Ted Cruz warns there will be pitchforks and torches in the streets if Trump doesnt deliver on cam

[jpak]

Source: NY Daily News

If President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t deliver on his central campaign promises, “there will be pitchforks and torches in the street,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) warned Sunday.

“I think people are so fed up with Washington, this election was a mandate with change and the most catastrophic thing Republicans could do is go back to business as usual,” Cruz said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“If we’re given the White House and both houses of Congress and we don’t deliver, I think there will be pitchforks and torches in the streets. And I think quite rightly,” added Cruz, who was responding to a question from host Martha Raddatz about Trump having “changed his tune” on many of his core campaign promises.

Trump has, In recent weeks, said he would keep in place certain parts of Obamacare (even though he campaigned on vows to repeal it), has signaled that he wouldn’t authorize torturing terror suspects (even though he promised during the campaign to “bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding”), has acknowledged that “there is some connectivity" between humans and climate change (even though he previously called it a "con job" and a "hoax perpetrated by the Chinese”) and has completely taken back his campaign vow to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server and her family foundation.

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[bravenak]

1. Yay!!! I support these protests. Not the sentiments, but the effects will be my funtime

[wordpix]

63. Mr. Orange thinks macho bravado solves all but he's squeezed

between the right and left. Funtime is right. Or left

[Maeve]

2. There may well be torches and pitchforks if he DOES

Go talk to him about your daddy again, Ted.

[ailsagirl]

6. LOL

[lonestarnot]

58. Oh yippie. A torch and pitchfork fest.

[kebob]

3. Pitchforks and Torches Will Be the LEAST of His Worries

[ailsagirl]

10. drumpf probably had no idea he was playing with fire

those people are deadly serious

[Chakab]

12. You can walk around the street with a fucking grenade launcher?

Jesus Christ, these people are insane.

[33taw]

17. Apprently, but do not attempt to exercise your 1st amendment right.

[NickB79]

51. Real 40mm ammo is virtually illegal for them, though, so it can only fire flares

40mm grenades are explosive and require insane amounts of paperwork to possess, on par with a machine gun. I believe you need a $200 tax stamp for EACH round you purchase, if you even can.

It's basically a glorified flare gun; a metal tube with a trigger.

[jmowreader]

61. Yup. 200 per round.

High-explosive rounds are NFA Destructive Devices. The first step in getting one (ONE!) is to go to your county's sheriff, explain what you want and why you want it, and ask if he or she will sign the Form 4.

The first question any sheriff in his or her right mind will ask you is, "you want a WHAT?"

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

52. Beyond insane... can't believe what this country has dissolved into.

[Grey Lemercier]

23. what the fuckery!!!

[LiberalLovinLug]

67. Obama only has a few more weeks to take all those guns away!

(I wish he could)

[MADem]

4. Mandate? He lost the popular vote. What part of "LOSER" do these Republicans not understand? nt

[oberliner]

5. I guess he isn't jockeying for a cabinet position

Perhaps a 2020 run?

[MADem]

7. Entirely possible. Thing is, he'll still be hated in four years!!

Trump wouldn't let him shine shoes for his cabinet. He knows it, too. He also knows that if he bends any more for that orange turd, his career will be destroyed.

[oberliner]

8. Trump is pretty darn hated

There was a whole Never Trump movement after all among Republicans.

Yet, here we are.

[MADem]

22. Cruz didn't have the benefit of Putin the Puppetmaster and his hacky little trolls. nt

[BlueStater]

60. He's probably hoping Trump will be so hated in four years that he can primary him.

I'm not sure if the Tangerine Tyrant will last four years and, if he does, I don't think he'll run again.

[not fooled]

36. Isn't he trying to get on SCOTUS?

Ted is oiling his way around Drumpf to try to get the SC nom. or so I hear.

[whopis01]

27. He didn't lose the popular vote

He won it once you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.

At least that is what he is claiming:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/802972944532209664

[MADem]

30. He's talking about all those Russian hackers who switched votes to Trump!

LOL!

Idiot just said--regardless of his perspective--that the election was a fraud.

Gee, wouldn't it be nice if we had provisions for a do-over.

[0rganism]

42. more like laying out the gameplan for 2020

those millions of people he says (and maybe believes) were voting illegally? don't count on them voting at all come 2020

his commentary chills me to the bone

NLA - Not Laughing Anymore

[whopis01]

53. It's unbelievable, isn't it? n/t

[old guy]

9. He has no idea what he is talking about.

He has been almost forgotten during the campaign and now wants some face time.

[ProfessorGAC]

62. Remember, Also. . .

. . .that he was unpopular even among the other republican senators before he ran and now he burned bridges with the Trumpites.

So, he's just back to throwing red meat to the radicals that support a tool like Cruz.

[saltpoint]

11. Ted likes to do the moral outrage thing.

He likes it way too much, actually.

In a not-unrelated reference:

http://tpwd.texas.gov/education/resources/texas-junior-naturalists/snakes-alive/venomous-texas-snakes

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. Well then, better suit up, Ted.

Your boy isn't going to deliver a fraction of the things he promised.

[7962]

28. I told everyone i knew who was voting for him that.

Hell, he TOLD them he was a dealmaker!! They DONT like making deals, they want 100% of whatever

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Trump indicates he will break EVERY campaign promise, since the election

Explicitly, one by one, if you follow each up.

But he has also (since the election) said things that contradict his other statements.

For example, he has said he is keeping an open mind on climate change, because there seems to be something there, breaking his campaign promise, but then he goes and says it is just bunk. By saying everything depending on who he thinks he is speaking to, he thinks he can do anything and get away with it.

Except for an unyielding hard core (maybe 15% of the electorate), he is going to frustrate his supporters.

At some point they will abandon him when they realize they've been conned. The question is, will it happen before the 2018 and 2020 elections.

I think tRump will be at most a one-term President and possibly less.

We may get Pencetrated.

[LisaL]

33. So they might as well start now.

[RobinA]

46. Unlikely

They've been conned by Reagan and two separate Bushes, not to mention countless Congress people, but they don't get it yet.

[HassleCat]

15. We will need them.

Since we will be kept in the dark and buried in manure, we can use them.

[Solly Mack]

16. Screwing people over and going after the Clintons is business as usual for Republicans

Shut the fuck up Ted the Trump-o-phant Cruz

Not doing those things would be a change for Republicans.

[Bear Creek]

18. Help them out with that

None of the lies he told them are going to happen. But the republicans can cut the SNAP and WIC. They do need to feel the pain for awhile. Tired of hearing how the democrats are holding them back. That they are just being used by the state. The ones that are unemployable are still going to be unemployable they lack skills and the republicans sure are not going to allow college and training. And now the republicans are now attacking college professors they want to start back Mc McCarthyism.

[Augiedog]

19. Once again the circular firing squad locks and loads. Ready, fire, aim

[lark]

20. Really? I don't think so at all.

His voters are idiots and low information types. They never paid attention to what he did, merely cared about getting rid of the brown folks. He obviously thinks he can do anything or he wouldn't be gutting Medicare right out the gate. A lot of his voters rely on Medicare and they are not going to be happy. They won't give a fuck about his self-enrichment, except as it hurts them. If he distracts them with the high drama of house to house arrests, or a Muslim registry, will they even notice he's stabbing them in the back? I think they won't notice until they have no healthcare and can't get the operation they need, or there are no more public schools and they can't afford the private ones. I'd love to see pitchforks in action against him from his violent supporters, but would be totally shocked to see it happen.

[Marthe48]

44. Can't wait till Mom and Dad move into the basement

or when they have to move out of Mom and Dad's basement when Mom and Dad have to move under a bridge.

[Kennah]

47. There's always this option

[Sunlei]

21. trump fans will rage on twitter at trump for all his broken promises. only nazis & kkk street paint

See?, republicans like cruz really did love trump.

[Coolest Ranger]

24. Good, go for it

[catbyte]

25. If we're lucky, maybe they'll kill each other off. It's our only hope.

[Iggo]

26. Mandate? He lost the popular vote by 2 fucking million!

Mandate, my ass.

[Bear Creek]

40. Latest tweet

Trump thinks he won the popular vote. He said it himself the election was rigged and now he is saying it again. He had the popular vote if all those millions of fraud votes were not counted. I say take him at his word we need a re-election without the electronic voting machines.

[LisaL]

54. He thinks he won it because millions voted illegally.

[cstanleytech]

29. Someone should tell this twit that it was not a mandate as the majority voted for Hillary not Trump.

[tanyev]

31. Gosh, maybe you shouldn't have endorsed him, Teddy.

[SHRED]

32. BRING IT ON!!!

[Dream Girl]

34. I guess Ted didn't get anything from Trump

[LisaL]

35. Sure looks that way.

[roamer65]

37. Not in my street there won't be.

It is a hardcore Dem enclave.

There will be jubilation on my street.

[Liberalagogo]

38. I don't give a tiny rat's ass

what Rafaelito thinks.

[Island Blue]

39. Nah, Trump will just blame

Obama or Hillary, or both, and his mouth breathing, gun humping followers will believe him.

[Dream Girl]

41. Ted expects Trump to be a one termed at best. He's setting himself up as leader of the loyal

Opposition. He'll be there to pick up the pieces when Trump fails to "make America great again."

[Thekaspervote]

56. You bet, and let's pile some more of that on

Drive ol dump crazy. Get a load of that twitter. Go Donnie ....go twitter your little heart out, oh forgot, you don't have one. Little parts thou.. least that's what they say. Heard it on the internet, so it's got to be true.

Come du'ers you've got dozens...hundreds of good things to tickle donnie's twitter thumbs with!! I know it. Let's see what we can get the blathering idiot to tweet about next!!

[Nac Mac Feegle]

43. Nice country you have here.

It'd be a shame if something was to happen to it....

[Marthe48]

45. A**hole doesn't even know what century we're in

Most of the posers who voted Republican wouldn't know what a pitchfork is, or which end of a torch to light.

[thegoose]

48. Hey, Ted...

Aren't you supposed to be down in the laboratory making some sort of serum for Herman to take?

[lunasun]

49. Will they try to take down the monster they let loose? That would be a good thing.

[Javaman]

50. I just have just to find the right spot for my pitchfork and torch stand. nt

[Thekaspervote]

55. Hey, I say you go for it little teddy, let's see what ya got

I don't care who gets under that man's skin. All we have to do is help him out a little bit. Start our own conspiracy theories. Post it on twitter FB wherever- hey did you here what Cruz said? Wow he and the don must have had a big falling out. I hear Cruz is setting himself up as leader of the impeach tRump movement. Hear tell he will be named VP when pence moves up.

Like an elderly gent said from west Texas on a murder mystery show. In this here little town if there isn't a rumor goin' by 10:15 in the mornin' yer all supposed to start one.

[BigDemVoter]

57. If it was such a fucking mandate, why didn't they win the popular vote?

[lonestarnot]

59. by over 2 million. I'd call that a fucking loser.

[titaniumsalute]

64. Maybe the first who is pitchforked will be Teddy Cruz

Because isn't HE a Senator in Washington?

[ancianita]

65. This is the Big Threat always mounted against Democrats who fight. Bullying 101.

[Patiod]

66. They will tear each other into pieces Jesus Christ it will be fun

Da da da da da, da da da da dya da.....

- King George from "Hamilton"