So he toured the Parthenon during 4th of July weekend, 24 hours AFTER people were caught in the flood.

Rafael Cruz just doesn’t love Americans does he?

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    I don’t know how many of these disasters happen in Texas, but this guy manages to dodge them with stunning accuracy.

    If he weren’t in a leadership role it would be amazing.

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      I don’t think he has any advanced warning, he probably just is on vacation so much, the odds are in his favor that he’ll be out of state when something bad happens.

      When you’re a useless lazy piece of shit like him, of course you’ve fucked off to anywhere else but where the work is.

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        Don’t a lot of bad things also tend to happen in Texas, given the awesome management team they’ve got there?

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          To be fair, it is also a huge state, with a lot of surface area. So it’s not unreasonable that they catch more natural disasters than a tiny state.

          What is unreasonable is that it’s handled terribly every time. You’d think all those disasters would eventually gain them some experience.

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    Celebrating independence day touring Europe after supporting a fascist who is the antithesis of “independence” and the embodiment of everything Americans fought against.

    Shitty American.

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    Why does he bother saying things like this? He can just say “Fuck you all, you’re going to re-elect me no matter what I do.” And they will.

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    They lie.

    We know they are lying.

    They know that they are lying.

    They even know that we know they are lying.

    We also know that they know we know they are lying.

    They, of course, know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying.

    Yet they still lie.

    In Russia, the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

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    In the U.S. the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country. shrugs Must be all that money.

    SeeMarkFly (2025)

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      With a username like that, I’d highly recommend staying away from buildings with windows that extend beyond the first floor.

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        And never suggest reasonable solutions to problems in a conference room above the third floor.

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    Fuck him and his constituents, they love the abuse. If they didn’t they would have gotten rid of him the first dozen times he did this shit. At this point it’s Cruz’s trademark to run away during a crisis. And Texas fucking loves it.

    On a side note, how does big bad Texas have such a soft, wimpy, sad excuse for a man as their rep? Maybe he represents the true Texan man

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      He’s in tight with O&G, his wife literally works for Goldman Sachs, and he’s jumped into Opus Dei. The man has more money and institutional support than any three other Senators you could name, despite being a turd in the Texas punch bowl the rest of the year.

      Meanwhile, his most competent opponents have been the Skateboarding Take Your Guns guy chanting “demographics is destiny” to a bunch of conservative Latinos and the Linebacker in sheriff cosplay who ran on being tougher on the border than Republicans.

      When your options are constantly Republican or Republican Lite, is there any surprise when the Republican wins?

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        But that’s faster than the human by itself can go making it inhumanely possible.

        I’m just kidding. I have no idea if what i said even made sense after a wake bake but I really want him to drop from a plane.

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      Grovel and beg for forgiveness after actively cutting NOAA budget? Personally drive a truck full of food/water/clothing for people displaced? Literally just show up and offer your condolences to your contituents (regardless of how obviously fake it’d be)?

      Like, basic human things you should be doing to show that you care about the people you supposedly represent? Vs: fuck it, I’m on vacation, they’ll still be dead when I get home.

      Guess what: politicians for all their grand standing about lazy entitled welfare recipients work about 130 total days a year, he can go see the parthenon some other time.