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Ted Cruz Calls for Civility Amid Bomb Threats, Hours After Discussing Putting Beto O'Rourke, Hillary Clinton In JailBY JASON LE MIERE ON 10/24/18 AT 11:44 AM
Violence is never OK. Reports of bombs sent to the homes of Obama, Clinton and Soros are deeply, deeply disturbing, Cruz tweeted. America is better than this. Political disagreements are fine, even healthy, but we should always be civil and respect each others humanity.
But Cruz struck a very different tone during a campaign stop on Tuesday.
Well, you know, theres a double-occupancy cell with Hillary Clinton, Cruz said after one of his supporters shouted "lock him up".
https://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-clinton-obama-bomb-beto-1186001
calimary
(81,312 posts)Caliman73
(11,738 posts)They call for civility and then "joke" about political violence. Cruz is an ass. What possible reason would Beto O'Rourke have to go to jail. When Cruz's idiot supporters started chanting "Lock Him Up" Cruz had an opportunity to be civil and tell his supporters to stop, but he didn't he spurred them on by going after Hillary Clinton (Again, no reason whatsoever to talk about her going to jail) and then lumped O'Rourke in for good measure.
Damn hypocrite!
Solly Mack
(90,771 posts)anarch
(6,535 posts)but right now, right at this moment, this fits in just about perfectly with how America "is." And Asshat Cruz definitely had a hand in making it that way.
Also, being opposed to separating children from their families, or otherwise treating anyone as if they have no basic fundamental rights is not a "political disagreement."
I've already cast my vote against this assclown, and it felt good.
Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)We can maybe stem the tide, but Frankenstein has been let loose ...
anarch
(6,535 posts)which is my metaphor for what happened in 2016 (or maybe we were pushed into it, but nonetheless...). But we can stop jamming the rest of our arm and shoulder into the grinder, try not to bleed out, and hope to go on in our diminished capacity, or we can do what the redhats seem to want and go ahead and just jump all the way into that grinder enthusiastically. I guess we'll find out soon....
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)If Ted Cruz was on fire, I wouldn't even piss on him