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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:41 AM Mar 2018

Ted Cruz: "The extreme left, they're angry. They're filled with rage. They hate the president."

“We know that the left is going to show up,” Cruz told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. “The extreme left, they’re angry. They’re filled with rage. They hate the president.”

Cruz also said that if the economy is booming and conservatives show up at the polls, his party could pick up as many as seven seats in the Senate and hold a “large, functioning majority.”

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“If conservatives are complacent, and mark my words, we are going to see historic turnout from the extreme left in November, which means if conservatives stay home, we have the potential, we could lose both houses of Congress.”

If Democrats take control of the House, he predicted that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would become speaker again and immediately initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump.



https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-republicans-lose-congress_us_5a9f60cee4b0e9381c135ba6
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Ted Cruz: "The extreme left, they're angry. They're filled with rage. They hate the president." (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 2018 OP
Yes, yes and yes. Siwsan Mar 2018 #1
Was About To Post The Same Title ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #9
I think that Cruz classifies anyone who doesn't agree with him as 'extreme left' Siwsan Mar 2018 #19
We Can Only Hope ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #46
Anyone who doesnt bow down to Trump and his kids are considered extreme left nt maryellen99 Mar 2018 #53
There is no 'extreme left' in the US leftstreet Mar 2018 #2
Bedcause anyone not hardcore right is "extreme left" to them n/t Cairycat Mar 2018 #4
I keep asking the same thing? WHO is the extreme left.? pangaia Mar 2018 #8
"extreme left" MythosMaster Mar 2018 #16
Anyone who does not share the views of Cruz and his ilk... Docreed2003 Mar 2018 #18
Extreme left anyone to the left of the RW fringe meow2u3 Mar 2018 #44
Two reasons: JHB Mar 2018 #54
Dream on, Rafael Eduardo Cruz....... ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2018 #3
Can't argue with that. nolabear Mar 2018 #5
That might be the first statement I've heard Cruz make that I can totally agree with. Arkansas Granny Mar 2018 #6
OMG, stop the presses! Ted Cruz didn't use Fake News! no_hypocrisy Mar 2018 #7
He did in using the term "extreme left." pangaia Mar 2018 #13
OK, conceded. He wasn't inclusive. no_hypocrisy Mar 2018 #22
:))) +++++ pangaia Mar 2018 #41
yes ted and you're enabling a criminal spanone Mar 2018 #10
I'm not the extreme left I am a Democrat.... CatMor Mar 2018 #11
Dont' be filled with rage and hate trump. pangaia Mar 2018 #20
Can't help I hate him and all he stands for.... CatMor Mar 2018 #37
The moderate left also hates Trump and will show up titaniumsalute Mar 2018 #12
He's right. It's true. jrthin Mar 2018 #14
Hey Rafael. We hate you, too. Zorro Mar 2018 #15
A good number of Republicans ain't so fond of Trump either, Ted. C_U_L8R Mar 2018 #17
Ted might want to read this: Miles Archer Mar 2018 #26
And the problem is...? The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2018 #21
We had a fucking election stolen from us. Initech Mar 2018 #23
And a Supreme Court Justice stolen from us. The White House a circus, the President a corrupt clown. Bluepinky Mar 2018 #36
Oh I've heard worse than that. Initech Mar 2018 #38
Looking forward to that! Bluepinky Mar 2018 #49
Hey, Ted. The extreme left always shows up, ya fuckin' moron. Iggo Mar 2018 #24
Does Cruz still believe "sleazy Donald" is a "Rat"? Renew Deal Mar 2018 #25
Ted Cruz isn't stupid, he knows the winds of change are blowing strongly against him Major Nikon Mar 2018 #27
He's desperate. Initech Mar 2018 #31
His future is slipping away Major Nikon Mar 2018 #32
I think this is the first time Cruz has spoke the truth. helmedon1974 Mar 2018 #28
I dont hate. Snackshack Mar 2018 #29
Not just the "extreme left". 2/3 of the population hate him. livetohike Mar 2018 #30
give him respect deserved joseph263 Mar 2018 #33
Not extreme. Just left. ismnotwasm Mar 2018 #34
Cruz is only 1/2 right BoneyardDem Mar 2018 #35
Go fuck yourself, Lying Ted dalton99a Mar 2018 #39
I heard Lyin' Ted on one of the programs this a.m. and it's clear what his plan Vinca Mar 2018 #40
And Hillary dalton99a Mar 2018 #43
"If Democrats take control...immediately initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump." workinclasszero Mar 2018 #42
So Ted, who once accused your father of being a presidential assassin? Zambero Mar 2018 #45
True, but don't stop there Ted. CentralMass Mar 2018 #47
You're DAMN right Ted D_Master81 Mar 2018 #48
From your pouty, wormy little lips to God's ears there Rafael E. Cruz The Polack MSgt Mar 2018 #50
I hate you too, Ted. You are a vile and disgusting waste of space. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #51
I hate to say this but Ted Cruz is right. He said something that is true. The extreme left is filled Lint Head Mar 2018 #52
AND all the left, not just the extreme NastyRiffraff Mar 2018 #55
DUH! qwlauren35 Mar 2018 #56
is he campaigning for the Democrats? LOL nt Javaman Mar 2018 #57
Finally MFM008 Mar 2018 #58
Damn skippy! Im mad as hell! Every damn day! Sampan Mar 2018 #59
FUCK YOU, TED Skittles Mar 2018 #60
Any intelligent, sane person would, you fucking twit. Cha Mar 2018 #61
Ted seems frightened, unsure how to attack ORourke BannonsLiver Mar 2018 #62
Lol! Cruz calling anyone extreme is just rich mvd Mar 2018 #63
That photo warms my heart. nt raccoon Mar 2018 #64

ProfessorGAC

(65,010 posts)
9. Was About To Post The Same Title
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:45 AM
Mar 2018

And i'm not "extreme left". I'm just a guy who believes tax money should be used to help people who need help and that the government should enforce a level playing field. Apparently, that is an extreme view, even though it's obviously not.

Siwsan

(26,260 posts)
19. I think that Cruz classifies anyone who doesn't agree with him as 'extreme left'
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:51 AM
Mar 2018

He doesn't seem to allow for much wiggle room. And, I think he is truly concerned he might be out of the job, soon, so he might start going into hyperbolic overdrive.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
8. I keep asking the same thing? WHO is the extreme left.?
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:45 AM
Mar 2018

But we certainly don't need to ask WHY they do it.

We should start calling them the fascist right !!

Of course, the people we wold be aiming these comments at are to stupid to know what a fascist is.. ANY flavor of fascist.


Docreed2003

(16,858 posts)
18. Anyone who does not share the views of Cruz and his ilk...
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:50 AM
Mar 2018

He’s using bullshit buzz words to fire up his crowd. These people are so afraid of anything that isn’t within their conservative worldview and Cruz and others love to stoke those fears. These “true believers” in the conservative movement are scared and scary.

meow2u3

(24,761 posts)
44. Extreme left anyone to the left of the RW fringe
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 01:13 PM
Mar 2018

In other words, they're the damned extremists and are accusing everybody else of their own sins.

JHB

(37,159 posts)
54. Two reasons:
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 01:55 PM
Mar 2018

1) Because that's what they think. Failure to cheerlead a conservative agenda is "liberal bias", and actively opposing it is "far left".

2) Because by painting opposition as extremists and fanatics, they fashion a veneer of reasonableness and normalcy to their own extremism and fanaticism.

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
11. I'm not the extreme left I am a Democrat....
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:46 AM
Mar 2018

And yes I am filled with rage and I do hate trump and everything he stands for.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
20. Dont' be filled with rage and hate trump.
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:51 AM
Mar 2018

It will only give you ulcers and an accelerated heart rate.

Get to work and help bring them all down.

There, I told oyu, sitting hewre in my chair typing.




But, really, it is what we all need to do, every little tiny bit can help...
Today I call Chris Collins office yet again, write another letter to my local YMCA to turn fox off in the fitness center, and in a couple days meet with a few local indivisible group...

Think of what the people of Leningrad did when they were suffering not only a German siege but the horror of Stalin as well..

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
37. Can't help I hate him and all he stands for....
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 12:29 PM
Mar 2018

I do my best with monetary support, voting and calls. I'm in the same area as you but Collins isn't my rep, thankfully. He is just as bad as trump.

C_U_L8R

(45,000 posts)
17. A good number of Republicans ain't so fond of Trump either, Ted.
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:50 AM
Mar 2018

It's just the whackadoodle fringe that's still behind him. What a disaster of a President. So corrupt. So wasteful and wrongheaded. Such an idiot. Self-absorbed and bloviating. What's to like?

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
26. Ted might want to read this:
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:54 AM
Mar 2018
‘It’s lunch money’: Blue-collar Trump voters underwhelmed by GOP tax cut



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/lunch-money-blue-collar-trump-voters-underwhelmed-gop-tax-cut/

The New York Times went to Ohio this week to talk with blue-collar voters for their views about the tax cuts the Republican Party passed last year, and many of them said the cuts aren’t adding up to much on their paychecks.

“I have seen a little uptick in my paycheck, about what I expected, about 30 bucks,” said machinist Matt Kazee, who voted for Trump in 2016, of the tax cut. “It felt to me about like where things were 15 years ago.”

Brian Barkalow, a worker at Requarth Lumber, told the Times that he feared paying slightly less in taxes now would only mean paying more in the future.

“He’s pulling out jazz hands and shiny stuff up front and will screw us on the back end,” he explained.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)
21. And the problem is...?
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:52 AM
Mar 2018

And BTW, Ted, there isn't much by the way of an "extreme left" in the U.S. There are, however, a whole lot of people who believe the GOP is destructive and dangerous, that Trump is a lunatic, and that you suck.

Initech

(100,068 posts)
23. We had a fucking election stolen from us.
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:53 AM
Mar 2018

And the worst possible kind of theft imaginable - and a whole party that allowed it to happen! Fucking A right we're pissed off! And we're going to vote your asses out in November!

Bluepinky

(2,268 posts)
36. And a Supreme Court Justice stolen from us. The White House a circus, the President a corrupt clown.
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 12:25 PM
Mar 2018

Anyone not going along with this bullshit is called “ extreme left”. Another term I have heard used is “ultra liberal”. How about calling us “Americans with a conscience”?

Initech

(100,068 posts)
38. Oh I've heard worse than that.
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 12:34 PM
Mar 2018

I can't tell you the amount of times I've seen crap like "libtard" and "liberalism is a mental disorder" and things much worse than that posted since the election. This is just an attempt to get their base riled up. But Teddy will soon find out that his base is dwindling.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
27. Ted Cruz isn't stupid, he knows the winds of change are blowing strongly against him
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:55 AM
Mar 2018

His only hope is to get an increasingly larger voter turnout from a shrinking demographic, which has been the GOP's tactic in Texas for quite a long time. The reason this strategy has been so effective is because the GOTV effort in Texas has been largely absent. Those networks have been experiencing something of a renaissance in the last few years and Trump has awakened a sleeping dragon. As Texas goes, so does the nation. Texas will go blue at some point and Cruz knows it. It's not a question of if, but only when. Once this happens, the GOP is done for at least a generation and may simply go the way of the Whigs.

Initech

(100,068 posts)
31. He's desperate.
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 12:03 PM
Mar 2018

He's enjoyed that seat and all the power that it brings unchallenged for years now. He's finally got a credible challenger and he's scared shitless. This election is going to be fun for us! Can't wait to see these fuckers squirm. Teddy is only the beginning!

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
32. His future is slipping away
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 12:07 PM
Mar 2018

Even if he manages to win his next election, the effort will leave him drained for any serious primary challenge for POTUS.

 

helmedon1974

(92 posts)
28. I think this is the first time Cruz has spoke the truth.
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:58 AM
Mar 2018

I don't know how he defined extreme left, but most of America is angry. He actually has something to do with that. When did he become a fan of Trump? Oh, right. When he gained power and influence. Cruz is such a Muppet.

Snackshack

(2,541 posts)
29. I dont hate.
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 12:01 PM
Mar 2018

Trump. He did not get to where he is on his own. He had a lot of help. Namely 60+ million of my fellow citizens.

What I dislike is the double standard of the Republican Party. The “my way or the highway” attitude. How they treated President Obama. They put party before country especially in regards to the SCOTUS vote for Garland. If trump was a democratic president and the Democratic Party was behaving the way republicans are I would dislike them just as equally.

We cannot let republicans frame the narrative like this. That Dems are an angry mob. We are not, we want justice / fairness / equality for all. Politics is not a sport, it is not my team v. your team. It is a group effort that requires compromise in order to move forward. We have to get back to being able to sit down and compromise with one another or we are not going to last long.

livetohike

(22,140 posts)
30. Not just the "extreme left". 2/3 of the population hate him.
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 12:02 PM
Mar 2018

So keep tying yourself to an out of control wagon. Former Senator Cruz.

 

joseph263

(13 posts)
33. give him respect deserved
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 12:08 PM
Mar 2018

give him the respect of his name, his real name let's see if he can be real and live up to it. see if he has any pride left in his body.

 

BoneyardDem

(1,202 posts)
35. Cruz is only 1/2 right
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 12:15 PM
Mar 2018

It's not just the far left that hates Trump. Center left, center, center Right Dems hate him too. There is also a goodly number of Republicans that hate him too...Steve Schmidt (the guy on MSNBC), the Bush family, the Romney's, Omarosa (maybe), Marla Maples, all of the women he sexually assulted, a majority of the Hispanic voters (who tend toward conservative politics), etc. I'm not even sure if Sessions, Bannon or Tillerson, would vote for Trump in the next election

Trump can count on Putin, Assange, knuckle dragging Trumpsters, the ignorant, some Greenies, Sarandon and some JPR'rs.

Vinca

(50,269 posts)
40. I heard Lyin' Ted on one of the programs this a.m. and it's clear what his plan
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 12:46 PM
Mar 2018

of attack is for the next election: invoke Obama's name in every sentence. O hasn't gotten so much coverage since the Dijon mustard episode.

Zambero

(8,964 posts)
45. So Ted, who once accused your father of being a presidential assassin?
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 01:19 PM
Mar 2018

Oh yeah, now I remember! So very nice of you to let bygones be just that. But that Beto fellow and the name he goes by, that is UNFORGIVEABLE!!!

The Polack MSgt

(13,188 posts)
50. From your pouty, wormy little lips to God's ears there Rafael E. Cruz
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 01:31 PM
Mar 2018

“If conservatives are complacent, and mark my words, we are going to see historic turnout from the extreme left in November, which means if conservatives stay home, we have the potential, we could lose both houses of Congress.”

If Democrats take control of the House, he predicted that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would become speaker again and immediately initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
51. I hate you too, Ted. You are a vile and disgusting waste of space.
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 01:36 PM
Mar 2018

Every thought you have, every action you take, is aimed to harm others and profit yourself.

The LAST place in this galaxy you deserve to be is in my beautiful country.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
52. I hate to say this but Ted Cruz is right. He said something that is true. The extreme left is filled
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 01:38 PM
Mar 2018

with rage and anger because of the racist bigoted sexual predator who loves the murderer Vladimir Putin who is stinking up our White House.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
55. AND all the left, not just the extreme
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 01:56 PM
Mar 2018

hate you, too, Ted. November is coming and we've got a great candidate in Beto O'Rourke.

The Blue Wave is coming to Texas, Ted.

qwlauren35

(6,148 posts)
56. DUH!
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 01:58 PM
Mar 2018

Hopefully we will do this.

And not stay home or vote third-party because we don't like the candidate.

Cha

(297,180 posts)
61. Any intelligent, sane person would, you fucking twit.
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 01:54 AM
Mar 2018

What's to like about a sexual predatory, fucking Russian mole in the wh?

BannonsLiver

(16,370 posts)
62. Ted seems frightened, unsure how to attack ORourke
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 02:40 AM
Mar 2018

O’Rourke’s campaign appears quick on its feet. If Cruz doesn’t right the ship he will lose.

mvd

(65,173 posts)
63. Lol! Cruz calling anyone extreme is just rich
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 02:54 AM
Mar 2018

And yes, we will be out there voting to restore sanity to our country!

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