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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz yells right into a microphone throughout the CPAC Texas 2022 convention.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is as soon as once more being dragged by the mockery mill on social media platform X. This time for retweeting an account whose username is, um, get this … “Ted Cruz Sucks Balls.”
The obvious blunder occurred Thursday when Cruz retweeted an admittedly weird video of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and working mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz discussing tacos.
“I like white-guy tacos,” Walz tells Harris within the 28-second clip.
“What’s that, like maynoise and tuna?” Harris replies.
“Just about floor beef and cheese,” Walz explains.
Hispanics should not tacos. https://t.co/6WCRfdyEQS
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 16, 2024
The video of Harris and Walz’s interplay was posted to X by consumer @TedCruzSucksBalls, and Cruz himself subsequently retweeted the clip together with the caption, “Hispanics should not tacos.”
Apart from Cruz’s remark not making a lick of sense — one thing loads of on-line detractors have been completely happy to level out — customers additionally highlighted the unique poster’s vulgar-yet-hilarious account title.
To be honest, it is unclear whether or not the consumer behind @TedCruzSucksBalls modified the account title after the Senator retweeted the clip. Some commenters hypothesized that was doubtless the case.
“I’ve to imagine the quoted tweet modified their username solely after the Senator retweeted,” Austin KXAN reporter Ryan Chandler commented.
I’ve to imagine the quoted tweet modified their username solely after the Senator retweeted https://t.co/n1fa8tK96c
— Ryan Chandler (@RyanChandlerTV) August 16, 2024
Both means, Cruz’s retweet opened up a torrent of on-line torment.
“Ted Cruz reposting an account known as ‘Ted Cruz Sucks Balls’ is simply so healthful lmao,” X consumer @KamiliaHaraQoo commented.
“Essentially the most Ted Cruz factor ever,” X consumer @NameIsPendin replied.
“I believed this was faux. It wasn’t,” chimed in consumer @CHoward014.
To make sure, retweeting an account telling him he sucks balls is not the primary social media mishap from Texas’ tweet-happy junior senator.
Cruz obtained undesirable consideration final yr after he retweeted a photoshopped picture of a shark swimming within the streets of Los Angeles throughout Hurricane Hilary, apparently assuming the picture to be actual.
He is additionally turned himself right into a frequent punching bag for comedians and different celebrities whom he is insulted on X.
Maybe Cruz’s most notorious social media boner, although, was when his account favored a pornographic picture — an incident that grabbed worldwide headlines.
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