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 speak for me. I’m asking.
From one complete stranger to another.
Tell me what you expect of me? If I were good and brave and resilient, what would I be doing?
What should I do?
Have you tried talking with your friends and family about the possibility or necessity of doing a general strike and hurt the ruling class right in their wallet? I think that’s the first step. You can figure out everything else after.
We all know a general strike would be effective.
How do we effectively plan one?
Participation is always the obstacle with that. How do you convince a population of comfortably numb first world Americans who live paycheck to paycheck, to stop earning their only source of income for days to weeks?
Clearly you’re not reading what I said. I didn’t say plan a general strike.
So you’re just being pedantic and difficult because that’s what you do, and you never actually had anything constructive to add.
Got it.
No, my point literally has nothing to do with planning a general strike. It seems you were not actually interested in listening to suggestions and would rather assume what people are talking about and then get angry when they point out you missed their point instead of asking for clarification. This comment of yours is the one that is void of any constructive value.
I noticed you still haven’t told me what you did mean when you said talking about a general strike with friends and family without planning a general strike.
Were you thinking a top 10 best general strikes of all time and just discussing your ratings?
We could do some heartfelt slam poetry about it.
Maybe don’t chime in with criticism of a lack of action, if you have no fucking idea what action should be taken.
How about that?
You never asked in the first place and just assumed what I meant. Why would I waste time explaining shit to someone not interested in listening? Am I supposed to beg you to listen to my suggestion?
And you’re still doing it, putting words in people’s mouth and being generally aggressive for no fucking reason. Nah, why would I waste my time on this when you’re clearly just here to play victim. I responded in the first place because you said you are willing to listen to ideas, but I should have known better.
I’m sorry the world made you this way.
I shouldn’t pick on you. I was wrong.
The truth is I’m sick and fucking tired of people levying hollow criticisms at one another, and looking for chances to feel superior rather than to feel helpful.
Your first comment read as exactly that to me. It felt like you just wanted to shit on the working poor for not magically figuring out how to peacefully defeat a government coup… with no money or influence, in a media environment that’s highly filtered and even just censored at times.
We don’t know how many US soldiers have died in this war. When news happens that doesn’t fit the MAGA narrative, networks don’t air it.
Short of “hoping the guard rails hold” or marching up to the white house in massive droves à la World War Z or something… I don’t see how we stop them.