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.
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.
That’s simply because impeaching trump is a lot harder. They are in fact talking about it too tho
Removing either is equally as hard, requiring a simple majority.
Both having the same vote requirements doesn’t mean they’re equally hard
Either requires republicans to break rank and suffer the same consequences from the party leadership.
No, a simple majority is needed in order for the House to impeach. A supermajority in the Senate is then needed to convict.
A simple majority in both to do anything that will have any effect on policy, eg not theater.
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Third time’s the charm!
They have … https://algreen.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-al-green-files-resolution-impeach-president-trump-abuse-power-and
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“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.
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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.
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I gave a path to success. What is your suggestion?
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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.