Why Ted Cruz S*cks: A Comprehensive Biography | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

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  • @kevinkorenke3569
    @kevinkorenke3569 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    47:02 I love that he read a Dr. Seuss book about being willing to try new things in opposition to us trying a new idea to provide better health care for people.

    • @mr.pavone9719
      @mr.pavone9719 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ted is so blissfully unaware of himself. It makes me want to pump LSD into his water supply just to see him change into a person.

  • @fofalooza
    @fofalooza ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Ted Cruz calling condoms "rubbers" has precisely the same energy as my uncle using the phrase "great gazongas" as a reason why my brother should let our Uncle set him up with a recently divorced woman at his church.

    • @23joanlee
      @23joanlee ปีที่แล้ว +6

      great gazongas! that's hilarious!

  • @mikehjt
    @mikehjt ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Al Franken: 'I like Ted Cruz more than anyone else in Congress does and I _hate_ Ted Cruz.'

  • @BenjaminGlatt
    @BenjaminGlatt ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Okay, but Fred Rogers was the best person ever, so.

    • @FakeSchrodingersCat
      @FakeSchrodingersCat ปีที่แล้ว +20

      "The only way to stop a Fred with a dangerous far right ideology is a Fred with a dangerous far left ideology." --Fredrick Engels (probably)

    • @justinwatson1510
      @justinwatson1510 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @FakeSchrodingersCat, I'm glad to see someone finally mentioned Engels. Thank you.

  • @brendancostello944
    @brendancostello944 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Cody's comment about the "Ted Pod" when talking about the Tide Pod(R) is criminally unacknowledged....

  • @arcarchivist2638
    @arcarchivist2638 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Frederick Douglass, Fred Rogers, Freddie Mercury.

  • @leopoldmolitch4040
    @leopoldmolitch4040 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I'm halfway through this and just realized they're were talking about Ted Crux, not Tucker Carlson. Seems all these folk are completely interchangeable

    • @jfrsnjhnsn
      @jfrsnjhnsn ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pretty much.

    • @goodun2974
      @goodun2974 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@jfrsnjhnsn, not to mention that they are equally detestable.

  • @mr.pavone9719
    @mr.pavone9719 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Did anybody else's irony meter ping when they heard the part about the young conservatives, who think education is a privilege for the weathy, competing for handouts (scholarships) to further their education?

    • @pssurvivor
      @pssurvivor 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yep my ears perked up when i heard that. these conservatives are always like this

    • @justinwatson1510
      @justinwatson1510 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hypocrisy is one of the cornerstones of liberalism and the ideologies that descended from it.

    • @FTZPLTC
      @FTZPLTC 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh, but don't you see: just as nothing that is not profitable is worthwhile, ANYTHING you do that someone is willing to pay you for is worthwhile.
      That's what being trained from birth to be a constitution-reciting mandroid teaches you.

  • @wwcyfd22
    @wwcyfd22 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The fourth episode of Star Trek TNG is actually "Code of Honor" a now infamous episode filled with dated, tone deaf african stereotype characters.
    Episode 5 is the one hes thinking about with the ancient defense system. Its like Ted Cruz is so evil his episode even ruins Star Trek references...

  • @seantracey9935
    @seantracey9935 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    When Cody said "Here comes the sex"
    Best cruz impression of all time.

  • @patrickmitchell9068
    @patrickmitchell9068 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Ted cruz is the kid who get bullied by comic book and D&D nerds

    • @SgtKaneGunlock
      @SgtKaneGunlock ปีที่แล้ว

      i hated Bullies and I would Bully this kid

    • @RvEijndhoven
      @RvEijndhoven ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He _was_ the kid who got bullied by comic book and D&D nerds... Now he is the adult who gets bullied by comic book and D&D nerds.

    • @FakeSchrodingersCat
      @FakeSchrodingersCat ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Be realistic, he is the kid who was bullied by the kids the comic book and D&D nerds bullied. The Mathletes had more high school social standing then he did.

    • @cybercop0083
      @cybercop0083 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Back in the 90‘s, to boot!

  • @FakeSchrodingersCat
    @FakeSchrodingersCat ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Wait, just hold on a moment you are saying that Ted Cruz as a teenager memorized the constitution and could write it out? Why then does he act like he has never even skimmed it?

    • @origami_dream
      @origami_dream ปีที่แล้ว +14

      He memorized it by mnemonic device and that took up all his time and brain power, so he never had the time or brainspace to actually *consider* or understand it.

    • @cybercop0083
      @cybercop0083 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He memorized it, look for minute chinks in the armour.

  • @matthewnuckles5937
    @matthewnuckles5937 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    so painful to hear this knowing that he is STILL in office

    • @TheDarthbinky
      @TheDarthbinky ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He's from Texas and has a little "R" by his name. He'll be in office until he dies or gets bored and moves on to another horrible venture. Yay two party system!

    • @mr.pavone9719
      @mr.pavone9719 ปีที่แล้ว

      From what I've heard his senatorial district is almost entirely made up of wealthy, white conservatives. It's nigh-impossible for him to lose his seat unless he really fucks something up.

    • @richardarriaga6271
      @richardarriaga6271 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@TheDarthbinkyTexas is a one party state. That crook Dan Patrick beat the corruption charges for impeachment. He won't go away until God or Satan call him home.

  • @Zmanwarrior
    @Zmanwarrior ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The only thing offensive about those Cleveland insults is that they're nowhere near as entertaining as the insults that native Clevelanders can come up with for Cleveland.

  • @joshuareynolds6970
    @joshuareynolds6970 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    In the words of John Oliver ... "I do not like that man Ted Cruz."

    • @mrfreddorenton
      @mrfreddorenton 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      "I do not like his stupid shoes"

  • @kevinhengehold4387
    @kevinhengehold4387 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So - the "amnesty" radio ad... do you remember the It's Always Sunny episode where an Israeli dude annexes the bar and the gang shouts Arabic-sounding jibberish with english words included?
    ... Did ted cruz really rip off an Always Sunny bit, but for serious?
    I really expected more from the zodiac killer.

  • @origami_dream
    @origami_dream ปีที่แล้ว +3

    13:00 Wellp, i guess Fredrick Brennan, founder of 8chan, heard this episode and decided, "Well, i can't argue with that, i'm on it."

  • @bradvine4564
    @bradvine4564 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Cruz is awful but I just finished the desantis episode and I have to say desantis is *so much worse* it blows me away.

  • @fahbs
    @fahbs ปีที่แล้ว +8

    My cat has had fleas with more of a spine than Ted Cruz.

    • @Stephanie-we5ep
      @Stephanie-we5ep 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Certainly the fleas are more wanted/welcome!

  • @AshesAshes44
    @AshesAshes44 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Ted Cruz is younger than Gwen Stefani. No idea what to do with this info, but some people are using it against him. 😕

    • @BenjaminGlatt
      @BenjaminGlatt ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I hate this.

    • @heyidaroo
      @heyidaroo ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If I were a betting woman, I believe that Gwen will outlive Cruz

  • @HunchbackOfNotreJon
    @HunchbackOfNotreJon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This one time in 8th grade, I knew I lost a Pokemon battle and clicked, "Run." I didn't actually know it would let me do it against a real person, so I only did it out of curiosity and because there was no way I could win.
    That kid instantly decided I was a coward and pretty much never forgave me.
    Anyway, I forfeited because I lost, then Fred was a real douche gobbler over it.

  • @done.6191
    @done.6191 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Damn, that self-reporting at 29:35 is soooooo sad. "Let me supress the things that make me, ME, so that people will think I'm popular."

  • @hughquigley5337
    @hughquigley5337 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    One of my favorite fun facts about Ted Cruz is that he is a whale for various mobile games. So yes Ted Cruz is a gamer.

  • @kevinkorenke3569
    @kevinkorenke3569 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The more i learned in college and had reinforced at placed like this the more convinced is that America as an ideal and an idea failed during Reconstruction and it has been an oligarch leaning downward spiral ever since.

    • @defies4626
      @defies4626 ปีที่แล้ว

      It failed from the moment they decided to allow slavery from the beginning, and honestly was probably started to further oligarchic ideals given the actual backers and architects of the country at the beginning, no matter how high minded they claimed their ideals to be

  • @danarchist74
    @danarchist74 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Robert have you done an episode or episodes on Milton Friedman yet? If you haven't, you probably should.

  • @ReclaimedDasein
    @ReclaimedDasein 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    LOL, I was literally starting fallout 4 when you said that.

  • @ericwiddison7523
    @ericwiddison7523 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When he endorsed Ted Cruz, Mike Lee was still a never Trumper. Both men have since abandoned any semblance of values they once had.

  • @greghmn
    @greghmn ปีที่แล้ว +5

    48:45 this is even funnier when you consider that McCain was born in Panama.

    • @portmantologist
      @portmantologist 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      But on a US military base, which still counts as being born on US soil.

  • @Alex-od7nl
    @Alex-od7nl ปีที่แล้ว +7

    katy stoll is hilarious

  • @Zomonitan
    @Zomonitan ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Fred Rogers was the only good Fred in all history

    • @richardarriaga6271
      @richardarriaga6271 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What about Fred Savage?

    • @justinwatson1510
      @justinwatson1510 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The ghost of Engels would like to have a word with you.

    • @cybercop0083
      @cybercop0083 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What about Fred Douglass?

    • @Philbert-s2c
      @Philbert-s2c 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What about Fred Mertz?

  • @done.6191
    @done.6191 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Whataburgers are actually really good :). Ted Cruz is actually really bad. These are things on which we readily agree.

  • @cybercop0083
    @cybercop0083 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    13:44 There happened a monumental split of the human race in the stone race. A split between the ghastly Freds and the jolly Barneys. We are all descendants of one of those two prongs of the human race. Every once in a while, the Fred-ness is exhuberant to the point that an abomination is named ‚Fred‘ in devilish tribute. As it is written in the protocols of the water buffalo lodge.

  • @Aogami20
    @Aogami20 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Every time I listen to one of these I keep hoping things are gonna work out somehow in the end

  • @pssurvivor
    @pssurvivor 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    LYING TED. one of the best monikers trump has come up with

  • @TheMeritCoba
    @TheMeritCoba ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Quote of the year: "women can't be trusted with tampons?!" (not with a political rally involving Ted Cruz)

  • @Fenan_21
    @Fenan_21 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    speaking of cleveland, fun fact, theres a suburb in south africa named after cleveland, and cleveland ohio specifically

    • @mxpants4884
      @mxpants4884 ปีที่แล้ว

      Were they celebrating our excellence in racial segregation?

  • @johnr7279
    @johnr7279 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow, and he's an even bigger egotist than I picked up on just living my daily life and seeing him in the news here and there. I was always amazed at how flexible his spine seemed to be and his ability to flip-flop on issues. In this way, he seems like a politician's politician. And not just him of course. These folks exist on both sides of the "aisle." It's one thing to cooperate for the greater good (aka crossing the aisle); it's another thing altogether to just flip around completely.

    • @justinwatson1510
      @justinwatson1510 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When Democrats or Republicans reach across the aisle, you can bet that average people are getting fucked over in the worst way.

  • @BenHyle
    @BenHyle 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Fred Rogers did all the reparations ever for the shitty freds.
    Also, Fred Penner is real as well.

  • @TimdeVisser86
    @TimdeVisser86 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fred Hampton, c'mon man.

  • @Taurox220
    @Taurox220 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Reminder that Nixon was actually super popular before watergate and was able to win the popular vote

    • @FakeSchrodingersCat
      @FakeSchrodingersCat ปีที่แล้ว

      Sure but he managed that mainly through dirty tricks and manipulation, he was nicknamed Tricky Dick for a reason. The specific incident they are referring to when they told Cruz to get a dog is when Nixon was being investigated for using campaign contributions for personal purposes he went on TV and claimed the only thing that might be irregular was that he was given and kept for himself was a puppy named Checkers. It came out after he left office he had diverted over $10,000 to a slush fund and had bought the puppy specifically for the bit.

    • @brendancostello944
      @brendancostello944 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      With the help of some plumbers...

  • @function0077
    @function0077 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I f&cking hate Lindsey Graham, but I do love his quote about Ted Cruz.

  • @noxthemc7717
    @noxthemc7717 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Frederalist Society

  • @FoxMacLeod2501
    @FoxMacLeod2501 ปีที่แล้ว

    LMAO Katy, @ 51:37 - also: "(CO)RROBORATUUHHS: moun' up!"

  • @done.6191
    @done.6191 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how even handed you try to be with the Wagner driving. Even as charitable as one can be, he's still firmly unlikable.

  • @grahamcarpenter691
    @grahamcarpenter691 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Katy Stoll’s voice sounds nearly identical to Amber Frost from
    Chapo Trap House

  • @Scriven42
    @Scriven42 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a Canadian, HOW DARE YOU! You all claimed him, YOU all get to keep him.

  • @damejanea.macdonald2371
    @damejanea.macdonald2371 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    16:35 I wish this joking invocation of my body my choice didn't eventually turn into something right wingers will attempt to invoke in all seriousness.

  • @_NewtonMeter
    @_NewtonMeter ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ted Cruz really giving that autism vibe (I'm autistic)

    • @origami_dream
      @origami_dream ปีที่แล้ว

      No thank you i reject this association he's just a psychopath (i'm autistic)

  • @Orangefury19
    @Orangefury19 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ugghhh all I can think about is his tonsil stone incident

  • @daniellundberg2875
    @daniellundberg2875 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well, Cleveland has been called the city equivalent of a slap in the face.

    • @kevinkorenke3569
      @kevinkorenke3569 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      HEY! I LIVE IN CLEVELAND!
      Um, you are kind of right. It gets better as you drive away and enjoy the metroparks...

  • @ChannelMath
    @ChannelMath 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    **Be careful around fine powders while watching this show**

  • @azoic6
    @azoic6 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:01:00 I LOVE Whataburger, but only when I'm drunk

  • @Tenems941
    @Tenems941 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    36:18 about the only proper reaction to that statement

  • @hammerheadshark45
    @hammerheadshark45 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ive heard cuyahoga get mispronounced so many times im shocked robert got it right

  • @michael_mcgowan
    @michael_mcgowan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That bit about peaceful transfer of the presidency really hits different now. Oh the irony

  • @johnwins6046
    @johnwins6046 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I want to say that there is actually not something hardcore libertarian about the name Ted because my favorite president Teddy Roosevelt established national parks and broke up monopolies. The ultimate boimove

  • @meep_cubed170
    @meep_cubed170 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Also at 52:10 the Spanish Inquisition needed in 1838, we had seven different United States President before that ended, so no, it didn’t end 900 years ago. Not the biggest problematic thing Ted said, but come on

  • @Judgewrath1
    @Judgewrath1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Narrator: "They had to talk about Ted Cruz again."

  • @ChannelMath
    @ChannelMath 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He's creepy, but I think the only reason more Congresspeople aren't considered as creepy is Ted's face and voice. Which is unfair. He can't do anything about his face or voice

  • @misterno-ice-guy8082
    @misterno-ice-guy8082 ปีที่แล้ว

    That "4th branch" of the system of checks and balances y'all alluded to already IS the public. Organizing it was (kind of, or: in more complicated terms) part of Ralph Nader's platform

    • @FakeSchrodingersCat
      @FakeSchrodingersCat ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What they are alluding to is the Estates of Power. It is much, much older then Ralph Nader with the basic concept of the Estates going back to medieval Europe the first three is the Government, the Church and the Public. The 4th estate specifically only goes back to the late 1700 and was coined by Burke. The 4th Estate is the Press.

    • @misterno-ice-guy8082
      @misterno-ice-guy8082 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh. Ty
      Never heard of it.
      I guess I never explained Ralph Nader's proposition, But I should in case someone isn't privy.
      He wanted a cadre of citizens watching government agents (on tv, and via other press) to ensure they do their jobs correctly; if they promised to vote a certain way, make sure they do it, etc. This agency would consist of a small building with multiple televisions, banks of phones, newspaper subscriptions, and other applicable resources. It would be paid for with taxes and manned 24-7 by a rotating staff of vigilant locals. They would obviously report directly to their friends, families, and respective neighborhoods. A very, VERY simple concept, yet genius imho

  • @simonw560
    @simonw560 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I often find libertarians get most the facts right and all the conclusions wrong. Like 20ish minutes in when they talk about everything the government provides its people is first taken from the people.
    That's the same as the the argument that business will take all surplus labor but without recognizing the communal benefit that good governance provides (i.e. high RoI on investing in the sciences or the decreased human suffering of not starving to death or the value of green spaces that absentee landlords never experience)

  • @ImNealHunt
    @ImNealHunt หลายเดือนก่อน

    I live for silly hat day

  • @stvinney
    @stvinney 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I imagine Ted being a very sad kid who no one liked
    Im sure there were "those kids" who were either too nice or didn't have a lot of options so they tried
    But given the choice between no friends and having Ted Cruz as a friend, everyone would embrace loneliness. Get a dog or something

  • @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself
    @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A comprehensive biography in under an hour - not a very interesting life this fellow, this Ted .. Cooz?

  • @ChannelMath
    @ChannelMath 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you forgot the worst Fred: Fred Trump!

  • @Kylefassbinderful
    @Kylefassbinderful 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fred Trump another bad Fred lol