{"id":3561,"date":"2023-05-26T11:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2023-05-26T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:29:33","slug":"brutal-ted-cruz-educates-aoc-on-democrats-racist-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3561","title":{"rendered":"Brutal: Ted Cruz Educates AOC ON Democrats\u2019 Racist Past And Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-107.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-3562\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-107.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-107.png 800w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-107-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-107-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-107-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-107-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In a pop corn munching Twitter thread posted Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz gave Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a much needed education on the racist history of the Democratic Party, as well as a plethora of activities in the present that contribute to hampering people of colour.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AOC asked for it after liberal \u201cpolitical scientist\u201d Norm Ornstein charged that the Texas senator would have been \u201cfirst in line\u201d to filibuster the Civil Rights Act and Jim Crow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cruz responded, noting that the Democratic Party filibustered the Civil Rights Act, while many more Republicans supported it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nonsense. That shameful filibuster was led by Democrats\u2014your party.<br><br>My party\u2014the Republicans\u2014proudly voted for the Civil Rights Act in much higher percentages than the racist Dems. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MgPZZFTlak\">https:\/\/t.co\/MgPZZFTlak<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1660961922643120132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AOC just couldn\u2019t help herself\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why don\u2019t you go ahead and tell people what happened to the parties after that, Ted <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fiJgIgVZHO\">https:\/\/t.co\/fiJgIgVZHO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1660995725298225152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cruz obliged her:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/x Sure. <br><br>&#8211; First, the Dem party founded the KKK.<br><br>&#8211; Then the Dem party wrote Jim Crow laws.<br><br>&#8211; Then the Dem party filibustered the Civil Rights Act. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ix3fACqwkB\">https:\/\/t.co\/ix3fACqwkB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1661036881700614144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ouch. Cruz broke out the pantsuit line\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/05\/12\/video-cruz-slams-border-chaos-as-nothing-less-than-an-invasion\/\">again<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why don\u2019t you go ahead and tell people what happened to the parties after that, Ted <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fiJgIgVZHO\">https:\/\/t.co\/fiJgIgVZHO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1660995725298225152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/05\/24\/brutal-ted-cruz-educates-aoc-on-democrats-racist-past-and-present\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/05\/24\/brutal-ted-cruz-educates-aoc-on-democrats-racist-past-and-present\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a pop corn munching Twitter thread posted Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz gave Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a much needed education on the racist history of the Democratic Party, as well as a plethora of activities in the present that contribute to hampering people of colour. AOC asked for it after liberal \u201cpolitical scientist\u201d Norm Ornstein charged that the Texas senator would have been \u201cfirst in line\u201d to filibuster the Civil Rights Act and Jim Crow. Cruz responded, noting that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}