In a world where everyone and their dog loves to tweet, retweet, and then mysteriously “forget” what they tweeted, an amusing story unfolds. Recently, things got interesting when Texas Congressman Brandon Gilbert, with a smirk and presumably armed with a truckload of printed tweets, decided it was time for the CPR CEO to eat her own social media words. Every tweet she wrote a few years ago, well, let’s just say they lacked the charm of a scribbled love note. The tweets exposed some rather unflattering views she once shared about white supremacy and reparations. When confronted, she had more confessions of amnesia than a daytime soap opera star.
During a hearing over her network’s funding and alleged bias, Gilbert asked her if she genuinely believed America was addicted to white supremacy, a claim she had tweeted once upon a blue moon. Her response expressed that her thoughts had “evolved,” naturally because most people with a public salary seem to develop rapid evolution when questioned. Of course, when asked about the context of her tweets, her crystal ball of memory proved foggier than a San Francisco morning.
Things got stickier when Gilbert asked if she believed America favored “black plunder and white democracy,” to which she flatly denied having such thoughts. However, the public records of her tweeting history told a different story, where she passionately embraced a certain book titled “The Case for Reparations.” Apparently, she tweeted about taking a whole day off to dive deep into it. But in her defense, her memory seems selective, deleting like those cookies on an old computer.
It is a rather peculiar predicament when she couldn’t recall recommending a book titled “In Defense of Looting.” An eyebrow-raising book at best, but alas, she claimed she was unfamiliar with it despite having tweeted about devouring its contents. By this time, watching the CEO try not to trip over her own forgotten thoughts was like observing an episode of a farcical sitcom.
In the grand tradition of selectively remembering one’s youthful internet escapades, the CEO’s most recent audition for the part of “Snow White 2” had the public in stitches. But Gilbert’s expertise in unearthing her social media shenanigans shone like a North Star. With fluent ease yet no overly dramatic antics, he wordlessly handed her tweets back, highlighting the continuous comic opera that is navigating one’s old tweets. When it comes to ducking responsibility, liberal elites might want to consider a refresher course on honesty, because, as this story shows, tweets are forever, lurking in the digital shadows ready to strike back at any moment.
