Ted Cruz wants to be a populist. But he can’t get it right.

It's like the guy likes to humiliate himself.

Ted Cruz Makes Yet Another Cancun Joke That Leaves Twitter Users Cold
https://news.yahoo.com/ted-cruz-makes-yet-another-225200569.html

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tried to own the libs again on Friday but likely only made armchair psychologists wonder if he secretly craves humiliation.

While in Midland, Texas, the smarmy politician tweeted a photo of himself where he jokingly referenced the time in February 2021 when he left his fellow Texans suffering record-cold temperatures and power outages to stay in sunny and warm Cancun, Mexico.

Cruz was criticized for his actions, and the resulting humiliation led him to fly back to Texas from Mexico almost immediately.

Since then, Cruz has tried to live down the obvious political error in weird ways: By making jokes about it.

That was the case on Friday when Cruz found a neon Cancun sign and thought it would be funny to pose next to it.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1659590687526989828

The photo was just Cruz’s latest attempt to get over the Cancun scandal by making jokes about it.

But while self-deprecating humor can benefit a politician, Cruz’s repeated attempt to make jokes about his willingness to ditch his constituents in their time of need ― and the actual jokes ― demonstrate that he still doesn’t get why the Cancun trip was terrible for him optics-wise.

For instance, in November 2021, he responded to a tweet about California Gov. Gavin Newsom vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, by tweeting back that “Cancun is much nicer than Cabo.”

The Cancun gaffe made Cruz the butt of jokes, such as when he was called out for hypocrisy after criticizing Joe Biden for taking a tropical vacation.

Twitter users tried again to explain to Cruz why his occasional Cancun references don’t have the effect he wants.

(More at above url including many Twitter responses)
 
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Ted Cruz Busted For Sharing Yet Another Wildly Misleading Tweet
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ted-cruz-busted-sharing-yet-050842053.html

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) fell for more disinformation on social media on Monday, sharing a wildly out-of-context tweet about the border.

The message Cruz retweeted had video showing part of the border wall apparently welded open.

“The Biden administration welded open the Trump border wall in Tucson, AZ. It’s not a crisis. It’s by design,” the original message said.

Cruz called it “nuts” and blamed it on President Joe Biden as he shared it:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1696275828869353581

Versions of that message have been circulating in right-wing media.

However, as a community note appended to the original tweet points out, the gates are open due to the threat of flash floods, which could knock the wall over.

That policy was in place when Donald Trump was in office as well, and the Washington Post reported on it in January 2020.

Cruz didn’t mention a problem with it at the time.

Cruz has had some well-documented struggles with social media, especially X, formerly called Twitter.

Just last week, for example, he fell for hoax footage supposedly showing a shark swimming in the flooded waters of the 405 freeway in Los Angeles ― footage that resurfaces as a joke during many floods.

In 2017, his account “liked” a hardcore porn video, which he later blamed on a staffer. Last year, his trip to Cancun as his state suffered from crippling power outages in the midst of a debilitating storm was exposed by pics on social media ... and his attempts to joke about it with tweets fell flat.
 
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