Ted Cruz talked for 21 hours to advocate to defund the ACA
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ted-cruzs-obamacare-nighter-ends-21-hours/story?id=20365712
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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Hearing ted Cruz talk for more than 5 minutes would be the worst punishment someone could get, 21 hours? Fuck that
Fuck ted cruz
I would say we should send him back to Canada, but they don't deserve that.
I wish you the best Canada, with love. - US citizen
Wasn’t Ted of Cuban origin? Here’s to hoping he gets what he voted for.
Rafael Edward Cruz
December 22, 1970 (age 54) Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Dad is from cuba not Mr "Run from my problems" Cruz.
It’s Cuban enough for a warm-hearted deportation by ICE right?
Like I said, I do not wish that upon Canada.
Dump him right on the border.
The border runs right through the middle of 4 of the 5 Great Lakes...
Ok, I'm listening.
He belongs in that floating island of plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean
They'll clearly just send them to El Salvador regardless, so Canada will likely be spared.
Are we sure his dad didn’t have any questionable tattoos?
I thought his dad killed JFK
Isn't leaving Cuba basically also running from your problems?
Apples and oranges.
Apparently you haven't heard, but now we just send people back to whichever country is convenient at the time
That’ll work just fine, although I would probably feel quite sorry for the people in the destination country.
"I ain't never heard of no Canada. Looks Salvadoran to me."
He's whatever he needs to be, depending on who he's speaking to.
Everything, especially the assholes, is bigger in Texas.
The beard won't save you, Teddy. You're still the:
Too bad Al Green ain't in the Senate to cane your chucklefuck swarmy shitweasel ass.
That man ate my son
This man?
nose to broad, face to round, brows to big mouth too wide
You're probably fun at parties
what's the matter? did he make you look stoopid for not reading your favorite (and probably only,) book- Green Eggs and Ham??
i like ted cruz better than most of my senate colleagues do.
and i hate ted cruz.
I know ted is a piece of shit, but that post, and literally everyone else's response to it, including booker who referenced the post in the last 30 minutes before the record was broken, knew that it was a joke.
Ted tried it already and failed to hit the record. He knows how hard it is.
That was an assholes way of appreciating something, without admitting that he has respect for it.
For fucks sake.
Definitely the level of maturity that we need in our leaders 🙄
From the douche that read green eggs and ham in a filibuster.
How will he pull the alarm from his resort down in Mexico?
He will probably have his caddie's chauffeur do it for him
I hope ted Cruz gets stuck on a toilet
I hope ted Cruz gets stuck ~~on~~ in a toilet . ftfy
Christ what a douche.
Should have done it, Rafael.
Better we find out DOGE cut funding for the emergency alarm maintenance now as opposed to there being an actual emergency.
That would be a crime. I know, (R) beats any consequences of doing illegal things.
Little snowflake bitch
Lyin' Ted, showing his love for Strom.
Ted is such a soft toothed stinky mouth little bitch