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.