These days it can sometimes feel like Twitter can be a real slog, filled with idiots and Nazis, and it’s a bit hard to remember why we all use it.
Then Ted Cruz likes a porn tweet from his personal account, Twitter joins together in a beautiful chorus of mockery of him, and we are reminded once again of the beauty of this platform.
The most surprising thing about the porn video Ted Cruz liked is that the people in it were alive
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) September 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/907467146959245312
We brought you the tweet incident soon after it happened, and a few of the immediate best responses to the tweet, but what everyone has been hanging out for is to see exactly how Cruz would..um..handle this.
The pressure was especially on since Cruz is staunchly religious, and has taken a hard stance against pornography in the past, and even once tried to ban sex toys. Ah the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.
So, were they going to claim his account was hacked? Would they say that an intern who had been fired had done it for revenge? Would they perhaps say that Ted Cruz liked it because he wanted to use it as a placeholder so that later on in the evening he could go back to it and crank his hog? The possibilities were endless.
What ended up happening was, well….none of these. In fact, the response is a bit baffling. Ted’s senior communications advisor Catherine Frazier, conceivably an expert in…communications, sent out this tweet.
https://twitter.com/catblackfrazier/status/907488125445963779
Well first of all, there was no tweet ‘posted’ on Ted Cruz’s account. Ted Cruz’s account liked someone else’s tweet. This is pretty basic stuff. Second of all, what has been reported to Twitter, exactly? If we are to understand her, she means the ‘like’ has been removed, so what then has been reported? The tweet itself? So Ted Cruz’s people reported the pornography tweet because he liked it. Cool.
It sort of seems like they are implying someone else had a hand (ahem) in this, and it will be very interesting to see what follow up there is.
For now the last word can go to Ted Cruz’s old college roommate, who absolutely roasted him during his entire Presidential campaign, and who sent a tweet last year that has now come full circle and is the most relevant tweet of all time.
https://twitter.com/clmazin/status/720259227067920385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pedestrian.tv%2Fnews%2Fu-s-presidential-hopeful-ted-cruz-tried-to-totally-ban-dildos-in-2007%2F
It’s a beautiful day.
