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Ted Cruz says ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles’ in embarrassing gaffe during rant about crime
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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"gaffe" implies he has mad some attempt to backtrack or present a corrected sentence. He said it.
Journalism is so cooked
FYI, “Gaffe” doesn’t imply he has made an attempt to backtrack. It’s just a blatant mistake or faux pas.
I am as illiterate as I accuse others of being 😔😔😔
I think you’re actually right in what you mean though.
“Gaffe” implies he’s embarrassed. There’s no way he’s embarrassed, he’s incapable of feeling real human emotions.
He's capable of the just human emotion of all, greed