Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) is currently running against one of the least popular and most uncool members of the U.S. Senate, Ted Cruz.
So pretty much anything O’Rourke does on the campaign trail will be infinitely cooler than Cruz and be praised by the internet as #epic.
Like gently cruising around a Whataburger parking lot in Texas on a skateboard while saying “woosh.”
https://www.facebook.com/betoorourke/videos/532081593896462/
(The cruising is at the beginning of the 37-minute video above.)
Twitter—the social media networking site that loves things—loved it.
.@BetoORourke and his team just ordered triple meat Whataburgers after he skated around the parking lot. https://t.co/31jqHyqF8J pic.twitter.com/SIwRZAgupK
— Jay Franzone (@JayFranzone) August 19, 2018
#Resist
— DistractinglyGeeky (@DistractingGeek) August 19, 2018
Caught in the act:
Beto O’Rourke, skateboarding in a Whataburger parking lot: pic.twitter.com/FGrdF7z4Uj
Ted Cruz, not to be outmanuevered, shall release video of himself BMXing in the parking lot of WhatAboutBurger ending badly as he runs into the back of a truck
— David Rowinski (@bolekaja1001) August 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/DavidJollyFL/status/1031368684542013441
https://twitter.com/ofirahy/status/1031241070380806147
It also got the early 2000s punk treatment.
i thought that video of beto o’rourke skateboarding in the whataburger parking lot required a little splash from the queen of pop-punk so hERE YA GO pic.twitter.com/wHg4hgcC2s
— savannah olson ✨ (@notsavvie) August 20, 2018
At the Whataburger after the skateboard sesh, everyone in O’Rourke’s camp ordered Triple Meat Whataburgers, a reference to a curious dig Cruz recently made at him.
Cruz’s lead over O’Rourke has been tightening in the past few weeks—Cruz’s lead is down to about six points, according to the Real Clear Politics average—and now it looks like O’Rourke might just kickflip his way to the upper chamber and turn the Capitol rotunda upside down (and into a halfpipe).
Just call him Sen. Skateboard.
H/T @JoshBillinson
