Normally this wouldn’t be news, but EMS was sent to his home for a 14-year-old with self-inflicted knife wounds. I think we all know what that means, and she does look absolutely miserable in these pictures.
I realize this isn’t exactly the best source. Regardless, I’m going to give this young lady a big old cyber-hug anyway.
(((((Caroline Cruz)))))
Update: I saw on another site that the news was released this morning, and rapidly pushed down below the fold, probably because it involves a child. Mods, if you feel that locking this thread is appropriate, don’t hesitate to do so, and I won’t be offended.
I didn’t know about it until just now.
It seems some on twitter are blaming the face that Ted’s a republican for this.
Twitter people aren’t as nice as Dopers.
I feel for the young woman concerned and I hope she gets the help she needs–and that it works.
As for her father’s requestion for privacy: good idea, Ted. Now how about you and your party respect the privacy of others and GTFO their reproductive and other medical choices?
There’s always help available. Call or text 988.
I hope she gets the help she needs. I also hope that this not become an issue of any sort at all should Cruz run again.
I think it’s enough to say that Ted Cruz is a truly loathsome human being who deserves bad things to happen to him, BUT that any such bad things should not involve in any way the health or happiness of his children. At most, it should be possible to note the grotesque hypocrisy of the Texas Republican Party’s active efforts to force public attention into the parent-child relationship on a variety of difficult and highly personal issues, in light of Cruz’s family asking for seclusion in this equally private moment.
Beyond that, we should maintain distance and a respectful silence on the matter.
Even Twitter has been relatively kind compared to usual.
I sincerely hope Caroline heals physically, mentally and emotionally. No parent deserves this torment.
Yet if Cruz were a Democrat, imagine how loud the howling and rumor-mongering would be from the right.
I agree. I hope her long term health is not affected.
I disagree. While the daughter should not be penalized in any way, Ted and other Republicans need to have their noses rubbed in it. Otherwise it leads to further fragmentation of American society.
'Zactly.
If perchance young Ms. Cruz has gender identification issues she should become the poster child for why the trans-hate craziness now being fomented by the RW crowd is so barbaric and wrong.
Absolutely. If this isn’t a loud scream for help, I don’t know what is.
Okay… but likewise, no child deserves this torment.
As a female child growing up with wonderful parents, I can’t overstate how important my father was to me. He showed me how an honest, honorable loving husband and father should be. I can’t imagine growing up with Ted Cruz as my father where I, as a female, would be constantly reading and hearing about the things he believes and supports. It would be horrible.
In the article linked to in the OP, “In her first video after her explosion in followers, Caroline offered a list of pros and cons to being Ted’s daughter, which included her reemphasizing that she disagrees with him on pretty much everything.”
Disagreeing with your parents on pretty much everything describes every 14-year-old in existence.
Not really. I’m sorry you had such an experience.
I’m inclined to leave this one all alone, too, but only after making two points:
In pretty much every war, soldiers begin using slurs to ‘name’ the enemy. They do that as a way to dehumanize them – to make them seem less than human. And they do THAT so it’s easier to pull the trigger. That’s the harm that comes from the intolerant rhetoric that we see so much of. Growing up LGBTQ in an environment with so much corrosiveness and toxicity directed toward you has to be exceptionally difficult;
“Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz: I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.” --Former Senator Al Franken
Are the two things related? Who knows…
I wish this young lady and her entire family … healing.
I hope she’s okay.
One, six years ago, I once did a very small thing to help Ted Cruz bond with his family including, I presume, her. I happened to be in a popular touristy ice cream shop in Washington, DC a day or two after Ted Cruz lost the 2016 Republican nomination to Donald Trump. My group was in good spirits. I thought the election was, more or less, in the bag for Clinton because who in their right mind would vote for Trump? Ted Cruz got in line with his family a few customers behind us. (In my head, he had a couple more kids too, but I don’t remember). He looked a bit down. His family looked a bit down but I’m sure they were trying to lift their spirits after the loss.
I wanted, in that moment, to do nothing more than further crush him because he is a hateful man trying to destroy our country. For a couple of minutes while I waited in line, I quietly formulated a plan to buy every scoop of ice cream in the store and offer it for sale as an impromptu Hillary Clinton fundraiser. I didn’t want Ted Cruz to have even a moment of joy where he could go back to just being a normal person. Screw him. I didn’t even try to do it though. There were practical reasons to abandon the plan but mostly I didn’t want to make his kids a target. They didn’t pick him. I didn’t even say an unkind word to him as I left because i figured his kids suffered enough having by having an interminable asshole for a father. Turns out, I was, unfortunately, right.
I wish her a speedy recovery.
“If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.” - Lyndsey Graham
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The only thing that in this story that I think is relevant to the political discourse is Cruz’s request for privacy.
See, Rafael Cruz, privacy is a valued and coveted thing! You should consider respecting it more in other people’s lives.
I just saw a TikTok from Cruz’s daughter. She says it has nothing to do with being LBGQ or her dad.
She also states she is not happy with the media making assumptions about why she did what she did.
She seemed healthy and coherent in the video.