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.

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      10 months ago

      That’s between me and my only fans.

      I have actually met a couple pro wrestlers

      Pretty fricken gnarly dude

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        10 months ago

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

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          10 months ago

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

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          10 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.