Jay Jones, Virginia’s Democratic attorney general candidate, is under fire for shocking statements that expressed a desire to kill political opponents and their young “fascist” children. Despite the violent rhetoric, Democrats like Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Virginia, have stood by Jones and continue to campaign for his election. Now, however, Jones is accused of making disturbing comments about the benefit of killing a few cops as a warning to others. It is unclear whether the alleged comments were made in writing (as were earlier comments), and Jones has denied them.
Virginia has become a testing ground for rage rhetoric as Democrats stand by Jones and refuse to call for his withdrawal. Spanberger herself was criticized recently for calling on supporters to “Let your rage fuel you.”
What is notable about this latest allegation is that it is coming from the very same legislator who discussed the prior statements, which Jones admitted were true.
According to the New York Post, Republican Del. Carrie Coyner told Virginia Scope on Monday, Jones used a 2020 discussion about qualified immunity to suggest that a few dead cops might be a good thing. She recounted how Jones allegedly said, “Well, maybe if a few of them died, that they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people.”
Jones denied the new allegations: “I did not say this. I have never believed and do not believe that any harm should come to law enforcement, period.”
It is unclear whether Coyner has proof of the new alleged statements.
Jones has not threatened a defamation lawsuit over the allegation. If untrue, the statement could constitute defamation as impugning Jones’s reputation and veracity as a public figure. However, as a public official, he is subject to the New York Times v. Sullivan standard and would have to show a knowing falsehood or reckless disregard for the truth on the part of Rep. Coyner.
“I did not say this. I have never believed and do not believe that any harm should come to law enforcement, period.”
Sure.
It’s okay to murder the political opposition and their children. But he draws the line at law enforcement.
Speaking of AG’s Pam Bondi lost her cool and blurted out the truth when Sen. Adam Schiff managed to provoke her into an outburst. It became obvious Bondi is Trump’s lap dog at the DOJ. Why is she having so much trouble answering the question about Tom Homan’s bribery and whatever happened to the money he took? Did the FBI get it back or did they let him have it? Bondi wouldn’t give a straight answer. It appears Bondi is covering up an inflluence peddling scheme. Will Professor Turley be chastising Bondi and Homan for their blatant influence peddling scheme?
The more combative she gets the less credible she becomes. Pam Bondi is not doing a good job justifying her conduct at the DOJ. She’s making James Comey look like a saint in comparison.
..it ‘s become obvious the X writer here is a lap dog at the BS Spin Headquarters of the Darkside Troll Kingdom…
Bondi did fine. Durban, Blumenthal, Horoni and Schiff embarrased themselves.
There is no Homan bribery case.
Previously – you said there was a video or tape – produce it.
Regardless, Exactly how is it that you bribe someone who is a PRIVATE ACTOR ?
From Jan 20,2020 to Jan 21, 2025 Tom Homan was a private citizen – he can not be bribed.
The idiotic allegation does not Claim that Rusian Oligarchs gave him Money while he was VP like Biden – and that 3 FBI CHS’s have now confirmed $5M for Joe laundered through caribean banks and shell companies, $5M for Hunter.
Further NOW as the Border CZAR of the Trump administration Homan has ZERO authority over the approval of Funds.
So even ALL your claims are correct – under cover FBI agents offered Homan Money for something he had no power to do – not then, not now.
There are some less significant issues regarding the Bidens – NOT HOMAN, when Joe was out of office – because he was taken FOREIGN money for the use of Influence with CURRENT administration officials.
That is NOT Bribery – it is Lobbying – and it is only illegal if the people laying for your influence are foreigners AND you fail to register with FARA and report it.
Bondi is plenty credible – in her testimony. And she is doing an excellent job – and likely having Fun dealing with Democratic Senators whose own credibility is in tatters.
But what is most important regarding Bondi is NOT her testimony or taking on Stupid democrat Senators who are in over their heads and do NOT have the moral credibility to challenge anyone.
What is important is her ACTIONS.
Bondi is doing exactly What Trump promised his AG would do as he campaigned.
Going after Criminals and corruption.
Kudos to her.
Do you have evidence that Bondi has lied under Oath ?
There is zero doubt that James Comey has lied under oath.
And not alot of doubt that he has done so many times as well as acted as a significant part of multiple criminal conspiracies.
The only questions regarding Comey are whether he will be successfully prosecuted for any of his crimes.
Conversely – Bondi is someone with a long long track record of ACTUALY prosecuting real criminals,
and NOT lying under oath, or bending the rules or depriving others of their civil rights.
The better one was Stephen Miller blurting out his belief that Trump has plenary power and then malfunctioning like Windows 95 would sometimes crash by simply freezing the screen when he realized that the bag was now emptied of cat. I wonder if that realization was a faulty neuron making a needed contact or someone getting the message to shut. up. now. into his ear piece. Technical difficulties my behind.
Just for what it’s worth, I heard that Democrats were zip-tying naked children, and then castrating, to affirm their gender to save their lives. . . Anesthesia may have been provided, but sources were unsure.
Thank you Floyd and other posters who are humorously trolling left wing nuts
I waste too much time pointing out he obvious stupid errors of these idiots.
At some point the wise course is to ridicule them.
Dear Prof Turley,
This is outrageous. Battle lines are being drawn .. . ‘nobody is right if everybody is wrong’.
I’m pretty sure this sort of violent rhetoric by vicious leftist domestic insurrectionists is covered under President Trump’s latest NSPM-7 and explicitly reiterated by Sec. of War Hegseth during the ‘fat generals’ meeting recently. We are at war from within. .. to our ‘enemies within’: FAFO.
This is not debatable. .. these are the facts, and they are not in dispute.
My own brother, e.g., voted for Joe Biden, and other blithering idiots, so they will probably get him first. .. I’ve got some MAGA street cred posting here.
*Blackhawk down .. .
100% of the paid leftist rioters that were “NOT” there, were uninjured.
Easy money.
*There was a Joe
Oh, leanin’ on the back door
A couple Jills
That had their eyes on a couple bills
Their eyes was statin’, they was waitin’
To get their hands on some easy money
Are these jobs posted on Indeed or Monster? Is there some other “rioters wanted” job board that 10ffgrid knows about? How good is the pay? Are there bonuses for getting teargassed, pepper sprayed, or blinded by a close range non-lethal munition aimed at the eyes? Is there a discount for dropping off pallets of bricks which don’t seem to be thrown at law enforcement? Is child care listed in the job rewards section? Not everyone will take a child to work under those conditions.
Crystal does not seem to know what an actual logical contradiction is.
Charging documents are only required to provide a prima fasci case necessary to proceed.
The absence of assertions in a charging document that were in a prior press release is NOT a contradiction.
Further if there was an ACTUAL contradiction with a press release – that is irrelevant.
Press releases are NOT testimony – they are for the public not the court.
I would note that there has been LOTS of publicly released video of this incident and events leading up to it.
There is ZERO doubt that Martinez was part of a group ACTIVELY and CRIMINALLY engaged in impededing ICE/CBP.
If you and several others “box in” a police car – you can expect to be arrested jailed and prosecuted.
In the video that has been made Public there is inches between the front and rear bumpers of the ICE/CBP agents and vehicles that “boxed them it” That alone is a crime under the circumstances.
To me it appears that ICE/CBP was rammed BEFORE they took agressive action – but that is only mildly relevant.
Boxing in a ICE/CBP vehicle would be unlawful detention and impeding law enforcement.
Actually ramming a law enforcement vehicle would be agrevated assault.
ALONE it would justify the use of deadly force.
Martinez’s prior statements will be FULLY admissable in court as evidence of her intentions and state of mind.
The MOST FAVORABLE interpretation of this even according the Crystal Ball’s claims – is STILL going to result in a successful criminal prosecution.
The only question is how long Martinez will spend in jail.
As to the claim that Chicago police (and Portland Police) were ordered to stand down – both cities cheifs of police have denied that – but there is MASSIVE evidence that is the case.
Every night ICE is attacked at the federal courthouse in portland and the Portland police are nowhere to be seen.
As Bondi told Durbin when he asked about sending the NG to Chicago,
There is no need for assistance from the NG in TX – the state and local TX police are FULLY cooperating with and come to the assistance of federal law enforcement when needed.
That is NOT true in Chicago – where the Mayor has publicly ordered law enforcement to refuse to cooporate and issued a spate of unconstitutional executive orders targeting ICE.
Question to all you folks on this blog regarding one’s speech and the consequences of that speech.
Wasn’t there, a few years back, a basketball team owner, who literally had his team taken away from him because he, in private, was overheard referring to the players on his team as the N-word?
How is that any different than a candidate for AG, sending threatening texts to his opponent 3 years ago? Shouldn’t he suffer negative consequences for his speech, just as the team owner did for his?
In America, yes, we have the freedom to say pretty much what we like, that said, we also should be prepared to face consequences if what we say crosses lines which we, as a civilized society, have agreed upon.
Am I wrong?
The N word is not inherently “violent” – It is a word colored people use to refer to each other routinely. Further, it is a perfectly good word, although not necessarily a polite term. You can read up on that here, a famous article by a black dude:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a162/esq1206blackessay-108/
Personally, I think the use of the N Word would do a great service to the country, and draw a distinction between N Words and regular normal colored people, or black people. Ask yourself which of the two statements do more to stigmatize African Americans:
1) Today, a black man stabbed an innocent white woman to death on a train.
2) Today, an N Word stabbed an innocent white woman to death on a train.
Also assume, that for other events, the word Black is used, or Colored –
1) Today, several black people testified in court, that Michael Brown, an N Word, was not on his knees begging, “Please don’t shoot”, but instead, rushed the white cop and was trying to take his gun from him!
2) Today, 200 colored people marched in Chicago for an “End the Violence” parade. Two days ago, numerous N Word gang members participated in a running gun battle with a rival N Word gang, which took the life of a 5-year-old Black child caught in the crossfire.
I think that making that distinction would go a long way to easing much of the negative (but mostly justified) stereotyping and criticisms of the black community. When you don’t have the N Word available for use, then all blacks, good and bad, tend to get lumped into the same class as, Blacks and African Americans.
Also, Black Fatigue could be reclassified as “N Word Fatigue”, thus letting the non-N Word blacks feel a little less put upon and resented.
“Colored”…. Geez, how old are you? Like 100+???
Floyd, that’s such BS. On 1. How about a man stabbed a young woman on the train today. She died. He was videoed with audible words. As he walked away he said, ” I killed that white woman”.
At that point it became racist because he said white woman. At that point the man’s race can be indicated. There’s no other reason except in a police investigation to preface “a man” with a color, race, creed, religion, ethnicity, nation of origin.
It’s interesting how people always say a “Jew” indicating a religion and not Israeli. The town of Gaza within the country of Israel attacked a group etc. Gazans is appropriate as is New Yorkers. Palestine was territory of Rome and included nations surrounding Israel such as Jordan etc.
A man attacked a woman until it’s racist and then a white woman comes on board otherwise give a police report by complection.
Donald T Sterling is a moron. Miracle the guy is still with us….
Ron,
the difference is government vs private action.
the VA AG candidate should withdraw. Democrats should demand he withdraw.
But Government CAN NOT remove him from the ballot.
On April 25, 2014, TMZ Sports released a recording of a conversation between Sterling and his mistress, V. Stiviano (born María Vanessa Perez, also known as Monica Gallegos, Vanessa Perez, and Maria Valdez). In the recording from September 2013, a man confirmed to be Sterling was irritated over a photo Stiviano had posted on Instagram, in which she posed with Basketball Hall of Fame player and Laker great Magic Johnson. Sterling told Stiviano, who herself is part African-American: “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people,” and, “You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want,” but “the little I ask you is … not to bring them to my games.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sterling#Racist_remarks_and_lifetime_ban
Seems a bit off to insult the vast majority of the people who bring the cash into the business; the parallel in this case is for Republicans to not vote for Jay Jones.
The New Democrat Party is an abomination. It is the product of the coalition construct originally crafted to bring together radical elements to form a single political movement with enough power to be effective on a national scale. Democrats couldn’t get enough support among the general public for their progressive, more radical ideas so the coalition approach seemed attractive. Unfortunately for the Democrats, the coalition coalesced into a more organized entity than anticipated and its leaders began to rival the traditional Democrat leadership. Today, the new inmates are running the Democrat asylum. This New Democrat Party is the political equivalent of a residence for criminally insane homicidal psychopaths. Seems like they have become enamored with violence as a political tool. Despite all of the calls for restraint by the Right, it’s becoming more maniacal by the day. If it doesn’t change, if the Democrat leadership doesn’t intervene soon, then the Democrat Party will succumb to the monster it created.
“Today’s” democrat party was affirmed with the divisive, anti-American “0bama-years.” It’s the origin of “peaceful” destructive riots.
Keep him Democrats!! Sun Tzu: “Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake.” Mistake is an understatement. But never underestimate the useful idiots. If this monster is elected, I can’t imagine what Youngkin could do.
VA governers can only serve one consecutive term – Youngkin will be out soon. He can run again in 4 years.
Even historically, in the era of duels, people were not as ugly as the modern left, there was still a semblance of honor there, stupid as it was; that does not exist on the left today. These people are insane, seemingly devoid of basic human compassion. I have maintained that the ‘elected’ on the modern left are actual sociopaths, and this all does nothing to dispel me of that notion, and it is global. The next world war might just be one of sanity vs, its opposite, rather than a very concrete and easily identifiable issue such as slavery or gas chambers. These. People. Are. Insane.
How long until they start talking about serial killers with sideways praise (‘We didn’t do anything, our apparatchiks did, and Ted Bundy was just confused, all he needed was a government appointed social worker. Dahmer was just expressing his first amendment rights when he tried to make all of those sex zombies. Pol Pot was actually a humanitarian.’. And yes, I understand it could be interpreted they already are)?
If I had two bullets, I’d etch a loaf of bread on one and trade it for bread and I’d etch flowers on the other and trade it for flowers.
Creekan
If you traded the flowers for flour, you could make your own bread. Then the guy that you traded your bullets to could rob you for your bread.
He is the embodiment of the modern Democratic Party: violent, full of vile intentions, totalitarian in aspirations, devoid of moral clarity and shame. I doubt he will drop out as he is under no pressure from other Democrats to do so. He might well win with 90% of Northern VA democrats voting for him. And if he does win, no repercussions. None
“Let your rage fuel you.”
“Well, maybe if a few of them [cops] died…”
The left is telling us they are violent. Believe them.
No. Your inability to understand contex is the problem. The right is telling us they are a bunch of idiots who cannot read for comprehension. At least those on this blog. We have seen time and time again how fast idiots on the right latch on to a narrative after failing to read for comprehension and run with a misleading perception. That is how conspiracty theories fester within weak minded fools.
Context, schmontext. I call BS on your comment. You are the idiot if you think those were generic remarks taken out of context. Next you’ll say Hitler was just misunderstood. Claudine Gay tried to say something equally stupid about the calls on the Harvard campus for all Jews to be killed, and she rightly got booted out of her DEI-hire president of the university position.
Absolutely. Agreed. And “private conversation?!” The Wannsee Conference was a “private conversation too.
You sound as ignorant as George Svelaz, if you aren’t him. Your syntax is the same as George Svelaz.
The first thing one notices is your lack of content, followed by a pattern of word use seen in most of George Svelaz’s posts.
1) What don’t I understand?
2) Your claim, the right is a bunch of idiots.
3) Generalized content, “we have seen.”
Go ahead and put content into your awful posting, so someone can respond to your nonsense.
If one of my grandchildren, even at an early age, lacked understanding of the subject matter like you do, I would be very worried about their future.
Boom Mr. Meyer… well said.
So you’re still saying you have no idea what context is. It’s obvious you don’t understand what you are talking about. How old are you? 12?
Believe whatever you like, but quote the exact sentence where I supposedly “have no idea what context is.” I’ll break it down for you, piece by piece, small enough for even you to follow.
Will you do that? Of course not. Talk is cheap, and that’s all you’ve got: a mouth, running nonstop, with nothing of value coming out.
Who says that? Where? Let’s hear you quote and explanation.
No – we are saying that you are too stupid to understand that in this case context does not matter.
It can NOT improve anything for Jones, but it COULD make this even worse.
Regardless, this is accross multiple incidents and is evidence of either delusional thinking or total lack of self control.
No matter how you try to spin this – it is STILL disqualifying.
But you are free to vote for Jones and prove that you are nearly as vile as he.
Fight like hell or you won’t have a country anymore.
Is there still a country? Do we still have it one? If not, where did it go? Be specific, naming US states or US cities which don’t exist anymore
Context does not matter in this case.
The remarks are vile.
You are free to vote for Jones.
Hopefully enough others in VA will vote against him.
No one is removing him from the ballot.
No one is arresting him.
Very few think he meant what he said litterally.
But most of us grasp that even as hyperbole, this is far to far for a potential AG.
How quickly the left “forgets” the “Summer Of Love” …… $Billions in destruction, arsons, robberies, and killings …… ALL from the left.
How quickly are forgotten by the Right the prior decades of police abuse and their outright murders of people in the streets combined with a continuous level of petty harassment seen in minority neighborhoods over issues that are not confined to those neighborhoods.
I’m betting some of the killings during the protests in the Trump administration were by police.
https://x.com/LizMacDonaldFOX/status/1975238232955568357 NEWS Is this a new Jay Jones deception? There is no credible, public evidence in public dockets or reported cases that Jay Jones ever tried a case in court (i.e. lead counsel, full trial with witnesses, jury). But his law-firm bio claims he has “extensive trial experience in state court.” “Trial experience” is taken to mean court room trial experience. Watch for the explanations, that he only really meant assisting in trial work, motions, pretrial litigation, etc. He was an Assistant Attorney General in D.C.’s AG Office in its Consumer Protection unit. He only got his JD from UVA ten years ago and worked on behalf of the Virginia NAACP in a voting-rights case against the Youngkin administration.
“Extensive trial experience? Yea, maybe in Probate Court.
UVA is the top, #1, public LS in America. Michigan right behind..
And the 13th ranked law school overall.
In Other News: “Quentin Tarantino Announces New Film Featuring Virginia AG”
~+~
Mr. Tarantino announced the production of another installment of a popular slasher film, Kill Bill Volume 3: The AG.
The movie features a new Virginia attorney general who decides the legislature is planning an objectionable set of new laws and he plans preemptive action. Rather than the political process, the AG resorts to killing legislative bills the old fashioned way,: offing politicians, their wives, and children.
Perfect film for Ridley Scott. Add an alien and you have politics, murder and Sci- Fi all wraped together . What could go wrong?
illegal ALIENS
Politicians declare US “Sanctuary Nation” after alien spacecraft lands in Northern Virginia and its passengers begin terrorizing citizens and applying for welfare benefits under three different aliases. Eventually the aliens voluntarily deport themselves after having become bored…
“It was no longer fun anymore,” one alien commented, “we longed for the good old days of the late 70’s and 80’s when people actually fought back, especially that Sigourney chick. Now we just get showered with free shit, police won’t even challenge us, and politicians won’t call out the military to try to kick our asses back to Alpha Centauri, instead just labeling us as Undocumented E.T.s and wanting us to do something called voting. Not worth it anymore. I feel sorry for our cousin species the Alien Vampires who will return with the comet. By then the human race with be so pathetic and wimpy their lifeforce won’t be worth sucking out of them. “
Democrats have gone from pro crime to pro illegal invasion, to pro cartels to pro murder.
Jones got a bunch of free publicity and everyone has heard his name. Free!
Notariaty, which is different from publicity. He has no chance of winning his election now, there aren’t enough murderous lunatic liberals dumb enough to vote for him in the party. Independents, centrist and moderates are being shown how far left and evil the Democratic party has become today and will either vote for his opponent or stay home.
Anon: “Jones got a bunch of free publicity and everyone has heard his name. Free!”
So did Charlie Manson.
But I think Democrats would vote for him too.
Democrats are no longer a political party: they are a cult, an evil one, and they no longer hide their evil because they think it is okay.
*. And that’s where Republicans are forced into reevaluating their platform. These aren’t true Americans on the left. They are marginalized people with various illnesses and without values and beliefs of Americans and they are legion. How will radicals be managed and cared for and how will Republicans survive? Social workers?
Idk.
Possible kick it back to agrarian and food distribution presumably? Pre WWII possibly…
SERIOUSLY, these aren’t smart people nor moral. What can be done with a low intelligence immoral population? THINK ABOUT IT.
Half of congress shouldn’t be on a school board or city council but they’re in congress? Traitors
Cults have leaders, typically with some sort of identifiable clothing such as a hat or a brown shirt that they use to identify with the cult. They often refer to themselves with some unusual term, such as MAGA or Nazi. One clue is when followers make gold covered idols and exaggerated images depicting them as younger and stronger than they are in real life, holding weapons and surrounded by nationalistic symbols such as flags an national animals.
Does that fit any Democrats or is that more a match for the current Trumplicans?
Comparing Jones’ words to Trump, Jones looks great!
When you have a president that violates his oath of office and trespasses on the authority of Congress – only Jones will stand up to that.
Only Jones???? Must be nice for Trump having no other opponents.
Wow, Gigi, you gave so many specific examples to back up your assertion.
“Trespasses on the authority of Congress…” Uhh, federal judges disagree with you.
Trump didn’t trespass anywhere. Nor was he ever accused of trespassing let alone charged or convicted.
Show me where Trump hurt you on this doll? Youmare a laughable fake.
When did Trump threaten to put a bullet in anyones head ? Much less two ?
Much less kill their children ?
And law enforcement ?
Joe Biden and BO refused to enforce the laws of the land – such as out immigration laws.
How exactly has Trump violated on his oath of office ?
If Trump has encrouached on Congress – we have a congress that is free to go to court to challenge that.
No one else has standing. Congress does not appear to think they have been tresspassed on.
What is it that you think Trump did to tresspass n congress ?
Do you think that Congress authorized funding Trans opera’s in columbia ?
He’s called for and produced missile strikes on people who could have been taken into custody in international waters. Actual outright murder.
Jay Jones just loves him that Democrat Different Double Standards stuff. Just a few short years ago he drove a police officer out of his job for the disgusting act of donating anonymously to Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense fund. Totally unacceptable conduct for a law enforcement officer to do! Meanwhile… Democrat Different Double Standards for wannabe Democrat attorney generals!
“On Monday, though, things got a little worse for Jones voters were reminded of the stance he took back in 2021, when he was a House Delegate, over reports that a Norfolk police lieutenant had anonymously donated to Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense fund:
Norfolk delegate and candidate for attorney general Jay Jones is calling for Kelly’s resignation if the reports are proven true. “We have to get to the bottom of this reported conduct, which is utterly disgusting,” Jones said in a statement Friday. “If these allegations are true, Officer Kelly must resign from the Norfolk Police Department immediately.”
Lt. William K. Kelly III was eventually fired for the apparent crime of supporting Rittenhouse. But Jones and his fellow Virginia Democrats think he should benefit from Democrat privilege by staying in the race even though he engaged in conduct that, unlike Kelly’s, truly was “utterly disgusting” and absolutely disqualifying.
This is something former Delegate Tim Anderson, who is the GOP nominee for the 97th district, observed in a tweet pointing to Jones’ words from 2021:
Now Jay Jones himself is the one who fantasized about political opponents’ children dying in their mothers’ arms — and the Virginia Beach Democratic Committee says we should “move on” because “those without sin should cast the first stone.”
A police lieutenant lost his career over a $25 donation – which was totally legal and legitimate. Jay Jones wants to be Virginia’s top cop after saying something that is unthinkable for a rational human mind — and Democrats are cheering him on.
If that’s the new moral standard of the Democratic Party, then God help Virginia. Because when hate like that gets rewarded with power, nobody is safe.”
“Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to the dark side. Once on the path, forever will it dominate your destiny.” ~ Master Yoda
Good luck with that defamation lawsuit as a “public figure” under the New York Times v Sullivan standard… Never going to happen not in a million years… Not only that it wouldn’t happen under the “Welch” standard either.
Virginia has very complicated politics but has made great progress also. The Virginia Attorney General plays a vital role in upholding the U.S. Constitution and Virginia Constitution.
Virginia, the former Capital of the Confederacy, elected the nation’s first African-American governor. Interracial-marriage rights were enacted in Virginia. Today Virginia is actually very diverse. The concept for the Bill of Rights (based on the English Bill of Rights) happened in Virginia. Virginia has had more presidents than any other state. Religious freedom was once a top priority in Virginia.
The darker side that some Virginia voters seem to still support:
Virginia practiced the “Eugenics Movement” – basically white people were the supreme race. Virginia’s Eugenics Movement was adopted by emerging Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930’s. In the book “Medical Apartheid” by Harriet Washington this eugenics mindset led to fatal experiments on African-Americans in Virginia hospitals and medical offices in violation of the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm.
In Virginia purity laws if you were 99% white with 1% African-American heritage you were considered black.
Virginia – in violation of the First Amendment – cited Christian biblical law to outlaw interracial marriage and interracial relationships.
In the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case “Loving v. Virginia” – Virginia cops in Caroline County searched the home of an interracial couple in the middle of the night in the 1960’s. To avoid years in prison for this felony crime, the judge instead exiled the couple from Virginia for 10 years. The Virginia judge cited Bible verses to supersede the couple’s constitutional rights. Clarence Thomas or Mitch McConnell never got exiled or charged with a felony thanks to “Loving v. Virginia” (not considered an “originalist” view of the U.S. Constitution).
In 2025, a nationally known comedian corrected the depiction of Virginia as a “purple state” – he said Virginia is a red state with a blue hat (northern part near Washington DC primarily votes Democrat).
That ugly side of Virginia that supports government theocracy (opposes religious freedom) and eugenics (adopted by Nazi Germany) is still alive and well. This is the mess that any Virginia AG has to navigate.
So, wrongful laws of democrats dating 50- 120 years ago make Virginia “ugly,” but a 2025 Democrat candidate for statewide office advocating violence against opposition conservative candidates is OK for dems now. Got it.
The US not just VA history of Eugenics was ENTIRELY by progressive democrats.
And until progressive democrats revived it recently was long dead
I guess I’m supposed to be outraged —- oops there’s rage again —- over these comments, because being shocked is politically advantageous to my “side”. But, I remember when I was in law school one of my fellow students (a middle aged physician getting a law degree, so not a callow careless kid) said of a person “If I saw him on fire I wouldn’t cross the street to piss on him to put it out”. I didn’t seriously think he would let a fellow human immolate. It was hyperbole. Given that Jones has lived a lifetime without committing homicide that we know of, I would rather judge him based on his entire life, rather than on hyperbolic e-communication.
. Given that Jones has lived a lifetime without committing homicide that we know of, I would rather judge him based on his entire life, rather than on hyperbolic e-communication.
Clearly 100% protected free speech, but Professor JT is linking Wild Outrageous Krazy rage speech to potential incitement of others, presumably less grounded individuals. I’m certainly in agreement philosophycally, but we can’t condem it on even that level, because that speech is what makes us, well, us. As much as I think it is over the top I really am pleased about it because we need speech like this to keep us, middle of the road non fringe non wingnut society, grounded.. it’s really a type of therapy to me, always reminding me we have specific Freedoms no other country in the world 🌎🌍🌎 has AND WHY I love this country 👍👍👍
Rockridge
Character is what you do or say when no one is looking or listening. Political campaigns spend millions to create a polished myth that voters will buy into. It is moments such as this when the covers are slightly pulled back and we see what the political campaign has worked tirelessly to hide.
VIRGINIA’S EARLY VOTING IS *TOO* EARLY.
This past weekend, Virginia’s statewide elections were turned upside down with a media report about texts and phone calls made by one of the candidates for statewide office. The revelations in the report were shocking to say the least. It cannot be denied that it will affect how people vote.
But because Virginia’s early voting period is so long (45 days; tied with North Carolina for the longest in the nation), 355,727 votes had ALREADY been cast before this report was published.
That is very unfortunate. Every statewide office is up for election, as well as every seat in the House of Delegates. Those hundreds of thousands of votes are now legitimately called into question.
There is no good outcome now. There are only about 8 million registered voters in Virginia. 355K is 4% of that total, a number that exceeds the margin of an automatic recount in the state by 8 times. Stay in or drop out, win or lose, the election is tainted now.
This kind of thing breeds distrust. Whatever ostensible advantage to voters an absurdly long early voting period provides, it has been instantly rendered moot.
Virginia has generally excellent voting procedure, but on occasion it falls. In this case, it has fallen hard.
It is time to drastically shorten early voting. A week is sufficient to let voters arrange transportation to their neighborhood registrar’s office.
“breeds distrust”? I think it’s so precious that you have any confidence whatsoever in the integrity of our election systems. Not only in Virginia (where the parties have 45 days to cook the books in their favor) but nationwide.
There’s a case to be made (and I defend) that the privilege of voting requires a certain amount of voter participation. Get off your butt and go to the polling place. Vote by Mail, Drive-Thru voting, Early Voting… All are avenues open to corrupting the integrity of the process.
Early voting must be ended. It facilitates fraud. And votes must be counted within 24 hours.
“Vote counting needs to stop when the candidate I like is ahead, especially if it is me.”
Donald J. Trump.