‘It wasn’t funny then and it’s not funny now’ one person wrote

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.

  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
    131·
    11 months ago

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

    • Lad@reddthat.com
      4·
      10 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@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      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.