It appears that the Brilliance of Ted Cruz has again shined on us, as he got into a Twitter battle decrying the oppressive Democratic governor of Washington State for instituting a ban on dancing on New Year’s Eve: “Blue-state Dems are power-drunk authoritarian kill-joys. Washington State: NO DANCING ALLOWED!!! Any rational and free citizen: Piss off.”
The problem: Washington State instituted no such ban.
As a screenshot of the since-deleted tweet shows (seen after the fold), Cruz retweeted a screenshot from a Facebook Q&A relating to a edict by the “WA Government” which Ted assumed meant “Washington Government.” It’s actually from the government of Western Australia, where a ban on dancing (except at weddings) was put into effect because of comparatively high coronavirus infection rates.