Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) crusaded against voting rights during a call last week with Republican state lawmakers, claiming that Democrats are trying to expand voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters.”
According to a recording of an invitation-only call, Cruz said that Republicans must do all they can to stop that effort, alleging that if Democrats win a push to move sweeping election legislation through the Senate, the GOP won’t win elections for years to come.
“That little apartment has bad plumbing and bugs.”
“OK, so it has bad plumbing and bugs, but you say that like it’s a negative thing!”
“H.R. 1’s only objective is to ensure that Democrats can never again lose another election, that they will win and maintain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and of the state legislatures for the next century.”
It’s tempting to say that Cruz can’t open his mouth without speaking demagogically in bad faith. But here a piece of pristine truth slips out. Republicans see perfectly well that they are quite unelectable, and so they turn ever more desperately to authoritarianism, racism, and demagoguery, which only intensifies their unelectability, and so…
For the GOP to survive, it has no alternative but to overthrow the constitutional order and abolish free and fair elections. For the foreseeable future, we are in an ongoing extraordinary crisis where the opposition is no longer loyal, or seeking to win the next election, but to overthrow the government, by violence if necessary. Interesting times we’re living in.
Just once I want someone to challenge one of the Rethuglicans to spell out who should be an eligible voter. Ask them how making it harder for minorities to vote accomplishes that goal.
According to a recording of an invitation-only call, obtained by the Associated Press, Cruz said that Republicans must do all they can to stop that effort, alleging that if Democrats win a push to move sweeping election legislation through the Senate, the GOP won’t win elections for years to come.
This just proves Republicans know their positions are not in sync or reflective of the majority of Americans, and they have no intention of changing course. Instead, they’d much rather choose the voter than allow the voter to choose the candidate. Dangerously anti-democratic stuff from a party that appears to be in a panic about HR1. McConnell’s comments from the other day are along the same vein.
Hey, give him credit for easing off the Q meme that Dems eat babies, sucking their blood in a Satanic ritual, and he says they’re only molesting them. Progress!
Shorter Ted “But we will welcome Pussy Grabbers and guys who pay for sex with porn stars into our Party. We are inclusive and represent the Real America!”
I realize not all Texans support Ted Cruz, but the fact that he’s still in office says more about them than it does him. You all have 4 years, get your shit together TX.
I, for one, welcome our new JFK-assassin overlord’s excluding sex criminals from American politics!
“Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, has been accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including non-consensual kissing or groping, by at least 25 women…”