Originally published at: Hegseth Vows to Keep up Kelly Retribution Crusade - TPM – Talking Points Memo
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After a federal judge decisively shot down Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s attempt to downgrade Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-AZ) rank and retirement benefits this week, Hegseth wasted no time in responding publicly. “This will be immediately appealed,” he tweeted. “Sedition is sedition, ‘Captain.’” (The Justice Department had…
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Alcohol consumption + Fascist tendencies = Hegseth
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As far as I know it is not against the law to quote the law and advise service members to follow the law. Meaning, as the law says, illegal orders are not to be followed.
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It’‘s all about the grift. Oh, and the hate and cruelty too.
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“This will be immediately appealed,” he tweeted. “Sedition is sedition, ‘Captain.’”
Someone oughta sit Kegsbreath down with a dictionary and drill the definition of Sedition into his empty head.
Always remember and never forget - Kegger was an empty-headed talking head on Faux before he was put in this position. He never had to know anything except what was told to him in his earpiece. He’s flying without a net and due to crash.
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Happy VD to all !!!
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As far as I can tell, Hegseth, in his effort to please Trump, is boosting Kelly, not hurting him.
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Like my own personal Vietnam…
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Since then it has become clear many in the Senate GOP caucus are weary of using the “standing filibuster.”
wary
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Not widely reported, this exchange occurred between Hegseth and Kelly one day in the Pentagon; Hegseth was in his cups and didn’t recognize the good senator:
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Hegseth. Good dawning to thee, friend. Art of this house?
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Senator Mark Kelly. Ay.
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Hegseth. Where may we set our horses?
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Senator Mark Kelly. I’ th’ mire.
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Hegseth. Prithee, if thou lov’st me, tell me.
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Senator Mark Kelly. I love thee not.
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Hegseth. Why then, I care not for thee.
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Senator Mark Kelly. If I had thee in Lipsbury Pinfold, I would make thee care for
me. -
Hegseth. Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not.
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Senator Mark Kelly. Fellow, I know thee.
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Hegseth. What dost thou know me for?
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Senator Mark Kelly. A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud,
shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking, whoreson,
glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of
good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave,
beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch;
one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deny the
least syllable of thy addition. -
Hegseth. Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail on one
that’s neither known of thee nor knows thee! -
Senator Mark Kelly. What a brazen-fac’d varlet art thou, to deny thou knowest me!
Is it two days ago since I beat thee and tripp’d up thy heels
before the King? [Draws his sword.] Draw, you rogue! for, though
it be night, yet the moon shines. I’ll make a sop o’ th’
moonshine o’ you. Draw, you whoreson cullionly barbermonger!
draw! -
Hegseth. Away! I have nothing to do with thee.
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Senator Mark Kelly. Draw, you rascal! You come with letters against the King, and
take Vanity the puppet’s part against the royalty of her father.
Draw, you rogue, or I’ll so carbonado your shanks! Draw, you
rascal! Come your ways! -
Hegseth. Help, ho! murther! help!
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Senator Mark Kelly. Strike, you slave! Stand, rogue! Stand, you neat slave!
Strike! [Beats him.] -
Hegseth. Help, ho! murther! murther!
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They could be tired of it, too……
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She does go on to say that it’s rarely used, though.
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Tired of the threat, maybe??
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Pisco-packin’ Pete makes a lot of noise. Although it was cost the defendants a lot of money, I’d love to see this go to trial, if only to see Hogsbreath on the stand grilled by Abbe Lowell.
I know. It’s perverse.
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Would have to not be in Federal court, though; no cameras allowed there.
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