Al Franken likes to say, “I probably like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz, and I hate Ted Cruz.” Franken devoted an entire chapter to Ted Cruz in his memoir Al Franken, Giant of the Senate. Unfortunately for Ted, Al Franken wasn’t around to tell his pal Ted not to click the like button when he finishes cranking his hog to a porn clip he saw on Twitter on 9/11. And like a porn clip on 9/11 Ted Cruz did.
Ted Cruz: I believe in wholesome family values.
Also Ted Cruz: pic.twitter.com/wsNVu762Wd
— Secular Talk🎙 (@KyleKulinski) September 12, 2017
The video, which was posted to Twitter by @sexuallposts, essentially a porn spam aggregator, features a woman who looks a bit like Ted Cruz’s wife Heidi coming home to find her husband having sex with a much younger woman. Instead of getting mad, the woman watches and starts masturbating. Once he woke up and realized people could see his likes, he blamed a staffer in a statement to Politico.
“There are a number of people on the team who have access on the account. It appears that someone inadvertently hit the like button. When we discovered the post, which was I guess an hour or two later, we pulled it down,” Cruz (R-Texas) said of the incident. “It was a staffing issue. And it was inadvertent, it was a mistake. It was not a deliberate act. We’re dealing with it internally, but it was a mistake. It was not malicious.”
I don’t buy it. You know who else doesn’t buy it? Ted Cruz’s college roommate, who regaled us with tales of Ted yanking it in their shared bedroom. I at least had the decency to wait until my roommate was in class to jack it.
Yeah, so now we all know that, and we all have to live with knowing it. Let’s take a look at how Twitter’s best tweeters handled Ted handling himself.
[extremely ted cruz voice]: time for a little porn-a-roonie
— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) September 12, 2017
Small brain: Ted liked the porno
Big brain: Ted's intern liked the porno
Galaxy brain: Everyone in it works for Ted, who directed the porno— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) September 12, 2017
Wow, this statement from Ted is deeply touching pic.twitter.com/PKADlATfaN
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) September 12, 2017
Does anyone remember when Twitter was new and we were all like “what’s the point of ‘microblogging’, what can you say in 140 characters?” Don’t you feel stupid now that you’ve the sheer number of dunks on Ted Cruz that Twitter gives to the world? Even your favorite celebrities all dunked on poor Teddy.
I keep trying to write a Ted Cruz tweet but the thought of him yanking it gives me a mini-stroke from sheer horror.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) September 12, 2017
Seriously, they just keep coming. Sometimes when I write an article like this, the hard part is finding enough quality tweets to show the reaction. For this story, it’s sorting through the thousands of amazing tweets to get the best ones. Remember that picture of the guy from Duke dunking on a dude while pushing his nuts right in his face? That’s what Twitter has been doing to Ted Cruz for almost an entire day.
Even porn stars are getting dunks on Ted Cruz for watching porn. Bailey is basically the best in general, though.
I'm gonna go Ted Cruz myself and go to sleep. Bye.
— Bailey Jay (@BaileyJayTweets) September 12, 2017
Other Republicans are even getting contact dunks.
And other, older memes came crashing into this meme to make a supermeme
It’s basically carnage. And then Mike Huckabee showed up with the world’s worst dad joke and killed everyone’s buzz.
Leave @tedcruz alone! He didn't like PORN-he liked CORN and it was his first overture to Iowa voters for 2020! Sheesh! Case closed!
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 12, 2017
I just… why? He took something as pure and beautiful as everyone in the world coming together and mercilessly mocking one of its worst people for being a hypocritical putz and he ruined it.