Hello and thank you for being a DL contributor. We are changing the login scheme for contributors for simpler login and to better support using multiple devices. Please click here to update your account with a username and password.

Hello. Some features on this site require registration. Please click here to register for free.

Hello and thank you for registering. Please complete the process by verifying your email address. If you can't find the email you can resend it here.

Hello. Some features on this site require a subscription. Please click here to get full access and no ads for $1.99 or less per month.

Ted Cruz out of the country "on vacation" again, as disaster strikes Texas

Ted Cruz could have booked numerous flights from Greece to Texas before the one he boarded—despite his office claiming he came home from his European vacation “as fast as humanly possible.”

The Daily Beast revealed Monday how Cruz was caught touring the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, 24 hours after the Guadalupe River burst its banks, sweeping away dozens of lives in an unspeakable horror.

Cruz’s director of communications issued the claim about his speed of return, adding that the article was “a bull----piece” that showed “no regard for the tragedy in Texas.” But the Daily Beast has reviewed flight options for Cruz from Athens to San Antonio and discovered several that would have gotten him back sooner than his Sunday return.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 49July 10, 2025 4:09 PM

Flight data shows multiple flights from Athens to San Antonio, Texas, on Friday, June 4 and Saturday, June 5, after the floods hit.

While it is not known how many seats were available on each flight, possible options included flights leaving Athens on Saturday morning and landing in San Antonio that evening via Chicago, Atlanta, or Washington, D.C.

Earlier flights were also available on Friday once the seriousness of the floods was becoming apparent.

Due to high demand, several airlines also announced this year that Greece would have more direct air connections with the U.S. than it has ever had.

The senator arrived in Athens on Thursday to take a brief break after the Senate voted to pass Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

However, Cruz raised eyebrows among vacationers when he was spotted with his wife lining up outside the Parthenon on Saturday, July 5, at about 6 p.m. local time (11 a.m. ET)—more than 24 hours after the Guadalupe River burst its banks.

“He was with his family and a lone security guard,” said an eyewitness at the Parthenon. “As he walked past us, I simply said, ‘20 kids dead in Texas and you take a vacation?’

“He sort of grunted and walked on,” the Swamp spy continued. “His wife shot me a dirty look. Then they continued on with their tour guide.”

Cruz was back on the airwaves from Texas on Monday morning, telling reporters that he had been in contact with local authorities and the president within hours of the floods to seek support and resources for the community.

He also appeared live on Fox & Friends from Kerrville, Texas, in the area hardest hit by the disaster, and posted a number of messages to X.

“There aren’t words to describe the grief that Texans are feeling. Pray for Texas and Kerr County,” he wrote.

by Anonymousreply 1July 8, 2025 7:52 AM

How in the fuck does Cruz (otherwise known as America's most unfuckable man) keep getting re-elected?

by Anonymousreply 2July 8, 2025 8:05 AM

Was the family dog left home alone again this time?

Cruz is such a sleaze!

by Anonymousreply 3July 8, 2025 8:05 AM

[quote] How in the fuck does Cruz (otherwise known as America's most unfuckable man) keep getting re-elected?

Texans are all brain dead.

This is what they voted for.

ENJOY!

by Anonymousreply 4July 8, 2025 8:08 AM

Meh, I don't care about this; he pulls this shit all the time, yet TX elects him over & over again. He may as well not have come back at all given how useless he is.

by Anonymousreply 5July 8, 2025 8:23 AM

[quote] “There aren’t words to describe the grief that Texans are feeling. Pray for Texas and Kerr County,” he wrote.

Well that will certainly help. 🙄🙄🙄

by Anonymousreply 6July 8, 2025 8:32 AM

Yeah, Texas got itself into this mess. Electing their asshole Governor and their asshole Senators and foolishly voting for Trump.

by Anonymousreply 7July 8, 2025 8:35 AM

Hey, they keep voting for the rancid cunt. Why should he even pretend to care about Texas when they keep handing him their votes no matter what he does? He's like an abusive partner who doesn't even hide the fact that he's cheating.

by Anonymousreply 8July 8, 2025 8:58 AM

R5 has it right, he is useless so not sure what the point even is. Besides, what role does a U.S. Senator have in a situation like this other than hawking up TV time?

by Anonymousreply 9July 8, 2025 4:34 PM

[quote] Besides, what role does a U.S. Senator have in a situation like this other than hawking up TV time?

HELPING TO SECURE FEDERAL DISASTER RELIEF FUNDS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, YOU FUCKING MORON!

by Anonymousreply 10July 8, 2025 4:40 PM

He is as useless as tits on a bull anyway, so just keep him in whatever shithole he happens to now occupy.

by Anonymousreply 11July 8, 2025 4:48 PM

R10 Trump already approved it. What’s left to do?

by Anonymousreply 12July 8, 2025 5:04 PM
Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 13July 8, 2025 5:10 PM

At least he didn't throw his daughters under the bus this time.

by Anonymousreply 14July 8, 2025 5:36 PM

Ask for even more, r12. Use his high-profile position to accomplish something for his constituents. Do you really not understand or are you just looking to disagree with someone?

by Anonymousreply 15July 8, 2025 6:31 PM

I gotta give it to the guy. He has impeccable timing.

by Anonymousreply 16July 8, 2025 6:46 PM

[quote]At least he didn't throw his daughters under the bus this time.

Yet. If the criticism becomes too harsh, he'll say his daughters insisted on staying to visit the Acropolis Museum, or something along those lines.

by Anonymousreply 17July 8, 2025 6:53 PM

LA Mayor Karen Bass was raked over the coals for being abroad during the wildfires.

Ted Cruz should be held to the same standard.

by Anonymousreply 18July 8, 2025 7:02 PM

He'll blame his ugly wife and daughters, same as always.

by Anonymousreply 19July 8, 2025 7:02 PM

[quote] “He was with his family and a lone security guard,” said an eyewitness at the Parthenon. “As he walked past us, I simply said, ‘20 kids dead in Texas and you take a vacation?’

[quote] “He sort of grunted and walked on,” the Swamp spy continued. “His wife shot me a dirty look."

That sounds about right for those two evil fucks.

Isn't his wife the crazy one, found by the side of a road babbling incoherently?

by Anonymousreply 20July 8, 2025 8:34 PM

His wife's the rich one AND the crazy one.

Donald Trump called her ugly on national television, and she still told people to vote for him.

by Anonymousreply 21July 8, 2025 8:44 PM

Cruz was informed of the high likelihood of significant flooding a day before he left for vacation, but decided a nice timer in Greece is better than a rainy time in Texas.

by Anonymousreply 22July 8, 2025 9:14 PM

Could've had Bato, who is actually fuckable. Stupid Texas voters.

by Anonymousreply 23July 8, 2025 9:30 PM

[quote]I gotta give it to the guy. He has impeccable timing.

Or maybe he just takes a fuck-ton of vacations.

by Anonymousreply 24July 8, 2025 9:38 PM

Beto, R23. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke.

by Anonymousreply 25July 8, 2025 9:38 PM

Sorry, Beto.

by Anonymousreply 26July 8, 2025 9:54 PM

R25 The cock-knocker is as Mexican as Doris Day. He's 100% Irish.

But he's from El Paso and he tans, so people believe him when he says he's Mexican.

He's the Chipotle of politicians. You have real Mexican down the street.

by Anonymousreply 27July 8, 2025 9:55 PM

OK, Alfanso, the Canadian.

by Anonymousreply 28July 8, 2025 10:40 PM

Oops, Raphael. Whatever it is.

by Anonymousreply 29July 8, 2025 10:42 PM

Lol R27.

You are so fucking shady.

I love it.

by Anonymousreply 30July 8, 2025 10:42 PM

Ted Cruz has never lost an election in Texas.

He is precisely the kind of corrupt asshole they dream of.

I think they get what they deserve and keep voting for!

by Anonymousreply 31July 8, 2025 11:33 PM

R27, why don't you do a DNA test on Ted Cruz

I bet he has 99% European ancestry

by Anonymousreply 32July 8, 2025 11:35 PM

I bet Marco Rubio also has 99% European ancestry

by Anonymousreply 33July 8, 2025 11:37 PM

Does Beto claim to be Mexican?

by Anonymousreply 34July 8, 2025 11:37 PM

O’Rourke has never claimed to be Mexican.

He speaks Spanish but we’ve never been under the illusion that he was a Latino.

by Anonymousreply 35July 9, 2025 12:25 AM

If I recall correctly his family began calling him the nickname Beto instead of Robert because either his father or grandfather had that name. Better than Junior I guess.

by Anonymousreply 36July 9, 2025 1:24 AM

[quote] afael Edward Cruz was born on December 22, 1970,[3][4] at Foothills Medical Centre[5][6] in Calgary, Alberta,

This is not a natural born citizen and he should spend time in Guantanamo Bay detention camp until he can be repatriated to Ghana.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 37July 9, 2025 1:32 AM

Send this asshole to Alligator Alcatraz.

by Anonymousreply 38July 9, 2025 1:40 AM

Wonder how he will be greeted by his constituents now.

[quote]Texas Sen. Ted Cruz slashed funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration mere days before his state was hit by deadly flash floods.

[quote]According to a report from The Guardian, Cruz amended President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to end a $150M fund that sought to “accelerate advances and improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, assessments, and dissemination of information to the public.” The ultimate goal of the federally funded program was to create better forecasts with more lead time.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 39July 9, 2025 10:35 AM

On Tuesday, Ted Cruz ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding, a disaster critics say was worsened by cuts to forecasting.

Cruz, who infamously fled Texas for Cancún when a crippling winter storm ravaged his state in 2021, was visiting the Parthenon with his wife, Heidi, on Saturday, a day after a flash flood along the Guadalupe River in central Texas killed more than 100 people.

The Greece trip, first reported by the Daily Beast, ended in time for Cruz to appear at the site of the disaster on Monday morning to decry the tragedy and promise a response from lawmakers.

“There’s no doubt afterwards we are going to have a serious retrospective as you do after any disaster and say, ‘OK what could be done differently to prevent this disaster?’” Cruz told Fox News. “The fact you have girls asleep in their cabins when flood waters are rising, something went wrong there. We’ve got to fix that and have a better system of warnings to get kids out of harm’s way.”

The National Weather Service has faced scrutiny in the wake of the disaster after underestimating the amount of rainfall that was dumped upon central Texas. Late-night alerts about the dangerous floods were issued by the service but the timeliness of the response, and coordination with local emergency services, will be reviewed by officials.

Before his Grecian holiday, Cruz ensured a reduction in funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) efforts to improve future weather forecasting.

Cruz inserted language into the Republicans’ “big beautiful” bill, that eliminates a $150m fund to “accelerate advances and improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, assessments, and dissemination of information to the public” around weather forecasting.

A further $50m in NOAA grants to study climate-related impacts on oceans, weather systems and coastal ecosystems was also removed.

More than 600 employees have exited the National Weather Service amid a Trump administration push to shrink the government workforce, leaving many offices short-staffed of meteorologists and other support workers.

About a fifth of all full-time workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), meanwhile, are also set to depart.

“Ted Cruz has spent years doing big oil’s bidding, gutting climate research, defunding Noaa, and weakening the very systems meant to warn and protect the public,’ said Cassidy DiPaola, communications director of Fossil Free Media.

“Now he’s doubling down, pushing through even more cuts. Texans are dead and grieving, and Cruz is protecting big oil instead of the people he’s supposed to represent. It’s disgraceful.”

Cruz, who has previously cast doubt over the scientific reality of the climate crisis, said that complaints about cuts to the National Weather Service are “partisan finger pointing”, although he conceded that people should have been evacuated earlier.

“Some are eager to point at the National Weather Service and saying that cuts there led to a lack of warning. I think that’s contradicted by the facts and if you look at the facts in particular number one and these warnings went out hours before the flood became a true emergency.”

The Trump administration has also rejected claims that the service was short-staffed. “People were sleeping in the middle of the night when the flood came,” said Karoline Leavitt. “That was an act of God; it’s not the administration’s fault the floods hit when it did.” Leavitt said any blame placed upon Trump for flood forecasting is a “depraved lie”.

Resources for weather forecasting, as well as broader work to understand the unfolding climate crisis, could be set for further cuts, however. The Trump administration’s 2026 budget proposal seeks to dismantle all of NOAA’s weather and climate research labs, along with NOAA’s entire research division. This would halt research and development of new weather forecasting technologies and methods.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 40July 10, 2025 9:10 AM
Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 41July 10, 2025 11:10 AM

Right. So many people at fault. It was a “perfect storm” for blame

by Anonymousreply 42July 10, 2025 11:57 AM

R42, actually not really. The flood and the rains happened. If we're finger pointing it should start there. Weather alerts, and evacs, and rescues. The warnings came too late, and the rescue operations too late. And Noem and Cruz are top candidates for a shit storm of criticism as well .

by Anonymousreply 43July 10, 2025 2:35 PM

The camp should not have been operating there in the first place.

by Anonymousreply 44July 10, 2025 3:22 PM

R44 you're right. But it was, and in an emergency situation we have to deal with the "right now " and worry about the other stuff later when the crisis passes.

by Anonymousreply 45July 10, 2025 3:28 PM

Not really….lawsuits in 5…4…3…2…

by Anonymousreply 46July 10, 2025 3:30 PM

He’s a piece of dogshit with legs, but this isn’t as bad as the last time, when he left Texas during the massive outages.

I defended Karen Bass when she was out of the country during the wildfires. I’m not going to go as far as defending human-excrement-in-a-suit-but-no-tie Cruz, but I give him a bye on this one.

Still want him to address whether he’s transgender of not though.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 47July 10, 2025 3:35 PM

I don't care where he was I care that he cut the funding that had an impact on their ability to respond to the crisis. And then he stayed out of town. He really does not give a fuck and yet he keeps getting re elected.

by Anonymousreply 48July 10, 2025 3:40 PM

Grandstanding died with Trump throwing paper towels at Puerto Ricans.

R48 wisely criticizes the bullshit of this moron.

by Anonymousreply 49July 10, 2025 4:09 PM
Loading
Need more help? Click Here.

Yes indeed, we too use "cookies." Take a look at our privacy/terms or if you just want to see the damn site without all this bureaucratic nonsense, click ACCEPT. Otherwise, you'll just have to find some other site for your pointless bitchery needs.

×

Become a contributor - post when you want with no ads!