Sen. Mark Kelly is doubling down on his self-dishonor over the 'Disobey' video

Slammed for his leading role in Democrats’ disgraceful “Disobey!” video,
US Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) has gotten on his moral high horse, citing
his decades of honorable service in the US military — when his central
outrage was to prostitute that service in a bid to impugn the sitting
president, at the clear risk of encouraging military mutinies. 

The Pentagon has opened a probe of Kelly’s actions: As a Navy retiree
receiving significant benefits, he’s clearly still subject to the
Uniform Code of Military Justice — and the video may constitute a
violation of his oaths. 

In response, the senator’s blaring out his service record (also playing
for sympathy as the husband of ex-Rep. Gabby Giffords, who suffered
lasting, near-fatal wounds in a madman’s 2011 assassination attempt), as
if that meant he could do no subsequent wrong. 

Huh? Benedict Arnold was a bona fide hero before becoming our nation’s
most infamous traitor. 

And, as we’ve noted, the video starring Kelly and five of his
congressional colleagues plainly implied that President Trump, or his
subordinates, was likely to issue illegal orders (if he hadn’t already)
— why else would these veterans be emphasizing to active-duty personnel
that they’re obliged to refuse such commands? 

Worse, the spot plainly risks encouraging soldiers, sailors, Marines
and/or airmen to disobey legal orders — perhaps covertly, as with
Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner; perhaps worse in, say, the ongoing
deployment near Venezuela. 

Crucially, the six can’t identify any such illegal orders, because there
aren’t any. 

Hilariously, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) turned to Hollywood for
support, stammering: “If you look at popular culture, if you watch ‘A
Few Good Men,’ we have plenty of examples … where people were told to
follow illegal orders.” 

It’s a great flick, but purely imaginary — yet it’s the best she could
come up with after she seemed to be pointing to a very current danger in
the “disobey” video. 

Back to Kelly: After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rightly fumed that
the spot’s “foolish screed sows doubt and confusion,” Kelly blustered
that he won’t “be silenced by bullies who care more about their own
power than protecting the Constitution.” 

Again, sowing confusion was the video’s clear purpose, even if it mainly
aimed to scare civilians who don’t know how carefully the modern
military educates its own about what constitutes illegal orders, and so
are vulnerable to dark insinuations from veterans like Kelly. 

Which means the senator is the one who’s being feckless about protecting
the Constitution here. 

We’re not positive a Pentagon investigation is the right course of
action in countering Kelly & Co.’s unbecoming conduct; he’s certainly
trying to exploit that probe to play the martyr. 

But by citing his service record to pretend that cutting that spot was
the action of a hero, not a scoundrel, Kelly is doubling down on the
original offense. 

It was a low, passive-aggressive smear, dishonoring the spirit of his
oath of service, whether or not it violates the letter. 

https://nypost.com/2025/11/25/opinion/sen-mark-kelly-is-doubling-down-on-
his-self-dishonor-over-the-disobey-video/ 

John Dupont
25 November, 2025

As a military officer - even on the retired list - he remains subject to
the UCMJ. 

His comments - at a minimum - incite insubordination and clearly
constitute conduct prejudicial to good military order and discipline. 

I'd also add conduct unbecoming of an officer.

Victor L
2 days ago

Exactly right. There is no rational purpose to the video other than to
incite at best insubordination and at worst insurrection. Every member
of the armed forces knows that they do not need to obey an illegal
order. Every informed civilian knows that as well. The message was not
informational, but rather a patent attempt to both foment dissent in the
military and imply a false narrative that Trump as Commander-in-Chief is
issuing illegal orders. There is no other purpose here other than a
literal call to insurrection and an attempt to influence the midterm
election through more lies akin to the Russian hoax and assurances about
Biden's competence. Every one of the participants in this hoax needs to
be held to account. Anarchy cannot be tolerated or a call to sedition
allowed to pass for a "public service announcement".