Friday, January 7, 2022

Ted Cruz and His Acrobatic Spectacle

 

I've mentioned before what a loss it is to the theater that Ted Cruz went into politics when it's only too clear, his true love is performance. Last night, the senator took to television to offer yet another performance, that of a penitent, as he knelt barefoot in the snow abjectly hoping that Tucker Carlson would grant him absolution for having dared to call the insurrectionists of 1/6 "terrorists".  He admitted to using "sloppy" language in calling them that--even if it is a word he has consistently used since, well, January 7th last year. 

It is rare to see such nimble bending over backwards in a man of his age, but he has the benefit of no spine and years of practice. But I'm sure he would never take back his estimation of who the true terrorists in this country are, even if they were certainly not the ones who invaded his workplace and threatened to kill his colleagues. He's not that flexible. And he fell short of co-signing Tucker Carlson's pet (conspiracy) theory, that the FBI done did it (which had been echoed recently by the wretched Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene). But give him time. There may be new tricks in the old boy yet.


4 comments:

Ten Bears said...

Seems to me a Quban Canadian illegal alien would be a Soviet sleeper.

Show us the green card "Ted", show me the green card ...

Grung_e_Gene said...

Jell-o is made of stiffer stuff than Cancun Cruz's spine.

Vixen Strangely said...

Ted Cruz is a puzzle to me because the same people (like John Eastman, the Clairmont dude who drew up one of the many "How to Pretend-Legally Overthrow an Election" memos) who would call Barack Obama a Kenyan and cast doubt on Kamala Harris' eligibility to be president genuinely would and have cast doubt on his own legitimacy as a citizen of exacting white-itude. It makes sense though if you look into his dad, who is read onto Seven Mountains Dominionism (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/ted-cruzs-campaign-is-fueled-by-a-dominionist-vision-for-america-commentary/2016/02/04/86373158-cb6a-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_story.html). Trump won the culture warriors over in 2016, but Cruz has been playing kind of a long game, by culture warring (clown shoes and all) in the hopes he needs to walk on the field like that football movie, Rudy, or whatever. And will eventually not be seen as a theater kid fuckup. It's just that, it's usually theater where the plucky understudy goes on to shine. In TrumpWorld, the understudy goes on to shine the Big Star's shoes for eternity.

bt1138 said...

The reason why Cruz would NOT have excelled in theater is that he has got, in fact, the WORST sense of timing.

He tells the truth at all the wrong times and then he lies at all the wrong times.

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