So he might actually know what he’s talking about.“Did the Inflation Reduction Act quietly save the administrative state?” That’s the big question that TNR’s Kate Aronoff took up this week after The New York Times and others reported on an eye-catching bit of fine print in the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA. Though did not want to be identified by name, he told me he’s a New Yorker, 43, and has worked in politics his whole professional life. As Florida looms, I would say there is a very good chance Trump accuses Ted of the murders.” “Trump on the other hand? I think we’ve crossed the Rubicon on Trump’s daily insane vile diatribes. “Selfishly, I would love for him to actual deny it but the chances are slim,” said. A favorite offshoot of the joke is to point out that Cruz has never denied that he’s a serial killer, so the possibility remains. It was just a fun way to burn off some steam.”įun indeed, but some people are beginning to wonder if Cruz, faced with the internet ubiquity of the accusation, will somehow be forced to deny it. “This is no replacement for the actual good work of on-the-ground organizing. “Commercial sales to privately fund reproductive health is its own kind of libertarian dystopia,” he said. The logistics of mailing 200 T-shirts a day, however, exhausted him. He also says that he has been urged by many to reopen sales. That comes out to an estimated donation of about $69,000.įaust is satisfied with what he’s done so far. But the project caught on, and he told me when he ended the sale on 2 March he had sold about 7,500 T-shirts. Initially, Faust says, he expected to make perhaps 20 T-shirts. Faust is a longtime pro-choice activist, so he decided sales of the shirt would benefit the West Fund, which helps women pay for abortions in Texas. How?! This would be some dark-ass comedy, if tens of millions of lives weren’t at stake.”įaust promptly enlisted an artist friend, Rory Blank, to design a T-shirt. “This election is resplendent with abuses of integrity for political gain, and yet Cruz is still the worst of the bunch. “The man is deplorable, contemptible,” he wrote to me. Faust is, to say the least, not a Cruz fan. It's been a confusing week, but one thing is unambiguous: i am only made stronger by people like this /D4cE8ab5Li- Kill Tim Faust February 27, 2016įaust, a data scientist, has played a particularly altruistic role in all this. Another “Ted Cruz is the Zodiac” enthusiast, Tim Faust, recently tweeted the following: Now that so many people have posted about Cruz and the Zodiac, angry Cruz supporters often appear in comments sections, on Facebook pages and elsewhere, to defend their man. So claiming that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac simply mimics the mass-panic technique Republicans have already perfected, several meme proponents argued. Gradually, certain members of the public began to believe it. They repeatedly insisted that Obama’s birth certificate was faked, and that he was born in Kenya. Ted-Cruz-is-the-Zodiac types often say they’re only doing what birther Republicans did to Obama in 2008. It satirizes the fact that political discourse in America has sunk so low that this kind of spurious accusation can actually get traction. (The first confirmed Zodiac killing took place in 1968 Cruz was born in 1970.) “Lighten up!”īut the meme works on a higher level. yes we know,” volunteered to me over a Twitter direct message. “To those Cruz trolls who insist that we ‘look at the facts’ that Ted was not even born when the Zodiac was committing these horrid crimes. In fact, the first rule of the “Ted Cruz is the Zodiac” meme club is this: you don’t actually believe Ted Cruz is the Zodiac. More likely, however, is that these people are kidding. These things might lead you to believe that there really is a constituency in America who have been fooled by this meme into thinking that the Zodiac is several hundred delegates away from the presidency. (In fact, 10% said that yes, they thought he was 28% were “not sure”.)Īnd, inevitably, there is a Facebook page. Last week, for extra fun and mouseclicks, the respected polling outfit Public Policy Polling found that 38% of voters in Florida believed that Ted Cruz might be the Zodiac killer. Or let’s say that in your daily rounds of several respectable news outlets – among them the Washington Post and Vox Media – you found serious journalists who took it upon themselves to “debunk” the notion that Cruz is in fact a serial killer. he's hiding the DNA evidence folks - Eamon Sheehan March 4, 2016 Zodiac Killer Ted Cruz eats booger during presidential debate.
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