Attached above is a clip I recently came across on Threads of Megyn Kelly talking about the boat bombings off the coast of Venezuela. In it, she doesn’t just defend them. She smiles about them. She says she wishes the people on those boats had suffered more before dying.
Think about that: a once prominent (now just a sensationalist MAGA hack) media figure openly celebrating death. Not condemning violence, not demanding evidence or due process. Just cheering.
That’s not political posturing. That’s psychotic.
And the alarming thing? This isn’t an outlier moment. It’s part of a pattern.
What We’re Really Looking At
The U.S. has launched a series of military strikes on “suspected drug-trafficking boats” off Venezuela and in the Caribbean, under the banner of fighting narcotics.
Reports state that during one strike the vessel was destroyed, and two survivors, clinging to debris after the first attack, were killed in a follow-up strike. The operation was allegedly under orders from Secretary Hegseth to “kill everybody.”
Instead of outrage, what we have is celebration. Kelly’s tone is not shock or dismay. It’s approval. Cheerleading.
So we have: extrajudicial killings, covert war-like operations, and media voices telling us not only that it’s okay, but that it should’ve been worse.
Why “Bipartisanship” Is a Joke Right Now
People talk about national healing, coming together, bridging divides. Fine. But how? With who?
Because you can’t meet half-way with a person who celebrates innocent lives being snuffed out as a “success.”
You can’t find common ground with someone who believes due process, the foundation of justice, is optional.
You can’t unify with people who think death is entertainment, and violence is applause-worthy.
This isn’t just a disagreement over policy.
This is a moral divide.
A rupture in what we agree a country should stand for.
And every time people shrug
“that’s just politics”
they normalize something evil.
We’ve Seen This Before & We Know Where It Goes
This isn’t the first time a powerful media figure defended horrors. And unfortunately, it won’t be the last if we allow it.
Kelly was recently defending minimization of abuse in the context of the recent elite criminal-justice revelations, the same revelations that laid bare grotesque abuses of power from people in the highest circles.
If she’s willing to argue there’s a “difference” between a 5-year-old and a 15-year-old to justify protecting predators… then celebrating bombing survivors is just another step in the same direction.
This is not a one-off. This is a worldview.
MAGA wants to live in a world where they cannot be challenged & every decision made is justified.
I refuse to let them live in that world…at least without hearing my dissent.
And their worldview, the one being mainstreamed, isn’t compatible with future of this country I want to be a part of.
We Can’t Normalize This. Ever.
If we as a society don’t draw a line now, we’ll look back in ten years and wonder how we let it happen….again!
We’ll blame “bad actors,” “bad media,” “bad people”, but the truth will be simpler: we let it happen because we didn’t stop it.
So no, I don’t believe we can “rebuild bipartisanship” while people like this exist in power, and are celebrated for cruelty.
Not by bending.
Not by compromising.
Not by telling ourselves “they just don’t understand how they were manipulated.”
Because this isn’t a disagreement. It’s a choice.
Between humanity and cruelty.
Between accountability and impunity.
Between truth and propaganda.
This Isn’t Just Another Story…It’s a Warning
Unfortunately this isn’t just another media clip.
This is a preview of what happens when a government, with media on its side, normalizes lawlessness & extreme violence as policy.
The Trump regime feels like they can get away with this, and they will, if we’re silent about it.
I don’t know how this will end, but I know I’m not going to stay silent.
Final Call To Action.
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It survives on people who care, enough to read, to share, to stand up.
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Desmond
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