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Ted Cruz is a Racist Hack
His questions to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson reveal his contempt for Black people and the intelligence of us all
At the risk of sounding like a broken record — after all, what I’m going to say about Ted Cruz is something I said recently about Tucker Carlson — sometimes repetition has its virtues.
This is especially true when referring to birds of a feather who together drop their shit from telephone wires on the unsuspecting who walk beneath them.
And so, let it be proclaimed loudly and clearly: Ted Cruz is a racist asshole.
We know this because he treats Black people as interchangeable pieces on a racial chessboard who should be expected to answer for others of their group, in a way he would never expect of whites.
Cruz is also a hack, by which I mean a fraud who deliberately distorts reality for political purposes using out-of-context quotes from those with whom he disagrees to smear them and those he views as adjacent to them.
We know all of this because of how he comported himself yesterday in the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Cruz (who thirstily searched for himself on Twitter once his performance was done) demonstrated…