On cowardice and fakery

I, for one, grow weary of phony, out-of-touch public figures who think it’s acceptable to act like total assholes in front of their supporters and then when their distasteful rhetoric and off-color remarks get out into the mainstream, come crawling back, feet tucked deeply in their own mouths, to issue an apology. If you are going to conduct yourself in douche-baggery fashion in public, be unrepentant about it, kind of like Donald Trump. At least that would be sincere.

Sen. Ted Cruz took to social media last night to say he was sorry — you know, where he wouldn’t have to endure the shame of apologizing in person — after making an ill-timed joke about Vice President Joe Biden, who lost his son to brain cancer this past weekend.

Cruz had the better part of four days to tweak that particular part of his speech, yet he proceeded with this decidedly unfunny remark:

Vice President Joe Biden. You know the nice thing? You don’t need a punchline. I promise you it works. The next party you’re at, just walk up to someone and say, ‘Vice President Joe Biden’ and just close your mouth. They will crack up laughing.

In an interview after the speech, he called the vice president family’s ordeal “heartbreaking and tragic” and said his prayers were with Biden, but when asked why he made the joke, he shook his head and slinked away in truly spineless fashion:

2 thoughts on “On cowardice and fakery

  1. I'm still clinging to hope that Trump will run for president. It isn't that I want him to win; I'm just particularly fascinated with his brand of blatant douchebaggery and would like to see it impact their debates.

  2. He would probably get us embroiled in World War III, but I would be interested to see how Trump might deal with someone like Putin. He would probably try to insult him into submission.

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