Sen. Ted Cruz’s no good, terrible day continues after all of Twitter discovered his Twitter account liked a video tweeted out by a porn account. Initially his senior communications director insinuated his account had been hacked.
Reported to Twitter, I say! Then Cruz’s office offered up another excuse: someone posted it to their page, apparently not understanding at all how Twitter works.
Before long, Lyin’ Ted was moving on to another excuse—blaming his “staff.” And yes, the staff jokes are writing themselves.
A number of people … including Ted Cruz.
Still being discussed? If Ted hit the ‘like’ button, that makes it sort of difficult to ban himself from his official Twitter feed, no?
Since we are on the topic, let’s flash back to the time when Ted Cruz was solicitor general of Texas and he was feverishly working to ban the sale of sex toys in the Lone Star State. He seriously tried to make a legal argument that you don't have a right to masturbate for non-medical purposes:
In its brief to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Cruz and his team argued that the plaintiffs challenging the law, a group of online retailers and Austin stores that sold sex toys, were not protected under the 14th Amendment’s right to privacy. In fact, he continued, banning obscene devices was in the public interest, and the government should be granted “police powers” for the purposes of “discouraging prurient interests in sexual gratification, combating the commercial sale of sex, and protecting minors.” Furthermore, using “obscene devices,” the state argued, was akin to “hiring a willing prostitute or engaging in consensual bigamy.”
Cruz observed that the law itself did not prevent people from using dildos or artificial vaginas in the privacy of their own homes, but unlike Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark Supreme Court case striking down laws prohibiting certain types of consensual sex, “there is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship.” (It is unclear who penned that exact turn of phrase, but one could easily imagine Ted Cruz saying those words to a black-robed judge.)
Meanwhile, all of Twitter continues to mercilessly mock Cruz and his porn tweet cover-up.