Ted Cruz is a big shit, but he does have a point about the horrendous "Equality Act," which I hope never becomes law as currently written. It is poorly written, and it doesn't give two shits about half the human race, women:
Meanwhile, the Democrats have absolutely NO clue what in the hell they are doing by voting in favor of the all-but-total repeal of women's rights in the United States. What a bizarre turn of events.
And it isn't just with the Equality Act, either. The proposal to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act is actually in favor of more violence against women, as it allows self-identified "trans women" the "right" to enter women's domestic violence shelters and prisons. THIS cannot be tolerated. I talked about it in a recent video:
The Democrats are hellbent on losing both houses of Congress next year, as there is very, very, very little support by the voting public for this horseshit of "queering" the law.
In some lame attempt to shore up Trump's base, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Calgary) has put forward a "demand" there be a commission set up with presumably Trump flunkies in order to overturn a legitimate election.
Craven Cruz
Cruz is rumored to be a highly intelligent person, with Ivy League credentials all over the place. Of course, being a Harvard grad especially denotes superior intellect. Not everybody is proud of how Ted turned out. More important than his legendary intellect, such as it is, Cruz is known for his naked ambition. Once a sworn enemy of Trump's and vice versa, now Cruz is a major butt kisser. Of course, this is all showboating or grandstanding to appease the Trump cultists, but really the correct course of action is not to subvert the Constitution and set a precedent for future elections but instead just let the Trump cultists go through the process of grief.
Hell, we Democrats put up with a lot from the GOP when Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton had elections stolen from them. But we didn't pull the shit the current GOP pols are doing.
Even former House speaker Paul Ryan says these idiots need to knock it off.
Of course, all of this makes great copy for the media. That was what their pushing Donald Trump for president was all about in the first place. Just ask CNN's Jeff Zucker.
Meanwhile, Trump is acting like a mob boss at the same much of the GOP is acting like a crime syndicate:
President Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to ‘find’ enough votes to overturn his defeat to Joe Biden in the state, according to audio of a Saturday phone call obtained by the Washington Post https://t.co/Bq11goyumy
In a sane world, Trump would have been removed a long time ago, but this GOP is little more than a criminal syndicate and allows him to get away with anything.
The call in question highlights from the Washington Post. It was something like an hour long:
The reaction wasn't too favorable even among members of Trump's own party.
I will believe the end of the GOP when I see it:
The die is cast for the Republican Party. It will be destroyed on January 6th in much the same way the Whig party was destroyed by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. The act unraveled the Missouri compromise and allowed for the westward expansion of slavery. 1/
For the most part, the festivities, until Ted Cruz arrived on the scene, were quite low-key. It made me wonder whether the Secret Service paid a call to some officials, who in turn had a talking to with the delegates.
Tuesday night bordered on inciting violence against a person who has been receiving Secret Service protection for many years. Not good.
Anyway, Mike Pence, the VP nominee for the GOP, was there giving his speech introducing himself to the American public, but he was a bit overshadowed and not by Trump:
However, it really was Ted Cruz's night. In case you missed the speech:
It was a good speech, I will admit it. It was also Ted's "I don't give a shit what you think" speech, which showed to millions the reason why he is so beloved by his colleagues in the United States Senate. It also tells people that his speech, as well as the non-attendance by many party regulars, that the GOP has written this election off and is preparing for 2020.
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Ivanka Trump introduced her dad, and, surprisingly, she gave one of the best speeches of the convention. I cannot say the same about her father, unfortunately.
Tomorrow I will post Trump's acceptance speech video. It ran about 75 or 80 minutes, which was way overlong, but even worse because it was just a bunch incoherent rhetoric. It was a lousy speech. No specifics. HRC will tear him apart in the debates because he has NO policy proposals. That is because even though Trump isn't stupid, he just doesn't have the background in government or in the military (as with previous presidents) that would even remotely qualify him for the White House. You have to have the background to be able to even discuss issues that affect millions of people. Trump is basically a third-party candidate running on a major party ticket.
Donald Trump has women issues, for he still thinks he is 25 years old when he is pushing 70 and still engaging in the despicable practice of judging women by their looks.
His far-younger wife, Melania, is not much in the looks department because her eyes are too small and too squinty for her face, and it kills her looks. She is not in any way remotely beautiful. She has to do a lot of work to even look passable. She certainly doesn't come close to his ex-wife Marla Maples or even Ivana in the looks department. However, that said, she is not less of a person because of how she looks.
Trump himself has no room to talk. He looks like SHIT, even for somebody close to 70, and has no business judging others on looks.
He is there to make sure the GOP--especially Bush--does not get in the White House.
He just got done with a press conference where he went on the attack against Ted Cruz, threatening a lawsuit if he doesn't apologize for his dirty tricks and lies, and also hinting at a third-party run.
Reporter at CNN says "he is on a warpath."
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump made a veiled threat on Monday to launch a third-party run as an independent candidate, saying Republican leaders are “in default” of an agreement to treat him fairly.
Speaking at a campaign event just outside of Charleston, South Carolina, the billionaire hinted that he may still run an independent campaign for president, despite a pledge he signed last year to stay within the party.
To prove he is something more than a robot and airhead repeating his own lines, Marco Rubio repeats Donald Trump's and calls Ted Cruz a liar:
He invoked a long list of what he called Cruz's false characterizations of his record -- as well as Cruz's campaign's tactics portraying rival Ben Carson as dropping out of the race as Iowa's caucus-goers were still voting.
"The bottom line is, there's been this disturbing pattern the last couple of weeks of Ted Cruz saying things that are not true. Just in the last week, he's lied about my record on marriage. He's lied about my record on Planned Parenthood. Of course he lied about Ben Carson in Iowa. Last night Donald Trump says he's issuing robocalls, doing the same thing to him. And then he also isn't telling the truth about immigration," Rubio said.
Rubio doesn't have an original thought in his head even if he is right here.
We have an even bigger liar who is running for president.
I think when you have megalomania and a delusional mindset, lying is perfectly okay:
It’s a good story, and the immigration fight tells us a lot about Cruz. But the fight didn’t happen the way he says it did. Cruz didn’t marshal the opposition or even take a firm stand. He’s a lawyer, not a leader. He chose his words exquisitely so that down the road—say, in a future campaign for president—he could position himself on either side of the immigration debate. And he delivered, with angelic piety, speeches that he now claims were lies.
It is in the form of the Ted Cruz, aka Cantex, campaign.
Cruz has been compared to Nixon, but he could be potentially worse if he ever became president. Nixon was mentally ill, but he wasn't one of these batshit crazy fundies who want to bring about the end times.
Snip:
Because these are the true believers, and true believers know that they are right and everyone else is not only wrong, but evil and stupid. (When Cruz mocks some environmental protesters who briefly interrupt him, the man sitting directly behind me yells with unsuppressed fury, “They’re Bolsheviks!” I can almost feel the spittle on the back of my neck.) This is a darker place than the Donald Trump rally I attended the night before. There, one got the sense Trump’s support was a mile wide but an inch deep. This, though, this is something more primal.
It’s all enough to make one despair, and to pray to a God you don’t believe in that something can stop this train, that some part of the GOP establishment can still rally to knock down this campaign or that there is a very finite percentage of even conservative voters to whom it will appeal. And also to get out of this auditorium before Cruz pulls a couple of vipers from a sack and everyone starts speaking in tongues.
Fortunately, Cruz has no chance being president.
His whack job father, however, isn't going to give up his notion that his evil spawn is "anointed" to be the next president:
at least in the main event of the two GOP debates.
Many but not all constitutional scholars say Ted Cruz is ineligible to run for president.
He is a citizen, but he was not born on American soil, and that is where the debate lies.
"Natural born" in the Constitution most likely refers to a person who is "native born," not somebody born in another country of American parents or was a foreign resident who got U.S. citizenship.
I count on Trump to bring the issue up tonight if the media doesn't.
Not a peep apparently when this "birther" controversy may actually have legs.
Article I of the Constitution grants Congress the power to naturalize an alien — that is, Congress may remove an alien’s legal disabilities, such as not being allowed to vote. But Article II of the Constitution expressly adopts the legal status of the natural-born citizen and requires that a president possess that status. However we feel about allowing naturalized immigrants to reach for the stars, the Constitution must be amended before one of them can attain the office of president. Congress simply does not have the power to convert someone born outside the United States into a natural-born citizen.
Let me be clear: I am not a so-called birther. I am a legal historian. President Obama is without question eligible for the office he serves. The distinction between the president and Cruz is simple: The president was born within the United States, and the senator was born outside of it. That is a distinction with a difference.
It is pretty obvious what the framers intended. "Natural born" means born in this country.
Cruz needs to remain in the Senate and continue to piss off his colleagues in both parties.
The Houston Chronicle apologizes to the world about its total lack of judgment:
One reason we particularly believe that Hutchison would make a difference in these hectic days is that if she had kept her seat, Cruz would not be in the Senate.
When we endorsed Ted Cruz in last November's general election, we did so with many reservations and at least one specific recommendation - that he follow Hutchison's example in his conduct as a senator.
Obviously, he has not done so. Cruz has been part of the problem in specific situations where Hutchison would have been part of the solution.
Of course it's too late to reverse course with regard to this coarse politician.
