Tag Ted Cruz

A little pear-shaped

Commenting on the role of social media memes in ending Ted Cruz’s never-stellar campaign, The Guardian mentions Honoré Daumier’s 1831 caricature of king Louis-Philippe, Gargantua. King Gargantua, pictured on his toilet-throne, is not merely gobbling down the taxpayers’ money but…

“Planted!” by Ted Cruz and Dmitry Peskov

When The National Enquirer ran a story about Ted Cruz’s five (or eight?) alleged mistresses, the candidate called the leak “garbage” (that’s what tabloids peddle) and accused Donald Trump of planting the dirt (probably dug up by Rubio’s team). But…