saw Ted Cruz at an event the other day

[phuckphace]

overall rating: pseudocon/10

opened with some PATRIOTIC music by a band of old veteran dudes, not half-bad actually. then a couple of wonky-looking """young conservatives""" sang the national anthem, and the intro music was finally concluded by the Star-Spangled Banner sung by a black lady who carried a tune pretty well until she hit the high notes (sounded like someone sticking a mic into an amp). I knew better than to expect America Über Alles though.

some pseudocon senator then gave a tl;dr intro speech about ARE CUNTRY and got the crowd warmed up with Hillary and Bernie jokes, and finally out comes Cruz himself.

total goofball this guy, but unlike Trump his goofballery is totally unironic. he was doing the whole "connect to the red state voters" number with cowboy boots and a huge belt buckle with a flag on it. I guess one of his aides read my rants about pseudocons and decided to try it out. he checked every box on the culture war list, such as defunding Planned Parenthood and making sure kids can pray in school ( :lol3: ) if you've been paying attention, you already know shutting down Planned Parenthood will make abortion stop happening (at least he wasn't hawking Cruz-branded guac bowls though).

wew lad - it keeps going. next I got to hear about BIG GUBMINT being a communist conspiracy, immediately followed by "I'm going to direct Federal Agency X to do Y" + lots of hand-wringing over ARE DEBTS and ARE TAXES immediately followed by promises to ramp up ARE MILITARY by 1776% or whatever, you know, because Iran and Russia.

finally I got fed up, walked on stage, grabbed the mic and said "Yo, Ted, I'm really happy for you and imma let you finish, but I think Adolf Hitler had the best campaign of ALL TIME." or at least that's what I would've done if there hadn't been so many cops up there.

tl;dr - heil Trump :D

[Cadanance00]

Prayer in schools: It's a fake. There are three supreme court decisions and all they say is that a government employee can't determine what the prayer will be. Anybody can pray or lead a prayer in a school.

All this leads to an interesting possibility: supposes there's a district that's predominately Hindu. The principal is appointed by the school board and leads a prayer to Hindu gods, like you know rats, snakes and blue elephants. Can you imagine what the fundamentalist Christians would do? As in be careful what you ask for.

[DriveAlive]

My physics teacher is an ultra-conservative and very wealthy. We were talking about candidates in class and she said she hated Cruz. When we asked why, she said because at a GOP dinner she went to, he was at her table and would not stop talking and it annoyed everyone there. I love her so much.

[phuckphace]

I cannot for the life of me figure out what's so appealing about this guy to people like my parents. something about Cruz just rubs me the wrong way - he has this wheedley salesman personality that strikes me as both insincere and desperate ("IF YOU MAKE ME YOUR PRESIDENT, I PROOOOMISE I'LL..."). he's like that kid at the cafeteria table who's cringingly un-selfaware and babbles endlessly about his favorite anime, except instead of anime and tentacles it's recycled culture war talking points. he also really, really likes to laugh at his own jokes.

also funny: I kept a mental tally and Cruz just about name-dropped """"our greatest ally"""" as often as he mentioned 'Murica. we get it bro, you're an Evangelicuck, but this is a campaign for POTUS, not Uncle Bibi's successor.

the sad thing is, I'd estimate 95% of the crowd was filled with normal-looking middle class people (highest number of normies I've seen in one place in quite awhile). these are the kind of folks who need to be guided to the Trumpenkrieg.

[Judean Zealot]

also funny: I kept a mental tally and Cruz just about name-dropped """"our greatest ally"""" as often as he mentioned 'Murica. we get it bro, you're an Evangelicuck, but this is a campaign for POTUS, not Uncle Bibi's successor.


What do you expect? I'm bankrolling him. :D

[Vlerchan]

I have a friend that's favouring Ted Cruz and is basing her vote more or less around social issues (inc. immigration I believe). Economics and geopolitics basically aren't on her radar.

[phuckphace]

What do you expect? I'm bankrolling him. :D

oy gevalt

if Cruz supported Israel for purely strategic/diplomatic reasons I wouldn't mind at all, but you know his Israel-shilling comes from his whack-ass Evangelical endtimes silliness. i.e., the kind of people who will start looking for the Antichrist after Temple 3.0 gets built. still lollin

I have a friend that's favouring Ted Cruz and is basing her vote more or less around social issues (inc. immigration I believe). Economics and geopolitics basically aren't on her radar.

I'm still waiting for the day when a prominent non-pseudocon right-winger finally brings up the socioeconomic angle to abortion rates. hey a guy can dream right

I just don't get how he and the rest of them can't understand that restricting abortion in THE CURRENT YEAR will only result in more coathangers and bottles of hard liquor.

[StoppingTom]

He kind of looks like Kevin Malone from the Office.

I'm not voting Republican, but I got the same vibe you did, from the very start of the nomination campaigns, I was struck by how car salesman-y, disingenous, and generally slimy he came off as.

[phuckphace]

lol good point aEON, he looks exactly like this local Ford dealer here in my town who runs these annoying ass ads everywhere and wears that same shit eating grin

Cruz recently aired this silly ass campaign ad reading storybooks to his kids about THE GUBMINT SHUTDOWN, it just screams pandering to homeschooling moms who are too triggered by Trump's "rudeness" to vote for him. cute kids though

[Judean Zealot]

The first thing that popped into my head when Cruz introduced himself at the first Republican debate was "bambi eyes".

[Sir Suomi]

My boy Rand was making me laugh with his Festivus tweets. Now vote for Rand, you Statist Scum.

[phuckphace]

My boy Rand was making me laugh with his Festivus tweets. Now vote for Rand, you Statist Scum.

NEIN!

what's funny about Rand and most lolbertarians in general is that he buys into the left-wing bunk about higher incarceration rates of blacks being due to SYSTEMIC RACISM which I'm pretty sure you yourself don't believe. this is clue #1 that this guy isn't operating in our universe despite his pseudopopulist claims. apparently he believes that citizens will be able to fend off very large mobs of rioting BLMs with a concealed carry pistol or something (the police are an arm of statist oppression, dontcha forget)

perhaps God-Emperor Trump will have mercy on him and make his Gulag sentence light.

[Sir Suomi]

what's funny about Rand and most lolbertarians in general is that he buys into the left-wing bunk about higher incarceration rates of blacks being due to SYSTEMIC RACISM

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Not exactly. He believes that the reason we have so many blacks in the system is mainly due to the fact that many black youths are imprisoned with non-violent felonies, mainly substance possession. When they finally get out, they no longer are able to get regular jobs. Without jobs, they can't get loans, which means they'll be unable to finance themselves to move out of their former environment. Unable to get a job, and unable to move out, it's not surprising to think that they'd turn back to crime in order to live basically. So Rand's trying to pass legislation that will basically make it easier for non-violent felons to get jobs, vote, etc, and basically have the opportunity to become a productive member of society.

Now don't get me wrong. Don't think I sympathize with every criminal. It was their actions that put them in there, and I do think they should be held accountable for it. However, even you have to see that reform is needed, or else nothing is going to change.


apparently he believes that citizens will be able to fend off very large mobs of rioting BLMs with a concealed carry pistol or something

You think those cry babies would actually try and fight back if they started to actually become endangered? If cops did what I secretly wish they did and just beat the shit out of them right then and there, you'd never hear a peep out of them.

(the police are an arm of statist oppression, dontcha forget)

https://media.giphy.com/media/U1XhGr8CWqvVC/giphy.gif

[phuckphace]

Not exactly. He believes that the reason we have so many blacks in the system is mainly due to the fact that many black youths are imprisoned with non-violent felonies, mainly substance possession.

what Rand cannot understand (because he's afflicted with the 'tism) is that marijuana laws are a convenient way to sweep up more thuglets off the street before they can go on to commit more serious crimes. how much higher do you think our crime rate would be if they were incarcerated at equal rates to whites? spoiler alert: dramatically higher.

http://i.imgur.com/uYGIoqK.png VICTIMLESS CRIME HURF DURF

When they finally get out, they no longer are able to get regular jobs. Without jobs, they can't get loans, which means they'll be unable to finance themselves to move out of their former environment. Unable to get a job, and unable to move out, it's not surprising to think that they'd turn back to crime in order to live basically.

da man be holdin' a brutha down! :lol3:

what actually happens is that everywhere these """"inner city youths"""" are able to obtain jobs, they promptly blow every penny on sneakers, drugs and chrome spinnaz. when given welfare they gorge themselves into a diabetic coma on junk food. even Oprah herself once noted that if you go to Africa and ask a kid what they want, they'll say "a backpack and shoes so I can go to school" but if you go to Harlem and ask a "youth", they'll ask for iPhones and sneakers.

So Rand's trying to pass legislation that will basically make it easier for non-violent felons to get jobs, vote, etc, and basically have the opportunity to become a productive member of society.

because he's an idiot. the "non-violent felon" distinction is a meaningless lolbertarian canard.

Now don't get me wrong. Don't think I sympathize with every criminal. It was their actions that put them in there, and I do think they should be held accountable for it.

which is precisely the opposite of what Rand thinks (it's the gubmint's fault).

You think those cry babies would actually try and fight back if they started to actually become endangered? If cops did what I secretly wish they did and just beat the shit out of them right then and there, you'd never hear a peep out of them.

http://i.imgur.com/uYGIoqK.png POLICE BRUTALITY? IT'S LIKE NAZI GERMANY ALL OVER AGAIN

okay enough about Rand, he and the rest of the pseudocons are getting blown the fuck out come next November (hail victory)

[Porpoise101]

which is precisely the opposite of what Rand thinks (it's the gubmint's fault).

Well if the laws in place don't help more than they harm, maybe it is the government's fault for not fixing things on the legal side of things. Supposedly it is their responsibility I believe.

[phuckphace]

Well if the laws in place don't help more than they harm, maybe it is the government's fault for not fixing things on the legal side of things. Supposedly it is their responsibility I believe.

point being that Rand and crew will always find some way of blaming da gubmint even when the evidence shows the contrary (i.e. poor personal choices)