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Support among House Democrats for impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is skyrocketing, nearly doubling in the last week to 100 co-sponsors.

That’s an unprecedented level of support for an impeachment effort during President Trump’s second term, with lawmakers who have bristled at the topic in the past now warming to the idea.

Kelly is urging Republicans to get on board with her efforts — even as no GOP lawmaker has come close to expressing support for Noem’s impeachment.

“As Secretary Noem continues to lie, obstruct Congress, and violate people’s civil rights, the support for her impeachment only grows,” she said.

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    3 days ago

    It seems a little silly to me that they are talking about impeaching her, but not also Trump. Like who do they think she will be replaced with? My bet is someone worse. If Trump didn’t want what ICE is doing they wouldn’t be doing it.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      It’s all performance.

      If the Democrats didn’t want ICE and domestic chaos that will pave the way for more corporate involvement in all our lives, it wouldn’t have happened.

      We have one party with two narrative faces. They all have the same donors, they all serve the same masters. The rest is just WWE theatrics.

      • Triasha@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        “if Democrats didn’t want ICE and domestic chaos it wouldn’t have happened”

        This is absolute bullshit. When democrats controlled the white house and Senate this didn’t happen. The parties are not the same and the constant refrain that they are is a malicious lie. The only beneficiaries of this kind of both sides FUD are the nazis.

        • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          There were more deportations under Dems, the difference between the parties is how they present themselves and what methods they go about plunging the nation into neo-liberalism. I implore you not to be naive about this very, very well-established system for manipulating the attitudes and feelings of a half billion people.

          I am not saying don’t empower Democrats, the DNC is just a container, we vote out the previous contents of that container and put new contents in. It has worked before and we need to do it again.

          Unless you actually, truly, in your heart believe that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and their contemporaries are looking out for you. If you do, I can’t help you, but I’m sure they will hear your support when you’re in the camps.

          • Triasha@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            Did I say anything good about Chuck schumer or Jeffries?

            I think I said Schumer was a corporate shill that needs to be primaried. They are both genocide enablers and should be run out of Congress.

            • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              They are both genocide enablers and should be run out of Congress

              Exactly.

              Now what about all the other dems who follow DNC leadership who were “just following orders?”

              Have you watched major votes on policy? Dems are complicit either in leadership or as a whole, but it doesn’t matter because if you follow evil orders you are also evil.

                • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 day ago

                  No you didn’t, at least not to me. I was the one giving prescriptive statements (Vote out all incumbent democrats, elect new people who represent our values and aren’t beholden to the same donors) you just pushed back on it like I was suggesting we elect more Republicans.

                  • Triasha@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    1 day ago

                    I said “primary all the DINOS and corporate shills.” I gave 3 examples, but by the end of the line that could end up being everyone. AOC, Bernie, and Now Mamdani don’t have their hands clean, just cleaner than their colleagues.

                    The US system has two rounds of voting. The primary and the general. When you say “vote them out” it sounds like you are calling on voters to put Republicans into power to punish the Democrats.

                    That never works and it results in harms like we are seeing now.

                    Maybe you mean “vote green or some other third party” but even then, the American Green party is funded and supported by Moscow as a means to destabilize politics over here. Trying to grow a third party is even more magical thinking than my plan,which is already puenin the sky but it’s the only thing that has worked since 1860.

                    Voters in my country are dumb. Even politically engaged voters who read Lemmy threads. You need to be specific because there is always a right and a wrong choice even when they both suck.

                    Vote them out is a call to support their opponents in the general election. Vote third party is a call to support the policies opposite to what you want.

                    “Primary them” is a call to move the party to what you want.

                    If you want a general strike until they meet our demands, well, the third party idea is more likely to work than that.