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Kingofalldems

(39,974 posts)
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 02:54 PM Nov 13

We knew this was coming--15 yr olds are now 'barely legal':

Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."

Republican Accountability (@accountablegop.bsky.social) 2025-11-13T17:00:06.176Z



I understand Megyn Kelly has a 14 yr old daughter.
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We knew this was coming--15 yr olds are now 'barely legal': (Original Post) Kingofalldems Nov 13 OP
Sickening! SheltieLover Nov 13 #1
I feel the same way. hamsterjill Nov 13 #88
I want to barf everytime a repuke utters anything. SheltieLover Nov 13 #90
Well, I agree. But this seemed particularly gross to me. hamsterjill Nov 13 #91
I couldn't agree more, Jill SheltieLover Nov 13 #93
So pathetic. JBTaurus83 Nov 13 #2
What is wrong with her? AllyCat Nov 13 #3
She's being her true sick racist pedo-pass self. Crowman2009 Nov 13 #40
EVERYTHING! alimbalt Nov 14 #112
So, it's OK if 50+ year old man does that to your 15 year old daughter? tinrobot Nov 13 #4
Someone should ask her that durablend Nov 13 #9
It's okay, mwmisses4289 Nov 13 #13
And as long as it's a puke or their allies not fooled Nov 14 #113
WTF Megyn? Dave Id Nov 13 #52
That's about all I have, to say to her. calimary Nov 13 #79
Barely legal isn't illegal Polybius Nov 13 #86
It's wrong on purpose. On point for her. AloeVera Nov 14 #109
Trying to excuse raping minors is vomit inducing. Dave Bowman Nov 13 #5
Brilliant conservative sexual perversion expert Mygen the kelly reports BOSSHOG Nov 13 #6
We knew this goalpost would eventually be moved Torchlight Nov 13 #7
Nice try, Megyn. A 15-year-old is a *minor*. What they used to call "jail bait," for good reason: Ocelot II Nov 13 #8
I Must Disagree With Your Definitions, Not Your Message... ColoringFool Nov 13 #35
Then it's really Megyn's error, since a 15-year-old isn't "barely" legal, though Megyn clearly meant "nearly," Ocelot II Nov 13 #39
This is just disgusting. progressoid Nov 13 #10
These are the same idgits who scream about mwmisses4289 Nov 13 #11
And don't forget - child labor is back in style TommyT139 Nov 14 #97
No great surprises here: 3catwoman3 Nov 14 #99
Gross 🤢 MustLoveBeagles Nov 13 #12
Trump's next executive order... lame54 Nov 13 #14
The draft to work at Mar-a-Lago USS_Dauntless Nov 13 #85
This is what burns me up. Laffy Kat Nov 13 #15
good gawd - anything for Der Furher I guess rurallib Nov 13 #16
Trump videohead5 Nov 13 #17
There's also a difference between a sixteen or seventeen year-old doing hanky-panky with a contemporary Vogon_Glory Nov 13 #18
Sounds like she's vying for Ghislaine's job. Baitball Blogger Nov 13 #19
Or had a similar one. rubbersole Nov 13 #37
There's a distinction without a difference EdmondDantes_ Nov 13 #20
Was that a Freudian slip saying barely legal instead of barely illegal? karynnj Nov 13 #21
Pedophilia Greg_In_SF Nov 13 #22
Too many people can't properly define the term Polybius Nov 13 #87
Called it. flvegan Nov 13 #23
So I guess this didn't work ? dweller Nov 13 #24
Werent many of these troubled teenagers ? JI7 Nov 13 #25
These men want to CSA girls ... Bread and Circuses Nov 13 #26
What a friggin' pig she is. Scrivener7 Nov 13 #27
I wish someone would ask her if she would be ok for her 15 year old daughter be around Epstein and the orange turd? kimbutgar Nov 13 #28
the horrific moving of the goal posts...by women. Javaman Nov 13 #29
"15 will get you 20." WestMichRad Nov 13 #30
There Is Only One Response: "Not According ToThe Law.".... ColoringFool Nov 13 #31
So some 40 year old perv UpInArms Nov 13 #32
Wow what truly evil and sick beings BlueKota Nov 13 #33
In some states Republicans bible humpers still want to be able to marry 13 year olds ChicagoTeamster Nov 13 #34
Some on the "manosphere" actually ADVOCATE marrying a girl that age DBoon Nov 13 #62
They have no morality or ethics unless it effects them. NotHardly Nov 13 #36
Well, if nothing else, republicans are telling us loud and clear who and what they are. Biophilic Nov 13 #38
I keep trying to tell people. This is the frickin MAGAt mindset maxrandb Nov 13 #41
There is a difference between a 5 yo and a 15 yo, TNNurse Nov 13 #42
My daughter is 17 JPPaverage Nov 13 #43
Megyn Kelley into supporting child rape now, hmm? SSJVegeta Nov 13 #44
I guess she'd be fine with her daughter being raped and impregnated and forced to carry and deliver the child... QueerDuck Nov 13 #46
That's the MAGAts - the party of law and order! These people have NO moral compass at all. n/t PatrickforB Nov 13 #45
I guess WmChris Nov 13 #47
If it involved a Democratic man, Wednesdays Nov 13 #48
Megan should've gone into gymnastics considering how she can bend over backwards while kissing the Felon's arse. Buddyzbuddy Nov 13 #49
I'm sure she would have the same opinion if it was ,Obama Tribetime Nov 13 #50
So when she was 15 ... relayerbob Nov 13 #51
Pretty on the outside but truly ugly on the inside. Botany Nov 13 #53
This is fucking sickening Aviation Pro Nov 13 #54
That is according to Traildogbob Nov 13 #55
Gotta love the vanishing of rightwing "law & order" sentiment. Paladin Nov 13 #56
Everything they say is a farce Oneironaut Nov 13 #73
So Megyn is a-ok with her 14 yo daughter getting raped by the likes of Eps and Dump. Clouds Passing Nov 13 #57
Megyn Kelly is VILE trash for saying otherwise. LetMyPeopleVote Nov 13 #58
A disgusting human. spanone Nov 13 #59
This is the usual pedophile response...the next will be "These girls knew what they were doing.." Prairie Gates Nov 13 #60
"Why was she dressed that way if she didn't want it?" durablend Nov 13 #61
"" AllaN01Bear Nov 13 #63
I'm enough of a pedant that I know what she's talking about, but no sensible person takes up that fight JHB Nov 13 #64
Somehow Megyn is a lawyer. DeeDeeNY Nov 13 #65
18 is legal age... not 5, not 14, not 15! slightlv Nov 13 #66
Guess Rebl2 Nov 13 #67
For the record, there are 37 states where the age of consent is below 18. The youngest, though, is 16. Wiz Imp Nov 13 #68
Email Sirius/XM CEO Jennifer Witz here... BlueTsunami2018 Nov 13 #69
IT IS RAPE! In NO STATE is the age of consent at 15. Mr.WeRP Nov 13 #70
Kelly's gross. BradBo Nov 13 #71
Weren't some girls said to be 13 or 14, anyway? raging moderate Nov 13 #72
eww gross proud patriot Nov 13 #74
Goddamn enabling, woman-hating POS choie Nov 13 #75
well....your fired. yourout Nov 13 #76
Disgusting. I wonder what Megyn would say to her own children if something so awful happened to them? tulipsandroses Nov 13 #77
She is actually incriminating TSF without actually johnnyfins Nov 13 #78
Exactly,my first words... Cherrycheeks Nov 13 #80
Maybe if Megyn knows this person kacekwl Nov 13 #81
"At least they weren't 8 years old" is going to be a heck of a 2026 slogan. LetMyPeopleVote Nov 13 #82
So, is that "somebody" Alan Dershowitz...? regnaD kciN Nov 13 #83
Does Chris Hansen need to pay Megyn Kelly a visit? USS_Dauntless Nov 13 #84
Duck Dynasty guy said you should marry those young girls at 15 or 16. Norrrm Nov 13 #89
Megyn looks like she is doing a porn show Skittles Nov 13 #92
She is Disgusting ArnoldLayne Nov 13 #94
We can expect Maga to push for lowering the age of consent. thought crime Nov 14 #95
Two things the Right is masterful at: Trueblue Texan Nov 14 #96
She is, was, and always will be disgusting. Ugh. MIButterfly Nov 14 #98
I'm waiting for "Murder can be legal in sone cases. Norbert Nov 14 #100
It deminds me of something my friend said and i thought she was being dramatic Samael13 Nov 14 #101
Presumably this means that 15 year olds can run for Senate now Orrex Nov 14 #102
as the mother of 2 former 15 year old girls i can only hope that megyn kelly has no female children. dawn5651 Nov 14 #103
Wasn't the woman who accused Trump of teen rape, 13 years old? Emile Nov 14 #104
Difference: 10 Years Similarity: Both underage little girls. Equals: Pedophilia flashman13 Nov 14 #105
Just.....wow! Martin68 Nov 14 #106
Well in the 1820's 15 years old was barely legal... haele Nov 14 #107
I really wish that the shark that she jumped so many years ago would have devoured her. Borogove Nov 14 #108
It's RAPE you bleach bottle bimbo. twodogsbarking Nov 14 #110
The difference between the two MW67 Nov 14 #111
I wish she could hang from a tree for that EnergizedLib Nov 14 #114
Republican family values that they are so proud of. republianmushroom Nov 14 #115
You really have to be some kind of shitty person Bristlecone Nov 14 #116
CPS needs to take her kids away from her drmeow Nov 14 #117
I know that the emails released and links to comments from her will be in evergreen use against Rs any time that I themaguffin Nov 14 #118

hamsterjill

(16,856 posts)
91. Well, I agree. But this seemed particularly gross to me.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 09:43 PM
Nov 13

I think it's because it's coming from another woman. I can't stand it when women make excuses for men behaving badly. I am not a member of the "boys will be boys" club!!!

Hope you're having a great evening!

Crowman2009

(3,360 posts)
40. She's being her true sick racist pedo-pass self.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:12 PM
Nov 13

Last edited Thu Nov 13, 2025, 07:21 PM - Edit history (3)

That whole respectable journalist BS was a total act. I knew that a long time ago when she tried that whole "there is nothing wrong with blackface" routine at NBC. Now that she's gathered enough cash she can now be the true vile person she's always been.

tinrobot

(11,884 posts)
4. So, it's OK if 50+ year old man does that to your 15 year old daughter?
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 02:59 PM
Nov 13

No. It's not OK.

"Barely legal" is still illegal. People go to jail for it.

not fooled

(6,540 posts)
113. And as long as it's a puke or their allies
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 01:21 PM
Nov 14

A Democrat, OTOH, CHILD PREDATOR. Also much less likely.

Dave Id

(212 posts)
52. WTF Megyn?
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:41 PM
Nov 13

Somebody call Childhood Protection Services on her before she rents out her own daughter.

Polybius

(21,201 posts)
86. Barely legal isn't illegal
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 08:40 PM
Nov 13

It's just that Kelly's definition is wrong, since 15 is not legal in any way. Barely legal is an 18 year old on a porn site.

BOSSHOG

(44,194 posts)
6. Brilliant conservative sexual perversion expert Mygen the kelly reports
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 02:59 PM
Nov 13

If I were a Republican in a sex scandal I wouldn’t want a “supporter” telling one and all that I didn’t have sex with an eight year old, I had sex with a 15 year old, but that’s just me.

Disclosure, I’m not a Republican ergo etcetera.

Torchlight

(6,152 posts)
7. We knew this goalpost would eventually be moved
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:00 PM
Nov 13

I just didn't think it would happen until the GOP were on their backs screaming for an assist as next year's mid-terms hit them in the belly. Or maybe they'll simply assert their shame is a badge of honor (more likely given their 'double-down and admit nothing!' policy they've adhered to this year).

Ocelot II

(128,386 posts)
8. Nice try, Megyn. A 15-year-old is a *minor*. What they used to call "jail bait," for good reason:
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:01 PM
Nov 13

Sex with a fifteen-year-old is not only disgusting, it's illegal; it's considered rape because she isn't legally able to consent. "Barely legal" is illegal, just like barely dead is dead.


ColoringFool

(109 posts)
35. I Must Disagree With Your Definitions, Not Your Message...
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:02 PM
Nov 13

"Barely" here does not mean "hasn't reached." THAT term would be "Nearly."

So "Barely Legal" means "Just right over the threshold of legality. Not cool, not ethical, but legal."

Fifteen years of age is not even close, though, to either term.

(Similarly, "Barely dead" doesn't mean "not dead." )

Ocelot II

(128,386 posts)
39. Then it's really Megyn's error, since a 15-year-old isn't "barely" legal, though Megyn clearly meant "nearly,"
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:12 PM
Nov 13

trying to suggest that 15 is close enough so it's not really all that bad. But a 15-year-old is not legal and there's no such thing as nearly legal; the minimum age of consent in any state in the US is 16, no gray areas. In most states it's 18.

mwmisses4289

(2,827 posts)
11. These are the same idgits who scream about
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:09 PM
Nov 13

the various other cultures around the world where child marriage is practiced. Even here in the US, only 16 states ban the act of child marriage.
So not real surprised by this.

And remember, the girl brought it on herself for...reasons.

TommyT139

(2,097 posts)
97. And don't forget - child labor is back in style
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 11:35 AM
Nov 14

...and rethugs are just fine with 13-year old girls having babies.

They are erasing childhood.

3catwoman3

(28,209 posts)
99. No great surprises here:
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 11:40 AM
Nov 14

Unchained At Last found that the ten states with the highest rate of child marriage per capita between 2000 and 2018 were:

Nevada (0.671%)
Idaho (0.338%)
Arkansas (0.295%)
Kentucky (0.262%)
Oklahoma (0.229%)
Wyoming (0.227%)
Utah (0.208%)
Alabama (0.195%)
West Virginia (0.193%)
Mississippi (0.182%)[23]

Laffy Kat

(16,818 posts)
15. This is what burns me up.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:13 PM
Nov 13

Technically, it is ephedophilia, which is, indeed, attraction to young teens. But it is STILL illegal and immoral in our culture. Ephedophilia is not in the DSM because it is considered normal for men to lust after young teens and men fucking wrote the DSM. I refuse to say it's not "as bad" as pedophilia because it still traumatizes the child and it's WRONG. Even Kaitlyn Collins was calling his victims "underage women." They are trying to normalize it, IMO.

rurallib

(64,426 posts)
16. good gawd - anything for Der Furher I guess
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:17 PM
Nov 13

mind games to justify child rape. Where do they stop?

Vogon_Glory

(10,139 posts)
18. There's also a difference between a sixteen or seventeen year-old doing hanky-panky with a contemporary
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:24 PM
Nov 13

and someone much older having relations with a kid that age.

There was an old smutty poem derived from the well-known “Roses are red / Violets are blue…” poem that ended with “…It’s not ‘till they’re eighteen that they’re ready for [ BLEEP! NSFW!]. Sorry, but I DON’T believe that adults should engage in sexual activities with minors.

karynnj

(60,693 posts)
21. Was that a Freudian slip saying barely legal instead of barely illegal?
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:33 PM
Nov 13

Even though this no "barely" involved. It is completely illegal and sickening.

Wasn't that distinction between pre puberty and after something Dersowitz argued.

flvegan

(65,510 posts)
23. Called it.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:36 PM
Nov 13

He's not going to lose a single cultish follower. Not a single one.

The chud horde is unwavering in their support, regardless.

kimbutgar

(26,513 posts)
28. I wish someone would ask her if she would be ok for her 15 year old daughter be around Epstein and the orange turd?
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:51 PM
Nov 13

Javaman

(64,949 posts)
29. the horrific moving of the goal posts...by women.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:52 PM
Nov 13

this is some truly fucked up cult justification for dear pedo leader

ColoringFool

(109 posts)
31. There Is Only One Response: "Not According ToThe Law."....
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:53 PM
Nov 13

I know there are those who use the Greek terms to "distinguish" between those who assault toddlers and those who assault teens. The law does not.

UpInArms

(53,764 posts)
32. So some 40 year old perv
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:54 PM
Nov 13

Raping a 15 year old girl …

Sorry, not sorry …

Definitely illegal

BlueKota

(4,944 posts)
33. Wow what truly evil and sick beings
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:56 PM
Nov 13

these people are. It's disgusting they believe men should be able to molest girls under the age of legal consent. What if this had happened to them or their daughters? They aren't fit to be parents and minors should be removed from their custody for their own safety. They shouldn't even be allowed to be identify themselves as women.

DBoon

(24,532 posts)
62. Some on the "manosphere" actually ADVOCATE marrying a girl that age
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:55 PM
Nov 13

The argument is that it is easier to mold a younger person into the desired submissive obedience.

It is part of a pattern of denying women their personhood and make them into slaves.

maxrandb

(17,029 posts)
41. I keep trying to tell people. This is the frickin MAGAt mindset
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:13 PM
Nov 13

Last edited Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:37 PM - Edit history (1)

It's why you see middle aged moms wearing "Tr××p can grab my pu××y anytime" T-shirts.

For a vast majority of Americans, their daughters are merely a commodity. If they can use their looks to hook a rich man, so be it, that's the way of the world. Hell, it might even be "God's will".

It's why you see a shit-ton of young, bleached, blonde, bubbly girls hanging around Donnie Dipshit.

It's transactional. You give me a handjob, I'll scratch your back.

Megan Kelly would gladly send her daughter to Epstein's Island for a sleepover, if it meant she might bag a billionaire, a spot on Faux News, or generate clicks on her monetized social media site.

I might get flamed for this, but I'm not wrong.

Why are they so anti DEI? It's because someone qualified might take a position that would have gone to a girl rated a 10 on Zuckerbergs Facebook origin site.

Sane people think the casting couch is a disgusting, dinosaur symbol of the "Old America". MAGAts see it as an opportunity that's been taken from them.

JPPaverage

(619 posts)
43. My daughter is 17
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:16 PM
Nov 13

Any of these perverted...characters touch her and they'll find out what pain really is.

QueerDuck

(682 posts)
46. I guess she'd be fine with her daughter being raped and impregnated and forced to carry and deliver the child...
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:29 PM
Nov 13

she's a real piece of work. Already moving goalposts and lowering the bar and the threshold. Disgusting!

Buddyzbuddy

(1,929 posts)
49. Megan should've gone into gymnastics considering how she can bend over backwards while kissing the Felon's arse.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:40 PM
Nov 13

Remind me, did she put out for Roger to move up the ladder or did he assault her. I honestly don't recall all of the facts. Either way by talking about "somebody that she knows well but remains anonymous" giving hearsay statements that this person did not see Epstein as a pedophile is extremely irresponsible of Kelly. She's drawing a line of a 15 year old giving permission to be sexually used vs. an 8 year old by a mature adult. It's obvious she's trying to provide cover for the Felon by making it ok for him to have raped a child of 15, if that's what happened. Because that's what it is, the law says it and the citizens know it.

Megan Kelly is using her pulpit in a very evil manner which is even worse because of her experience with that pig from FOX. How would she like it if people started to wonder if she set Roger up just to get a big payday. After all, if she gave him permission then it was all ok.
.

Kelly, you are such an insidious dirtbag.

relayerbob

(7,327 posts)
51. So when she was 15 ...
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:40 PM
Nov 13

she would have been ok with being forced into weird sex shit with 40+ year old without any way to stop them?

Botany

(75,930 posts)
53. Pretty on the outside but truly ugly on the inside.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:42 PM
Nov 13


So it is O.K. for a 61 year old man to pay a pimp like Epstein or Maxwell 500 $ to rape
a 15 year old girl. Maybe even more if she is a virgin and bleeds.

Megyn Kelly Eviscerated Over Epstein Remark: ‘This Is Career Ending’

Aviation Pro

(15,100 posts)
54. This is fucking sickening
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:43 PM
Nov 13

What this shitbag is saying is equivalent to, “Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed.”

These fucking oxygen thieves.

Paladin

(32,063 posts)
56. Gotta love the vanishing of rightwing "law & order" sentiment.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:44 PM
Nov 13
trump makes everything die.

And to Megyn Kelly: keep up the good work, for Democrats.

Oneironaut

(6,160 posts)
73. Everything they say is a farce
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:50 PM
Nov 13

They’re supposedly “pro family values” too, and, can’t stop cheating on their wives. They believe image is the only thing that’s important. They believe you can act however you want in private so long as no one finds out and everyone still thinks you’re a god-fearing holy man.

Clouds Passing

(6,577 posts)
57. So Megyn is a-ok with her 14 yo daughter getting raped by the likes of Eps and Dump.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:44 PM
Nov 13

Stockholm syndrome Kelly.

LetMyPeopleVote

(173,008 posts)
58. Megyn Kelly is VILE trash for saying otherwise.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:45 PM
Nov 13

First of all, a 15-year-old is not "barely legal." The age of consent in Florida is 18. So sexual behavior with a 15-year-old is rape.

Megyn Kelly is VILE trash for saying otherwise.

And Megyn Kelly is confessing to having insider information about what Jeffrey Epstein was up to but stayed silent.

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-11-13T20:33:56.910Z

Prairie Gates

(6,885 posts)
60. This is the usual pedophile response...the next will be "These girls knew what they were doing.."
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:49 PM
Nov 13

"...they were actually seducing us."

The pedophile order of excuses:

I definitely didn't do it.
I didn't know how old she was.
A fifteen year old is actually pretty mature.
Age of consent fluctuates throughout history. (Names some historical figure who married a 13 year old)
She was actually seducing me.

We've heard this story a million times. It's just fucking remarkable to watch it playing out as the talking points from right wing media!


JHB

(37,870 posts)
64. I'm enough of a pedant that I know what she's talking about, but no sensible person takes up that fight
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:05 PM
Nov 13

In terms of very strict definition, "pedophilia" refers to sexual attraction to pre-pubescents. But the colloquial meaning has expanded to include all minors, and the only people who try to make that distinction these days are trying to excuse creeps who prey on teenagers.

And that's exactly what Megyn's doing.

DeeDeeNY

(3,871 posts)
65. Somehow Megyn is a lawyer.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:06 PM
Nov 13

But she has also fervently stated on TV that Santa Claus was white.

slightlv

(7,086 posts)
66. 18 is legal age... not 5, not 14, not 15!
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:07 PM
Nov 13

Teenagers will give in to hormones as they will, but they *choose* their own age group with whom to do "it" with... not 50 and 60 year old men.

This is sickening, and if I were part of Child Services, I'd be checking up on her as pertaining to her daughter. We don't know if SHE isn't abused, since her mother thinks "she legal"...

Rebl2

(17,235 posts)
67. Guess
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:12 PM
Nov 13

She would be ok with a 35 yo going out with her daughter then? This woman is a sickening.

Wiz Imp

(8,288 posts)
68. For the record, there are 37 states where the age of consent is below 18. The youngest, though, is 16.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:25 PM
Nov 13

It should be 18 in every state. A number of states have raised the age of consent in the relatively recent past. But for now:

States where the age of consent is 16 (30): Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia.

States where the age of consent is 17 (7): Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Texas, and Wyoming.

States where the age of consent is 18 (13): Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Note: in some states, a person can still be charged with a crime for having sex with a person even after they reach the age of consent, if certain criteria are met. For example: Even though a person may legally consent to sexual activity with someone of any age older than him/her once he/she turns 16, Pennsylvania state prosecutors may still charge a person 18 or older with corruption of a minor if a person has consensual sexual intercourse with a 16 or 17 year old

BlueTsunami2018

(4,775 posts)
69. Email Sirius/XM CEO Jennifer Witz here...
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:25 PM
Nov 13

jennifer.witz@gmail.com


Go right to the top. Kelly said this bullshit on her channel.

Mr.WeRP

(1,063 posts)
70. IT IS RAPE! In NO STATE is the age of consent at 15.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:26 PM
Nov 13

The lowest age of consent in any state is 16.

Federal law dictates 18.

While it may not be pedophilia (which applies to prepubescent attraction disorder), it is still STATUTORY RAPE!

raging moderate

(4,599 posts)
72. Weren't some girls said to be 13 or 14, anyway?
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:38 PM
Nov 13

Plus, 15-year-old girls should also be protected. AND 16-year-old girls. And 17-year-old girls. ETC.

choie

(6,443 posts)
75. Goddamn enabling, woman-hating POS
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:16 PM
Nov 13

I bet she'd sing a different tune if we were talking about Biden or Obama.

tulipsandroses

(8,086 posts)
77. Disgusting. I wonder what Megyn would say to her own children if something so awful happened to them?
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:21 PM
Nov 13

She has a 14 yr old and a 16 yr old. So if a 50 yr old male victimized her children, she would sit there and try to have a " scholarly" discussion about it instead of focusing on the fact that her children were victimized?

johnnyfins

(3,298 posts)
78. She is actually incriminating TSF without actually
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:27 PM
Nov 13

Saying it.

She admitted she knows someone close to the case. So she may have info on whats in the files.

Why is she making this excuse for Epstein now? He's been dead for years.

She is saying TSF was involved, and she doesn't even realize she's saying it.

Either that or she is doing it deliberately(in furtherance of her insatiable quest to stay relevant), which is worse.

kacekwl

(8,794 posts)
81. Maybe if Megyn knows this person
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:51 PM
Nov 13

who knows a lot but not everything should expose this criminal or at the very least being a " news person " she should do an expose and spill the beans.

Norrrm

(3,494 posts)
89. Duck Dynasty guy said you should marry those young girls at 15 or 16.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 09:15 PM
Nov 13

Duck Dynasty Phil Robertson marry teens advice

Duck Dynasty guy said you should marry those young girls at 15 or 16.

http://www.msnbc.com/hardball/duck-dynasty-star-men-should-marry-teens

“Look, you wait ‘til they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that’s going to take place is your pocket,” he says. “You got to marry these girls when they are about 15 or 16.” Robertson later adds: “You need to check with mom and dad about that, of course.”

MIButterfly

(1,698 posts)
98. She is, was, and always will be disgusting. Ugh.
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 11:38 AM
Nov 14

Go away, Megyn, and don't come back. You're an embarrassment to all decent people. You and Ann Coulter should get a house together and talk your stupid ignorant shit to each other all day long.

Samael13

(99 posts)
101. It deminds me of something my friend said and i thought she was being dramatic
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 11:42 AM
Nov 14

She said by the time trump is done there will be no legal age of consent it'll be based on has the girl had her cycle yet. At the time I thought it was dramatic now looking at everything makes me wonder if she was right.

Orrex

(66,431 posts)
102. Presumably this means that 15 year olds can run for Senate now
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 11:46 AM
Nov 14

What else could Reichwingers possibly intend?

dawn5651

(736 posts)
103. as the mother of 2 former 15 year old girls i can only hope that megyn kelly has no female children.
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 11:48 AM
Nov 14

flashman13

(1,797 posts)
105. Difference: 10 Years Similarity: Both underage little girls. Equals: Pedophilia
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 11:56 AM
Nov 14

Megyn is a major low life ass kisser.

haele

(14,889 posts)
107. Well in the 1820's 15 years old was barely legal...
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 12:16 PM
Nov 14

But that was 200 years ago, and even then, 17 years old was a far more acceptable age for a girl to get married. As it was, the term "Not 17" was used by the upper class to refer to the age their daughters became eligible for engagement, as 16 was typically the age girls were brought out to society during "the Season" when rich folks mingled and looked for suitable marriages for their older children. The few 15 year olds brought out always turned 16 during the Season.

Lots of young women died in childbirth, too...

Seems to be where the GOP is looking to take this country, along with the rest of their Iron Age agenda..."barely legal" girls who are pretty or come with dowries being paraded about at parties for older men to pick from.

MW67

(75 posts)
111. The difference between the two
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 01:08 PM
Nov 14

Sounds like 12 years, but both are minors, Thinking some repub may introduce a bill to soon to lower the "Adult" age to 5

EnergizedLib

(2,896 posts)
114. I wish she could hang from a tree for that
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 01:56 PM
Nov 14

Sex trafficking and rape are crimes, no matter what age or sex they are.

But 15 isn’t legal.

Bristlecone

(10,965 posts)
116. You really have to be some kind of shitty person
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 02:35 PM
Nov 14

Even pretend what you are saying is your belief. Just a grotesque and awful person.



drmeow

(5,847 posts)
117. CPS needs to take her kids away from her
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 02:44 PM
Nov 14

They are already subject to the abuse of her being the adult that controls their lives (I won't call her a mother or a parent as being a mother or parent, even a bad one, requires some humanity, of which Kelly has none) - get them out of that house before the abuse gets worse.

themaguffin

(4,863 posts)
118. I know that the emails released and links to comments from her will be in evergreen use against Rs any time that I
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 02:46 PM
Nov 14

hear that same anything - absolutely anything.

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