{"id":59862,"date":"2026-05-25T22:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59862"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:40:49","slug":"cornyn-wins-charade-gamer-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59862","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn wins Charade Gamer of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p>I never saw this one coming, but it&#8217;s here and today I want to bestow on a veteran Texas senator an award he wouldn&#8217;t like receiving but he&#8217;s going to get it anyway.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Republican John Cornyn is the winner of the High Plains Blogger Charade Gamer of the Year award. How did he earn this honor?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The nature of his political campaign for re-election to the Senate makes it sound as if Donald Trump endorsed him in the upcoming GOP runoff election and not his opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Texans have been &#8220;treated&#8221; to TV ads showing the MAGA meister in chief heaping praise on Cornyn for all the work he did to secure our borders, fight crime and back Trump&#8217;s political agenda. Cornyn tells us he &#8220;voted with Trump 99% of the time,&#8221; and worked to appoint conservative judges to the federal bench.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It&#8217;s a sham, man!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Paxton drew Trump&#8217;s endorsement because he&#8217;s a MAGA moron through and through. Paxton&#8217;s own ads show Trump spouting those meaningless platitudes about Paxton. He calls the AG a &#8220;winner,&#8221; a &#8220;great guy.&#8221; No mention of his work as attorney general. Not a word specifically citing a particular policy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Cornyn, though, continues to campaign as if <em>he&#8217;s the candidate who garnered POTUS&#8217;s endorsement.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a dog in this fight. I&#8217;m not voting in the GOP runoff. My hope rests with the Democratic nominee, Texas state Rep. James Talarico. However, my ears aren&#8217;t deceiving me. John Cornyn sounds like the guy blazing to the finish line with the cherished endorsement of Donald the Crook.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It&#8217;s all phony &#8230; just like the POTUS.<\/p>\r\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never saw this one coming, but it&#8217;s here and today I want to bestow on a veteran Texas senator an award he wouldn&#8217;t like receiving but he&#8217;s going to get it anyway. Republican John Cornyn is the winner of the High Plains Blogger Charade Gamer of the Year award. How did he earn this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cornyn wins Charade Gamer of the Year award<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[1424,2526,2652,7419,3688],"class_list":["post-59862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-cornyn","tag-ken-paxton","tag-maga","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59864,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59862\/revisions\/59864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}