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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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[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Vote Drumph and his various human shaped Cabinet butt plugs out of power first. As shockingly bad as the dems are, the GOP is still far worse.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not a Trump fan. But I've been an adult long enough to remember this being said about just about every election. That yeah we should do better we will eventually do better but not this time, right now it's most important to get rid of the other party or make them lose the election no matter what. It's the same thing every few years.

It's like hitting the snooze button over and over and over again, if you keep hitting it eventually your alarm times out or you just end up late for work.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 13 hours ago

Propaganda is one hell of a drug, ain't it?

[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Nobody said they weren't, but they amount to the same problem in reality. I'm also tired of doing the same thing over and over and expecting new results. We've done it your way for decades and all they do is capture all leftward pressure and defuse it. Forcing our march ever rightward. They work for the owner class, not for you or me.

We're in this situation because of your line of thinking. On average there are 40% of eligible voters that don't vote, and that's in the Presidential race only. It's much higher for nearly all offices, outside of the ones we vote on every 4 years. I believe this apathy is brought about because these people see no value in voting, as it changes nothing meaningful in their lives. This isn't to say that they weren't better, but anytime they had to make progressive moves, they make conservative ones that benefit the owner class.

At some point it's time to wake up and do something different.

Edit: Typos

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago

Nope. Your line of thinking keeps him in power forever. Drumph must GO, asap. Worry about the rest afterwards.