Stryper, best remembered for their perfectly feathered hair and bumblebee onesies, confirmed in a press release Monday that Ted Cruz will not join the band on its upcoming world tour. No word yet on whether Cruz will appear with the band after his presidential campaign. They're both about the same height, too.īut alas, sometimes even the most airtight conspiracy theories get debunked. My editor mentioned Cruz when he replied to my pitch.
Ted Cruz was a Christian mime in high school, so a leap into this black-and-yellow striped racing costume, isn't so farfetched, right? And, unlike Cruz and the Zodiac Killer, Cruz and Stryper lead singer Michael Sweet are less than 10 years apart in age. Two long-running internet memes have been Texas senator and former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s ignorance of basketball (thanks to a Hoosiers speech where he cited a. I spoke to a few people for this article and all of them, even a Canadian, mentioned Ted Cruz immediately. You've got to admit, it's a compelling theory.
Could Stryper frontman Michael Sweet and Ted Cruz really be the same man? The Daily Dot's Jay Hathaway laid out the hypothesis: Take for example this Ted Cruz and Grayson Allen face swap. Now we’re here in 2016 and the kid could not be more meme-able. So with Allen and Duke beating Yale on Saturday and advancing to the Sweet 16 - and with nearly a week to go until the Blue Devils suit up again - the question was almost inevitable at some point after the Round of 32 game.The internet has been having way too much fun with Ted Cruz's face, which Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi memorably wrote, "looks like someone sewed pieces of a waterlogged Reagan mask together at gunpoint." Cruz's striking visage has led online sleuths to spawn conspiracy theories linking him to the Zodiac Killer, Robert Kardashian, Kevin from "The Office," Grandpa Munster and Duke basketball player Grayson Allen.īut our favorite Cruz conspiracy theory says that the Texas senator has been secretly shredding righteous guitar solos as a member of the Christian metal band Stryper. Grayson Allen memes were going to happen after the Duke basketball player made a name for himself in the 2015 March Madness. This time its Ted Cruz himself, not a reporter or Internet meme, who gets the credit as the source of this chatter. Matt Sandbulte MaGrayson Cruz and Ted Allen. The result was tremendous.ĭid a face swap of Duke guard Grayson Allen and presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Barely two weeks later, he repeated the same incident with Florida State’s Xavier Rathan-Mayes, which earned him a reprimand from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). uvg0Z1ZCiHĪnd when I say it has recently peaked, I mean people like Matt Sandbulte (mad props, by the way) are doing digital face swaps of Allen and Cruz. Grayson Allen Memes Funny Grayson Allen memes sprouted up last year, after he infamously received a flagrant foul for tripping Louisville’s Ray Spalding in February 2016. Less than a year later, he was getting booed on the road and turned into a meme online, pictured side-by-side with Senator Ted Cruz. The chatter continued through the 2014-15 campaign and has now peaked during the 2016 NCAA Tournament as Allen, now a sophomore, is leading three-seed Duke in scoring with 21.6 points per game this year.Ĭongratulations you had the first ever "Grayson Allen looks like Ted Cruz" take on 11/18/14. The background: At the start of last season, when Allen was a freshman at Duke, people began noticing he resembled Cruz, now a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. OK, let's put a pin in this Grayson Allen, Ted Cruz thing once and for all.
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