Ted Cruz flew to Cancun with family amid Texas power crisis

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  1. Montegriffo

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    I will, anyone getting on a plane or making any journey that is not absolutely essential should be heavily fined.
    Jetting off on holidays to avoid cold weather is not essential.
    Flights should be prohibitively expensive anyway to reduce CO2 output. They should not be subsidised with cheap tax free fuel in fact they should have very high levels of tax.
     
  2. Louisiana75

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    Liberals have to constantly cry about something and when they can't find anything, they'll invent the newest cry fest.
     
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    A little off topic, but is basic, warranted criticism now considered cancel culture? For a supposed left-wing thing, the only people I hear talk about it are right-wingers. Apparently, if you don't praise every move by any of the cult leaders, you're trying to cancel them. Seems par for the course; rightwingers are either ignorant of the left's positions or deliberately obfuscating.

    I see Republicans are trying to impeach Cuomo. If he's guilty of what Republicans claim, he should be removed, IMO. However, I see no one claiming Cuomo is being cancelled. C'mon Republicans; be consistent.
     
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    How would Cruz help the situation?
     
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    So you think it's OK for Cruz to flee the state of Texas in a time of need? People in Texas freeze in their homes and nothing for them to keep warm and that is something Cruz could have helped with. Hey! I don't object Cruz going to Cancun for a vacation, He could have gone any other time, that would be OK wouldn't it? But doing it in a time when needed the most would havebeen out of the question. Cruz should have postponed the trip to Cancun. I agree that America isn't a dictatorship I don't care what fellow Americans do with themselves. Anything Americans do is their business as long as it doesn't confront me. All I care about is what I do and that's only fair isn't it? I thought so. One more thing, None of us have the power over disasters in Texas either, That's the way things are.
     
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    When will he apologize for the mistake of aiding and abetting the Trumpocity in the big lie of election fraud? My prediction is Rafael Hypocrite will never apologize for that even though supporting the Trumpocity lead to the terrorist attack on thevCapitol.
     
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    Maybe his ugly ( per Trumpocity not per me) wife named it.

    Or hopefully the kids named it.
     
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    When will you apologize to the 1st President since Reagan to put America 1st!
     
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    Cruz is not obligated to stay in his state. There is nothing wrong with him leaving to take his family to a warmer climate.

    He is a senator. He literally has no controll over what happened in Texas. He is elected to go to Washington and vote on bills.

    Now if the Govenor flees then you have a valid argument. The govenor handles disasters.

    The only thing he could literally do is hand out water etc. The power company was already fixing the problems.The power companies already know what to do anyways.

    I would be saying the same thing if it was a Democrat. Joe Biden is also not obligated to be there.

    The liberal meltdown over Ted Cruz is ridiculous.

    Also Ted Cruz is not a hypocrite because he never told anyone to stay home. His criticism of the Austin Mayor was that the mayor told people to stay inside thier homes while he himself left for a trip.

    This country is not a dictatorship. People can come and go as they please. Cruz is nothing more than a senator.
     
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    People being stupid led to the capitol riot.
     
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    I, personally, would feel the same way if the Senator was a Democrat. I understand wanting to get his family out of there but it looks bad. No, he can't personally turn on the power and feed people but he could help in other ways. Yes, he could help via phone and internet wherever he was so I don't think it's a matter of "could" he do it versus "should" he do it.
     
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    I feel he is being held to a higher standard because he is Ted Cruz. He did contest the election and Democrats wont forget that.
     
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    How is he being held to a different standard? I would question ANY political representative doing what he did. It's not a party issue. It's a humanity issue.
     
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    Is taking your American ass to Cancun instead of sunny Florida or Arizona or California really putting America 1st?
    Really?


    Really?


    Really?
     
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    "Governor's" How many Governors do Trump haters believe Texas has? He was likely referring to Newsom and Cuomo, It didn't take a whole lot of thought to understand.
     
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    Let's call stupidity that started with the Trumpocity telling the 'big lie' about election fraud which led to Trumpocity fans and the extremists acting stupidly by believing the Trumpocitys lies and then letting the Trumpocity entice or convince them to head to the Capitol to undo the legal and fair election of Biden. So yes people being stupid and listening to people ( or person) being stupid.
     
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    I get that and agree. I’m considering the state of the Republican Party lately. I use to consider them the backbone of this country, now they are being exposed. I wish they would hold themselves and each other more accountable.
     
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    That statement is just so ludicrous that it does not deserve any direct response except derision.
     
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    Oh so patriotic Americans shouldn't traveL? Is that kind of like your cancel culture?
     
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    but it got one from you!! Ha HA!
     
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    If Cruz were to be a Democrat, He would have been crucified.
     
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    America isn't a dictatorship which is true. I don't think anyone would want it. Not the right, nor the left, and nor those in the middle or moderate. No one at all would want it Period.
     
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    Don't worry, the media has done all they can and that's about it!
     
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    If you are looking for derision congratulations.
     
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    Yeah! because Cruz is a good ol' boy with the GOP.
     

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