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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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[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Same for voting for any of trumps nominees

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

And yet EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT has voted to confirm at least one of Trump's nominees.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Indeed. Any Democrat who voted for that piece of shit should be primaried.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Better, they should resign, go home, and self-immolate.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhaahahahahaha

Do nothing democrats holy shit my god I can’t breathe

America is hopeless

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 it in cases where you could have.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

trump was

Literally a plot by the clinton campaign, yes. They thought he'd be an easy win, even for her, after ratfucking sanders.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

i hope you get to tell this to a tribunal that tries you for cooperating with fascists once this is over

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[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago

Good morning, idiots. Did it never cross your little minds that a Trumpist candidate could be anything but pure shit on legs?

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 in so long they don't remember how to do it.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

There aren't even close to enough votes to impeach.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

You are probably correct. It should still be proposed. 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.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

WTAF. This is some real Susan Collins type of energy.

Did they furrow their brows? Wring their hands?

[-] [email protected] 242 points 2 days ago

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.

🤦‍♀️ 🤡 🫏 🖕 💩

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

"We wouldn't had confirned her if we knew about her massive cocaine habit."

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

Oh my fucking god the DNC is so goddamn feckless. It damages my calm whenever I think about it.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

We need a general strike

We need an opposition party

We need to arm ourselves

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 146 points 2 days ago

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!

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Ya don’t say…..

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

“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?

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago

Wow who could have seen this one coming from 6 months away? Certainly not everyone except establishment Democrats.

Primary these useless fuckers.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago

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.

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