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.
Fucking protest at the very least. When other countries try authoritarian shit you have millions of people protesting in the capital for days on end.
We’ve been protesting weekly in Minnesota for half a year now. Since the ICE stuff started.
From the scarce videos I can find the weekly protests they appear to be in the order of dozens of people, not the hundreds of thousands or millions that are necessary to even have a chance at making a difference.
Great. You’re participating in democracy. That’s what you’re supposed to be doing during the BEST of times.
Try doing something.
Great, you’re expressing great frustration without explaining any specific details. That’s not what you’re supposed to do.
Try telling us what to do.
You’re not asking what to do. You’re asking what performative nonsense you can do that requires no sacrifice or risk on your part but allows you to feel less guilty. Fuck off.
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?
Edit: I’m clearly going to get down voted into oblivion, but that doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that if you are a US citizen, protest AFTER the upcoming election if you are going to do it. Especially if you are in a “red” state We need to remove as much of the veneer of legitimate as possible from this administration. If you protest now, there is a risk your vote gets removed. Don’t listen to dumb fucks from other countries who have no concept of the social issues of the US. They don’t even understand the moral, economic, and social issues around tipping. Their opinions are invalid. VOTE. It probably won’t work, but we can always protest etc. After. This act now right before midterms bs is just ignorance or psy-ops.
Original post below: He’s doing this to create civil unrest so he can declare martial law. You are suggesting people take action that aids that goal.
Unfortunatly we know your social issues more then our own. People can quote stuff from your constitution but not our own. We drown in the shit you putout.
Oh? Well just sit back and let the fascists take over without so much as raising a finger to stop them 👍
Ah yes, some 5d chess move to invoke martial law. From the same guy that has already deployed the national guard and has his goons shooting people daily.
HA!
What a shit eating people, you are already at that stage, this administration has clearly shown they need nothing based in reality to do anything. They just do it, and say things.
So In don’t get it? You say it well invoke Marshall law then say they don’t need a reason to invoke it.
What in the broken spell check are you trying to say? I can not parse it, sorry.
You cowards have been using this line for cover for more than a year now, and continue to be steamrolled every day.
Just keep your head down, yeah? Everything will just work out if you stay peaceful.
No, protests could (and should) have happened earlier. They also have.
The No Kings protests occurred but caused little social changes. Given that the US doesn’t have the same social support system of other countries, it is difficult for most people to protest for an extended time without essentially destroying their own life.
Due to rampant racism, the Black Lives Matter protests simply resulted in most white people taking personal offense instead of actually comprehending the systematic bias US society has against blacks and minorities.
Occupy Wallstreet lasted pretty long, but was co-opted by fringe social movement groups and homeless plants by police. And that happened during the presidency of everyone’s favorite Dep president darling, Obama.
My point is that protesting right now, during an election period, instead of just fucking voting doesn’t make much sense given that US society has very clearly marched to this point with everyone aware.
Afterwards, when the system clearly doesn’t work, and/if we are still fascist, sure let’s fucking riot.
With regard to the “coward” comment. If you aren’t in the US, you likely don’t have the same social political, economic, or societal factors in place so you can’t really judge.
Also, more crudely, if other countries had got off sucking US dick decades ago, it would have removed US soft power, wealth, and resources, and allowed internal social movements to have more weight. As example, we wouldn’t be able to amass such a large military if other countries hadn’t allowed the US to be their police. So, kindly fuck off and fix you own damn problems so we can do the same, though probably slower because of you cowardly enabling fucks.
I hate to burst everyone’s bubble, but if the elections aren’t free and fair, the protests don’t matter anymore.
We’re down to the last box, and I doubt the comfiest humans who’ve ever lived will give up all that comfort to do political violence and risk dying or spending life in prison.
We are all comfortably numb. Things have to get uncomfortable. Until then, the masses won’t do shit.
I’m not reading your excuses.