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TexasTowelie

(112,266 posts)
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 01:50 AM Jun 2015

Days After Charleston Massacre Ted Cruz Cracks Jokes

Just days after Dylann Roof opened fire in one of our country’s first African American churches, killing nine people, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) cracked few gun control jokes in Iowa.

Cruz has done this sort of thing before, so this isn’t new.

“You know the great thing about the state of Iowa is, I’m pretty sure you all define gun control the same way we do in Texas — hitting what you aim at,” Cruz said at a town hall meeting Friday in Red Oak, according to the Huffington Post.

That’s exactly what Dylann Roof did with precision when he slaughtered nine people attending Bible study.

Read more: http://freakoutnation.com/2015/06/days-after-charleston-massacre-ted-cruz-cracks-jokes-praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-ammo/

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Days After Charleston Massacre Ted Cruz Cracks Jokes (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2015 OP
Cruz is an entitled little shithead with absolutely no filters Warpy Jun 2015 #1
I hope so..... daleanime Jun 2015 #4
Cruz's campaign says they will be refunding all donations dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #12
With Perry in the race, I look forward to seeing them both on the debate stage. Arkana Jun 2015 #15
What a sociopath that man is... CoffeeCat Jun 2015 #2
excellent assessment Skittles Jun 2015 #7
Sadly, I am sure it went over well with his audience..... daleanime Jun 2015 #3
Cruz has an audience? CountAllVotes Jun 2015 #5
Definitely, it just worries me that there's anyone other then.... daleanime Jun 2015 #6
Sleazy bastard trusty elf Jun 2015 #8
Come on... jmowreader Jun 2015 #9
Is it just me? Flo Mingo Jun 2015 #11
Yup. It's like I said, these people are trolls.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #10
The wit of a half wit. marble falls Jun 2015 #13
I Still Occasionally Wonder Vogon_Glory Jun 2015 #14
That's the oldest and dumbest pro-gun joke apnu Jun 2015 #16

Warpy

(111,291 posts)
1. Cruz is an entitled little shithead with absolutely no filters
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 02:07 AM
Jun 2015

which explains why he has more enemies in his own party than he does in ours.

A lot of dirty money got him into office. My best guess says it's not going to keep him there for long.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
12. Cruz's campaign says they will be refunding all donations
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 07:02 AM
Jun 2015

received from Earl Holt III, leader of group linked to Dylann Roof; candidates Rick Santorum, Sen. Rand Paul have not responded to requests for comment.
Breaking News just now.

Arkana

(24,347 posts)
15. With Perry in the race, I look forward to seeing them both on the debate stage.
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 11:35 AM
Jun 2015

Perry already hates Cruz because Cruz beat Perry's protege, David Dewhurst, for the Senate nomination in 2012.

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
2. What a sociopath that man is...
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 02:34 AM
Jun 2015

…and he's also a coward.

He said these things in Red Oak, Iowa--which is ultra conservative, right-wing hell. It's Joni Ernst's hometown.

Cruz can say these things in places like Red Oak, but if that sociopathic coward would step into the real world and say what he said--he'd be put in his place and verbally destroyed.

Cowards. That's what these big-talking goons are. They pontificate like cowboys, but only in select, small towns where everyone thinks that Glenn Beck is a truth teller and Sean Hannity is some kind of brain trust.

Kruz wouldn't dare spew his drivel in the real world. What a bunch of clowns these right-wingers are.



Skittles

(153,169 posts)
7. excellent assessment
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 04:04 AM
Jun 2015

this is the same man who cracked a joke about Biden the day before Beau Biden's funeral

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
10. Yup. It's like I said, these people are trolls....
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 04:40 AM
Jun 2015

Cruz and the rest of them are saying incendiary things to an audience going, "HAW! HAW! HAW!, That was a good un!"

They're interviewing for the job of Chief Troll to a bunch of idiots who think the job of the President of the United States is to spend four years pissing off Liberals. If they do a good job they get another four years.

They're children that have no business in a position of power.

Vogon_Glory

(9,122 posts)
14. I Still Occasionally Wonder
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 09:12 AM
Jun 2015

I still occasionally wonder what sort of US Senator DemocratIc candidate Paul Sadler would have been had Enough Texas voters contracted a massive outbreak of sanity back in 2012.

apnu

(8,758 posts)
16. That's the oldest and dumbest pro-gun joke
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 01:56 PM
Jun 2015

I can't believe it gets chuckles from anybody.

If anybody has spent any time with gun culture people, you've heard this joke. Its disgusting, true, but its also devoid of cleverness. Cruz is showing how unimaginative he is.

He's profoundly boring.

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