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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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Too fucking bad.
Your regret is worth no more than any regret expressed by US voters who voted for Chump.
Like those US voters, you knew what you’d get, you were warned, you were told, and you ignored all of that and did it anyway for whatever chickenshit reasons you may have had at the time.
Fuck. Right. Off. Shove your “guilt/regret/whatever” straight up your collective ass.
Fucking tired of Dems “saying the right things” and saying it too late when they can’t undo what they did and are simply attempting to rehabilitate their reputation. You have no reputation to rehabilitate, you ultimate performative cowards.
🤦♀️ 🤡 🫏 🖕 💩
As a minority party with essentially no control of anything your only job is to make the majority’s job as hard as possible and they couldn’t even do that!
Don’t worry, as soon as Trump crosses Schumer’s red line of disregarding the supreme court the Democrats will spring into action!
… They’ll spring into action any day now
… Any day now
Democrats: 🦗🦗🦗
What do you mean? Theyre acting right now to address the wild chaos of the Trump admin and calling their stock brokers as we speak
They’ll spring into action by waving a finger at him and going tsk tsk
Hey, easy now. The Supreme Court already said there’s no need for that
I hard disagree with what you said, but you are also correct with the political situation.
A minority party in a normal world shouldn’t only be obstructionist. They should ideally all work together to make the best outcomes for the constituents. This is a functional democracy.
Now that our democracy is in absolute decay on the path to a fascist takeover (if not already there), you are absolutely right.
Maybe pedantic, but I feel like it’s important to remember how things should function.
Good morning, idiots. Did it never cross your little minds that a Trumpist candidate could be anything but pure shit on legs?
Wow who could have seen this one coming from 6 months away? Certainly not everyone except establishment Democrats.
Primary these useless fuckers.
I can’t even read this shit anymore. I’m almost more furious with the Democrats than the republicans at this point. Every single nominee should have been a knock-down, drag-out fight. We’d be better off with an empty cabinet than the array of lickspittles and lunatics in there now.
It’s really bad when Tulsi Gabbard is one of the only trustworthy people in the administration.
Not directing this to you, specifically, but if you’re in the US and you feel similarly, please please please use this anger at this “slow” part of the political cycle to get involved in your local political scene.
This can look like uplifting people who align with your values in political organizations, volunteering in a specific candidate’s campaign to get them on the primary ballot, or even running for a local office yourself (yes you, even if you don’t think you’re qualified).
The people doing this “unsexy” work between elections are the people who eke out actual change. They always need more support during this time, and by becoming involved, you can see the impacts of your efforts, and get the right kind of people on primary ballots.
When these people win local and state offices, they build momentum (read: fundraising) and gain political experience they can leverage to run for even higher offices.
It’s still a lot of work, and it’s slow, but it’s the realistic, proven path to affecting politics when you’re not a nepobaby, a constitutional law professor, or a D-list celebrity.
All that being said, I very much support other activism for fighting the creeping threat of total fascism in the meantime as well.
Knock down drag out fight ends the same way in the same amount of time. Noem got 50 Republican senators that voted for her. That’s an automatic win for her unless Vance went against Trump’s pick.
They only need 51 if there are 50 against, and there wasn’t, some Republicans sat out as well. In the end they are dumbasses for bitching but their efforts wouldn’t change the vote with her
She shot a puppy for acting like a puppy.
What part of that makes you think she’s a sane and rational human being able to run a huge government organization and not want to cause harm to fellow humans?
She’s fucking broken just like the rest of them.
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.
WTAF. This is some real Susan Collins type of energy.
Did they furrow their brows? Wring their hands?
I hope they all get primary’d.
Oh my fucking god the DNC is so goddamn feckless. It damages my calm whenever I think about it.
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
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!
i hope you get to tell this to a tribunal that tries you for cooperating with fascists once this is over
Everybody that has voted while Trump is president should be voted out. If they voted for any approval or confirmation, fuckin voted out.
They sold out our nation.
This is a purity test I 100% endorse and appreciate.
THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE VOTED TO CONFIRM HER IN THE FIRST PLACE. OUR OWN PARTY IS FULL OF DUMBASSES.
But mUH dECoRuM1!1
It’s not our party. But it could be after the primaries.
Pretty simple test. Did you ever vote for a Trump nominee? Yes? GTFO, we don’t give a fuck why
What are you going to do different than previous primaries?
Encourage progressives to run against Republicans in GOP primaries. These are the only congressional ballots that matter in my home state.
That was not being done in previous primaries?
Indeed. Though I’m not sure we could without finding some way to do this without shooting ourselves in the foot at every turn. No politician in any party incumbent or not should go without a primary challenge. But so many are hyper focused on Purity tests that don’t accomplish anything.
I’d like to invoke the inverse of Hanlon’s Razor with respect to US federal politicians.
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.
It’s far too late to put up a fight now, establishment dems. We needed that 6 months ago.
