The Funniest Tweets About Ted Cruz’s Twitter Porn Gaffe
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Last night the official Twitter account for Ted Cruz, a man who doesn’t think people have the legal right to masturbate, liked a porn video on Twitter. On 9/11. The junior US Senator from Texas and former candidate for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination has built his career on the kind of deeply repressed conservatism that basically treats any sexual activity other than missionary position with your spouse like an unpardonable sin (he’s cool with banning sex toys, y’know), so clicking the “like” button on a porn clip on social media doesn’t entirely gibe with his image. Sure, it’s possible an intern or whoever runs his Twitter for him did the actual liking, but let the internet have its fun, which it absolutely had when this news broke last night. Here are the best and funniest tweets about Ted Cruz liking a porn video on Twitter.
This is the night that Ted Cruz became president.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 12, 2017
If you jack off to the porno Ted Cruz jacked off to you die three days after you nutt. Like in “The Ring” or as the Japanese say, “Ringu.”
— “TBONE” O’Sullivan (@Bro_Pair) September 12, 2017
Just woke up to my Google alert for “Ted Cruz Porn” and this is not what I meant. I’m going back to bed.
— Jonny (@jonny_is_good) September 12, 2017
Yikes, Ted Cruz. I thought the only person who jerked off on 9/11 was Rudy Giuliani.
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