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 🫠)
Where I come from there is a saying: “Quien hambre tiene, en pan piensa” (Those who are hungry think of bread.)
Love it. I think that’s exactly what “Freudian slip” means.
Oh, I thought it was a kind of lingerie my mom used to wear.
I HAVE to say this is a joke.
Why? I doubt your mom uses Lemmy.
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.
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”.