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The unconscionable loss of conscience for Virginia Democrats

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3850123/the-unco
nscionable-loss-of-conscience-for-virginia-democrats/

Evil. Democrats are evil.

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“The stakes couldn’t be higher,” Jay Jones, the Virginia Democrat running for state attorney general, said Monday in an X post. It was an ironic post, coming 10 days after National Review reported numerous violent text messages Jones sent to a colleague in the legislature about a Republican lawmaker. Jones fantasized about urinating on the graves of political opponents as well as shooting then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert with “two bullets to the head.”

He also texted that he hoped Gilbert’s wife, Jennifer, would one day hold one of her children as they died.

THE CLOSING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MIND

He followed that post with the same tropes used against all Republicans about “saving our democracy” and accusing incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares of being someone “who takes directives from Donald Trump.”

So what makes the stakes higher in this local election?

Is it character? There is none evident here. How can he tell voters he has the comportment to govern?

And how hard is it for Virginia Democrats to demand that he face consequences for his behavior? Where are Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA)? Gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger and lieutenant gubernatorial nominee Ghazala Hashmi? Yes, they have tepidly called Jones’s texts inexcusable. As for consequences? Well, they all still endorse him.

One Democrat they didn’t support after a major scandal was former Virginia governor Ralph Northam. They tried very hard to drive him out of office in 2019 when it was unearthed that he appeared in blackface in a college yearbook in the 1980s.

It didn’t work. He stayed, defying all of the pressure.

At the time, Warner and Kaine said in a joint statement, “We no longer believe he can effectively serve as the governor of Virginia and that he must resign.”

So did every major national Democrat, from Kamala Harris to former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe to Joe Biden. Yet there is no call for Jones to exit the race.

Perhaps it is because Democrats know it is too late to replace him on the ballot. Early voting has already started, and perhaps they don’t want the Republicans to score a win in the off-year cycle. Or, perhaps, and this is the worst possible scenario, the Democrats are secretly OK with what Jones texted.

Jones has a host of other problems as well. He was stopped by law enforcement in 2022 for going 116 mph in a 70-mph zone, an infraction that could have resulted in jail time for reckless driving. Instead, his lawyer and the commonwealth’s attorney worked out a deal by which Jones was only required to do 1,000 hours of community service, the bulk of which was performed by Jones for his own political action committee in lieu of jail time.

OCT. 7 FACT VS. FALSEHOODS

Virginia Democrats come across looking as though murder and gaming the system are not issues that deserve consequences. They aren’t going to stick their necks out to make Jones leave the race.

This story has totally blown up the race. However, the lingering question remains about the mindset of the Virginia Democrats, and indeed the mindset of national Democrats.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 2:06 PM

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And how hard is it for Virginia Democrats to demand that he face consequences for his behavior? Where are Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA)? Gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger and lieutenant gubernatorial nominee Ghazala Hashmi? Yes, they have tepidly called Jones’s texts inexcusable. As for consequences? Well, they all still endorse him.

Candidate for Governor Can't Give an Honest Answer to Debate Questions!

Spanberger is finished.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 2:40 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3850123/the-unco
nscionable-loss-of-conscience-for-virginia-democrats/

Evil. Democrats are evil.

During WWII, the Nazis claimed Democrats were evil because Democrats were burning Nazis alive with fire bombs. Nazis can't understand why Democrats would want to kill them, whether in Germany or the Nazis in the USA.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-
club-members-00592146

Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.

They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 3:40 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3850123/the-unco
nscionable-loss-of-conscience-for-virginia-democrats/

Evil. Democrats are evil.

In case you feel that Trump is not evil, his mouth gives evidence that he is:

Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

By Nick Turse | October 15 2025, 2:29 p.m

https://theintercept.com/2025/10/15/trump-lie-national-guard-dc-tren-d
e-aragua/

President Donald Trump claims that U.S. troops have engaged in hand-to-hand combat with young members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua on the streets of Washington, D.C. But Joint Task Force–District of Columbia, the umbrella organization for the military occupation of the nation’s capital, says it never happened.

Trump’s outlandish claim — that National Guard members beat child gang members — is one of numerous demonstrably false claims peddled by the president concerning the deployment of military troops, including that there is now “no crime” in the district. It’s part of a raft of lies Trump has used to paint America’s cities as war-torn wastelands and justify urban military occupations. These blatant falsehoods have increasingly drawn the ire of the federal judiciary.

“You saw it in Washington,” Trump announced in an address to hundreds of top military officers late last month. “We had gangs of Tren de Aragua, say 10, 12, 15 kids. And these military guys walk up to them, and they treat them with disrespect, and they just got pounded.” After twice more reiterating that U.S. troops “pounded” gang members, Trump claimed the suspects were “thrown into paddy wagons and taken back to their country.”

JTF–DC spokesperson Alexia Nal says that troops deployed on the streets of the capital have never engaged in combat with any suspected criminals. “Nope. We’re not allowed to,” she told The Intercept, stating that service members cannot put their hands on people. One defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, called Trump’s claim “obvious bullshit.” Two more government officials laughed when The Intercept brought the president’s story to their attention. “Of course not. Not a chance,” one of them said when asked if there was any possibility that Trump’s account was based on a real incident.

“President Trump’s false and inflammatory justifications for deploying federal agents and National Guard troops to vibrant American cities may keep shifting, but the truth does not,” Hina Shamsi, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s national security project, told The Intercept. “There’s simply no emergency to justify deploying federal forces to Washington D.C. or any other city the president wrongly paints as a hellscape.”

The White House did not respond to questions about the supposed assault of members of Tren de Aragua; whether the supposed gang members were, in fact, children; and if the president was suggesting members of Tren de Aragua were driven by “paddy wagon” to Venezuela.

Trump’s fabricated tale of combat on the capital’s streets are mirrored by his clearly false claims about crime in Washington since troops began their occupation of the city in August. “D.C. is now a no — it’s a free crime city. We have no crime in D.C. … It took me 12 days,” Trump announced early last month, also referencing Tren de Aragua in those remarks.

Trump reiterated those boasts more recently. “We’ve got no crime,” Trump claimed last week. “It took 12 days to solve the problem. And we’re going to do that in Chicago, we’re going to do that in Portland.” The remarks came only hours after D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department announced the victims of two deadly shootings.

A JTF–DC spokesperson refused to contradict her commander-in-chief. “We do not speculate,” she responded when asked if crime in the district had been eliminated. “However, JTF–DC stays committed to the mobilization in the District until law and order is restored.”

Regular announcements on the Metropolitan Police Department’s website, alone, put the lie to Trump’s boasts. “On Sunday, October 12, 2025, at approximately 10:18 p.m., Seventh District officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 3800 block of 9th Street, Southeast … the victim was pronounced dead,” reads a MPD press release issued on Tuesday. Of more than 20 announcements made last week, two chronicled homicides.

“Yes, there has been crime,” MPD spokesperson Ebony Major told The Intercept. “I mean, there’s crime everywhere.”

In addition to Washington, D.C., Trump has deployed or is attempting to deploy troops to Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, Chicago, and Portland, Oregon. A federal judge ruled last month that the first of those deployments, which is ongoing, is illegal. Courts have recently blocked the latter two occupations — at least temporarily — leaving activated federalized troops in a holding pattern. “They are not conducting any missions right now,” a Northern Command spokesperson told The Intercept on Tuesday, referencing troops in Illinois and Oregon. “They’re just on standby.”

Trump has also threatened to send the military to Baltimore, New York City, Oakland, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Seattle to put down supposed rebellions and to aid law enforcement agencies, despite falling crime numbers and pushback by local officials. “[W]e’re going to go city by city,” he said earlier this month. “We’re going to have safe cities.”

Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project, a nonpartisan research group, said Trump was employing a standard playbook as his D.C. deployment burns through an estimated $1 million per day. “This is nothing new,” she told The Intercept. “All authoritarian regimes frame ruthlessly oppressive social control and militarization as necessary for public safety.”

Trump has justified his push to militarize urban America through gross hyperbole, dog-whistle politics, and the peddling of baseless lies. Trump said protesters in Los Angeles were “animals” and “a foreign enemy,” calling the city “a trash heap” with “entire neighborhoods under control” of criminals. He said Washington, D.C.’s homicide rate is higher than “the worst places on Earth.” (Not only did Trump use older and larger statistics, but even cherry-picking the data, at least 49 other cities across the world had higher homicide rates.) Trump also claims that Portland is “war-ravaged” and in a state of rebellion. “Portland has been on fire for years. … I really think that’s really criminal insurrection,” Trump recently told reporters.

Last month, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the Trump administration’s Los Angeles occupation is illegal, noting that while troops were deployed “ostensibly to quell a rebellion,” there was “no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond to the protests and enforce the law.”

More recently, Breyer has been echoed by other federal judges ruling on court challenges to Trump’s proposed military occupations of Portland and Chicago. “The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts,” U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut in the Oregon case found, noting that “the protests in Portland were not ‘a rebellion’ and did not pose a ‘danger of a rebellion.’” District Judge April Perry similarly wrote that the Trump administration’s “perceptions are not reliable” and that she could not “find reasonable support for a conclusion that there exists in Illinois a danger of rebellion.”

Trump’s claims of hand-to-hand combat against Tren de Aragua in Washington follow persistent attempts to paint the gang as a bogeyman to justify illegal, authoritarian efforts by the administration. At the beginning of his second term, the Trump administration claimed Tren de Aragua had invaded the United States, allowing the government to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act’s fast-track deportation of people it says belong to the gang. Last month, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the government from using the war-time law. “We conclude that the findings do not support that an invasion or a predatory incursion has occurred,” wrote Judge Leslie Southwick.

The Trump administration is also waging a secret war against mostly undisclosed enemies in the Caribbean without the consent of Congress. The administration refuses to identify the “designated terrorist organizations” it is attacking in its strikes on purported drug-smuggling boats, beyond claims by the president that at least some of those killed are “Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists.”

Trump has also had a long history of demonizing youth, especially minority children. From the very beginning of the D.C. deployment, Trump has leaned on the notion that not only had the capital “been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals,” but also specifically “caravans of mass youth” who “rampage through city streets” day and night.

This type of vilification by Trump goes back decades to the furor surrounding a group of Black and Latino boys who were wrongly accused of raping Trisha Meili, a white woman jogger in New York’s Central Park in 1989. Trump took out full-page ads in four newspapers calling for New York to “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!”

The so-called Central Park Five were convicted, but later exonerated and had their convictions vacated after a convicted serial rapist confessed to the crimes. The confession was confirmed by DNA evidence. New York City awarded the men $41 million in 2014, a decade after some of the men initially sued the city for how it handled the case.

The five men sued Trump during last fall’s presidential election campaign, accusing him of making “false and defamatory statements” about them during the September 10 debate in which he said they “pled guilty” and “killed a person.” Neither is true. (A federal judge rejected Trump’s effort to dismiss a defamation lawsuit earlier this year.)

In his 1989 newspaper ads, Trump painted New York City as “a world ruled by the law of the streets, as roving bands of wild criminals roam our neighborhoods, dispensing their own vicious brand of twisted hatred on whomever they encounter.” In August, Trump trotted out similar language to describe Washington. “Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs,” he announced, claiming D.C. had been overtaken by “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.”

Experts told The Intercept that it was clear that Trump was banking on his fearmongering about cities to galvanize public support and justify turning America into a full-fledged police state. “President Trump has slandered everyone from peaceful protesters to urban communities just trying to live their lives in his attempt to make the U.S. seem far more dangerous than it actually is,” Sara Haghdoosti, the executive director of Win Without War, told The Intercept.

“His goal is simple: the more people believe that violence is rampant, the more power he can accrue under the guise of national security. But people in this country can see his obvious lies for what they are, which is why his authoritarian agenda gets less popular every day.”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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