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Rhiannon12866

(205,320 posts)
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 12:18 AM Feb 2021

Ted Cruz Heroically Investigates Whether Mexico Stole Heat and Sun from Texas

CANCÚN (The Borowitz Report)—Senator Ted Cruz made a top-secret trip on Wednesday to investigate whether Mexico illegally stole heat and sunshine from his home state of Texas.

Cruz said that he undertook the dangerous heat-finding mission because he cares deeply about the current suffering of his fellow-Texans.

“The temperature in Cancún is an unacceptable fifty degrees warmer than in Houston,” Cruz said. “It’s so warm here on the beach that I’ve had to wear a swimsuit and periodically douse myself in the ocean. It is an absolute disgrace, and it will not stand.”

“I intend to stay here until I get to the bottom of how Mexico managed to steal all of this heat and sun from Texas,” he said. “I don’t care how long it takes.”

News of Cruz’s trip caused members of Mexico’s Senate to call for the building of a wall along the border with the United States, because, in the words of one lawmaker, “They’re not sending their best.”


Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ted-cruz-heroically-investigates-whether-mexico-stole-heat-and-sun-from-texas


Photograph by Tom Williams / Getty

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Ted Cruz Heroically Investigates Whether Mexico Stole Heat and Sun from Texas (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Feb 2021 OP
Cockroaches dupagelib Feb 2021 #1
Same here, there are currently a wealth of choices Rhiannon12866 Feb 2021 #2
Lyndsey, he's a pitiful roach, a chameleon roach. But there's so dem4decades Feb 2021 #3
LOL @ matthew dowd on ReidOut moonscape Feb 2021 #4
He's on it flying rabbit Feb 2021 #5
A new statement from Ted Cruz DesertRat Feb 2021 #6
LOL! Rhiannon12866 Feb 2021 #7

dupagelib

(144 posts)
1. Cockroaches
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 12:23 AM
Feb 2021

If you consider all republicans cockroaches and you could only squish one, I always thought it would be Mitch. But now that he is out of power and in light of Cruz's dubious conduct, I am considering changing my decision. Which republican would you squish?

Rhiannon12866

(205,320 posts)
2. Same here, there are currently a wealth of choices
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 12:32 AM
Feb 2021

But Ron Johnson has long been at or near the top of my list.

dem4decades

(11,288 posts)
3. Lyndsey, he's a pitiful roach, a chameleon roach. But there's so
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 12:50 AM
Feb 2021

Many choices.

Rand Paul? Another deserving one.

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
4. LOL @ matthew dowd on ReidOut
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 12:58 AM
Feb 2021

He said there was a thing that went around when he had to work with Cruz in 2000 or early 2000s...

Q. Why do people take an instant dislike to Ted Cruz?
A. Because it saves time.

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