Pointing out that Sen. Ted Cruz is a sniveling, cowardly dirtbag of a man who has sold out his family’s reputation in the pursuit of power would be an understatement. Over the last few days, Cruz has been wandering the New England region of our country to promote his new memoir I’m a dirtbag Justice Corrupted. In it Cruz talks about how great he is and how he is a great leader. At least that is likely what Cruz thinks he was doing.
One passage of the book reminds the world of the kind of man and politician Cruz really is. In that passage, Cruz recounts the events he experienced on Jan. 6, 2021 at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The senator’s main thesis—which is at odds with what he presents as the events of the day—is to defend his objection to the electoral college count on that day.
It turns out he and a few other “rage”-filled Republican senators, likely many of whom are more recently on the record calling the insurgency at the Capitol not a big deal, were hanging out in a supply closet when the sedition hit the fan. Weird place to be for a guy who a couple of months ago went on Sean Hannity’s racist vomit-comet hour to say that Jan. 6 protesters were peaceful.
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Cruz attempts in his ham-fisted way to poetically place the events of Jan. 6 into the adjective-laden land of “fog” and “confusion.” He also notes, like a true sociopath: "As we evacuated the floor, Mitt Romney turned to me and the other objectors and said with a snarl, 'This is what you've gotten us!' And the Democrats were even angrier." Cruz mentions these facts, the supply closet, and the anger from other people in his political party while having zero introspection in his views of himself.
Meanwhile, Cruz tells his readers how he and Sens. Josh Hawley, Tommy Tuberville, Roger Marshall, John Kennedy, and Cindy Hyde-Smith were right to object to the democratically decided elections: “I urged my colleagues that the course of action we were advocating was the right and principled one.”
Here’s an unrelated statement from Cruz, dated Jan. 6, 2021 (what a coincidence!):
Less than two months after huddling in a supply closet and, according to his new book being “damned if I allow a handful of violent rioters to change our willingness to fulfill our constitutional responsibility," Cruz was disrespectfully cruising his phone during a congressional hearing investigating the security failures of Jan. 6. About one year later, Cruz was being humiliated on television by Tucker Carlson for the statement he made about domestic terrorists at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He walked that back, calling himself “sloppy” on television, while Carlson lambasted him ever further. It was the kind of thing that doesn’t even feel good to watch when it’s Cruz being humiliated.
But he does it to himself.
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