US Senate UNANIMOUSLY passes Remembrance Day Oct 14th for Kirk

[Wiz Imp]

255. There is so much disinformation or misinformation on this thread.

And while an unfortunately large amount of it comes from other DU users most of that is unintentional because they have been misled into believing things that aren't true. The original source of it is the pathetic media. So many media stories have published things about this that are either misleading or flat out false.

Most of the media is saying the Senate voted unanimously. They must be taking that straight from Republican talking points. There was no vote. There was a call for unanimous consent while there were no more than a handful of people in the Senate. It appears only a single person actually voted AYE. So I guess one person can be unanimous but the media characterizing it as a unanimous vote is intentionally misleading people into thinking all Democrats supported it when the opposite is true.

Many stories said both the House & Senate voted for a Day of Remembrance for Kirk. Again, that is flat out false. The House has NOT voted on a resolution calling for a Day of Remembrance. They only voted on a resolution "honoring" Kirk. Most democrats strongly objected to the language in that resolution which is why a total of 118 refused to vote for it. By continually citing 58 no votes, the media are intentionally misleading and making it sound like the Democratic opposition was much weaker than it really was.

The media has presented these votes as being especially meaningful when in fact they are mostly meaningless. They are strictly performative. They are non binding. They have no power of law. Many media seemed to purposely write about them in such a way to make people think they were creating a special day to honor Kirk every year for eternity. They appeared todo this strictly to make their non-MAGA readers angry. Ultimately, these votes are not worth getting upset about because 99.9% ovf voters will never know they even ever occurred.

It's really been a shameful display by the media.