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Posted on 12/08/2025 5:59:25 AM PST by MtnClimber
Pete Hegseth “runs around on a stage talking about lethality and warrior ethos and killing people. … That’s not the message that needs to come from the Secretary of Defense,” complained Sen. Mark Kelly last week.
The message, especially coming from a former Navy captain, is so bizarre it borders on satire. Nations have had organized armies since recorded history started around 3000 B.C. And, in the words of the late, great Rush Limbaugh, the whole point of having a military is to kill people and break things, even if that military is exclusively employed for defensive purposes. Surely even leftists don’t doubt that the United States military should do what militaries have always done, especially when “literal Hitlers” like Putin still hold power.
But Kelly’s message is more than just a dumb comment.
More and more evidence is accumulating that the American left does not just crave power but wants to conduct a full-scale color revolution in the United States — the seemingly legitimate overthrow of our form of government. The left has toyed with this idea for years, most obviously via op-eds calling for Supreme Court packing and the shredding of the Constitution. Especially over the last five years, however, talk has given way to action.
Writer John Zmirak offers a list of phases by which to identify a color revolution. These include discrediting a country’s leadership with claims of corruption and tyranny, coopting the military so that it will refuse legitimate orders, goading civil unrest, and terrorizing the regime’s supporters. All these steps have already happened here.
Every time the left compares Trump, ICE, or anyone on the right to fascists, Nazis, or the Gestapo is an act of delegitimization. The so-called “Seditious Six” hinted at the military to disobey lawful orders. Thugs burned down American cities and were bailed out of jail by a future vice president of the United States. Meanwhile, parents protesting pornography in middle school libraries, pro-life activists, and Republican lawmakers were treated as public enemy No. 1.
Seen this way, Kelly’s message is not the usual insanity but a progression of the color revolution. As Kurt Schlichter pointed out, a proud American military dedicated to the country and her founding principles would probably stop any attempted color revolution cold. Very few leftist agitators would want to participate in the overthrow of our republic if they had to face a patriotic, spirited military force. It makes sense, then, that the left is trying to suck that warrior spirit out of the military and turn the armed forces into a perpetual DEI meeting. Former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden both did this, promoting woke officers and purging conservatives.
Abraham Lincoln supposedly said, “Do I not destroy my enemies by making them my friends?” The left has taken this a step further; it wants to destroy its enemy by making it a mirror image of itself.
But Kelly and his ilk want to destroy not just the warrior ethos of the military but the warrior ethos of the entire country.
We usually don’t think of Americans as a warrior people. Even if they weren’t soldiers, though, the Puritans, settlers, farmers, whalers, pioneers, railroad men, miners, cowboys, and inventors who built America were certainly warriors in the sense that German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer writes about:
In this world, where the game is played with loaded dice, a man must have a temper of iron, with armor proof to the blows of fate, and weapons to make his way against men. Life is one long battle; we have to fight at every step; and Voltaire very rightly says that if we succeed, it is at the point of a sword, and that we die with the weapon in our hand.
Americans have always been warriors. They understood that they had been born to boldly struggle against long odds. America, from the settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth to the Revolution and onward through Westward expansion to the present day, is the story of long odds and people willing to play them.
This is the spirit Mark Kelly and the left are working to extinguish, and if the collective response to government power grabs made in the name of Covid-19 is any indication, they’re succeeding. They have two basic reasons for doing it. First, because it is yet another way to remove us from our heritage. The left fears history — it’s why leftists pour so much money and energy into rewriting it.
The second follows from the first. Before the Revolution, there were no professional American soldiers. Every town and farm defended itself. Even with the start of the Revolution, the first Americans to engage the British were the Minutemen. The left knows that even if the warrior ethos could be drained from the American military, a warrior spirit left in even a remnant of the people would be dangerous. So the professional warriors must be castrated to set an example for the rest of us.
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This is what the NGOs have brought us.
I am going to go back after I post and read the story, but these opening words were astonishing enough. It is pretty clear someone like Mark Kelly is an anti-American turd regardless of any military service he had, but that statement...
Lethality, warrior ethos, and killing people is the fundamental mission of the military. It is a given that we hope and expect that individual soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen will reflect what is best about America in their professional and personal interactions both at home and abroad, and that has largely been true in my experience.
And I am proud that when there is a natural disaster such as a tsunami, hurricane, or earthquake, we can often have Naval assets on the scene to assist.
My own father was the XO on the USS Bristol (DD-857) in 1961 when Hurricane Hattie demolished Belize, and the Bristol was the first contact with the outside world that they had when she arrived and sent a launch ashore with my dad...all their contact with the rest of the world had been wiped out. (I have my father's military records, and a copy of the official report he wrote on the event)
And that kind of thing with our military is wonderful.
But in the end, we want them to be lethal and efficient in destroying our enemies, and that cannot be done without a "warrior ethos". This only reinforces my impression of the execrable Kelly as an ideologic cement-head.
Now, I will go read the linked article!
Yes. Good article.
Mark Kelly runs around shooting his mouth off most of the time. Why?
This was why they changed the name to Sec of War. His job is not to make peace. His job is to prepare for war. Let the peace thing be handled by the politicians of which Kelly isn’t one obviously. He has no concept of how the system works or is defined.
wy69
SYNONYMS: Traitor, Apparatchik, Seditionist, Deep State Operative, NASA Fake, Democrat, Progressive, Clown, M**k Ke$$y.
Great explanation of the current Hegseth op in the Color Revolution against Trump, us, and the USA.
https://x.com/TimOnPoint/status/1994570386239852571?s=20
“Timeline of a deep state hit:
A) a JSOC kill strike is ordered on an authorized target. Not a capture strike, a kill strike - President Obama was quite fond of them btw - 500+ to his name, including Americans.
B) the story is leaked. A leak from JSOC? Probably not - the leak is probably closer to the SECWAR’s office in the Pentagon. The Washington Post begins writing the story.
C) a Soros-funded NGO puts billboards up encouraging military personnel to report unlawful orders… although there are no unlawful orders identified.
D) out of nowhere, the Seditious Six - which includes one presidential hopeful and one former IC member who had direct involvement in the original attempt to destroy Trump - delivers to social media a “don’t give up the ship” video - a public service announcement to all personnel to refuse unlawful orders.
*** the video was funded and produced a Soros funded NGO.
E) Senator Slotkin, the former CIA ghoul, goes on the news and is very careful to state that she can’t identify any unlawful orders that have been given.
F) boom, the WaPo delivers the story claiming unlawful orders.
G) Friday evening, everyone on the left hits social media - with paid amplification - about the unlawful orders.
H) the Sunday shows will be filled with calls for war crimes charges, impeachments, and resignations.
All a coincidence, right? None of it was coordinated, right?
Not all civil wars happen on the battlefield.”
Kelly is a puppet. The hand up his a$$ moving his lips is the same hand that backed Afton Behn, AOC, Omar and CommieMommi in New York.
I think because he is scared.
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I like Hegseth. He’s Secretary of War, not Defense as Kelly says, so he’s acting exactly right. I like Hegseth for President.
bump
I do not like his benefactor, Peter Thiel - look up the latest video of him acting like a drug addict.
Anything short of prosecutions or member of Congress guilty of sedition is useless rhetoric.
Mark Kelly is one more proof that the communist infiltration of the US and the US military is far, far beyond the level of being simply “dangerous”.
One of the most dangerous outcomes for libs is a robust American military taking care of American and allied interests and kept out of everyone else’s conflicts. Americans patriotic enthusiasm is sky high when they see drug boats shot out of the water before that garbage kills American kids. Libs hate patriotic enthusiasm which will redound to the political benefit and legacy of SECWAR and POTUS.
It was obvious from the get go. Dems have tried for years to the the US to devolve into a third world country, and this third world trick is just proof. They should also know that it’s obvious what happens to those who try unsuccessfully to stage a military coup in the third world.
Not so unusual for a military service member, even a successful one, to be on the opponent’s team. Never forget the arrogant West Point graduate who posted a communist meme in his cover for all the world to see. Kelly may be what that guy might have looked like after a long career.
Clear to me that Slotkin is the puppeteer in this gig, and Kelly and the others are just her dwarfs.
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