up then doesn't cancel out this screw up now. If anything, these two incidents share the same theme of government failing to regulate private business. Guess which party wants to unleash them further.
Joshua Kelly
As usual, the best defence conservatives can muster is that everyone's as corrupt as they are so nothing needs to change. When out-of-state politicians did mkre than Cruz, he has no excuse.
Jayden Perez
Also, citation needed on all those 'liberal politicians' (God knows what that means when everybody's practically right wing nowadays) breaking lockdown. If they went out with a mask, they'd still be more responsible than Cuban Cruz who covers up once in a blue moon.
Jordan Rodriguez
At least he doesn't have as many armed national guard protecting him as there were American soldiers in Kabul. You'll bitch and moan about Ted but look the other way when Bidet-in-chief does something equally awful because you can't live without a boogeymen living in your tiny, tiny mind. >EVERYBODY IS RIGHT WING, EEEEEEEEE CUBAN CRUZ For fuck's sake, can you go ten seconds without some insane kneejerk reaction? >If they went out with a mask, they'd still be more responsible than Cuban Cruz Like this, literally stating that even if they did something just as bad; it doesn't matter because you hate him at a personal level and therefore he'll always be worse in your mind for doing t he same thing.
Meds Go take them.
Jaxson Garcia
>At least he doesn't have as many armed national guard protecting him as there were American soldiers in Kabul.
Lame ass deflection detected What does the number of soldiers in Kabul have to do with Cruz needing police to protect him from his own constituents?
citation needed
Benjamin Nelson
>Wind turbines froze up They didn't. Natural gas lines froze up because Cruz pushed for deregulating the energy grid in Texas.
Logan Davis
Texans vote for politicians that think the only good government is a dead one. Now other states will have to spend years digging us out of this bullshit. He's the representative to the federal government for Texas. He should be either in Texas overseeing aid or in DC getting aid for the state, not vacationing in fucking Cancun.
Landon Lee
>Natural gas lines froze up because Cruz pushed for deregulating the energy grid in Texas. How would regulations have prevented an ice storm that happens once every 110 years from freezing up?
If deregulation is the issue, than why is every summer in California rolling blackout season?
Evan Wilson
>having a sub-zero very uncommon snow storm come through and being underprepared for it It happened in 2011 and they were warned of this happening you stupid-ass californian. You're just as bad as texans because you want all the liberal fantasy-land policies but refuse to spend money to enact them because of your asshole rich right-leaning communities.
Xavier Kelly
because the regulations that were denied would literally have meant this wouldn't have happened. >>once every 110 years A similar event happened in 2011, where they were told by the EPA 'hey you should do this this will happen again' and Cornyn, Cruz et. all decided not too.
Wyatt Gray
>because the regulations that were denied would literally have meant this wouldn't have happened. Which regulations? >they were told by the EPA 'hey you should do this this will happen again' What were they told they should do?
Why can't you provide specifics user?
Thomas Cruz
>What were they told they should do? Winterize the gas pipelines to stop them from freezing for starters.
Ocasio-Cortez raises $1 million for Texas relief, plans trip to Houston
Cruz also left the family dog home alone in a freezing cold house while he fled.
A poor little poodle named Snowflake. She may have survived. see:
Elijah Thompson
>once every 110 years from freezing up? You added an extra "1" gaslighter. The irony is, these polar vortex are going to increase in frequency and severity as man made global warming continues to accelerate (predicted by climate models even 20 years ago), yet Republicant leaders continue to deny it resulting in ever increasing suffering of their own constituents, while pocketing the "donations" from the earth scorching carbon dumper megacorporations.
Regulations are necessary to ratchet down this remorseless unrepentant exploitation of not only the earth itself, but American citizens as well. Take back your State from this gangster mob, Texans and change colors or lay down and allow them to stomp you.
Luke Diaz
>leaves dog to freeze while sun tanning for a week in Cancun What a metaphor of the level of empathy and compassion Republicants have for life. Even before Trump began his rampage to destroy the US when he declared he wouldn't have a dog in the white house contrary to every president in the last 70+ years, because "dogs were just as filthy and dirty as my base of supporters" I knew this wasn't going to turn out well.
Angel Watson
>Winterize the gas pipelines to stop them from freezing for starters. How many times has Texas encountered this kind of weather in the past 110 years again? Twice, at best? Not even leftist politicians in Texas wanted to pay for that.
>You added an extra "1" gaslighter Before 2011, how many times? Not since 100 years prior?
Statistically this is still what is referred to as an 'anomaly', user.
>these polar vortex are going to increase in frequency and severity as man made global warming continues to accelerate (predicted by climate models even 20 years ago) [citation needed] Remember when they also predicted half of the world would be underwater by now? And somehow they're still buying beachfront property. Weird.
Also, you're ignoring my question >If deregulation is the issue, than why is every summer in California rolling blackout season?
Henry Ward
Fucking hell, imagine being a cuck bootlicker Republican. How can you claim to have any dignity when you excuse your rich politicians abandoning you to freeze to death?
Carson Peterson
Save the pearl clutching hysterics for your editorial on Salon, troon
Leo Johnson
Cruz's 2 little girls:"Daddy!, We gotta take snowflake with us to Mexico".
Big daddy Cruz:"Sweeties, her name is Snowflake, and she'll do just fine in our subfreezing house!".
"She'll make a nice dogsicle and when we get back, we'll pop her in the freezer and take her out to play and put her back in before see thaws!"
Nathaniel Campbell
>Fucking hell, imagine being a cuck bootlicker Democrat. How can you claim to have any dignity when you excuse your rich politicians abandoning you to burn to death every fucking summer?
Connor Rogers
Even Stalin didn't leave Moscow when the Nazi's were closing in on the city.
Jack Hernandez
I bet you leave your dog out side in the snow, or the hot summer sun, Rethuglican.
Wyatt Lee
Yeah, ordering your soldiers to stand and die and executing those who retreat while you hide in a bunker is what heroes do. Fucking troons.
Noah Mitchell
>Hurr Kung-Flu is a hoax, unless it politically favors rightards
Gavin Morgan
Sure beats running away because it's cold outside.
Cooper Bennett
>I bet you leave your dog out side in the snow, or the hot summer sun, Rethuglican. I don't have a dog, Chang. But at least I don't eat them.
Zachary Bell
>[citation needed] Any reputable peer reviewed climate science study in the last 20 years, fossil fuel bootlicker. >Remember when they also predicted half of the world would be underwater by now? No, I don't since none predicted that by 2020, although they did predict it for some islands which has happened. Oh, btw, try to get insurance on your beachfront property nowadays that doesn't cost a yearly premium of more than the property is worth. Oh you can't? Hmm, I wonder why.
The irony is, even the carbon dumping industries which promote the fictional narrative that "muh man made global warming is muh fake news" are developing contingency plans to deal with the severe impact they know full well is coming. I have a good friend who is a statistics professor who was hired by some of them to develop those plans for big bucks but he had to sign a shitload of NDA's so it wouldn't get out to the public.
But you keep licking 'dem boots the rightwing echo chambers tell you to lick, mmk' sweaty (or should I say freezy)?
Eli Sanchez
>look mum, I posted it again! >dat 'ere internet thingy sho' 'nuff makin' you'uns smahter, Cletus. You done makin' mah brother-husband 'n me proud, young 'un!
