We’d attack policy, but Republicans don’t have any.

It's not, which is why OP put "technically" in the first sentence. And I think they did a great job differentiating the matter. It's clearly not what Ted Cruz meant, yet his sentence in itself - taken out of his context - is correct. Pedophiles, as in people who have this attraction, are human beings. They deserve proactive help and support. People who abuse children are criminal( human being)s. They deserve to be treated as the human garbage that they are and be prosecuted. There is a venn diagram style overlap between child rapists and pedophiles. But it is not a necessity to have pedophilia in order to molest children (a lot of criminals assault children not out of sexual attraction but because of power dynamics), nor is every pedophile a molester or plans to eventually assault children. We need to focus on prosecuting child abusers no matter their sexual orientation, while helping people with pedophilic attractions without stigmatizing them in the meantime. Their lives suck as it is already.

The Epstein case has drawn a lot of attention to pedophilia but we need to be really careful to not get lost here.

Don't deadname him

While it’s true that Bruce Jenner is not their name even if they’re deeply horrid, it feels like Cruz here calls himself Ted so that he can get votes from racist people who wouldn’t elect him solely based on his name. I’m 50/50 on it.

I'm so glad documentaries like that exist. It was documentaries like the one you mentioned that I stumbled across and that made me realize that "locking up all the pedophile monsters" was a narrative that would harm my children, not protect them. I can barely imagine how lonely and cruel such a fate must be and the bare minimum we can do as a society is to offer the help, support, and compassion to these people.

So, we do understand “context” though, right? No one is hearing about a guy who never hurt anyone but who is managing their problem and thinking “I’m gunna go beat them up.” However, there do happen to be a whole lot of people on Cruz’s side of the aisle, including the president, who seem to be the absolute worse possible version of a pedophile.

You haven’t said anything that nullifies, or even weakens, the arguments made or sentiments show in this post.

The only people in the US being broadly unjustly called pedos are minorities. They are being called that by his party and the people who support his party.

Don’t do work for this parasite.

I feel like if you're a Nazi enabler, the rules don't apply.

Call them fat, call them dumb, and point out their personal foibles. Shame them in any way possible.

Disagree

Did he say it again or was this the one from a few months back? Because either way this is hilarious

Nazi apologists are Nazis

Pedophile protectors are pedophiles

What about nazi pedophiles apologists protecting nazi pedophiles??

Texas, the pedophile state. Don't like it? Maybe get some new reps!

There is no limit on stacking labels.

Can't shame the shameless. They are already supporting nazis and pedophiles. I would safely assume these people have no shame.

Date on the article is September 2025.

I was being ironic, he's a poor excuse for a sellout cuck.

Fair point.

Scrolling past headlines like this one while the Curb your enthusiasm theme plays on loop.

For me it's the Always Sunny in Philadelphia theme

I wish that homunculus of a fleshbag had the empathetic capacity to feel any kind of philia. It might make him about literally anything but himself.

Wow, a brain made of butter

Or, to put another way, "let's keep defending pedophiles".

Autophilia?

"Leave trump alone!"

Lmao, what a tool with an ugly wife.

Holy hell, this past 6 months really has been a decade hasn't it

Another banger from TheOnion

No wait

No. And fuck ted Cruz. Second sorriest bastard in Texas govrrnment

This happened last year

They should just be forced to work in old folks' homes. Cleaning bedpans and making meatloaf, not a child in sight.

I like to believe he hates himself more than we do.