Ted Cruz going full retard official thread

[hashmander]

you can be such a dumb ass most times.

pr flack writing a press blurb about a nobody writer from notes. they see "father from kenya" and then that's that.

 

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[88m3]

Ted Cruz invokes his student loans, but will he help others with theirs?

Published: Mar 23, 2015 5:37 p.m. ET

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Ted Cruz at Liberty University, where he announced his plans to run for president.
By

JILLIANBERMAN
REPORTER

When Texas Sen. Ted Cruz kicked off his campaign for President on Monday morning, he wanted the audience of college students gathered for his announcement at Liberty University to know he is just like them.

While recounting his biography (inexplicably in the third person), Cruz told the crowd: “He took over $100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y’all can relate to, loans that I’ll point out I just paid off a few years ago.”

Cruz may feel their pain, but that doesn’t mean he’s making it any easier for others to pay their loans off.

In fact, Cruz was one of many Senate Republicans who voted last year to block a billthat would have allowed more than 25 million Americans to refinance their student loans at lower interest rates. Republicans opposed the bill, called the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, because its Democratic backers proposed using a boost in taxes on the wealthiest Americans to cover the cost of allowing millions to refinance their loans, political blog The Hill reported at the time.

The Cruz campaign didn’t immediately respond to our request for a comment.

As the Washington Post points out, Cruz’s nod to his debt on Monday was part of a larger narrative about the presidential hopeful as someone who came from little means, struggled and eventually achieved the American Dream. Student debt is an issue that’s likely important to many potential voters, given that about 40 million Americans are saddled with student loans worth a total of more than $1 trillion.

Still, some in the audience didn’t totally buy Cruz’s pitch, according to a sampling of messages on Yik, Yak, an app that allows people within a given location to communicate anonymously. As Business Insider pointed out, a user in the Liberty area wrote, “Thats right, mention paying off debt so you seem accessible to the college crowd.”

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/te...er-student-loan-rates-2015-03-23?link=sfmw_fb

In case anyone else needed a reason to hate this guy.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

No matter what these types say - even blatant lies and gross errors - their supporters will back them. It's like I root for the black person on Jeopardy. No matter what. For Jeopardy it's whatever, for the leadership of the free world it's horrifying

 

[Calmye]

No matter what these types say - even blatant lies and gross errors - their supporters will back them. It's like I root for the black person on Jeopardy. No matter what. For Jeopardy it's whatever, for the leadership of the free world it's horrifying

listen to talk radio. This guy is unstoppable to them right now lol

 

[88m3]

listen to talk radio. This guy is unstoppable to them right now lol

guy seems like a unhinged lunatic, I'm not surprised.

can't believe he has an ivy league education, he's incredibly ignorant

 

[88m3]

@Liu Kang this can probably get moved into the other Cruz thread, I can tell this guy is going to provide plenty of fodder

 

[88m3]

holy shyt....


I didn't realize he was this far gone

 

[alybaba]

So Ted Cruz is the son of an immigrant father and an American mother, born outside the U.S. mainland, spent his early childhood abroad, went to elite schools including Harvard Law School, editor of the Harvard Law review, has no business or "real world experience" and no executive experience and is running for President as a U.S. Senator. Clearly nothing like any recent Democratic candidate that Republicans said was completely unqualified and too inexperienced.

 

[Dr. Sebi Jr.]

I'll vote for him if he goes after the King Alfred Plan next.

 

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holy shyt....


I didn't realize he was this far gone

6:15


And I guess the Oklahoma City Thunder will soon be the Oklahoma City Caliphate.

 

[newarkhiphop]

This dude mexican canadian though how is he eligible to run for presidency?

"The weight of scholarly legal and historical opinion appears to support the notion that 'natural born Citizen' means one who is entitled under the Constitution or laws of the United States to U.S. citizenship 'at birth' or 'by birth,' including any child born 'in' the United States, the children of United States citizens born abroad, and those born abroad of one citizen parents who has met U.S. residency requirements," the CRS's Jack Maskell wrote. So in short: Cruz is a citizen; Cruz is not naturalized; therefore Cruz is a natural-born citizen, and in any case his mother is a citizen

 

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Ted Cruz Is So Proud Of His Role In America’s Near-Default, He’s Touting It On Campaign Site
BY BRYCE COVERT POSTED ON MARCH 24, 2015 AT 9:42 AM UPDATED: MARCH 24, 2015 AT 12:24 PM

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, center, accompanied by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., left, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah

CREDIT: AP/J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who launched his presidential campaign on Monday, was one of the key architects of the Republican opposition to raising the country’s debt ceiling. He’s now touting that effort as part of his jobs plan.

Under the “Jobs & Opportunity” section of his website, which says that “Ted Cruz has led the way to bring back jobs, growth, and opportunity to America,” one bullet relates to his key role in getting Republicans to refuse to raise the debt ceiling, which has beenroutinely raised for decades to allow the government to borrow more money so that it can meet all of its obligations. It says he “et an early, high standard for meaningful Republican opposition to increasing the debt ceiling,” including his opposition to a simple majority vote to lift it in 2013 and refusal to let an increase be part of a budget deal.

Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) originally teamed up to get 14 other senators to sign on to a letter demanding that Obamacare be defunded in return for raising the debt ceiling and keeping the government open. That strategy led to the eventual government shutdown at the end of 2013 and a near default on U.S. federal debt that was only avoided with the passage of an eleventh hour deal.

Cruz may want to claim this moment as part of his economic plan, but economists agree that this strategy hurt, not helped, the economy. A report from the Peterson Institute on International Economics found that the threat of default on American debt and other ways that Congress has governed crisis to crisis meant the loss of 750,000 jobs and sliced 1 percent off of GDP economic growth. The shutdown itself cost the economy an estimated $24 billion and 120,000 jobs in just two weeks. Another report found that uncertainty created by Congress’s manufactured crises over short-term spending bills, the fiscal cliff, and debt ceiling battles had already cost 900,000 jobs before the government shutdown.

Some Republicans have since distanced themselves from the shutdown and debt ceiling tactics. But some used the tactic again to nearly shut the government down a second time at the end of last year over Obamacare funding. Cruz himself has refused to rule these tactics out in his crusade against the Affordable Care Act.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/03/24/3638080/ted-cruz-default-jobs/

 

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PoliticsMore: 2016 Elections Ted Cruz Logos Design
Graphic designers say Ted Cruz's logo looks like a burning flag

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The logo Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) selected for his 2016 presidential campaign has left some graphic designers baffled.


Cruz unveiled the symbol on Monday when he announced his White House bid and immediately social media lit up with posts comparing the image to either a tear or an upside down burning flag.

Others pointed out the similarity of Cruz's logo to the symbols for the Al Jazeera news service, the satiric Onion newspaper, and the flame representing the Tinder dating app.

Artist Milton Glaser, the celebrated designer behind the "I ♥ NY" logo, expressed confusion at Cruz's messaging.

"This looks like another example of flag burning to me. Is Mr. Cruz certain that is what he wants to say?" Glaser told Business Insider.







Debbie Millman, chair of the Masters in Branding program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, agreed that the optics were puzzling.

"SO MUCH needs to be said about this," she told Business Insider about the Cruz logo.

"I think the logo is terrible, for two reasons. First: Really? He's running for President and this is the absolute best he can come up with? It's so ho-hum, it is so predictable and boring, that the immediate impression it projects is YAWN. Second: So the flame includes a burning flag? Isn't that illegal?"

But not all the feedback was negative.

Scott Stowell, the founder of the New York design studio Open, gave Cruz points for trying to use a "refreshing" symbol. He credited the Texas Senator for taking inspiration from the iconic "O" employed by President Barack Obama in his 2008 campaign.

"Since Ted Cruz is another first-time Presidential candidate running with only two years of Senate experience, it's interesting (if coincidental) to note the similarities between his logo and President Obama's. Both use old symbols in new shapes to express their messages. Sol Sender's logo for then-Senator Obama connected a rising sun to the idea of hope; Cruz's logo uses a flame to talk about "reigniting" something," Stowell told Business Insider.

"I don't support Cruz's politics and I don't love this identity. But it's still refreshing to see a campaign using nice typography and meaningful images. I guess that's one more change we can thank Barack Obama for," he added.

Cruz's team didn't respond to a request for comment about the logo.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/graphic-designers-review-ted-cruzs-logo-2015-3#ixzz3VLImAjmj

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