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An impeachment effort against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem will "move forward," members of Congress are promising, after the effort was announced last week in the wake of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shooting a United States citizen in Minneapolis.

"We're gonna move forward to impeach Kristi Noem," Representative Angie Craig, a Minnesota Democrat, vowed during an interview with MS Now on Sunday.

In a press release, Democratic Representative Robin Kelly‘s office said that the 3 articles of impeachment would allege Noem "abused her office for personal benefit and steered federal dollars to associates," "willfully obstructed Congressional oversight and withheld Congressionally appropriated funds in violation of her constitutional oath and federal law" and "compromised public safety, violated due process of American citizens, and directed unconstitutional actions."

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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Who wants to bet that nothing will happen to her?

This is all just a show.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter. Some people will say things like "it'll fail but at least we'll have those names on record" but that doesn't even matter. Without the votes and knowing this will fail is just another insta-failure for democrats that falls onto the pile of recent failures. It'd be better to wait until after the midterms.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

My one friend Made the argument of why even pay attention if it didn't matter? It's history, nobody actually paid for Watergate or Iran contra.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

So most of us remember Noem's main claim to fame being that she executed her new puppy, after... not training it properly, and being annoyed by it.

Well I'd like to remind folks she was behind this ad campaign:

Nope, not a joke, not a photoshop, not AI hallucination... this was her baby, and it was real.

Finally... I present to you, ~~Kristi~~ Karen Noem:

Yeah thats from ~7 years ago, when she still had a vaguely human face.

If memory serves... she is still, herself, personally banned from setting foot on any Indian/Native Tribal land in the entire state of South Dakota, basically for consistently being a racist c*nt, consistently disrespecting any and all tribal attempts to keep their land clean from industrial waste.

EDIT:

(I've been told by a local from Rapid City that she also executed a goat in a similar violent outburst as with her new puppy... but I have not been able to verify this myself, with a citable print source.

Local told me that its not uncommon to basically just rent a or some goats as basically au naturale lawnmowers, which does make sense to me...

... but she apparently got annoyed by the bleating, and one day just shot someone else's goat, that she was renting, to be a lawnmower on her ranch.

... Yeah.)

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The goat story was in her book, as an extension of the puppy story. Once she shot the puppy in the face, she was all wound up on bloodlust, and decided to shoot the goat, too, because she thought it was disgusting.

MAGAs think that's funny.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

... wow.

Ok.

I thought some local may have been passing along a tall tale, fucking, nope, there is a print source, and it is Noem herself.

... yeah I haven't read her book.

This woman is a portrait of a violent antisocial psychopath.

Like, if you were poor, and you did this kind of shit, you'd get either imprisoned or institutionalized.

She also clearly has body dysmorphia, as demonstrated by her ... can we just call it 'Fox News Face' - affirming care?

[–] whitecollarcry@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

tips patriotism hat highly ironically

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey! Patriotism today means fighting for a sFer America. You ARE being patriotic by informing us of the failures of the state

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah I got my issues with America, but I'm a true believer in the enlightenment and I love that this country is philosophically grounded in enlightenment ideas and the idea that the state's ability to project force onto it's citizens should be limited. I know about our contradictions, and I'm disappointed as all hell in what we've done with ourselves in the past decades (and longer), but part of me loves this country and believes it could be better.

But first and foremost I'm an international anti fascist. I don't care that I love my home, it's fallen to the fascists and is attacking the world, I can love it again once it's been stopped.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 132 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Either way ICE receives three times more money in 2026

[–] hector@lemmy.today 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

200 billion in the bank already. Minus whatever they spent since summer.

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (16 children)

And remember the dems that voted in favor of that increase.

They need to be primaried out

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Thank you. I really cannot explain people being so adamant about hating Democrats to the point of lying unless they're intentionally gunning for a conservative agenda.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Did you forget the budget passed by senate democrats in 2025 still included massive increases in funding for ICE and DHS?

Edit: In order to maintain fairness I did make a mistake. They only approved a continuing resolution that allowed the previously approved FY25 funding to be used. Which was a massive increase

So we get to see what they do at the end of this month, but by passing the continuing resolution they were allowed months to operate at capacity.

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Are you forgetting the fillabuster? You have to look at the dems that allowed this to go to the floor for a vote at all.

It should have been killed before the official vote.

Also don't get bogged down on a budget increase approved by the "Big Beautiful Bill". That funding was only in place for 2 months before the end of the fiscal year.

The dems had every opportunity in October 2025 to reverse this and use the fillabuster. They didn't even mention it during the shutdown and ultimately caved. That was their chance. They decided not to take it

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[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Who cares? She will just ignore it. Unless you have some method of enforcement ready, nothing you say here will matter.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Impeachment is just pointless “respectability” politics intended to get decent people to step down out of respect for the position. The cult leader running this nonsense was impeached twice and guess what came of it? This is just another pointless show of theatrics, all sound and fury signifying nothing.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Impeachment is a necessary precursor to conviction and removal.

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[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump will pardon her, as long as she stays loyal.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You can't pardon an impeachment, it's not a criminal charge, it's about misconduct that can lead to removal from office.

That said, I'm split if this will lead to anything. The administration is suffering massive public outcry and pushback, they need to hang someone. But they're also prideful and dumb and might shoot themselves in the dick and let her stay in office.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like Trump cares about that. He will do it.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The algorithm may only feed us rage-bait and the worst news because it gets the most engagement, but it needs to be repeated that Trump's efforts have been shot down or blocked over and over, almost every day, by judges and the existing institutions. He can abuse the powers he has, but he can't bend the entire judicial system or he would stop burning through thousands of lawyers.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kristi Noem to Fox News Sunday this past weekend: "It's really, really horrific that we have elected officials that are using this as an opportunity to divide, using this to promote an agenda that fundamentally would take away our freedoms and our liberties in this country,"

God I hope so much that we make it through this, and she suffers terribly. Remember, this is just the beginning. By the time she is finally held to account for her crimes, it may very well not be an American court that decides her fate. God I hope they use a rope, and televise it. I know, extremely wishful thinking—every word of it. But this leftist bitch wants to see the day.

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[–] Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago

Trump will just sign an executive order saying 'lol no' the supreme Court will say 'yes Daddy' and that will be it.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (6 children)

And even if everything goes perfectly, what happens when she simply doesn't respond and continues working as usual? When she simply ignores it?

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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

He’ll just replace her with someone worse. This won’t end until they remove the tumor at the center of this all.

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Probably, but it's still much-needed actual retaliation against the regime. Doing nothing besides complaining helps even less. Wars aren't being won in an instant but as a result of many cumulative small victories.

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[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Woohoo, first woman impeached by Congress. MAGA busting traditional gender roles.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Waiting to hear what talking points Israel and/or billionaire donors gave the Chuck Schumer side of the Dems to inevitably oppose this, or put no real effort into it so it inevitably fails.

Whatever. They’ll just put another PoS Nazi in her place.

[–] ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not counting on anything being done. If she gets into any real trouble, the pigking will pardon

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can't pardon impeachment proceedings, only federal crimes. Not sure if anything will come from impeachment, but we need to understand the system even a little.

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