Going after a decorated vet and former astronaut for reminding servicemembers of their oaths.
Do they want Kelly to be President?
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It treat it like the Marines do. You're never a "former" astronaut once you earn the title. That's an accomplishment that a fraction of a fraction of humans currently alive will ever achieve.
It still gets me every time that this idiot, Kegsbreath, is still so determined to go after Kelly for simply reciting the UCMJ. Pathetic.
There is an expression the police use when they arrest you even though they know that they can't keep you.
"You can beat the charge, but you can't beat the ride."
Dragging Senator Kelly is the point regardless of the results.
That coupled with the apocryphal quote "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." should show why they are continuing their pursuit.
Alcoholic, latent, dangerously stupid and belligerently ignorant: Hegseth is the perfect face for this administration. It amazes me that he can’t see that he’s being set up to take the fall for all of these crimes.
Tell me you were planning to commit war crimes without saying you were planning to commit war crimes.
Although, they've also come out and bragged about doing things that are war crimes.
It's as if MAGA Republicans think they're poised for world domination or something.
Attacking free speech. Ffs. I am holding on to hope that this will not end bad.
It won’t stop until all the Nazis are dead.
Sadly, it goes beyond them.
People in here acting like Hegseth is being stupider than he is.
This is not about Kelly. Kelly may win a lawsuit, or more likely will settle, or some terrible extrajudicial fate may befall him.
Regardless, the message sent is crystal clear: none of the US military riff-raff can afford Kelly's lawyers. If you are employed by the U.S. military, you either unconditionally act as Supreme Leader D.J. Trump's personal militia in all matters up to and including shooting down peaceful protesters, or you spend the rest of your life in the brig, because the rule of law does not exist anymore.
Hegseth knows it, the military officers know it, the SCotUS loves it, the MSM pretends otherwise. That's the state of affairs and Hegseth is merely making it clear for the crayon eaters in the back.
I'd love to be proven wrong, but on the short list of potential good outcomes for 2026, the U.S. military taking a stand against tyranny is nowhere in there.
Why? We had enough traitors in the military to go through with the illegal invasion of Venezuela.