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Serious question: Does Ted Cruz have any original thoughts? He quotes movies a very weird amount for an adult man who is ostensibly supposed to be making laws. (thread) https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1356378635779911680
Remember how he quoted The Princess Bride so much that @PatinkinMandy told him to knock it off? (& then, years later, the cast of the film reunited for a table read to raise money for @WisDems) https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2015/12/15/mandy-patinkin-ted-cruz-stop-quoting-the-princess-bride/77364692/
And when he totally misinterpreted The Simpsons to make a weird point at CPAC? https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/02/ted-cruz-simpsons-republicans-democrats-party-of-lisa
And then when he kinda halfway stood up for his wife after Donald Trump called her ugly-- he simply lifted a line from The American President, which he didn't even quote accurately. That movie was 20 years old when he did this in 2015 
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And when he was still fucking the "~rAdIcAL IsLaMiC tErRoR~" chicken during his failed presidential campaign, he kinda misquoted The Usual Suspects https://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-foreign-policy-speech-radical-islamic-terrorism-403699
And then before the Georgia Senate runoffs, Ted Cruz did a two-bit Bill Pullman impression https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1345754541560573954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1345754541560573954%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kvue.com%2Farticle%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ftexas%2Fnew-political-action-committee-calls-on-sen-ted-cruz-donors-to-ask-for-refunds%2F269-600ab71e-fd00-4841-891c-3236e640a629
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1345754541560573954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1345754541560573954%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kvue.com%2Farticle%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ftexas%2Fnew-political-action-committee-calls-on-sen-ted-cruz-donors-to-ask-for-refunds%2F269-600ab71e-fd00-4841-891c-3236e640a629
... which may itself have been a two-big impression of an altered video that Trump tweeted out back before he was banned from Twitter (that made the real Bill Pullman mad) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-pullman-responds-donald-trumps-altered-independence-day-clip-1294926
Just a strange amount of not-quite-correct movie and TV quoting from an adult man who isn't a professional critic and who in fact almost always takes the wrong lessons from things. It's not cool and relatable, it's deeply weird. The end.
Alan found another one: https://twitter.com/alanzilberman/status/1356404553361592320?s=20
And @catherinetinker reminded me that once, Ted Cruz tried to explain Star Wars to Mark motherfucking Hamill https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/942475067224571904?s=20
