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.
I’m in Midland, TX today, and guess what I found!#Cancun 🌴🌴 pic.twitter.com/mKEBy75xiU
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 19, 2023
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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.
Yea, it’s so funny that in the middle of a terrible storm in your state, when people died and others left without heat and electricity, you thought it was the right time to go for a family vacation on the beach in Cancun. Hilarious
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 19, 2023
That has to bring back memories of when you fled the state to Cancun during the power grid failure while your constituents froze and died. Why are you smiling?
— |Between The Lines| (@Jones25Frank) May 20, 2023
Let us know when you find morals and decency, won’t you? 🙄
— GOPisComplicit now with parody/satire in title 🙄 (@GOPisComplicit) May 19, 2023
people you represented died but whatever
— Diedrich Bader (@bader_diedrich) May 19, 2023
Why don’t you send that picture to those that lost someone during the deep freeze and see how they react?
— Jake Laney (@Bruce_Diavolo) May 19, 2023
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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