Ted Cruz Really Tried the Tiresome Argument of Equating Being Transgender to Changing Race

We know at this point in our lives that Ted Cruz is the worst. Not only is he probably the Zodiac Killer (an internet joke I will surely never give up), but he also abandoned his state of Texas during an emergency to go to Cancun, he constantly tries to take away rights from people, and has now just been woefully, willfully ignorant in his questions during the SCOTUS confirmation hearing for Katanji Brown Jackson.

His questions just continued to show just how deep his ignorance runs. Whether it was asking Brown Jackson whether or not she thinks that babies are racist or trying to equate being transgender to whether or not he could hypothetically “decide [he] was an Asian man,” it’s clear that Cruz is just disregarding his actual duties and, instead, wants to just talk about his ass just to hear himself speak.

And yes, he really did ask if Brown Jackson thought babies were racist.

The latest, though, came from a strange sequence of questioning where Cruz didn’t seem to know where his question was headed and then just swerved right so quickly that he took out an entire guardrail in the process.

The questions were all hypotheticals, and Brown Jackson made it clear that she would judge each case as it came across her desk, but it’s baffling how Cruz attempted to frame his questions at all. “I’m an Hispanic man. Could I decide I was an Asian man … and challenge Harvard’s discrimination because I made that decision?” he asked only after going on some transphobic tangent about being “a woman and then an hour later if I decide that I’m not a woman anymore,” where even he doesn’t seem to know what point he’s trying to make.

To Judge Jackson’s credit, she has so much more patience than I would in that situation. Each time Cruz started to ask her something outrageous, she took a moment to collect herself before responding in a way that showed that she’s not entertaining his absolutely inappropriate and strange line of questioning while still proving that she knows what she’s doing.

Ted wants to be praised

And the least surprising thing is that Cruz is doing all of this just to feel important. He wants someone to pat him on the head and tell him he’s a good boy doing a good job. He, apparently, has been checking Twitter after his questions to see what the reaction to them are. So, if you’re reading this, Ted, I think you’re a coward.

So, to me, this is all just his attempt at getting the approval he clearly so desperately craves because my lord this is pathetic. He knows better. He knows that he’s just asking questions that his right-wing followers will think are intelligent, and he has to know that he is just coming off like a fool.

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