Sen. Ted Cruz likes porn video on Twitter

[JonLP24]

Source: NY Daily News

Sen. Ted Cruz has been busy on Twitter.

The Republican lawmaker from Texas was among more than 400 accounts that liked a two-minute-long porno from @SexuallPosts on the social media site

Lewd footage of the actors — two women and a man — briefly appeared on Cruz’s feed of liked tweets for no particular reason early Tuesday. It vanished from his page just before 1:30 a.m.

It’s unclear when the married father of two personally liked the tweet or if a staffer using his account did the deed.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/politics/sen-ted-cruz-likes-porn-video-twitter-article-1.3488752

[Matthew28]

1. lol

[DFW]

2. My bet is a staffer or a hacker

Cruz is evil, but I can't imagine that he is THAT stupid.

[JonLP24]

3. I imagine that will be the excuse tomorrow

Craig Mazin ✔ @clmazin
Ted Cruz thinks people don't have a right to "stimulate their genitals." I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his.
7:35 AM - Apr 13, 2016

[DFW]

5. True enough. Whether or not it was Cruz, now that it's in the open, it won't have been

Though I trust his hormones (and his curiosity) to get the better of him now and then, I can't imagine he'd be stupid enough to hit the "like" button from his own account.

[True_Blue]

21. Maybe he forgot he was in his main acct

[DFW]

22. In this case

That's an oversight akin to appearing on the Senate floor in his underwear. Kinda career-ending.

[JHB]

7. I can imagine it being in his feed and him hitting it accidentally...

...as he attempts to scroll it off screen as quickly as possible. He doesn't even have to follow the site, just have enough followers who do. And Ted surely does.

[Dustlawyer]

8. He was up late drunk and screwed up. It had to be him.

[DFW]

10. That would be the best-case scenario (for us)

But I wouldn't bet the farm on it.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

4. Cruz sees that image as Adam and Eve frolicking in the wilderness.

Right out of the Bible, folks - with a modern twist.

[mdbl]

11. ROFL

[LudwigPastorius]

17. "Cruz sees that image as Adam and Eve frolicking in the wilderness."

Well, Adam and Eve and Brittnee...

[milestogo]

6. This is Latest Breaking News? Really?

[JonLP24]

23. It was the #1 trending topic by the time I posted

I wasn't sure if I should or not but if "reputable sources" were reporting it than why can't I post it here?

[itsrobert]

9. probably by accident

He was probably watching the video and while trying to remove all the pop up ads, he inadvertently clicked on the twitter "LIKE" button.

[Renew Deal]

13. I didn't know Twitter permitted porn

[christx30]

15. Several porn sites have social media

buttons on them to share what you're watching. Why anyone would intentionally click on them, I have no idea. I keep that stuff to myself. I have family and work friends on my Facebook.
I mean, I can see the former Texas republican chair, Rob Morrow, sharing his stuff. He's crazy as hell. When he's not calling Hillary Clinton a serial killer, he's posting pictures of nearly naked anime women.

[Renew Deal]

12. You may remember that a similar thing happened with Anthony Weiner

The hackers were never found.

[Julian Englis]

14. It allows all sorts of obscene material

I mean twitter allows @realdonaldtrump

[dalton99a]

16. He was just doing some research

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06/29/why-ted-cruz-watched-pornography-with-supreme-court-justices/

Why Ted Cruz watched pornography with Supreme Court justices
By Katie Zezima | June 29, 2015

...

Cruz served as a law clerk to then Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. One day, he was standing behind Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

"We were in front of a large computer screen gazing at explicit, hard-core pornography," Cruz wrote.

The reason? The court was considering a case challenging a law that regulated online porn. The clerks were older and not well-versed in the Internet, so court librarians set up a tutorial for the justices and their clerks on how easy it was to find porn online. Cruz watched as the librarian typed in the word "cantaloupe," though it was misspelled.

"A slew of hard-core, explicit images showed up onscreen," he wrote. "As we watched these graphic pictures fill our screens, wide-eyed, no one said a word. Except for Justice O'Connor, who lowered her head, squinted slightly, and muttered, 'Oh, my.'"

[Achilleaze]

18. republican christian "family values" is such a crock of propaganda horseshit

republicans reek of hypocrisy

[George II]

19. "did the deed"!

[ehrnst]

20. From his college roommate's twitter feed this morning

Link to tweet

Now imagine Ted Cruz is doing this four feet below you in the bottom bunk bed.

Yes, my misery very much appreciates your company.

[Marie Marie]

24. OK, now I am OFFICIALLY Grossed Out!

[The_jackalope]

25. Andy Borowitz reports:

Porn Industry Irrevocably Damaged by Association with Ted Cruz

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The pornography industry has likely suffered permanent damage as a result of its unfortunate association with the Texas senator Ted Cruz, industry sources said on Tuesday.

“For porn producers, this is a crisis with no simple solution,” Harland Dorrinson, an industry insider, said. “If you warn viewers not to think about Ted Cruz, there’s a real danger that that’s all they’ll think about.”

In the hours since porn first became associated with the Texas senator, traffic to porn sites has plummeted in what industry sources are ruefully calling “the Cruz effect.”

“I’ve enjoyed porn for years and never dreamed that anything could ruin the experience for me,” Davis Logsdon, a porn user from Minnesota, said. “Thanks a lot, Ted Cruz.”

[PoorMonger]

26. Lol

I have no issue with people viewing porn it's a very human thing to do. But he's such a hypocrite it's astonishing. This is a guy who seriously tried to ban dildos.

I do believe it was him. If you look at side by sides of his wife and the porn star in the video , you may observe they are of a type. It's funny to imagine that he would think in his warped logic something to the effect that if he gets busted viewing it he can say he loves his wife so much even the porn women he watches look like her, kinda. But I also think it was the phatom fave move ; the bane of any social media creeper - who scrolls through a crush or ex's feed and accidentallg faves something posted months earlier when their finger brushes the fave button.

[JonLP24]

27. A lot of people noticed this last night

I agree with all the reasons you mention.

[Linc13]

28. If Masturbation...

was a crime, Ted would be on death row.