Cornyn Hits Castro With A Prime Middle School Comeback

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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) came back at Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) with the Twitter equivalent of “I can’t hear you!” with fingers stuffed in his ears on Friday in regards to President Donald Trump’s border threats.

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  1. It might have been sophomoric, but it was still about 5 grade levels above anything trump has ever tweeted.

  2. Cornyn’s new election slogan. He’s going on a Not Listening tour.

  3. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    Having written him many times on many issues, not listening has been his standard response.

  4. Maybe I’m dumb, but: isn’t Cornyn’s response making Castro’s point?

  5. Don’t call it a comeback. That was confirmation. Castro was saying Texas Republicans are ignoring Trump’s threat and the intern running Cornyn’s Twitter account agreed.

    I mean, who uses a comma without a period? Millennials, that’s who.

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