One rule of twitter is if you're here long enough, sooner or later you'll be threaded into a Curt Schilling rage bender. Surprised it took this long, frankly.
In animation you create mouth charts with shapes that correspond to phonemes. But Don Jr. is literally off the charts. Like these lip shapes make no sense.
The problem with whataboutism is most Democrats are the first to cut one of their own loose, sometimes stupidly. Republicans treat every case like they’re defending the Alamo.
The problem with Cruz isn’t simple bad optics, as his defenders contend, it’s that it revealed an almost absurd failure to grasp what political power is supposed to be about.
The thing about labeling the Cancun turnaround bad optics is that's usually used in politics for something that's really only wrong in superficial terms, what Cruz did was actually just plain bad.
Like, literally, he walked off the job in a crisis. Conduit between your state and the federal government is a pretty big role in a disaster. That requires you to believe in federal government, unfortunately here.
Even in terms of political maneuvering, knowing that the Biden administration is certainly eager to show competence here, he could have positioned himself as the guy making things happen.