Ted Cruz denounced as “evil” the Grammy performance by Sam Smith and Kim Petras of their song “Unholy”:
Perhaps you don’t like the song (about a husband and father committing infidelity — a type of unholiness with which many of your GOP colleagues past and present are all too familiar). But it is a performance and hardly “evil.”
Here are a few actual examples of evil:
- Hundreds if not thousands of Russian war crimes (www.pbs.org/…) as they target civilians in their effort to invade Ukraine — and which many of your GOP colleagues now appear unwilling to oppose with continued aid to support Ukraine as it fights for its freedom
- Separating children from their parents, caging them, and leaving no paper trail for reunifying them with parents in order to “punish” immigrants seeking asylum and a better life in the U.S., as the previous administration did with broad GOP support www.splcenter.org/…
- The murder of 20 people (and wounding of 26 more) through a mass shooting aimed at defending white supremacy against Hispanic “invasion”, which the GOP empowered through its refusal to limit availability of high-powered guns and promoted through its spread of anti-immigrant white supremacist rhetoric www.dailykos.com/… Ditto with the mass shooting targeted LGBT people in Colorado Springs, encouraged by GOP rhetoric about “groomers” www.dailykos.com/…
- The murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi under orders of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman — which the previous administration happily swept under the rug as the Saudi’s made some convenient investments benefiting the Trump crime family www.vanityfair.com/…
- Banning age appropriate gender-affirming care for highly vulnerable transgender youth who are already at higher risk for depression and suicide — sacrificing those kids in order to score points with anti-LGBT extremists ahead of the 2024 primaries, as your GOP colleagues are doing www.hrc.org/…
- Eliminating the expansion of a child tax credit that kept 3.7 million children out of poverty www.cwla.org/… because we couldn’t afford the price tag — while maintaining tax cuts for those who least need them that cost some three times as much; the GOP was plenty eager to consign children to poverty and hunger in order to further pad the pockets of those who already have the most
- White supremicist anti-Semites inciting violence including the murder by car of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville — while TFG continued to claim those who created the dynamics that led to that murder were “very fine people” www.dailykos.com/…
Actually Ted, it seems like you just want to get some right-wing culture war cred with your attack on Sam Smith and Kim Petras, while in reality it is you and your party that make a habit of excusing and even promoting actual evil.