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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz on a commercial flight, refusing to wear a mask.
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**UPDATE**
For those trying to argue that he was drinking, it's not hard to have a mask on and undo one side to take a sip then put it back on. Most people take their time drinking coffee.
Also, here's a photo of him sitting outside the gate:
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mucifer
(23,589 posts)Glorfindel
(9,740 posts)"It's OK if you are a rePuke." That's Rule Number One.
KS Toronado
(17,401 posts)FBaggins
(26,778 posts)He appears to be drinking coffee. The few flights Ive been on have explicitly allowed unmasking for eating and drinking. So the question is whether he milked the coffee for the whole flight
TexasTowelie
(112,571 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)FBaggins
(26,778 posts)No evidence that he "refused" anything... but no reason to like him.
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)kpete
(72,035 posts)Link to tweet
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tavernier
(12,410 posts)on a lay-over in Chicago from LA to NYC for refusing to wear their masks after boarding. He said that he cant land somewhere unscheduled for that purpose, but once hes on the ground in a scheduled stop, he has that right. He notified personnel, and they were escorted off the plane as soon as they landed. He would have ditched Teddy in a heartbeat. And... my friend is a republican.
Skittles
(153,254 posts)yes
we can do it
(12,210 posts)Arazi
(6,829 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,571 posts)Despite how much I despise Ted Cruz, I think we shouldn't jump to conclusions based upon the photo that is being tweeted.
kpete
(72,035 posts)Link to tweet
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SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)Ohiogal
(32,132 posts)groundloop
(11,529 posts)DFW
(54,465 posts)mitch96
(13,935 posts)edbermac
(15,949 posts)Right then and there.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)The air vents above his head are aiming his (possible) Covid-breath directly at the person who took the photo.
malaise
(269,243 posts)I wish him Covid-19
IronLionZion
(45,601 posts)since these assholes would spread it around as much as possible
The Animator
(1,138 posts)It wouldnt particularly matter to me how Highup we were when I did it either...
rainin
(3,011 posts)I may release one ear, but I don't take it off and put it away. I tend to believe he wasn't wearing one. It is Ted Cruz, after all
cwydro
(51,308 posts)And I never pull it down to my neck.That's risking more contamination.
I remove it with my fingers holding by the straps, then place it somewhere safe.
LeftInTX
(25,685 posts)I usually do the stupid pull down thing.
Mainly because I was doing lit drops for a campaign in 100 degree weather. (Didn't have any contact with anyone, but pulled it up over my ears when I got to the door just in case I had contact with any people. )
DFW
(54,465 posts)Unless you have a custom mask that grows a hole upon demand so you can eat and drink through it, you have to remove it for those purposes. It doesn't mean he refused to wear it throughout the whole flight.
kpete
(72,035 posts)For those trying to argue that he was drinking, it's not hard to have a mask on and undo one side to take a sip then put it back on. Most people take their time drinking coffee.
Also, here's a photo of him sitting outside the gate:
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DFW
(54,465 posts)He cant argue his way out of that one.
Link to tweet
Ted Cruz flew on an @AmericanAir commercial flight yesterday and refused to wear a mask. And American Airlines let him violate their own rules, and put all of its passengers lives in danger.
I just confirmed that Ted Cruz went the entire one-hour-eight-minute flight from Houston to Dallas and never put on his mask. so he wasnt just drinking coffee for a minute.
(from john aravosis at americablog)
EqualityNow
(32 posts)Never in my life have I canvassed as much as I did for Beto. destroyed 2 cheap pairs of walking sneakers. At least I was able to still get Lizzie Fletcher out of all that work and unseat one really vile rep out of the house.
Soooo want to see Texas turn blue. Will be the end of the presidency for them, and a much harder job to hold the Senate.
llashram
(6,265 posts)have the rule of their law, trump law, on their side. So they say, "I don't want to wear no stinking mask"!!! Make me!!
vapor2
(1,250 posts)Yavin4
(35,453 posts)Sitting in an enclosed, crowded room with re-circulated air is one of the most efficient means of transmitting the disease.
Skittles
(153,254 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)fuck head
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)fuck head
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I hope he catches it and ends up on a ventilator. That should shut him up for a while.
bdamomma
(63,941 posts)what a ignorant POS.
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