Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) enjoys touting his military service when fending off criticism about his incessant attacks on President Donald Trump.
And, yes, it’s true: Kelly did serve in the U.S. Navy. He reportedly flew 39 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Without question, he had an honorable career in the U.S. military.
So, too, did Major General Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War.
Obviously, as a Democrat, Kelly is going to have criticisms about a Republican president. But Kelly is on a whole different level. Like most of his left-wing colleagues, Kelly has engaged in the rampant hysteria, fearmongering, inflammatory rhetoric, and outright lies that have comprised most of the Democrats’ rhetoric since Trump entered the political scene in 2015 and won the presidential election in 2016. However, unlike other Democrats, Kelly hides behind his previous military service to shield himself from criticism.
On Sunday, Kelly engaged in his latest fearmongering stunt, resorting to the preeminent tenet of Democratic politicians in the 21st century: accusations of racism. Kelly has been a Democratic senator only since 2020, but he seems to have become an active participant in the long-running tradition of when in doubt, accuse the Republican president of being a racist. It’s a political relic at this point, being used by Democrats against Republicans for approximately half a century. Kelly said that the reason Trump wanted to restrict immigration from “third-world countries” was because he didn’t “want brown people in the country.”
Of course, skin color has nothing to do with Trump’s request, and Kelly’s statement was untrue. It has to do with an Afghan national who allegedly shot two innocent National Guard troops, one fatally, the day before Thanksgiving. One would think the “revered patriot” Kelly would show more empathy and remorse for the victims. But he was seduced by the opportunity to do what Democrats do more than anything else while in office — accuse Republicans of bigotry. Kelly’s performative outrage is nothing new. It can be legitimately argued that he’s done more fearmongering than legislating during his term as senator.
Consider his comments last week in the latest performative propaganda video of six Democrats, who posted a video to social media essentially calling for a military mutiny against Trump. Under the guise of “illegal orders,” Kelly, and his five other accomplices, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), advanced a rogue narrative that Trump was making military members complicit in carrying out illicit activities — even though Slotkin admitted during an interview on ABC News’s This Week that she knew of no illegal orders issued.
“To my knowledge, I am not aware of things that are illegal,” Slotkin would say.
However, Kelly defended his participation, embarking on a fundraising bonanza and media appearance circuit that would rival that of presidential candidates during a campaign. During an appearance on the late-night talk show of FCC fascism victim Jimmy Kimmel, Kelly once again brought up his military service when talking about the comments. He couldn’t answer Kimmel’s questions about sedition or anything else meaningful, but he sure could cite how many years he served in the Navy, and some of the dangerous missions he experienced.
“I served 25 years in the United States Navy, you know,” Kelly told Kimmel. “I’ve almost gotten killed for this country, multiple times, almost shot down over Iraq and Kuwait, had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I got on a rocket ship four times, millions of pounds of rocket fuel, for this nation.”
Great story. Absolutely brilliant service from Kelly. Unquestionably courageous and dangerous feats. Yet, none of it had to do with anything about his comments regarding Trump. He focused more on his military service than on providing a definitive, informative, and worthwhile explanation of the “illegal orders” he accused the president of issuing.
Why? Because Kelly, like the rest of the Democrats involved, was lying.
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It was an ostentatious commentary intended to stir the emotions of donors and ardent political supporters. He couldn’t defend his position, so he constantly had to refer to his military service and exploits as a means of deflecting from his despicable assertions and accusations.
This is what Democrats do and have been doing for decades. They have no legitimate solutions to help people. Their policies have repeatedly shown to worsen the lives of Americans, so they resort to scare tactics and use fear as political influence.
Kelly’s attacks against Trump lack veracity. If his critiques had any of the merit he claimed they did, the former astronaut would not have to lie about events or continually reference his military service to try to defend his actions and make his point. But sadly, this is what congressional Democrats have become.