Cruz says he returned to Texas as quickly as he could after news of devastating floods broke. Flight data tells a different story.

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?

  • BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
    151·
    13 hours ago

    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!

    • TwinTitans@lemmy.world
      9·
      13 hours ago

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

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      14 hours ago

      He’s in tight with O&G, his wife literally works for Goldman Sachs, and he’s jumped into Opus Dei. The man has more money and institutional support than any three other Senators you could name, despite being a turd in the Texas punch bowl the rest of the year.

      Meanwhile, his most competent opponents have been the Skateboarding Take Your Guns guy chanting “demographics is destiny” to a bunch of conservative Latinos and the Linebacker in sheriff cosplay who ran on being tougher on the border than Republicans.

      When your options are constantly Republican or Republican Lite, is there any surprise when the Republican wins?

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    14·
    19 hours ago

    Fuck him and his constituents, they love the abuse. If they didn’t they would have gotten rid of him the first dozen times he did this shit. At this point it’s Cruz’s trademark to run away during a crisis. And Texas fucking loves it.

    On a side note, how does big bad Texas have such a soft, wimpy, sad excuse for a man as their rep? Maybe he represents the true Texan man

      • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        19 hours ago

        But that’s faster than the human by itself can go making it inhumanely possible.

        I’m just kidding. I have no idea if what i said even made sense after a wake bake but I really want him to drop from a plane.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      22 hours ago

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

  • nthavoc@lemmy.todayEnglish
    30·
    1 day ago

    Yet Texas voters keep landsliding this absolute coward back into office. Nevermind he has abandoned his constituents at every major natural disaster. Even Chip Roy, who is arguably a bigger fucking idiot than he is, was there before him.

    Edit reminder: Dude even abandon’s his dog in the worst ice storm of his state’s history! I don’t care if his security guard was watching him, people were freezing to death!

    • jorymo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      22 hours ago

      I think very few Texans ever voted for Cruz because they actually like or know about him. He has the R next to his name and that’s good enough.

      • Heikki2@lemmy.world
        3·
        20 hours ago

        100% this they’ll always vote R or abstain from voting. The argument abstaining from voting causes low voter turnout, which elects elects more Rs doesn’t matter.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
    213·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • blargh513@sh.itjust.works
      97·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        14 hours ago

        He like many senators, has a house in the state he represents and it’s marked his primary address on his taxes.

        But Cancun Cruz the disgrace to Canada doesn’t spend any time there.

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
        281·
        2 days ago

        Don’t a lot of bad things also tend to happen in Texas, given the awesome management team they’ve got there?

        • bus_factor@lemmy.world
          241·
          2 days ago

          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.

    • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com
      81·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
        35·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          11·
          2 days ago

          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.

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          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.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
      61·
      2 days ago

      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.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    1 day ago

    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.