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.

    • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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      1110 months ago

      Have you personally slammed someone?

      Have you met anyone who has?

      What did it look like?

      • @[email protected]
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        910 months ago

        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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        410 months ago

        It happened once in nineteen ninety eight.

        • @Rentoraa
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          110 months ago

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

        • @NegativeInf
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          1210 months ago

          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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            410 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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            210 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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        110 months ago

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