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Ted Cruz Staffer: "Before Obamacare, there had never been a confirmed case of Ebola in the U.S." (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Oct 2014 OP
That's seriously funny, that is. Hekate Oct 2014 #1
Before Obamacare, ISIS wasn't beheading people on the internet Wella Oct 2014 #2
Before Ted Cruz read Green Eggs and Ham in a fillibuster, ISIS wasn't beheading people Johonny Oct 2014 #43
My eyes are rolling so far back in my head that I am actually in pain MiniMe Oct 2014 #3
Actually, it may be brilliant. pnwmom Oct 2014 #11
Before Obamacare, there never was a complete dumbass The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2014 #4
K & R Thinkingabout Oct 2014 #29
... CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2014 #5
+1 Baitball Blogger Oct 2014 #28
There was never Ebola in the US until Ted Cruz became a senator LeftInTX Oct 2014 #6
If B follows A, then surely A caused B. Martin Eden Oct 2014 #24
Just wondering.... czarjak Oct 2014 #48
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. deathrind Oct 2014 #61
No, no. If A caused Ebola and B caused Ebola. Then A=B. Obamacare=Ted Cruz. nt kelliekat44 Oct 2014 #31
How's that go Old Codger Oct 2014 #7
Isis needs to go ebowling flamingdem Oct 2014 #8
ebowling.com ashling Oct 2014 #49
Consider his audience. lpbk2713 Oct 2014 #9
Before insurance companies offered health insurance, no one with health insurance had ever died. . . Journeyman Oct 2014 #10
Love this one!! sinkingfeeling Oct 2014 #37
it's not in the bible either, therefore it doesn't exist nt msongs Oct 2014 #12
Before Obamacare, we had temporarily exiled men to The Moon for short periods of time MrScorpio Oct 2014 #13
Fuck it, Dude WilliamPitt Oct 2014 #14
Dude abides. Initech Oct 2014 #47
Nice marmot n/t DefenseLawyer Oct 2014 #51
This! hifiguy Oct 2014 #57
Obamacare disappeared Flight MH370! CJCRANE Oct 2014 #15
Fun Fact: Before Reagan, there had never been a confirmed case of AIDS in the US. DetlefK Oct 2014 #16
Before Ted Cruz was born, there was no porn on the internet. Warren DeMontague Oct 2014 #17
he's mentally bereft. nt Javaman Oct 2014 #18
It must be irrelevancy day on Twitter. gollygee Oct 2014 #19
What a dope. bigwillq Oct 2014 #20
why isn't this guy in prison? Him and his minions attitudes drag our country downnn Sunlei Oct 2014 #21
Before the Bush administration Nitram Oct 2014 #22
Oklahoma City bombing, April 19, 1995. PADemD Oct 2014 #64
I stand corrected. We had not suffered such an attack from foreign terrorists. Nitram Oct 2014 #70
Before the Canadian Ted Cruz was gifted the position as Texas Senator by idiot Texas voters Scalded Nun Oct 2014 #23
and, before Ted Cruz was senator NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #44
No and I am sure that many other diseases will pop up in the future that where not here before jwirr Oct 2014 #25
Before Obamacare Cruz was and Asshole. After Obamacare Cruz is a crazy Asshole still_one Oct 2014 #26
Yes, and before Reaganomics, there was never a case of AIDS WhoIsNumberNone Oct 2014 #27
Before Obamacare, the Baltimore Orioles never stopped hitting in the postseason BeyondGeography Oct 2014 #30
Before Obamacare tazkcmo Oct 2014 #79
There wasn't one before Cruz was Senator, either. n/t Gore1FL Oct 2014 #32
Idiot is now claiming it was a "joke that didn't translate well" WhoIsNumberNone Oct 2014 #33
Idiot came across perfectly as an idiot. hobbit709 Oct 2014 #35
Oh my god - he's right! Also, before Obamacare, there was no ios 8. surrealAmerican Oct 2014 #34
Has anyone ever mentioned the phrase Fortinbras Armstrong Oct 2014 #36
thank you. have that site bookmarked! niyad Oct 2014 #74
Before Cruz, we were a sane nation too. sammy750 Oct 2014 #38
And before Cruz we never had a sequestration either. Historic NY Oct 2014 #39
Before Ted Cruz was Senator there was no "All About That Base." kairos12 Oct 2014 #40
Before Cruz was elected, there was no ISIS. Barack_America Oct 2014 #41
Before George Bush NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #42
and rtracey Oct 2014 #45
Before the moon landing, there were no cases of AIDS in the US. Jackpine Radical Oct 2014 #46
There were no confirmed cases of HIV/AIDS until President Ronald Reagan krispos42 Oct 2014 #50
Before the Cosby Show, no one ever flew airliners into buildings. Marr Oct 2014 #52
Okay, I put my brain on low power and followed this train of thought. logosoco Oct 2014 #53
Here's Dr. Pussycat's reply to Ted Cruz and Nick Muzin. . . DinahMoeHum Oct 2014 #54
Obamacare has SAVED thousands of lives. Jacoby365 Oct 2014 #55
(lives of poor people and minorities....) lastlib Oct 2014 #75
And before the invention of electric lights hifiguy Oct 2014 #56
This is what pisses me off most about baggers. They think all of us are as stupid, catbyte Oct 2014 #58
Obamacare also impregnated Chelsea Clinton, so I think it's a wash. n/t Orsino Oct 2014 #59
Before Obamacare, the Germans had never bombed Pearl Harbor! tclambert Oct 2014 #60
Ah yes, the "if Obama, then *insert horrible event or thing here*" fallacy YoungDemCA Oct 2014 #62
And before we had a Tea-bagger-House of Representatives 99th_Monkey Oct 2014 #63
Yes there was! Reston, Virginia in 1989 Paulie Oct 2014 #65
Logic 101 you fail idiot lunasun Oct 2014 #66
He's probably applying for a position with Turbineguy Oct 2014 #67
Ths sounds like something a Colorado Democrat would say in his campaign world wide wally Oct 2014 #68
Before Senator Cruz, hardly ever had such a total jackass reached the U.S. Senate. indepat Oct 2014 #69
Before GWBush, we never had a 9-11 theHandpuppet Oct 2014 #71
Since we got our Cavalier King Charles Stonepounder Oct 2014 #72
But after Obamacare The Wizard Oct 2014 #73
Now Muzin is claiming it was all a joke, uh huh. MoonRiver Oct 2014 #76
Suicide in Alaska didn’t exist before government largesse gave residents an entitlement mentality. progree Oct 2014 #77
Personally, I blame the release of IOS 8 IggleDoer Oct 2014 #78
And here I thought we got ebola because Turbineguy Oct 2014 #80
Let's face it. Republicans are trolls.... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2014 #81

Hekate

(90,708 posts)
1. That's seriously funny, that is.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:39 AM
Oct 2014

I'm going to end up hating Ted Cruz as much as Dubya if this keeps up.

Johonny

(20,851 posts)
43. Before Ted Cruz read Green Eggs and Ham in a fillibuster, ISIS wasn't beheading people
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 11:52 AM
Oct 2014

cause meet effect Ted Cruz style.

MiniMe

(21,716 posts)
3. My eyes are rolling so far back in my head that I am actually in pain
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:40 AM
Oct 2014

That has to be one of the stupidest statements about Ebola that I have heard so far.

pnwmom

(108,979 posts)
11. Actually, it may be brilliant.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:55 AM
Oct 2014

It could cause millions of Cruz's idiot fans to blame Obamacare for Ebola.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,719 posts)
4. Before Obamacare, there never was a complete dumbass
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:40 AM
Oct 2014

claiming Obamacare caused Ebola.

Just when I think they couldn't possibly get more ridiculous...

Martin Eden

(12,869 posts)
24. If B follows A, then surely A caused B.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 09:46 AM
Oct 2014

I'm pretty sure that also proves that Cruz caused Benghazi.

czarjak

(11,278 posts)
48. Just wondering....
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:22 PM
Oct 2014

What are the qualifications to get hired by Teddy Boy? "Stand strong." Even if you're wrong. "STAND STRONG." PS. Don't blink either.

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
9. Consider his audience.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:54 AM
Oct 2014



Nothing has to make any sense when you consider the idiots he is sending this out to.

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
13. Before Obamacare, we had temporarily exiled men to The Moon for short periods of time
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 03:40 AM
Oct 2014

Since its passage, no more had been sent there.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
17. Before Ted Cruz was born, there was no porn on the internet.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 05:05 AM
Oct 2014

Clearly, Ted Cruz is responsible for internet porn.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
19. It must be irrelevancy day on Twitter.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 08:41 AM
Oct 2014


There also wasn't ebola in the US before the new iPhone. We should totally get rid of all new iPhones.

PADemD

(4,482 posts)
64. Oklahoma City bombing, April 19, 1995.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 06:49 PM
Oct 2014

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing

Scalded Nun

(1,236 posts)
23. Before the Canadian Ted Cruz was gifted the position as Texas Senator by idiot Texas voters
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 09:46 AM
Oct 2014

There had never been a terrorist attack on the Canadian Parliament. Just what has he been plotting for this country now that he has been forced to renounce his Canadian citizenship?

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
25. No and I am sure that many other diseases will pop up in the future that where not here before
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 09:52 AM
Oct 2014

ACA also. Texas and some other states have sent us some of the dumbest congress people that have ever existed in our country before now. I am from MN and that includes our district that sent Bachmann. Just part of the dumbing down of America.

surrealAmerican

(11,361 posts)
34. Oh my god - he's right! Also, before Obamacare, there was no ios 8.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 10:18 AM
Oct 2014

Obamacare clearly must have caused an operating system upgrade.


When you don't "believe" in science, anything is possible.

sammy750

(165 posts)
38. Before Cruz, we were a sane nation too.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 11:01 AM
Oct 2014

This nation was safe before Senator Cruz moved to the USA from Canada. He ran away from his past coming to the USA. Many Republicans move around so the voters don't know the real past of Republicans. We have the felon, Gov. Scott of FL, moved from TX to FL to win. We have a 2 times rapist that move from OH to FL to Idaho and won as state senator there. Now we have Brown in NH, moved to try to win there. They all are running from their past, not wanting the voters to know the real individual.

 

rtracey

(2,062 posts)
45. and
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:07 PM
Oct 2014

And before the advent of airplanes there were no airplane crashes... before the automobile was invented, there were zero automobile fatalities. Here is how to counter this tweet.... After Obamacare started, poor people can now get healthcare... After Obamacare started pre-existing patients can now get healthcare, After Obamacare started, health kids check-up are free.......and on and on...

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
50. There were no confirmed cases of HIV/AIDS until President Ronald Reagan
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:30 PM
Oct 2014
<snip>

Discovery

AIDS was first clinically observed in 1981 in the United States.[25] The initial cases were a cluster of injecting drug users and homosexual men with no known cause of impaired immunity who showed symptoms of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), a rare opportunistic infection that was known to occur in people with very compromised immune systems.[186] Soon thereafter, an unexpected number of gay men developed a previously rare skin cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma (KS).[187][188] Many more cases of PCP and KS emerged, alerting U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a CDC task force was formed to monitor the outbreak.

In the early days, the CDC did not have an official name for the disease, often referring to it by way of the diseases that were associated with it, for example, lymphadenopathy, the disease after which the discoverers of HIV originally named the virus.[190][191] They also used Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections, the name by which a task force had been set up in 1981.[192] At one point, the CDC coined the phrase "the 4H disease", since the syndrome seemed to affect Haitians, homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and heroin users.[193] In the general press, the term "GRID", which stood for gay-related immune deficiency, had been coined.[194] However, after determining that AIDS was not isolated to the gay community,[192] it was realized that the term GRID was misleading and the term AIDS was introduced at a meeting in July 1982.[195] By September 1982 the CDC started referring to the disease as AIDS.[196]

<more>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Discovery



Keep talking, Nick... the Democrats will thank you for it.
 

Marr

(20,317 posts)
52. Before the Cosby Show, no one ever flew airliners into buildings.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:36 PM
Oct 2014

Welcome back to Causal Connection Theater!

logosoco

(3,208 posts)
53. Okay, I put my brain on low power and followed this train of thought.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:39 PM
Oct 2014

Obamacare is insurance. Insurance companies are trying to kill people with things like ebola so they won't have to provide health care coverage.

But wait.....if they don't have a living subscriber, they won't be able to collect premiums.
So, yeah this train of thought is a true train wreck no matter how you travel it.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
56. And before the invention of electric lights
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 01:22 PM
Oct 2014

there were no auto accidents.

The English language lacks words for this kind of idiocy.

catbyte

(34,393 posts)
58. This is what pisses me off most about baggers. They think all of us are as stupid,
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 01:44 PM
Oct 2014

ignorant, or willfully ignorant as the pathetic fools who support these cretins. They insult my intelligence every single day. Well, asshole, there was never a case of Ebola in Texas before Cruz was elected, so there.





tclambert

(11,087 posts)
60. Before Obamacare, the Germans had never bombed Pearl Harbor!
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 02:08 PM
Oct 2014

Before Obamacare, whooping cough wasn't occurring as frequently in California. (Anti-vaccination fears have led to a shocking increase in the number of pertussis cases in California.)

Before Obamacare, no gunman had ever shot up the Canadian Parliament. And Obamacare has never apologized to the Canadian government or people.

 

YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts)
62. Ah yes, the "if Obama, then *insert horrible event or thing here*" fallacy
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 03:41 PM
Oct 2014

Textbook case, ladies and gentleman.

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
63. And before we had a Tea-bagger-House of Representatives
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 04:56 PM
Oct 2014

The United States of America actually had a surgeon General.

Turbineguy

(37,337 posts)
67. He's probably applying for a position with
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 08:00 PM
Oct 2014

Louis Gohmert. And in order to get such a job you have to be stupid and prove it.

indepat

(20,899 posts)
69. Before Senator Cruz, hardly ever had such a total jackass reached the U.S. Senate.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 09:51 PM
Oct 2014

The proof of his total jack-assedness is hiring such a stupid staffer who would make such a ludicrous, half-witted statement.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
72. Since we got our Cavalier King Charles
Sat Oct 25, 2014, 01:31 AM
Oct 2014

we haven't had a single problem with hippopotamuses in our back yard!

The Wizard

(12,545 posts)
73. But after Obamacare
Sat Oct 25, 2014, 06:47 AM
Oct 2014

aliens have stopped abducting Americans and inserting flying saucers in their rectums.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
76. Now Muzin is claiming it was all a joke, uh huh.
Sat Oct 25, 2014, 03:17 PM
Oct 2014

But if so, this just proves Repukes also suck at humor.

progree

(10,908 posts)
77. Suicide in Alaska didn’t exist before government largesse gave residents an entitlement mentality.
Sat Oct 25, 2014, 03:24 PM
Oct 2014
On Wednesday, he said suicide in Alaska didn’t exist before government “largesse” gave residents an entitlement mentality.


"he" being Alaska's lone U.S. House representative, Don Young (R)

Source: Young apologizes at AFN for pain caused by suicide comments, Alaska Dispatch News
http://www.adn.com/article/20141024/young-apologizes-afn-pain-caused-suicide-comments

Anyway, another one to add to the list of "before X, there wasn't Y" statements. Sadly this one is a real statement, I couldn't make it up even if I ingested some funny mushrooms.
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