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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30444456

“I think the American people ought to be saying to Elon, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you!’” the Texas Senator said on Fox News.

Ted Cruz used a Fox News interview to act as a human shield for Elon Musk, demanding Americans get down and kiss the billionaire’s feet for his DOGE work.

Musk has called time on his stint at the Trump administration, with his 130-day “special government employee” status elapsing on May 30. His time at Trump’s side was tumultuous, with Tesla caught up in the pushback against his cost-cutting DOGE.

Cruz appears shocked by the backlash, telling Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Wednesday evening that Americans should be expressing deep gratitude to Musk and chanting “Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

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[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 67 points 1 month ago

Well, I'm not American, so I'm going to keep calling him a nazi piece of shit

And if would be doing so even if I was unfortunate enough to be American

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Non-fisting-enthusiast American here. I concur.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago

Honestly, if Ted Cruz said something nice about me, it'd just make me feel dirty.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago

And we're talking full on "covered in the slime of an a putrid and somehow racist land slug" levels of dirty.

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

Will no one think of the billionaires?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 1 month ago
[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

don't throw our trash into the ocean! Compost. then eat the veggies. It's the only environmentally friendly thing to do.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago
[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Don't eat junkfood...

I'm telling ya, compost and eat the veggies.

[-] JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 month ago

When I think of who belongs in jail.

I think of the billionaires.

[-] deus@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

He thinks Americans should express gratitude to Musk? For doing what, exactly?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

not dropping a Starship on them?

[-] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 21 points 1 month ago

What a wanker!

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 month ago

Fled Cruz is about the only person more deserving of nastiness.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

Wait until you hear the shit Trump says about your dad and your wife, Ted, being so concerned with mean people and all.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

This really seems like the Onion

[-] jenni007@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

He made a nazi salute, dumb skull.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure Ted has a problem with that

[-] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

We know he doesn’t have a problem with that, he also doesn’t have a problem with an insurrection

[-] Photuris@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Fuck you Ted Cruz. And Elon Musk eat a giant bag of dicks.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

Ted Cruz looks like his soul left his body long ago, and now he’s just a skeleton wearing a skin bag exclusively saying things nobody with a soul ever could or would.

[-] unabart@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

This guy is absolutely desperate for a friend who might be able to help him politically. Anyone to get him on tv. He’s like a scab that prople keep picking. Loathesome human.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Nah bruh, he should just kill himself.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 9 points 1 month ago
[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Don't put that on them. They were justifiably worried about Brittney

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago
[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

"World's richest man needs richer :c "

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Worst person you know says you should be nice to worst person you know.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago
[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

That sure doesn't sound American. What is that, French?

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

The NAZI needs to be driven out of this country. It is nearly destroyed because of him.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

ICE really needs to come pick his ass up.

[-] oakey66@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Chozo@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Fuck you, Ted.

[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Ted, go fucking die already. Fuck you and anybody who's uneducated and naive enough to fall for the Republican playbook. You don't get to try to shift blame with wet toilet paper cries. When enough people tell you that you're shit and you constantly are shit, look like shit, and act like shit, you should hop in the shower and do some inventory. You're an embarrassment to your whored out redneck state and have never been fit for public office. I can't wait to smile about your obituary and share it with friends.

[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Cruz, Vance, Musk, Miller, and their ilk didn't get their asses beaten in High School enough.

[-] AlexLost@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

If these people like the work he is doing, that immediately makes it bad and highly likely unlawful to the rest of us out here in actual real society. Also, this guy not understanding why a thing is has got to be the least shocking thing in the world. Not a guy with a finger on the pulse of his constituents, let alone the nation.

[-] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Fuck Ted Cruz and fuck Elon Musk

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I do not like that man, Ted Cruz

I do not like him in the news

I do not like his stupid words

That spew from him like verbal turds

I pray to hear the day he dies

For once, a good, Ted Cruz surprise

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

If Ded Cruz asks for something ... my automatic reaction is to do the exact opposite

Thanks Ded ... I'm going to hate Muskrat harder

[-] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Can we get other countries to deny these sycophants entry for being spineless?

[-] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

If we take a small, pause from treating xelon like the scum he always was, we will be sure to direct all that energy your way ted head.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 month ago

Elon musk is a shitty person with a shitty agenda.

So, no.

this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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