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Megyn Kelly wasn’t always a coward. Nor was she always an ignorant stooge for America’s enemies. On the contrary, Grandma Groyper’s descent into pitiable lunacy is a fairly recent phenomenon.
During her long career at Fox News, Kelly made her bones as a no-nonsense, vaguely centrist, mostly nonideological interviewer. Kelly, a lawyer by background, grilled her cable news interview subjects as a prosecutor might hound an expert witness on the stand. Sometimes that made things rather uncomfortable for Fox News, as during her infamous feud with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. But at least Kelly’s brand was clear: tough, firm, politically “independent.”
Or so it seemed.
Because at NBC News, her next career stint, the ideological chameleon Kelly shifted leftward in accordance with her 30 Rock paymasters. Kelly, whose unpersuasive shtick these days involves cussing like a sailor on SiriusXM and touting her purported badass MAGA bona fides on culture war issues, used her NBC platform to glorify a set of “transgender” teenagers on set. (Kelly has said she’s “evolved” on the issue, but does any Jew or Christian—let alone one who’s been touting her daily rosary of late—really need to “evolve” on the divinely established sexual dimorphism of Genesis 1:27?) She beclowned herself on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show in a fat suit, parading around like a sumo wrestler who lost an embarrassing wager.
Allegedly disliked at the Peacock despite her sycophantic intellectual appeasement, Kelly was fired and relaunched her midlife career as a quinquagenarian podcaster. Consignment to the digital ghetto was not Kelly’s preference. As Dave Rubin—one of many one-time close personal friends Kelly has thoroughly distanced herself from since embarking on her peculiar new journey—recently observed, in a post about the not-so-dynamic duo of Grandma Groyper and the Doha Shill (Tucker Carlson): “This isn’t the place they wanted to be, rather it’s the place they were banished to.” Indeed.
“The Megyn Kelly Show” launched in September 2020, just before the woman who would become Grandma Groyper hit the half-century mark. Quickly, Kelly played to the Trumpian zeitgeist and began tacking rightward. She developed a particularly combative persona on the issue of transgenderism, cosplaying as a vociferous foe despite her earlier on-air celebrations of teenager chemical castration and genital mutilation while chasing high glory at 30 Rock. In those early days following the horrific Simchat Torah Massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, Kelly also seemed—and, in hindsight, pretended—to care deeply about the plight of Israel and the ancient scourge of Jew-hatred.
I know that because she had me on her show to discuss it all—numerous times. On my first appearance, just 10 days after the pogrom, Kelly retained me on the show for an entire hour to, as I put it on X at the time, “discuss everything about the Israel-Hamas war—what the U.S. should and should not be doing, the situation on the ground, the disgusting reactions on American university campuses, and more.” Kelly seemed so genuine. But the joke, it turns out, was on me—and on all of us. Indeed, if she hadn’t made it as a broadcaster, Kelly would have surely excelled as an actress—or perhaps as a poker player. She is certainly a talented gaslighter.
My final appearance on Kelly’s show was in October 2024. By then, her bestie the Doha Shill had already emerged as a formidable Jew-hater and hardened foe of Western civilization, and I sensed Kelly beginning to slowly shift as well. In August 2025, Kelly—who counts the maniacal anti-Israel provocateur (and sexual deviant) Glenn Greenwald as perhaps her most frequent on-air guest—brought on Charlie Kirk for a bizarre interview in which she blasted Israel supporters for not always giving her the benefit of the doubt. The only purpose of such an interview, let alone laundering Kirk to air such petty grievances, could be to grease the skids for a full Carlson-esque flip. (Notably, Kirk’s own thoughts on these matters in the final year of his life have been greatly distorted by purported “friends” like Kelly and Carlson.)
The ideological chameleon was back. Kind of.
Even after Kirk’s horrific assassination, Kelly still did not immediately morph into the full-fledged Grandma Groyper of today. About a week after the assassination, Kelly privately complained to confidantes that Candace Owens—an erstwhile pro-Western ally-turned-unhinged anti-Western lunatic who also targeted yours truly in those terrible first few post-assassination weeks—was acting in appalling fashion by fabricating the most ludicrous and offensive conspiracies imaginable. (Yes, Grandma, I have my sources and I’ve seen the screenshots.) Even as she lied to Ben Shapiro (and America) and feigned ignorance over Owens’ utter madness, Kelly still claimed that “all the evidence [in the Kirk assassination] points directly to Tyler Robinson.”
And then, all the wheels, which had already been wobbling, finally fell off. It happened as it always happens—gradually, and then suddenly, per Hemingway. Accelerating after Kirk’s assassination and then reaching escape velocity over the past month, Kelly has now decided where her loyalties lie.
About a month ago, Kelly hosted on her show Dave Smith, a midwit Greenwald-esque anti-Israel obsessive and “comedian” who has never made anyone laugh and who had his ass handed to him in debates twice last year by yours truly (once moderated by Kirk, in what would prove to be Kirk’s final on-stage event at a Turning Point USA conference). Kelly, whom I had previously not criticized at all other than perhaps a stray critical repost or two, called me a “snake.” Blood drawn, I fired back. Notably, it was around this same time that Kelly started aggressively either distancing herself from or targeting other Jews on the broader right-of-center, such as Rubin, Shapiro, Mark Levin, and Bari Weiss.
But the real kicker came when Grandma joined Qatar’s leading propagandist (congratulations— for now, you’ve been supplanted, Mehdi Hasan!) on his show last week. In her astounding appearance, Kelly offered a staunch defense of Carlson’s late October proverbial fellating of neo-Nazi Stalinist gutter trash Nick Fuentes, the single most prolific enemy of their purported slain mutual “friend,” Kirk. As I noted on X, this was “two people old enough to be Charlie Kirk’s parents, and who continue to call themselves ‘friends’ of Charlie’s, tripping over themselves to sing the praises of Nick Fuentes—Charlie’s lifelong arch-foe.” What’s more: “Shortly before he died, Charlie excoriated [Dinesh D’Souza] for even debating Fuentes—let alone fluffing and sanitizing him. … In his texts to Dinesh, Charlie called Fuentes ‘vermin.’” (D’Souza has publicly released those text messages.)
The shapeshifting Grandma, in a transparently cynical attempt to turn back the clock and make inroads with the “cool kids” amidst possible menopause and/or midlife crisis-induced marital problems (hey, much like Tucker I’m just “asking questions!”), had fawning praise for the Holocaust-denying Fuentes. She called him “very interesting,” “very smart,” “absorbing,” and “brilliant,” among other things. She said that there is “value to be derived from that guy’s messaging.” That would presumably entail such “messaging” highlights as when Fuentes said Hitler was “really f***ing cool,” or perhaps also when he said that “a lot of women want to be raped” or have men “beat the shit out of them.”
Erika Kirk, whom Grandma professes to support and whom Fuentes has called a “spook” and a “plant” (among many other colorful things), was unavailable for comment. As for Grandma—well, like any elderly lady, maybe she forgot her bifocals and missed her daily crazy pill on the day of the recording. Maybe!
Back here in reality, there can sadly no longer be any doubts. Kelly has made her bed. At this point, she has dug a hole for herself sufficiently massive that she will never be able to extricate. She will clearly never, ever distance herself from Owens, an absolute mental patient who routinely peddles 1930s Germany-style Jew-hatred and even implicated Erika Kirk in her own husband’s murder. And even more so than Owens, Kelly’s real ultimate undying loyalty is to Carlson, who has tragically emerged in his own post-Fox News twilight years as the single most dangerous anti-Semite in American history and the single most dangerous man in America today.
Grandma Groyper and the Doha Shill—think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but for retards.
I mean that quite literally, actually. The brain rot op now metastasizing within what many call the “woke right” (I prefer “retard right”) is actually intended to do just that: rot vulnerable, impressionable minds. Part of the calculation is surely a ploy for market share: Partly sticking a finger in the air in an attempt to gauge prevailing political winds (not that Grandma and the Shill are any good at that anyway), but partly also an admission against interest (maybe Grandma remembers that term from her lawyer days) insofar as it’s a tacit admission that their core audiences are stupid—and that they will therefore only stand to benefit from making everyone stupider.
But who else stands to benefit from the American right becoming, well, retarded? Oh, yes—America’s enemies. You know, places like China, Russia, Iran, Qatar, and so forth—all the places that Tucker Carlson shills for on a daily basis. How convenient! For some Sinophilic, Russophilic, anti-Western civilization fifth columnists, like Carlson, that is the foremost goal of the brain rot op. Allan Bloom wrote The Closing of the American Mind, and the Doha Shill hosts “The Retardation of the American Mind” on a daily basis. Come for the bread and circuses, stay for the large serving of black pills. America’s enemies are certainly eating it all up.
I don’t think that Megyn “Grandma Groyper” Kelly is a dyed-in-the-wool, anti-Western, anti-American, anti-Jewish ideologue, like Tucker Carlson the Doha Shill. I also don’t think that Kelly is a psychopath who should be involuntarily committed into a mental ward, like Owens. What I do think is that Kelly is a genuinely pathetic figure, distraught by the tolls taken by Father Time, likely dealing with serious personal issues (I’m “just asking questions,” as I said!), and desperately trying to make herself seem “relevant” to the youths by putting out the kind of drivel that only a sexually repressed, basement-dwelling incel 20-something loser might find appealing. For someone who made her career as a centrist, and at times veering on liberal, it’s quite a wager that her audience won’t just walk away from her.
It’s a bold strategy. Maybe Grandma Groyper will indeed profit in the short term from this gambit. Maybe she’ll even be able to afford a little more botox and put Father Time back in his place, at least for now. But there’s always that other thing too, isn’t there? There’s the soul.
And therein lies the rub.
In early November, shortly after his on-air performative fellatio of Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson joined Megyn Kelly for a live event in Westchester County, New York. At the event, Carlson, whose seething animus for the Jewish people and the Hebrew Bible leads him toward a heretical Marcionism in his own purported faith, made the staggering and wildly ahistorical claim that the New Testament alone—meaning, not the Hebrew Bible and those pesky Joooooooos—built Western civilization. Kelly didn’t push back at all, and she has only doubled down on her digital jihad against Jews and Israel supporters since then.
Permit this observant Jew, then, to quote to Grandma Groyper a verse from the New Testament (Gospel of Mark): “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
