Word on the street says that when Cruz is no longer in politics, he will begin his entrepreneurial adventure with his patented “stare at my ass” weight loss program.
It looks like I picked the wrong week to quit being distasteful.
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I spent a few years as the consultant planner for an exurban town that had too frequent power outages. Generators were a common appliance.
Is it true that the daily briefings aren’t usually being covered any more? I almost never watched the Trump ones, except if something especially egregious was said, and I remember watching some when Obama was president.
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Heckuva job, Raffie.
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No idea but if it’s not almost certain to be a train wreck then the briefing itself isn’t necessarily news. People come in with questions about executive branch stuff, Jen answers, they include that answer in the story, rinse and repeat. But she can defend the administration without making news herself in the process.
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She seems to be doing a very good job there.
I just realized that Biden was supposed to come to tour the Pfizer plant yesterday. It was postponed because of weather. He’s coming today instead. Not many details about it so far.
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He doubles down and blames it all on those damn bratty kids? Something like …
They are monsters! They just cannot be denied … or they will tear you into pieces … I tried to explain that this was not a good time but they started screaming so, I’m sure you could see … I had no choice … they showed me no mercy … YES, I’m really the victim here … honestly I was coerced, I was badgered, I was … yes … I was abused by these little screaming vicious harpies!
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Ted Cruz is a piece of shit.
Heidi Cruz is a piece of shit.
Ted and Heidi’s daughters are pieces of shit.
Sean Hannity is a piece of shit.
That’s all.
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Reminds me of that cruise captain in the Mediterranean who ran too close to the rocks, then abandoned the listing ship and his imperiled passengers. When asked to explain his seeming dereliction, he said he thought he could direct the rescue more effectively from shore.
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Sometimes the only thing you can possibly say doesn’t sound quite right, and you knew it wouldn’t. 
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Nothing wrong with thinking outside of the box.
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Schettino, Costa Concordia. “Vada a bordo, cruzo!”
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I’ve always liked how the character Lois Farrow from the novel “The Last Picture Show” thought about it. She’s a bored and unhappy housewife, and she sleeps with guys who are not her husband a good bit. So while driving the character Sonny home, long story, she decides she likes him and says they can stop and have it off in a motel. We’ll say we had a flat to excuse our lateness, she says. When they’re done she realizes it’s two and having a flat isn’t good enough, and they’ll have to say they had a flat and had to walk to the next town. “The excuse never sounds quite so good afterward,” she says. The first time I read that I stashed it away as a worthwhile caution.
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Did you know there are now four sequels to The Last Picture Show?
I read Texasville (pretty good) and Duane’s Depressed (meh), but haven’t checked out the next two.
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Yeah, he’s pretty prolific. I haven’t read a bad McMurtry book but I’ve read a few that aren’t as good as his best.
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Hannity etal are toads. Reprehensible tw*ts. ‘We’ expect our Senators to do their jobs. Either grovel for aid or get their lazy butts out there and HELP. 150,000 volunteers were out checking on people while Abbott and company insisted they ‘man up’ and act like Texans. I guess if you’re a GOP elected official that’s too low for you to go. I wonder if TX voters are thinking ‘in hindsight…’
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I keep waiting for conservatives to notice the Patagonia he consistently wears. That’s not a very conservative brand and they should remind him. Coming soon - My Fleece: The most comforting purchase you’ll make all year!
Apparently he also suffered some severe dihydrogen monoxide poisoning when he was down there, despite being warned about not consuming any of the local variety. Montezuma’s revenge–or Putin?
