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Ted Cruz Tried To Attack Liberal ‘Snowflakes’ Over Net Neutrality—It Backfired Immediately

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We haven’t heard from Ted Cruz in a while. It seems like a lifetime ago that the sad-sack, arch-conservative Texas senator and failed presidential candidate was the Internet’s whipping boy. This picture of him sadly making phone calls on behalf of the presidential campaign of Donald Trump (a man who publicly mocked both Cruz and his wife) went viral, as did the absurd urban legend that Cruz was the really the Zodiac Killer, the never-caught serial murderer who terrorized San Francisco in the late 1960s. He’s a hard guy to like.

Well, Ted Cruz is back, baby! For some reason, he thought it was a good idea to align himself with the Republican-controlled FCC’s wildly unpopular decision to repeal Net Neutrality, the rules that make the Internet an open and equal place for large and small corporations alike.

Cruz went on the hostile defensive, hurling that old chestnut of “snowflake” at the millions upon millions who dare to express the idea that the Net Neutrality repeal isn’t good.

So basically, if you don’t like the FCC’s decision, you’re a triggered liberal snowflake who is dumb and doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Unlike technology and digital communications historian Ted Cruz, apparently.

Except that people do know Internet history, and they used their computer skills to immediately savage and school Cruz on Twitter. Jimmy Kimmel Live and SNL writer Zack Bornstein led the charge.

Perhaps nobody said it better than @EoinHiggins_, who offered up a screengrab from a porno movie Cruz’s Twitter feed “liked” earlier this year (with a “loading” graphic overlaid on top).