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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they’d now oppose her in the wake of Trump’s aggressive deportation plans and last week’s incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.
Five days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, seven Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
Nearly 5 months later, most of them are critical of her, with some going as far as to say they regret their votes.
“I’m very disappointed. I’m very disappointed in her,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week. “If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn’t vote for her.”
Freshman Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., also said he would vote differently and oppose her nomination if he could do it again.
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Is there a route for impeachment? I’m sure it won’t go anywhere with the Republicans in control of house n Senate, but at least get it on the record and get the country talking about her incompetence and psychopathy and how someone so unqualified ended up in that position
Embarrass the enablers as much as possible.
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Do nothing democrats holy shit my god I can’t breathe
America is hopeless
Come on, no one is this dumb. The senators knew they’d do this from the moment they voted to confirm. This is just premeditated political backtracking to fix as much damage as they can now that they’ve received their reciprocal favors.
Indeed. Any Democrat who voted for that piece of shit should be primaried.
If you’re that smooth brained that you voted for her you should be kicked out of office immediately and your post should be made available for somebody with an IQ that is larger than my shoe size.
There. Is. No. Excuse.
They were looking for reciprocal support. Only they also don’t have the guts to raise any issues thay could use it for.
oh noes
Ya don’t say……
Confirm or don’t confirm, it wouldn’t have mattered. Cabinet appointments cant be filibustered and only 3 GOP voted against any candidates, one of which was Mitch McConnell who voted against 3 separate cabinet picks, all of who passed easily except for Pete Hegseth who still passed but with a VP tiebreaker vote.
The Dems aren’t in charge of the senate. Their votes didn’t matter.
i hope you get to tell this to a tribunal that tries you for cooperating with fascists once this is over
Americans will pack the tribunal with judges instead of antifascists.
“We wouldn’t had confirned her if we knew about her massive cocaine habit.”
Technically Dems didn’t confirm her. Every dem voted nay on several cabinet picks, such as fox news anchor Pete Hegseth who also lost 3 GOP votes and was still confirmed.
Even those that voted to confirm Noem had a net zero impact.
Even those that voted to confirm Noem had a net zero impact
So then why vote for instead of against??
Better question, why waste time talking about it?
Yooo, Democratic Senators, fuck youuuu!
Signed, an independent US citizen who has repeatedly voted for your shitty controlled opposition candidates because it was glaringly obvious to me SEVERAL YEARS AGO that anything Trump brings to the table is significantly worse for humanity than your bland business as usual.
Like, Trump was so, so bad that in retrospect it makes more sense that HE was the controlled opposition so that status quo capitalist corporate democrats could win their elections and keep the people “happy enough” while letting the elites play their games.
But no. Now he is much worse, mask-off, nominating unqualified morons and traitors to help administrate the federal government, and you fuckups in the “at least we aren’t an openly bigoted death cult” party did not stop in in cases where you could have.
Have you considered that them not stopping it when they could have is because we didn’t vote for them later?
trump was
Literally a plot by the clinton campaign, yes. They thought he’d be an easy win, even for her, after ratfucking sanders.
WTAF. This is some real Susan Collins type of energy.
Did they furrow their brows? Wring their hands?
Maybe they’ll SLAM her on the news, that’ll show her!
These idiots whore themselves out for some meaningless perks to vote in someone that killed their puppy because it didn’t fetch. They’re realizing the perks weren’t worth it and trying to earn some sympathy which makes it so much worse. The ones that aren’t saying anything are sitting fat and happy roasting marshmallows over this dumpster fire.
