Ted Cruz Openly Mocked on Twitter

Senator Ted Cruz has been roundly mocked on Twitter for recently arguing that the military needs a Space Force branch to defend against pirates.  Cruz was apparently trying to suck up to Donald Trump, who had previously called for the establishment of a sixth branch of the US military, named the Space Force.

 

"Pirates threaten the open seas, and the same is possible in space," the Texas Republican said during a congressional hearing a few weeks ago.  Soon thereafter, "Space Pirates" began trending on Twitter.  Instead of letting the jokes fade away, Cruz only made the ridicule worse by trying to hit back at his critics.

 

Cruz took to Twitter, saying that he needed to swipe back at "snarky leftists" making fun of his comments.  "May Space Pirates devour your liver," he tweeted to one MSNBC journalist.

If his rebuttal was an attempt at humor, it fell flat.  The mockery and space pirates memes took off into space.