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Ted Cruz Criticized For Tweeting Thanksgiving COVID Meme

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The Texas senator was criticized for tweeting a "war on Thanksgiving" meme while El Paso morgues were overwhelmed with bodies and thousands lined up outside a food bank in Dallas amid surging COVID cases in the state.Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was criticized over the weekend for tweeting a thoughtless Thanksgiving meme while morgues in the state overflowed with COVID victims and thousands affected by the pandemic lined up outside a food bank.Instead of addressing the rising cases in his state, Cruz on Saturday chose to tweet a "war on Thanksgiving" meme — the latest attempt by conservatives and right-wing figures to engage in a culture war over the pandemic which has .Cruz tweeted an illustration of a turkey with the words "come and take it," ostensibly daring someone to stop him from celebrating Thanksgiving.The CDC people against traveling for Thanksgiving and public health professionals have suggested limiting indoor celebrations to residents of the same household, citing an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases nationwide.This has prompted several conservative and right-wing figures to publicly reject these lifesaving measures and misrepresent them as a left-wing attempt to "cancel" Thanksgiving altogether.People immediately slammed Cruz for the tweet. Many pointed out that his tweet came two days after Texas National Guard troops were to El Paso to help morgues overwhelmed with COVID victims as hospitalizations and deaths surged in the county.Earlier this week, El Paso County officials requesting for additional morgue workers to help with the rise in people dying from COVID, prompting the county's use of jail inmates to help transport bodies of victims.Others, including Democratic Rep.-elect Cori Bush, slammed Cruz for focusing on his Thanksgiving celebrations, while ignoring thousands of Texans hard-hit by the pandemic who were waiting in an hourslong line outside a Dallas food bank last week.Some said politicians who were more interested in trolling than governing were responsible for the deaths of more than 250,000 COVID people in the US.Others just put it a little more bluntly.Your weekday morning guide to breaking news, cultural analysis, and everything in between

The Texas senator was criticized for tweeting a "war on Thanksgiving" meme while El Paso morgues were overwhelmed with bodies and thousands lined up outside a food bank in Dallas amid surging COVID cases in the state.Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was criticized over the weekend for tweeting a thoughtless Thanksgiving meme while morgues in the state overflowed with COVID victims and thousands affected by the pandemic lined up outside a food bank.Instead of addressing the rising cases in his state, Cruz on Saturday chose to tweet a "war on Thanksgiving" meme — the latest attempt by conservatives and...

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