The father of right wing Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the most visible leader of the now-ended government shutdown, is seen in recently uncovered videos calling for America to be ruled by “kings” who will take money from anyone who is not an evangelical Christian and deliver it into the hands of fundamentalist preachers and their acolytes.
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| Larry Huch |
During the 2008 presidential campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama was accused by conservatives of advocating “redistribution of wealth” from the wealthy to the needy. But in his speech given last year, Rafael Cruz calls for “a great transfer of wealth.”
The difference is that in Cruz’s scheme, the transfer will occur through a war against “the wicked” led by Christian preachers who will take the wealth from nonbelievers.
“The wealth of the wicked is stored for the righteous,” said the elder Cruz at an Irving, Texas, megachurch in August of 2012. “And it is through the kings, anointed to take dominion, that that transfer of wealth is going to occur."
“I know that’s why God got Rafael’s son elected — Ted Cruz, the next Senator,” said Huch, pastor of the New Beginnings megachurch, introducing Rafael Cruz’s speech.
“Kings who are anointed for a totally different reason than priests,” Rafael Cruz continued. “Kings who are anointed to take dominion. Kings who are anointed to go to war, win the war, and bring the spoils of war to the priests.”
WTF?
So according to Cruz's dad he is destined to be the king of America, wage a war on those of us who are unbelievers, and then deliver our money to his father and other like minded evangelicals.
And just when I thought I could not have a lower opinion of Ted Cruz.
That is such a mind blowing corruption of what Jesus (whom I don't believe existed, but whose myths emphasized equality) supposedly taught.
ReplyDeleteIt’s very enlightening. They used to stay in the shadows. Now they’re prancing around on the front lawn like the crazy aunt who got out of the attic.
ReplyDeleteSomehow, I don’t think this is what the Koch Brothers had in mind, being controlled by a Hispanic king? Back to the drawing board, big guys.
Seriously, at what point are we going to acknowledge the definition of treason? Fraud. Charlatan. Circus act. And yes, conspirator. BTW, how many days, months, years has carnival cruz served in the armed services? That alone puts his spectacle at the WW2 memorial in perspective.
ReplyDeleteNot a day nor did he serve a day in the Royal Canadian Armed Forces..Technically Cruz is a Canadian citizen and shouldn't be in the Senate...
Deleteunfortunately, his mother is an american citizen, which makes him a "natural born" american, even if born on canadian soil
DeleteSeven Mountain Mandate, pseudo-chrstiany domionism for Rapture Ready Armageddon Now Crowd of the Apostolic Reformation.
ReplyDeleteMost Fundamentalists and Evangelicals are not necessarily award that their local churches subscribe to wealth for a ruling Christian Elite theocracy.
The culprits in this fake Constitutionally Christian Nation are those who grift for gold in the name of God with guns. IMO.
dowl
agreed, very accurate description
DeleteYou nailed it. Couldn't say it better.
Delete"Seven Mountain Mandate, pseudo-chrstiany domionism for Rapture Ready Armageddon Now Crowd of the Apostolic Reformation."
Amen.
Ted is an arrogant, smug, narcissistic jerk with an IQ that makes him hold his nose to interact with - much less be endorsed by - uneducated idiots like Palin. Perfect.
ReplyDeleteReally smart people do not need to drone on about how smart they are! Cruz was a windbag at Princeton and I understand is one of the VERY few alums that still wear their class ring! See what I mean?
DeleteDamn, it always seems like someone is after my money!
ReplyDeleteOT: Ted and Sarah are starting to look alike. Is he her Canadian brother from another mother?
RJ in Brownbackistan
Oh goody-goody gumdrops.
ReplyDeleteThose comments, among others, are specifically the reason why Ted Cruz must never, ever be President. His father is a con man deluxe who has passed his values on to his smarmy son. Between the two of them they represent evil incarnate.
ReplyDeleteAnother version of Mel GIbson and his father. Hate-filled crazies.
DeleteTed and Sarah
ReplyDeleteThe best pair in politics.
Take back our country
Go back to C4Pee. The 5 of you left there can continue denying reality, and those of us who live in the real world won't have to lose brain cells when you speak.
DeleteAnon @ 5:05 - I hope this is snark. If it isn't, so sorry for you to have to wander the world as a clueless fool.
DeleteTed and Sarah - two of a kind. They are both morons.
DeleteTake back the country to the old days, where the elderly were homeless or were auctioned off to live on the poor farms as indentured slaves.
Families were large. People died from lack of health care.
No insurance on your bank deposits...
AK couldn't exist without welfare and support from the lower 48. Let Rafael and Scary revert to the past. Progressives prefer to look forward, not back.
5:05 AM You get up early to promote your Insane Sister and the Commie Cuban. You are on the road to another devastating LOSS, Loser.
Delete5:05 is right. Ted and Sarah will take our country back to the original depression, maybe even further back.
DeleteTake back our country and give it to a Pimp's Wife, Mother of 2 Unwed teen Moms, Mother of a Drug addict, and Mentally ill family. Rafael Eduardo Cruz is a Communist Sleeper Cell and a FUNDIE NUT.
DeleteTake back the country from what? the majority of us who don't believe that you are moral upright or capable of ruling the world...... and all that talk about the anti-Christ when Obama got in, why not now? How does wealth play into the "teachings" of Christ, again more Christians who have never actually read that bible and just use it as a weapon against humanity to line their greedy pockets.
DeleteSay what? Sarah Palin is no longer in politics. She's just a professional rabble rouser now.
DeleteAnon 7:27. Right on target saying that many are weaponizing religion. I bet many of these low info folks had abandoned 'religion' most of their lives but they fully understand hatred and bigotry.
DeleteWhen these political louts began using religion to further their agendas, it gave these uninformed idiots a second chance at adopting 'religion'.
The gifted snarkmeisters among us have more wit and IQ points in their little finger than the simpleton troll who keeps posting gems like Palin/Cruz in 2016! My theory is that this troll has a chronological or developmental age of maybe 12. And maybe it will find another playground if we don't feed it.
DeleteHuch was a substance abuser and got his start through Benny Hinn and Oral Roberts. That speaks volumes.
ReplyDeleteTed's dad works for Suzanne Hinn's Purifying Fires Ministry.
Deletehttp://thefamilyleadershipsummit.org/senator-ted-cruz-and-pastor-rafael-cruz/
Insanity.
ReplyDeleteThis should be enough to get him removed from office. It couldn't be more obvious he's there with a religious agenda, and that's illegal.
ReplyDeleteDo Texans still support him? I read they did, for the most part, or a small part did a whole lot. I don't know. Texas voted him in and they got him now. Awful. terrible, scary, loose canon, egotistical, evangelical preacher/senator sociopath. Texas? Texas? Anybody there?
DeleteThis Texan did not vote for him and I once was in the evangelical churches and they can get quite over the top. I find Cruz and his father to be despicable. Jesus advocated helping the poor and told the rich young ruler to sell his fortune off and help the poor and then follow him. They're both megalomaniacs as far as I'm concerned. I left the the crazy churches and would only go to a mainstream denomination if I went again. Not all evangelicals are crazy or bad but these types like Palin and Cruz are and they use God to get power from others and take their money too. UGH.
Delete7:23 -
DeleteUnfortunately, what Texans were stupid enough to put in office is now threatening the entire country and, with the threat of default, the world economy.
If Texas would just keep this lunatic in Texas, we'd all be safer.
Well, maybe he should be a king but not of the US. Who knows! But Cruz has got a rocky road to the presidency, having been born in Canada to a Canadian citizen and to a Cuban father who only became a US citizen in 2005. And then there are his crazy beliefs to boot.
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DeleteSorry there bud, but as much as I hate to say it, his mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. NOT Canada!
I heard Kenya
DeleteIf we does run for POTUS, I so hope Americans come out across nation stating how he is not a REAL American! Much the same the right has done for all these years as to President Obama.
DeleteHe should feel the crap just the same as has our current two-term President! Democrats need to get as nasty as the Republicans and Teabaggers!!!!
anon@743a, bah hah hah hah hah.
Deletegood one.
Yeah, I don't get this "tax free status" for churches. (I'm a Canadian looking in.) In my part of the world, I've certainly heard ministers indirectly promote a party or a candidate, but THIS is blatantly loud and proud and specific. You couldn't hold your head up in this church congregation and tell people you were voting for the other candidate.
ReplyDeleteThese kinds of church scenes always scare me. Not so much the pastor, but the hundreds, and thousands, of people who sit in the pews and don't walk out. Who "Amen" these kinds of teachings.
Well, that photo sure explains where Ted Cruz got his outstanding good looks. Sheesh!
ReplyDeleteI just puked in my mouth.
DeleteSo in addition to having to listen to a Coke Clone, we get to tolerate the old man who is loonier than the Clone??
ReplyDeleteCoke’s got their moneys worth outta these Klowns….
We just got rid of the Mormon destined to be our leader, bring on the next religious loser. There is alot of work to be done when we get congress back....and that should include taxing these churches and the 501C so called social groups.
ReplyDeleteYES!!!!! When churches get involved in politics, they can start paying their dues aka taxes.
DeleteReligious groups all across the USA are to be watched!
DeleteIn Anchorage, AK it is Anchorage Baptist Temple w/Jerry Prevo as their leader! The guy is creepy too! A staunch Republican that indoctrinates his sheep/followers. They have made numerous group gatherings when against something political within the city or State of Alaska and bring others to their cause in other towns (which should be deemed illegal when Anchorage, AK issues!)
They should NOT received a no tax status when so involved w/both religion and politics!
First of all, there is no Ted Cruz, Ted is an alias. His name is Rafael Cruz and he isn't a natural born citizen and is unqualified to run for the office of the Presidency. As for Cruz and his Daddy, well My Dad, who happened to be one of the first members of the OSS( The forerunner of the CIA) during WWII and stayed in Europe after the war to help interrogate Nazi's ( because of his ability to speak multiple languages) says that Cruz is nothing but a sleeper agent. BTW in the yrs after WWII many sleeper agent families were deported. But this Castro sleeper agent got overlooked, we should have looked at the Cubans as much as the Germans.
ReplyDeleteAnd how do you explain the fact that his mother was born a US citizen, just like President Obama?
DeleteThe only difference (from a citizenship point of view ONLY!) between the two is that POTUS has a Hawaiian birth form!
Both had fathers who were not citizens.
And until the question is finally settled by a decision from the SCOTUS, most scholars agree Cruz IS qualified to be president simply from his mother's citizenship.
As sick as that makes me.
And since he is both over 35 AND has lived in the US for more than 14 years straight, guess what that means.
Yup, You got it. You're wrong.
Don't get me wrong on this. I find the idea of him even RUNNING for the office enough to make me vomit, but facts can't be denied.
Why is it that so many Cubans think they're better than all the rest of the Spanish-speaking world? I've never figured that out.
DeleteRafael was born in Calgary Canada, not in the USA. BTW President Obama was born in Hawaii making him a natural born citizen unlike Rafael Cruz.
Delete@11:17.
DeleteThe current legal thinking is that since he was born of an American mother HE is a natural born citizen. That goes along with children born to military women or military wives overseas. Far too many precedents in his favor, much as I hate to admit it.
To make it plain:
The current legal thinking stipulates that if you are born of an American woman, then YOU are an American. Period. And until it goes to SCOTUS, that will stand.
I agree with you about POTUS. He WAS born in Hawaii and therefore has a double claim. Cruz being born in Canada does NOT affect his natural citizen status!
Cruz was born in Calgary,Alberta..Not even he disputes that
DeleteWell , while Rafael Cruz fooled the Hispanic population by pretending to be of Mexican origin in Texas and getting elected, Sarah that woman that can't even should a rifle couldn't get elected for dog catcher in Texas.No one votes for quitters. Rafael will have to run for something else since he will never be elected again in Texas.
ReplyDeleteBest pair? Well that can mean a lot.
ReplyDeleteLike my best pair of flipflops? lol
The best pair of my cackling hens?
But they do seem to be both anti-American, one praising anti American secessionists(yep, we've seen the video) and being married to one and then there is Rafael Cruz, the Castro Commie Sleeper Agent
If the current wave of insanity wasn't in full bloom we would call the bunch of them 'patients' in a psych ward. Delusions, no matter how political, are a serious sign of mental illness and those guided by them should be kept away where they can't harm themselves or others.
DeleteSounds like we dodged a second bullet - the first one being from Dominionista PayMe...
ReplyDeleteSo, if I understand this correctly - and thank Jeebus, I believe I do - the uber-xtian baggers aren't opposed to 'spreading the wealth around' as long it gets spread to them, as god intended?
ReplyDeleteQuelle surprise...
I think it's more of an 'upward consolidation' than a 'spreading' of wealth that they want.
DeleteBecause, after all, those folks in the 1% have much more experience taking care of all those piles of cash than the rest of us do!
Incredible. Outrageous. Old Testament kingly/priestly society? WFH? Where is Christ? These people aren't Christian. Who are they?
ReplyDeleteIf I understand, Evangelicals don't really espose that Jesus "Love" bit but rather use His name? Do they adhere more to Old Testament beliefs and philosophy? CINO??
Who are these people?
Gee, and I thought that Chuck Heath Sr. jumped in and said stupid stuff too often.
ReplyDeleteThese guys take things waaaayyyyy out of context. In the first place, a Christ follower knows that they no longer are under the rule of Old Testament Law. The following (church) are only to be concerned with the state of the hearts, not the kingdoms of this earth, nor investing in kings and queens to rule a world that causes suffering for mankind.
ReplyDeleteThese lovers of "Kingdom now" and all things "I want to be part of a righteous ruling" are totally off the path. They are a faction, a new improved pharisee, and dictators of the highest order. They would force a new world order, masquerading as representing the true savior; guess where that puts them? Jesus did say: "Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, "I am the Christ, and will deceive many".
One of the many translations (by politically sensitive translators) of old texts say that Jesus said "Take heed..."
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"King"!?! To "give the wealth to the priests"? Un-holy crap! No wonder Queen Esther loves Rafael Edward Cruz. In that photo of Rafael and Sarah, did he just ask Sarah to go to the prom with him?
ReplyDeleteRafael: "Do you want to go to the prom with me?"
Sarah: "I don't do proms but my sister has a dorm room..."
It's the ducked heads, with her eyes coyly closed, sure looks flirty to me. Smarmy.
From day one, I've called this pic their 'get a room' photo but yours seems accurate as well.
DeleteLink this everywhere.Make comments about this everywhere you go.Don't waste an opportunity to spread this information.
ReplyDeleteWell, since old Sarah was also 'anointed' at her church, I'm guessing the Cruz fantasy will also die, just a bit slower than Palin's. No way will this country ever elect some crazy fundie as POTUS, and whoever does run won't choose the Cruz sideshow either. But we have to remain vigilant, because I have no doubt there are other 'anointeds' out there just waiting for their turn. After all, the GOP and TP is trying to infiltrate local offices to groom people for the better paying, more destructive jobs in their state legislatures. Just look at the damage done to WI and MI and OH so far. These fanatics need to keep showing their true colors and hopefully even those morons who voted for them will see the truth.
ReplyDeleteA backwoods preacher in Wasilla "annointed" Palin to be president. Scary.
ReplyDelete$ Payme was annointed before she ran for national office. Fate the same for Rafael "Ted" Cruz nut?
ReplyDeleteYep, they'll end up fighting over that same hind tit once Cruz is one-and-done. I'm surprised Baldy's worshipers are so crazy over another Bushie. They just listen to her and don't think about her conflicting messages. Ignorance for them is so expensive.
DeleteLook at Ted Cruz's Linked in profile.. He is a longtime Dubya Bush butt buddy. Cruz has been hooked up and on the windnut developmental team since he was in high school.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.linkedin.com/in/cruzted
Florida Recount Team
Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign
November 2000 – December 2000 (2 months)
Helped assemble legal team, coordinate legal effort, and draft pleadings in the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts. Helped advise Secretary James A. Baker on overall legal strategy.
Because Cruz is an outsider and all that shit.
I want to know what Ted just said to her..."Can I see those Belmonts?"...or something. Looks like romance to me.
ReplyDeleteHah, I'd bet he has everything he needs for romance: he's hopelessly in love with himself!
DeleteHe is so creepy looking physically - fully dressed - that I cannot imagine what he looks like naked!!! He looks greasy, oily, hairy and dirty!
DeleteMuch like Palin - two peas from the same pod!
Evil folks!!!
I had the same reaction. He looks like a young version of "Grandpa" from "the Addamm's Family" .... Follow the grifter's eyes in that photo. Wonder what's captured her attention?
DeleteHe may be super smart, but Cruz looks like evil personified. There's no king there, Papa Cruz- just your foaming at the mouth, nasty and greedy son so COOL YOUR JETS. When he fades from public view in disgrace, you'll see we're right.
ReplyDeleteJust like that woman prophesied that Sarah Palin would be president after McCain was killed in a terrorist attack? I was a fundie years ago and they can take things to a whole new level of crazy and this is horrible! Ted Cruz the king? If that happened I'd definitely leave the country and never return.
ReplyDeleteThe 'king's anointing' is New Apostolic Reformation crap. The new age supposedly began around 2001, ushering in a time when ALL the 'believers' are king/queens AND priests just as Jesus was a king and priest.
ReplyDeleteAmong the kings/queens/priests are those with a 'special anointing' of Apostle and/or Prophet and some, like Ted and Sarah, are believed to be endowed with special gifts to elevate them to the top of the governmental mountain.
Ted's arrogant smirk likely derives from being indoctrinated since the age of 8 to believe he was chosen to protect 'freedom' in the U.S.--i.e. replace freedom with the authoritarianism and dominion of the NAR.
"are believed to be endowed with special gifts"
DeleteI've heard that among those gifts are the ability to teleport. (I'm afraid I am serious.)
Well they sure aren't endowed where it counts in their boxer shorts, or they wouldn't be so insecure that they have to repress their women folk and treat them like property.
DeleteIt's time to rescind the tax-favored status of these politicians in the pulpit. They're not spreading the gospel. The more slack that they get on their leash, the more bold they are to "be themselves". Traitors and hypocrites. All of em.
ReplyDeleteWell said!
DeleteI really don't think the real Tea Partiers thought they were signing up for a theological Monarchy. But they have been hijacked, whether or not they realize it. If that are really libertarians, then Ted and his band of idiot followers are their worst nightmare. I hope these kooks keep advertising...
ReplyDeleteMaybe Palin could be his Vice-Presidential candidate........just sayin'.........
ReplyDeleteI believe we decided to take a pass on the Monarchy thing about 240 years ago. Maybe the religious nut wing of the TP fringe didn't learn that in *their* history classes in Religiosity 101: Murica, Fuck Yeah.
ReplyDeleteJim Jones all over again.
ReplyDeleteThe GOP is looking for a few good men
DeleteNotice how the greedy bastards are focused on " the spoils of war ", Yep, real christian's there. What would Jesus say to that?
ReplyDeleteHe'd say "Fuck em and feed em fish heads".
DeleteThis is some cult shit. I'm glad they're outing themselves, because they wouldn't believe it if some poor RINO tried to tell the truth to the GOP voters.
We have five more years in the Senate of Rafael Cruz. Current obstruction: he blocked the Senate from considering nomination of Tom Wheeler to head FCC.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/opinion/ted-cruz-takes-on-the-fcc.html?_r=0
HIs bad poll numbers haven't humbled him. He led the shutdown movement that cost the country $24 billion. You would think he'd find a hole to crawl into but he's just like Palin, nothing penetrates his ego. He has no shame, no honor or integrity. Five more years ... SMH
I don't know if I can take five more years of this. We have to get people out to vote in '14!
DeleteJust like when Rev Muthee "blessed" Sarah for God to send money to her campaign to pave the way for the church to take over the government, the military, businesses and the media. Tweedle Dip and Tweedle Dumb. MicMac
ReplyDeleteSo...basically everything crazy the TEABAGGERS say about the president...but about Ted Cruz.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you'd think that someone destined to be king of a country would have been born in that country.
Ahh the uber evangelcal affilliated father of a cuban canadian believes he's a "King" in cahoots with "Priests"
ReplyDeleteDoes he know why the pilgrims came to the united states and wrote the constitution? (To get away from Kings and state religions etc etc etc....
That photo of "thumbs Up Rafael" and "cock eyed con woman" is priceless. She's checking out his "junk".... yep, he's doomed.
Wonder how much money "Jesus" took in in his lifetime how involved in politics? I'm no longer Christian, but didn't he drive the money counters from the temples? And he was relatively apolitical if I recall correctly.
Sad...from another country....crazy folks...come here and get rich by fooling tea party folks...then lie about us...Go back to your country....We were born here.....
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