Zwei republikanische Senatoren warnen Pete Hegseth vor der Bestrafung von Mark Kelly

Susan Collins is all talk, no action.

>Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who has jurisdiction over the Pentagon’s budget as chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, said it’s not “appropriate” to target Kelly’s retired rank or pension because of the video urging members of the military to defy orders they view as unlawful.

>“I don’t think that’s appropriate,” Collins said Monday of the proceedings Hegseth announced earlier in the day against Kelly, a retired Navy captain who flew 39 combat missions as a naval aviator and four space missions as an astronaut.

>Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) called the Pentagon’s censure of Kelly “ridiculous,” even though he strongly criticized the Democrats’ video urging service members to ignore orders they view as unjust or illegal.

>“That video was rage bait … but my gosh, he is a U.S. senator who operates in a political world,” Tillis said, according to a reporter for HuffPost.

>“I think it has a chilling effect on speech, and I’ve got a real problem with it. And I think Hegseth overreached,” Tillis warned.

Collins and Tillis know that all Hegseth is doing here is making Kelly a better and better prospect for a 2028 presidential run.

Hegseth is unqualified. They know that. Ask yourself the next question.

„Hey Guy, you’re breaking the law so you can go to war with Venezuela for funsies. If you publicly “ punish“ an actual proper warrior, people will think even less of you, but none of us will do anything about it, aside from some fabricated „warning“ to you so that people think we actually care about anything other than our pocketbooks. So we’re going to „caution“ you against taking such bold moves that were telegraphed before our daddy even took office.“

-GOP Reps/Senators

Ooo a strong cautioning to! That’ll teach em.

Someone should inform Tom Tillis what ridicules is.

Such as the president attacking Venezuela, claiming he needs to take over Colombia, Cuba, Greenland, Canada….Thats fucking nuts Tom. Wake the fuck up republicans.

….and do nothing but talk about it

‘My fellow service members, don’t break the law!’
You’re fired.

Did we get TWO strongly worded letters this time!?

How about the retirement benefits he yanked from Trans-military members who served honorable just for being Trans, Susan?

You think you could stand up for the front line people too?

This is going to backfire on MAGA. It is propelling Mark Kelly to the forefront of the media. I don’t think MAGA is going to benefit from having a literal war hero and astronaut as the Democrats‘ standard bearer. He’s not a blue-haired liberal that is easy to caricature. (No offense to my blue haired liberal friends). His wife is a beloved political figure who is a survivor of a mass shooting.

This is one case of when your opponent is messing up, just let them.

Until Republican senators start going en masse on TV and saying ‚we will not stand by while the executive branch tries to eliminate us as a co-equal branch‘ then nothing will change. The senate used to be an adversary to the President, now they are just his fluffers, hoping that he will still be popular enough by their next election to squeek by.

They will say this and do nothing.

this is ridiculous. only 2? ONLY TWO? these motherfuckers are going to need replacement knee surgeries within the year for how often they’re bending over for that lump sack of a president we have

There is a flat out LIE in this story :

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) called the Pentagon’s censure of Kelly “ridiculous,” even though he strongly criticized the Democrats’ video urging service members to ignore orders they view as unjust or illegal.

NOBODY in the video says that service members should ignore orders that they view as UNJUST.

LIE.