Things We Saw Today: Ted Cruz’s Sexism Showed in His Support of a … Russian Military Ad?

Ted Cruz decided to be sexist about our military by … praising a Russian military ad? Cruz shared a TIKTOK that compared a U.S. Military ad with that of a Russian ad, and Cruz had to head to Twitter and tippity-tap his gross opinion about it.

So … Cruz’s problem is that the Russian military, which has a video of a bunch of dudes doing push-ups, is intimidating and the ad for the U.S. Army where a woman talks about why she joined the military is emasculating? What exactly is “emasculating” about it, Zodiac? That it’s a woman explaining why she enlisted? Would you have a problem with the exact same ad if a man was talking? Probably not, because you’re a sexist piece of garbage, but …that’s what is expected of Cowardly Cruz.

Also imagine writing that something is “emasculating” when you are the man who constantly let Donald Trump make fun of your family time and time again and did nothing because you were afraid of a 74-year-old man with a bad dye job.

Time and time again, Ted Cruz opens his mouth and we all mock him, and you’d think that he would learn. And yet, here we are again.

(image: Samuel Corum/Getty)

Here are some other things we saw out there today:

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  💥Karen Gillan
  💥Lena Headey
  💥Carla Gugino
  💥Michelle Yeoh
  💥Angela Bassett
  💥Paul Giamatti

  GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE, an action thriller about three generations of assassins directed by Navot Papushado, comes to Netflix in the US on July 14. In theaters internationally this summer. pic.twitter.com/1F1AqQilri

  — NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) May 20, 2021

• Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor in Pittsburgh raised their wages to $15/hour and received over 1,000 applications and hasn’t seen a change in their “bottom line”. (via MSNBC)
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  Darth maybe let people know they should keep their pets away from Brood X, they have a parasitic fungus that produces psilocybin and amphetamines and makes their butt fall off. And the researcher confirmed to me on Twitter you can get high eating them https://t.co/5zfcZdQoKe

  — Cullen Dudas (@cullend) May 20, 2021

• Kate Hudson joins the cast of Knives Out 2. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
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  Save the date for Season 8, Nine-Niners. The final season of #Brooklyn99 arrives Thursday, August 12 on @NBC. pic.twitter.com/RLYKyEbxxP

  — Brooklyn Nine-Nine (@nbcbrooklyn99) May 20, 2021

• Here are some dark academia books to thrill you. (via The Portalist)
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  I’m proud today to announce that Kathleen Palmer, a senior from Shawnee High School in Medford, is the winner of the Congressional Art Competition from our district. Her artwork, which you can see below, will now be displayed in the U.S. Capitol. pic.twitter.com/j7SlrDxsEd

  — RepAndyKim (@RepAndyKimNJ) May 20, 2021

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