Ted Cruz has been slammed for joking that Texans should “join me in Cancun” as the state braces for a deep freeze.

“Texans, with the freeze coming, wrap your pipes, cover your plants, stay off icy roads & keep your family safe. And, if it gets too damn cold, join me in Cancun!” he wrote on X.

  • @crystalmerchant
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    5911 months ago

    I refuse to give any clicks to any headlines that use the word slammed or any derivative or synonym thereof

    • @Son_of_dad
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      3011 months ago

      Unless it’s a wrestling news website

      • Lad
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        311 months ago

        Maybe wrestling news sites should steal political news sites headlines.

        “Wrestler A CRITICISED for using unsportsmanlike move on Wrestler B”

    • @ExfilBravo
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      611 months ago

      You don’t like your headlines reading like a bop-it toy?

      BOP TED CRUZ!

      SLAM TED CRUZ!

      SH**T TED CRUZ! (in the face)

      • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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        1111 months ago

        Have you personally slammed someone?

        Have you met anyone who has?

        What did it look like?

        • @[email protected]
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          That’s between me and my only fans.

          I have actually met a couple pro wrestlers

          Pretty fricken gnarly dude

        • @chiliedogg
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          411 months ago

          It happened once in nineteen ninety eight.

          • @Rentoraa
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            111 months ago

            I think I remember that. Wasn’t there a table involved?

          • @NegativeInf
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            But it carries no weight when everyone’s “slamming” everything in every headline. Maybe be less clickbait and more informative.

            • Lad
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              411 months ago

              I look forward to the day someone uses this headline and I open the article to see somebody actually get chokeslammed

            • Doc Avid Mornington
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              211 months ago

              That’s a fair take. I don’t really agree, as to me, it is just a popular idiom meaning that people reacted negatively to something and either criticized it or mocked it harshly - I don’t think it has to carry a lot of weight - but I do think it’s perfectly valid that you think it does. That’s not, however, what I get from the comment I was responding to, at all.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          Greg Gianfirte has. Can we use that in headlines when we talk about him? It’s accurate in that case.