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Try reading the following posts.

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Or Google. Typing “?” and hitting the “SUBMIT YOUR REPLY” took longer.

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Cruz liked a porn vid on twiitter. I suppose it is possible his account was hacked. I have to say if it wasn’t, he is really stupid. Anyone with any brains would have to realize it would get out to the media. In searching for this, I found out was behind a ban in Texas on sex toys. Why the heck would a state need to ban sex toys? Surely there more important things going on in Texas at the time than when whether or the state should ban sex toys. Stupid. Just stupid.

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I’d say it was a rogue staffer.

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DominicCobb said:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sen-ted-cruz-likes-porn-video-twitter-article-1.3488752

This whole article is hilarious. I especially love this paragraph, which I’m still trying to wrap my head around:

As a fledgling law clerk, Cruz said he once searched for hardcore pornography using the term “cantaloupe” alongside retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor — for work, he said. The evangelical Christian divulged his bizarre work duties alongside his wife, Heidi Cruz, and their two daughters during a CNN town hall in April 2016.

what the heck possible work reason would there be to search for hardcore porn using the term “cantaloupe” and retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s name?

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Warbler said:

DominicCobb said:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sen-ted-cruz-likes-porn-video-twitter-article-1.3488752

This whole article is hilarious. I especially love this paragraph, which I’m still trying to wrap my head around:

As a fledgling law clerk, Cruz said he once searched for hardcore pornography using the term “cantaloupe” alongside retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor — for work, he said. The evangelical Christian divulged his bizarre work duties alongside his wife, Heidi Cruz, and their two daughters during a CNN town hall in April 2016.

what the heck possible work reason would there be to search for hardcore porn using the term “cantaloupe” and retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s name?

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yhwx said:

I’d say it was a rogue staffer.

If that is the case, maybe Cruz should be more careful who he gives access to his twitter account to.

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Warbler said:

yhwx said:

I’d say it was a rogue staffer.

If that is the case, maybe Cruz should be more careful who he gives access to his twitter account to.

Your wit never fails to impress me.

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Warbler said:

yhwx said:

I’d say it was a rogue staffer.

If that is the case, maybe Cruz should be more careful who he gives access to his twitter account to.

It’s not like he gives his account to somebody. Politicians are old and don’t have time for Twitter. They let their staff handle it. I don’t think Ted Cruz had control over the hiring of this hypothetical staffer.

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Possessed said:

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

I’d say it was a rogue staffer.

If that is the case, maybe Cruz should be more careful who he gives access to his twitter account to.

Your wit never fails to impress me.

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Warbler said:

Possessed said:

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

I’d say it was a rogue staffer.

If that is the case, maybe Cruz should be more careful who he gives access to his twitter account to.

Your wit never fails to impress me.

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What you said was obvious.

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yhwx said:

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

I’d say it was a rogue staffer.

If that is the case, maybe Cruz should be more careful who he gives access to his twitter account to.

It’s not like he gives his account to somebody. Politicians are old and don’t have time for Twitter. They let their staff handle it. I don’t think Ted Cruz had control over the hiring of this hypothetical staffer.

I am not talking about the hiring of the staffer, I am talking about giving the staffer access to his twitter account. A politician should be very careful when giving his/her username and password to things like twitter accounts.

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Warbler said:

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

I’d say it was a rogue staffer.

If that is the case, maybe Cruz should be more careful who he gives access to his twitter account to.

It’s not like he gives his account to somebody. Politicians are old and don’t have time for Twitter. They let their staff handle it. I don’t think Ted Cruz had control over the hiring of this hypothetical staffer.

I am not talking about the hiring of the staffer, I am talking about giving the staffer access to his twitter account. A politician should be very careful when giving his/her username and password to things like twitter accounts.

I don’t think Ted Cruz had control of that.

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What are you talking about? It it his account, and he was the staffer’s employer. Of course he had control of that.

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Warbler said:

What are you talking about? It it his account, and he was the staffer’s employer. Of course he had control of that.

I don’t know if this is the case here, but in at least a few cases, a political person with staff does not create social media accounts, post anything to them, write speeches or press releases, or read or respond to e-mails. And while they may theoretically have some sort of editorial veto over content associated with their name, it’s logistically impossible for them to review everything. Hell, they don’t even read the legislation they vote on. Trump is fairly unique in that he writes his own covfefe.

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The account has his name on it. It is his account.

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Warbler said:

The account has his name on it. It is his account.

Sure. And it’s his face on the billboard, and so on. When your name and face are regularly handed off to others to create a message to associate with it, sometimes the best you can do is pull the offending material after-the-fact and presumably identify/deal with the person who created it. If you consider Twitter passwords to be sacrosanct things only to be given to people with the highest vetted clearance, you would be (perhaps properly) horrified by how it works every day in much of the world, where the intern gets handed it on day 1.

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I think that if Cruz were hacked, or was intentionally made to look bad by a staffer, it would’ve been taken further; namely a retweet, or even a creepy reply. I’m leaning towards it being real. Maybe Cruz was looking at it, or maybe a staffer was using his account to look at it. I just think it’s funny that this was the “family values” candidate.

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Staffing issue my ass. They’ll be saying they were doing “research” next.

If it was a hack, it’s a disturbing thought. What happens if somebody used Trumpy’s twitter account to declare war on North Korea? That might be a little hard to walk back.

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Warbler said:

The account has his name on it. It is his account.

Sure. And it’s his face on the billboard, and so on. When your name and face are regularly handed off to others to create a message to associate with it, sometimes the best you can do is pull the offending material after-the-fact and presumably identify/deal with the person who created it. If you consider Twitter passwords to be sacrosanct things only to be given to people with the highest vetted clearance, you would be (perhaps properly) horrified by how it works every day in much of the world, where the intern gets handed it on day 1.

If it is the case that any new intern gets handed the password on day 1, I would suggest changing the name of the twitter account. Maybe change it to “Ted Cruz campaign” or “The Office of Ted Cruz” or “Ted Cruz INC” or “The Staff of Ted Cruz”. Something that indicate it is a twitter account belonging to his group(what it is called), and not his own private twitter account.

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SilverWook said:

Staffing issue my ass. They’ll be saying they were doing “research” next.

If it was a hack, it’s a disturbing thought. What happens if somebody used Trumpy’s twitter account to declare war on North Korea? That might be a little hard to walk back.

Yes, what if the the hacker twitted “fire the nukes!”? That is quite disturbing.

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I highly doubt it was a hacker. If so, they would have done something more obvious than liking a video.

It was either a staffer or the man himself. And yes, warb. Staffers use politicians accounts all the time, in general more often than the actual politicians do.