For President Trump to tell his followers, (and the public), that Senator Kelly ought to be executed, knowing that 15 years earlier his wife was shot in the head while she was serving in Congress in an attempted assassination, is a mind-boggling level of depravity.
I am grateful that Senator Kelly is standing firm with American values of freedom and lawful government. We need more Mark Kelly’s to set things right once the current political madness has passed.
Sir, this is Substack. You’re looking for X, which is the preferred app for thoughtless sniping & abuse.
Or, you can stay, and explain in logical and well-referenced terms how a highly decorated Navy test pilot and astronaut with degrees in marine engineering and aeronautical engineering, who earned the rank of Captain, who has flown over 50 different aircraft, made 375 carrier landings, flown 39 combat missions, and been trusted to command 3 space missions and pilot 2 others, and who is now defending our Constitution as a US Senator is, as you say, “an idiot.”
Senator Kelly is what a man of honor and integrity looks like. Those clowns in the Trump administration are corrupt sociopaths. Some of the American people know the difference.
The deepest issue is not simply whether one side wins or loses politically. It is whether the loadbearing elements of democracy still hold under pressure.
Democracy depends on structures that are easy to take for granted until they crack:
free speech,
an independent justice system,
peaceful criticism of government,
constitutional loyalty above personal loyalty,
the right of elected representatives to oppose executive power,
and the refusal to treat dissent as treason.
These are not decorative ideals. They are the hidden beams of the democratic house.
Once the justice system is used to punish opponents, once criticism is reclassified as betrayal, once loyalty to a leader begins to replace loyalty to law, democracy does not collapse all at once. It hollows out from within. The forms remain — elections, courts, speeches, flags — but the stabilising ecology has begun to fail.
That is why Senator Kelly’s warning matters. He is not merely defending himself. He is defending the principle that no republic can survive if power is allowed to criminalise lawful opposition. The real test of democracy is not whether people praise it in calm times, but whether its loadbearing constraints still restrain power when power feels threatened.
In a small “d” democratic republic the purpose of the government is to serve the people WE the People are to be helped by the government WE form In Nazi Republican terms the government is a bank account for those in power to loot the government and insure that the rich and their wealth is protected because they refuse to pull their societal weight financially So called “christian principles” of taking care of neighbor is overridden by “I’ve got mine, so get lost” mentality or “no more freeloaders(Reagan’s welfare queen)”
Reagan and the his Nazi allies created the bogus “trickle down” economic theory to perpetrate a financial hoax for their followers that giving tax breaks to the rich in the country would bring economic gains for the middle class This premise has been proven wrong and has brought about a hollowing out of the middle class today Of course Cheeto has continued this hoax with even greater tax cuts hoping that will help consolidate power from his rich cronies he’s protected in the Epstein-Trump files fiasco
The Nazis do this economic slight of hand trick by robbing from government agencies and stopping government financial commitments eg USAID to pad their own pockets now with tax cuts and blatant out in the open corruption for everyone to see They don’t even care about trying to cover up the corruption anymore At least in the Reagan years the wealthy covered it up with a cutesy made up economic theory
And now with this greed of the wealthy supported by the Nazi Republicans, We the People have become a debtor nation in decline with an insurmountable $39T debt These bastards should never see another public office for decades!
Steven Pearce has been confirmed as Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
For anyone who cares about public lands, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable cultural landscapes, this should be deeply concerning. Once these places are damaged, they do not come back.
The number to the capital switchboard is:
202-224-3121
They can look up your Rep and Senators by zip code
First of all, Senator Kelly thank you for your bravery and speaking out against this criminal regime. Second of all there weren’t many people that could’ve filled John McCain’s shoes, but I must say you’ve done a fantastic job of that and he would be honored.
👏👏👏 Great speach. I adore John McCain, he represents for me the best of USA, now we see unfortunately what is worse in USA... but hope is still their if such people as Senator Kelly are present in american politics
MY reasoning is incomplete and sloppy??? Oh, thank you for correcting me, Your Infallible Highness! For the record, my background is 3/4 Mediterranean and Middle Eastern.
1. You are a completely hypocritical liar with your claim that Ħamas did not commit genocide. Ħamas attacked, raped, tortured, and killed noncombatant Israeli women and children. *The Quran forbids that.* Targeting people because of their ethnicity or nationality IS genocide. Apparently you just had no problem with their terrorist attack. That tells me you’re full of hatred toward Jews and anyone with Jewish ancestry.
2. Corrrect to a point, most Palestinians do not support Ħamas. Also, I have no doubt Netanyahu had some knowledge of the impending attack but was too busy conducting his own pogroms on Palestinians in the West Bank. Those pogroms and the genocide of Palestinians continue. HOWEVER, Ħamas has attracted adherents because of Likud’s displacement and genocide of Palestinians.
3. Only Likud has a plan of “a greater Israel” that mirrors Ħamas’s “from the mountains to the sea” claim. Many Israelis detest Likud.
“Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
“Article II
“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
“1. Killing members of the group;
“2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
“3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
“4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
“5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
Ħamas’s attack on a rock festival, not an Israeli military unit, fits that definition. However, you reject that apparently because you hate Jews and anyone wth Israelite ancestry. I’m the one thinking clearly hear. I wonder with which extremist group you affiliate.
Oh, so your attack is ad hominem now! You make blanket statements without evidence that we peasants are supposed to accept on faith! How silly of me to forget that!
I responded to you with *facts* that exposed your hypocrisy. You did not respond to me with counter-evidence but replied as an overgrown malicious child would.
I do not know what ax you have to grind with me specifically, but I do recognize hypocrisy stemming from fulminating bigotry when it is plain to see. Feel free to block me.
I opened this window with the thought of attempting to mediate where we are. But, its probably not particularly productive to push back on myriad unsubstantiated accusations. Bigotry, for example, comes out of left field and has no evidence. In fact, i read a quote from a Holocaust survivor last week that sums it up: anti-semitic used to be the word for someone who didnt like Jews, now its the word for someone Jews dont like.
But im not going to argue with you. Your passion and heat/ bordering on wha seems like violence, are genuinely disturbing.
I am going to offer one puece of advice I genuinely intend to be helpful: restrain the jihadist true believer delivery. It makes you look crazy, even if you arent, and clouds judgment.
How low we have fallen into the autocratic trap, and the money surrounding and supporting this autocracy is chilling. We need all good men to come to the aid of their country, & this is an example of who we need. Thank you, for both of your voices.
For President Trump to tell his followers, (and the public), that Senator Kelly ought to be executed, knowing that 15 years earlier his wife was shot in the head while she was serving in Congress in an attempted assassination, is a mind-boggling level of depravity.
I am grateful that Senator Kelly is standing firm with American values of freedom and lawful government. We need more Mark Kelly’s to set things right once the current political madness has passed.
Senator Kelly is an honorable man. I'm sure he will make Americans proud.
Senator Kelly is an honorable man. I'm sure he will make Americans proud.
Kelly should not be executed, but he should be impeached.The man is an idiot
Sir, this is Substack. You’re looking for X, which is the preferred app for thoughtless sniping & abuse.
Or, you can stay, and explain in logical and well-referenced terms how a highly decorated Navy test pilot and astronaut with degrees in marine engineering and aeronautical engineering, who earned the rank of Captain, who has flown over 50 different aircraft, made 375 carrier landings, flown 39 combat missions, and been trusted to command 3 space missions and pilot 2 others, and who is now defending our Constitution as a US Senator is, as you say, “an idiot.”
Well said.
Thank you
Nice.
Bravo: exquisite takedown
Mark Kelly for president.
I agree and his name is never on a list of potential Democratic candidates. In my opinion, he represents what true American values are.
What have you accomplished in life? Now compare your accomplishments to Senator Kelly's.
I think that the commenter (FM) already has done that comparison and that is why he is so angry.
Trump is the idiot, and he's scared that when he loses his backers in November he'll be removed from office!
We can only hope and pray 🙏
…and tRUMP is an honorable American??!! The president is the 1st one who should be headed to prison!
🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
For what?
Thank you, Mark Kelly, for speaking out against the darkness and tyranny of a mad mad out to destroy our country and democracy. Bravo!
Mark Kelly for president? I could get behind that.
Senator Kelly is what a man of honor and integrity looks like. Those clowns in the Trump administration are corrupt sociopaths. Some of the American people know the difference.
Thank you, Mark Kelly. Your leadership in these not-normal times is need. Take care.
Senator Kelly is right to sound the alarm.
The deepest issue is not simply whether one side wins or loses politically. It is whether the loadbearing elements of democracy still hold under pressure.
Democracy depends on structures that are easy to take for granted until they crack:
free speech,
an independent justice system,
peaceful criticism of government,
constitutional loyalty above personal loyalty,
the right of elected representatives to oppose executive power,
and the refusal to treat dissent as treason.
These are not decorative ideals. They are the hidden beams of the democratic house.
Once the justice system is used to punish opponents, once criticism is reclassified as betrayal, once loyalty to a leader begins to replace loyalty to law, democracy does not collapse all at once. It hollows out from within. The forms remain — elections, courts, speeches, flags — but the stabilising ecology has begun to fail.
That is why Senator Kelly’s warning matters. He is not merely defending himself. He is defending the principle that no republic can survive if power is allowed to criminalise lawful opposition. The real test of democracy is not whether people praise it in calm times, but whether its loadbearing constraints still restrain power when power feels threatened.
See my essays on load bearing on gymnosticism Substack
The Financial World Of The Nazi Republicans
In a small “d” democratic republic the purpose of the government is to serve the people WE the People are to be helped by the government WE form In Nazi Republican terms the government is a bank account for those in power to loot the government and insure that the rich and their wealth is protected because they refuse to pull their societal weight financially So called “christian principles” of taking care of neighbor is overridden by “I’ve got mine, so get lost” mentality or “no more freeloaders(Reagan’s welfare queen)”
Reagan and the his Nazi allies created the bogus “trickle down” economic theory to perpetrate a financial hoax for their followers that giving tax breaks to the rich in the country would bring economic gains for the middle class This premise has been proven wrong and has brought about a hollowing out of the middle class today Of course Cheeto has continued this hoax with even greater tax cuts hoping that will help consolidate power from his rich cronies he’s protected in the Epstein-Trump files fiasco
The Nazis do this economic slight of hand trick by robbing from government agencies and stopping government financial commitments eg USAID to pad their own pockets now with tax cuts and blatant out in the open corruption for everyone to see They don’t even care about trying to cover up the corruption anymore At least in the Reagan years the wealthy covered it up with a cutesy made up economic theory
And now with this greed of the wealthy supported by the Nazi Republicans, We the People have become a debtor nation in decline with an insurmountable $39T debt These bastards should never see another public office for decades!
You didn't include the billionaires that the moron answers to.
Steven Pearce has been confirmed as Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
For anyone who cares about public lands, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable cultural landscapes, this should be deeply concerning. Once these places are damaged, they do not come back.
The number to the capital switchboard is:
202-224-3121
They can look up your Rep and Senators by zip code
Make the Call!
Please Repost
Good luck!
First of all, Senator Kelly thank you for your bravery and speaking out against this criminal regime. Second of all there weren’t many people that could’ve filled John McCain’s shoes, but I must say you’ve done a fantastic job of that and he would be honored.
Nice!
We need a the ticket for 2028 to be Kelly/ Pritzker to get us back on track
Please run for President 2028!
Togheter we’re stronger then tyranny, stay toghether, cooperate around the globe and democracy will prevail
You are a hero and patriot!
👏👏👏 Great speach. I adore John McCain, he represents for me the best of USA, now we see unfortunately what is worse in USA... but hope is still their if such people as Senator Kelly are present in american politics
Dear Sen Kelly,
Is Israel committing genocide?
When will you stop taking AIPAC money?
Did you criticize Ħamas when they committed genocide? If you’re not criticizing both, you’re a hypocrite.
Your reasoning is incomplete and sloppy. I can only assume that is accidental.
1. What Hamas did was not genocide.
2. Most Palestinians do not support Hamas. It is a proven fact that Netanyahu kept Hamas in power because it was the perfect enemy: violent and stupid
3. The plan was clearly, always, a "greater Israel."
4. Genocide has a definition. It is what Israel is doing.
Think clearly. Remove the crybully victim nonsense. See what is left.
MY reasoning is incomplete and sloppy??? Oh, thank you for correcting me, Your Infallible Highness! For the record, my background is 3/4 Mediterranean and Middle Eastern.
1. You are a completely hypocritical liar with your claim that Ħamas did not commit genocide. Ħamas attacked, raped, tortured, and killed noncombatant Israeli women and children. *The Quran forbids that.* Targeting people because of their ethnicity or nationality IS genocide. Apparently you just had no problem with their terrorist attack. That tells me you’re full of hatred toward Jews and anyone with Jewish ancestry.
2. Corrrect to a point, most Palestinians do not support Ħamas. Also, I have no doubt Netanyahu had some knowledge of the impending attack but was too busy conducting his own pogroms on Palestinians in the West Bank. Those pogroms and the genocide of Palestinians continue. HOWEVER, Ħamas has attracted adherents because of Likud’s displacement and genocide of Palestinians.
3. Only Likud has a plan of “a greater Israel” that mirrors Ħamas’s “from the mountains to the sea” claim. Many Israelis detest Likud.
4. The UN defines genocide thus (https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition)
“Definition
“Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
“Article II
“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
“1. Killing members of the group;
“2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
“3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
“4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
“5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
Ħamas’s attack on a rock festival, not an Israeli military unit, fits that definition. However, you reject that apparently because you hate Jews and anyone wth Israelite ancestry. I’m the one thinking clearly hear. I wonder with which extremist group you affiliate.
As is so often the case, your ignorance exists in roughly equal proportion to your verbosity
Oh, so your attack is ad hominem now! You make blanket statements without evidence that we peasants are supposed to accept on faith! How silly of me to forget that!
I responded to you with *facts* that exposed your hypocrisy. You did not respond to me with counter-evidence but replied as an overgrown malicious child would.
I do not know what ax you have to grind with me specifically, but I do recognize hypocrisy stemming from fulminating bigotry when it is plain to see. Feel free to block me.
Do your parents know you are on their computer?
I opened this window with the thought of attempting to mediate where we are. But, its probably not particularly productive to push back on myriad unsubstantiated accusations. Bigotry, for example, comes out of left field and has no evidence. In fact, i read a quote from a Holocaust survivor last week that sums it up: anti-semitic used to be the word for someone who didnt like Jews, now its the word for someone Jews dont like.
But im not going to argue with you. Your passion and heat/ bordering on wha seems like violence, are genuinely disturbing.
I am going to offer one puece of advice I genuinely intend to be helpful: restrain the jihadist true believer delivery. It makes you look crazy, even if you arent, and clouds judgment.
How low we have fallen into the autocratic trap, and the money surrounding and supporting this autocracy is chilling. We need all good men to come to the aid of their country, & this is an example of who we need. Thank you, for both of your voices.