{"id":111619,"date":"2025-08-14T15:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111619"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:44:05","slug":"111619","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111619","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/tomknighton\/2025\/08\/14\/cornyn-called-out-over-short-memory-on-gun-control-n1229585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornyn Called Out Over Short Memory on Gun Control<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of Congress pop off on X, formerly Twitter, all the time. It&#8217;s one of the more important uses of the platform for them, but there&#8217;s a risk there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"thm-piano-mop\"><\/div>\n<p>See, you can chirp all you want, but people get to chirp back. You&#8217;re not really immune from criticism and it&#8217;s really kind of impossible to create a true echo chamber, even if that&#8217;s your desire. People will still say what they want to say and say it where you can see it, at least until you mute or block them or something.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lesson Sen. John Cornyn of Texas was reminded of on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>After trying to get a dig in at his primary opponent, Texas AG Ken Paxton, he was asked a simple question based on the wording.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" 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frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1955774056482947123\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I mean, it wasn&#8217;t that long ago, so the smart move would have been to just ignore it.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn, however, isn&#8217;t that smart.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" 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He rallied enough Republican votes to break the filibuster, thus foisting gun control onto the American people, which came with a lot of issues that we&#8217;re still trying to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn was awfully proud of it at the time. He celebrated it. He bragged about his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until after that that he suddenly started\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/tomknighton\/2024\/05\/07\/cornyn-engages-in-damage-control-n1224806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trying to play damage control<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he&#8217;s just trying to pretend it never happened. Of all the tactics for deflecting criticism for bad decisions, that&#8217;s certainly one of them.<\/p>\n<p>I get that Cornyn doesn&#8217;t want to have to defend his Second Amendment record in Texas, of all places, and that&#8217;s one area where Paxton is going to eat his lunch and everyone knows it. It&#8217;s obvious that on this issue in particular, he&#8217;s going to lose.<\/p>\n<p>But could he (or at least his social media team) have just ignored the comment? Absolutely. The smart move would have just pretended he didn&#8217;t see it. I&#8217;d imagine a senator&#8217;s X notifications get a lot of comments, so it&#8217;s easy to legitimately miss things. Pretending that&#8217;s what happened would have been cowardly, but still smart.<\/p>\n<p>Or, he could have tried to defend it, or admitted that he screwed up royally. I&#8217;d have at least respected the latter, at least. I&#8217;d still want him gone because there&#8217;s no way I&#8217;d trust him not to screw up like that again, but I respect a lawmaker admitting they made an error, if for no other reason than it&#8217;s so rare. He didn&#8217;t do that, though.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he just played Biden&#8230;I mean, dumb (same thing, really).<\/p>\n<p>Well, Cornyn might have a short memory&#8211;I don&#8217;t buy it, but let&#8217;s play like he&#8217;s being honest here&#8211;but the internet doesn&#8217;t. He did Biden&#8217;s bidding to help get the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act passed, was proud of the effort, and now he&#8217;s playing dumb because his constituents aren&#8217;t happy about it and he thinks so little of them that he thinks a denial like this will work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornyn Called Out Over Short Memory on Gun Control Members of Congress pop off on X, formerly Twitter, all the time. It&#8217;s one of the more important uses of the platform for them, but there&#8217;s a risk there. See, you can chirp all you want, but people get to chirp back. 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