Ted Cruz says ‘stop attacking pedophiles’ in embarrassing gaffe
Ted Cruz says ‘stop attacking pedophiles’ in embarrassing gaffe
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Ted Cruz says ‘stop attacking pedophiles’ in embarrassing gaffe
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Some social media users have noted the irony in Cruz’s gaffe, as the politician voted against an amendment that would have forced the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.
Not a gaffe.
Shame on the independent, why are they running damage control for this bozo?
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as the politician voted against an amendment that would have forced the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.
When I see someone voting AGAINST releasing the Epstein files, I can only make the assumption that they are in it.
Seeing that we are talking about an already horrible person, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Cruz is trying to cover his ass.
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In it, or are being blackmailed by someone who's in it.
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When I see someone voting AGAINST releasing the Epstein files, I can only make the assumption that they are in it.
Cruz's career was largely post-Epstein. But a bunch of his allies and big-ticket donors have straight lines to the Birthday Book and the Flight Logs. He's got a vested interest in protecting them.
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they didn't vote Johnson cut it short to not swear in, the vote to release them
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Cruz is trying to cover his ass.
Great now I have the mental image of video taken by one of Epstein's Kompromat Cameras, of a room with a freshly raped teen and Grandpa Munster doing his best to hide behind a towel
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It's also not irony.
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It's like rain on your wedding day.
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The gaff being saying it out loud in front of cameras…
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Yeah, I don't think people know what gaffe means. He can say something he believes and not mean to. That's still a gaffe
Edit: another valid definition was pointed out elsewhere. Guess it can or can't be based on which you pick
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Fairly sure he was just saying the quiet part out loud again.
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Cancunian Slip
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cancuntian
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Nope.
I remember when Qanon pretended to think that, though.
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The meme is an old one, but the code checks out.
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Was that so there would be more for himself?
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Very soon a portion of the country will be perfectly ok with openly defending pedophiles.
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They've been fine with it since before November.
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Has he said it was a gaffe?
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but, it really wasn't
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a remark or action that is a social mistake and not considered polite
Isn't this pretty precise, according to Cambridge dictionary? It's outside my active vocabulary so what the hell do I know
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I think their point is, did he correct himself later on to indicate that he misspoke?
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How was this a "gaffe"? He clearly meant it, although the context is a bit more nuanced than just, "Ted Cruz loves pedophiles". He's obviously trying to downplay their importance in the current political conversation, in an effort to get people to stop caring about Donald Trump's Epstein connections.
This wasn't a slip of the tongue. It's just an objectively bad take, and people should roast the shit out of him for it.
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Cruz just irrevocably set himself up for the rest of his life, because now people are going to tie him to this sound clip.
And conspiracy nutjobs think this guy is the zodiac killer?
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The zodiac killer thing was a joke at first. It was focused on the odd way he would talk, comparing mannerisms with that if the zodiac killer.
I'm not aware of it ever being said. But I've noticed a lot of conspiracies seem to originate from a joke that others don't get.
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No, it never started out as a joke. It came up during a time when conspiracy theories have gone very wild and very political. It was the precursor to QAnon bullshit.
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Rafael has honestly done more damage since he stopped being the zodiac killer than he ever did as the zodiac killer.
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Ted gets one honest statement per fiscal year (shutdown or not) and this is what he burns it on.
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Hey hey hey, that's not what he meant to say. What he meant to say was "Stop attacking my mega-donors."
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Death to pedophiles and at this point the monsters that help protect them.
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Fun fact. The monsters that help to protect them, also pedophiles.
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Don't boo him for being honest..
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