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’m a Republican and WHO CARES? What’s he Supposed to do ANYWAYS? FUND Weather Services and Natural Disaster Services that could have Prevented the Deaths and Helped with the Cleanup? That’s STUPID! That’s NOT Why I pay TAXES! I Pay taxes so JEFF BEZOS can Afford a NEW JET and THATS IT!

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      What’s funny is these people could afford anything regardless of what taxes they pay. By not taxing them, we only hurt ourselves.

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      It’s the antithesis of “vote blue no matter who”.

      “Vote red, if your kids are brown bread”.

      I actually feel dirty just writing that.

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      If Musk wanted to make an impact with his new political party, he should go after Cruz’s seat. Nobody likes Cruz, even in his own party, but Texans won’t vote for a democrat.

      Ultimately, I hope his new party splits the GOP vote, but for that to happen they have to have a decent chance to win a few seats.

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        i’m definitely overly pessimistic at this point, but i think this “new party” is going to go exactly nowhere. but if it does, and it splits the R vote, then i guess that’s something

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          I’m optimistic, because either it works, and it splits the GOP vote, which makes it easier for Democrats to be elected. Or it doesn’t work, and it costs Musk and others massive amounts of money for no real purpose.

          Both those scenarios are good, and they’re the only 2 realistic scenarios I think could happen.

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            i think it’s equally likely that the whole thing is just orchestrated timed planned reality tv bullshit fake drama and musk never intends to follow through on whatsoever. why? because they’re fucking psychopaths and want to fill the newsfeed up with bullshit to draw attention away from the fascism

            i honestly hope i’m wrong

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      Honestly, it’s constituencies like Cruz’s that I have essentially zero sympathy for. The fact that he keeps getting reelected when he’s an extremely obvious limpdick, servile, malicious fascist is a reflection on the caliber of the voters across the state. So, hope you enjoy all those catastrophic weather events that are definitely not caused by totally-made-up-and-definitely-not-real-or-life-threatening climate change (/s because internet)

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    Rafael’s vacations are higher priorities than the well-being of his constituents.

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      Ted Cruz is a dick, but really, what is he actually going to accomplish by being there? I completely get that in the modern media world, a politician needs to be seen at the disaster site. They need to have their picture taken next to the heavy machinery, and talking with actual people doing the disaster relief work (ideally not while wearing goofy white boots).

      But, really, I would assume that his presence will just interfere with the work. Maybe he could be useful in his office, answering phones from concerned people, coordinating longer-term plans. But, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before we see him in jeans at a disaster site because… that’s important.

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        His presence would surely interfere, but ideally, politicians are supposed to bring their elected authority to bear by coordinating resources (as you describe). It’s much more effective to do that when you’re physically present, or at least not on a Mediterranean vacation six timezones away.

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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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      He’s some kind of indicator species. When he migrates, it’s time to stockpile water and food. Way cheaper than expensive satellites or weather balloons.

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        I had a team leader ten years ago or more when I worked in a incident management room, where he would be the duty manager for the south of the UK.

        You could tell something was going to happen or a griefy job was coming in, because he’d nip out for a fag for fifteen minutes just seconds before the first phone call would come in.

        It was almost impressive, and once most of the policy or callout decisions had been made, he’d come back in with a cup of tea oblivious to the whole thing.

        Absolute legend of a bloke really, I was just jealous that I didn’t have that sixth sense.

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          I have a coworker like that with our office phones. Our phone system rolls over to ringing the entire office if the original person doesn’t pick up. Phone lines will be dead silent all day long. Then this one coworker goes for a quick 15 minute walk, and instantly gets six phone calls back-to-back, which inevitably rings the rest of the office for each call. Then as soon as the last call wraps up, she casually strolls back in from her walk.

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          I’ve had the reverse: a few times I’ve connected into the shop just as things were falling apart. It’s hard to prove your innocence when you’re the only admin on the system just as it all goes to hell.

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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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      Texas’s infrastructure is so horrible that you honestly don’t need a lot of warning to get the hell out.

      Even “those clouds look kind of dark” is good odds of SOMETHING that will cause a disaster to some level.

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      Not just American, but his own constituents.

      Unfortunately the morons will vote for him no matter what he does (or doesn’t do).

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          I legit thought Allred was it. I donated to his campaign the second I heard he was running.

          He had the political chops since he had turned a deep red district in Dallas blue for the first time ever, and held it every time he was up for re-election.

          He’s a former NFL player, which I thought was going to be a big deal to the backwater Texans.

          He is Black, so all the racist Texans could point at him and be like “We CAN’T be racist! We voted for a BLACK man to be our SENATOR!”

          And finally, he didn’t fucking have the devastating out-of-context Beto sound bit “Hell yeah we’re taking your guns!” to plague him endlessly.

          FUCK I let myself get so optimistic, and I’m still really, REALLY bitter about it.

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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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    I believe ted cruz has the most punchable face in politics. I don’t even think you’d hurt your hand. It just looks soft and squishy.

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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)

    .

    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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      A Zodiac Killer is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.