Does Ted Cruz have a condition causing him to decompensate?

To use a medical term: Ted's a putz.

He is terribly embarrassed about being Hispanic and desperately wants to be seen as white

His real name is Raphael.

He suffers from the dreaded disease known as Douche Syndrome

There is no known cure

He can be a putz and mentally ill. Makes me think about an article I read about the pharmacy that serves Congress. The pharmacist interviewed mentioned lots of heart and BP medication AND anti-Alzheimer's drugs. I thought about Dianne Feinstein's recent doddering.

We really don't have protections from legislators who are not mentally competent. 25th Amendment types of recourse are useless, as we've seen.

Small Penisitis.

He’s repulsive.

[quote]It kind of sounds like there's a family background of some type of thought disorder.

Republicanism is a mental disorder.

Seth Meyers called him a "jagoff".

Pittsburghers will be familiar with this expression.

As R2 said, Rafael wishes he wasn't Cuban and therefore tries to go above and beyond the creatures surrounding him.

Didn’t Rafael’s father kill JFK?

Sometimes assholes are just assholes.

It’s not hyperbole: Supposedly, he’s the most hated man in the Senate...and that was well before January 6th. Notice how he and his colleague John Cronyn have no relationship whatsoever...

Like all right wing assholes he's a sadist. Trump, Rush, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and the Fox News Nazi Bunch. They love their weird, smug "superiority". Insufferable.

The sex dream I had about him was the some shameful of my life.

Ewwww, who would dream about such a gross, greasy guy?

[quote] He is terribly embarrassed about being Hispanic and desperately wants to be seen as white His real name is Raphael. —Anonymous

Hispanic is not a race so what race is he?

A disgRACE, R15

jackasss

Born in Canada.

[quote] Seth Meyers called him a "jagoff". Pittsburghers will be familiar with this expression..

It’s the American version of “tosser.”

[quote]I've been struck by how disheveled he looks. He looks greasier than ever, the beard and hair untrimmed.

He also looks like he has gained a few pounds.

I always think about his wife who was found by the cops on the side of a highway during one of her depressive episodes.

Prescription drug problem? As well as being a douche.

It's called Corona Morona.

Many people suffer from this.

If you've been dragged out of a public place for not wearing a mask whilst screaming about "Mah freedums!" you may be afflicted.

Ask your doctor about possible treatments.

Cyanide and liquid nicotine are especially efficacious.

He suffers from UWS (Ugly Wife Syndrome)

Kompromat. Reallllly bad stuff.

My theory is that Trump called Ted a fucking pussy once or twice. And so he started to go for this more manly look. He's an alpha now, gurls, rawr!

He really does look like he has been depressed lately. The beard is not helping. It’s not well maintained. I bet his breath is atrocious.

^That's another symptom of a mental disorder. The fucker cannot possibly hope for any political future if he alienates his closest theoretical/conceptual allies. He burned down the house as far as getting support in Congress, AND he's alienating his own Federalist Conservative types on the SCOTUS?

I very seriously wonder if Ted's having some kind of a psychotic breakdown and his pals are having a containment freakout. They already know about Heidi's expressway breakdown that looong preceded Ted's Trump snatch-sniffing episodes.

He’s a sociopath.

Cruz eats his boogers.

Recall?

[quote]Recall?

I'd rather not.

Don't his children hate him?

Even his daughters can't stand him.

@r16, "Hispanic is not a race so what race is he? "

Whiny Cuban Canadian, eh?

He had a chin implant and has sported the beard to delay the unveiling and manipulate us into forgetting about his chinless face. He still looks like grampa munster.

I think he's desperately trying to grab the MAGA crown, but because he's the antithesis of a MAGA (well educated, intelligent, couches racism in euphemisms), he's trying on a Davey Crockett outdoorsy look to make him appear less like the predatory, douche lawyer that he actually is. In my wildest dreams, I *hope* he's having some sort of personal crisis, but that requires him to have a soul and some degree of self awareness, which he does not have

But I completely agree that his breath likely stinks to high heaven

Stories have it that Cruz was widely disliked as far back as college, where he went out of his way to antagonize people (more "who is that asshole?" than being a bully).

And that in law school he refused to join a study group with anyone who hadn't done their undergrad at HYP.

The bigger question is; who the fuck votes for these awful people?

He's a lot like Trump in that he really wants the approval of Hollywood. That's why he got into it with Seth Rogen. He enjoys that Hollywood knows who he is and any attention from them gets him off - even if negative

R37, lucky if you went to Stanford or Columbia, then.

[quote]who the fuck votes for these awful people?

Awful people.

[quote]he really wants the approval of Hollywood.

That's not happening. His Fallon appearance showed how awkward, unfunny, and unlikeable he was. It must have killed him knowing that the cast of his favorite film, The Princess Bride, reunited to oppose Trump.

He'll have more luck with the fringe fanatics, but he's no nearly as charismatic as Trump.

Psychologically, he's highly insecure and socially awkward. He thinks that having power should make people like, respect, and care for him. Some people may do that, but it's not genuine and it's usually temporary and transactional. Similar to trump, but trump is exponentially worse.

He looks like last bathed during the Dubya presidency.

His own daughter recoiling at his kiss is indicative of how unlikable he is.

His wife must have such low self-esteem that despite her own accomplishments, she felt she couldn't do better than him. And she wasn't unattractive.

How do you stay with a spouse who doesn't defend you and worse, grovels before your attacker and desperately seeks his approval because you're that much of a politically-craven shit?

Aren't conservative women encouraged to stay with their men come hell or high water?

R46, but she's not some "homemaker." I'm sure she had options at Harvard and he was the best she could do?

I think we need some kind of vetting system to allow people to run for office. There should also be an age limit of around 32 years old to even run for office and then an age limit of 70 to run.

Cruz looks like he's on Seroquel for schizophrenia

Lyin' Rafael

I read when asked about the crack Trump made about his wife being ugly he responded, "She's fine, she'll get over it"

Prior to this Twitter spat with Seth Rogen Cruz had another spat with Ron Perlman, Cruz even went as far as challenging Perlman to a fight... with Gym Jordan! Such a douchenozzel cowardly move

The bigger the boogers, the better the boogers!

His picture is next to sniveling in the dictionary.

[quote] He still looks like grampa munster.

Okay, r35 You made me laugh, there.

This thread has been comedy gold! Could there be a similar one on Josh Hawley or is he too terrifying and mendacious for laughter? Like Hitler.

The majority of Republicans were all for Trump --and still are. He's obviously angling for a run in 2024 and is catering to that base. But he is too physically unattractive to be an appealing candidate, and he doesn't have inner beauty to compensate.

[quote] Why would a really smart, careerist, constitutional lawyer ally himself to such an extreme with clearly seditious rag tag bunch?

He’s a Republican. They are the party of the rich. How many rich people are there? Not enough to get elected.

So they have to dupe the people their policies harm into voting for them.

I think the beard came in to play once he realized his resemblance to Mr. Haney.

R53 Sniveling. Just another word in between his other descriptors: shit and syphilis...

Cruz saw Trump ascend to the top by being unabashedly wicked and delighting in it. Cruel, corrupt, vile, obscene. Trump defeated Cruz with those qualities and he took what Cruz wanted.

Trump has been dethroned and Cruz believes that by emulating Trump, he can wrest power with the support of Trump's wicked fans and the GOP's backing. He may be right, but he doesn't have charisma or gravitas or bravado. He'll never be much more than a performer.

Evangelical Christianity KILLS. All of these guys, the Christian Right, are twisted up into knots of repression and self-loathing, because of the kind of insane judgemental fear-based NON-jesuslike Christianity of which they are imprisoned. Pence, Cruz, whomever, can't even name them all and don't care. It's just a ton of BS and Trump manipulated all of the Christian Right by throwing out platitudes that he himself does not believe it -- and has contempt for! Trump is not religious, not even a tiny bit. But he was doing quid pro quos to get power for himself.

Ha! Mr. "oops got another stripper pregnant and paid them to abort the fetus" and "I wanted Marla to abort Tiffany" is sitting in his papa bear chair reading the bible at night? I have MANY bridges to sell.

Didn't you mean decompose, OP?

He's a contrarian oddball who's going through a midlife crisis.

One of my favorite wuotes:

"I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz." - Al Franken

OP, it's a mistake to label Cruz a 'constitutional lawyer.' Yes, I know he has training, but he's not in it for the constitution or even the putative majesty of the law. He's a Jesus freak. A dominionist. Everything he does, he does 1) to please his father, and 2) to propel America into a Christianist theocracy.

Hawley is aligned with the same mess. They are a natural together.

After dropping out of the race, Graham described the choice between Trump and Cruz as a deadly no-win situation: “It’s like being shot or poisoned," Graham said at a Capitol Hill press conference in January. “What does it matter?”

At the Washington Foundation Press Club’s congressional dinner in February, Graham went a step further by joking about Cruz’s murder: “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”

Does anyone like Cruz?

It's both laughable and sad that he thinks he will be President.

One of the articles about the fallout after the riot and insurrection noted how startled and upset his staffers were. Apparently, he is/was well-liked among them and they were very well treated which made this episode difficult for them. His communications director resigned. I guess he doesn't have a problem with underlings, just his equals or superiors.

Ya could have had Beto.....but u fuks voted old man Cruz in....suk it up.

[quote]Mocking people with disabilities helped get Trump elected.

[quote]Fat Wolverine is trying to follow Trump’s breadcrumbs to victory.

Fat Wolverine. 😂 I hadn't heard that one.

Damn, he really looks like his pussy stinks.

I didn't go looking for a terrible photo of him; this was a photo of him accompanying a regular story in my news feed just now!

How many scotch bottles does he hide around the office. He's middle aged, but that looks like drinkers' bloat.

Not sure how long this will be active.

smallestdick.com

Well that didn’t work at R75

If you go to smallest dick . com (no spaces)

It takes you to Cruz’s mobile Twitter page.

Were these the porn pages another airline traveler caught him gawking at during a flight?

You just know he stinks up the bathroom and leaves giant skid marks in the toilet.

Why isn't there more noise around the fact that Cruz wasn't even born in the United States?

Ted Cruz is quite sexy. I wouldn't mind to have hot sex with him.

^I see you're calling in from Moscow. Did the issue of Cruz's citizenship set off your alarms?

Given that your sentence structure sounds like Borat, you may have missed the class on how to come off as authentically American.

[quote]Ted Cruz published a book in September 2020.

[quote]In the next three months, @ tedcruz’s campaign spent more than $150,000 on books at Books-a-Million.

Just like the RNC buying thousands of Don Jrs book

I have met a half dozen people at Princeton alumni events who were there when Cruz was, and to a one they have described him as someone who went out of his way to make people dislike him--he was an attention whore, but only wanted negative attention and seemed to thrive when people reacted negatively to him.

Further to R84, I learned, earlier this month, that my barber was Ted Cruz's when he was a law student at Harvard.

He's pretty liberal for an old guy and I asked him what Cruz was like when he cut his hair.

He put down the shears, looked at me, and said, "I should have have cut his throat."

It was so desperate to rush to second Sen Hawley’s refuting of the Electoral College votes.

Cruz sees his chance of becoming president dissolving away

And to add, his judgment has become quite impaired, as well as his ability to keep his stories straight.

[quote] And he's gotten worse lately. Why would a really smart, careerist, constitutional lawyer ally himself to such an extreme with clearly seditious rag tag bunch?

Why does every mention of Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley have to assert their purported intelligences? Both support a man who attacked the country and tried to destroy the democracy that installed them into power. They support a man who has no loyalty. Cruz supports a man who alleged his father murdered a president and called his wife ugly. Why must everyone say how "smart" he is every time they utter his name? He's not smart enough not to support someone who works against his interests.

OP I've pondered the question you've raised and read your description and all I can come up with is one explanation. Erectile dysfunction.

He's what happens when a rat is transformed into a human being and then told he is smart.

Yep —I knew a teacher like that. His department despised him along with admin. He would deliberately oppose anything everyone was on board with, and obviously took delight in fucking things up.

I've started to suspect he may have a touch of autism. His two defining characteristics are:

1.) being really smart and 2.) being pathologically unlikable. That's why I lean away from the sociopathy thesis. Sociopaths are known for their superficial charm and charisma, yet Ted seems absolutely socially inept and couldn't charm a starving dog with a peanut butter-covered dog treat if his life depended on it.

Why did Ted Cruz think "Oh, I'll fly down to the Ritz Carlton in sunny Mexico for a Scaramucci during a pandemic and natural disaster" would be a good idea??

R84, I met a Harvard law grad who was a classmate of Cruz's there. Said the same thing as the Princeton alums about Cruz. Wasn't even reticent in describing Cruz as a jerk and all around miserable person.

"There are two types of people in the world: People who hate Ted Cruz, and Ted Cruz." -- Rick Wilson