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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet's be honest. Would you really want Ted Cruz around in the middle of a crisis?
Shouldn't we give him credit for getting the fuck out of the way?
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Let's be honest. Would you really want Ted Cruz around in the middle of a crisis? (Original Post)
Xipe Totec
Feb 2021
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Turbineguy
(37,330 posts)1. It would be a bit
like being in Vietnam in the late '60's with Donald J Trump as your platoon commander.
Until he was fragged anyway.
Orrex
(63,211 posts)2. If the crisis were a vast swarm of Wicker Man-style bees, then absolutely
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)3. I don't want him around - EVER!
That said, hes (unfortunately) my Senator and the asshole can sit his pretty butt down here and freeze and thirst like the rest of us. Its his fucking job.
Hugin
(33,144 posts)8. At the very least...
or he could roll up his sleeves and pitch in like a human being.
RockRaven
(14,966 posts)4. Crisis, no crisis, my answer would be the same...
So would, I suspect, most of the people's who have ever had the misfortune to meet him.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)5. He is a crises.
Delarage
(2,186 posts)6. He could at least toss paper towels at people
There's a lot of flooding caused by broken pipes. I'm sure his constituents would appreciate a roll or two of paper towels...
Hugin
(33,144 posts)7. I wouldn't trust Raphel in the same room with my pet rock...
while I stepped into the next for a second.
He'd lose, break, steal, or abandon it.
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,630 posts)9. Just like his children, no, I don't want Ted Cruz around.