Ted Cruz has been slammed for joking that Texans should “join me in Cancun” as the state braces for a deep freeze.
“Texans, with the freeze coming, wrap your pipes, cover your plants, stay off icy roads & keep your family safe. And, if it gets too damn cold, join me in Cancun!” he wrote on X.
If it had been your grandparents that died in Texas last winter would you still be laughing? Or are callous jokes about people freezing to death while politicians hide in the tropics only funny when it’s someone else’s family?
I have a hard time thinking the physical location of Cruz would have saved somebody from freezing to death. As tragic as it is, the man is a politician not a space heater.
I don’t have to defend my appreciation for dark self-deprecating humor.
Exactly. This is like the pope making a dead baby joke, and all everyone in this thread can do is be a bummer about it.