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.

  • Snowies@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    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?

    • stephen01king@piefed.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • Snowies@lemmy.zip
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        2 days ago

        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.

        • stephen01king@piefed.zipEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Which comment of mine have you that impression? The first one in this specific thread was simply answering your question about what I’d recommend.

          My answer was in the context of the many comment on here about the difficulty of organising a general strike in America, and so I recommended for people to first gauge the level of awareness of the people closest to them on the severity of the situation and whether they have thought about participating in a general strike.

          Only with that knowledge would you know what the problem you’re dealing with, at least within your local circle, and what method you need to raise their awareness to your level. That’s all my point was.

          • Snowies@lemmy.zip
            1·
            2 days ago

            That’s reasonable.

            I’m just scared and angry and fucked up and I lashed out at you because it felt good.

            I hope I had no effect on your day. Sorry.

            • stephen01king@piefed.zipEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              It’s all good. I have no reason to stay mad at someone admitting fault and apologising. I hope you guys can improve your situation so that you don’t have to feel this scared and angry so constantly. I feel both just looking in from the outside, so I can’t imagine how much worse it feels like from the inside.

              • Snowies@lemmy.zip
                2·
                2 days ago

                You have no idea.

                I’m an Army Veteran actually, and this whole thing pisses me off so much.

                I feel like the America I was sold in my younger years is gone and it’s become so warped and twisted that it’s not even recognizable.

                But another part of me knows that a lot of what I believed was actually never true, in retrospect.

                I want to feel proud of my country again one day.

                  • Snowies@lemmy.zip
                    1·
                    2 days ago

                    Your patience with an antagonistic stranger is all the warmth and hope I need for a good while.

                    Thanks for taking the time and risk being real with an anonymous internet person.