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Ted, listen. Maybe if you weren’t a horrible legislator, and an even worse excuse for a human, people would not feel the need to slightly inconvenience you at the airport.

"I would like an act of law shield me from the consequences of my actions and accountability to my constituency." -Ted Cruz probably

Can you truly represent the people if you hide from them, Ted? Weren't you elected to represent?

Is the coward suddenly afraid of the general public? What reason might people have that they would dislike him?

Can't risk interacting with the peasants, their poverty might be contagious. That's how that works, right?

When elected officials need to be segregated from the people they serve, they should be removed from their post. You are here to represent the people, not rule over us.

I saw this rat faced fuck at IAH back in October. Not a single person was trying to interact with him and he already had a state trooper escort with a wide buffer zone around him. He had that smarmy, stupid smile on that stupid dumb face of his. It ruined my whole day.

Does he get nervous when he’s on his way to Cancun?

Absolutely not.

If you want to act like a dipshit you need to be held accountable for your dipshittery.

These fucking fascists are scared, they know they are HATED by the majority of Americans.

Ted Cruz is a big tough manly man. Just look at that beard! He ain't 'fraid of nuthin exceptin' them there pesky constituents.

I like that he's scared. That headline warms my heart a little

Buy it yourself, Teddy. No socialism, remember?

No fucking way. Power to the people

Dipshit is a prime example of the faction in his party rallying voters to do the things he's so afraid of. What a cowardly, two-faced, dirtbag.

Ted Cruz wants to intimidate people so he doesn’t have to listen to them calling him an idiot in public places.

Shut up you neckbeard twat snot. What about the judges and jury you and your people are sending your goons after, do they get private security off of tax payers money?

Ted will have to fund the security guard's ticket to Cancun.

Oh no no, you either decrease airport security for everyone, or you shut the fuck up.

He scared of something happening to his punk ass.

Unfortunately this is probably needed. Just Ted Cruz is the worst person to propose it given the whole Cancun debacle.

Imagine if someone like AOC (or whoever is your favourite politician) said the exact same thing? There are a lot of psychos out there and a lot shit on the propaganda egging people on to do crazy shit.

Swatting politicians (on both sides of the aisle) is becoming commonplace. Harassing elected officials in public is becoming commonplace too. And then there was that guy that broke into Nancy Pelosi's house and attacked her husband.

People are more and more thinking that doing an end-run around democracy to remove elected officials by taking matters into their own hands.

I want Ted Cruz gone, but I want him gone because of a humiliating election loss. Not from some psycho hanging around airports.

I love that he feels uncomfortable in airports. I love the suggestion that he's being constantly berated and accosted. It's such rare good news.

People shouldn’t be afraid of their government - governments should be afraid of their people.

If I thought the job were that important I would agree.

But it’s not, and if you’re so hated by the people you represent that you feel like you should be treated differently than everyone else maybe you’re in the wrong job.

They aren’t royalty.

@MicroWave It must be soooo hard to be a white, cis male trying to travel without getting harassed. #civil_rights #TedCruz

Turns out populism pitchforks are pointy on both ends of the crowd.

"Lucifer in the flesh"--Ted's fellow Republican John Boehner. As Cruz’s former college roommate, Craig Mazin, once put it, “One thing Ted Cruz is really good at: uniting people who otherwise disagree about everything else in a total hatred of Ted Cruz.” George W. Bush: “I just don’t like the guy.” Bob Dole: “I don’t know how he’s going to deal with Congress. Nobody likes him.” John Boehner: “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.” Lindsey Graham: “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”

This makes me uneasy. The Cancun thing makes me want to be opposed to this as well, in a general “Internet wants you to feel things” way.

But these people aren’t idiots. (Sure they victimize and weaponize useful idiots, but they themselves are very clever.) Are they planning to have politicians taken out by useful terrorists, and want to avoid passing of reasonable legislation - so they strategically propose unreasonable legislation to poison the whole idea?

It’s never as simple as a few paragraphs make it sound. I think a wait-and-form-opinions-later approach is a reasonable one.