Ted Cruz Keeps Picking Fights With Famous People On Twitter

Ted Cruz thinks that he is the greatest Twitter debater ever, but he's really just a pathetic "reply guy" desperately trying to gain clout. Cruz picked yet another Twitter fight that he has no hope of winning this week with Jimmy Kimmel, after Kimmel mocked Cruz's attack on the U.S. military. Farron Cousins explains what's happening with Cruz and why he keeps picking fights that he can't win.

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Republican Senator Ted Cruz really seems to only be serving one purpose, really not just as a Senator, but even just as a human being these days. And that purpose is to get on Twitter and start fights with people who are much smarter and far more famous than he is recently. He had a Twitter spat with Trevor Noah from the daily show. Before that there was an ongoing feud between him and actor, Seth Rogan. And then this week, he decides once

Again, by the way, because they'd already

Viewed it in the past to pick a fight with late night talk show host Jimmy

Kimmel.

Here's what happened late last week, Ted Cruz puts out a tweet comparing the Russian military recruitment video to a new us military recruitment video, and basically calling out us troops as a emasculated in week, uh, at basically praising Russia. Um, so Ted Cruz got widely mocked for that. And Jimmy Kimmel this week decides he's gonna mock Ted Cruz as well. So Ted Cruz, after the segment airs on Jimmy Kimmel fires back and, uh, Cruz says this, he goes, uh, Jimmy Kimmel keeps talking crap, really tough guy. Here's a reminder when we played one-on-one I kicked his. He has to live with that forever. Rematch, punk, maybe 10 bruises, you know, kind of being a little flirty. Uh, and I don't mean that in the romantic sense, but kind of like, ha I'd beat you though. And we're still buddies, right? They were still friends.

We're still friends, right, Jimmy. I mean, come on, acknowledge me, engage with me. You know, let's do this. Let's, let's get publicity for me because that's what I'm really after. That's why Ted Cruz picks these Twitter fights and let's not even get in to the Twitter fights. The number of Twitter fights that he has lost against representative AOC. Cause he loves to try to go after her. And every time he ends up face planning and it's absolutely hilarious, but Ted Cruz has become a reply guy. Like that's what he is. He is a professional Twitter troll at this point, earning a Senator salary, doing these things. So he's getting paid with our tax dollars to go out there and start Twitter fights that he can't possibly even hope to win. I, not that winning a Twitter fight would make it better that he's using our tax dollars to do this. But for the love of God, what is the purpose of these people anymore? Ted Cruz wants to be famous. Ted Cruz wants everybody to know his name. Ted Cruz doesn't care. If you love him or hate him, he just wants everybody there.

Now, who does that sound like to? You sounds

Like the guy we just got rid of from the white house, right? That's the path that Ted Cruz is going down now. Let's be honest. The guy has been hated for most of his life. And we know that based on reports coming out from the 22,000, excuse me, election, where he worked on George W. Bush, his legal team didn't get a spot in the Bush administration because they all admitted. Nobody liked Ted Cruz. So I do feel like he's been picked on a little bit throughout his life. Also feel like he's probably brought a lot of it on himself and he continues to, to do that to this day. But he's finally hit the point where he realizes that any publicity is good publicity for him. He can get in these Twitter fights and he can get in the headlines and he can get people talking about how stupid he is, but at least they're talking about him.

And that is exactly like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz is getting what he wanted. And in fact,

Look, I'm I'm, I'm giving it to him right now by talking about it. But he's a Twitter troll. He is a professional troll and he also happens to be one out of 100 us citizens serving in the United States Senate. Okay, this isn't just some random Yahoo on Twitter, starting fights with these people. This is a sitting United States Senator who came this close, had Trump not run in 2016. Ted Cruz would have been the Republican nominee, which likely means Ted Cruz probably would have ended up being president of the United States based on Hillary Clinton's unfavorable, the numbers, the man was this close,

This close to being president. And now the best he can do is pick fights with famous people on Twitter. Quite the story arc. If you asked me.