{"id":533260,"date":"2021-05-21T11:20:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=533260"},"modified":"2021-05-21T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:20:23","slug":"tammy-duckworth-takes-aim-at-ted-cruz-over-his-emasculated-military-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tammy-duckworth-takes-aim-at-ted-cruz-over-his-emasculated-military-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tammy Duckworth Takes Aim At Ted Cruz Over His \u2018Emasculated Military\u2019 Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftammy-duckworth-takes-aim-at-ted-cruz-over-his-emasculated-military-comment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=533260&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-21-at-9.52.36-AM-e1621608930871.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth went after Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over his claim that the United States military was being emasculated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoly crap,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/13\/whoopi-goldberg-demands-tucker-carlson-apologize-tammy-duckworth-coward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duckworth<\/a> tweeted Thursday evening. \u201cPerhaps a U.S. Senator shouldn\u2019t suggest that the *Russian* military is better than the American military that protected him from an insurrection he helped foment?\u201d<strong> <a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/24\/meghan-mccain-tammy-duckworth-playing-into-gop-hands\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Nothing Mitch McConnell Loves More\u2019: Meghan McCain Says Tammy Duckworth Is Playing Into GOP\u2019s Hands)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.7450199203187\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Holy crap.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a U.S. Senator shouldn\u2019t suggest that the *Russian* military is better than the American military that protected him from an insurrection he helped foment? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ja3P78wnrv\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ja3P78wnrv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tammy Duckworth (@TammyDuckworth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TammyDuckworth\/status\/1395523155477860353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/20\/ted-cruz-us-army-russia-woke-emasculated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cruz<\/a> had tweeted his comment hours earlier, saying, \u201cHoly crap.&nbsp;Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.6315789473684\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Holy crap.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea\u2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8aVFMW98NM\">https:\/\/t.co\/8aVFMW98NM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1395394254969753601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Texas senator was responding to a video that compared recruitment videos for the Russian Army and the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/12\/tucker-carlson-was-right-military-intentional-perversion-his-point-endangers-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States Army<\/a> side by side.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.1047619047619\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Russian army ad vs US army ad<br \/>2021<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tGQeY3dJa6\">pic.twitter.com\/tGQeY3dJa6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pardes Seleh (@PardesSeleh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PardesSeleh\/status\/1395093475230724103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And Cruz was hardly alone in his response to the comparison.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.7311827956989\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pick your fighter???? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/12wSotyDKA\">pic.twitter.com\/12wSotyDKA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pardes Seleh (@PardesSeleh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PardesSeleh\/status\/1395100555555577861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.4311926605505\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wow. America has been conquered ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nfieyUYSYH\">https:\/\/t.co\/nfieyUYSYH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Melissa Tate (@TheRightMelissa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRightMelissa\/status\/1395551139114979328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.4390243902439\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are screwed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ntZGnr7TX9\">https:\/\/t.co\/ntZGnr7TX9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM &amp; TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yesnicksearcy\/status\/1395460659513462785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.8947368421053\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Remember how I told you how weak we are? Please watch. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HdBgfC9NVA\">https:\/\/t.co\/HdBgfC9NVA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barrington Martin II (@_BarringtonII) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_BarringtonII\/status\/1395229585411919873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are going to be the most tolerant military in history ever to lose a war <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3WKmHbGdjl\">https:\/\/t.co\/3WKmHbGdjl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Noonan (@noonanjo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noonanjo\/status\/1395196423017205766?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth went after Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over his claim that the United States military was being emasculated.\u201cHoly crap,\u201d Duckworth tweeted Thursday evening. \u201cPerhaps a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312582,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-21-at-9.52.36-AM-e1621608930871.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Tammy Duckworth Takes Aim At Ted Cruz Over His \u2018Emasculated Military\u2019 Comment","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-21-at-9.52.36-AM-e1621608930871.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Tammy Duckworth Takes Aim At Ted Cruz Over His \u2018Emasculated Military\u2019 Comment","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}