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.
And when CBP, the national guard, and police show up and shoot everyone when Trump declares martial law (you know, exactly what Trump wants before the midterms)? What then? I’m taking notes.
You surround them and take their shit as soon as they show up. Yes some people are going to get hurt, but thats already happening anyways isnt it. Revolution does not come quietly
No, no- Americans don’t want to be told what they need to be doing. They want to be given easy performative bullshit that requires zero risk or sacrifice but telegraphs to everyone that they’re “one of the good ones.”
Pieces of shit pretty much to the last individual, and at this point they deserve whatever MAGA has planed for them.
see the Maidan Uprising, no need to take notes, ask Ukrainian’s.
The point is to show up in large enough numbers that it doesn’t matter.
Revolts aren’t without risk, and typically bloody.
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?
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?