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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t know what to say that would make you feel better. I just hope you get your wish, someday.
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.