The White House has found a novel way to ensure Donald Trump’s nominees ascend to power.
Federal judges in the Western District of Washington swore in former King County Superior Court Judge Roger Rogoff as U.S. attorney Wednesday morning. Within 54 minutes, Trump fired him.
The district’s 17 federal judges have been trying to find a replacement for Seattle’s First Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd, after Trump failed to formally nominate him. Floyd was appointed in October, though his name was never officially advanced to the Senate for consideration.
Federal law grants a district’s judges the power to appoint a U.S. attorney if the president and the acting attorney general fail to do so within 120 days, subsequently stonewalling the procedural Senate hearings.
I don’t disagree. But people generally don’t want bombs dropped on their heads and will avoid it until it becomes the final option. Until that time comes, small groups will be shot or imprisoned. Just like what happened in Texas last week. Just like what happened with BLM. There are countless examples of people rising against, only to be stomped because the fed arrives. Trump would love any excuse to fuck over the midterms, and would be happy to kill some left leaning opposition if given the chance.
Further, the US is very spread out. The cities and urban areas are relatively easy to get together. It’s everywhere else that needs the ability to join the crowd. It’s not like Europe where it’s fairly easy to travel around, unfortunately.
If you want my thoughts on what we should do, it’s to actually hurt what they care about most: their wallets. A general, nationwide strike would work well. However, to make it so people don’t just starve to death, we need to set up a strike fund or food network. With that, the strike could last long enough to affect their bottom lines, and people would actually be willing to participate, knowing that their family won’t starve to do it.
A general strike is more or less impossible in the US. It would need to be coordinated across multiple key industries in every state, you’d need basically every shipping company and truck driver on board, and it would have to last for weeks. It’s simply not a thing that can actually realistically happen in the US.
The national strike is the one. If it’s just the cities that’s more than enough to grind the wheels down. The sooner the better, the larger the more effective. I reckon two weeks to a month would see it out. Congress would move pretty quickly once everything is starved.
It’ll involve hardship and a willingness to do this without logistical coordination though.
No-one said the revolution would be easy, immediate, nor convenient.
You get the treatment you tolerate.
Prepare accordingly.
That is exactly my point. People outside of the US are expecting it to be easy and want immediate results. It won’t be easy nor will it be immediate.
Yeah we are actually just expecting it to be done, as pointed out elsewhere.
This is after a trial run was given and it’s due to a lack of desire to vote. Selfishness.
Americans ask a shitload of undeserved understanding about this and expect a pass here they wouldn’t give others.
No, people outside the US are expecting you guys to do it regardless of how hard it is, regardless of results.
Then those people shouldn’t expect immediate results.
You are a craven, pants-pissing coward.
Nobody is expecting immediate results. People are calling out the lack of action, not the lack of results.
Do you think the most valuable kind of actions are the ones people publicly talk about?
They would probably be talked about online and in the news after they happened, if they were happening. But they aren’t really, are they? That’s kind of the point. We all know why us US Americans aren’t doing anything, but that’s not really important since we’re still not doing anything.
To move the needle amongst the least politically engaged, yes, those things are very valuable. I know your position is that anyone ignorant of politics are just as bad as the Republicans, so I get why you don’t think you need to make your actions visible to engage these people, but reality doesn’t really reflect that.
While valid, a critical mass is required for any effective action. That’s going to take time in a country as large and spread out as the US. I do believe it will happen, the ball has been rolling. People have already been shot and imprisoned for resisting. Some states are fighting back as well. It’s just a matter of time until a flashpoint happens and a critical mass is reached. If I had to guess, the midterms are going to be part of that.
What actions do you suggest?
You guys are way past the point that many countries would have considered the flashpoint. The thing about reacting too late is that you give the people trying to gain power enough time to prepare to deal with any resistance. I fear it might be to late at this point, but I hope I am wrong. Just page me when you guys finally do something, and I’ll root for you from afar.
I would suggest to at least plan for a mass strikeout in all industries to make your message heard, and to maybe start organising some capability to put up an armed resistance in the off chance that it is too late to make a change through the proper process.
The problem, again, is how spread out the US is. The cities are very far from each other compared to Europe. The federated system also adds roadblocks. Some states are doing better than others, thanks to the state governments. Some states are doing much, much worse.
Unfortunately, the US is unlike any country, and not in a good way. Flashpoints here are totally different, if that hasn’t been obvious yet. The lower class is in survival mode, an intentional strategy by the Trump administration to keep the poor people distracted. They’re walking a fine line, if they go too far and people really start to struggle, it’s over. If they don’t go far enough, then people will have time to organize.
I totally agree on the mass strike, so long as a strike fund or food support network is also in place, so people can actually be willing to attend. I think that’s actually the best way to approach this, and I’ve discussed it with some of my neighbors in the past.
An armed resistance, unless something changes with the military (doubtful), is futile. It’s kind of difficult to use small arms against a reaper drone at 50,000 ft. We have the most funded military in the world, and the fascists in charge wouldn’t hesitate to use it in this scenario. That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t prepare for armed conflict, but I’m betting that it would be a relatively quick one.