Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday attempted to justify his 2024 reelection campaign for a third term despite introducing last month a constitutional amendment that would limit senators to two six-year terms, claiming there’s no issue because his proposal isn’t law. CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan pressed Cruz on the …
Read More »'Go Back to Cancun!': Ted Cruz Heckled Mercilessly at Yankees Game
The Houston Astros completed a sweep of the New York Yankees to punch a ticket to the World Series on Sunday. Americans love to hate the Yankees, but they may love to hate the Astros even more since the Texas team was busted for cheating in 2017 and 2018. They’re …
Read More »Kacey Musgraves Rebukes Ted Cruz Onstage at ACL Fest
It’s safe to say that Kacey Musgraves won’t be playing any campaign events for Ted Cruz in this or any other lifetime. The country singer-songwriter, a native of Golden, Texas, offered a sharp rebuke of the Texas senator during her performance at Austin City Limits Music Festival on Sunday night. …
Read More »The American Right Is Gaga for Giorgia Meloni, Italy's Next Prime Minister
Across the right-wing American landscape, pundits, politicians and influencers are extremely pleased by the results of Sunday’s elections in Italy. That’s because the country has thrown substantial support behind the Brothers of Italy, a party with roots in post-World War II fascism, led by Giorgia Meloni, who is poised to …
Read More »Ted Cruz Has Been Breathlessly Touting a Highway Project He Voted Against
Ted Cruz has spent September praising the expansion of Interstate 27 into a “Ports-to-Plains” corridor that will run vertically through Texas. He’s even gone so far as to say he “led” the effort to fund the project, both in a Sept. 1 address at Texas Tech University — video of …
Read More »'Fight the Barbarians': The MAGA Movement Lays Out a Warpath at CPAC
Stoking the culture wars is nothing new for CPAC. But with dark, militant speeches — and literal demonization of the MAGA movement’s political opponents — the conservative convention in Dallas this week menaced America with what seemed to be thinly veiled calls for violence, all while seeking to whitewash the …
Read More »From a Gun-Free Bubble, NRA Demands 'More Guns' To Limit Mass Shootings
HOUSTON—The biggest names of the National Rifle Association’s annual gun show wouldn’t take the stage until mid-afternoon on Friday. But a young man with a vintage Make America Great hat, and a couple wearing matching “ULTRA MAGA” shirts, began camping out in the third-floor hallway of the convention center not …
Read More »Ted Cruz Can't Answer a Basic Question About America's Mass Shootings
Ted Cruz stormed away from a reporter who asked him about gun control in the wake of the massacre that killed 21 people, including 19 small children, in Uvalde, Texas. “Is this the moment to reform gun laws,” Mark Stone of Sky News asked the senator from Texas in Uvalde …
Read More »Ted Cruz Just Can't Understand Why All These 'Hot Women' Love Pete Davidson
Instead of spending his time addressing the rise of hate-based extremism or the baby formula shortage plaguing America — you know, things elected officials are expected to spend their time figuring out — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is keeping busy by wondering why so many female celebrities want to fuck …
Read More »Ted Cruz and Fox News Are Desperate to Convince America That Conservatives Are the Real Victims in the War on Abortion
Fox News hosts and Republican politicians have spent the past year plus downplaying the attack on the Capitol last Jan. 6, a familiar refrain being that the breach of Congress that resulted in five deaths and dozens of injuries was a “peaceful protest.” The same conservative hosts and politicians have …
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