Democratic leadership announced their plans to play the 2013 Katy Perry song “Roar” very loud in response to the aggressive start of President Donald Trump’s second term.
  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    226·
    2 days ago

    Only if the appointees are bad (which, since it’s Trump and “stuff up the deep state” project 2025, there’s probably a lot of bad appointees). If we obstruct appointees that are good, we’ll just keep seeing the pendulum swinging when a new party comes into power.

    • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
      7·
      18 hours ago

      None of Trump’s appointees are good. If they were, they would refuse to serve under him.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
        16·
        18 hours ago

        Appointed federal judges do not have obligations to Trump and may strike down his orders.

          • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
            1·
            1 hour ago

            I do not think that is enough reasoning for claiming they’re incompetent for blocking their nominations. The Supreme Court has 2 or 3 problem justices, yes, but just look at the plethora of court cases against Trump with injunctions right now. Quite a bit of them were speedily decided under Trump appointees.

    • SmokeInFog@midwest.socialEnglish
      40·
      2 days ago

      I don’t believe you’re making that argument in good faith. Every one of his nominees have been ridiculous caricatures of stereotypical MAGA car salesman

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
        29·
        2 days ago

        There’s more appointees than Trump’s cabinet, which I agree is bad. There’s for example district court judges.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
        25·
        2 days ago

        IIRC he had like two or so with good credentials. The one replacing Lina Khan I think was surprisingly good.