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[WilliamPitt]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, March 23, 2015.
Cruz on Monday formally announced his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
(Photo: Travis Dove / The New York Times).

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By William Rivers Pitt
Truthout | Op-Ed

Tuesday 24 March 2015

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

- The Doctor

Life, I have been repeatedly told, is not fair. I accept this, and do not resent it most of the time, because it is axiomatic, and so any effort spent resenting it is a waste of calories. One may as well resent gravity, or thunderstorms, or giant potholes on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. They happen, they hit, you move on ... and if you should have a limp on the far side of the encounter, well, that's what the good folks of Wisconsin would call "tough cheese."

Most of the time, I said. Every once in a while, though, there is an event so bombastically preposterous that you are left staring at the sky with fearful eyes waiting for the locusts and the rain of frogs. Ever yell at a tree? I did, just this morning. I had to yell at something, because five minutes before I shouted at the utterly indifferent birch bark, I'd found out that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz had announced his run for the presidency, which means I'm going to be required to write about him for at least another year.

In a just and decent world, all that would be required of me in such an effort would be to slam my face into the keyboard, resulting in a work-product that read:

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...because that is all this utter, blithering, obnoxious waste of my time deserves. But it is not a just and decent world, evidenced vividly by the fact that a greasy huckster fraud cretin Batman-villain-looking human clown car is not only running for President of the United States, but is actually being taken seriously by the "news" media. That does not mean I have to take him seriously - with every fiber of my being, I do not - but now that he is officially on the board, I am no longer able to enjoy the comfortable fiction of pretending he doesn't exist.

(snip)

Back in September of 2013, as part of the GOP's endlessly fruitless quest to submarine the Affordable Care Act, Cruz spent more than twenty-one hours yipping and yapping like a poorly-trained seal on the Senate floor. In the midst of this mind-numbing aria, he read "Green Eggs And Ham" by Dr. Seuss, and drove home the point as he understood it to all and sundry: this story means "Don't try new things" like the ACA.

My daughter will be all of two years old in a couple of weeks. She can't read, she can't write, she falls down for no particular reason at least a couple of times a day, her vocabulary is measured in minutes, and she poops in her pants without thinking twice about it. This is all fine - she's a toddler, and that's what toddlers do - but my illiterate, clumsy, incomprehensible poop-factory of a child has a better grasp of the moral behind "Green Eggs And Ham" - Try new things, duh! - than the Senator from Texas who would presume to sit in the most important chair in the land.

(snip)

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Ted Cruz is - to all intents and purposes - the true demon spawn of Joe McCarthy, Phyllis Schlafly, several small rocks and an under-watered cactus that nobody ever really loved... and now he is going to be in my kitchen for at least a year. Life is not fair, and this is not a just and decent world, and if I ever needed affirmative, irrefutable proof of this, now I have it.

The 2016 Republican presidential race is officially underway.

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The rest: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/29826-ted-cruz9h-dfxqqqqqqq

[Fred Sanders]

1. With every fibre of my being, the response of CNN to the surreal Cruz announcement, every

fibre, went WTF, is this Alice in Wonderland?

Has the entire news media gone through the looking glass and expecting millions to walk through with them like lemmings? Because The TV Man says so? Because a literally captive and literally bored to tears fake audience with fake forced cheers at a fake college is - the opposite of authoritarian?

Mullah Cruz wants to eviserate the Constitution and there is a collective shrug by those tasked and privilege by said same Constitution to be guardians of democracy?

Where on God's green Earth would a massively fascist and extremist rollout be feted by anyone other than others also massively fascist and extremist?

CNN is no longer news, it is fascist media.

Nothing else is logical.

[L0oniX]

2. Any news anchor with a fraction of self respect would have not been able to keep from LOL.

[Fred Sanders]

4. John King of CNN immediately labeled the speech as "very powerful".

What else do you need to know about CNN these days?

The Fear and Terror Channel is getting better ratings though, I hear.

[LynneSin]

7. WHen you have a captive audience like the one at Liberty University...

that was told they were required to show up or be fined.

I wonder if they were also told to applaud wildly or they would also be fined?

[Fred Sanders]

9. Audience shots showed clesrly they were bored out of their minds...many sleeping....like they

usually do every Monday morning at 9 am to be forced to attend, clearly not forced to listen...which they did not in drives.

It was hilarious...just do not anger CNN and tell them that Cruz deserves to be mocked.

[LynneSin]

11. How do these kids end up at a University like that

Sure my mother was kinda excited when I took a tour of Messiah College and it was a beautiful campus. I had some friends I had met from Church Camp who were going to college there and thought why not, I'll take a tour.

But when I heard the restrictive rules and the fact that I was required to take religous classes EVERY semister PLUS the rules of the college would follow me even when I was not on campus - that ended right there. I was a grown, thinking adult who could make decisions for herself. Ironically I did go to a college that was affliliated with the Methodist church but a very liberal university. You were required to take 2 semesters of religion but you could also take Philosphy instead of religion. And there was no requirement of forced church requirement. There were some rules about not being in opposite sex dorms after certain hours during the weekdays but I actually liked that (kept the dorms quieter for study during the week).

I have no problem with faith and I am a Christian but it's a faith that I have formed for myself not shoved down my throat by someone else.

[Fred Sanders]

12. The name alone should of been a dead to rights give away.

[KamaAina]

13. Well, Forbes ranks it 623rd out of a possible 650

so I'm guessing they couldn't get in to their local community college.

[B Calm]

3. Any new polls showing how well he'll do vs Hillary?

[WillyT]

5. Excellent Work, Will !!!

[LynneSin]

6. Ted Cruz makes Rick Santorum look like a Godless Heathen and that's saying alot

Just saying

[Adrahil]

8. Sometimes you write stuff that I don't like.

This isn't one of those times. That was inspired, even if some of the sentences would challenge a PhD in English to properly diagram!

[niyad]

10. k and r for the truth

[WilliamPitt]

14. Wee kick

[mnhtnbb]

15. Well said, Will.

Shared to fb.

I love this line: But it is not a just and decent world, evidenced vividly by the fact that a greasy huckster fraud cretin Batman-villain-looking human clown car is not only running for President of the United States, but is actually being taken seriously by the "news" media.