Disinformation causes people to believe and spread misinformation. It’s often hard to tell who is being deliberate and who is an idiot, especially with so many idiots on the public stage and so much societal mass mental illness.

I’ve just been calling self defense, because that’s what it was.

My guess is that these people were simply absent from the vote. If they scheduled the vote for an impractical time that would explain most of this.