This Week's Top Stories - Texas Storm Fallout, GOP Pushes Voter Restrictions & Surprise Kittens

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Storm-ravaged Texans receive astronomical electricity bills, Republicans blatantly try to make it harder for people to vote, and a bomb scare turns out to be a box of purring kittens. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.8	Now!
0:03.8	Now!
0:04.8	Texas.
0:05.8	A week after the state was battered by winter storms that took out the power grid, nearly
0:15.6	nine million people still don't have clean water.
0:19.3	But don't worry, help is on the way.
0:22.3	After getting blasted for flying to Cancun when his own heat went off, Ted Cruz, Texas
0:27.1	Senator and Disney Prince before True Love's kiss, is now back in his home state doing
0:31.6	the literal bare minimum for the sake of the cameras.
0:35.0	Ted Cruz, appearing back in front of the cameras, not Ted.
0:38.0	Yeah, he spent the weekend helping Houston residents and first responders.
0:41.8	He served barbecued to firefighters and police officers also delivered safe drinking
0:46.9	water to folks who need it.
0:48.7	Sorry, Cruz.
0:49.7	This is not going to cut it, my man.
0:52.1	See, this right here?
0:53.4	This is the politician version of coming home with flowers the day after Valentine's
0:57.6	day.
0:58.6	It's not nothing, but your ass is still sleeping on the couch.
1:01.6	And honestly, I don't know why politicians try to pull off these lame photo ops.
1:05.9	They basically just turn people who actually need real help into political props.
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