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Is Ted Cruz Just "Living the Dream"?

Posted on 03/25/2016 10:45:59 PM PDT by GLDNGUN

"People don't really change much from the ages of 17 and 18". Is this true?


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Peter Ticktin, like Donald Trump, attended New York Military Academy ("NYMA") for high school. In a recent Facebook post, Ticktin wrote:

"...in our senior year...Donald was my captain, and I was his 1st Platoon Sergeant. I sometimes joke that I ran his first company for him, Company "A."

People don't really change much from the ages of 17 and 18, and I know this guy. I know him to be a good decent guy. We lived and breathed an Honor Code in those years. It wasn't just a rule. It was our way of life. Neither Donald, nor any other cadet who graduated with us would ever lie, cheat, or steal from a fellow cadet. These values became irreversibly intertwined in the fabric of our personalities, of who we are.

Of the 99 guys (no girls in those days) in our class, there is not one who I know who has a bad word to say about Donald Trump. Think of it. With all the jealousies which arise in high school and thereafter, with all the potential envy, not one of us has anything other than positive memories of this man. How could we? He was an "A" student, a top athlete, and as a leader, he was highly respected. We never feared him, yet we never wanted to disappoint him. He had our respect.

https://www.facebook.com/Peter.Ticktin/posts/10205751789135961

What was Ted Cruz up to when he was 18? See for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt-vG_TdOT4

The video shows Cruz as a high school graduate in 1988, listing what his future aspirations are - Money, Power, Sex.

“Aspirations? Is that like sweat on my butt?” Cruz said. “No, no, what you want me to do, what I want to do in life. Well my aspiration is to oh I don’t know be in a teen tit film like they guy who played Horatio, he was in Malibu Bikini Beach Shop.”

“Well other than that take over the world, world domination, you know rule everything...rich, powerful, that sort of stuff.”

Those comments show an open lust of money, power and sex. Were those just meaningless words of an immature teen who grew up and grew out of those ambitions? Or is Trump's friend correct, and you really don't change much from that age in regards to things like your character and values?

If you examine Ted's words and deeds as an adult, do you see those same ambitions - Money, Power, Sex - guiding him?
1 posted on 03/25/2016 10:46:00 PM PDT by GLDNGUN
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To: GLDNGUN

I think tonight Ted is learning that if you want to give the Lord a really good laugh, just tell Him your plans.


2 posted on 03/25/2016 10:49:24 PM PDT by datura (cheaTed)
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To: GLDNGUN

I heard Trump battled ferociously in Vietnam...no...wait..

So if you’re a draft dodger around that age, is that what you are the rest of your life?


3 posted on 03/25/2016 10:50:26 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: GLDNGUN

At least he was honest back then. I guess.


4 posted on 03/25/2016 10:52:00 PM PDT by RC one
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To: GLDNGUN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt-vG_TdOT4

I like the first youtube comment:

Oh look he was a prick back then too...


5 posted on 03/25/2016 10:54:32 PM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: GLDNGUN

I’m unfortunately 48 now.
I’d like to believe and i do feel like i am basically the same person i was when i was 18....except when i look in the mirror, which i try to avoid...

Ted was a overly ambitious nutjob narcissist when he was a freshman at Princeton and i believe he is still the same human empathy lacking narcissistic sociopathic lying nutjob today.
i believe that Ted Cruz would be an absolute NIGHTMARE as President of the United States.


6 posted on 03/25/2016 10:55:08 PM PDT by mowowie (`)
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To: GLDNGUN
People don't really change much from the ages of 17 and 18, and I know this guy. I know him to be a good decent guy. We lived and breathed an Honor Code in those years. It wasn't just a rule. It was our way of life. Neither Donald, nor any other cadet who graduated with us would ever lie, cheat, or steal from a fellow cadet. These values became irreversibly intertwined in the fabric of our personalities, of who we are.

Maybe Donald wouldn't lie to, steal from or cheat a fellow cadet, but unfortunately for the rest of us, we ain't his fellow cadets. Thus, there's no shortage of non-cadet folks who have been treated less than honorably by Trump... including but not limited to ex-wives, lenders, investors, business partners and Trump University attendees.

As to your point about Cruz... Seriously, man? How many of us want to be held to account for every stupid remark we made when we were 17?
7 posted on 03/25/2016 10:56:49 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: mowowie
i believe that Ted Cruz would be an absolute NIGHTMARE as President of the United States.

not to worry, never happen.


8 posted on 03/25/2016 10:57:09 PM PDT by 867V309 (It's over. It's over now.)
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To: mowowie

Whatever you do, don’t turn sideways and look at the mirror.

(don’t ask me how I know)


9 posted on 03/25/2016 10:57:59 PM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: dp0622

You seem to be vacillating lately.


10 posted on 03/25/2016 11:01:04 PM PDT by sargon (Go, Trump, Go!)
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To: dp0622

What you are for the rest of your life is alive.

America seems to like to engage in stupid wars for the purpose of losing.

Would you give your life for that?

All the people who went over seas after 9/11/2001, what did they win? What were their lives and limbs traded for?


11 posted on 03/25/2016 11:01:47 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: bramps

Oh man......


12 posted on 03/25/2016 11:03:12 PM PDT by mowowie (`)
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To: dp0622
So if you’re a draft dodger around that age, is that what you are the rest of your life?

What branch did cruz serve in? Where was he during Desert Storm? Or how about you for that matter?
13 posted on 03/25/2016 11:11:16 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - He's creepy and he's kooky, mysterious and spooky)
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Considering how many people Trump deals with; it is quite amazing how few of his actual acquaintances have anything negative to say about him. Considering how few people claim to have been friends of Ted Cruz... it is quite amazing how many actual acquaintances have made dire warnings about him becoming president.

Considering the crap now in the pipeline and Ted’s irrational behavior the last couple of days, I would say that Ted has had a complete melt down. This is the type of thing that the GOPe have hoped would happen to Trump, but once again they have misread the situation.


14 posted on 03/25/2016 11:11:48 PM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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So if you’re a draft dodger around that age, is that what you are the rest of your life...

You need to get a life... just because one chose not to go to war does not make them a draft dodger. If that is the case, then Jesus was also a draft dodger as he refused to join the rebellion against the Roman empire and so the Israelites chose the war monger over the peace maker. How’d that work out for them?

15 posted on 03/25/2016 11:14:03 PM PDT by patlin ("Knowledgee chosen to participate inthat is - 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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Ted is a by-product of his father’s preaching...the narcissist didn’t fall from the narcissistic tree that produced him


16 posted on 03/25/2016 11:16:17 PM PDT by patlin ("Knowledgee chosen to participate inthat is - 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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To: fireman15
Considering how many people Trump deals with; it is quite amazing how few of his actual acquaintances have anything negative to say about him.

We see what we want to see. There have been hundreds of stories of acquaintances with negative things to say about him.
17 posted on 03/25/2016 11:16:22 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: fireman15

Good post


18 posted on 03/25/2016 11:18:29 PM PDT by mowowie (`)
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To: GLDNGUN
I've been trying and trying to keep my feelings about Ted to the 'aspergers/autism' spectrum rather than the leaning sociopath spectrum, but I find myself feeling like I'm making excuses.

No, people don't change from that unless they've undergone a fundamental transformation that transcends the experience of most people.

If Ted has not gone through a fundamental transformation, then this explains why he seems so disconnected when he speaks - like he's reading from a script in his head. It's because he is.

People can be like this and not be intentionally evil. Obama is this way too. It's not that there is a presence of evil, it's that what we would call 'good' ... i.e. a connection to humanity ... is simply not present.

What's left is just a robot with thought and desire. With no connection to other humans, I too would only want those things.

There is no way to prove that Cruz is this way, but as I was pointing out to JediTediJones earlier, this is not a court of law where a negative judgment takes away a man's rights and puts him in prison - where 'beyond a reasonable doubt' is the standard. It's not even 'preponderance of the evidence' as in a civil case where we would take something from him that is his and award it to another. This is a character judgment - the kind you make when you leave your kids with a babysitter - and if Cruz can't communicate that he's anything different, then even if he is different - even if he is 'connected and good,' it's on him if people see him as spooky, smarmy, arrogant and basically just another version of Jimmy Swaggart / Glen Beck.

The thing is, he speaks like a slimy preacher. Why don't the Cruz supporters pick up on that? Even if they just notice it and register it as i'm sure all Trump supporters notice and register his oddities and risks?

Are there any Cruz supporters out there who can say anything negative about Ted? I'll readily admit that Trump's ego is a risk, that he bends rules, that there are things he's not fully thought through ... yet. You don't go into the presidency prepared for it, perfect for it.

But this story may be a final nail in Cruz's coffin for me ... given that this is not a criminal case nor a civil case, but a choice about whether I want to leave my kids with a certain baby sitter or not. No F'ing way at this point does that guy touch my country.

19 posted on 03/25/2016 11:24:11 PM PDT by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: GLDNGUN

and yet a 70 year old lifelong liberal can change in the past 10 months...


20 posted on 03/25/2016 11:31:25 PM PDT by kik5150 (Cruz argued 9 times before Supreme Court judges. Trump argues with beauty pageant judges.)
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