Senator Mark Kelly
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Democrat or Republican.
Yeah.
Nobody has commanded that type of control over the base.
And he is very willing and able to use that against anybody that he perceives as a political foe or enemy.
I mean, he's doing it to me.
Yeah, sure.
Then they tried to reduce me in rank and take away my pension.
So I sued Pete Hegseth.
So this, you know, I have no problem fighting back.
Yeah.
And I'm not going to give up because there's a lot at stake here.
Sure.
You know, First Amendment rights of two million retired service members.
But what I think is there's a lot of members of Congress in his party.
that just know that he can end their careers.
And they think their career is pretty valuable to them, unfortunately.
None of us should think we matter so much that the world comes to an end if we lose our job in the United States Congress.
The problem is there are a lot of people that think they are so important that our country would collapse if they were not there.
And that is not true.
Yeah.