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Republican Senator Ted Cruz thinks we need to “stop attacking pedophiles.”

The Texas senator made the brutal (potentially) Freudian slip during a Senate hearing about crime on Tuesday.

“Senator Booker also said we should have bipartisan agreement. I think that’s a great idea, we should have bipartisan agreement,” Cruz said. “How ’bout we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop murders?’ How ’bout we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop rapes?’ How ’bout we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles?’” [...]


(other outlets portray it as more clearly a mistake, but we're rewarding the outlet leaning into the clickbait because it's more onion-y 🫠)

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[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 135 points 1 year ago

Where I come from there is a saying: "Quien hambre tiene, en pan piensa" (Those who are hungry think of bread.)

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 46 points 1 year ago

Love it. I think that's exactly what "Freudian slip" means.

[-] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 year ago

Oh, I thought it was a kind of lingerie my mom used to wear.

I HAVE to say this is a joke.

[-] tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I HAVE to say this is a joke.

Why? I doubt your mom uses Lemmy.

[-] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly, because I take most things as both serious and facetious until I can properly de ide which it was intended as, and I tend to imagine at least a subset people also do that and might decide I wasn't joking. And I had a little hesitation about being unclear.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Here it's "Mis meelel, see keelel" or "mis keelel, see meelel", depending on who you ask. Which translates to either "on the mind, on the tongue" or "on the tongue, on the mind".

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

You guys don't think...?

No, no, surely not.

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Well there was that incident on the campaign trail about 10 years ago when his daughter recoiled in disgust when he went to kiss her.

His poor kids. I can't imagine how gross it must be to have him for a father.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I mean, that sounds like a normal reaction a teenager would have to their father in public.

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

This is the plausiblley deniable way for them to put it out in the media. They can check what right wing media reports it and how, then just call it a mistake. Meanwhile they normalize defending pedophiles.

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He must think that pedophiles VOTED for him. He's acting like he's representing pedophiles.

OR pedophiles PAID for his extensive campaign.

Let's look at the Epstein files and find out.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

What. The. Fuck?

Somebody check his computer

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

POS bozo!

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

must be their phase 1 of the desensitization plan~

ted is surely leading the way.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

So the grooming is projection too…

[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

i can totally see that angle loool

[-] Goun@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Death penalty to pedophile victims

[-] shittydwarf@piefed.social 21 points 1 year ago

Trump, Cosby, Weinstein and other famous rapists employ "fixers" to handle their victims. They threaten/coerce/trick them into silence with vicious NDAs, obtaining the "rights" to their stories and burying them, forcing abortions, etc. really would be easier to just erase them since thats a lot of effort!

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago

Lizard zodiac killer cruz said this.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Angelusz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Freudian slips be real yo.

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Not all republikkkans are pedophiles but all pedophiles are republikkkan. And they are all okay with pedophilia even if they aren't the ones doing the child abuse.

[-] Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guarantee you not all pedophiles are Republican. I hate both groups, but let's be real here

[-] Soulg@ani.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An alarmingly high amount of pedos are Republican, I don't know why people feel the need to embellish that

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago

Tribalism is a hell of a drug

[-] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago

If you choose sit at a table full of pedophiles, you are a fucking pedophile. If you vote to not release the names of pedophiles or investigate people who might be pedophiles that there is enough evidence to put people on prison, how is this not getting thru to people.

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