Video: “I Said What I Said” Except I Didn’t Mean What I Said
Kelly Nash said what she said, and what she said was hate. She wanted this video amplified. Consider it amplified.
The far-right loves to outdo itself, but the video I'm about to detail is a whole new level of batshit. Easily one of the most disturbing, dishonest, off-the-rails clips I’ve ever had to suffer through.
Holy God.
Last week, I wrote about a vile and heinous Facebook comment from Fairbanks activist Kelly Lindsey “Nasty” Nash, who responded in the affirmative to a comment calling for the elimination (the killing) of trans, queer, and Two-Spirit Alaskans. And just to be clear, the “activist” label didn’t come from me. It was first bestowed upon Nash by Must Read Alaska, which published a pathetic, half-baked blog post in June, propping up fan-fiction that "activist" Nash had been the target of a “credible threat” on her life.
As I’ve documented more than once, self-proclaimed J6er and Proud Boy bestie Nash has repeatedly defamed LGBTQ+ people as “predators” and “pedophiles.” She’s targeted Pride signage and drag events, and even bragged about using fake Facebook accounts to keep tabs on educators, steal their personal photographs and videos, and ship them off to the extremist Libs of TikTok account, knowing full well that to do so would unleash violent threats, harassment, and potential doxing on those teachers.
In the days following the piece, Nash repeatedly doubled down on her violent comment. She swiped the featured image from the piece and made it her Facebook cover photo. She churned out (and later deleted) at least three Facebook posts defending what she’d written. And yesterday, instead of honestly walking back her words, Nash hit record. In a rambling video posted to Facebook, she tried to explain away her comment primarily by lashing out at critics. What follows is based on a verbatim transcription of that video.
The video is 12 minutes of grievance politics and self-pity. Nash insisted she hadn’t actually read the original comment “in its entirety.” She claimed that when she saw the word eliminate, violence never came to mind at all...she thought it just meant “get rid of.”
That excuse collapses under the weight of the words on the screen. The comment she responded to said LGBT people should be sent to Afghanistan, where they would be killed. Nash read that, responded to it, and carved out which letters of the acronym she thought were worthy of elimination.
It's worth noting that, according to Nash, the comment she posted was sparked by a story circulating on either the far-right blog Alaska Watchman or Must Read Alaska (she forgets), but said it was one of their typical pieces railing against what Nash dismissively refers to as "gay stuff.” This tracks.
I’d like you to imagine...just for a moment...if I had written a comment saying we should “eliminate” MAGA cultists. Shit spinster Suzanne Downing would be pounding out five-alarm blog posts demanding my head on a pike. Now compare that with what Kelly actually wrote, and somehow we’re supposed to buy that she “didn’t really read it.”
Even after claiming that she had gone back to re-read the comment, MAGA Damsel Nash still refused to accept responsibility. Instead, she pivoted to her greatest hits: that the real villains are “the leftists” on social media who shared it, and naturally, little ol’ me. At no point did she remove her vile comment. At no point did she apologize to the people she put in harm’s way.
She did, however, drag her daughter back into the fray. Nash complained bitterly that people were connecting the dots between her own actions and her daughter, Hannah, who is currently running for a seat on the Fairbanks City Council. She said: “She is not me. I am not her…they should solely be coming after me.”
It's rather breathtaking for Nash to intentionally put Hannah back into the story, apologizing only to her, saying she hoped it wouldn’t hurt her campaign while doubling down on her refusal to retract the comment. It’s a weird kind of apology when the person receiving it is told nothing will change. Anyway, the rest of the video was an avalanche of the usual far-right talking points.
Nash equated criticism of her words with support for “murdering babies up to birth.” She called LGBTQ+ acceptance “child abuse.” She recycled the long-debunked litter box myth (lie) about trans students in schools. She insisted she would “never apologize” because she was “standing up for the kids.” She warned viewers that there was “no fence," that you are either on the right side with her, or the wrong side with everyone else. And she punctuated it with a line she repeated multiple times into the camera: “I said what I said.”
Nash is not just some harmless crank screaming into the void. She is a prominent, vocal figure in Fairbanks’ far-right activist circles. When someone with her platform replies to a post that literally fantasizes about LGBT people being killed, that seems far from being a slip of the tongue.
I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for Kelly Nash. She’s spent years making mocking, ridiculing and endangering queer and trans Alaskans, digging up teachers’ personal photos to hand off to Libs of TikTok, and conducting stakeouts outside of drag shows. Now she’s furious that her own words are the story. Cry me a fucking river.
She said what she said, and what she said was hate.
