Tag Archives: Ted Cruz

FACEBOOK CONNECTS FRIENDS AND FAMILY, BUT ALSO DIVIDES THEM

December 11, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – Social media is supposed to connect you up with friends and family and create a loving and supportive network through the Internet. But alas, Facebook also divides and separates friends and family, especially when it comes to politics.

Ever wondered who among your Facebook friends like Donald Trump, or Ted Cruz, or Bernie Sanders, or Hillary Clinton? Hell, even George Bush or Dick Cheney?

If you are Filipino, do you know who among your friends support which presidential candidate: Mar Roxas, Rodrigo Duterte, Grace Poe, Jejomar Binay or Miriam Defensor-Santiago?

Easy. Thanks to Facebook’s brilliant algorithms and database.

All you need to do is log on to your Facebook account, and in the search box, type in: “My Facebook friends who like (fill in the blanks).” The results may or may not surprise you, but we know of netizens who have unfriended people because of what their search revealed.

Technology has its ups, but also downs. And politics can be divisive.

Politics

CARLY FIORINA’S $500,000 AFFAIR WITH TED CRUZ

September 29, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

WASHINGTON D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles®) – Politics is not politics without scandals. This scandal is about what appears to be a short-lived affair between Carly Fiorina and Ted Cruz, Republican presidential candidates both.

No, it’s not what you’re thinking. No romance is involved — at least none that we know of.

Rather, it is an unusual $500,000 donation made by one of Cruz’s super PACs to Fiorina’s campaign.

Even the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has no clue on why the donation was made by Cruz to a rival candidate. The super PAC was vague about the donation, describing it on its FEC filing as “other disbursement.” So, the FEC sent a letter to the super PAC asking for a statement or description of the disbursement.

Many questions remain unanswered. Does the donation mean that Cruz, if chosen the party’s nominee for president, will pick Fiorina for his vice presidential running mate? But what about if Fiorina wins the nomination? Will Cruz ask for a payback by being named Fiorina’s VP?

But then again, it might just be a gentlemanly gesture by Cruz in appreciation for the efforts of the lone woman candidate in a field of 37 Republican presidential candidates. Chivalry may, after all, still be alive.

Law Enforcement, Politics

DONALD TRUMP WANTS TED CRUZ DEPORTED

August 16, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – If elected president of the United States, Republican candidate Donald Trump says he will deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants now living in the country. And he wants to do more.

He says he will seek to change the 14th Amendment that gives citizenship rights to all individuals born in the United States, including children of parents who are here illegally.

But Trump will not wait to become president to wage his war against non-citizens. He says he will ask the Department of Homeland Security to deport Ted Cruz, another Republican presidential candidate. Cruz was born in Canada.

“Ted Cruz has such a nerve to run for president when he is not even a natural-born citizen,” Trump said. “At least Barack Obama was able to show his birth certificate evidencing that he was born in America. But it is an open book that Cruz was not born in this country.”

Trump made the comments during today’s ‘Meet the Press’ on NBC, where he outlined details of his immigration policy.