Votes in the House were split with 90 Democrats voting in favor of the resolution. The resolution received unanimous support in the Senate.
Democrats in House and Senate support 'National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk'
http://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/senate-passes-national-day-remembrance-charlie-kirk/story?id=125730824
74 Comments
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca · 161 pts · 358d
I really don't understand why the Dems are propping up an objectively horrible person.
I get why the pedo party is of course
coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 358d
Why don't we have Melissa Hortman rememberance day? She was actually a politician.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip · 34 pts · 358d
And I don't understand why they would choose October 14th, which is George Floyd's birthday.edit: Apparently it's his birthday as well.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 65 pts · 358d
Just refuse to acknowledge Carotid Artery Charlie and hijack that shit right back:
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 358d
Because it's a chance to tacitly insult the late George Floyd, his family and friends, all his supporters, the 'other team', and the entire anti-racism movement that has pissed them off so much. They're not going to pass up an opportunity like that.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 358d
Early christians decided to make Xmas in December to align with when pagans were celebrating winter solstice, in order to appropriate the holiday for themselves.
Not saying that's entirely the reason, but it sure is convenient for them to add their noise.
paranoid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d
It's also Charlie Kirk's birthday, just 20 years later
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 pts · 358d
It’s because the democratic party at large is a fascist-lite party, so they have little qualms about honoring full blown fascists. That and they love nothing more than propping up the idea that we need to keep decorum up at all times.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 357d
They also operate under the absurd notion that they can sway Republican voters if they keep moving to the right.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · -20 pts · 358d
Not shooting your political opponents isn't just "decorum."
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 40 pts · 358d
Honoring a guy who openly wanted genocide in Gaza and wanted to have trans people at home killed also isn’t “decorum” but I guess that’s too complex for you to understand
proper@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 358d
stephen01king@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 358d
I don't understand how that's a counter to his point. Can you explain?
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 358d
Which party member shot Charlie Kirk?
I can't believe that it's so hard for people to believe that someone who made a career being a hate monger was murdered for it.
The kid who killed him was not a politician, he didn't even vote. He was in a relationship with someone who belonged to a group that Kirk made money on by saying heinous shit about constantly.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 357d
Is there proof he was had a trans girlfriend? I find it hard to believe with everything else coming out about him.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 357d
Where was the "decorum" for Melissa Hortman?
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 23 pts · 358d
Performative civility. The dems would hold a vigil for Hitler if their consultants said it would appeal to uncommitted moderate voters.
Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 358d
Something something decorum.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 357d
Because they are cucks. They like to watch our country get f***ed.
logicbomb@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 358d
I'm not a fan of the Democrats, except that they are the major opposition to the Republicans.
But if you actually want an answer why a theoretical good and honest politician might do something like this, it could be agreements behind the scenes.
If you could get Republicans to stop cutting the ACA subsidies, and the trade-off was something not tangible, like having a day of remembrance for a bad person, you might do it just to save lives.
It is a minority politician's job to make deals if it furthers their agenda. Obviously, I don't know if this is what happened here, but it's theoretically possible.
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 358d
I sure hope so. Otherwise they are legitimizing a monster for nothing.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 2 pts · 357d
They ask more of people's ignorance than they do of their virtue.
devolution@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d
Fear. That's why. The right is so unhinged that they fear for their lives.
Not that they are going to be safe anyways.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 71 pts · 358d
🫸'National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk'
👉 'National Anti Fascist Day'
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 358d
We should have a paid public holiday for all the school shootings. Otherwise known as ubi.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 357d
It's national police brutality awareness day, since it's literally also George Floyd's birthday.
Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 358d
Fuck Charlie Kirk.
pregnantwithrage@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 358d
I went and tried to find some redeeming quality about him and left with nothing. Still shouldn't have been killed but man he's not a person you would want to have a national holiday dedicated to.
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 358d
He is dead? I'll take what I can get these days.
BetaBlake@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d
There literally isn't one redeeming quality
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 358d
he probably tried to be a good father
I don't have to explain that obviously he failed
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 357d
Yup. Shouldn't have been murdered (thanks right wing nut job), but he was a real piece of shit.
scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 358d
He's a influencer wtf. Yes no one should be murdered but he's an influencer are we saying the kids that are shot to death in school don't matter? Are we saying only when the rich and powerful in politics are murdered does it matter? I don't remember anything for the CEO of United healthcare.
Democrats stop appeasing the fascist!
blargh513@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 358d
They are complicit. We would not be here if they did their job. That leaves two options: they are wholly incompetent, stupid and unable or they knew and let it happen.
So many points could have prevented our current mess in just the last 10 years, much less the last 50 when this really started.
One easy example. When Scalia died, republicans made up the rule that his replacement could not be appointed by Obama because he was within a few months of the end of his term. Democrats did fucking NOTHING. There was no law that prevented appointintment, they were just being pussies.
That is one easy example that was well known. Now do that for 50 years and do it in every corner of government. They were more than happy to keep up the charade of opposing republicans as long as they got paid. They are the fucking Washington Nationals of politics.
scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 358d
I would like to think the Dems were naive and that they didn't think the GOP would let the country burn. I might be naive in thinking that myself. I want to think that most didn't let it happen because they wanted to but didn't think the GOP would go this far. Of course when one party says they will not work with you at all why would you even try? That was true in Obama's day at least and I had no idea why he even tried.
It is obvious now like you said, if it isn't a law then the Dems shouldn't even bother. When Obama missed his opportunity for his SC pick (not that his pick was that good to begin with, it seemed to be an appeasement pick for the right) because it was too close to his end of term it didn't stop Moscow Mitch from letting Trump's pick go forward with just a week before the election. I really hope the Dems learned their lesson that the right will do whatever it takes to stay in power no matter the costs and stop appeasing them.
I feel we are losing because we are trying to do the right thing but if there is no law against it the Dems should do whatever they can to take the country back. They shouldn't be just asking for donations they need to do something. I have no idea if they have any legal means of doing anything with the GOP in charge but there could be other things. One idea I'm trying to get people to think about is getting together with the censored comedians and do a remember the first tour. If these comedians that have been censored by the networks show up to an event and some of the state Dems that were running were there that would at least get their names out. I would like to think that remember the first amendment might be a good unifier but I don't have any influence with anyone to make that happen. I'm trying to reach out to people but I personally don't know anyone high enough to get the word out.
proper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d
QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip · 59 pts · 358d
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 358d
Thank you for posting this.
EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml · 37 pts · 358d
Including Rep Sarah McBride, open trans member of Congress voted to memorialize someone that was openly transphobic.
ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 358d
Same corporate shills, different bumper stickers.
sbbq@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 358d
What an absolutely disgusting display for a monstrous human. It's like having a national day of mourning after they killed Dracula.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 358d
He sucked.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 358d
Well, this is what happens when half your government is blood drinking monsters and the other half exists only to appease blood drinking monsters
xyzzy@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 358d
RaoulDuke@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 358d
Reverse Dracula. He shoots blood instead of sucking.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 355d
Horst Carotid-Wessel.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 358d
They f-ing agreed to that? OK, they are beyond help.
3abas@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 358d
They are nice fascists, and the sooner liberals realize that, the sooner you can move on to revolution and fix the country.
nozone@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 358d
Hijack the day and turn it into a memorial for all gun violence victims, it will piss off the Republicans and maybe do a little good. Probably not though.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 358d
I love this idea.
DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d
Agree, genius! We could also hijack it as "Political Assassination Victims Day" and cover Epstein!
PartTimeWarrior29@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 358d
This makes me feel sick
grue@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 358d
Celebrate Kirk's death. Burn him in effigy. Call it "a good start."
selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 357d
Fuck that.
I ain't celebrating the life of some racist misogynistic shithead.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 357d
The democrats (most of them) are such fucking cucks.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 358d
The short sighted idiots don't see that is not just innocently agreeing to making a special day for a dead guy that ultimately doesn't matter. It's bait for the regime to punish those who criticize and mock the day. There will be people who lose jobs and worse over this farce.
FarrellPerks@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 357d
It's rough to see how spineless many of the Democrats are. It's difficult for us in Europe to understand but the democrats are quite right-wing, akin to the conservative party in the UK for example. So when people see the supposed 'left-wing' party in the US pulling shit like this it confuses them.
JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 358d
I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to donate to an LGBTQ+ organization to Celebrate a New Tradition for my favorite holiday.
I'll make a $20 donation in his honor, come on guys we can start a tradition.
Bwaz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 357d
That's ridiculous.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 357d
Each vote by a POS idiot.
13igTyme@piefed.social · 11 pts · 358d
So now were honoring dead Nazis?
wildcardology@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 357d
Disgusting.
Skiluros@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 358d
Kirk was almost certainly a demagogue who believed in nothing and was willing to shill any copytext from oligarchs and the American far right for his own material benefit. Only a fool would deny the irony of Kirk getting a taste of his own medicine (one last time).
But the funny thing is that they are showing extreme disrespect to Kirk (after he was gunned down no less) by essentially stating that he was a gullible idiot who lacked the mental capacity to evaluate American political culture. And how was his life shaped by faith? If his life was shaped by faith he wouldn't have focused on politics.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 358d
His life was shaped by the faith that what happened to him was fair game, as long as it kept happening to someone else.
It was simply his turn. Sooner than he expected.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 357d
I was cut off in traffic today and they had written "God bless Charlie Kirk" on their back window which just made me even angrier than the fact they cut me off.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 358d
Lol, but don't worry guys. Your democrat billionaires car aboutt you and will save you they are definitely not the same.
Lol.
proper@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 358d
13igTyme@piefed.social · 4 pts · 358d
Wow 118 Dems and 4 Repubs actually have a spine.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 358d
Fucking traitorous scum!
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 357d
Democrats don't want to be attacked by the right wing extremists, so they coddle them and give them what they want.
This is exactly how Nazi Germany came to be and we need to stop acting like it's not.
Charlie Kirk is personally responsible for many people committing suicide due to his harsh views and his viewers base that spews hate at people they don't like.
He deserves nothing.
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 358d
Vote BLUE No Matter WHO (UNLESS The Blue is someone the DNC DOESNT like!) so we can Turn this Holiday BACK to nothing! IF we can Convince ALL THE DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED FOR IT to Change their votes!
zbyte64@awful.systems · 6 pts · 357d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 357d
I expected some quislings in the house, but the entire senate? Do better, dems. At least tell us what you got for this n
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 358d
Can I celebrate the remembrance by watching the clip of him getting shot on repeat?
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 358d
Most of them probably didn't even care about Kirk much when he was alive
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 357d
Horst Wessel Day
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 358d
Get your favorite Charlie Kirk quote ready. I'm partial to his one about black pilots.
evilcultist@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 358d
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 358d
Fuck that! They might as well add Hitler and Osama Bin Laden’s birthday to the list as well while theyre at it