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Robert French retweeted
BREAKING: MIC DROP! Senator Mark Kelly delivers the best takedown of Trump's failed Iran War that we've ever heard — just in time for the midterm elections!
This is an absolute slam dunk...
"We had a President take this country to war without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline, and without an exit strategy. And now he's stuck. He doesn't know what to do," Kelly said, while campaigning for Senate candidate Troy Jackson in Maine.
"I sit on the Armed Services and the Intelligence Committees, both of them. And I will say, from what I know about this, the Iranians weren't any closer to developing a nuclear weapon this year than they were when I first got to the United States Senate in 2020," said Kelly. "And it's this President who, by the way, tore up the deal in 2018 that started them to enrich the uranium at a higher level."
"So if you think there was a problem, this President created the problem!" he continued. "But he didn't need to go to war and put Americans in harm's way. We have now 20 deceased service members. Over 800 injured."
By now, most discerning people have come to realize that this war was never about nuclear weapons. Trump launched this war because Israel convinced him that he could win a quick, splashy victory and Israel wanted this war because they want to destroy a regional adversary. American interests were never at stake.
"And what did the American people get out of this?" asked Kelly. "They got nothing. They got higher gas prices. They got higher food prices."
"We've got service members deployed for record numbers of days on the USS Abraham Lincoln. And I understand going on cruise can be hard. It's challenging," he went on. "But really, they had eight service members who tried to commit suicide because of the conditions aboard the ship. And I've got to tell you, the worst thing about that, by far, for me, was to see the Secretary of Defense go straight to camera and say, there's no problem, and we give commanders everything they need. That is not leadership."
"Leadership has taken some responsibility for whatever the situation is," added Kelly. "And by the way, how hard would it have been for him to say, hey, I recognize there's a problem. We're going to look into the problem, and we're going to make things better for these service members because they deserve that. It's not hard to do. This Secretary of Defense was incapable of doing that."
Kelly is right to lay the blame for this disastrous war as much at Hegseth's feet as Trump's. Our booze-breathed, Fox News-fried "Secretary of War" is more interested in posturing as a tough alpha male than he is in actually leading our troops.
These midterm elections are, among other things, a referendum on this war. If you're sick of wasting blood and treasure on endless wars, vote blue!
Please ❤️ and share if you think that Mark Kelly nailed it!
Robert French retweeted
The Talarico mental health story was a lie, just like:
• Haitians eating cats and dogs
• Schools performing sex-change surgeries on kids
• Immigrants pouring out of prisons and mental institutions
• Undocumented immigrants voting
But MAGA STILL falls for it 🤔
Robert French retweeted
Replying to @TheRickWilson
Yup and it’s no surprise. Wake the fuck up people we are in big trouble with this administration!! So VOTE BLUE and vote as if your life depends on it BECAUSE IT DOES
Robert French retweeted
BREAKING: Iranian officials say they will soon release the audio of several voicemails Donald Trump left them in which he begs, threatens, attempts to bribe, and finally cries for them to open up the Strait of Hormuz so gas prices will go down before Americans vote on November 3.
Robert French retweeted
Replying to @BulwarkOnline @CattardSlim
God. He talks like a sexual predator. Sexual assault is not about sex, it’s about control. His ordering Collins to smile is his ordering her to obey him. It is sick.
Robert French retweeted
Replying to @mjfree
When asked he said"they died because Iran can't have nuclear weapons". With the JCPOA no one died and they didn't have nuclear weapons.
Robert French retweeted
Your reminder that this sonofabitch Mitch McConnell, stole not 1 but 2 SCOTUS seats and packed the lower court with right-wing fanatics and refused to persuade Republican Senator's to convict Trump in both impeachment trials. He's responsible for this fucking nightmare.
Robert French retweeted
glorious
Robert French retweeted
Do you agree with Matt McConaughey?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
There is no credible evidence to support that Matthew McCounaughey made this statement
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Robert French retweeted
Replying to @GaryPetersonUSA
Remember in his first term when he took us to church?
Robert French retweeted
Donald is going to get regime change after all--but in America, not Iran.
No Kings.
Robert French retweeted
I'm so sick of him. I'm sick of people pretending he's not an idiot. I'm sick of his lies and his disgusting amorality. I'm sick of his face, his voice, his smirk. I'm sick of his inability to say even one thing remotely kind or humble or appropriate ever. I'm just so sick of him
Robert French retweeted
The President of the United States can’t stop lying to the American people.
Every registered voter in California gets one ballot. Not 7. Not 8. ONE.
This is a man who has spent years deliberately lying about our elections because he needs you to doubt them. He needs you to lose faith in your own vote, because the moment that you do, he stops being accountable to anyone. Don’t give him that.



























