Ted Cruz Tried To Crack A Joke About His Infamous Cancun Trip And It Landed As Well As You’d Expect

I mean, what did he think was going to happen???


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Texas Republican Ted Cruz is effectively getting his ass handed to him on a silver platter after he tried to crack a tasteless joke about his infamous, impromptu trip to Cancun, Mexico, in the middle of a brutal and deadly weather crisis in his southern state and, let’s just say, that joke landed about as well as you’d expect a joke about pulling a stupid, selfish stunt while your constituents froze and died would.

As I am sure we all still recall and will likely never forget, Ted Cruz got brutally hammered in the midst of the February 2021 winter storm in the Lone Star State that cost the lives of hundreds of Texans as the state grappled with endless power outages and deadly low temperatures that the southern state was ill-equipped for in every way. As his constituents literally froze and starved to death all across his state, Cruz packed up his family and flew down to Cancun for an impromptu trip to somewhere warm and sunny, leaving all of the people he swore to serve to their own devices.

It was a scandal that Cruz will likely and rightfully never live down. Yet, apparently, he thinks it’s entirely appropriate to crack jokes about leaving his people to die in the cold.

Yesterday morning, Cruz tweeted a photo of himself standing in front of the Cancun Bar and Grill in Midland.

“I’m in Midland, TX today, and guess what I found!” the GOP senator captioned the image.

By the end of the day, Cruz’s tasteless and offending tweet had gone viral across social media, but certainly not in a good kind of internet fame way. In just a matter of hours, the post had garnered countless views and comments, the majority of which found absolutely no humor in Ted’s shitty joke.

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Ted’s joke was so disgusting and insulting that it caught the attention of  The New Republic’s Prem Thakker, who penned an entire op-ed piece on the GOP lawmaker’s nasty behavior.

” It’s a legacy that will stay with Cruz,” Thakker writes of Cruz’s infamous Cancun trip, “but amid the escalating viciousness of his party, he has been able to shed the association ever so slightly. However, on Friday, he gave us a reminder of how cartoonishly callous he most certainly is.”

“It’s all a joke. The pain, the suffering, the heightened contradictions his departure from his constituents revealed—it’s all just funny to him.”

“And still. To Ted Cruz, the human suffering, the real-world implications of an energy policy so reliant on fossil fuels, of a government system that can leave so many to die such cold, lonely deaths—it’s all a little punch line.”

The Texas winter storms of 2021 saw at least 246 people lose their lives and went down in history as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the state.

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Andrea Thompson
Andrea has written political opinion stories for over a decade with a passion for center-left policies. Andrea is no longer a writer at Political Tribune and her X account is here: https://x.com/theliberalmommy

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