Ted Cruz: Let's you and him fight

Ted Cruz is a Twinkie.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) challenged actor Ron Perlman to a wrestling match against Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Monday, with Cruz predicting the "Sons of Anarchy" and "Hellboy" star couldn't last five minutes with the former collegiate athlete and coach.

The challenge came after Perlman and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) got into a Twitter spat over U.S. Soccer removing a requirement to stand during the national anthem before matches, which included Perlman calling Jordan "the ugliest politician walking.”

  The Hill

OK, Ron Perlman has a lot of nerve calling someone ugly, but.

The back-and-forth came after Gaetz tweeted that he'd "rather the U.S. not have a soccer team than have a soccer team that won’t stand for the National Anthem."

"You shouldn’t get to play under our flag as our national team if you won’t stand when it is raised," Gaetz added in a tweet that generated more than 175,000 likes and nearly 50,000 retweets as of Monday morning.

Perlman later replied to Gaetz while tagging President Trump.

Gaetz retorted by calling Perlman a “racial justice warrior” while also criticizing him for playing a fictional white supremacist on the FX series “Sons of Anarchy."

Because???

"Listen Hellboy. You talk good game when you’ve got Hollywood makeup & stuntmen," Cruz tweeted. "But I’ll bet $10k—to the nonpolitical charity of your choice—that you couldn’t last 5 min in the wrestling ring w/ @Jim_Jordan w/o getting pinned. You up for it? Or does your publicist say too risky?"

Hey, wait. Does Jordan get a vote?

Perlman responded with some colorful language before saying he would wrestle Cruz while offering to donate $50,000 to Black Lives Matter if he were to lose.

Now THAT would be worth a ticket.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:  The rest of the story.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and actor Ron Perlman spent part of Sunday feuding with each on Twitter after Perlman blasted the congressman for criticizing the U.S. Soccer board of directors' recent vote to repeal a policy that required players to stand for the national anthem.

The board voted earlier this week to repeal the policy, which the league enacted years back after U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe joined NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other athletes in taking a knee during the national anthem before games in their respective sports to protest police brutality and racism.

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“I’d rather the US not have a soccer team than have a soccer team that won’t stand for the National Anthem. You shouldn’t get to play under our flag as our national team if you won’t stand when it is raised,” Gaetz tweeted.

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“The US Soccer team called and you guessed it... said they couldn’t give any less of a f--- about what you two dipshits think,” Perlman wrote in the tweet, tagging Gaetz and Trump.

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“This racial justice warrior had no problem in Hollywood portraying the White Supremacist leader of a motorcycle gang. #SOA,” appearing to refer to Perlman’s portrayal of Clay in the fictional FX television series “Sons of Anarchy.”

“Yessir, so true!” Perlman fired back on Twitter not long after. "So rewarding playing assholes on tv. Tell me sir, how is it actually being one?”


“Threatens your wokeness. How triggered will you be when @realDonaldTrump is re-elected? More or less than when crooked lost?” he continued.

“Speaking of Woke Matty, do you think it’s just Hollywood that thinks you’re an asshole?" Perlman replied in a pair of tweets. “Read the comments, I’ll wait... And while we’re at it f---boi, what is this shit about playing your crowd with dog whistles like ‘Hollywood,’ making them think culture is the thing that’s keeping them down? When it’s really you and your greed.”

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[Gaetz responded:] “Dude I represent a district of 700k that elected me w about two-thirds of the vote the last 3x I’ve been on a ballot. Blue check marks don’t scare me anymore than your fictional white supremacy motorcycle gang. Leave the tough guy comments for those of us who face the voters.”

“Ya know what, you’re right. A guy who wins a totally gerrymandered district with daddy’s money deserves our deepest admiration. You’re right..I only PLAY scumbags and grifters. You’re the real deal!” Perlman told Gaetz in another tweet.

“Gerrymandered district? The western and northern borders of my district are Alabama. The southern boundary is the Gulf of Mexico. It’s literally impossible to gerrymander. Try again,” Gaetz responded less than an hour after.

  The Hill

Saying nothing about daddy's money.