Same in the US and it is wild.

Our range of choices are influenced by our environment, sure, but they are also influenced by our values. The choices you make show what your values are.

I think Sander’s knows he’s too old for leadership at this point. The man he is proposing for Majority Leader is 67, which is still old, but only a little bit above the average for the Senate, and quite a few years younger than the 85-y-o Sanders.

Yes, I’ve been reading the comments hadn’t come out to edit / correct clarify since it’s already been capably done by my fellow lemsters.

So the Speaker of the House is basically the same as the Majority Leader in the Senate, but it’s different than being the Majority Leader in the House… perfectly sensical and absolutely normal.

I think they’re saying the interests of the American public come third in the eyes of The System, after the interests of Israel and the Epstein class.

I also, I have no influence on North Korea, so however bad it is, it is not as directly relevant as what goes on in my own country. See: whataboutism.

You make me want to make a post in the pirate forum about how to download albums without opening a port like you do in soulseek. Someone sent me a link to a web-based pirate–search, click the album, and download the whole thing, easy peasy, but I don’t even know what search term to use…

I guess.

However, I can’t help notice the rise of independent media is allowing people to have opinions that haven’t been able to hold before. The anti-genocidal anti-zionism we see is completely transmitted by non-corporate mainstream outlets. Would Mamdami have been possible if everyone only watched CNN and the New York Times and not Hasan Piker or Democracy Now? I don’t think so.

So maybe it depends on the venue, but until we can make openly leftist arguments on mainstream media, we’re going to be fighting uphill.

And it’s already started with anti-Israel sentiment; Al-Sayed was on some cable show openly calling Israeli’s actions genocide–absolutely unthikable a few months ago.

She’s been known to make deals–like voting for “defensive” weapons sales to Israel.

At the end of the day, all politicians have to bend a little bit, but I think voting for Jeffries in this moment is closer to breaking than bending. Jeffries is not going to turn his back on the people that brought him to the dance.

If it helps it’s the professionalization of vaca, or cow–cowboy.

Met a relationship-starved Mexican woman on a language exchange app (a common affliction for the venue) and she was so sick of dating vaqueros, every one of them in tight jeans with a big buckle, western shit, and cowboy hat…

How do you defend yourself against the true claim that your socialist policies are socialist? At some point, you have to stand your ground, no?

Anyway, the larger problem is the entire media landscape is hostile, which YouTube and podcasts are helping with.

Well, if he’s working for a small department, it’s possible he doesn’t have to turn a blind eye to really heinous shit.

It looks like there’s some ambiguity between the House Speaker and Majority Leader roles.

In the House of Representatives the majority leader’s presence and power often depends on the session. In some sessions, the majority leader takes precedence over the speaker as House leader and legislative party leader either by force (which usually occurs when the speaker of the House is unpopular) or because the speaker of the House voluntarily surrenders power to the majority leader. In most sessions, the speaker of the House takes precedence as house leader and party leader, with the majority leader being irrelevant and largely powerless outside the fact they might be speaker of the House one day. Except, of course, for the fact that the majority leader (as well as the speaker and the minority leader) are the only members of the House that can speak on the floor for an unlimited amount of time and cannot be interrupted by the chair.

Mexican music is incredibly diverse. I like old-school folk so Chavela Vargas (born Costa Rican but “Mexicans are born wherever they damn well want”) is my jam. Natalia LaFourcade also is great, once she stopped trying to be a teeny bopper. Julieta Venegas … there’s some more but I’d have to log into Deezer to remember their names.

That said, this is semi-nichey stuff; there’s an oppressively homogenous vaquero music (ranchero?), of which the only good thing I can say is that it is not reggaeton.

Yes, just doing their jobs, and just following orders, as all Good Americans should do.

Over/under that he’s still a cop?

Oh, sorry. I misread what you were saying because I’m incredibly stupid sometimes myself.

That sounds more like post hoc justification than a cause, tbh. I don’t know that Mexico has a monopoly on rednecks.

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I think you might want to re-adjust your confidence level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_leader

The House and the Senate each have a majority leader, refered to as the House Majority Leader and the Senate Majority Leader, AFAIK.