<story><title>US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies</title><url>https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-portman-introduce-resolution-to-maintain-senates-constitutional-responsibilities-and-allow-remote-voting-during-national-emergencies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alasdair_</author><text>&amp;gt;Everything on the news looks ironic&lt;p&gt;I was born and grew up in Scotland. I remember the first time I watched Fox News after moving to the states - for almost fifteen minutes I &lt;i&gt;genuinely&lt;/i&gt; thought I was watching some (honestly pretty funny) satire.</text></item><item><author>ordinaryradical</author><text>I used to be wowed by this kind of hypocrisy, but lately I&amp;#x27;ve concluded that these things are happening so frequently because the voters have proved to them sufficiently that they will take no heed provided it &amp;quot;hurts the other team.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Everything on the news looks ironic now because the political class has realized there&amp;#x27;s almost no limit to what they can get away with.</text></item><item><author>karatestomp</author><text>Oh, I thought the headline meant remote voting for, you know, voters, not Senators, and was very surprised to see an R next to one of the sponsor&amp;#x27;s names. The bill&amp;#x27;s just to let the Senate vote remotely. I&amp;#x27;d imagine most of the interesting nuance is about &amp;quot;presence&amp;quot; and quorum-making. This is not about expanding remote&amp;#x2F;by-mail voting in elections, which Republicans have generally been strongly against, including and especially since the Covid-19 crisis started.&lt;p&gt;[EDIT] correction: it&amp;#x27;s not a bill, either, it&amp;#x27;s (as the headline correctly notes) a resolution to change Senate rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bargl</author><text>I get really frustrated when people only mention Fox News and not CNN&amp;#x2F;MSNBC in the same sentence.  There are people on Fox who are good, I.E. Chris Wallace.  I mean he&amp;#x27;s my only example, but Jon Stewart did a skit with him and the quote that got me was, &amp;quot;how many times have you seen your show on my show?&amp;quot; It was a nod to the fact that Chris Wallace does actual news not opinion pieces.  I&amp;#x27;d actually say he&amp;#x27;s better and less opinionated than Don Lemon (CNN).&lt;p&gt;This is not me defending FOX.  It&amp;#x27;s more of me railing against other forms of news that I also don&amp;#x27;t like but sometimes get a presumed pass.  I see them as the opposite side of the coin.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I know this is going to get down-voted.  But if you disagree I&amp;#x27;d really like to know why.  I am someone who listens to others, and am curious why you disagree with this sentiment.</text></comment>
<story><title>US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies</title><url>https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-portman-introduce-resolution-to-maintain-senates-constitutional-responsibilities-and-allow-remote-voting-during-national-emergencies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alasdair_</author><text>&amp;gt;Everything on the news looks ironic&lt;p&gt;I was born and grew up in Scotland. I remember the first time I watched Fox News after moving to the states - for almost fifteen minutes I &lt;i&gt;genuinely&lt;/i&gt; thought I was watching some (honestly pretty funny) satire.</text></item><item><author>ordinaryradical</author><text>I used to be wowed by this kind of hypocrisy, but lately I&amp;#x27;ve concluded that these things are happening so frequently because the voters have proved to them sufficiently that they will take no heed provided it &amp;quot;hurts the other team.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Everything on the news looks ironic now because the political class has realized there&amp;#x27;s almost no limit to what they can get away with.</text></item><item><author>karatestomp</author><text>Oh, I thought the headline meant remote voting for, you know, voters, not Senators, and was very surprised to see an R next to one of the sponsor&amp;#x27;s names. The bill&amp;#x27;s just to let the Senate vote remotely. I&amp;#x27;d imagine most of the interesting nuance is about &amp;quot;presence&amp;quot; and quorum-making. This is not about expanding remote&amp;#x2F;by-mail voting in elections, which Republicans have generally been strongly against, including and especially since the Covid-19 crisis started.&lt;p&gt;[EDIT] correction: it&amp;#x27;s not a bill, either, it&amp;#x27;s (as the headline correctly notes) a resolution to change Senate rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>Ah there&amp;#x27;s nothing better than waking up early in some US hotel and watching stupid tv shows at stupid o&amp;#x27;clock. I distinctly recall realizing that I had been watching some insanely offensively stupid advertorial for hunting rifles interrupted by advertisements for erectile dysfunction pills every few minutes for the last 20 minutes or so at some point and reflecting on why the hell I was actually watching that. In my defense, I was pretty jet lagged. Later landed in some morning TV show that was clearly targeting early risers even more tired than me looking to get a head start on rush hour.&lt;p&gt;In any case, I stopped watching broadcast TV a decade ago; especially news shows. The signal to noise ratio is just unacceptable to my brain these days. I get more information out of a 5 second glance at my news feed in the morning and magnitudes more information by doing that for a bit longer. They really dumb down everything on tv until even the most retarded vegetable still watching can grasp the basics and that apparently takes ages and endless repeating of things in 3 word sentences.  People with a functioning brain stopped being part of the target audience ages ago.&lt;p&gt;In all fairness, people complaining about how retarded the news is is nothing new and was a popular pass time in 16th &amp;amp; 17th century British press as well as in Roman times even. People, like me, complaining about the quality of reporting is as old as the concept of publishing information in pretty much any form. Information is power and manipulating the masses through any of the channels information spreads is part of the game. And knowing that is the game has been the way to move up in society for just as long.</text></comment>