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While the First Uvalde Funerals Were Starting, Ted Cruz Sent Tweets About Playing ‘Ridiculous Fun’ Poker

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So, for the parents and grandparents here it is safe to say that the shock from Uvalde has worn off and evolved into a rage, which includes a demand that something gets done in Washington DC. Indeed, we’ve already published a story today on Eric Swalwell tearing up a hearing in Congress, saying that the Democrats were at the hearing trying to protect kids, looking Jim Jordan in the eye and asking Jordan who he was there to protect.

We know what is on young father Eric Swalwell’s mind because of his argument and the fact that it’s the same thing on our minds, as parents or as grandparents. Grandparents rarely get mentioned in these stories but grandparents have it every bit as bad. Grandparents go through the heartbreak of losing that beloved grandchild while also having to see their own adult-child face a parent’s worst nightmare. Grandparents must be included in these conversations as people hurting every bit as badly.

And, of course, amidst all these, we learn of a “smaller” mass-shooting in Tulsa Oklahoma with three people killed and ten wounded with an AR-15 purchased yesterday morning. It shouldn’t surprise any of us that Ted “I hate to see what’s happened to the American family” Cruz isn’t all that sad about how families are no longer a “thing” in the United States.

We know that Ted isn’t that upset because he got over it quick enough to send out four texts in a row yesterday that involved a poker game in which he played. Yes, the grease fire that is Raphael Cruz put out the following tweets yesterday in order:

Congratulations. It is for charity? What charity? Ted Cruz for Senate.org? And who cares anyway, unless the charity is for Uvalde families and if it is, stop playing poker and give them the damned money.

Onward:

Oh, yeah. Professional poker players are some of the kindest, most giving souls that one is going to find. Cruz then retweets a tweet of himself sent by the guy he’s playing with:

And then one more, in case people missed it?

And maybe there’s a reason everyone thinks you’re a dick. You cannot bluff us, ass.

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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