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Mark Kelly, brother hit back at Musk’s attack on astronaut
The Hill ^ | 02/21/25 6:18 PM ET | by Ailia Zehra

Posted on 02/21/2025 10:57:51 PM PST by RandFan

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and his brother, Scott Kelly, both retired astronauts, on Friday called out tech billionaire Elon Musk over his attacks on an astronaut on his social platform X.

“Hey @ElonMusk, when you finally get the nerve to climb into a rocket ship, come talk to the three of us,” the Arizona lawmaker wrote on X in response to Musk’s post calling Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen “an idiot.”

Scott Kelly defended Mogensen after Musk attacked him for challenging his remarks on a recent Fox News interview alongside President Trump. Musk used an ableist slur, referring to Mogensen, in response to his post.

Mogensen had pushed back on Musk’s claim that the Biden administration “left” two astronauts in space “for political reasons.”

“What a lie,” Mogensen wrote in an X post while referring to a clip from the interview. “And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.”

In support of Mogensen, Scott Kelly wrote, “I was the Commander of the @ISS when Andy, @Astro_Andreas flew his first space mission. He is one of the most competent, trustworthy, and honest people I’ve ever met. This rhetoric is beyond the pale but, sadly, not surprising. He does not deserve this kind of disrespect,” referring to the International Space Station.

In response, Musk said Mogensen publicly attacked him, “despite having no idea what ACTUALLY happened.”

“Btw, your brother claims to be independent, but is just a Dem donor shill,” Musk said to Scott Kelly.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
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1 posted on 02/21/2025 10:57:51 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Omg yhe Kelly Brothers are some kind of dmart.


2 posted on 02/21/2025 11:06:57 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: RandFan

Mark and Snott Kelly are punks.


3 posted on 02/21/2025 11:17:20 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: RandFan

Oh, I get it now! Mark Kelly isn’t a senator or a representative of the people or a politician... he’s an ASTRONAUT.

ASTRONAUT is yet another cultural Marxist protected class, apparently.

Well, I put Mark Kelly (and by extension his brother Scott) into the class of CLUELESS MARXIST. The CLUELESS MARXIST class must be eliminated without mercy!

... see how this works??


4 posted on 02/21/2025 11:27:02 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Nervous Tick

That’s the problem with intellectual. They do not live in the real world. Elon Musk used to be one of them until he took the red pill.


5 posted on 02/21/2025 11:29:56 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: RandFan
Musk used an ableist slur, referring to Mogensen, in response to his post.

Apparently, claiming that someone has said something that only a person with an I.Q. of below 50 would say is now "ableist!"

I suppose that asserting that someone has the "fashion sense and skill in coordinating colors of Helen Keller" would likewise be branded as "ableist."

Tells me all I need to know that I am dealing with "snowflakes."

Regards,

6 posted on 02/21/2025 11:35:46 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Elon Musk used to be one of them until he took the red pill.

Yep. I love the cartoon below. Sometimes you take the red pill on your own... sometimes the red pill is thrust upon you! LOL. FRegards and Blessings...

Red-Pill
7 posted on 02/21/2025 11:54:10 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: kiryandil

Tell the Kelly boys to make their own rocket, get in it, and rescue the two astronauts. Otherwise, make intelligent analysis of why NASA and Boeing can’t perform flawlessly. And fix it.


8 posted on 02/22/2025 12:00:12 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder tro find. )
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To: Getready

That’s gonna leave a mark.

On both of the Kelly punks.


9 posted on 02/22/2025 12:13:54 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: kiryandil

Mark got elected by parading his head-shot Gabby around like a doll to rallys and trying to pull off an ATF gun purchase stunt.


10 posted on 02/22/2025 12:27:19 AM PST by Gaffer (k)
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The Kelly bros are definitely not SpaceX material.


11 posted on 02/22/2025 12:40:44 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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... in response to Musk’s post calling Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen “an idiot.”

Only an IDIOT would fail to post the WHOLE message that an idiot appeared in.

12 posted on 02/22/2025 12:43:25 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Getready

You can’t fix stupid.


13 posted on 02/22/2025 1:33:51 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: RandFan

So its impossible for an astronaut to also be, or act like, an idiot?

Are they not also a normal person?

I do remember a lady astronaut who was a cheater driving nonstop between houston and florida who wore flight diapers and she was psycho insane.


14 posted on 02/22/2025 1:42:16 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: RandFan

Musk is going to at least try to rescue the two astronauts who are stuck up there. Those has been are doing nothing to help.


15 posted on 02/22/2025 3:03:18 AM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: Gaffer

Kelly was selected by the McCaniacs.


16 posted on 02/22/2025 3:06:19 AM PST by South Dakota (Vance / Trump...2028 )
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To: RandFan

What a lie by gun grabbing China sellout Mark Kelly - but that’s nothing new for him.


17 posted on 02/22/2025 3:22:42 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: RandFan

Elon getting slammed for calling out someone accusing him of being a liar.


18 posted on 02/22/2025 3:32:10 AM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: RandFan

These two are the clowns of the US astronaut ranks.


19 posted on 02/22/2025 3:33:34 AM PST by dennisw (DËMÔNràts - Truth is hate to people who hate truth.)
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To: RandFan

Hey losers, shut up, we’ll take it from here.


20 posted on 02/22/2025 3:37:38 AM PST by Vision (“Our Democracy” means Our Slush Fund.)
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