Please study the three-panel painting in Cruz's office: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/30/the-absolutist-2
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, March 23, 2015 2:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that is really something jfc
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 March 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
"my desires are unconventional"
― goole, Monday, 23 March 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
um
― DJP, Monday, 23 March 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/14/troy_mcclure.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 March 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
or if he just wants to set himself up on the conservative speaking/think tank/media circuit post elective office
― lag∞n, Monday, March 23, 2015 9:56 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 March 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Did Will Forte ever try him on SNL? Is Forte still there? That seems like a perfect match. For me, Cruz's voice is weirdly compelling (and has the most potential for laughs).
― clemenza, Monday, 23 March 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link
Just did a "Ted Cruz Will Forte" search, and it looks like a few thousand people had the same idea.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 March 2015 23:29 (nine years ago) link
forte has a new show called last man on earth he is a genius btw
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 04:41 (nine years ago) link
Fey came back to be Palin, so it's within the realm of possibility.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link
palin was a vp candidate though, cruz is gonna be one guy in an extremely crowded debate field
― Clay, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 04:54 (nine years ago) link
cruz is a star
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 04:55 (nine years ago) link
Cruz is conservative in appearance as well as ideology. He dresses like an I.B.M. salesman circa 1975, in boxy blue suits, white shirts, and red ties.
― j., Tuesday, 24 March 2015 04:59 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CA1m7SMWYAAekcm.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:11 (nine years ago) link
mitt needs to get in on this
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:12 (nine years ago) link
make it a bakers dozen
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:13 (nine years ago) link
palin too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link
that's funny, with his glasses on in that little bubble, perry really does look smarter than the rest
― j., Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:19 (nine years ago) link
works
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:19 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HfDvjja.jpg
he has my vote
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:24 (nine years ago) link
cruz/butter '16
― Clay, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:29 (nine years ago) link
butter is so good
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:31 (nine years ago) link
i like butter
crazy/butter '16
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:34 (nine years ago) link
Ha!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CA1MKvMUkAAduoR.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:42 (nine years ago) link
Dunno who either of those people are :(
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:50 (nine years ago) link
Perfect because Cruz himself looks like a butter sculpture. One that's been out just a little too long.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 12:37 (nine years ago) link
cruz not already knowing about butter cows is going to make that heartland vote all the harder to win, i mean it's like dude has never been to a goddamn state fair
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
Wait, if every single Republican politician is apparently running for president, then who will run the country!?!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
running the country is already privatized, no biggie
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
http://abstractforpresident.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/chip-ivory-dead-gold-the-notorious-b-i-g-x-macklemore-ryan-lewis-290x290.jpgSay what now?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/24/ted-cruz-health-insurance-obamacare/70384334/
lol Ted Cruz is signing up for obamacare, beautiful
― Clay, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
I don't know how anyone could ever in good faith vote for a person who displays that degree of cognitive dissonance within such a tiny little snapshot of a profile. It's like...do you actually believe in anything?
― Gimme Gimme Pop Secret (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
a question that i would perhaps ask of an actual frontrunner for the office as well
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
oh man, asking someone running for president what they believe in is the biggest softball question you could possibly ask! i'm sure they have a 25-minute response memorized and probably a 25-minute patriotic mixtape to accompany it in their suit pocket
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link
ted cruz believes in america, he believes in you and me, he believes in pulling yourself up by the bootstraps, he believes in hard work leading to real opportunities, he believes in freedom, he believes in the american dream, etc etc etc
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
he just believes in ted cruz. yoko and ted cruz.
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
asking someone running for president what they believe in is the biggest softball question you could possibly ask!
i seem to remember both Ted Kennedy and John Kerry having trouble with this one, though. Must be something in that Dirty Water...
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Cruz in that article was like somebody doing rails while they talked about their anti-drug initiatives.
― Gimme Gimme Pop Secret (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
the washington post weighs in with a hard-hitting profile piece:
from the first handful of paragraphs:
...the man who would be president...the steely man of principle...The son of a Cuban man who saw what happens when freedom is stripped away swore that “I'll die before I let it happen again.”...the crowd stood as one, roaring with admiration and hope...sending an unpopular but vital message...His Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz, calls him “off-the-charts brilliant.
then,
...Beneath Cruz’s mesmerizing speaking style — midnight-smooth delivery, never ruffled, even as he drops lacerating lines about the evils of Obamacare — and his unthreatening appearance — suits, slicked-back black hair, baby-faced complexion — how the senator would govern remains unclear. Is he a rigidly uncompromising originalist or, as Cruz argues more like Ronald Reagan, who preached conservative populism but governed as a dealmaker?
followed by a story about how badboy ted cruz refused to rat out his friends after a legendary badass prank that they pulled - even after the principal threatened to take steps to deny his admission to Princeton! way to strong tall ted cruz!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/03/24/ted-cruz-principled-or-smug-know-it-all/?hpid=z1
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
way to strong tall ted cruz!way to strong tall ted cruz!way to strong tall ted cruz!
i should be a proofreader, i'm really good
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
alan dershowitz knows off-the-charts brilliance when he sees it
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't call his Mister Rogers-ish smarm "midnight smooth" exactly...
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/2/15/ronaldreagan.gif
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
Hah so I just learned not only were the students required to go to that Ted Cruz rally, but if they didn't they were going to be fined $10.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
worth it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
freedom isn't free
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
is it possible at this point to get rid of obamacare as a practical matter or has the current system of insuring become too intwined w/ it that even w/ popular support, legislative support, and executive support it would be too difficult to get rid of it?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link
it's not going anywhere
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
we're FIVE years in already!
i'm not asking if it's likely to disappear. i'm asking if it's even possible, or whether it is too institutionally embedded to remove, even if the will were there.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link