Seth Rogen, Ted Cruz Escalate Twitter Fight After Senator Calls Actor “Marxist With Tourette’s”

January 25, 2021, 9:12 am

If you stayed off Twitter over the weekend, you may have missed the latest tweetstorm between Seth Rogen and Senator Ted Cruz.

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Rogen has rarely been one to hold back from letting right-wing politicians know what he thinks of them, and if anything, the insurrection at the Capitol has only made him ready to call out any of those who attempted to undermine our democracy.

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And while that has extended to quite a few politicians at this point, Cruz is the genius who decided to get into a Twitter war with the actor — one that’s really not making him look too great.

It started out with this idiotic tweet from Cruz claiming that President Biden’s decision to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement has something to do with the citizens of Paris:

It didn’t take long for Cruz to resort to one of the GOP’s favorite lies, which is that the Democrat party is for Hollywood elites and that Republicans are the ones out there supporting blue-collar workers.

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“Go encourage a white supremacist insurrection again you f—king clown,” Rogen tweeted in response, also reminding Cruz that he — like many people in Hollywood — is a union member.

Haha get fucked fascist. Go encourage a white supremacist insurrection again you fucking clown.

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) January 21, 2021

Dems = Unions, Healthcare and the working class.

GOP = Wall Street, anti-union / labor. That’s their other Big Lie. They work for the 1% not the 99%! But you can’t get elected by just the 1%.

— Mark Kolpack (@MarkKolpack) January 21, 2021

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The back-and-forth continued:

Everyone who made that film would hate you.

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) January 22, 2021

As someone who has Tourette’s in their family (and also has a very mild case himself), I once again take great pleasure in telling you to go fuck yourself. (Also VERY few cases of Tourette’s manifest in uncontrollable swearing. Most cases, like mine, manifest in twitching.) https://t.co/NJaEjMfNJt

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) January 24, 2021

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If you’re a white supremacist fascist who doesn’t find it offensive when someone calls your wife ugly, Ted Cruz is the exact motherfucker for you. https://t.co/w4zdynI2V9

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) January 21, 2021

And, as of this moment, it has culminated here:

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This isn’t a Twitter “feud.” @tedcruz tried to overthrow our government. He inspired a deadly mob to storm the Capitol. And I think that deserves ridicule. So fuck him.

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) January 24, 2021

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The whole thing got so out of hand that Cruz supporters tried to get #SethRoganLovesTedCruz trending over the weekend (and yes, they did spell his name wrong).

Meanwhile people on the same page as Rogen came after Cruz with actual information regarding why people are so angry with him right now.

Why does he keep this fight going with Seth Rogen even though he’s getting destroyed at every turn? Because he’s guilty of sedition. He’s hoping distraction & time diminish the urgency of accountability. Don’t let him change the channel or the subject, it is sedition every time.

— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) January 24, 2021

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Hi, @tedcruz is desperate to pick a fight with @Sethrogen so everyone talks about that and not the fact that he made a bad-faith attempt to overthrow a fair election in order to cynically grab Trump’s base and run for President in 2024. Let’s focus on the latter.

— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) January 24, 2021

Your words and actions led directly to the death of a cop in our nation’s Capitol. We’re never going to forget that, traitor.

— Bob Roth (@automaticgravy) January 24, 2021

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Mr. Senator, as @sethrogen’s non-threatening buddy, perhaps I can translate “fascist” into more charming and civil terms.

Your support of the former President’s attempts to baselessly overturn a democratic election is reminiscent of supporters of Hitler, Mussolini, and others. https://t.co/6hWkj9SKEa

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt (@hitRECordJoe) January 22, 2021

We are witnessing the largest under-reaction to a violent insurrection lead by a sitting president in the history of humankind and it’s because the Republican Party/trump are experts at one thing: Denying the premise of reality and convincing people anti-government is government.

— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) January 24, 2021

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As a Texan that has tried to contact @tedcruz office FOR YEARS, you’re right. Can’t even leave a message, let alone speak to a living person. If you send a letter, the responses are so freaking patronizing or condescending.

— Alyssa #waiting for an Epiphany Stebbing (@unapobrecita) January 24, 2021

Cruz may be trying to shift the narrative surrounding him to something more innocuous — like a Twitter “feud” — but the insistence of Rogen and others to keep the pressure on and keep calling him out for his involvement in the attack on democracy will hopefully make Cruz’s transparent game fail. 

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*First Published: January 25, 2021, 9:12 am