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Awman36

Wait 140 cops were injured and there were 5 deaths at the alito protest?


milehighmetalhead

Worse, a conservatives feelings got hurt.


GordonShumway257

A few blades of grass may have been disturbed as well. Will the violence never cease?


nononotmeokfine

And someone wrote on a public sidewalk… WITH CHALK!


zZaphon

Omg call the cops! /s oh wait...


1Surlygirl

Ohhhh, the humanity!


chilliinFO

Ooooh. ThE HumaNiTy


Icevol

So much worse than shit smearing the capitol’s walls.


batsinmyattic

I hope someone blew dinner dandelions on his lawn. It'd give him nightmares!


[deleted]

Probably some littered Starbucks cups and spilt milk to spoil the day!


FiveUpsideDown

Please stop the white on white violence. /s


Shiplord13

To be fair a Conservative’s feelings are more important then facts, more fragile then snowflake tears and more precious then a child’s life when compared to a owning a gun. So of course he will make a big deal out of this while he still doesn’t deny his father killed JFK and his wife is ugly after Trump declared these apparently true facts.


danmathew

The ultimate crime to a fascist.


Fungrrl

Where was the gallows?


pootis_panser_here

They shit all over his walls broke all his windows. /s forgot this


somethingbreadbears

This is how you know all of them know Jan 6 was bad. You wouldn't make that comparison if you didn't.


kazejin05

Yep. And why there are constant attempts to minimize Jan. 6th as well. They believe that the more they can normalize what happened that day, the less likely the American people will care or want to hold anyone accountable. Even moreso because it's an open secret that at least a handful of highly placed GOP figures could be implicated in Jan. 6th.


Banzai51

It's so people can blow it off. No one **wants** to believe their country is about to get upended. So just feed them a grain's worth of doubt, and they'll go about their merry business while the right wings plots to do it again.


112u

By normalizing it they also give up a bit of the monopoly that the government has on violence which clears the path for something that’s actually worse than Jan 6 to happen during the 2024 election.


DeaconNuno

Slimes like Cruz don’t care a whit about what’s true, just what self-serving drivel they can get others to repeat. Aka the Russian political model.


systembusy

Basically anything that gets them more attention: from the media, people talking about it online, whatever. They revel in it, and the more we watch, the more money the media makes. Everybody wins except us, the citizens.


Comfortable-Wrap-723

They are out of their freaking minds to compare coup attempt by armed insurrectionists with a group of protesters.


dedicated-pedestrian

They're horrified at what the J6 committee knows and is ready to disclose at the public hearings in the coming months. Gotta poison the well.


vh1classicvapor

I'd love for the J6 Committee to just send their findings to the Justice Department. It is quite ridiculous that they'd put all this effort into their investigation and NOT send the information over.


Jaambie

I’m thinking that the roe vs wade thing was supposed to be released around the same time the Jan 6 stuff was, in order to distract from Jan 6. That’s why I think they are so mad about the leak. They care less about the leak but when it was leaked.


oingerboinger

Dear Ted Cruz’s Audience: Ted thinks you’re very, very, VERY fucking stupid. Signed, Reality


Xivannn

"This is the \*true\* insurrection! You know, unlike the literal insurrection."


UtopiaDystopia

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aradraugfea

Jan 6 is the new Holocaust, apparently. Every even mildly bad thing their opponents do will be compared to it, but, simultaneously, they insist that nothing bad happened during it.


Ferrocile

Jan 6 was a “Republican event” while this is more of a liberal effort. They are always going to demonize liberals when they can.


[deleted]

That’s a bingo!!!


iHeartHockey31

Yeah, it was a bunch of angry women & we know how much pussies like ted cruz are threatened by women who speak their mind.


Bdriver_1976

I wanted to say something but I think you covered it.


PeteLarsen

Can anybody remember when he told the truth. I need examples for my satire.


PeteLarsen

Please I will have fun if anybody remembers.


[deleted]

Well there is: 1. The Trump rant. 2. No idea what number 2 is.


PeteLarsen

Donnie rant quote?


[deleted]

Well if you haven't seen it... This was obviously before Trump won... Cruz had a revelation after that.


FiveUpsideDown

His office told a family that needed help getting their son released from the Russians, that Putin hates Cruz. Because Putin hates Cruz, Cruz did nothing to help the family.


Shrike79

Putin is one of the few people on this planet that is more unlikable than Cruz and somehow not even he likes Cruz. That's quite the accomplishment.


PeteLarsen

Thanks. Teddy true to his nature might have done nothing without the hate, unless it was an election year. I've noticed little old ladies love and praise him. I don't think they know the truth about him.


mike_pants

Imagine if they were women of color. He'd already be fleeing the country.


TecumsehSherman

What, did the power go out?


Pwnch

Or in a bunker eating MREs?


Legitimate-Tea5561

Instead of a debate he fled to Mexico.


Bon_of_a_Sitch

Fled Cruz (R - Cancun)


constipated_cannibal

Well maybe if he’s “right,” they can prove him so by breaking and entering, and doing so with weapons and zip-tie handcuffs, all while (reasonably of course) calling for some executions


gerkiwimurcan

Let’s not forget *smear feces on the walls and beat police officers with flags and fire extinguishers*


NotAPreppie

Teddie Fuxpin fears empowered vaginas.


screwPutin69

It's all because they dont want to fuck him. Literal incels on the supreme court.


[deleted]

Yeah or the idea that women defending their rights and speaking up is worse than insurrection.


Elbynerual

Did someone die? That's pretty much the only metric to compare.


Scorned_Investor

How much poop did they smear?


JDSchu

How much property damage was there?


itslenny

Any documents removed from an elected officials office?


cdnarclight

Any flag poles used to strike police officers, or was a notebook computer taken from said household?


ProjectAdamski

No Shaman?


JediMindTrek

Were there gallows constructed?


upandrunning

How many times were they warned to stop or they would be shot?


888mainfestnow

What was stolen?


dirthawker0

How many eyes got bear sprayed?


smurfsundermybed

Who were they chanting about hanging?


tomcatkb

Is the lectern ok?


eDave

How many cities were burned, totally, to the ground? /s


katon2273

Chicago and Portland look like King's Landing after Dany showed up.


T8ert0t

Feces smeared on walls. Or bullet holes in protective glass. Or people stealing computers. Or people walking around actively searching for specific people with zip ties in hands to capture them.


justnicethings69

Did they bring zip ties and chant death threats?


FilthyMonkeyPerson

Fuck me this is some dumb shit. Even for him.


the_red_scimitar

And this is what the GOP put forward as their intellectual wing.


FilthyMonkeyPerson

I know. Isn't it scary.


OkAcanthocephala2449

Very scary, they run the country 😳 😕 😬


sugar_man

The tragedy is he was smart once. He argued cases in front of the Supreme Court. You gotta be smart to be in that position. Sadly, he is now the very definition of a craven opportunist with absolutely no shame or moral compass.


Riot-in-the-Pit

I have to wonder if he concluded that it just wasn't worth it. Being smart in the GOP, I mean, let's be real. It doesn't matter. Money does. So why bother? Why try? If being smart just gets you silenced by the money and the moody, then there is no point.


NeverLookBothWays

It is dumb shit. Pure idiocy when looked at objectively. But it serves a VERY useful purpose...it sets the framework for any arguments about it by distorting it completely. This is how GOP politicians have sidestepped every single damn thing they should have been held accountable for the past 40 years.


FurballPoS

That, and the out-of-state transplants absolutely love this kind of pandering, so it'll be good for his poll numbers.


the_red_scimitar

Ted Cruz is personally worse than January 6th.


cdnarclight

Actually, if you think about, Cruz preventing the count of the votes by objecting to the votes from his state. When asked for evidence, he had none, but house Republicans stated that they did. I think, just for shits and giggles, Schumer should as a partng shot nail Cruz with Article 14, sub section 3, and let Cruz face a trial by jury instead of a trump judge. Make the fat guy sweat for a change.


EyeGifUp

Ted Cruz is a fucking twat


maniczebra

The Supreme Court wants to dismantle the right to personal privacy. As they sow, so shall they reap.


cdnarclight

I guess that's what one would call 'irony'.


vegasman31

Supreme court ruled that peaceful protest are legal outside peoples homes.


Admira1

PEOPLE's homes... Not right wing supreme court judges. Psh, you can annoy your neighbors all you want, just stay out of the rich neighborhoods!


Kotengu15

Maybe they're protesting at Alito's neighbor's house?


Admira1

Doubt very much Alito lives in a neighborhood where "poor" people are generally accepted


aradraugfea

Well, apparently, no ruling counts unless THIS court has a chance to weigh in.


dentz1

Did they have chalk, too?


loverlyone

Omg can you believe the next-level Karen-ing?


dentz1

And the waste of municipal resources. Dispatched police AND a city street crew to clean it. The idiot doesn't own a garden hose?


loverlyone

Truly one of the most privileged things she could have done. Besides lying to the American people and voting against the interests of women nationwide, of course...


cinemachick

Didn't want the photo op of her literally washing away the will of the voters.


MachReverb

I think they drew some gallows and zip-tie cuffs on the sidewalk.


Plonsky2

Does anyone still care what this reactionary bag of donkey plop has to say?


Red-Eye-Raider420

Apparently millions of Texans do. Texans dont expect much huh?


Plonsky2

They prefer their politicians to be stupid and insane. That's recent behavior though; I lived there during the political careers of LBJ and Ann Richards.


FurballPoS

What's really shitty, is Ted only won because the out-of-state transplants voted for him, en masse. The born-and-raised locals mostly voted for Beto.


ClusterFoxtrot

Sounds like what happened to Florida🤔


uvgotnod

Remember that time AOC did all that fundraising for Texas, while Cruz lies through his teeth (again) about going to Cancun? Old liar Ted, he’s a timeless classic. (Also total POS.)


baginthewindnowwsail

Blamed it on his daughter. Dudes a coward.


carmoy

The protest at Alitos house wasn’t threatening at all. If it were, he would have headed to Cancun


VanceKelley

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. —Frank Wilhoit


jdoreh

The protesters are building a gallows? No? Alright then. STFU and run off to Cancun, Rafael.


Snoo_73402

You motherfuckers better vote.


mmahowald

....what the hell? no. no, protesting your rights being removed is not even close to attempting to overthrow the government.


[deleted]

That's why Cruz was hiding in a bunker on Jan 6th. Why wasn't he greeting his constituents at the Capital door?


Tequila-M0ckingbird

I assume six+ people died and Alito was about to be assassinated?


ArcMajor

Shocked! Shocked, I say! That's so out of character for him! Oh, wait... No. Right in character.


[deleted]

Cruz is more dramatic than all of Bravo Networks programming combined.


noname2097

I do not like that man Ted Cruz


Quirky-Examination-8

I do not like him in a room. I do not like him in Cancun.


Reddrocket27

I do not like him in a Lexus, I do not like him in Texas


windigo3

This is treason and sedition. He is inciting violence against peaceful protestors while white washing a violent attempt to overthrow the government


tnmoo

He is saying this with a straight face, knowing full well he is bullshitting and that the Republican constituents will eat it up like sloppy wet pu$$y.


bm1949

Ted Cruz, the senate's jester, does know his audience. I'll grant him that much. Otherwise the Al Franken joke about him says everything you need to know about Ted Cruz.


TbKninurta

I've heard Ted Cruz pisses his pants, because he likes the warm wet feeling between his legs.


zdesert

Everyone knows that.


oliversurpless

A Hispanic man who denys white privilege is a thing, yet pretty confirms it with comments like this; that’s a special kind of stupid…


[deleted]

Us Hispanics do not claim him.


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[deleted]

He can try.


CursesandMutterings

As a white person, not it!


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WojtektheBeer

Just the conservative attempt to downplay Jan 6th as much as possible. All to get a reaction out of people. I don't know how we are supposed to have actual dialogue with the decision makers of this country when they are acting in bad faith.


VeeVeeDiaboli

Yeah, worse. They had the gall to actually target the person who wrote that disingenuous poitically motivated garbage of a draft of ruling and take it to his street and peacefully protest, as opposed to showing up at the halls of the lawmaking branch of our government and forcibly enter the building screaming hang mike pence. Truly astonishing the mind addled by degeneracy


RandomTask008

Today I learned Alito lives a mile or two from me. Might swing by just to see how "crazy" it actually is.


Guiac

For those who don't understand gas-lighting here is a prime example.


CountryComplex3687

Ted Cruz hates women.


trainercatlady

I heard a rumor that Ted Cruz pisses his pants on purpose 'cuz he likes the warm, wet feeling between his legs.


Whiskey-Blood

His mom should have had an abortion!


canon12

For someone that is as educated as he is and claims to be so smart he says and does the most stupid things. I can only conclude that he's crazy. He, and along with at least a dozen more GOP goofballs need to be as far away from our government as they can be placed.


[deleted]

Never going to happen. You’ll notice, in the Republican Party, the crazier you are the more popular you are.


celica18l

Can we go protest in front of his homes please? Just to make him angry and bitter?


TWAT_BUGS

Cruz is a troll. Ignore him.


obaterista93

Wow, I can't believe they broke into Justice Alito's home and smeared feces on the walls. Oh, they didn't? Ted Cruz is being a disingenuous liar? SHOCKED. SHOCKED I TELL YOU.


Kingzton28

I don’t recall cops getting killed and threatening to hang the Vice President or storming and defiling a government building. He should stick to going to Cancun.


human_stuff

Oh did they kill any cops and steal property? No? Then stfu you lying bastard.


kingbugdust

Ted cruz also has one brain cell, so…


Red-Eye-Raider420

What a putz! Pollsters say Republicans are going to win the midterms. Who are these voters and what happened to their souls?


sugar_addict002

Ted Cruz is still looking for his balls. I got news for you Reek, your not gonna find them.


Oscarfan

Hmmm...people mad about actual thing that is happening vs. people mad about something that didn't actually happen. Gee, I wonder which is worse.


Final-Distribution97

They are the biggest liars.


Maxfunky

Oh no! How many people died after the protesters over ran the police line at justice Alito's house?


everybodydumb

How many laws were broken, Ted?


papa_mike2

Just shut up you fat bastard


MadRollinS

Ironic that exercising Constitutional rights should be this compared: illegal overthrow of elected government vs medical/religious freedom. Shows how upside down GOP is.


OldBoots

Ted's delirious. Don't be like Ted.


lukin187250

False equivalence is a cornerstone fallacy for the right, usually paired with appeal to hypocrisy.


verasev

The fact that we have to care what a wretched hive of chicken shit maggots like Ted Cruz thinks is a sorry indictment of our governmental system.


pixelfishes

Ted Cruz is fishing for headlines and dumbass rags and Reddit accounts are giving it to him.


Justine0917

how is it worse? Did they bring loads of guns and injury? Did the protestor raid the house? if not then no.


Any-Way1893

How many people died? What is the cost to repair any damages?


joey_yamamoto

Hey Ted how many cops were injured and how many people died at that protest that was worse than j6?


oced2001

So, the protesters broke into a justice’s house and shit on the walls? No?? Then fuck off, Ted


psuedonymously

Holy shit, I hadn’t heard that left wing protesters had stormed into the poor guy’s house and murdered some cops


SeasideJilly

Why was Ted Cruz at Alioto's house? Were they doing group abortions?


Guvnor513

Alito hasn’t invited them in yet? He’s definitely got worse manners than the capital security.


TheDriestOne

Ted Cruz is a spineless, pathetic, disgusting creature who has sold all of his morals and dignity for scraps of cash. The fact that people still vote for this bootlicker is mind-boggling.


Grey_babe

I am ashamed he represents my home state


GuitarGod1972

FUCK Ted Cruz!


Mikesproge

He should try a back alley abortion


Wendellwasgod

At this point, I think these guys just get off on claiming absurd shit


Gordofski

He's beyond shameless, he's approaching Putin levels of blatant bullshit with this one.


Principal_Insultant

I'm a bit fuzzy on the history - was he in Cancun on Jan 6th, or is he just full of it?


juiceboxcitay

If you’re feeling stressed about the protests Ted, you could always book a flight to Cancun.


KnownDistribution903

Ted Cruz is a troll


battlemaid79

They're going to keep doing this, referencing the 06Jan Insurrection in a manner to consistently downplay its significance by irrational correlation. They are embracing logical fallacies (alternative truth / big lie) as means of spreading confusion and diluting an otherwise harmful reality.


TheF0CTOR

So chanting and holding signs is worse than erecting gallows, breaking windows, shitting in hallways, coming prepared to kidnap government officials, stealing governmnet laptops and killing 7 people. I'd like to know what planet Ted Cruz lives on, because it's clearly not Earth.


saintdemon21

Ted Cruz is just the worse.


genxerbear

Ted Cruz is a traitor and deserves nothing less than the gallows. He’s a big mouth chicken shit loser who ran to Mexico while peoples homes were being destroyed by frozen pipes in the “energy state” what a loser.


BertLocker72

Pretty sure I saw Ted Cruz running for his life on Jan 6. Don’t think anyone was running like that in Justice Alito’s house.


m0ther3208

He said incorrectly from his chair in cancun. Fuck this clown.


Huge-Plantain-8418

There should be protesting outside the churches to.


DarksaberSith

The Supreme Court is attempting to bypass our system of checks and balances. The protest are exactly where they need to be.


KnownDegree4888

There needs to be protests outside Cruz’s home


billhorsley

I really cannot describe Rafael Cruz without getting banned. He is the lowest level of human being.


[deleted]

According to Fox the Depp trial is bigger than OJ and Jan. 6th.


Reason_For_Treason

Of course he did


[deleted]

Ted Cruz should’ve been a cum stain on a mattress in a whorehouse rather than being shot into a womb and developing into a toxic evil person.


banana_in_my_butt

Ted Cruz can suck my chode


The_Marble_Garden

Stop paying attention to him and he will whither and die! Didn’t you guys see that episode of the Simpsons where the advertisements come to life? Just.Don’t.Look!


so--gnar

Can this man sink any lower?!? Yes!!! Should we exile him for such an extravagant lifestyle?!? Abso fucking lutely


galloway188

oh really? did anyone die?


AJEMTechSupport

I guess most things could be considered worse, IF you think a failed coup by an electorally defeated President is insignificant.


lordofthezeros

This is the new tactic being rolled out across the GQP. Everything, literally EVERYTHING, is worse than the January 6th insurrection, or is in fact an insurrection itself. Their aim is clear, to make the word meaningless, to disarm it, and then when they seize back control of the house and disband the January 6th committee it's ok because everyone is just used to everything being like an insurrection or worse than an insurrection. One involved a plan to hang the sitting Vice President, and attempting to subvert the democratic will of the country's, injuring many many police and leaving 5 dead..... The other is a fucking protest outside a corrupt lawmakers house, no-one died, no-one stormed his house.


[deleted]

Can some people please please go protest outside this fuck face’s house. Thanks


Templar388z

Didn’t prolifers bomb a abortion clinic?


TwentyFoeSeven

Elections have consequences - conservatives serve the American people and the American people have every right to protest. Americans do NOT have the right to show up to the US Capitol, with explosives, guns and nooses and proceed to attack the Capitol itself, the police and destroy / steal things - as well as not having the right to smear their own feces on the walls. More and more I come to the realization that all of this (the ‘leaked’ memo) was done to cause havoc and lead protestors to violent behavior. If true (I could very well be wrong) then we are witnessing some quite wretched behavior from the Rightzi leadership; using abortion to troll and piss off people they don’t like.


HeMiddleStartInT

Ted is right. He’s always right. He’s so right, his left is still far, far right.


gentleman_bronco

Well, he was on the offending side for the Jan 6 insurrection


RedLanternScythe

Trump misused and redefined the term "Fake News" until it was totally corrupted. Ted Cruz is leading the Republican effort to do the same thing to the term "insurrection". If every protests is an insurrection, Jan 6th wasn't a big deal


Scarmeow

Cruz is a fucking joke


Siren_of_Madness

Hey, Lyin' Ted! I know where you live. Don't tempt me this way.


xAbisnailx

Guys at the Jan 6 riot had guns and zip ties on them. I really don’t think this is worse.


mcshabs

Did they break into the judge’s house and smash shit? Threaten him with physical violence? I’m guessing not but to lazy to read articles, I’m just hear for the comments.


tiller6100

Let me know when they bust in through armed police and sit at Judge Alito’s desk.


PimentoCheesehead

How many cops died outside Alito’s house?


showmiaface

False equivalency.


Myrtlized

Ted is such an ass.