18-Year-Old Ted Cruz Says His Goal Is ‘World Domination’ (VIDEO)

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has had high expectations for himself since he was a high school student in Houston in the ’80s.

In a YouTube video flagged Saturday by Politico, the 18-year-old Cruz said he wanted to “you know, rule everything” after someone off-camera asked him what his “aspirations” in life are.

Being a teenage boy, Cruz responded with, “Aspirations? Is that like sweat on my butt?”

He initially answered the question by saying he wanted to “be in a teen tit film like that guy who played Horatio” in a film called “Malibu Bikini Beach Shop.”

But then he moved on to more serious goals: world domination.

“Well, other than that, take over the world, world domination, you know, rule everything,” he continued. “Rich, powerful, that sort of stuff.”

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  1. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    So what’s changed?

  2. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    Wait…he was in HS in the 80s? Ted, you’ve certainly not aged well. Dreams of world domination and years of wanking off to low budget titty films will do that to you though.

  3. by saying he wanted to “be in a teen tit film like that guy who played Horatio” in a film called “Malibu Bikini Beach Shop.”

    Hmmm. I would have cast him as Eric Von Zipper.

  4. Avatar for danf danf says:

    Most of us could be smart-assed little dicks showing off for the camera when we were eighteen. Unlike Ted, most of us grew out of it.

  5. Home movies are so much fun!

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