This reminds me of the presser in which somebody asked about his ‘historic’ electoral college win and showed the GW Bush AND G Bush beat him in the EC. He said “Republicans since Reagan” and the guy gave him ALL three GOP Presidents again (Reagan, Bush, Bush) who had more, so Trump said, People told me…
And the fact was he would not look it up himself if he was being given wrong info and everybody kept saying, Mr President, you are WRONG. Did not care to look it up because it stroked his ego that he got the MOST Electoral College votes since Reagan.
It’s a vicious circle, put the bill up for a vote or show us who hates Americans. Turtle’s gonna feel some pain sooner than later, and it’ll be at the hands of Moore supporters
In the same way that getting a prisoner to agree that 2+2=5 is important in brainwashing and breaking him, Trump tells pointless meaningless lies to his base to build an alternate reality for them of his own making so he can better control them and weaken the power of the press.
Oh, they’re on the record even without the vote. There were only THREE publicly professed NO votes and I don’t believe Paul was as firmly NO as he’d like everyone to think. Therefore, as far as I’m concerned, every other senate 'pub was a YES vote by default.
There were definitely others that McConnell knew would vote NO if the bill came to the floor but McConnell, pigfucker that he is, was trying to protect his senators from having to go on record. If McConnell honestly believed that Collin and McCain were the only defectors, he know he could turn RandWhore Paul who has all the spine of a half-set jello mold.
McConnell also knows that the sociopath in the WH would hate-tweet about every other NO vote 'pub senator which, of course, he is.
That explains why Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus gave Sergey Kislyak and FSB operatives gilded invitations with ringside seats to the Republican convention. This was where the plans to rig the 2016 election were coordinated.
I’m not sure that if I were Senator Cochran that I would insist too loudly that I’m not dead yet. Likely to get a cudgel thwack from the guy pushing the dead cart.
When Trump goes through his rote list of excuses like this you can almost hear him parroting back the words that his briefers have drummed into him. He speaks the words without even attempting to comprehend them or even try to visualize that there are other human beings in the store for which he could have empathy. They are empty words from an empty head.
