32 years ago, the guru Forrest Gump told us how to identify idiots: A deficit of intelligence in a person may be verified by the asininity of their actions. Forrest shortened that for laymen to: “Stupid is as stupid does.” Gump understood that in the real world, one’s professional status and academic achievements are irrelevant. If one continues to do dumb things, one is functionally stupid.
Take Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) for example. I get that someone doesn’t have to be terribly bright to be a Senator. Senator “Grill-Master” Schumer thought he could put the cheese on his burgers before grilling them, and the Dems made him their Senate leader.
But before being elected to the Senate, Mark Kelly was a naval aviator, test pilot, and an astronaut. Stupid people don’t tend to have long life expectancies in those professions. Yet in recent months, Kelly has been all over the news for asinine behavior.
As a pensioned Naval officer, Capt. Kelly (USN Ret) knows that he is still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Yet he and a few other deranged leftists cut a public service message encouraging active-duty servicemen to disobey their Commander in Chief. That is a gross violation of the UCMJ, subject to court martial, and punishable by dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pension, and up to 2 years in prison.
That seems like a really rookie mistake for a retired senior officer to make. Secretary of War Hegseth was not amused and has referred the matter to the Judge Advocate General’s office for investigation and appropriate punishment.
Of course, anyone can make a mistake. But a smart person would avoid offending the legal system by being extra, extra careful not to break any more laws. A little contrition might even go a long way towards softening the “find out” part of FAFO.
But that’s not what Senator Kelly did. He sued to stop the investigation, claiming that the UCMJ doesn’t apply to him, and then allegedly broke another law – the Espionage Act of 1917 (18 U.S.C. § 793, 794).
You see, Senator Kelly recently attended a classified Pentagon briefing. It was the kind of meeting where it’s illegal to discuss what you heard in the meeting, outside of the meeting. They even make you sign a paper stating that you understand that. This particular briefing discussed the impact of the Iran war on America’s military readiness.
After the classified briefing, Senator Kelly did a flyby on CBS’s Face the Nation. On Sunday morning national television, he told the world that the United States is now dangerously low on Tomahawk, ATACMS, SM-3, THAAD, and Patriot missiles. He even opined that the Iran war has depleted our stores so badly that we’re currently unprepared to deal with a Chinese conflict.
I wonder if President Xi Jinping caught that particular episode of Face the Nation? If so, I’m pretty sure he’s smart enough to hear what I heard: If you’d like to deal with that rebellious island that claims they aren’t part of Communist China, Senator Kelly thinks this would be a swell time.
I believe the wiseman Gump would agree: breaking the law again, while still trying to escape the fallout from breaking the law the first time, is really stupid.
Unlike Ketanji Brown Jackson, Mark Kelly can’t even hide behind the cover of being a DEI hire. That is unless there’s an intersectionality category for cis-male, follicly challenged, melanin deficient, leftists, that I’m unaware of.
Clearly Senator Kelly’s intelligence has taken a nosedive sometime between when he was doing dead-stick space shuttle landings, and when the good people of Arizona elected him to harass Donald Trump. So, what happened?
I can only conclude that TDS is a degenerative condition which eats away at the prefrontal cortex, until sufferers are reduced to self-destructive, quivering masses of hatred, enslaved by their own runaway emotions. I wonder if Arizona has a red-flag law?
Author Bio: John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He has written for American Thinker, The American Spectator, Convention of States Action, and American Free News Network. He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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