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highplainsdem

(62,382 posts)
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:26 PM Tuesday

Megyn Kelly: 'Trump could drop a nuke' and I still wouldn't vote for a Democrat

Source: Raw Story

Right-wing podcast host Megyn Kelly insisted that she wouldn't vote for a Democrat even if President Donald Trump decided to deploy a nuclear weapon.

"All I think about when I think about the Democrats is those very unattractive people in Minneapolis," Kelly said on a podcast this week. "That's when I think Democrat, that's what I think."

"That's smug, arrogant. I'm better than you. I look down my nose on you. Even though you've done three tours of duty. Like, F you. I like, I'm — that to me, I could never vote for, never," she continued.

"I mean, honestly, Trump could drop a nuke, and I'd still vote Republican over those people."

-snip-

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/megyn-kelly-trump-nuke/

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Megyn Kelly: 'Trump could drop a nuke' and I still wouldn't vote for a Democrat (Original Post) highplainsdem Tuesday OP
What a moron (aka moran)... wcmagumba Tuesday #1
moran AllaN01Bear Tuesday #57
Thanks, that's what I meant...Old guy brain fart... wcmagumba Tuesday #58
glad to help AllaN01Bear Tuesday #61
All of the above. Permanut Tuesday #77
Psst, Megyn? We don't want you. Mean, hateful, johnnyfins Tuesday #2
Overgrown Mean Girl skank says what? Dulcinea Wednesday #115
This is most of the the Republican voters JBTaurus83 Tuesday #3
Go after GOP grandchildren with vigor. PufPuf23 Tuesday #60
They are as stupid kacekwl Tuesday #71
This a million times!! I get so annoyed with how can we appeal to trump voters/or so called moderate republicans tulipsandroses Tuesday #75
Yup Farmer-Rick Tuesday #95
Park Overall DownriverDem Wednesday #122
100% it seems like most maga voters a deranged scumbags SunImp Wednesday #123
Headline: returnee Tuesday #4
Megyn Kelly can kiss my unattractive Minneapolis ass. Ocelot II Tuesday #5
Well she's also been a rape apologist JBTaurus83 Tuesday #29
Megyn Kelly did 3 tours of duty? maxsolomon Tuesday #6
Who is Megyn talking about when she says he/she did 3 tours of duty???? riversedge Tuesday #10
Typical right-wing stereotype, dems are all flower children while republicans are warriors. unblock Tuesday #13
And Libs spit on Vietnam Vets, burn the flag, hate little baby Jesus, maxsolomon Tuesday #21
Can someone please ask them why they don't like flower children? NoSheep Tuesday #46
I think she means hippies? SomedayKindaLove Tuesday #69
I should have used the sarcasm emoji and NoSheep Tuesday #96
Ironic thing is, most of those who use that stereotype never served a damn day. paleotn Tuesday #50
Curious what the actual political leanings are in the armed forces at enlistment unblock Tuesday #83
Well, Dark Brandon's leopard is eating her face. . . DinahMoeHum Tuesday #7
Does anyone think she has any influence? The Wizard Wednesday #110
And that's the problem, Republicans are sick people. dem4decades Tuesday #8
Post removed Post removed Tuesday #9
"That's smug, arrogant," she said, smugly and arrogantly unblock Tuesday #11
I notice many republicans call us arrogant JBTaurus83 Tuesday #14
Yup. Knowledge is arrogant. Real murikkkans rely on gut. unblock Tuesday #17
Or a feeling in their bones Seinan Sensei Wednesday #104
Translation: Trump please give me a job in your administration! Chasstev365 Tuesday #12
THIS is why GOPers want to weaken our education system. groundloop Tuesday #15
Here's her "military experience" oberle Tuesday #16
Does this woman get paid for saying the most outrageous and inappropriate things? Baitball Blogger Tuesday #18
Yes. They have infinite resources to pay infinite influencers. maxsolomon Tuesday #22
No worries sweetheart... EarthFirst Tuesday #19
It proves she does not care about other people's lives............. Lovie777 Tuesday #20
Who cares what Megyn Kelly has to say? MIButterfly Tuesday #23
Supposedly worth $45 million. IcyPeas Tuesday #24
Lying to American society pays well. OAITW r.2.0 Tuesday #59
Add... oldsoldierfadingfast Tuesday #70
Well, in America you have the right to be as stupid as you like. Tim S Tuesday #25
And she is a terrible human being. RandySF Tuesday #26
Well you ugly fucking... 2naSalit Tuesday #27
Great line BunnyMcGee Tuesday #55
+1 dalton99a Wednesday #124
My definition of smug and arrogant is someone like tRump or Musk Blue Owl Tuesday #28
Proof that a brain scan is NOT needed here bluestarone Tuesday #30
She is playing a con for money. She says outrageous crap to make herself seem relevant. Botany Tuesday #31
Exactly. She has everyone talking about her. She could care less if millions die. Midnight Writer Tuesday #37
She is just an older version of K. Levitt. Botany Tuesday #48
;-{)...... Goonch Tuesday #32
That looks like one of those Odd Rods cards RazorbackExpat Wednesday #134
She's only saying what most Repukes think. RockRaven Tuesday #33
Facts Polybius Tuesday #51
This sort of incessant corporate media anti-Democratic party propaganda is the reason many cling to the GOP. sop Tuesday #34
Why would anyone care what she thinks? She is just a talking head. walkingman Tuesday #35
she is mentally ill... seriously LymphocyteLover Tuesday #36
No, she's not Mysterian Tuesday #40
Your going to hell Megyn Hey Joe Tuesday #38
Playing to the cheap seats, and the cheap people sitting in them. Aristus Tuesday #39
fuck that racist RW POS slag Celerity Tuesday #41
Fine. Go jump off a bridge instead. miyazaki Tuesday #42
Some people would rather be "right" and choose a mushroom cloud dlk Tuesday #43
She could shoot Trump on Fifth Ave and I still wouldn't listen to anything she has to say. Marie Marie Tuesday #44
Indeed dlk Tuesday #65
Who cares? mcar Tuesday #45
Hear, hear. BigmanPigman Tuesday #74
A zealot in lipstick... purr-rat beauty Tuesday #47
We hate your guts too, you Nazi bitch. hadEnuf Tuesday #49
Dear Megyn UpInArms Tuesday #52
Inferiority complex at work ThoughtCriminal Tuesday #53
She's seriously demented. MontanaMama Tuesday #54
May you receive everything you deserve, dearie. niyad Tuesday #56
Dear Megyn, Dyedinthewoolliberal Tuesday #62
She also praised Epstein and the orange pedo Sailingdiver Tuesday #63
She has fallen far Renew Deal Tuesday #64
Snorting hog. Scrivener7 Tuesday #66
She knows that spewing hate makes her money. She is a whore of hate. Doodley Tuesday #67
Garbage coming out of her mouth, out of her wherever. 2MuchNoise Tuesday #68
Yeah Megan, I'll bet he could rape your 15 year old daughter... Enter stage left Tuesday #72
A traitor to her country, period. CaptainTruth Tuesday #73
I'm not sure which is worse - does she really feel that way... 3catwoman3 Tuesday #76
Two words for miss megyn: evolves Tuesday #78
Trump could drop a nuclear bomb on Megan Kelly, and I still wouldn't lostincalifornia Tuesday #79
That's the kind of emotional, reactive 'reasoning' that got us into this mess. NH Ethylene Tuesday #80
This is the person who felt they should assure children Santa is white... appmanga Tuesday #81
f u you lousy trick duckworth969 Tuesday #82
Megyn Kelly?? AverageOldGuy Tuesday #84
We don't want your vote. OAITW r.2.0 Tuesday #85
Megyn Kelly needs COL Mustard Tuesday #86
If she loved me. I'd have to kill myself. eom SalamanderSleeps Wednesday #102
So if the 🍊🐖💩 raped her daughter on live TV would she be ok with it and still support him? kimbutgar Tuesday #87
the megyn kelly is an old tool that isn't that popular anymore b/c it wasn't very good orleans Tuesday #88
A Democrat could drop a nuke on Megyn Kelly, Jack Valentino Tuesday #89
I wonder how she'd feel about it if she ever saw Barefoot Gen sakabatou Tuesday #90
She's no longer relevant, and she's trying hard not to admit that. hamsterjill Tuesday #91
Ugh Lemon Lyman Tuesday #92
What a hateful woman. She must be miserable. alison_in_nc Tuesday #93
Well, at least now I know why I didn't even know who she was and is and will be struggle4progress Tuesday #94
She also makes excuses for Epstein IronLionZion Tuesday #97
Trump essentially called her stupid cunt at the debate she "moderated." SalamanderSleeps Wednesday #98
I'm not inherently better than anyone at all Orrex Wednesday #99
Wow! Is she stupid! Jvp Wednesday #100
Translation bmichaelh Wednesday #101
That just goes to show.... SergeStorms Wednesday #103
Mannequins can vote? I'll be darned... RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Wednesday #105
How Fucking Stone Cold Dumb do you Cha Wednesday #106
She's past her sell-by date. poli-junkie Wednesday #107
Megyn is no Joe Rogan. hay rick Wednesday #108
Like Jake Spoon, she rode with the outlaws a little too long Fichefinder Wednesday #109
Well, I'm pleased to "look down" on such a morally vapid extremely ugly person. If she doesn't want to be "looked... NNadir Wednesday #111
Even though Trump's treated her like shit. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday #112
Megyn Fucking Kelly, talking about SMUG, ARROGANT, BETTER THAN YOU Skittles Wednesday #113
Yes, I believe she would. tavernier Wednesday #114
Assholes must be assholes. mdbl Wednesday #116
She has only one audience. She has no career unless she stays "true" to them. Intractable Wednesday #117
Think about WHY Kelly felt she needed to say this Deminpenn Wednesday #118
All I think about when I think about the trump humpers is those very unattractive people. mwb970 Wednesday #119
We only assumed she was an idiot and then she goes and proves it. Vinca Wednesday #120
That's okay, Little Missy. OldBaldy1701E Wednesday #121
What a pitiful... GiqueCee Wednesday #125
Stereotype much, Megyn? Redleg Wednesday #126
We wouldn't want your vote, Megyn. OLDMDDEM Wednesday #127
Megyn Kelly lover of pedophiles. City Lights Wednesday #128
Shows how stupid she really is. republianmushroom Wednesday #129
Megyn, you're still not one of the "cool girls", I'm one, and I'm a guy...too bad for you girly... wcmagumba Wednesday #130
lol - I didn't think there was anyone dumber than Boebert TBF Wednesday #131
That gives us a chrystal clear picture of her mental.... usaf-vet Wednesday #132
She is really demented. travelingthrulife Wednesday #133
Frau NAZI Kid Berwyn Yesterday #135
GREAT! Go down with that ship then, kiddo. Bye! CTyankee 8 hrs ago #136

JBTaurus83

(1,478 posts)
3. This is most of the the Republican voters
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:28 PM
Tuesday

Let’s never get our hopes up that we are going to win many cross over votes. We usually lose when we try that. Turn out the base, turn out independents and new voters.

PufPuf23

(9,874 posts)
60. Go after GOP grandchildren with vigor.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 08:38 PM
Tuesday

Go after GOP grandchildren with common sense policies and an egalitarian society.

tulipsandroses

(8,262 posts)
75. This a million times!! I get so annoyed with how can we appeal to trump voters/or so called moderate republicans
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:22 PM
Tuesday

These people do not believe in democracy, human rights, equal rights for all. I'm not sure why some democrats are hell bent on going after these folks instead of energizing the base and get non voters involved.

Farmer-Rick

(12,704 posts)
95. Yup
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 10:42 PM
Tuesday

Here in red East TN they are going to build a uranium enrichment plant right on top that water shed that flooded 2 years ago. It's the same company that ruined 3 mile Island.

They had to rezone it to commercial in order to allow the huge plant. Despite hundreds of protesters, all the council voted for it. They are all Republicans. But when I asked if maybe the protesters should stop voting for idiot Republicans. They said they would never vote for a Democrat. Even though only Democrats were fighting along side them.

Now they get to be radiated because they voted for idiot Republicans. Repubs building their second cancer alley.

DownriverDem

(7,018 posts)
122. Park Overall
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 09:02 AM
Wednesday

the actress who lives in Greeneville TN fights the environmental fight there 24/7.

SunImp

(2,713 posts)
123. 100% it seems like most maga voters a deranged scumbags
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 09:30 AM
Wednesday
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This girl acts just like Megan Kelly

Ocelot II

(130,698 posts)
5. Megyn Kelly can kiss my unattractive Minneapolis ass.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:28 PM
Tuesday

And she just told us what she is - a war criminal apologist. Fuck her all day, sideways.

maxsolomon

(38,831 posts)
6. Megyn Kelly did 3 tours of duty?
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:29 PM
Tuesday

Right...

But if Dems were more attractive, we'd entice her over?

Republican attempts at sarcasm and flippant humor always come across as angry and cruel.

unblock

(56,214 posts)
13. Typical right-wing stereotype, dems are all flower children while republicans are warriors.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:37 PM
Tuesday

NoSheep

(8,352 posts)
46. Can someone please ask them why they don't like flower children?
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 07:40 PM
Tuesday

I would love to hear one of them try to answer that.

NoSheep

(8,352 posts)
96. I should have used the sarcasm emoji and
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 10:53 PM
Tuesday

Bingo. Too much like Jesus. They even like him best as dying by torture, dripping with blood from a cross. Forget what he said.

paleotn

(22,282 posts)
50. Ironic thing is, most of those who use that stereotype never served a damn day.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 08:20 PM
Tuesday

While a bunch of us here on DU certainly did.

unblock

(56,214 posts)
83. Curious what the actual political leanings are in the armed forces at enlistment
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:44 PM
Tuesday

Once there, who knows, certainly they hear some propagandized media. But prior to entering that culture? The all-volunteer nature encourages poorer people to enlist, and poor people skew democratic.

Most of the vets I've known have leaned left or been apolitical (just patriotic) but as usual the right wingers are the loudest....

Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

unblock

(56,214 posts)
11. "That's smug, arrogant," she said, smugly and arrogantly
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:35 PM
Tuesday

Peak hypocrisy is when elitist republicans proclaim their superiority over the "very unattractive" democrats because the *democrats* are elitist.

JBTaurus83

(1,478 posts)
14. I notice many republicans call us arrogant
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:38 PM
Tuesday

Or smug when they are called out for not doing research on issues.

groundloop

(13,887 posts)
15. THIS is why GOPers want to weaken our education system.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:39 PM
Tuesday

At the moment they have a hardcore base of around 30 percent who aren't able to think for themselves and will support the GQP come hell or high water. The GQP needs that ignorant base to grow.

oberle

(373 posts)
16. Here's her "military experience"
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:40 PM
Tuesday

Experience: In 2017, she participated in a single-day Marine combat training experience for a segment, but she was not a member of the armed forces.

according to Google

maxsolomon

(38,831 posts)
22. Yes. They have infinite resources to pay infinite influencers.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:48 PM
Tuesday

Miriam Adelson could cover it all herself.

MIButterfly

(2,831 posts)
23. Who cares what Megyn Kelly has to say?
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:51 PM
Tuesday

She's irrelevant. Why would anyone with a functioning brain ever listen to her? She's hateful and ignorant, which is how Republicans like their women to be.

IcyPeas

(25,545 posts)
24. Supposedly worth $45 million.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:56 PM
Tuesday

But she has learned from the likes of Trump and Alex jones... say outrageous things = get headlines.

Tim S

(246 posts)
25. Well, in America you have the right to be as stupid as you like.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 05:05 PM
Tuesday

Many Republicans take that right to heart and run with it.

2naSalit

(103,067 posts)
27. Well you ugly fucking...
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 05:07 PM
Tuesday

Whore in a bubble, you can fuck all the way off since you helped create this fucking monster. In fact, inhumane as it seems, you should have to sleep next to that ogre every night and change his diapers.

BunnyMcGee

(485 posts)
55. Great line
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 08:29 PM
Tuesday
inhumane as it seems, you should have to sleep next to that ogre every night and change his diapers.
[excerpt

Botany

(77,441 posts)
31. She is playing a con for money. She says outrageous crap to make herself seem relevant.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 05:15 PM
Tuesday

She is rich for life from sucking up to the right wing and spreading lies but she is devoid of
human decency and doesn’t care. Her looks and career are fading fast. Anybody who says
that the incineration of human beings wouldn’t change her opinion about who caused those
murders to happen deserves the obscurity that is coming to her.

Midnight Writer

(25,465 posts)
37. Exactly. She has everyone talking about her. She could care less if millions die.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 05:54 PM
Tuesday

This is a person who celebrates cuts to healthcare and millions of Americans losing their jobs.

Botany

(77,441 posts)
48. She is just an older version of K. Levitt.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 08:00 PM
Tuesday

To me Kelly is like a Kardashin or Sarah
Palin why waste brain space on her?

RockRaven

(19,470 posts)
33. She's only saying what most Repukes think.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 05:17 PM
Tuesday

All these "This isn't what I votes for, I got duped, etc" MAGA-regrets people are NOT admitting they should have voted for Democrats or should do so in the future.

Polybius

(21,930 posts)
51. Facts
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 08:20 PM
Tuesday

I was just around someone who wouldn't stop criticizing Trump. Finally, he ends it with "but he's still better than any Democrat."

sop

(18,757 posts)
34. This sort of incessant corporate media anti-Democratic party propaganda is the reason many cling to the GOP.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 05:22 PM
Tuesday

It defies all logic.

dlk

(13,270 posts)
43. Some people would rather be "right" and choose a mushroom cloud
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 07:15 PM
Tuesday

It’s a pathology and certainly nothing to be proud of.

Marie Marie

(11,349 posts)
44. She could shoot Trump on Fifth Ave and I still wouldn't listen to anything she has to say.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 07:24 PM
Tuesday

ThoughtCriminal

(14,743 posts)
53. Inferiority complex at work
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 08:24 PM
Tuesday

She knows they ARE smarter, better people and it infuriates her.

Evidence: They do not want to nuke anybody.

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(16,217 posts)
62. Dear Megyn,
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 08:42 PM
Tuesday

Are you always this obtuse or did you work on it for our sake?
Signed,
Democrats who vote based on policy, not personality

Sailingdiver

(369 posts)
63. She also praised Epstein and the orange pedo
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 08:44 PM
Tuesday

Because the kids they raped weren't 8.

So she is just garbage and has a few incredible stupid followers. Her followers attraction to her speaks voumes about them as humans.

Enter stage left

(4,589 posts)
72. Yeah Megan, I'll bet he could rape your 15 year old daughter...
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:12 PM
Tuesday

And you still wouldn't vote for anyone else than TSF!



3catwoman3

(29,478 posts)
76. I'm not sure which is worse - does she really feel that way...
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:24 PM
Tuesday

...or is she just saying it because she knows it sells? Utterly vile and repugnant either way.

lostincalifornia

(5,393 posts)
79. Trump could drop a nuclear bomb on Megan Kelly, and I still wouldn't
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:35 PM
Tuesday

listen to her program, Fox, or vote republican.

That being said I would never expect mega psychopaths to vote Democratic, but would be ok if they stayed home and didn’t vote.

NH Ethylene

(31,365 posts)
80. That's the kind of emotional, reactive 'reasoning' that got us into this mess.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:36 PM
Tuesday

No comparing stances on issues or looking at past performance of candidates. MAGA is all emotion. Hate, envy, chest beating bluster, revenge, greed, spite.

appmanga

(1,500 posts)
81. This is the person who felt they should assure children Santa is white...
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:38 PM
Tuesday

...why is she being given anything close to a thought about what she says? These jackasses are already bordering on irrelevance, why not just ignore the trolling and the attempts at outrage? Megan Kelly is a nobody trying to get back to being a somebody. Why help with that?

COL Mustard

(8,252 posts)
86. Megyn Kelly needs
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 10:03 PM
Tuesday

To crawl back under whatever rock she came out from under. What a horrible person. Can you imagine being her spouse?

kimbutgar

(27,295 posts)
87. So if the 🍊🐖💩 raped her daughter on live TV would she be ok with it and still support him?
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 10:03 PM
Tuesday

Because committing genocide on innocent people is ok with her also?

I hope she burns in hell someday!

orleans

(36,983 posts)
88. the megyn kelly is an old tool that isn't that popular anymore b/c it wasn't very good
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 10:06 PM
Tuesday

it went by the wayside.

hamsterjill

(17,611 posts)
91. She's no longer relevant, and she's trying hard not to admit that.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 10:21 PM
Tuesday

She looks like crap of late. I think the stress must be getting to her.

Lemon Lyman

(1,602 posts)
92. Ugh
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 10:24 PM
Tuesday

Sooo pathetic! He shat all over her when she hosted that debate. Per her book, he had her coffee "poisoned" (eye drops?) when her driver picked her up and handed her the drink. She was vomiting from it. Everything he's said or done to her and she still fellates him.

Everything he's said or done to her and she still fellates him. Just go away. Eat a biscuit while you're added you waif'ish azzhole.

SalamanderSleeps

(1,030 posts)
98. Trump essentially called her stupid cunt at the debate she "moderated."
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:01 AM
Wednesday

Still, her tongue has somehow managed to to find its way right up his asshole.

She is a cow.

Orrex

(67,166 posts)
99. I'm not inherently better than anyone at all
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:02 AM
Wednesday

But I would argue that MAGA fuckheads have deliberately made themselves worse than anyone at all.

bmichaelh

(1,200 posts)
101. Translation
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:08 AM
Wednesday

I would vote for a sociopathic malignant narcissist before voting for a Democrat.

hay rick

(9,627 posts)
108. Megyn is no Joe Rogan.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:44 AM
Wednesday

Just another awkward bid for attention from someone who sold her soul and can't hide it.

NNadir

(38,145 posts)
111. Well, I'm pleased to "look down" on such a morally vapid extremely ugly person. If she doesn't want to be "looked...
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 02:19 AM
Wednesday

Last edited Wed Apr 8, 2026, 06:36 AM - Edit history (1)

...down upon" she could try being a decent human being, but obviously that escapes her purview.

Here she is cheering for a psychopathic dementia victim dropping nuclear weapons.

She's revolting.

Skittles

(171,908 posts)
113. Megyn Fucking Kelly, talking about SMUG, ARROGANT, BETTER THAN YOU
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 04:12 AM
Wednesday

JFC she is the absolute PRIME EXAMPLE of that (along with Donald Fucking Trump)

methinks she is SKEEEEERED because if MAGA goes down, so does her two-bit "career"

tavernier

(14,454 posts)
114. Yes, I believe she would.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 04:40 AM
Wednesday

Much like Renfield in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, an inmate at Dr. John Seward's lunatic asylum. Diagnosed as a "zoophagous" (life-eating) maniac, he consumes flies, spiders, and birds, believing their life force will grant him immortality, all while acting as a servant under the mental influence of Count Dracula.

I see many similarities.

Intractable

(2,221 posts)
117. She has only one audience. She has no career unless she stays "true" to them.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 06:39 AM
Wednesday

"I mean, honestly, Trump could drop a nuke, and I'd still not listen to Megyn Kelly for news or commentary."

Deminpenn

(17,533 posts)
118. Think about WHY Kelly felt she needed to say this
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 06:46 AM
Wednesday

Her podcast listeners are mostly Rs of some kind or another. The non-cult Rs aren't as solidly behind Trump as they were. She knows that, thus her desire to frame the political choice as being between supporting Trump and "those crazy Dems".. She's trying to keep all the camels inside the tent peeing out instead of in.

mwb970

(12,153 posts)
119. All I think about when I think about the trump humpers is those very unattractive people.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 07:15 AM
Wednesday

They're smug, arrogant. I'm better than you. I look down my nose on you. Even though you've done three tours of duty.

(* How many tours of duty did trump do? *)

OldBaldy1701E

(11,222 posts)
121. That's okay, Little Missy.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 08:58 AM
Wednesday

You could fall prostate to the ground and wail about your sins for the next ten years and we would still put you in prison for life with no chance for parole.

Just sayin'.

GiqueCee

(4,352 posts)
125. What a pitiful...
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 10:06 AM
Wednesday

... shallow waste of skin. "Unattractive" is the measure by which you judge people? How superficial. But Megyn, sweetie, baby, cookie, honey, your ugliness is bone deep.

Redleg

(6,945 posts)
126. Stereotype much, Megyn?
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 10:13 AM
Wednesday

This is run-of-the-mill right-wing nonsense. Megyn hasn't spoken an original statement in her adult life.

wcmagumba

(6,289 posts)
130. Megyn, you're still not one of the "cool girls", I'm one, and I'm a guy...too bad for you girly...
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:21 PM
Wednesday

Kid Berwyn

(24,531 posts)
135. Frau NAZI
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 11:40 AM
Yesterday

An excerpt from Christopher Simpson, author of "The Splendid Blond Beast," is in order:



The Splendid Blond Beast

by Christopher Simpson
Common Courage Press, 1995

Friedrich Nietzsche called the aristocratic predators who write society's laws "the splendid blond beast" precisely because they so often behave as though they are beyond the reach of elementary morality. As he saw things, these elites have cut a path toward a certain sort of excellence consisting mainly of the exercise of power at the expense of others. When dealing with ordinary people, he said, they "revert to the innocence of wild animals.... We can imagine them returning from an orgy of murder, arson, rape and torture, jubilant and at peace with themselves as though they had committed a fraternity prank-convinced, moreover, that the poets for a long time to come will have something to sing about and to praise.'' Their brutality was true courage, Nietzsche thought, and the foundation of social order.

Today genocide-the deliberate destruction of a racial, cultural, or political group-is the paramount example of the institutionalized and sanctioned violence of which Nietzsche spoke. Genocide has been a basic mechanism of empire and the national state since their inception and remains widely practiced in "advanced" and "civilized" areas. Most genocides in this century have been perpetrated by nation-states upon ethnic minorities living within the state's own borders; most of the victims have been children. The people responsible for mass murder have by and large gotten away with what they have done. Most have succeeded in keeping wealth that they looted from their victims; most have never faced trial. Genocide is still difficult to eradicate because it is usually tolerated, at least by those who benefit from it.

The Splendid Blond Beast examines how the social mechanisms of genocide often encourage tacit international cooperation in the escape from justice of those who perpetrated the crime...

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But the ideology of these authoritarian parties and even their seizure of state power are not necessarily enough to trigger a genocide. The leading perpetrators need mass mobilizations to actually implement their agenda. For example, the real spearheads of genocide in Germany-the Nazi party, SS, and similar groups- by themselves lacked the resources to disenfranchise and eventually murder millions of Jews. They succeeded in unleashing the Holocaust, however, by harnessing many of the otherwise ordinary elements of German life-of commerce, the courts, university scholarship, religious observance, routine government administration, and so on-to the specialized tasks necessary for mass murder. Not surprisingly, many of the leaders of these "ordinary" institutions were the existing notables in German society. The Nazi genocide probably would not have been possible without the active or tacit cooperation of many collaborators who did not consider themselves Nazis and, in some cases, even opposed aspects of Hitler's policies, yet nonetheless cooperated in mass murder. Put bluntly, the Nazis succeeded in genocide in part through offering bystanders money, property, status, and other rewards for their active or tacit complicity in the crime.

The actions of Nazi Germany's business elite illustrate how this works. Prior to 1933, German business leaders did not show a marked impulse toward genocide. Anti-Semitism was present in German commercial life, of course, but was often less pronounced there than in other European cultures of the day.4 Among the Nazis' first acts in power, however, was the introduction of incentives to encourage persecution of Jews. New Aryanization laws created a profitable business for banks, corporations, and merchants willing to enforce Nazi racial preferences. Tens of thousands of Germans seized businesses or real estate owned by Jews, paying a fraction of the property's true value, or drove Jewish competitors out of business. Jewish wealth, and later Jewish blood, provided an essential lubricant that kept Germany's ruling coalition intact throughout its first decade in power. By 1944 and 1945, leaders of major German companies such as automaker Daimler Benz, electrical manufacturers AEG and Siemens, and most of Germany's large mining, steelmaking, chemical, and construction companies found themselves deeply compromised by their exploitation of concentration camp labor, theft, and in some cases complicity in mass murder. They committed these crimes not so much out of ideological conviction but more often as a means of preserving their influence within Germany's economy and society. For much of the German economic elite, their cooperation in atrocities was offered to Hitler's government in exchange for its aid in maintaining their status.

Source: https://thirdworldtraveler.com/Genocide/SplendidBlondeBeast.html



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