Vicky Chalk

Retired teacher; author of column, "Over the Back Fence," Nutley Sun. Sing in Christian praise band, "doorjam," at Franklin Reformed Church, Nutley.

[Vicky Chalk @vchalk1]

@Oia__1 Her life

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

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!

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.
Republicans control the Supreme Court.
Republicans control the DOJ.

This is what they did with two years in control:

trump gets:
- Gold all over the Oval Office
- BILLIONS in crypto for himself
- $400 million dollar Qatari bribe jet
- Millions in media and tech settlements
- Gold bars and diamond rings for tariff relief
- BILLIONS in Pentagon contracts for his sons
- $100,000 per month per person for insider info
- $600 million dollar ballroom at taxpayer expense

YOU GET:
- A war in Iran
- Higher gas prices
- Higher utility prices
- Higher grocery prices
- Higher housing prices
- Higher healthcare costs
- 21 dead American soldiers
- loss of trust from allies around the globe
- ICE thugs abusing our friends and neighbors

Now they want TWO MORE YEARS in office,
While they actively try to STEAL your vote.

WE ARE NOT POWERLESS.
Your vote can change this.

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

Trump and the GOP have been working hard to keep this video from being reposted on social media. Repost it, keep it alive. Too many people aren't paying attention to who Donald Trump is.

He's a liar, and by his own words, he must be held accountable.🤥

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

HOLY SHIT!

[Heidi 🏖 🐬💙🍹🌊 @Brodiesmom68]

There is no more Republican Party.
I don’t vote for anyone who falls in line for a Dictator.
#VoteBlue 🌊

[litmit12 @pmitton1]

@HQNewsNow Biden with cancer stood for 4 hours.
Trump fell asleep!

[Braut, Gigi @BrautGigi40611]

@HQNewsNow

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Republicans are the problem, not the solution. Vote them all OUT‼️

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

💯💯💯🎯🎯

[Kimiyah-Vette C8 @boujiebaddie]

The immigrants picking our crops, washing dishes,replacing roofs, and building homes paid $96.7 billion in taxes while many billionaires paid nothing. Tell me again who the freeloaders are

[🌊Zero Dark Twenty-Nine 🌊🖋️ @herotimeszero]

Trump said Nevada has 250,000 noncitizens voting. So DHS went through the list of voters.

Guess how many they found. 250,000? No. 2000? Nope. 200? Wrong. They found ZERO noncitizens.

Epstein is not a hoax. Affordability is not a hoax.

Illegals voting is a big fat orange hoax.

[zellie @zellieimani]

Makes sense

[Robert J Ellingsworth 🆓 @BY1959]

This pretty much nails it.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Jared Kushner is reportedly worried the Democrats will subpoena him in January to explain to Congress what exactly he's doing in all his secret negotiations between Israel, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, and that his deals and personal payoffs could "technically be treason."