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.
Similar things could be said about the UK.
Except things are way worse in the US than in the UK (as bad as they are there).
Sure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not getting worse in the UK as well. I haven’t seen much action on the UK’s part either, but unlike most people leaving comments like the one I replied to, I’m willing to admit that I don’t live there to see what people are doing on a daily basis.
They’re getting worse elsewhere BECAUSE YOU ARE SITTING ON YOUR ASSES.
You spent a century belligerently giving everyone else the finger and crowing about how fighting authoritarianism was the one thing you’re better at than everyone else. Yeah, fascism will spread to our countries topic but at least before that happens MAGA will give you what you deserve.
And british people tend to react when things get bad.
Americans arguably have the most effective tools at their disposal and aren’t doing anything
Do they? They’re getting bad right now, and yet, I’ve not seen much reacting.
Do you see the problem here? If you’re not in it, you cannot possibly know for sure what the average person is doing. Not when our media is owned by the same fascist billionaires.
Americans may have guns, but we also have the highest funded military. The military is controlled by the very fascist we need to fight against. Plus, Trump is counting on violence before the midterms so he can stomp out all opposition domestically. Is that something you’d want, the opposition dead so he truly has full control?
What has the UK done that’s anything like this? You’re actually crazy if you think the situations are comparable.
There are enough people protesting the treatment of Palestine now that the upcoming Prime Minister already feels the need to call out the way his predecessor treated the issue. I don’t see enough protests in the US for things that affect them directly, let alone for things that affect people thousands of kilometres away. What happened to the energy behind BLM? You guys need it now more than ever.
In Western Washington, the protests have not stopped. There are daily protests at the ICE facility in Tacoma. There are constantly people on overpasses waving Palestinian flags. There are people marching in Seattle nearly every weekend, protesting selling weapons to Israel.
This is happening not just in Seattle, but in all major cities. People in Texas got slapped with terrorism charges under the premise of “antifa operatives”. People in New Jersey are being arrested every day at the ICE facility there. People have organized against ICE locally, giving out free whistles to blow when ICE is spotted. Portland has also been in constant protest mode, so much so that the feds felt the need to shoot tear gas on elementary school property.
The media is generally owned by the billionaires, who intentionally hide grassroots campaigns here. Just because it’s not reported on, does not mean it’s not happening.
Similarly, I don’t see protests happening in the UK being reported on very much here. Likely by design. It gives the appearance of nothing happening. This is the problem of relying on media to tell you what’s happening in a fascist takeover. The reporters are gagged, forced to drop stories, and getting layed off.
Unlike the UK, we’re further along in our fascist take over. The government has no sense of what “stepping down” or “impeachment” means anymore. They don’t care.
I get that the mainstream media might be suppressing the news about these things, but surely there are plenty of independent media reporting on them. So far, I haven’t heard about people being arrested everyday for protesting in America like I am hearing about in the UK, which I also hear mostly from independent media. It might just be the algorithm not showing me, so can you give me some sources to read?
And I hardly ever hear about protests in the UK from western Washington state. Shocking, right?
I ask for sources, not for people to repeat things me and the other guys already discussed. What is the point of this comment, again?
This is so weird, here in America where I get local news affiliates, Facebook posts, videos, there are thousands, maybe tens of thousands of active protests around the country.
Delaney hall has managed to break through the national news embargo multiple times. But part of this fascist takeover is to do their best to reduce the impact of these protests.
You are repeating back our propoganda to us, which is hilarious. Americans are doing nothing? Americans are being harmed every day by ice, dhs, the military and national guard, and local and state police every single day and yet they still protest.
Trust me, it’s pretty fucking lit out here, but it’s also a big place, and these things can seem very far away depending on who and where you are. Like a fucking British person, you tool.
Here’s a fun exercise on how to spot propoganda. A fence is going to be put up around Lafayette park near the Whitehouse. You’ll see it listed as a popular staging area for protests with no current pictures, maybe a picture of a few people waking around a tumbleweed, why do they need a fence then? Like take 5 minutes and pull your head out of your ass.