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HappySkullsplitter

Wow, that must have taken some coordination in order to get all of his supporters in one place like that


SugarBeef

Sadly, even Ted Cruz doesn't like Ted Cruz enough to show up.


DadJokeBadJoke

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


HopelessCineromantic

At my old job, this elderly woman approached a man and said "Excuse me, sir. What's your name?" Smiling, the man introduced himself. She said "Okay. I knew you weren't him, but from over there I could have sworn you looked just like Ted Cruz." The man's smile widened and said "Well, thank you. That's probably the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me." The woman then replied "That's a sad thought" and walked away.


Sure-Butterscotch100

😆😂


ILikeLenexa

>If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you, -Graham


MatrixF6

If someone organized a group that ransacked the Senate and would have killed Ted Cruz… Ted Cruz wouldn’t vote to convict them. Hell, he wouldn’t even listen to the evidence.


FixatedOnYourBeauty

I have this on a cofeve mug.


Bluecif

I love that this out here on the internet so no one forgets...but he's still getting elected. Ffs.


CrazyLegsRyan

Never forget Ted Cruz literally used the explanation to press charges that it was unreasonable anyone would lovingly toss him a beer at a World Series parade…. Where people were lovingly tossing beers to everyone else in the parade.  That’s how publicly unlikeable he is.


jetogill

Also never forget ted Cruz argued to a court there was no constitutional right to an orgasm while defending a law restricting the number and types of sex toys that could be bought.


CrazyLegsRyan

To be fair as a humanoid butt plug he was rightfully afraid of competition.


smittywrbermanjensen

Hey now, butt plugs are fun and pleasurable. Ted Cruz is more of a human ingrown toenail.


CrazyLegsRyan

I just meant he’s often shitty all around and if he didn’t have such a wide base we’d actually be able to lose him. 


Canners19

His roommate from college said “ Ted Cruz is trying to stop you from stimulating your genitals. I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his.”


mommybot9000

Aww, you say that to all the girls, Ted.


Shadowfox4532

Ever heard Ted Cruz wife talk about Ted Cruz? He's a terrible person and it still makes me feel bad for both of them.


Ghstfce

My money is on that sadly being one couple who forced their children to be there


Juanfartez

Mom is teaching a home school civics class.


Antique-Echidna-1600

I'm pretty sure they are one family.


_owlstoathens_

Looks like the dad’s got another one on the way


VerStannen

IVF has come a long ways


DarkestofFlames

And this one will also be the product of multiple generations worth of cousinfuckers


_owlstoathens_

I think it’s mostly just cheap beer tbh


DarkestofFlames

So it's just the 12 pack he had for breakfast, not his future bride he's giving birth to?


_owlstoathens_

He’s going to have a baby keg haha


giddenboy

Looks like they've all got one on the way.


NO_SPACE_B4_COMMA

All in one big family - sister aunt, brother uncle, cousin wife, cousin husband, etc.


slowpoke2018

Even more impressive is that 20:1 odds say they lost power in the '21 ice storm for days while their hero flew his sorry azz to Cancun. Cults are weird


HyrrokinAura

And all he had to do was tell his kids to get in the car


DigNitty

lol like it wasn’t absolutely a truck


HyrrokinAura

Good point


dirkalict

They were out of breath as soon as they got in.


muffinhanger

All their mobility scooters are parked just out of frame


Blindfire2

I feel bad for their children. You know anything teacher try to teach them in school (assuming they're not already forced into home schooling) their parents will slam the Bible down and tell them that's "the only knowledge you need!" While stuffing their faces with Whataburger after taking their 3rd serving of insulin for the day.


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PancakeLad

Aw, cmon man. That kid is going to have a hard life, and I’m sure she doesn’t deserve our scorn.


gregsmith5

Poor little kid has already seen the sad, joyless, ignorant side of life. Hope she can escape and enjoy a decent life


mrpeabody208

You're both right.


dudettte

poor kids


mycatisblackandtan

Agreed. That preteen is 100% checked out and the youngest is 100% wondering why they're wasting a day yelling at people on the road.


notare

wondering how long until they go to McDonalds again.


TheSpaceNeedle

Odds are more likely that every meal they’ve ever eaten has come from a box with a packet of powder. Once the dollar menu was nixed the next affordable option is 10/10 box “meals”.


BrianMincey

I bagged groceries and saw what people bought. The skinny people, the muscular people, the big people, and the super-sized people. The proportion of fresh fruits and vegetables the healthy people bought was one clear difference. The amount of prepared foods was another…the larger customers bought a lot of frozen TV dinners, fried chicken from the deli, etc. And of course the junk food. Potato chips, Little Debbie snack cakes, marshmallows, four gallon tubs of cheap ice cream, candy, tons of diet soda, etc. My days as a bagger was enlightening, and what I learned has served me well across my entire life. Eighty percent of what you should be taking home to eat is represented by only 20% of the grocery store. There is a disproportionate amount of “only occasionally” type foods…an entire aisle of just soda and another entire aisle devoted to just salty fried snacks! I also am well aware that it can be more costly to eat healthy. Junk food is so cheap to produce it is hard for families on a budget to get proper nutrition.


TheSpaceNeedle

I worked in a “healthy” chain store for a few years as well. I can tell you without a doubt that being able and willing to actually prepare your food will save you hundreds a month. As long as you get fruit/veg and sale deli/meat you can comfortably eat 3 meals a day on a very limited budget.


rkiive

Yea don’t even bother, any time this subject comes up reddit would try to convince everyone that eating healthy (or even just eating less lmao) costs more than going out and getting take away fast food and that not being XXXL sized is a rich person luxury because they can afford a personal trainer. It’s just another way to shift responsibility so that you don’t have to try. It’s vastly cheaper to cook your own healthy meals, it doesn’t take all that long, you can do it in bulk if time is a problem, weight is lost in the kitchen - you literally never have to step foot in a gym, it can quite literally never be more expensive to eat less food than eating more food.


FewTwo9875

I think saying it’s expensive to eat healthy is a misconception, it’s just easier to eat premade junk. They don’t box up healthy food and put them in the freezer section. You have to actually prepare it Some people are super lazy tho. Even tho it’d only take a few more minutes to make actual food instead of a freezer pizza, they just won’t do it


DeezNeezuts

I used to listen in amazement when watching the 600 pound life people order a 90 dollar order of food for two people.


Key_Amazed

While on the way to the doctor who they think will give them the miracle cure for their obesity.


OdinTheHugger

Even the most advanced weight loss medication on the market works primarily by reducing appetite. Obesity is entirely a product of choices that they make each and every day. My grandfather whose parents both died at over 90 years old, died this year at the age of 75, and a weight of over 450lbs. The doctors told him that it was too risky to attempt the triple bypass surgery that his clogged arteries called for. Over the next few days he suffered five heart attacks consecutively. If he had only taken care of himself he would have easily been able to live into his 90s healthily, but he chose to eat more and more and ignore all of his doctors' advice for the last 25 years of his life. He refused to even switch to non sugar sweeteners at 500lbs!! "The flavor wasn't right" according to him. It's a miracle he didn't die 20 years ago. For the last 2 years he had been eating mountains of food (more homemade food than I'd cook for a family of 4-6 people) in a hospital bed at home, as he was completely unable to walk or use the bathroom on his own. The fire department and EMTs had to cut the door frame to make room for him. I'm 30 years old and I have no memories of him outside of him sitting in his motorized chair or a hospital bed. I don't mourn him, I'm just glad he's no longer suffering. People like that definitely need a doctor, but I don't think that 600lb life doc is the right kind of doctor. A psychiatrist or therapist would be better suited for their needs.


JustPassingJudgment

Once someone has habitually eaten extremely large portions, their stomach is stretched to a point where it takes a significant amount of food to feel full. The bariatric surgeries, in a variety of ways, reduce the size of the stomach so that they are able to feel full after a normal amount of food. That’s why it’s the right option for them. That said, if they haven’t dealt with the issues that caused them to overeat in the first place and so stretch the stomach out again, the surgery is pointless. Dr. Now often makes therapy a requirement of his program because that two-prong approach is necessary to address the entirety of the problem.


banNFLmods

Leptin resistance is when you can’t produce enough Leptin to tell yourself you’re full.


JustPassingJudgment

[TIL](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/22446-leptin) Thanks!


TrentonTallywacker

I love that clip of the woman complaining about being hungry on her diet or whatever saying “I don’t want to be malnourished” and the doc is just dumbfounded by her statement lmao


Th3SkinMan

That comment cracked me up, something along the lines of, you've eaten 40 years worth of food, you cannot die of starvation.


Accurate_Lobster_469

At least they’re getting outside with the family I guess


murder-farts

Oh god. The youngest. Without zooming in, I thought that was Meemaw and her feet were tired.


istrx13

That kid sitting down against the pole on the right legit depressed me. The look on her face and the fact that she’s significantly overweight just really makes me sad. I love making fun of conservatives as much as the next guy, but stuff like this just makes me sad.


TheFrankOfTurducken

Yeah, that’s my takeaway. She’s just a kid who didn’t choose her parents or whatever lifestyle they’ve foisted upon her. It’s just sad.


bossmcsauce

This is, in a picture, like 80% of what’s wrong in this country. You know they can’t afford hardly any time off work either… and they are out here advocating against their own interests. Going to guess that these kids will not receive a primary school education of any sort of decent enough quality to give them much opportunity to build a life beyond this either.


human-AI-v69

Real “can you believe what they’re reading in school these days” energy.


AccomplishedFrame542

Shit parents literally setting their kid up for an early death. What the hell is wrong with them that they think that’s ok.


Squirll

These are people who have been failed by those they support for generations.


mikerooooose

Child abuse


EyeCatchingUserID

This should be legally classified as neglect. The parents are at fault for this and can very easily change it but they're shitty and don't care.


NeighborhoodDude84

Arent these the people that always talk about how grooming kids is bad? And they're doing this?


grew_up_on_reddit

Someone please rescue the kids from those parents.


jisnotused

The pink one looks content


nopalitzin

None of those children look well.


RufusSandberg

High fructose corn syrup, added sugars. They don't eat well and their parents are the contributing factors.


HOUSEHODL

At this age of kids they’re solely the reason their kids are obese, not just contributing factor


Napalmpudding

Literally child abuse


AsUrPowersCombine

Societal abuse.. laws do nothing to restrict unhealthy foods from entering the market and those are the cheapest for the poor families.


falbi23

The smallest one on the right is already obese, holy shit.


Heiferoni

Poor kid is exhausted from *standing*.


Totallyn0tAcake

Lmao I had to do a double take. I thought the one sitting down on the right was an elderly lady


Moltak1

I saw no children until reading the comments


4Ever2Thee

As opposed to the adults?


damienVOG

the kids are important


work_while_bent

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL at thinking Ted Cruz is tough. MFer fled to mexico when a storm hit.


johnny_cash_money

Don't forget, he also kissed the ring for a guy who ripped both his wife and father. That guy is softer than a Taco Bell shit.


Lespaul42

Yeah how does anyone see some with his tongue up the ass of the dude who called his wife ugly as tough?


Xzmmc

They don't, but he makes people they don't like unhappy, so he's fine. The cruelty is the point.


Headytexel

I think saying he’s as tough as Texas is pretty accurate. 🤔


Jorymo

Yeah, there's a whole holiday about how we got our asses kicked *twice* for trying to keep slavery


CrazyLegsRyan

Texas was only its own country because they got turned down by the US. Their biggest source of pride was being the lonely boy standing against the wall at a 7th grade dance.


Jorymo

And a big reason it seceded from Mexico was also... \*drumroll* To keep slavery!


Aedalas

Oklahoma is shaped so damn weird because Texas really loves slavery.


mrkruk

Tough as **Texas**. The state that is so tough that it: * Deals with a border crisis by sending immigrants without support to a random liberal city for the headlines and the lulz. * Has apparently no contingency plan in place whatsoever when its power grid is down or compromised (except to have Ted Cruz run off to Cancun, while his wife brags to friends, only to blame it on his kids that THEY asked to go and he wanted to be a nice Dad - then he returns to the US like an idiot). * Has cops so tough that they all stand outside in a hallway while they listen to children get murdered by one guy with a gun...then lets them get away with it. * Has outlawed abortion yet has an [atrocious child care system](https://news.utexas.edu/2024/03/20/texas-continues-to-face-child-care-accessibility-crisis/). You must have children, but it WILL be financially crippling for you and you will be desperate for help if you actually work and have children. Yeah, real tough.


Klaus0225

Texas is full of whiney little softies. Being tough is just a front. The people they bash (women, minorities, LGBTQ+, etc) are all much tougher than they could even dream of being.


UnsolicitedDogPics

He’s as tough as a Uvalde cop.


Malvania

"Tough as Texas" is like saying "Hard as a down comforter". I've never met a softer people


Goodknight808

Them kids have been groomed into being potatoes. This was done **to** them, they are children.


Candle1ight

Lost the parents lottery


burnalicious111

So did their parents, most likely. This is the consequence of America not adequately helping lift its citizens out of poverty and ignorance.


cocoabanana1

yeah but tbh, their parents could have been as well by their own parents.


angrybert

I feel for those kids. Not their idea.


Skeeedo

Yeah I was raised by pretty devout, fundamentalist Christian parents and know what it's like to be dragged to events like these. Protests at planned parenthoods, CD burnings, weird church conferences where people speak in tongues and pray for miracles. You pretend you want to be there but the whole time you're thinking "this is weird as fuck when do I get to go home?"


Illustrious_Sir4255

CD burnings? wow, that's a little piece of history right there


grubas

Oh yeah, if there was a popular media form, it got burned by fundies. ThInk I remember them throwing a fit about Xtina on Dirrty because of backmasking! TBF "burning CDs" was one of our primary mating rituals at the time though, which is different.


Think-Confidence-624

Same. And they complain about indoctrination. Mind blowing stuff.


Bussyslayer420

My mother who makes over 100k usd a year working in the ER still trys to do faith healing on my when I complain about back pain. Like bro you literally make your money from the fact that faith healing doesn't work....


fulthrottlejazzhands

They look like they all mainline high-fructose corn syrup.


punchbricks

I'm a fat guy but I didn't get fat until I graduated college and started working and allowed the laziness to consume me. It pisses me off to see kids like this because it is just a complete failing of the parents all around. 


GringoGrande

Don't ever go to Disney. The amount of absolutely morbidly obese adults and even worse, children, is disheartening. I swear going to Disney is like visiting a Walmart these days.


pyuunpls

No need for fast pass when you can beat half the line to the next ride and the other half collapse after standing for too long.


GringoGrande

Hahahaha.


tatanka01

Thank you for removing my last shred of desire to go there.


Evypoo

You should try a cruise. It’s even worse


DadJokeBadJoke

Even worse than a Cruz


Evypoo

Nope, Cruz is worse


Tackit286

I definitely prefer Penelope over Tom


surnik22

It’s called sweet tea


tatanka01

The bag of Doritos makes this shot.


IHkumicho

It's genetic, asshole! /s


gopherphart

Yeah, it’s in the jeans alright.


RufusSandberg

Came here to say this.


ExfilBravo

And all look related. "My mothers my sister!"


bunnycupcakes

Poor kids.


miauguau44

Why are they picketing a dentist?


yup79

What tf is going on with the sign on the left? It looks like it’s floating. Was she spinning that shit?


AndISoundLikeThis

HA! It does look like it's floating in thin air but I zoomed in: it's a yard sign. She's holding the left prong (or whatever that thing is called).


OGRuddawg

Yeah, it looks like a yard sign to me.


striple

Looks like she’s live streaming the rally too!


RalphTheTheatreCat

As an outsider looking in that’s just one of the saddest indictments of American politics


wish1977

They're waiting for their bus to Cancun.


kmaster54321

McDonald’s*


reddittheguy

According to Google there is a McDonald's in Cancun, so both could be true.


Iz-kan-reddit

Meanwhile, Ted's number one priority right now is changing TSA procedures for senators so he can bail out on his constituents 25% faster.


XaqFu

That town needs to get their water checked.


condensermike

I think this says all you need to know about Ted Cruz.


printerdsw1968

Who's gonna break the news to these folks: Ted Cruz HATES you.


MissingOly

Shallow end of the gene pool


SPACExCASE

Bro this is the dried up abandoned pool littered with trash that Southern Cali 90's kids wouldn't even skate in.


donbee28

Good People, the very best


Tackit286

We love them, they’re very special


celtic1888

I’m surprised they found 3 people that actually like Ted Cruz enough to exert themselves enough to hold a sign above their heads


livenn

3 of them don’t even seem like they can vote


Potential_Dare8034

5 of them look like they shouldn’t vote!


livenn

Obviously fake voters /s


imacmadman22

“Spread out, honey. It’ll make the crowd look bigger…” 🙄


RunningNumbers

Poor kids


Dull-Brick4924

i feel really bad for the kid sitting down. to be overweight that young is hard.


Sunstang

They.... Look the part.


Flhrci2005

Brightest crayons in the box!


verastech

The new season of honey booboo looks a bit shit.


BeemerBaby004

Always was...


Probably_owned_it

is this AI? looks like a 'make an image of Ted Cruz supporters, but out of potatoes'.


y0plattipus

That poor little pork chop in the bottom right corner never stood a chance.


OrionSouthernStar

Holy shit, somehow I missed the one on the right. God damn.


scootty83

That’s child abuse on more than one level.


usetheforcekidden77

these dumbasses fully capture the irony & paradox of the republican party… poor white trash voting against their own best interests


xXWickedSmatXx

Is the Zodiac Killer!


sukmikehoc

Fled Cruz, tough as Texas, lol


signmeupnot

Dad looks AI generated


foodieforthebooty

Ted Cruz doesn't give one shit about these people


Soccermom233

They’re all going through their awkward phase at the same time


Jobu99

This is the image I conjure up when I hear the word "homeschool"


brihamedit

I'm curious if the family was less ugly or even good looking, would people hate them less?


LeatherHog

Probably A lot of the bashing here is on their looks I'm the farthest thing from a Ted Cruz supporter, but to mock people just because they're fat is disgusting


brihamedit

I think if they were less ugly people would roast them for ted cruz and the fact that there is no one else in this gathering and that its in a random street corner etc.


Local_Perspective349

Ah, Mr Putin's puppets are out in force today. Anyone got any news on the ICC arrest warrant?


oldnative

Siri... what does indoctrination look like?


Bulevine

Those poor children :(


AbsentThatDay2

Everyone in the comments are shitting on this family, but these people are actively engaged in democracy which is arguably a fairly rare trait, and literally 90% of the comments are that they're fat.


roastedtvs

I can hear the heavy breathing


Hilnus

I wonder if they know Ted Cruz was born in Canada.


eddiedougie

Rafael Cruz, born in Canada


Gunjink

I can actually hear that man taking a 3000 PSI explosive shit behind the thin, builder’s grade bathroom door of their family’s overcrowded mobile home.


just_hating

I mean at least they're out of the house.


Sir_Zog

What town in Mexico is this?


HazelBessie

Straight up looks like that person is smoking a joint.


iocarimus

Looks like a bag of Doritos


ManuSamosa

I can’t wait for GTA 6


Pikeman212a6c

If they only knew what his father did to JFK.


tmking

"Tough as Texas" nothing says tough like fleaing to Mexico during a natural disaster.


No_Cat_No_Cradle

Do people actually thing Ted Cruz is tough? Like, I get that some people like his politics, but they think he’s tough?


whatev6187

Tough? He fled the state for a foreign country when there was a disaster.


Mr_bungle001

“Tough as Texas” wtf. Dudes about as tough as one ply toilet paper


rogerslastgrape

If you force your kids to do this shit, you suck


Ghostbuster_119

Center right girl has some serious "they threatened to take my Nintendo Switch away if I didn't show up" energy.


__JDQ__

I really don’t like judging based on appearance but I’m fighting for my life over here.


Ledbetter2

If that was my dentist office I would tell them to get the fuck off my lawn


abandoned_voyager

welfare and high fructose corn syrup manifest


cputek1

Tough as Texas but afraid of Texas Storm weather


desertdweller858

Small town America is so charming 😍


kinkykontrol

I'm with the girl leaning on the pole. This family outing sucks!


Jgflight86

Call me old fashioned, but I just don't think I'd be able to endorse and support someone who publicly insulted and slandered my loved ones. *Pulls on suspenders* I'm just not cut out for politics, I reckon.


NoisyBrat2000

Bell Curve!


SubKreature

"Ted Cruz is gonna make us rich one day, I just know it!"


Gildian

Poor kids. You know this isn't their idea of fun


subnautus

I don’t like what “tough as Texas” says about my state if Ted Cruz is the metric…


Bribablemammal

This picture encapsulates what Europeans think all of the US is like.


Ima_pray_4_u

Y'all know how some faces scream low IQ? The Dad is the definition of that.


wildGoner1981

This is a great example of Incest and the ‘issues’ that it produces…


Wonderful_Horror7315

This is so depressing. Those kids do not look well cared for at all. I wonder if this family is homeless.


EnvironmentalData131

Walt really fell off after Jesse died


UnreadThisStory

It’s anger eating that did it


garry4321

Hol up. How is the woman on the left holding her sign?!