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Ted Cruz, bless his heart, has been out of the public eye for more than a week now. But it’s just a temporary reprieve: He’ll be back out brutally owning himself on the campaign trail soon.

Just how stir crazy is he going with just his family and his soup to keep him company? So far he’s already held strategy meetings to exert influence over the national convention and floated the idea of unsuspending his presidential campaign even though no one wants to vote for him. And today, according to CNN, the most hated man in the Senate also filed papers to run for re-election in 2018.

Many strategists believe Cruz would be better served to skip a Senate re-election campaign in 2018 and instead focus on his presidential ambitions. While Cruz may ultimately decide not to run for re-election, his comments are clearly aimed at tamping down speculation that he will quit the Senate. On Wednesday Cruz officially reactivated his Senate campaign account, stating in a letter to the Federal Election Commission that he “is no longer a candidate for President of the United States.”

This man lives to humiliate himself—who are we to stop him?