埼玉英語会 英検１級・準１級　コミュのTed Cruz called Austin's mayor a 'hypocrite' for fleeing to Mexico during the pandemic.

Ted Cruz called Austin's mayor a 'hypocrite' for fleeing to Mexico during the pandemic. It's coming back
to bite him.

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hypocrite

COUNTABLE NOUN
If you accuse someone of being a hypocrite, you mean that they pretend to have
qualities, beliefs, or feelings that they do not really have.

The magazine wrongly suggested he was a liar and a hypocrite.

Synonyms: fraud [informal], deceiver

2
dire

ADJECTIVE [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Dire is used to emphasize how serious or terrible a situation or event is.

A government split would have dire consequences for domestic peace.

Synonyms: terrible, awful, appalling, dreadful

3
mock
If someone mocks you, they show or pretend that they think you are foolish or inferior, for example
by saying something funny about you, or by imitating your behaviour.
I thought you were mocking me.
I distinctly remember mocking the idea.
'I'm astonished, Benjamin,' she mocked.
Synonyms: laugh at, insult, tease, ridicule

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a history of calling out politicians for the exact thing he's doing now.
As his state suffered days of widespread blackouts and other dire consequences of
a deep freeze, Cruz and his family were spotted boarding a plane to Cancun
on Wednesday night. The Republican was unsurprisingly mocked for his poorly timed
travel, and after just 11 hours in Mexico, seemed to be making a U-turn for Houston.
One common subject of the anti-Cruz firestorm was the fact that just in December,
the senator had deemed Austin, Texas Mayor Steve Adler a "hypocrite" for traveling
to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and recording a video there telling Austin residents to stay home.


Ted Cruz
@tedcruz

Hypocrites. Complete and utter hypocrites. And don't forget @MayorAdler who took
a private jet with eight people to Cabo and WHILE IN CABO recorded a video telling
Austinites to "stay home if you can...this is not the time to relax."


Cruz didn't acknowledge his past callouts when issuing a statement on his travel
Thursday, instead saying he was only accompanying his daughters to Cancun
because he wanted to "be a good dad."