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Ted Cruz, Hispanic-American and United States Senator, is one hell of a guy.
Known for his fierce resistance to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (also known as Obamacare), he has decided to run for President in the 2016 election.
Only one problem.
He doesn’t own his name.
Let’s take a step back in time. Way back in 2008 there was a lowly real estate agent who decided to take his destiny into his own hands. He bought www.tedcruz.com and built this website:
Well, “real estate Ted Cruz” must have gone out of business, because after a few years his domain went dark. Then, sometime around the end of 2014 something interesting happened.
Some joker caught wind of Ted Cruz the Senator’s upcoming bid for President. And this joker did a very smart thing. He bought up www.tedcruz.com and planted a pro-Obama message on it.
What can the real Ted Cruz do? Nothing. He is now helpless to control the conversation around him. You might think that page doesn’t get much traffic, but from where I’m looking, it’s firmly on the 2nd page of Google.
Plenty of voters tend to be older people. They didn’t grow up with the internet. And like it or not, they tend to add a .com automatically to whatever they’re looking for.
Say, something like “Ted Cruz .com.”
Nowadays politicians know that much of their fundraising and campaigning is done online. So what is Ted Cruz going to do? He’s going to ignore this problem as long as he can, and then he’s going to settle with the domain owner. For a hefty payout.
All because he made the mistake of not owning his name online.
This is not a dumb man either. Cruz graduated as valedictorian of his high school in Houston. He graduated cum laude from Princeton. He won the US National Speaker of the Year award and went on to compete in the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship.
He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and his professor claimed him to be, “off-the-charts brilliant.” But he was very obviously un-brilliant about managing his professional reputation online.
Now what’s the lesson in here for you?
You might not decide to be famous today. But what about tomorrow?
- Maybe you’ll want to own a brick-and-mortar business.
- Maybe you’ll want your friends and family to easily get in touch with you.
- Maybe you just want to safeguard yourself from bullies and domain squatters who can harm your reputation.
A smart man should own his name. If your domain’s still available (and nobody’s decided to take it yet), you can grab it for free from BADNET.
If your domain’s not available, you might have to pay for it out of pocket, but do what you can to get ahold of it. You never know how important it may be.
Ted Cruz can still buy this domain name if the website owner agrees. He certainly has the cash to do so. But can you afford that mistake?
Owning a domain name is cheap. You can grab one for free if you sign up for web hosting at BADNET.
But not owning one? That can do some damage.
Do you own your name?
The only mistake you made was posting this article.
Every smart man with common sense knows that all politicians are corrupt that there is no such thing as a democracy. Grow up. Nobody cares about politicians because they do not care about the people. They are all public sector leeches- suck on tax money while destroying more jobs.
^ What he said. ^
Yup.
http://henrymakow.com/2015/03/cypto-jew-ted-cruz.html
The article makes a good point, but you ignore the topic to do some holier-than-thou posturing instead. It is not about Ted Cruz’ loyalties, it is about domain names.
WRONG!
What he can do is to take a leaf out of the SJW handbook…..
Hit that SERVER…..and HIT IT HARD!
If you can hack into it fine…otherwise DOS attack day and night…24/7….fairly easy to do.
If people want to play dirty then they should expect that we will play dirty also….take No prisoners!
For a long time I couldn’t understand why politicians – both on the left and right – seemed so incredibly stupid. These people went to Ivy League schools and got millions of people to vote for them. Surely they’re no dummies, right?
Then I realized: They are *selected* to be idiots. The big corporations who select and groom them very early on – in local district elections where the most important factor for success is campaign money – choose idiots who will toe the line, shut up, and wag their tail gleefully for a bit of the corporate dollar.
There is no democracy in America. Congressmen and senators and governors are front men for the people who really hold the power – people are unelected, stay ‘in office’ for as long as they want, and give zero fucks for the concerns of the average person. The country’s politics change according to the whims of these powers. One day they feel like not enough people are giving insurance providers money, so they start a ‘Yes We Can’ campaign and get Obama into power. Another day they decide their interests are best served with a republican senate, so they start a ‘Thanks Obama’ campaign and get a republican senate. What’s sad is how gullible and easily influenced people are. Americans get blown with the winds of political change like feathers.
What’s sad is the amount of people who fall for these tricks.
Probably not idiots in the classical sense. But these people do live in a bubble & move around in different social circles. Being highly educated (indoctrinated) doesn’t necessarily lead to acquisition of street smarts.
To them street smarts are bulletproof glass, armor panels in the doors and panels, run-flat tires and bodyguards packing Uzis and MP5s.
They’re not idiots, they’re just working for themselves, not you. That’s why all their actions make no sense to the common man.
They’re idiots in the technical sense of lacking intelligence. Don’t get me wrong, they’re not mental disorder-level dumb, they’re picked to be just smart enough to carry out their job while being too dumb to ask questions and outsmart their masters.
Romney’s “47%” (a generous underestimate) will vote for “more free cheese…or whatever.” The politicians who make the most convincing promises to take from the “haves” (other people) and give some of it to the “have nots” (the “47%”) will get the votes every time. The greatest opposition to “Obamacare” is from the mass of people who want it for free.
Rust, the reason democracies tend to be dysfunctional is because the elite classes succeed in keeping the people in ignorance, and because ignorant people are easily manipulated by campaign ads and other cheap tactics, the elite can easily buy elections.
Thus, what we must do as patriots and supporters of the old West (ie tradition, familial structure, etc) is not reject democracy, but rather be active in informing and rallying our fellow citizens to stand against the elite classes.
Though it is a bit early, it seems that the Democrats are going for Hillary, and the establishment Republicans for Jeb Bush. Senator Ted Cruz is a non-establishment, Tea Party type candidate who is a great choice (in my opion, the best choice) for president for the following reasons:
(1) He opposes the leftist push for cultural appropriation via the current unrestricted immigration.
(2) He supports a significant reduction in the welfare state, which would both increase the incentive for people to work and reduce the redistribution of wealth from men to women.
(3) He is a supporter of liberty, both economic liberty (free trade) and personal liberty (limiting the NSA, etc).
(4) He supports congressional action to limit the fed, which has used its power over the money supply to create a series of bubbles which have benefited large institutional investors and stolen money from average Americans.
I have followed Cruz for quite a while, and I can think of no current politician who I admire more than him. Here is a quick research digest of his stance on various issues:
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/24/8280817/ted-cruz-issues
We’re not ignorant. We’re thieves who prefer to vote for people who will hire people to take from others and give to us. It’s safer that way.
That is no doubt a significant factor, but I feel that the majority of political dysfunction in America is the result of the ignorance of the people, and their indoctrination via the leftist-controlled education system.
These corporations know the 2 important rules:
1- “It is easier to be the master than the puppet.” No one sees the master, just the puppet on the strings.
2- “He who has the gold, makes the rules”- Enough said
Democracy has never existed. The famed Greek democratic city-states were half slaves, who did not vote. Over half of the free citizens were women, who did not vote. Half or more of rhe males were children, who did not vote. Of the free adult males only a small number met the property qualification. They were the electors, and not all of them.
Its not easy to “own” your own name. You have to buy all the variations, nicknames, misspellings, .com .net .us .org
Its child’s play to spoof another person on the internet.
Solution?
“TheREALtedcruz.com”
or
“Theofficialtedcruz.com”
or
“tedcruzforpresident.com”
The solution isn’t that difficult. If a resourceful lib doofus is all he has to deal with he will be well on his way to becoming president.
He could do what the Clintons would most likely do in a case such as this – have the domain owner assassinated.
Also, what’s the real harm here? And I say this with full awareness that a solid 97% of the electorate is too stupid to vote. Is there really anyone so fuck-all stupid that they’re going to go to tedcruz.com, see the Obama sticker, and that’s where it ends? Are even the people that are at the extreme stupid end of the republican spectrum really going to say, “gee, I was going to vote for Cruz, cause I loves me some ‘Murica, but now I guess I’ll vote for Obama?” Answer – No. And any miniscule votes he loses to this will be made up for by the republican who’ll pull the same troll routine on Clinton.
So far the ROK posts today have been pretty lame. Yesterday’s posts were solid.
Anyone that needed to (or that I wanted to) to get in touch with me would already have my phone number. I don’t need my own personal website
225 dollars PER POST! Roosh is rolling in the money for these garbage posts. Stop clicking them.
Source:
My clicking on an article like this and skim reading it takes 3 minutes of my life. It costs me nothing but if it can help give some $ to Roosh and ROK, I am happy to do that. I also send a monthly donation to ROK because I appreciate the website and the culture it promotes.
Things cost money bro.
The sponsored posts are obviously here to make the site function. Once overhead is covered ROK can focus on development and quality journalism.
Yes, but they are still on the fucking front page and mostly worthless.
Typical leftist argument: Someone is making money therefore their message is discredited.
Bro, grow up. If you got beef with his ideas that assail the ideas and not the fact that he is earning a living off his labour. You sound like a frustrated person who has nothing going on in his life and worried that the money you saved is not enough for retirement.
Your post sounds like resentment over some issue in your own life.
/leftist snot look on face
You mean…GASP!…this blog is supported by ads? WHO ELSE DOES THAT? HRPMMM?
225 dollars for a sponsored post… I really doubt this article was sponsored.
Scumbag sheister opportunists buy up names.
If Ted Cruz truly is “off the charts brilliant” then why are his opinions so ill-conceived?
…and stop tagging roosh for running sponsored ads. Nobody forces you to read it!
An easy way to possibly make some quick money too
omg..maybe this would matter if this were 1996. nowadays everyone uses twitter and facebook
Who gives a flying fuck about Ted Cruz?
Yeah, yeah, I’ll buy jameschristian.com. So what?
I do own my_name.com And will own it for the foreseeable future.
I’ve heard it suggested before that candidates entering debates should wear jumpsuits similar to the ones that NASCAR racers wear with the logos of the sponsors embroidered like full body tats everywhere. In the gubernatorial or presidential debates, you want to know who and WHAT contributors you’re really voting for. The contestants shouldn’t wear three piece black suits but instead have NASCAR jumpsuits with logos like ‘World Bank’, ‘Pfizer’, ‘Monsanto’, ‘Glaxo Smith Kline’, ‘Lockheed Martin’, ‘Dupont’ and so on. The substance of the debate alone isn’t enough to make a commitment with your vote. You want to know where the candidate puts HIS chips on when HE votes or signs an order. In essence, who paid to seat HIM?
All Ted Cruz and Rand Paul Supporters will be in for their own big nasty Obama moment.
Even if Ted Cruz could get elected, the real owners of the government would put in a congress to block all major reforms or generate phony scandal to discredit him or they might out right kill him like they did kennedy if all else proves ineffective.
The people who run the country will always make sure their interest are taken care of, and no one is going to undermine them. Politics is the survival of the unfittest. The brave outspoken ones are bashed and grinded down or assassinated when they slip through the cracks. Reagan talked alot about freedom and liberty and all that but when they put a bullet in him he changed his tune and started raising taxes and ran bigger deficits than jimmy carter.
Robert Ringer once said of lawyers that “probably only 97% of them are corrupt, but they give the rest a bad name.” So it is with politicians. There are a handful of decent, principled men in politics today. Cruz is one. I hope his bid for the White House succeeds.
Just went there – he still hasn’t bought back his own name. Little late now, I suppose….