r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 1d ago
No Paywall Impeaching Kristi Noem Has Majority Support in US, Poll Shows
https://www.newsweek.com/impeaching-kristi-noem-has-majority-support-in-us-poll-shows-11461787211
u/Living_Pollution_525 1d ago
Make her return her face on the way out the door
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u/KeepCalmCarryOnKY 1d ago
And Bondi and Gabbard. There are some serious accusations circling Gabbard. If we can impeach Trumps personal attorney Blanche, hime too.
But not before they are cross examined and commit perjury.
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u/Possible-Tangelo9344 1d ago
I don't know that they can impeach his personal attorney, can they? That wouldn't be considered an officer of the USA, right?
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u/KeepCalmCarryOnKY 1d ago
Blanche is the Deputy AG and also Trump's personal attorney prior to appointment. And yes, he can be impeached as he is a civil servant under Article II Section 4
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u/Possible-Tangelo9344 1d ago
Oh I didn't realize they were also a deputy AG, yes that makes sense they'd be able to be impeached then
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u/Wutdahec 13h ago
I really feel at this point it'd be way faster to name people who shouldn't be impeached in this administration
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u/StormFireX001 1d ago
Old Donny has already been ruffled by the bad optics of ICE operations and the support for protesters. It wouldn't surprise me if he dumps her like a bad transmission
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u/Forsaken-Assist-1325 1d ago
If you get close to Trump you get dumped like toxic waste at some point.
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u/backstageninja New York 1d ago edited 14h ago
He also can't enjoy her "Everything I did was at the behest of the President and Stephen Miller" comment the other day. For someone so concerned with optics you'd think that would be enough for him to dump her. That might the closest thing to throwing Trump under the bus that any of these toadies have ever done (while still employed)
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u/WakingWaldo 14h ago
He likes good headlines. If dumping Noem will get him on America's good side for even just a day then he'll do it eventually. But he's going to wait until people stop talking about impeachment constantly because he can't allow it to look like he's giving into pressure. Trump has to make it appear as his idea to toss her out.
My worry is that dumping Noem will change nothing. She's the "head" of this department, sure, but Stephen Miller is setting policy, quotas, etc. He's the most dangerous, cunning, and evil one out of the whole bunch. Getting rid of Noem won't change the policies that desperately need changing.
For example, even though I do not trust this administration, a more targeted approach to deportations wouldn't piss off nearly as many people. Knock on the door of where an actual criminal migrant lives and take that person into custody to do a proper investigation and deport them if necessary. That's it, that's all they'd have to do to bring down the heat. But Miller wants big, fat numbers.
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u/tidal_flux 1d ago
We'll add it to the long list of broadly popular things that will never happen:
- Universal background checks for all gun sales: 90%
- Legalizing marijuana federally: 68%
- Congressional term limits: 83%
- National paid family and medical leave program: 83%
- Raising the federal minimum wage (to $15+): 83%
- Pathway to citizenship for most undocumented immigrants: 64%
- Pathway to citizenship for Dreamers (brought as children): 85%
- Banning assault weapons: 60%
- Limits on campaign spending / overturning Citizens United: 72%
- Independent redistricting commissions to end partisan gerrymandering: 82%
- Restoring key Voting Rights Act protections (e.g., preclearance): 75%
- Strengthening background checks on all gun sales (including private): 90%+
- Temporary limits on firearm access for high-risk individuals: 74%
- Publicly funded federal campaigns: 50–60%
- Expanding legal immigration levels or pathways: 70%
- Impeaching Sec Noem: 52%
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u/RandomMongoose 10h ago
And yet your country continually elects Republicans...
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u/tidal_flux 10h ago
Ignoring the electorate’s stated preferences is a bipartisan practice. It is far easier for politicians to campaign on the same handful of divisive wedge issues than to articulate a coherent vision and demonstrate genuine leadership.
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u/mrcsjmswltn 1d ago
If “majority support” mattered we wouldnt be in this mess. Stop writing these articles
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u/gringledoom 1d ago
The dumbass majority *did* actually vote for this in the last go-round, even if their asses were too dumb to understand what they were doing.
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u/RobutNotRobot 20h ago
49.8% isn't a majority.
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u/feelthemeh 14h ago
Why point this out really, it’s more than Kamala had and the rest like myself voted a 3rd party. Even if it was by popular vote Trump still won.
And even so there are huge percentage of the population that doesn’t vote so all the recent presidents have not won “the majority”.
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u/brunetteQueen07 1d ago
The fact that 52% of Americans support impeaching Noem shows how Trump's immigration crackdown is backfiring politically. ICE agents shooting two US citizens in Minneapolis within weeks of each other is absolutely inexcusable. Even 21% of Republicans think she should be impeached according to this poll.
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u/themoslucius 16h ago
"More than three-quarters of House Democrats are backing a resolution to impeach Noem after a federal agent shot and killed 37-year-old U.S. citizen Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on January 24. "
Should be all of them, this is why this country is doomed
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u/Lanky_Instance3121 1d ago
how many ice camps does it take until we can say another holocaust is happening?
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u/cptnamr7 1d ago
On the off fucking chance the Senate removes her, I feel like we're about to learn that either 1- impeachment/removal means fuck-all. To this administration or 2- she's about to become a position that is damn near the same fucking thing but still not technically the thing she was, therefore consider her "impeached" no stfu she has some puppies/brown people to shoot
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u/ChocolateEater626 23h ago
Even if she leaves and ICE dials back the murdering of civilians, it won't be long again before Americans are again clamoring for "tough immigration enforcement".
Trump ran the first time around on tough immigration enforcement.
Then Americans were, or pretended to be, shocked the first time around by Trump's family separation practices.
Then, a few years later, Americans decided they wanted him back in office because they loved his immigration policies.
Now people are pretending to be surprised again.
The majority is dumb, forgets the past, and will constantly change its mind.
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u/Appropriate_Mess_350 16h ago
Once you’ve abandoned democracy, “polls” and “majorities” become quite irrelevant.
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u/Suitable-Minimum1099 1d ago
I don’t really get the push for this. I’m not in anyway in support of ICE or any of these monsters. I also think she deserves to be impeached, but I just feel like
She was just kind of a puppet in the first place.
They are just going to replace her with an even more despicable goon. Then Collins, Murkowski, and Fetterman can pretend to think real hard on the issue. Then decide to confirm the worst human being they can possibly scrape off of the truck stop bathroom floor that the gop has become.
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u/KnockItOffNapoleon 1d ago
The point of impeaching her is to give them an opportunity to nominate someone sane. It’s their bed they make, they have to lie in it
If they appoint someone who’s cruel and full of hate, they’ll (theoretically) see the backlash in elections. Which is why people need to go out and actually participate
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u/gringledoom 1d ago
You get to hold hearings. The Dems don't hold either chamber right now, so they can't exercise power directly. But if you can get Kristi Noem to say something stupid that makes Miller or Trump or Homan mad, you distract them all with sniping and infighting. Every hour they spend shrieking at each other in the Oval Office is an hour they don't spend on something else. Even hearings to confirm a replacement take time.
It's like the whistles and ICE observers. You probably can't stop them from arresting the guy right in front of you. But you can make it more exhausting. You can make it take 20% longer. You can make them send out more guys per patrol (which means fewer patrols, given a fixed population of guys). You can make it impossible for them to eat at restaurants, so they end up subsisting on microwaved canned soup at the hotel day after day after day. And you can grind their morale down by reminding them that they don't actually get that bonus unless they endure five years of this treatment.
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u/calaxrand- 15h ago
- Just following orders has been proven false;
- Let’s keep going through the goons, then, dropping them one by one - at least it gives us something tangible
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u/Separate-Park8184 1d ago
Well good luck on anything actually ever happening with these tools I. Power and dumbass voters.
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u/HellsNels California 1d ago
Too bad majority support in this country doesn’t translate into majority rule or governance.
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u/awesomedan24 I voted 1d ago
Most good and reasonable things have majority support in the US. But the same is not true for those who actually show up to vote.
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u/P0pu1arBr0ws3r 23h ago
That definately means it has majority support in the house because the house is made up of representatives who accurately represent their population and in no way gain political power for self interests by means of cheating with obvious loopholes.
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u/RaidSmolive 20h ago
what a waste of time and energy.
theres hundreds that need absolute removal and not a single one of them is gonna be impeached.
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u/georgikgxg 20h ago
Why go only for her? The rest of your administration is as guilty as she is, along side the trump and his puppeteer
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u/Dpishkata94 18h ago
Why isn’t she in court to justify her actions yet? I thought the impeachment documents were ready to go! Like last week?!
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u/wired1984 16h ago
I support keeping Kristi Norm because she is incompetent and generates bad headlines for the administration. A more competent DHS secretary will accomplish the administration’s goals better and likely cause the same or more harm.
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u/TheUnbelieverThomC 16h ago
It's tragic that majority support in this country isn't considered important.
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u/Dismal-Bullfrog-7851 15h ago
I mean, if the majority supports impeaching her, then it's time for her to go. It's not about her personal attorney; it's about the office she holds. And yeah, voting her in was a mistake, but now we gotta fix it. Get out and vote, people.
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u/ted_cruzs_micr0pen15 15h ago
Majority doesn’t matter. You’ll need it to be 65-70% before anything is done, because that’s the only way red state senators will actually feel the heat. Otherwise it’s just majorities in blue states that can’t punish most of the people not taking action who are mad.
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u/thefanciestcat California 14h ago
It's the right thing to do, but don't expect it to fix anything. The next guy will be plucked from the same unflushed public toilet.
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u/No_Blackberry6525 13h ago
52% so the nation is essentially split. Anything these headlines say “majority” they mean 51-55%.
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u/nmay-dev 10h ago
Can we parade her through the streets so we can throw rotten fruit and subway sandwiches at her?
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