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This Is So Much Bigger Than Pete Hegseth or Mark Kelly
A decision against the senator could affect all military retirees.
By Missy Ryan | February 9, 2026, 6 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/02/pete-hegseth-mar
k-kelly-court/685911/
Of the many questions posed by those gathered in U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s courtroom last week, the most obvious one of all never came up: Why on earth was anyone here in the first place?
Until now, the military has pursued only a tiny number of criminal cases against retirees for actions that occur after military service has ended. Until now, the idea that the secretary of defense would accuse a lawmaker of treason simply for disagreeing with him would be laughable. Until now, any free-speech debates concerning sitting members of Congress have led to the conclusion that lawmakers ought to have—to borrow from former Chief Justice Earl Warren—the widest possible latitude to express themselves.
And yet there we all were anyway, gathered to see Mark Kelly—the fighter pilot turned astronaut turned U.S. senator—defend his First Amendment rights against an attempt by the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, to silence him and knock down his military retirement rank and pay.
As someone who’s covered 10 secretaries of defense, I’ve never seen anything like what Hegseth is doing—not even close. If Hegseth gets his way, he won’t just be punishing Kelly; he will succeed in dramatically curbing the First Amendment rights of all military retirees, some of the very people who have fought to defend such freedoms.
At the heart of the case is a November video in which Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers—all veterans of the military or intelligence agencies—address U.S. troops, reminding them that they “can and must refuse illegal orders.” Their goal with the video was to push back against the president’s domestic troop deployments, a trend his critics feared might lead to clashes with ordinary Americans or be used to interfere in upcoming elections. At the time the video was posted, Democrats were also assailing the administration over the legality of its air campaign against suspected Latin American drug boats. The lawmakers did not specify which problematic orders they had in mind.
Read: ‘An example MUST BE SET’
The Trump administration’s response was swift. Adviser Stephen Miller called the video an attempted “insurrection.” Donald Trump declared that the “traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL,” and reposted suggestions that they be hanged. Hegseth ordered the Navy to look into Kelly’s “potentially unlawful” comments, something he was able to do because Kelly is the only one in the video who receives benefits as a military retiree. (Although some 18 million military veterans are living in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center, a much smaller share of those people reach retirement status.) Kelly now receives lifelong retirement pay and is subject to rules, including the Uniform Code of Military Justice. In early January, Hegseth issued Kelly a letter of censure over his “seditious statements and his pattern of reckless misconduct,” which, Hegseth said, had harmed military discipline and undermined the chain of command. He also asked Navy Secretary John Phelan (a Republican donor and billionaire art collector with no naval experience) to begin a review of Kelly’s retirement rank and pay.
The Trump administration’s attempts to go after Kelly are, several legal experts told me, straightforwardly outrageous and without merit. But even if the judge rules in Kelly’s favor, it’s worth paying attention to this fight, because it underscores the degree to which the Trump administration is seeking to expand executive power in novel ways. Far more is at stake than the retirement benefits of one man.
The U.S. military has sought legal action against its own retirees only in a rare few cases—and those cases have typically involved egregious crimes, such as sexual assault. And although the military can prosecute sitting serv
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Trump started saying, “My father was so healthy; he had no problems. His heart couldn’t be stopped.” “He did have one problem though,” Trump told me. And he said, “Late in life, he had, what’s the word for it?” And he pointed to his head. And Caroline Levitt, the press secretary sitting next to me, she kind of rescued him in that moment and said, “Alzheimer’s.” And he said, “Yeah, yeah, he had an Alzheimer’s thing. Well, well, I don’t have it.”
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/477956/trump-health-age-issues-mind-hand-
bruise-dozing
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Monday, February 9, 2026 2:40 AM
I think we're all fucked unless we find Jesus.
And I don't even necessarily mean that in the Biblical sense.
It was nice not ever having to be the Dad or the Manager.
The only problem was, all the Dads and Managers started retiring. Then somewhere along the way most of them got sick and died on us.
And nobody competent was around to take over for any of them.
And one day everything stopped working right.
And nobody knew how to fix any of it.
And one side has spent generations pretending to care and spending a lions share of the tax revenue and racking up the debt with absolutely nothing to show for it here, or anywhere else in the world other than their own very impressive net worth, and the other side wants to ultimately take every single form of social safety net away from everyone indiscriminately, only to turn around and raise the yearly military spending to $1.5 Trillion, and ultimately spending what I'm pretty sure will be the most expensive yearly bill we've had so far when the official numbers come out. Cook the books all you want, but I'll be investigating any claims to the contrary if and when that time comes.
We have nobody in power but process people. Smile for the camera and give us a good vibe. That's what the job is about. Not doing things like taking care and making sure that we don't fuck up the HUMAN ecosystem through the Public Education Department for a few generations so nobody knows how to fix anything anymore when it breaks. Hell... even if there was a will by these politicians to fix everything that's broken, they probably couldn't even find enough people now who knows how to fix or properly rebuild a lot of it. Between the nepotism and the DEI quotas, you don't have anybody in the unions under 55 years old that know a fucking thing or do anything but work as slow as humanly possible, just as they are directed to do, so everybody can be eternally miserable and not even enjoy the summer anymore because they were stuck in more construction traffic on the expressway they just ripped up last year needed to be ripped up again this year.
Everything sucks so much now and everyone knows it.
Sidewalks look like shit. Parking lots look like shit. Even in the suburbs were they didn't just 20 years ago.
Can we just acknowledge that?
Can we just agree that people used to get things done and keep things working so much so that none of you even noticed they existed because nothing hardly ever fucking broke long enough for you to notice it?
Gotta find Jesus, or something...
Maybe a Childhood's End reference here instead of posting the Pets video again... bah.. why bother.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Stalker.
You just can't get enough of me.
You'd better let Haken know that if this website goes and you can't be with your true love you won't be able to go on living.
And yeah. That's what I do.
EXACTLY what I've always told you two stupid fucks that I do.
I don't mindlessly defend my "side" like you two to the point that you've both totally discredited yourselves, as has the Legacy Media, all of your "Experts" and anybody else who sucks on the Donkey dick all day and repeats every word the Media tells them to repeat. All while whoring yourself out to people like Liz and Dick Cheney, and now Ted is even turning to Russia to suck some of their dicks because he just doesn't have enough of them left to suck here in America.
This is why your party and ideology is finally dead and won't ever be coming back. It's why CNN has to admit that even 71% of Democratic Voters want Voter ID and an even larger share of black people do at 76% (with Mexicans at 80% and whites at 84%).
All of your Party's lies are coming undone. They're all unraveling. We're laughing our asses off at Hollywood shit celebs who say the stuff that make you cum and we're dragging them through all that cum and shit and filth.
You're all going to shut the fuck up.
This country isn't yours anymore. You will NEVER run it again.
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Be Nice. Don't be a dick. 
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Quote:I keep track of all Trumptards. The fat ones. The suicidal ones. The ugly ones. The crazy ones. The ones dying because of their depravity, lifestyle, or excesses. I no longer track the incompetent ones at work because they are either dead or terminated.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Stalker.
You just can't get enough of me.
You'd better let Haken know that if this website goes and you can't be with your true love you won't be able to go on living.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I keep track of all Trumptards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Stalker.
You just can't get enough of me.
You'd better let Haken know that if this website goes and you can't be with your true love you won't be able to go on living.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
We know. You're a fucking creep.
That's no secret to anybody.
Meanwhile, I just keep hearing about people who sound exactly like you being arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison for saying out loud what you've written here. And I've got it all archived for you.
Though you're probably too stupid to ever figure out that YOU are the bad guy, everybody else knows that now and everybody hates you.
Whether it ends in a long prison stint, or in the confines of your own dark little joyless hovel, enjoy the rest of your sad little miserable life alone, unloved and unwanted.
You deserve it.
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Quote:6ix, you have claimed you will lose healthcare because of Trump. Besides that, Trump has cost you money, even if you don't pay income taxes:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We know. You're a fucking creep. That's no secret to anybody. Meanwhile, I just keep hearing about people who sound exactly like you being arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison for saying out loud what you've written here. And I've got it all archived for you. Though you're probably too stupid to ever figure out that YOU are the bad guy, everybody else knows that now and everybody hates you. Whether it ends in a long prison stint, or in the confines of your own dark little joyless hovel, enjoy the rest of your sad little miserable life alone, unloved and unwanted. You deserve it.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
President Donald Trump's tariffs cost the average American household $1,000 last year, according to new research from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. The cost is expected to rise even higher this year to $1,300 per household, assuming the existing tariffs remain in place, the research said. But that is too complicated for any Trumptard I know to understand. I talk to them, but none of them can connect their misfortunes to their choice of President and their smaller choices, such as their tobacco consumption, their gluttony, their alcoholism, their profligate spending, etc.
Trump's tariffs cost American households $1,000. The Tax Foundation said the cost may be even higher in 2026.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trumps-tariffs-cost-american-household
s-1000-year-research/story?id=130003484
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Given the perfect storm of Trump's incompetence, increasing decline across several categories (the psychological, the cognitive and the physical), and the sense that he is losing control — over himself and the narrative — and the desperation that goes along with that, it was perhaps inevitable that humiliation has come to stalk him at every turn.
https://www.newsweek.com/mary-trump-reveals-one-thing-donald-trump-has
-always-feared-11402964
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
Given the perfect storm of Trump's incompetence, increasing decline across several categories (the psychological, the cognitive and the physical), and the sense that he is losing control — over himself and the narrative — and the desperation that goes along with that, it was perhaps inevitable that humiliation has come to stalk him at every turn.
Nobody wants to hear it.
You turned a complete blind eye to how hollowed out the core of your last literal puppet president's brain had been eaten away by dementia until he made a complete fucking ass out of you in the only debate that happened before your now-dead party threw him right under the fucking bus and you lost your own mind.
You still haven't figured out that all of your actions have backed you into a corner of which there is no way out for you.
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Quote:Trump announced his theft of Canadian property yesterday evening:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Given the perfect storm of Trump's incompetence, increasing decline across several categories (the psychological, the cognitive and the physical), and the sense that he is losing control — over himself and the narrative — and the desperation that goes along with that, it was perhaps inevitable that humiliation has come to stalk him at every turn.
Nobody wants to hear it.
You turned a complete blind eye to how hollowed out the core of your last literal puppet president's brain had been eaten away by dementia until he made a complete fucking ass out of you in the only debate that happened before your now-dead party threw him right under the fucking bus and you lost your own mind.
You still haven't figured out that all of your actions have backed you into a corner of which there is no way out for you.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
"I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve," Trump said in a social media post on Monday. "With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of the U.S. Market will be astronomical." The $4.7 billion bridge was financed by the Canadian government.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-threatens-block-opening-new-brid
ge-us-canada/story?id=130008492
Canada paid to build the bridge and the U.S. customs plaza. See photos at:
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/09/trump-threa
tens-to-block-gordie-howe-international-bridge-from-opening-michigan-ontario-canada/88597688007/
Trump is telling the world that he intends to steal the ownership of a $4.7 billion suspension bridge. It is one step along the way to making Canada the 51st state with threats and violence.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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