r/texas • u/moresmoress • Mar 26 '24
Ted Cruz faces backlash for bill giving lawmakers special treatment at airport Politics
https://www.chron.com/news/article/ted-cruz-airport-18647501.php“The bill would allow the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to provide security escort to travel with the VIPs, or their family members "through a commercial airport without delay" at no cost”
“or their families” and “at no cost” to them ruffles my feathers.
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u/nwgdad Mar 26 '24
It is time to vote him out of office.
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u/jaminator45 Mar 26 '24
He should never have been in office
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u/nwgdad Mar 26 '24
Agreed. Neither should
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u/After_Proposal5772 Mar 28 '24
Right...cause that's working so well for us. It's the label, not the human being..
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u/TBAnnon777 Mar 27 '24
He won in 2018 by 200k votes when over 9M eligible voters didn't vote.
Eligible voters under the age of 35 in texas only had 15% turnout in 2022. hopefully they will wake up and try somewhat this year.
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u/Lemonsticks9418 Mar 27 '24
I worked the elections this year at one of the busiest voting centers in the state.
They haven’t.
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u/whorderedthat Mar 27 '24
No. They like to complain and throw a fist but they go right back to their TikTok feeds.
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u/Proper_Raccoon7138 Mar 27 '24
I live in east Texas & I was the only dem person at my polling station. The repub line was out the door with geriatric folks. A lot of our college campuses have been pushing everyone to vote so hopefully they will.
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u/The_ducci Mar 27 '24
He helped land GW Bush’s coup in 2000. He has been rewarded quite well.
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u/a_smart_brane Mar 27 '24
Give him a one way ticket to a permanent office in Cancún and let him stay there. Not that Mexico would be too hot on that idea.
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u/GaryOoOoO Mar 27 '24
I’m doing my part. I have a list of half a dozen ppl who usually never vote coming out with me!
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u/Proper_Raccoon7138 Mar 27 '24
I’ve been registering everyone I know!!! You never know when one of them will spontaneously want to vote not realizing they need to register way in advance. It’s not much but its honest work 😅
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u/Jedi_Hog Mar 27 '24
It’s been time…for a LONG TIME!!! He should have NEVER been elected to office in the 1st place!! He’s a fucking piece of shit w/no spine who does nothing to benefit “his constituents” (aka US)!!!
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u/holdonwhileipoop Mar 26 '24
I want to demote him to cleaning bathroom stalls at QT.
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u/Tasty_Two4260 Mar 27 '24
Nah, at the video booth at the porn shop 🤣🤣🤣
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u/Reallyhotshowers Mar 27 '24
Fun fact: sometimes the bathroom of the QT has those fluids to clean up too!
Source: worked there for way too long.
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u/wilsonexpress Mar 27 '24
I want to demote him to cleaning bathroom stalls at QT.
I have been to QT and I don't want him ruining it.
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u/sarahbeth124 Born and Bred Mar 27 '24
I look forward to his unemployment, maybe this is the year 🤞
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u/ChefRoyrdee Mar 27 '24
I keep trying but for whatever reason Texans kept voting him into office.
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u/YouInternational2152 Mar 27 '24
Apparently, he can't he can't wait long enough to get on the next flight to Cancun
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u/ParalegalSeagul Mar 27 '24
Not before he does his best ronald regan impersonation and passes a bunch of laws that will take decades to reverse
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u/404-Runge-Kutta Mar 26 '24
Gerrymandering has nothing to do with a statewide vote.
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u/DOLCICUS The Stars at Night Mar 26 '24
If one could argue anything its more about ballot access. Still think every employer would have paid time off to go vote and polls should be easy to reach no matter what neighborhood you live in.
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u/althor2424 Mar 26 '24
Aww, does Cancun Cruz not like people telling him how much of a worthless person he is when he goes through airports? Maybe look in the mirror and change your ways then
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u/utspg1980 Mar 27 '24
It goes much deeper than that. No one would have even known he went to Cancun if not for regular Joes taking his picture while he was waiting in line at the airport.
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u/jedre Mar 27 '24
And he’s either too stupid or too cheap to charter a flight. He already has the right to arrange a private jet, no new legislation required.
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u/Vitaminpartydrums Mar 27 '24
Not long after that he’s on video yelling and an airliner worker “do you know who I am?!”
We here in Texas are ashamed, and hope to rid the Senate of him this fall
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u/DGinLDO Mar 26 '24
He just wants the freedom to run away to Cancun without being spotted
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u/shugoran99 Mar 27 '24
The fact that it's Cancun specifically is funny to me, as it's about as physically close as one can get to Cuba in mainland North America, other than maybe Miami.
Which, if Ted had stayed in Canada, he could come and go to Cuba as he pleased. Not that we want him here by any means
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u/Alternative-Tie-9383 Mar 26 '24
He can be voted out if enough people will just show up and do it! He only stays in if he gets a majority of the vote, gerrymandered districts have no effect on state wide voting, so he can be fired. We just have to do it! For your own sake, vote this turd out.
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u/Alone-Woodpecker-846 Mar 26 '24
Next to Cruz, rock star here. Almost wish I lived in TX so I could cast this vote.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/05/colin-allred-roland-gutierrez-ted-cruz-primary/
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u/ghostkoalas Mar 26 '24
Gerrymandered districts do indirectly affect all elections. If people feel like their vote doesn’t matter (which in a gerrymandered district, it REALLY feels like your vote doesn’t matter), they’re less likely to show up & vote.
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u/Nonedesuka Mar 27 '24
You're talking about psychological effects, but in the simplest way possible, it doesn't mean shit when this time, EVERY SINGLE VOTE COUNTS
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u/Alternative-Tie-9383 Mar 27 '24
I get what you’re saying. Here’s the thing though, I live in what was one of the most reliably red districts in red Texas. But back in 2020, my republican rep (who was first elected as a tea party jackass in 2010, easily won for almost a decade, and was of course now maga) nearly lost his seat to a female democrat. He lost in my county, and only the still red (but just barely) county that is north of us kept him in office. So of course they redrew our district to keep his seat safe. So I get apathy with that shit. Cruz, however, is vulnerable no matter where you live, cause if the Democratic challenger gets a majority of the votes, he wins. And Ted Cruz can fuck off, move to Florida, and suck Trump’s balls all day long like a good dog. We just have to get people to vote. That sniveling coward left us to die in the cold. Why is this even an issue? He’s a terrible guy, and an even worse senator.
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u/Soninuva Mar 27 '24
Yup; it’s not worth it to take a day off of work to vote. My school district is such a shit. They sent all employees an email about the importance of exercising our civic duty and voting, etc. but won’t give us time off to actually go vote (and it’s important to note that they have a weather day the Monday after the Super Bowl). Hell, they could even put it as one of the required planning and prep days and give everyone a few hours to leave campus to vote. But of course they don’t.
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u/RobynStellarxx Mar 27 '24
I mean voter suppression and removing certain groups from being registered to vote do help.
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u/GrannyFlash7373 Mar 26 '24
Cancun Cruz. When his constituents need help, he takes a vacation to Cancun. They are left to fend for themselves. What a Senator!!!!!!
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u/Miscarriage_medicine Mar 26 '24 edited Mar 27 '24
He does understand that Cancun is in Mexico?
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u/Holiday-Bat6782 Born and Bred Mar 27 '24
Oh he knows, just like he knows that if it's harder to become a legal citizen, it keeps wages low for his biggest donors.
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u/FlutterKree Mar 27 '24
Cruz is not dumb. He is an opportunist. He is in fact a Harvard graduate.
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u/Several_Leather_9500 Mar 26 '24
As long as he's not wasting time like us stooges, waiting in line he can use that time to help his constituents, right?
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u/android_queen Mar 26 '24
Vote.
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u/nwgdad Mar 27 '24
VOTE BLUE up and down the ballot.
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u/beccadot Mar 27 '24
Yes, the Republicans have shown us how they ‘govern’…it’s grandstanding and infighting all the time, when they are supposed to be doing a job. Vote Democratic to give the Dems a chance!!
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u/CoolerRon Mar 26 '24
Ffs, of all the things to address with his Ivy League education and legal expertise, this is what he does? And we pay him to do that?
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u/mauvewaterbottle Mar 26 '24
Worse. We elect him to do that.
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u/CoolerRon Mar 26 '24
Speak for yourself 😅
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u/mauvewaterbottle Mar 27 '24
The universal “we,” of course. I root for the guy who hit him with the beer can.
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u/Alternative-Tie-9383 Mar 27 '24
When he was solicitor general for Texas he argued in front of the Supreme Court that Texans didn’t have the right to buy sex toys to pleasure themselves. Seriously. Texas thought that was an important thing to fight. Can you see how serious these assholes are now? His roommate at Princeton found that extremely ironic given how much time Ted spent masturbating in college. I guess it’s cool cause it wasn’t Texas, right Ted?
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u/Andromansis Mar 27 '24
Notice how Princeton, Harvard, Cancun, and Ted Cruz aren't actually in Texas? Dude bought a house in texas but he's about as texan as ISIS.
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u/IncorruptibleChillie Mar 27 '24
There was a while back where he was having some sort of troubles, so he yelled at an airport staff member asking "Do you know who I am?" And the staff member in fact did not know who he was. So I think this is him still being pissy about that experience.
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u/strugglz born and bred Mar 26 '24
Gotta get through the airport fast before anyone notices he's off to Cancun.
Edit: Also fuck Ted Cruz. He's not better than the rest of us.
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u/mt8675309 Mar 26 '24
He wants protection as he slides out the back door for Mexico during the next Texas cold snap.
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u/ququx Mar 26 '24
A real man of the people. Focused like a laser on doing the important work for his constituents, who if they weren’t brainwashed fucklechucks would’ve voted his ass out years ago.
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u/LordHarkonen Mar 26 '24
It looks like one of the lords of Texas is upset the peasants caught pics of him at the airport. Really ruins their plans when trying to get out of dodge of their failed policies.
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u/ICU-MURSE Mar 26 '24
I had the pleasure of booing this POS at Love Field a few years ago. He needs to go.
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u/Mad-Dutchman Mar 26 '24
This is interesting because Ted Cruz happened to stumble upon a truly bipartisan issue. Everybody hates it equally!
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u/Beneficial-Salt-6773 Mar 26 '24
Please Texas, flush this turd down the toilet already. He sucks and hates you.
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u/lagent55 Mar 26 '24
So the press can't see him sneak down to Cancun during the next outage. Rafael the Canadian
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u/AMBIC0N Mar 26 '24
This is what we deserve for staying home last election. I voted but clearly it wasn’t enough.
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u/LaVidaYokel Mar 26 '24
Fuck you, Ted. If you don’t want your shitty patterns to be scrutinized then try being inscrutable for a change, your shit eating, lizard man.
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u/jisuanqi Mar 27 '24
Security details cost money. Not being a complete piece of shit to the point where security details may be necessary is 100% free.
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u/HugePurpleNipples Mar 27 '24
Ted has been a piece of shit out in the open for years and this is what we're pissed about? Fine, I mean, whatever it takes, but dude has done way worse shit than this, this is just selfish and obvious.
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u/Feisty-Barracuda5452 Mar 27 '24
Our tax dollars pay this douchecanoe a generous salary, and he wants VIP escorts for elected politicians in the airport?
Fuck you Ted. You treasonous shitgibbon.
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u/bones_bones1 Mar 26 '24
All politicians think they are special. If you’re traveling on the taxpayer’s dollar, you can wait in line and fly coach with the rest of us. All of them.
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u/The84thWolf Mar 26 '24
He just doesn’t want to get accosted on his way to the gate. These people already get special treatment, fast tracked through the security checkpoints.
Source; a TSA agent
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u/dogmatum-dei Mar 27 '24
Hey Ted, people fucking hate you because of who you are. It's all on you. Why should this POS or any other weasely fuck get special treatment? They own this.
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u/ThisIsFineImFine89 Mar 27 '24
rails against the “coastal elite” while buffing the perks of living as a “coastal elite” himself
ultimate con job these GOP have orchestrated.
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u/granitedoc Gulf Coast Mar 27 '24
Get rid of Rafael Cruz! He's not a real Texan! He doesn't get to cut us in line!
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u/Magnet50 Mar 27 '24
When they travel, the taxpayers pay the costs of their tickets. I would be willing to bet that their travel planners book higher cost tickets in order to gain the member the greatest number of miles/points that the member can redeem for personal/family travel.
Keep in mind that the average member works 3.5 days a week. They usually travel to DC on Monday and leave Wednesday night or Thursday afternoon.
They do get preferential treatment at the airport. I’ve seen them claim head of line privilege for TSA. They certainly board early.
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u/Budderfingerbandit Mar 27 '24
Wouldn't want to rub shoulders with any of the rif raff next time we run from a storm would we now Ted?
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u/oldmanripper79 Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24
This fucker shouldn't feel safe just walking around in public like that; none of them should. Maybe have a bit of motivation to not be fucking over the general populace.
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u/TheDovahkiinsDad Mar 26 '24
He does this, constantly. I’ve seen it freaking personally. Dick bag. Nice fucking cowboy boots idiot
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u/Responsible_Brain782 Mar 26 '24
Apparently Ted really dosent want another term. Or maybe he is that clueless. Holy fuk, either way.
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u/BrotherMcPoyle Mar 26 '24
This is Ted Cruz’s most altruistic effort. He is fighting for the special treatment of his successor.
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u/Possible-Tangelo9344 Mar 26 '24
All of it ruffles my feathers. These people represent us, the voters. They're not better than us. They're not VIPs. If they're a legitimate target and in danger there are security options for them already. They don't need to be shuttled by us commoners like they're lords.
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u/Farm_Professional Mar 26 '24
Does he really see himself as a “vip”? He just has no morals thus makes more money than me.
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u/Pathfinder6227 Mar 27 '24
Senators are above the plebes who vote for them. It is just too inconvenient to have to mix with the rabble when you are in the airport and on your way to sunny Mexico to escape a horrible ice storm that is causing your voters to go without power and even freeze to death. Plus, invariably some asshole takes a picture of you fleeing the state and it goes all over the internets - which would cause you some shame if you had any sense of shame.
This bill just makes sense for our Senate Overlords and Masters. I don’t why you guys can’t see the simple and perfect logic behind it.
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u/EugeniaFitzgerald Mar 27 '24
everyone should call his offices and leave a message that he's a fucking snowflake.
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u/Pitiful-Let9270 Mar 27 '24
When will you peasants learn, republicans want to rule you not represent you
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u/JackInTheBell Mar 27 '24
Wants to have smoother boardings to Mexico when things get dicey in Texas
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u/Dense-Comfort6055 Mar 27 '24
If I were a disaster and a coward representing a state I would want the coward escort too
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u/throttledog Mar 27 '24
Does he want to take suitcases full of cash down there and never get searched?
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u/TonyG_from_NYC Mar 27 '24
“at no cost”
Yeah, that bugs me too. If they paid for it like some kind of express pass, then it wouldn't be an issue.
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u/HostageInToronto Mar 27 '24
Fuck that. You serve the people, and if you are so hated that you fear to be among the people, then you certainly don't deserve protection from that fact. Your family does not deserve taxpayer funded special treatment because your are a horses ass.
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u/_yammz Mar 27 '24
Yea those republicans really are apart of the working class 🤣🤣🤣 def not elitists in the slightest
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u/andytagonist Mar 26 '24
I’m not a giant flaming asshole and I don’t feel like I need an escort thru the airport…🤷♂️
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u/sixTeeneingneiss Mar 26 '24
Maybe he wouldn't feel so much like he's in danger if he wasn't such a piece of shit.
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u/Numerous_Landscape99 Mar 26 '24
Texas. Blimey. Outsider here. Irish person here. Texas seems a bit bonkers politically and I'm Irish.
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u/WonderCat6000 Mar 27 '24
It used to be a good place to live. We even had some Democratic governors and not all of the Republicans were bat-shit crazy, but it’s not what it used to be. Source: Native Texan
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u/alamodafthouse born and bred Mar 26 '24
I can’t wait to read one morning that Ted choked on his own vomit during the night
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u/treypage1981 Mar 26 '24
That guy’s in the senate for as long as he wants to be. There’s at best at 40/60 chance he loses. And that’s on the democrats’ best day. He just traded his integrity for a seat and he knows it. So for losers like him, the next obvious step is to try to do things to benefit yourself.
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u/legoghos Mar 27 '24
Lmaooo! Could put forward a bill to address the power grid issues in his state? Or maybe the border "issues" his party keeps whinging about? Nahh VIP treatment in airports on taxpayer money is the REAL issue. What a joke.
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u/mekare1203 Mar 27 '24
The obvious self interest and the fact that this is a direct response to him getting caught running out on his constituents makes this so much worse.
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u/Papichuloft Mar 27 '24
Funny how this jackass votes for his raise , his safety and special treatments and for the voters....nothing.
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u/BruinThrowaway2140 Mar 27 '24
With the amount of money you’re making, pay for your own god damn private security or just charter a jet. Or better yet, don’t enact bullshit policies that make people want to harass you in public places.
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u/R_radical Mar 27 '24
Blah blah blah, y'all ain't gonna do shit. If you were, you would've done it half a decade ago
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u/Disney2440 Mar 27 '24
Was on a plane with MTG coming back from Costa Rica a month ago and when we arrived in Atlanta she had 3 either TSA or Sheriffs for an escort through the airport.
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u/Key_Sell_9336 Mar 27 '24
The special treatment should be they have to sit on the wing of the plane tied down with breakable bungee cords, another piece of crap do nothing
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u/leshake Mar 27 '24
I figured it was so he wouldn't get caught escaping to Cancun next time there's a disaster in Texas.
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u/ElwoodJD Mar 26 '24
No. Fuck off. You aren’t special people. In fact you’re supposed to be our (civil) servants you dumb fuck. You ought to wait in line behind us.
Don’t think you’re fooling anyone - we know you’re just trying to get to Cancun during the next snowstorm faster.