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 🫠)
You guys don’t think…?
No, no, surely not.
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.
I mean, that sounds like a normal reaction a teenager would have to their father in public.