Ted Cruz has been slammed for joking that Texans should “join me in Cancun” as the state braces for a deep freeze.

“Texans, with the freeze coming, wrap your pipes, cover your plants, stay off icy roads & keep your family safe. And, if it gets too damn cold, join me in Cancun!” he wrote on X.

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It’s funny because people are going to die and he’s making fun of them before they do.

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They will vote for him on the way to the graveyard

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If you’re sick as a dog, you say: ‘God I gotta make it.’ Even if you vote and then pass away, it’s worth it.

Donald Trump, ordering his cultists to sacrifice themselves for his primary race, just yesterday

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ordering his cultists to sacrifice themselves

And take down a few others in the process!

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I guess it worked

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And as they die they will blame Obama for the loss of power.

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Thanks, Obama.

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Gotta drink dat flavor-aid

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Comedy is all about timing after all.

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And they keep voting this asshole back into office. Texas, go figure.

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Look, sure, Ted Cruz might be a miserable, pathetic, cowardly, repulsive excuse for a human being who licks boots at every opportunity and is more than willing to sell out his constituents and his country for the smallest of kickbacks. But have you considered - Democrats think LGBT folk are human beings???

Clearly, Texas has no choice but to vote for Ted Cruz.

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I mean, he may hate his constituents, is despised by his colleagues, and actively makes both his home state and the entire country worse… but he has the ‘R’ next to his name, what do you expect boomers to do!?

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That is precisely the logic my family presented to me in 2016.

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but he has the ‘R’ next to his name, what do you expect boomers to do!?

Saying it’s boomers is reductive and actually inaccurate (and thus insulting to half or more of the boomers)

White, protestant, with less education? Now you’re talking big-R, baby!

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/state/texas/party-affiliation/

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You jest, but I know people who think like this currently living in Texas.

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May they all freeze to death.

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they like big things in Texas. doesn’t really matter what it is, just that it’s big.

And this guy is pretty much the biggest asshole they’ve got.

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“I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”

  • Al Franken
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I’m voting for Collin Allred, I’m just one vote though.

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i’m joining you…so that’s 2 of us…oh and my husband…3! 3! people who don’t want that POS in the Senate.

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My husband and I are votes 4 and 5 for Allred too!

Fuck Fled Cruz!

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lol over 200 people died when I went to Cancun lol get it guys? Get the joke???

What an ass.

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Classic Republican humor!

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Yeap hahha dark humor, the one a lefty cant take hahahhha ❄❄❄

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You mean while he fled his constituents during a state of emergency?

No more sugar coating shit.

The Democrats do this shit too in their own way, at their own peril. At all of our peril.

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If Ted Cruz sees his shadow in Cancun there will 6 be weeks without power in Texas.

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This is a top tier comment. Thank you.

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Get DeBlasio down there to drop his ass

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I refuse to give any clicks to any headlines that use the word slammed or any derivative or synonym thereof

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Unless it’s a wrestling news website

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Or if it’s followed by welcoming you to the jam

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Or an article about doors.

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Maybe wrestling news sites should steal political news sites headlines.

“Wrestler A CRITICISED for using unsportsmanlike move on Wrestler B”

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Never click anything from The Independent. They’re clickbait shit.

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You don’t like your headlines reading like a bop-it toy?

BOP TED CRUZ!

SLAM TED CRUZ!

SH**T TED CRUZ! (in the face)

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SHART TED CRUZ!

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Why is that?

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Have you personally slammed someone?

Have you met anyone who has?

What did it look like?

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That’s between me and my only fans.

I have actually met a couple pro wrestlers

Pretty fricken gnarly dude

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It happened once in nineteen ninety eight.

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You know what “slammed” metaphorically means, here.

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Greg Gianfirte has. Can we use that in headlines when we talk about him? It’s accurate in that case.

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