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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] 241 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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] 146 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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: 🦗🦗🦗

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They'll spring into action by waving a finger at him and going tsk tsk

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Why do we keep electing sellout Democrats who won’t even do their jobs? We haven’t even had a real primary in 17 years.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I'll bite. Because on the whole they vote our positions more than the red team would. Are they a good fit for my politics? Nope, but they're usually the least bad option in the general.

That said we need to primary these fucks every time.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To your latter point- if people show up to vote at all they don't usually show up to primaries.

Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which fills up first. People aren't voting every single election and just hoping someone great shows up. Well newsflash- you gotta show up first.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

To your latter point- if people show up to vote at all they don't usually show up to primaries.

And this is the problem right here. You should be voting at least once a year and paying fucking attention to who the candidates are and their platform

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

We have a similar problem in Canada. A lot of us wanted to vote NDP but felt we had to vote liberal to avoid the risk of vote splitting leading to a conservative win. This problem could be avoided with ranked choice voting like they have in Australia, which our last prime minister promised to give us but he gave up on it.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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] 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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 week ago (9 children)

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] 51 points 1 week 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] 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hope they all get primary’d.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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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[–] phoenixz 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (7 children)

THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE VOTED TO CONFIRM HER IN THE FIRST PLACE. OUR OWN PARTY IS FULL OF DUMBASSES.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm half convinced the DNC is a conservative psyop

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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] 27 points 1 week ago

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

Did they furrow their brows? Wring their hands?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We need a general strike

We need an opposition party

We need to arm ourselves

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What the fuck did these useless cunts think would happen?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

They passed the buck and hoped some other guardrail would do their job for them

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week 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] 16 points 1 week ago

We ALL told you not to vote for her you spineless loser.

It's simple - no Democrat should cast a single yes vote for ANY MAGA legislation, ever.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Primary the lot of them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

It's far too late to put up a fight now, establishment dems. We needed that 6 months ago.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Like RFK Jr no Democrat should have found her qualified from the outset. I’m glad that Kaine is very disappointed with her though. Maybe he’ll self soothe with some finger wagging.

[–] Coolbeanschilly 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Americans, pay attention. Both parties are selling you out. This is evidence. Republicans, their approach, while brutal, is refreshingly honest.

Democrats merely pretend they care about you. They don't. They, like the Republicans, only wish to continue playing the game at your expense. If they actually cared about you, Rove v. Wade would have been enshrined as a Constitutional right ages ago, rather than used as a political football.

Time to create REAL alternatives for yourselves.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Primary them by all means but not supporting an alternative against the current gov is supporting the fascist status quo.

Need to support AOC and Bernie to overall that party while the stupid FPTP system exists.

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[–] Archangel1313 13 points 1 week ago

If they weren't capable of seeing this coming, then they should not be in a position to make these decisions.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Who knew the Meth Gnome aka Noem who is a piece of shit, nominated by a piece of shit; would be a piece of shit?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (21 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Oh fuck off Democrats.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah no fucking shit

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Talk is cheap. Change your actions if you actually care.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I swear, this country has one party of ‘no regerts’ and one party of ‘in hindsight it was the wrong choice.’ Really great that you see the mistake, but you keep making it.

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