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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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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.
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.
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.
“I’m very disappointed. I’m very disappointed in her,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week.
What timeline had you excited about her?
Good morning, idiots. Did it never cross your little minds that a Trumpist candidate could be anything but pure shit on legs?
Exactly. This is why I have so little respect for Democrats these days. They go on TV and call red alert and say Trump is awful and Trump is horrible and we all have to do everything we can to oppose Trump, and then they go ahead and rubber stamp his candidates and his agenda, refusing to use political options that are very much open to them create the opposition they are so loudly claiming is necessary.
If Trump is truly that awful, they could simply refuse to confirm his candidates, make them fight tooth and nail and bargain with them for every single vote.
But they did not. So the only conclusions are either a, they did not actually feel Trump was awful and all the red alert press conferences were just performant political theater, or b, they have not actually stood up for real principle or wielded real power and so long they don’t remember how to do it.IMO, it was performative. I think the Democratic Party for the most part is controlled opposition for the owner-class. It’s foolish to continue to support them, or really any facet of this oppressive government.
Clean 'em all out and let’s build anew.
Yup. We need a new party, with the goal of overhauling the political system so that we aren’t stuck with Geronocrats nor Turdpublicans. First past the post has led to being forced to choose between a log and diarrhea.
We need a general strike
We need an opposition party
We need to arm ourselves
Build a support network in your community.
Start yesterday if you can. Start doing it now if you can’t.
Start a garden, make tools, do whatever you can to make you and your neighbors a little more self sufficient.
We need a general strike. We need to be prepared first
DNC has proven their uselessness over and over. You can only send so many strongly worded letters. How many hearing do they need where they berate the person and nothing changes. They are complicit at this point. They are just fine with everything that is happening. All they do is theater to show how “upset” they are.
Yeah no fucking shit
Oh my fucking god the DNC is so goddamn feckless. It damages my calm whenever I think about it.
I’m half convinced the DNC is a conservative psyop
The Democrats are a conservative party. They want to get back to the days when the parties had no ideological differences and were just clubs that voters picked personalities they liked most.
That ended during the progressive era, when some politicians (in both parties) got ideas about making the country better for working class people. The Republicans had more friends that were rich as fuck so they started propaganda campaigns among Republican voters and the progressive Republicans were primaried out of office.
Now the Democrats are stuck with the leftist label they don’t really want. Some of their voters do, but only some. American voters want leftist policies to be enacted but are allergic to leftist politicians and organizing.
At some point we will have to recognize that they are not feckless, they are working in concert.
Enhance your calm, John Spartan!
the DNC is as hostile to the american people as Republicans are. Its time to stop pretending they arent, the DNC is just a weaker, more pathetic arm of the RNC
Thats the dumbest pile of garbage I read all week. The republicans are actively destroying your country, using the military against protestors, ignoring rulings made by judges and much more.
Democrats are not fighting hard enough against it but to claim they are both the same is insanity. Srsly americans really are so stupid, they deserve everything they get.
And thanks to democrats voting alongside with confirming a lot of positions and other things republicans wanted, They were able to do that.
So how about you fuck off with this hand wringing bullshit about the poor innocent democrats who are inviting the nazi’s to sit at their table, to eat, and be merry?
They may not be the “same”, but the outcome over the arc of several congressional terms and presidential administrations effectively is. No fascist power comes to primacy without a neoliberal faction suppressing policy reforms for the working class and coordinating with fascists to protect corruption.
Now, take it with grain of salt but as far as I, as a outsider, see it…
The biggest difference between Democrats and Republicans is the amount of balls. Republicans have the balls, and are willing to smack them to the wall to get what they want.
Democrats instead prefer to taking the easiest possible way out and not do anything. But at the end of the day, both are liking where this circus is going.
GFY u POS.
Zero (D) should’ve helped confirm anyone.
What a mov of spinelss shits.
If they want to say they’re sorry, there are more meaningful ways: resignation, or better yet, seppuku. Self-immolation is not recommended since it adds to air pollution.
