Senate lawmakers on Tuesday night confirmed a controversial nominee of President Donald Trump to a lifetime judge position.Emil Bove was nominated for a federal judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He previously acted as U.S. deputy attorney general and was a central figure ...
  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    2 months ago

    Once all these pieces of shit are lodged in our government theres no going back without bloodshed. This is going to fuck us for years to come.

    • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
      91·
      2 months ago

      On election day, I said this only ends in civil war. No dictator has ever voluntarily left power. In my opinion, California then Oregon and Wahington, will attempt to secede from the US since they have to now pay for all the services that the fed no longer pays for. If not, we’ll start to see an organized resistance conducting strategic guerrilla raids on ICE and the camps.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      16·
      2 months ago

      Seriously. If you can’t get at least 70% to agree, 80% for fewer than 10 people voting, then find another guy.

  • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    Well this is a particularly bad mistake at a quite inopportune time, I feel like. Silver lining, perhaps: a lot of crazy shit is unfolding in front of a public that is becoming more aware of how bad of an actor the current president is showing himself to be, and he might be in real danger of losing control of his base in numbers that matter.

    Voting season will be a proving ground. I am hoping midterms have a strong and resolved response to this shit and the results are outside margins of error. I can’t accept the alternative, it’s too sad a prospect to really process right now. I really do think a fair vote will reveal the resilience of our democracy. I really fucking hope we have free and fair elections for midterms. I think we will, I hope beyond hope we do, I am asserting we will and now reality must bend to my will, we will. I hope.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I thought that a lot. I think we simply don’t understand how utterly pervasive this propaganda network is. Children, raised on Rush Limbaugh, now have children who follow skeezy podcasters.

      With corporate news being the sewer it is, I don’t think we’re going to get out of here. Some major media change is going to have to happen and that’s never happened in anyone-here’s lifetime.