#Speaker race

[knifefightingbears]

After the 11th vote, I'm willing to take one for the team.

I will be the speaker of the house

[govtshutdown]

At this point, it doesn't sound like a deal can be reached any other way, but I've been wrong before.

[trumpbites]

How Trump can help Republicans avert a speakership crisis - The Hill

How Trump can help Republicans avert a speakership crisis – The Hill

Can the art of the deal save Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s hopes of becoming speaker of the House? To do so may require that he swallow his pride and seek the help of none other than former President Trump. McCarthy no doubt blames Trump for the GOP’s failure to win the predicted significant majority in the House of Representatives in the midterm elections. The resulting slim majority has left McCarthy,…

[captainfanoftheceiling]

Anyone nominated in that round is listed by name. Gaetz nominated him that round so he was listed and they are putting up photos because most people do not have any idea who the 20 ultra conservative group are voting for.

this has to be a joke 💀

[sunnylolli]

hi I hope ur well, I love your art/fics so much! I was curious to know if you have any art wips/art for the Race You To The End au of lud & gil bc it sounds so interesting and im a sucker for brotherly angst

Hello! I'm doing alright and thank you so much!! I actually do have some old pieces for it, but I decided to redraw them for this ask (A great excuse for me to sit down and have a little drawing day anyway B) I'll include some of the old ones as well, but here!:

The old ones at the end I didn't have time to redraw today, but I might tomorrow!

[govtshutdown]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/24/government-shutdown-house-speaker/

Watching this all very carefully. It seems all the Speaker candidates have promised to kill any attempt at an omnibus spending bill.

[govtshutdown]

One month to go

We are exactly one month away from the end of the Continuing Resolution. Over the past 18 days since its passage, no action has been taken to pass any of the spending bills, due to the upheaval within the House of Representatives.

The vote on Speaker is about to commence. Here's my preferred viewing link: https://www.c-span.org/video/?531158-1/house-session&live#

I hope you have your popcorn and a beverage ready

[innocentlymacabre]

I'm having big feelings about fictional characters and idk what to do with them

[ericdeggans]

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[i-am-church-the-cat]

To tack on to the ask you had about Carlos being white: your anon wasn’t entirely wrong and neither are you, but there’s more that some fans—especially European fans—may not recognize about certain prejudices and misconceptions that exist outside of Europe.

While it’s true that Carlos is white (both ethnically and in privilege) and therefore can’t really experience racism, prejudice always exists in context. Carlos is a Spanish-speaker. White Americans typically associate the Spanish language with latine people, who are regular targets of white racism on this side of the Atlantic. Carlos can’t personally experience racism since he’s white, but he can still be (and is, I see it all the time) the target of racist sentiments from white American fans, usually online. This doesn’t hurt Carlos directly I think so much as it affects anyone passively absorbing those kinds of sentiments while they’re scrolling their feed.

So no, Carlos could never be a victim of racism the way Lewis, Alex, Checo, Zhou, or Yuki are. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t fans implicitly or explicitly spitting racist shit at him.

I actually had these same thoughts while responding to that previous ask and that’s kind of why I brought it up in the first place, because I come from a culture where, even though Carlos is white, he would still be the target of racist sentiments and prejudice. Racists in the US probably can’t distinguish between latine and Spanish people and I do think it’s very likely that there are American F1 fans who treat Carlos differently compared to other European drivers because they don’t understand that he’s as culturally white as any of the paler Europeans on the grid.

[syn4k]

so ive been thinking about this this morning and what classifies as "white people music" tho? like what are the qualifications? does the song also have to be made by a white person(s) or is it just primarily enjoyed by white people? are we just basing it off of vibes? if so, what are the vibes?

[jv-f1]

“He works brilliantly with the sponsors, he engages with the media, explains things not just about Williams, but about what’s going on on track. He engages with fans — I love him on social media because he actually engages directly with the fans. People are inspired by him and I think he will go on to be one of the top team principals at a top team in three or four years time."

— David Croft via Sky F1 Podcast

[vroom-vrooms]

“Ocon es el nuevo líder de la carrera” things I never thought I would hear in formula 1

[ct-multifandom]

Can you guys rb this or comment with how you pronounce “Goncharov”? I didn’t really think anything of it until one of my friends said it out loud and I was like huh? I think it’s interesting how people can have different pronunciations of a word or name they’ve never heard out loud in their head an not question it. For reference, I’m a native Russian speaker and I’ve always read it like gohn-CHArohv and my US American friend said GAHNCHA-rahv.

[albonium]

another day another non sense bullshit lie by leclerc fans, seriously get fucked