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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCruz goes after Beto, makes him look awesome instead.
Keep in mind that Cruz tweeted this as an attack against Beto. Not only didn't I see anything wrong with what he said in that clip, I wanted to stand up and cheer. Seriously, I got goosebumps watching this.
Link to tweet
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)showing kindness to victims will enrage them as long as the victims are black and you see ted and his base are afraid of black folk
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)GOP are filthy fucking racist scum
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)The ad isn't a mistake.
He's not trying to win over new voters. He's encouraging his base to come out and vote.
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)Regardless of whether or not those people have a little marijuana stashed somewhere in their home. And we can't have that. That's downright un-American.
dameatball
(7,397 posts)lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)it's OK that a police person, after a hard shift, comes home to the wrong apartment, sees somebody in the dark, and their first reaction is to pull their service weapon and kill the black guy.
After all, police work is really really hard.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)because the victim was a drug addict!
errr...wait... I've got it...a drug dealer!
Yeah, that's the ticket. A dangerous drug dealer. So everything evens out.