Cruz confronted over GOP's hyprocrisy of stacking SCOTUS in their favor...

No, they’re not. They’re not synonymous in physical terms, a stack is not the same as a pack. They’re not synonymous in this context either. You’re just an imbecile.

He's a blue ribbon winner, Champion of the County Fair Imbecile. And so dedicated to his craft, too.

Check a thesaurus. Stacking and packing are symantically related and that's exactly what we're dealing with regards to the GOP's current argument.

They changed the rules in 2016 to prevent Merrick Garland being appointed to the court's vacancy (after Scalia's death) by refusing to hold senate hearings or even a vote on his nomination claiming that because it was an election year, the court should continue with 8 justices till after the election (9 months away) wherein the next administration would fill the position.

In 2020, the GOP changed the rules again, completely reversing their prior position that no new justice should be appointed in an election year and swiftly installed Amy Comey Barrett to the Court within weeks of Ruth Bader Ginrich's death and did so while the federal election was already under way.

Unilaterally changing the rules as they did to gain an upper hand in the courts is what is known as "stacking".

“Semantically related” is not the same as synonymous. And no, he didn’t change the rules. He exercised the powers he had in a manner you don’t happen to like. Stop whining.

Go back and look it up. The words are in fact interchangable in certain contexts. And yes, the GOP senate did set new rules in 2016. The Constitution states the president shall nominate a candidate to be a Supreme Court justice and that the Senate shall advise and consent. It does not however, provide any exception clause for election years nor when the goverment is divided.

If you want to argue that the GOP merely exercised their powers back then due to having a majority in the Senate, then you can't complain if the Dems choose to do the same thing and expand the number of justices while they control the Senate. There's absolutely nothing in the Constitution that either specifies how many should sit on the bench nor prevents any expansion of such.