i support PIE partisanship. without it, all you got is cake.

That certainly explains Boston Cream Pie. :)

Republikillers saying they support police and then not voting to support the police is just like the Deathocrats supporting a 15 dollar minimum wage and then not voting for it.

Voting against something in an actual bill isn't equivalent to not being able to vote for something because it's not included in a bill.

On April 27, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order, effective Jan. 30, 2022, requiring certain federal contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage to workers who work on federal contracts and to adjust the wage annually according to the consumer price index to reflect changes in the cost of living.

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Your repetitive false equivalency and perpetual pathetic ignorance are again duly noted.

C-span just said there were Deathocrats that voted against it.

Nope! Because C-Span absolutely and unequivocally has not adopted the ignorant rhetoric of Dipshit Don Harris Still Living in Momma's House. :)

Not reading any further. Same repetitive shit, different day.

This... all of it! I like the way you think, Russ.

When I first heard of the GOP’s 2020 Platform, I laughed that even the Republicans did not know what — if anything — Trump valued...because that could change at any given moment depending on his mood!

Yep. Just like Trump's net worth changes depending on his mood... at least that's what he swore under oath regarding how he values his assets... depending how he feels.

https://www.newsweek.com/how-much-trump-worth-depends-how-he-feels-384720

When it's tax time, he feels like those properties aren't worth a damn dime, but Donald is always in a good mood when he's fraudulently applying for a loan because the value of those same properties goes up exponentially. Applying for loans fills Donald with abundant joy and downright giddiness... a weed-like high, apparently, but I digress.

The GOP will let you know what they believe when Donald tells them what it is. Be prepared for whiplash.

But now I realize that I was wrong in that assessment.

Nope... you are dead-on-accurate in that assessment.

Trump had stated exactly what it is that he values — others doing his will when he tells them to.

Oh, you mean Trump's loyalty that only goes one way? Well, of course. It's both... all of the above. :)

But, but, but... whatever happened to remembering that day forever and love and peace?

Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!

~ Donald Trump, January 6, 2021

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But astonishingly, Trump's iron grip on Republicans slipped in a big way on this bill.

You don't think that might have something to do with that announcement by the NY AG's office that they're working with the DA in New York, New York, do you? ;)

But, but, but... "What about all our whataboutism?" whined the GOP. Idiots.

Well, okay, but I take issue with your use of the word "attempted" to modify the "insurrection." Attempted coup? Yes, sir... but there was definitely an insurrection. :)

In 2016, Trump showed very little interest in influencing the values of the GOP and chose only to have input on a single item in their platform; and that single item actually made little sense at first glance — mainly because it was not obvious how Trump personally benefitted from it (and face it, Trump only does things that benefit him!). His sole input changed the GOP’s longstanding backing of Ukraine against Russian aggression to state that they would no longer provide resources to Ukraine if Russia invaded them. This was long before we witnessed Trump’s complete submission to Vlad Putin in Helsinki, but it still was enough to make some of us beg for a counterintelligence investigation of this potential traitor.

In 2018, Trump cared so little about the platform that they just reused the 2016 platform — word for word.

Then in 2020, the GOP shocked the world with their most honest platform ever when they simply stated that the party fully supported any policy or position held by Donald J Trump. It was like a scene from Coming to America:

Eddie Murphy : “What is your favorite color?”

Arranged marriage princess : “Whatever your favorite color is, my Prince!”

Now if only Trump would order his base to hop on one leg while barking... that would be perfect!

When I first heard of the GOP’s 2020 Platform, I laughed that even the Republicans did not know what — if anything — Trump valued...because that could change at any given moment depending on his mood! But now I realize that I was wrong in that assessment. Trump had stated exactly what it is that he values — others doing his will when he tells them to.

The Republican Party Platform is an open admission that the GOP is a cult!

One moment they are middle of the road and whishy washy on conventional media, but the moment they hit the right wing bubble they are very much focused and have conviction against whatever the rage inducing bete noire of the moment is and they do it comfortable in the knowledge that none in the bubble will call out the contradiction of earlier poses, especially when one considers that the bubble will not broadcast the disquieting earlier statements.

At the end of the day the real question is going to be how many independents will buy into this behavior.

that's generally been true of the house GOP too, yet they mustered a solid percentage of their caucus.

JL

1. "...fear for their own political self-preservation is what motivated 35 House Republicans to vote for this bipartisan effort."

and

2. "It is certainly worth a try, and such public shaming is really the only thing that could make a difference, at this point."

These sound smart and strategic and all, but they kind of go against a heck of a lot of messaging I've been getting from Democratic-leaning commentators (cough, cough) for four or eight years now. That messaging was:

1. The Republicans in Congress support Trump and will never vote against him, out of - wait for it - fear for their own political self-preservation.

2. The Republican senators are utterly immune to - again, wait for it - shame, having followed Leader McConnell in every hypocritical backflip he's put them through without almost a single defection.