The day after Ted Cruz posed with a tiger skin rug

[Avalux]

Yes, this is the idiocity that my fellow Texas Democrats and I have to endure. Please, when you think about bashing Texas, think about us. We are here, fighting the good fight. And we have to put up with shit like this.



Cruz’s spokeswoman Catharine Frazier says he was kidding, and had no intention of bringing the tiger pelt back to Washington. He had hosted a fundraiser in his home state for Lee and “they ran across it in Houston and took a picture.” She could not say whether it was real.
Tigers are an endangered species. The mere act of making light of a skinned tiger set off an angry torrent of tweets and posts, with one tweeter suggesting the tiger should come alive and eat Cruz.*
Animal advocates sprung with catlike speed to condemn the senators.

[NYC_SKP]

1. I guess my mind is in the gutter because I immediately pictured a NUDE TED CRUZ on a Tiger Rug!

RAWR!

Not I have to go wash my brain out with Draino.

[Avalux]

2. I think a photoshop is in order!

I wish I could do it.

[sarisataka]

9. That was my first thought

but I hoped that there would have been a graphic warning if that was the case

[riversedge]

26. That image is sick.

[janlyn]

28. I am glad I am not the only

who expected to see some type of boudoir photograph. I shudder at the thought! I still can't get the photo of John Boehner breast feeding him out of my brain!

[Gravitycollapse]

3. Of all the possible things to attack Cruz for doing, this is not one worth expending energy over.

[Scootaloo]

4. No, it's certainly worth it. It's One More Damn Thing

But thanks for the update on what liberals are and are not allowed to think, gravitycollapse. Great to know you're on duty as gatekeeper for the issues

[Gravitycollapse]

6. What is it one more damn thing of, exactly?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. it's like "death by a thousand cuts", or "the last straw".

It's repulsive--another repulsive act among many. It makes the truth (that we liberals have known forever) yet more clear to the people slower to wake up.

[Rex]

7. So why waste the energy to reply then?

[flvegan]

11. Why is that? Be specific, please. n/t

[pscot]

14. About what?

[flvegan]

17. Shhh. Adults talking now. n/t

[Gravitycollapse]

19. I don't see the serious offense in the image. I see it as a joke photo...

Is it in poor taste? Possibly. But even then it is not flagrant. At least not to me and I'm having a hard time conceiving in what way it could possibly be flagrant or deeply offensive or constitutive of a greater issue.

That's why I'm saying it isn't worth expending energy on. Especially not with the cornucopia of issues to choose from related to Ted Cruz.

I see the fervor around this issue as a sort of "rallying of the troops" if you may.

Am I wrong?

[drmeow]

21. There may be otherwise indifferent voters

who care passionately about tigers. If any of them would have either not voted out of apathy or (worse) voted for Cruz by default or cause they didn't care and that person will now got out and vote against Cruz, in my opinion it is worth reacting to in order to make sure it gets in the public eye. My aunt, for example, LOVES tigers - passionately and fanatically loves tigers. I don't know if she is a liberal or not - if she followed in her mother's footprints, she is. If her views mirror what I suspect her husband's are, she's not. But a picture like this, joke or not, would motivate her. Even if we think it is mainly "rallying of the troops" there is always a possibility that one more person will switch sides or become active. For that reason, while I don't necessarily expend the energy myself, I don't think it is wasted energy. One man's "yawn" is another man's last straw.

[lob1]

24. It pisses me off that he's standing on the skin of a nearly extinct animal.

[99Forever]

27. Joke?

A joke is anyone defending this jerk.

[Squinch]

29. If it is a joke, it is a joke about the killing of a beautiful animal that is almost extinct,

and the killing of which has no practical purpose other than some sick version of "sport."

That is a big deal to some people. I find this photo disgusting and disturbing to look at.

Also, it is a purposefully antagonistic act on his part. It needed push back, and it is good that it got it.

[pangaia]

30. ".... I see it as a joke photo..."

My opinion is that I don't see anything funny about it whatsoever.
I find it sick, disgusting and oh so revealing.
It is infantile behavior by an infantile adolescent.

[Paladin]

33. There's a "Save The Tigers" public service ad on TV, currently running several times a day.

For Cruz to pose for a picture like this shows a phenomenal arrogance and detachment; it can and should be employed against him. We use the weapons that are made available to us, and we'd be idiots to pass up this opportunity to trash a madman like Cruz.

[otohara]

5. GOP = DEATH

[pscot]

15. +1

[TeamPooka]

12. If you want to look tough you need to pose with a live tiger.

[pinboy3niner]

13. He seems to have a thing for felines

And I still do not like him, Sam-I-Am.

[Blue Owl]

16. Check out the dual airbags on that tiger skin rug

n/t

[lunasun]

20. +1 Ha! I love it !

[Cha]

18. Thinking about you, Avalux~

[Avalux]

35. Hi Cha!!

That's so nice - good to see you here! Thinking about you too!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

22. So embarrassing. I picture what Europeans and Canadians, etc., must me thinking as they're

shaking their heads at the idiots we have in our governor's mansion and in Congress. Even Florida has good reason to look at us crazy.

[darkangel218]

31. Yup, sorry.

Lol

[Kablooie]

23. "He was kidding." SURE he was. As soon as all the anger became apparent they decided he was kidding.

No reason for him to do this unless he had no idea that killing tigers is an issue.
It wasn't a joke. He thought it would be cool.

They say he's a genius. I say he's an egotistical imbecile!

[Enthusiast]

25. It's obviously real.

Cruz should be so proud. What a fucking idiot.

[darkangel218]

32. Something puzzles me

Why do so many RWrs have several nonpolitical things in common? Things which I don't even blame on rw media indoctrination. They love killing animals ( legit hunting or otherwise ) , they're racist and they don't care about others ( who are different than they are ) well being.

Maybe my perception is off. But I have met so many who exhibit those attitudes in real life and they were all hardcore RWrs.



On edit: I have yet to meet a Democrat who is racist , bigoted, ignorant, and who loves killing wild life.

[Lisa0825]

34. I had shared this photo on the BIg Cat Rescue page, and got a response...

Carole Baskin - "I am sure they will be in our Top 5 Most Shocking Reports of animal exploitation in the May AdvoCat newsletter."