Sat Jan 2, 2021, 05:49 PM
texasfiddler (1,940 posts)
Too harsh?
I just sent this message to Ted Cruz. Maybe I shouldn't have. I have had a couple of beers. Oh well it is how I feel.
Unlike you, I was born and raised in Texas. I will never lie about your Dad or denigrate your wife's looks like our current President did. You have no backbone! I am not liberal, but I believe in Democracy. You do not. You believe in power and are embracing elements of humanity that my father was drafted to fight against. My aim is not to get a response from you. I have zero respect for you. I just want you to know, as a white, Christian, rancher who owns guns, I do not agree with you trying to overturn the will of legitimate elections of multiple states. You disgust me. That is my main message. You are un-Democratic and un-American. That is my opinion. Now go suck up to the guy that denigrated your father and wife.
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texasfiddler | Jan 2021 | OP |
mtnsnake | Jan 2021 | #1 | |
alwaysinasnit | Jan 2021 | #2 | |
Stallion | Jan 2021 | #3 | |
treestar | Jan 2021 | #4 | |
wendyb-NC | Jan 2021 | #5 | |
Trailrider1951 | Jan 2021 | #6 | |
RainCaster | Jan 2021 | #7 | |
Sogo | Jan 2021 | #8 | |
calimary | Jan 2021 | #9 | |
SledDriver | Jan 2021 | #10 | |
BlueMTexpat | Jan 2021 | #11 | |
Karadeniz | Jan 2021 | #12 | |
Pantagruel | Jan 2021 | #13 | |
Freedomofspeech | Jan 2021 | #14 | |
iluvtennis | Jan 2021 | #15 | |
liberalla | Jan 2021 | #16 | |
niyad | Jan 2021 | #17 | |
Red Mountain | Jan 2021 | #20 | |
Red Mountain | Jan 2021 | #18 | |
Beartracks | Jan 2021 | #34 | |
onecent | Jan 2021 | #19 | |
ad121rome | Jan 2021 | #21 | |
panfluteman | Jan 2021 | #22 | |
Blue_true | Jan 2021 | #23 | |
efhmc | Jan 2021 | #24 | |
texasfiddler | Jan 2021 | #27 | |
efhmc | Jan 2021 | #30 | |
AllaN01Bear | Jan 2021 | #25 | |
smirkymonkey | Jan 2021 | #26 | |
mainer | Jan 2021 | #28 | |
efhmc | Jan 2021 | #32 | |
Escurumbele | Jan 2021 | #29 | |
JGug1 | Jan 2021 | #31 | |
texasfiddler | Jan 2021 | #33 | |
Larissa | Jan 2021 | #35 | |
myohmy2 | Jan 2021 | #36 | |
George II | Jan 2021 | #37 | |
texasfiddler | Jan 2021 | #40 | |
BlueTexasMan | Jan 2021 | #38 | |
BlancheSplanchnik | Jan 2021 | #52 | |
BlueTexasMan | Jan 2021 | #61 | |
keithbvadu2 | Jan 2021 | #39 | |
KT2000 | Jan 2021 | #41 | |
hamsterjill | Jan 2021 | #42 | |
Upthevibe | Jan 2021 | #43 | |
Upthevibe | Jan 2021 | #44 | |
denvine | Jan 2021 | #45 | |
Crunchy Frog | Jan 2021 | #46 | |
BobTheSubgenius | Jan 2021 | #47 | |
electric_blue68 | Jan 2021 | #48 | |
Dukkha | Jan 2021 | #49 | |
jaxexpat | Jan 2021 | #50 | |
WinstonSmith4740 | Jan 2021 | #51 | |
Paladin | Jan 2021 | #53 | |
DFW | Jan 2021 | #54 | |
Dustlawyer | Jan 2021 | #55 | |
czarjak | Jan 2021 | #56 | |
texasfiddler | Jan 2021 | #59 | |
CRK7376 | Jan 2021 | #57 | |
bluecollar2 | Jan 2021 | #58 | |
sarchasm | Jan 2021 | #60 | |
PJMcK | Jan 2021 | #62 | |
texasfiddler | Jan 2021 | #63 |
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 05:50 PM
mtnsnake (22,236 posts)
1. Perfect.
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 05:50 PM
alwaysinasnit (4,949 posts)
2. ...
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 05:50 PM
Stallion (6,458 posts)
3. Nope! I Think You Pretty Much Knocked it Out of The Park!
cheers
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 05:51 PM
treestar (82,113 posts)
4. Not too harsh
He deserves every word!
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 05:58 PM
wendyb-NC (3,022 posts)
5. Wonderful message
and very well stated. He needs to ponder those words, because they are the truth.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 06:14 PM
Trailrider1951 (3,303 posts)
6. As a former long-time resident of Texas, I can say that
anytime you want to verbally abuse that rancid piece of dung, you have all my blessing! And you do it so well, too! I'll even send you a stamped envelope so you can do it in writing!
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 06:21 PM
RainCaster (10,005 posts)
7. That was gentle enough for a Letter To The Editor
Really, you should post that in your local paper. I bet you will get lots of "hell yeahs" for that.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 06:56 PM
calimary (78,149 posts)
9. Nope! Not a bit. You were well-spoken and polite about it.
At this point, I’m just past all that. Fed up. And angry as shit.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:10 PM
SledDriver (2,021 posts)
10. Should have encoded it with the Zodiac cipher...
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:11 PM
BlueMTexpat (15,210 posts)
11. Much too nice, IMO!
But you said what needed to be said!
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:13 PM
Karadeniz (21,488 posts)
12. Bravo! He may not come through, but you did... With flying colors!!!!
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:20 PM
Pantagruel (2,529 posts)
13. Concise,
effective, staccato bullets of heartfelt truth. Everyone in Texas should copy and send it to Ted the weasel.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:21 PM
Freedomofspeech (4,157 posts)
14. Brilliant!!
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:22 PM
iluvtennis (18,925 posts)
15. Not harsh at all, you spoke the truth. Bravo.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:25 PM
liberalla (8,785 posts)
16. I approve of this message!
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:34 PM
niyad (105,810 posts)
17. Too harsh?? Nah, you were way too nice.
Response to niyad (Reply #17)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:46 PM
Red Mountain (1,546 posts)
20. So nice it gives you the leeway....
to print it, wrap it around a brick, and deliver it personally.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:42 PM
Red Mountain (1,546 posts)
18. You should add......
.....and I think it's completely fair....he is pushing this country to become what his family fled in Cuba.
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Response to Red Mountain (Reply #18)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:31 PM
Beartracks (12,490 posts)
34. This. This should be pointed out a lot. n/t
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:42 PM
onecent (6,096 posts)
19. That was wonderful....I hope he reads it!!!!!
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:46 PM
ad121rome (151 posts)
21. Well said
If anything you were too nice. Great points, well expressed with a great closing statement.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:49 PM
panfluteman (1,959 posts)
22. I Know - Ted Cruz Went From Denouncing Trump at the 2016 RNC to Kissing His Ass
You've come a long way, baby! And really - sucking up to a guy who slandered both your father and your wife!!! Trump and/or Putin must really have some powerful dirt / kompromat on Ted Cruz. I don't even think that Senator Lyndsey Graham has come as far in his about face on Trump as Ted Cruz has - not by a country mile.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:51 PM
Blue_true (31,261 posts)
23. Perfect. nt
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:53 PM
efhmc (14,471 posts)
24. Except for being a female, we are nearly the same. Thankfully all the members of my
family are Dems. One of my daughters actually went to SBHS with Cruz. He was older than her but was known to brag that he and his crew would take over the world. Creepy then and even creepier now.
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Response to efhmc (Reply #24)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:05 PM
texasfiddler (1,940 posts)
27. Funny! I didn't want Lyin' Ted to know my gender with my correspondence.
The only stretch in my email to his office was that I was "not liberal". That might be true in terms of DU, but in terms of Texas that may not be true.
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Response to texasfiddler (Reply #27)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:16 PM
efhmc (14,471 posts)
30. My daughter says why if I had to know someone famous did it have to be TC.
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:55 PM
AllaN01Bear (13,166 posts)
25. just right,
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:01 PM
smirkymonkey (63,221 posts)
26. Nah! Maybe even a little too respectful.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:07 PM
mainer (11,940 posts)
28. Why does his wife stay with him???
Heidi Cruz is a attractive woman and the family breadwinner. She should leave ol’ useless Ted and find someone who’ll stand by her.
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Response to mainer (Reply #28)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:20 PM
efhmc (14,471 posts)
32. Are you kidding me? You think of women as whole and powerful and the Baptist
church thinks of them as offshoots of men no matter how capable and successful they are. The man is the head of the house and of them always.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:08 PM
Escurumbele (3,062 posts)
29. Well done. These jackasses need to hear the truth
Thank you for doing it.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:16 PM
JGug1 (320 posts)
31. You Just Sent That Message?
You Da BOMB, DUDE. You are fabulous, wonderful, thoughtful and good. Great job.
Maybe you shouldn't have sent it? No, you should have sent it sooner. |
Response to JGug1 (Reply #31)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:30 PM
texasfiddler (1,940 posts)
33. Yes. I sent it to his official Senate Contact Email word for word.
Thank you for the kind words. Unfortunately, in Texas white landowners who are perceived as potential Republican swing votes can catch the attention of asshole repukes. Everything (with possibly the exception of the "I'm not Liberal" comment) was dead on true. It is true I might not be a "liberal" on DU. However, this is not the case in terms of Texas standards.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:40 PM
Larissa (778 posts)
35. Great message!
You took the words right out of my mouth! I salute you!!
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:41 PM
myohmy2 (3,038 posts)
36. +1...
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:48 PM
George II (67,782 posts)
37. Did you sign your name? BTW, you could have also thrown in that you were born in the UNITED STATES!
Response to George II (Reply #37)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:58 PM
texasfiddler (1,940 posts)
40. Yes. He knows my home address too. The Canadian thing was implied in my email.
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:53 PM
BlueTexasMan (149 posts)
38. 4th generation Texan here
Have guns for different jobs, hammers for the same, hound dogs grace my porch, my first name is two names. Live out in the woods, with the squirrels and deer, Biden sign in front, no proud boy do I fear. Time to take a stock of who represents our state, see them for what they are with their money and their hate. Let's run'em outa town and vote some other slate, then care for all our neighbors in this great lone star state!
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Response to BlueTexasMan (Reply #38)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 10:25 AM
BlancheSplanchnik (20,219 posts)
52. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Applause from Western NY state!
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Response to BlancheSplanchnik (Reply #52)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 03:22 PM
BlueTexasMan (149 posts)
61. Thanks for the claps.
I guess I got a little carried away, waxing poetic and all. It's just I felt like I had to say something to this rancher's comments about Cruise. What hacks me off about Swarmy-Ted is that he uses his preacher style voice to manipulate the brainwashed christians that are trained to respond to that style of intonation. I recognize that voice because when I grew up, we went to church three times a week. There's good in the church, but honestly the congregation is used to being told what to do and not to think. Fake pastor Cruise is more than happy to tell them what to do. If there's a devil, Cruise is definitely a disciple.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:54 PM
keithbvadu2 (33,604 posts)
39. Kiss Kiss
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 09:24 PM
KT2000 (20,415 posts)
41. That is a good one
Succinctly written and you got all the points in there! Well done!
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 09:24 PM
hamsterjill (15,153 posts)
42. Sixth generation Texan here.
And that, Mr. Fiddler, is how we do things in Texas!
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 10:05 PM
Upthevibe (7,257 posts)
43. texasfiddler....
That's simply perfect. This stands out to me: "You believe in power and are embracing elements of humanity that my father was drafted to fight against."
Thank you.... ![]() |
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 12:38 AM
denvine (783 posts)
45. Great message!
Good for you for sending it to him. It's exactly what he needs to hear if he had a heart, or a soul, or patriotism or a spine, integrity or scruples which unfortunately he has none of that. He still needs to hear it, especially from a true Texan. Thank you! I loathe that man!
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 12:55 AM
Crunchy Frog (26,362 posts)
46. I would remove the capitalization of the D
In "un-Democratic". That makes it look like a reference to the party. A Republican can be democratic, meaning supporting democracy (even though it's very rare at this time.
Other than that, I think it's perfect. |
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 01:09 AM
BobTheSubgenius (11,437 posts)
47. I don't understand why you think you shouldn't have sent it.
On the off chance that he is seriously miffed by this, it would require at least some the characteristics of a vertebrate for him to actually do something.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 04:24 AM
electric_blue68 (13,377 posts)
48. Well done. And I hope your ranching this year will go well!
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 08:24 AM
Dukkha (7,341 posts)
49. Not worthy of ever being called a "man"
Cruz is a slimy little worm in every sense of the term.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 09:00 AM
jaxexpat (5,997 posts)
50. If you had NOT had a couple of beers, I would suspect your Texan bona fides.
When I lived there it was customary, if not actually required, to keep a can of beer between one's legs when driving. That was before cup holders sprung up in every possible car interior space (which was probably a Texas-targeted sales gimmick). Automobile journeys were not measured in miles or duration but in beers consumed. I drove through Houston a couple years ago. The place has really grown. What was an easy 2 beer breeze is now a 4 beer drive, or more. In rush hour traffic it could go to a six pack. It used to be a guaranteed 12 pack drive to the Alamo from downtown Galveston. These days it's practically a case just to get past Rosenburg. It's like, as gas mileage improves with the modern auto engines, the beer MPG just keeps going down with the traffic. And with all the drunks on the roads, it's DANGEROUS.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 09:55 AM
WinstonSmith4740 (3,028 posts)
51. Awesome, Texasfiddler!
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now go have another beer and write to John Cornyn...he's pretty much an asshole, too. |
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 10:49 AM
Paladin (27,603 posts)
53. This Texan thanks you. (nt)
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 11:09 AM
DFW (52,339 posts)
54. Not at all harsh
Echoing perfectly what millions of Texans feel.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 11:18 AM
Dustlawyer (10,463 posts)
55. I think it is perfect and true!
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 11:20 AM
czarjak (9,922 posts)
56. Just wondering, did you vote for him?
Response to czarjak (Reply #56)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 12:32 PM
texasfiddler (1,940 posts)
59. HELL NO!! But Lyin Ted doesn't need to know this.
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 11:21 AM
CRK7376 (2,170 posts)
57. AWESOME POST!
No apology needed. You stated it perfectly.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 11:49 AM
bluecollar2 (3,622 posts)
58. Works for me....n/t
Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 01:15 PM
sarchasm (929 posts)
60. Thank you!
...for putting into words what I'm sure we all here on DU feel.
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Response to texasfiddler (Original post)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 04:51 PM
PJMcK (20,847 posts)
62. Great letter!
Your expressions of disgust are excellent.
A minor point: You're not liberal? (wink) |