Cancun Ted

 Yeah, this is what we didn’t understand as we froze in February while Ted left the most expensive neighborhood in Texas to go to Mexico for the beach:

While speaking at The Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) was asked about his family excursion to Cancún while millions of his constituents were suffering without power due to the effects of a devastating winter storm. 

Cruz said he doesn't know how to string power lines and that he doesn't have the ability to control the weather. 

Cruz continued by adding he was at home with his family, and they were without power, so he made a decision to take his kids to the beach. Cruz ended his response by saying, 'I get that if you've been told Cruz is the devil, then screaming Cancún is a wonderful partisan thing to do. But if, at the end of the day, your greatest criticism of me is that I took my kids to the beach, I can live with that.'

Is this where I point out there is a Texas beach less than hour from Ted’s Houston home? Or that Ted turned around and came back to Texas the minute the photos of him in the airport came out?

People froze to death. Ted went to the beach. If you’re okay with that, Ted, you’re sub-human. But then, we knew that.

(And power lines weren’t down, Ted. Generators failed, across the state. What have you done since then to champion policy changes so that technical failure doesn’t happen again? Too busy making podcasts and excusing yourself for being simulacrum of a human being? Can’t begin to do anything for the benefit of Texas? Nothing occurs to you along those lines? Why am I not surprised?) 

(And all summer we’ve faced the threat of blackouts and rolling brownouts because the system can’t supply demand. And the solution from

ERCOT is to turn the thermostat up on the hottest days; or to pay millions to crypto miners to stop burning massive amounts of electricity fruitlessly. Any concerns about that, Ted? Maybe we should all go to the mountains?  Asshole.)

This Cruz cares about:

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz called school choice a civil rights issue and defended his decision to go to Cancun during the 2021 winter storm in an interview Saturday at The Texas Tribune Festival. 

Cruz’s comments on school choice come just days after Gov. Greg Abbott said a special session on the issue would start next month. 

“It’s the civil rights issue of the 21st century,” Cruz said, causing some laughter from the crowd at Austin’s Paramount Theatre. 

Cruz said he doesn’t hesitate to campaign against fellow Republicans who oppose school choice.

School choice is an issue important enough to arouse the interest of a U.S. Senator. A failing electricity grid? Eh, that’s a problem for state legislators, right, Cancun Rafael?