Ted Cruz is wrong: It's not just one side that's angry

So, it seems that U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz wants to be our next president. With as much charisma as this Apple Mac computer that I’m now typing on, good luck with that, Ted.

This week, speaking about the approximate 2,700 No Kings Protests that went on around the country last Saturday, including four spots in the RGV — McAllen, Weslaco, Harlingen, and Brownsville — Cruz told Bloomberg Television this week:

“Unquestionably, we should take political peril seriously. There is a lot of energy. There is a lot of anger on the left. And elections can be dangerous when one side is mobilized, is angry.”

Hey, Ted, it’s not just the left that is angry. Talk to the farmers, the small business owners, the retirees living on Social Security, the federal workers who aren’t getting paid, the people who run nonprofits for the poor, the average citizen just trying to get by, and you’ll discover, mi amigo, that the Republicans have a problem on their hands come next November’s mid-terms.

Protesters turned out Saturday en masse to demonstrate against the White House with banners, chants, placards, and funny costumes, despite the unseasonable heat, to protest, in part, against the administration’s nationwide ICE crackdown.

It’s Not Just ICE

No one was opposed to ICE deporting violent criminals who had served their time. Why keep them here? But when ICE starts doing to people what we see them doing every day if we care to look online – three agents taking down one woman weighing 110 pounds, yanking people out of vehicles after busting their side window as they wait outside a school to pick up their kid – a lot of people are going to say, this just isn’t right.

Add to that these simple facts, and there is enough anger to go around:

Texas National Guard deployments to Illinois, centralization of executive power, weaponization of the judicial system, crackdowns on anti- MAGA speech, no press access now to the Department of Defense, alleged cronyism, shooting boats out of the water off the coast of Venezuela with no due process, and a $20 billion bailout to Argentina.

To top it off, the president doesn’t help by using AI to create a video showing him in a jet cockpit, wearing a crown, dumping feces on the heads of peaceful protesters, as President Trump did Sunday.

The speaker of the House, Republican Mike Johnson, says we should all consider Trump’s meme “satire,” and get over it.

Oh, well. It is what it is. One huge cluster.

The tariffs are turning out to be a disaster. Americans should have been told that the country exporting goods to the U.S. doesn’t pay the tariff. The American consumers pay it.

Somehow that bit of logic escaped too many Americans.

Too many jobs never should have been outsourced to cheap-labor markets in the first place, but they were, led in large part by the GOP, with the help of too many Democrats.

Even in the early 1980s, steel plants were being closed, and outsourcing jobs just got worse moving forward.

When China was granted most favored nation status in the early 1990s, there went more jobs, which is why so much crap sold in stores says: Made in China.

If Trump thought those manufacturing jobs would return to the U.S. overnight, I want some of the drugs he’s taking. It beats reality.

Now, worldwide trade is in a state of flux. Countries are cutting trade deals with each other, leaving the U.S. completely out of the equation.

Stability is what business leaders crave, not chaos mixed with uncertainty.

Prices are soaring on almost everything.

Meanwhile, Sen. Ted Cruz, always the deep thinker, believes that the protests last Saturday were comprised of only people from the Far Left?

Uh, no.

If you attended one of the rallies, you know. If not, you can look at the photos from some of the rallies. People of all ages, all shapes and sizes. And some no doubt voted for Trump last November.

Cruz also told Bloomberg this Monday, concerning next year’s November mid-terms:

“Energized voters show up to vote. And I do worry about just ordinary voters who are happy or complacent who say, ‘gosh, Trump won. Things are good. I don’t need to show up and vote.’ There’s no doubt if one side shows up and the other doesn’t, that leads to a bad election.”

Ted, excuse me for a moment, but I find very few people these days, Republican or Democrat, who are happy and/or complacent with the current state of the country, the economy, or the shutdown of the federal government.

To top it off, according to every legit poll I’ve seen, the majority of voters blame Republicans, not Democrats, for the shutdown.

That’s why the GOP should be worried about next year’s election.

Which isn’t to say that the Democrats are really offering any real solution. They typically have little to offer besides moronic ideas like a $20 minimum wage, confiscation of all guns, a wide open border, healthcare for all without bothering to tell us who’s going to pay for it, given the fact that the U.S. is already approximately $37 trillion in debt.

But given how the Republicans are currently behaving in D.C., and what some ICE agents are doing out in the field, some voters are going to say next November, I don’t care if the Democrats have no solutions, because it beats what the Republicans are now doing to this country.