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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.

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The fact that this is not a party line vote for democrats shows you how completely amoral the Democratic leadership is.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

This has not been voted on to my knowledge. This article is just about the cosigners officially submitting the bill.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago
[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's all symbolic, which is what DC Democrats specialize in. We have a one-party authoritarian state, and the Ruling Party will never allow it.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I can't understand why people don't see this. Democrats in the minority sure are fighters, but oh darn, they just don't have the numbers, so vote harder next time! Democrats in the majority suddenly have to be super diplomatic, lest they ruffle feathers across the aisle and lose cooperation with the political party that rarely cooperates. Keep voting hard and they'll get there, eventually!

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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

This doesn't matter. It wont get a vote in the house or the senate without republican support. Republicans still refuse to defy their cult leader, so nothing will change until they either realize they are going to prison, or that they will lose all of their money.

The only things politicians care about is money and control, they refuse to lose both.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

It doesn't even have full democrat support.

This is more kayfabe, this isn't real. We have ONE party in power, with two public facing personas.

I wish people actually looked at the money and realized that republicans and democrats all have the SAME FUCKING DONORS.

If we want to beat this, we have to flush every incumbent out of office and start fresh. We need community and organization and grassroots like they did in New York but all over the goddamn nation.

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[–] FE80@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The only reason Democrats are supporting this is because its failure is ensured.

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well ya, with a 100 out of 535 its nothing.

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[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Once again the controlled opposition plays lip service to what the people want. What’s the over/under on this effort dying and then going “welp, we tried! There’s nothing we can do”

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I certainly understand, and even agree with that opinion, but there IS a strategic objective possible.

The MAGA Senate will likely let her off the hook, and they'll have to run against that vote in November, when she will only be more reviled, and her poison will be dripping on anyone associated with her.

And there is always the remote possibility that enough MAGA Senators are tired of the nightmare, and decide to vote to convict her. If they do, and it looks likely to happen, the rest will all jump, too.

That's exactly what happened with the Epstein Files vote. It was supposed to get covered up, but everyone ended up voting FOR it in this exact scenario - because they didn't want to run against a No on Epstein. We have to make them fear a No on the Puppy Killer.

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago (13 children)

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.

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 days ago (6 children)

That's simply because impeaching trump is a lot harder. They are in fact talking about it too tho

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[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Third time's the charm!

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Not only the Dog Murderer, the whole fucking lot needs to GTFO!

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Send her ass to the hauge

[–] itistime 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It will change nothing, but still should be done for our collective conscience and historic record that we didn’t want this

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The only thing this will show is which Democrats will side with Noem and/or Trump.

[–] itistime 3 points 6 days ago

I that is an important metric

[–] MuteDog@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wait, they didn't all want to impeach her after like the first week?

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 5 days ago

Hey I mean we could use a trebuchet, but I guess impeachment is... fine...

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago

Stop talking about it and fucking do it. People are dying in the streets every day.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (4 children)

What about trump? Impeach trump... remove him from office for being a dumb old super idiot man baby... why do we care about this person when the root of the problem is still running the USA....

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Let's not let the perfect get in the way of the good tho

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[–] jellygoose@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (5 children)

He only has a couple months left to live anyways

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

So does American democracy

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

He's like fusion research, he's always a comple of months away from exploring, and he never does.

His zombie hand doesn't seem to be getting on with the job.

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They won't sacrifice their current golden lamb even if it's make a lot of things shit. But Kristi, she's a sacrificial cow. They'd happily throw her under the bus to install another puppet to take the blame.

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[–] BanaramaClamcrotch@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

The democrats are totally feckless

[–] genericuser2000@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

And absolutely nothing will happen. Nice job America!

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Do it! Quit fucking around!

[–] brooke592@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Civil disobedience is the only answer going forward.

Start forming your own governments with your own laws. Ignore the 'legitimacy' of the US oligarchy as much as possible.

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Shouldn't we want to impeach every Republican in any office ever for any reason? It's not like they've ever done anything that want literally being a terrorist.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago

While I hope for the best, I have low expectations of our timeline.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Krusty Gnome is a birdlegged ho

[–] spizzat2@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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