In what appeared to be a moment of misspeaking, anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) said in a recent congressional speech, “How about we all come together and say ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles’?”
During a congressional hearing on the current president’s actions addressing crime in cities — which seems mostly to be insulting large city mayors, ignoring higher-crime areas in red states, and then sending in armed federal officers against the mayors’ wishes — Sen. Cruz referred to Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) plea for Democrats and Republicans to “come together and have bipartisan agreement.”
“I think that’s a great idea. We should have bipartisan agreement,” Cruz said. “How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop murder’? How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop rape’? How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles’?”
This happened last year
Another banger from TheOnion
No wait
Or, to put another way, “let’s keep defending pedophiles”.
“Leave trump alone!”
Lmao, what a tool with an ugly wife.
I wish that homunculus of a fleshbag had the empathetic capacity to feel any kind of philia. It might make him about literally anything but himself.
Autophilia?
I like to believe he hates himself more than we do.
Did he say it again or was this the one from a few months back? Because either way this is hilarious
Date on the article is September 2025.
Holy hell, this past 6 months really has been a decade hasn’t it
No. And fuck ted Cruz. Second sorriest bastard in Texas govrrnment
Just to be clear, ALL MAGAs are Pedophiles, or Pedophile Protectors.
You know another name for a Pedophile Protector?
Pedophile.
Nazi apologists are Nazis
Pedophile protectors are pedophiles
What about nazi pedophiles apologists protecting nazi pedophiles??
There is no limit on stacking labels.
Same article as September for those curious if Raphael did it again, it’s just an old article.
I have a feeling he was trying to say, “let’s stop calling people pedos”. That’s the best sane-washing I can do.
Have we seen Cruz’s name in the ‘Trump Files - featuring Jeffrey Epstein’? Maybe he really is standing up for the Epstein class. He’s been known to lick Trump’s boots, every now and then.
The only people in the US being broadly unjustly called pedos are minorities. They are being called that by his party and the people who support his party.
Don’t do work for this parasite.
Cruz is a piece of shit but I don’t recall seeing anything about him being the files, so guessing he’s just a bootlicker like you said.
It’s possible. It’s also possible that he just couldn’t afford to be in the Trump/Epstein files. Maybe his more affordable version of torturing children and animals is abandoning his dog during a freeze to fly to Cancun and then loudly blaming his children?
More likely he was going for “let’s stop attacking conservatives” and got honest.
I mean…
“I think that’s a great idea. We should have bipartisan agreement,” Cruz said. “How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop murder’? How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop rape’? How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles’?”
Seems pretty clear he had:
Stop pedophiles
In his head, realized he shouldn’t say that since he’s a spineless Republican and tried to pivot to:
Stop attacking people
And his mouth just said both at the same time meaning he said neither.
The jumble that spilled out doesn’t matter, piece of shit that he is, he’s a great public speaker. He’s not trump or Biden who can’t string a sentence together. If he fucks up speaking it’s because he realized he was about to say something he couldn’t and panicked. So the value is in looking at what would logically have made sense in a debate for him to have said.
It’s like GW Bush realizing he didn’t want a soundbite saying “shame on me”:
There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.
But we’re overdue for J Cole’s plan:
Fool me three times, fuck the peace sign
Yeah, Cruz is a terrible person and should be in prison, but this was clearly just a slip of the tongue. We should be mad at him about real things.
Thanks. I thought I read this before.
Scrolling past headlines like this one while the Curb your enthusiasm theme plays on loop.
For me it’s the Always Sunny in Philadelphia theme
We’d attack policy, but Republicans don’t have any.
Ted, you stupid motherfucker, how about we start executing them instead of protecting them?
They should just be forced to work in old folks’ homes. Cleaning bedpans and making meatloaf, not a child in sight.
Rafael cant suck enough pedo cock
Wow, a brain made of butter
September 30, 2025
Not that I think it’s unimportant, but I wish we’d keep things current here.
Oh… No idea how it resurfaced in my feed.
Does it matter? You still did not check the date.
person is wrong
Someone points out person is wrong
Person admits they were wrong
Person still attacked by commenters
What do you want from them, ritual self-immolation?
Go white knight somewhere else.
When in doubt, triple down
Go scold somewhere else.
People’s memory is short
And here I was perplexed, did he do the same blunder again??
More importantly, nothing was done. A decade or more ago, associating and supporting such things was done, but quietly. Now (or last year) it’s openly okay for a Congressperson to say it out loud. That, and saying fascism is fine. We’re past the point of warning signs, the house is on fire.
