Ted Cruz threatens child

[Figueira]

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What a horrifying person, and the crowds cheering him are even more horrifying. This is why I don't like the "Anyone but Trump" thing.

[Slow Learner]

Ted Cruz sure loves to talk about spanking his children.

[Bismarck]

Yeah telling a heckler they should get spanked is bad optics for anybody and I don't think it was an appropriate thing to say.  I don't really understand the hysteria over Cruz approving of spanking though. Although my parents did not spank me its a very common method of discipline at least in Indiana, and I believe surveys have shown the majority of Americans think it's okay for parents to choose that method.

[Figueira]

Yeah telling a heckler they should get spanked is bad optics for anybody and I don't think it was an appropriate thing to say.  I don't really understand the hysteria over Cruz approving of spanking though. Although my parents did not spank me its a very common method of discipline at least in Indiana, and I believe surveys have shown the majority of Americans think it's okay for parents to choose that method.

If that's true, the majority of Americans are mistaken. Studies have shown that it has adverse effects, not to mention it's just wrong. Also, why are children the only group of people that it's okay to hit?

[Lief 🗽]

Bragging about how he hits his children has unfortunately been a common theme in Child-Beatin' Ted's campaign this year.

[Ronnie]

Honestly, I'll cut Ted some slack here.  He's about to lose, probably by a lot, in a state with favorable demographics and in which Super PACs have poured in millions upon millions of dollars against his opponent.  I can understand his frustration.

That said, I also fear this election won't definitively put him away.  He'll run in 2020, and harp once again on his point that Republicans don't win when they don't nominate conservatives.  The question is whether the base will be willing to capitulate to a candidate like Rubio in the primary.

[Kingpoleon]

The Washington drug cartel is financing the Gestapo that did this.

Reference:

At the most generous, this is a battle between the Jacobins and the Blackshirts.

Also, the Gestapo and Washington cartel are united under Rafael Eduardo. Hillary's Jacobins and Trump's Blackshirts will need the cartel money and Gestapo to stop their hits.

[Slow Learner]

Inb4 the Cruzbots type up a four paragraph statement about how the kid had it comin'.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I'm surprised that ClassicConservative turned on Ted Cruz so quickly!

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I think it's revealing that the attack on Trump, complete with the implication that Trump acts like a child and needs a spanking, just glides on by. If any candidate, including Trump, had said directly or by implication that another candidate behaved like an ill-mannered child, it would be being decried everywhere. But with Trump, it's unremarkable because its true and no one in the establishment and popular media, pro-Trump or anti-Trump, wants to own up to the reality that a major US political party is on the verge of nominating a man with the intellect of a spoiled brat for President of the United States.

[Santander]

I'm surprised that ClassicConservative turned on Ted Cruz so quickly!

What kind of impulse would lead a grown man to tear into a child who heckled him? Apparently, in Lyin' Ted's household, it's okay for adults to humiliate other peoples' children in public with supporters cheering on. The spanking remark was not even what made this bad.

[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

I think it's revealing that the attack on Trump, complete with the implication that Trump acts like a child and needs a spanking, just glides on by. If any candidate, including Trump, had said directly or by implication that another candidate behaved like an ill-mannered child, it would be being decried everywhere. But with Trump, it's unremarkable because its true and no one in the establishment and popular media, pro-Trump or anti-Trump, wants to own up to the reality that a major US political party is on the verge of nominating a man with the intellect of a spoiled brat for President of the United States.

[Reginald]

Kid is an eternal FF for saying what everyone is thinking. Invite him to Atlas imo. If we're going to allow kids to post here we might as well recruit from the good ones.

[IceSpear]

I'm surprised that ClassicConservative turned on Ted Cruz so quickly!

lmao

[Torie]

This one is a big nothing. And the word "threaten" in the title is spin city. So says this poster who also thinks Cruz "sucks."

[Meclazine for Israel]

So where is the story?

If this over-exaggerated dross was turned into a movie, what is the main theme?

Nothing meaningful appeared to happen.

Just a non-event.

[Fuzzy Bear]

The vast amount of Americans would agree with Cruz on this issue.  A number of them wouldn't mind if Cruz administered the spanking personally.

Cruz's response is rather unremarkable.  That kid has problems with boundaries, to put it mildly. 

[dax00]

The vast amount of Americans would agree with Cruz on this issue.  A number of them wouldn't mind if Cruz administered the spanking personally.

Cruz's response is rather unremarkable.  That kid has problems with boundaries, to put it mildly. 

Spanking is assault, punishable by imprisonment.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Ted Cruz is obsessed with spanking. No joke, he talks about it all the time: it's like KCDem were a Republican senator.

[Alcon]

The vast amount of Americans would agree with Cruz on this issue.  A number of them wouldn't mind if Cruz administered the spanking personally.

Cruz's response is rather unremarkable.  That kid has problems with boundaries, to put it mildly. 

Spanking is assault, punishable by imprisonment.

That's not the case in the U.S.

[dax00]

The vast amount of Americans would agree with Cruz on this issue.  A number of them wouldn't mind if Cruz administered the spanking personally.

Cruz's response is rather unremarkable.  That kid has problems with boundaries, to put it mildly. 

Spanking is assault, punishable by imprisonment.

That's not the case in the U.S.

Sadly. I disagree with the courts. They're supposed to make rulings without prejudice. Assault is assault, in my book.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The vast amount of Americans would agree with Cruz on this issue.  A number of them wouldn't mind if Cruz administered the spanking personally.

Cruz's response is rather unremarkable.  That kid has problems with boundaries, to put it mildly. 

Spanking is assault, punishable by imprisonment.

That's not the case in the U.S.

Sadly. I disagree with the courts. They're supposed to make rulings without prejudice. Assault is assault, in my book.

No. Spanking is not assault. Throwing your kid down the stairs is assault.

[dax00]

No. Spanking is not assault. Throwing your kid down the stairs is assault.

So if a stranger tied you up and spanked you against your will, you wouldn't consider that assault?

[Alcon]

The vast amount of Americans would agree with Cruz on this issue.  A number of them wouldn't mind if Cruz administered the spanking personally.

Cruz's response is rather unremarkable.  That kid has problems with boundaries, to put it mildly. 

Spanking is assault, punishable by imprisonment.

That's not the case in the U.S.

Sadly. I disagree with the courts. They're supposed to make rulings without prejudice. Assault is assault, in my book.

No. Spanking is not assault. Throwing your kid down the stairs is assault.

I mean, he's right in the sense that we just happen to carve out an exception to the assault laws to allow spanking.  It's essentially the only case where you can strike someone with the intent to inflict harm where it's legal, besides self-defense or restraint.  It's also not like the guardianship element or power dynamic really makes it different; you can't strike employees or adults over whom you have custody.  It's pretty arbitrary and weird.

[Badger]

The vast amount of Americans would agree with Cruz on this issue.  A number of them wouldn't mind if Cruz administered the spanking personally.

Cruz's response is rather unremarkable.  That kid has problems with boundaries, to put it mildly. 

Not a Cruz fan, but gotta agree.