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Virginia Democrat AG Candidate Mused About Shooting Former GOP Politician

Virginia Democrat attorney general candidate Jay Jones reportedly entertained thoughts over text message, about shooting a former Republican Virginia House Speaker in 2022.

Text messages the National Review obtained showed that Jones reportedly sent messages to Virginia House Delegate Carrie Coyner (R) on August 8, 2022 complaining about how his colleagues were “eulogizing” a former Democrat member of the Virginia House of Delegates, who had died.

In the text messages, Jones reportedly “shared” his thoughts with Coyner, and went on to admit that his message had been for another person. In the messages, Jones went on to complain about his Republican colleagues and entertained thoughts of shooting former Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert:

Jones, who at the time had recently resigned from the state house after a brief stint representing Norfolk, had strong feelings about how the political class was eulogizing recently deceased former state legislator Joe Johnson Jr., a moderate Democrat with a long tenure in Virginia politics. Republican legislators like House Speaker Todd Gilbert had begun making public statements honoring Johnson’s memory and political legacy, and some of those statements were making the rounds in state legislative group chats.

Around 8 a.m., Jones shared those feelings with his former state legislative colleague, Republican House Delegate Carrie Coyner. In a series of text messages obtained by National Review, Jones derided Johnson’s political centrism and scoffed at the “glowing” tributes that were being made in his honor by Republicans in the wake of his death.

“Damn that was for mark,” he wrote to Coyner, suggesting he’d meant to send the texts to someone else. And yet that realization didn’t stop Jones from joking about what “that POS” Gilbert “would say about me if I died.”

Jones reportedly went on to ponder about, if his Republican colleagues died before him, would he “go to their funerals to piss on their graves,” according to the outlet.

Jones also reportedly pondered about how, if he were faced with a “hypothetical situation in which he had only two bullets and was faced with the choice of murdering” either Gilbert or “two dictators,” he would pick Gilbert to shoot.

According to the text messages obtained by the outlet, Coyner asked Jones to “stop” and expressed that it bothered her when he talked “about hurting people or wishing death on them.”

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FAFO: Karoline Leavitt says President Trump is Planning to Cut Federal Funding to Portland Amid Violence From “Leftwing Domestic Terrorists” – “We Will Not Fund States That Allow Anarchy”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday addressed the incident in Portland, Oregon, where Republican journalist Nick Sortor was swarmed and attacked by Antifa thugs, then arrested by Portland police. 

The Gateway Pundit reported on the incident, which is now under investigation by the Department of Justice.

“Portland: it’s FO [Find Out] time. Buckle up,” Assistant Attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who will lead the investigation, said in an X post.

Leavitt announced to reporters on Friday that not only has the Portland Police Department come into the DOJ’s crosshairs, but President Trump is now taking steps to cut federal aid to the city, citing the lawlessness in the streets.

“Since June alone,” she said, “radical left-wing lunatics have violently breached the ICE facility by using a stop sign as a battering ram, hurled explosives and other projectiles at law enforcement, repeatedly assault and dox officers, berate their law-abiding neighbors, and have even rolled out a guillotine in front of the ICE facility.”

In addition to cutting funding, “there will also be an additional surge of federal resources to Portland immediately, including enhanced CBP and ICE resources. Law and order will prevail, and President Trump will make sure of it,” Leavitt said.

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The Left Has Abandoned Rational Debate And Embraced Political Violence

ith each passing day it becomes more obvious that the left has become incapable of rational debate or political compromise, and must now embrace the only tools available to it: intimidation, coercion, and political violence. Whatever liberals might believe about their progressive politics, today their program is based not on persuasion or representation, still less on open-minded rational inquiry or practical solutions to problems. It’s based on force.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk last month is of course emblematic of what the left has become. Kirk was murdered for speaking out against transgenderism. Dissenting from that ideology in particular is intolerable for the left because it encapsulates an ideal of total liberation — even from nature itself. But there are plenty of examples just from the past week of the left resorting to violence, or threats of violence, to advance their cause.

Call it the assassin’s or rioter’s veto — the last tactic of a liberal project that has reached an intellectual and political dead-end in the aftermath of Kirk’s assassination.

Consider the cancellation of a Federalist Society event scheduled for Oct. 7 at New York University Law School, which cited “security reasons” and fears that anti-Israel protesters would disrupt it. The event was to feature conservative legal scholar Ilya Shapiro discussing his new book, Lawless: The Miseducation of American Elites.

Shapiro is Jewish, and has been critical of campus anti-Israel protests in the past — the same sort of protests NYU officials anticipate on Oct. 7, and which, according to reporting from The Washington Free Beacon, the school is apparently unable to control. And yet, as the Beacon further reported, the law school “is slated to host a seven-hour symposium on ‘social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and sustainable development’ that same day.” They don’t fear riots over that event, but cannot (or will not) guarantee the safety of Shapiro’s event.

What’s more, for weeks now law school officials have been changing their justification for why they canceled the event, alternatively citing the threat of protests, a conflicting “private event,” the inability to host outside speakers the week of Oct. 7, and lack of space.

But we all know the real reason law school officials canceled the Federalist Society event: Shapiro is Jewish and conservative, they fear antisemitic rioters will attack the event and possibly Shapiro himself, and they are unwilling to do what’s necessary to protect him.

That’s how the rioter’s veto works, and it’s become commonplace on the left for the simple reason that the left refuses to engage in debate about these things. They’ve reached the end of rational inquiry and civil dialogue, and are increasingly resorting to force.

Or consider what’s unfolded this week in Portland, where Antifa rioters have besieged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and recently began attacking members of the press who dare to report on what’s happening there.

Katie Daviscourt, a reporter for The Post Millennial, was attacked by an Antifa rioter who hit her in the face with a wooden flagpole, “swinging it like a baseball bat,” in Daviscourt’s words. Portland Police were on the scene, but allowed the masked assailant to escape despite Daviscourt identifying her attacker to an officer on the scene. The next day, she appeared on Fox News and on Jack Posobiec’s show with a black eye.

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Woke Seattle Dem’s husband attacked much younger woman after barging into private event screaming anti-Israel slogans, police say

The husband of a Seattle Democratic was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a 22-year-old woman after he and an angry mob barged into a private event chanting anti-Israel slogans, according to police. 

Calvin Priest, the husband of congressional candidate Kshama Sawant, was taken into custody and booked into jail on August 4.

Officers with the Renton Police Department were called to the town hall following reports the 54-year-old shoved a young woman who is employed by his wife’s rival Congressman Adam Smith. 

Smith was hosting an event at Renton Technical College that day when a group of people, including Priest, forced themselves inside the building, the video showed. 

The clip, obtained by KOMO News, appeared to capture Priest, dressed in a blue baseball hat and shirt, leading people into the private event before wrestling the door while Smith’s unidentified staffer tried to keep him out. 

Priest appeared to continue to put up a fight, eventually shoving his way inside, shouting: ‘Adam Smith, you can’t hide, you are funding genocide.’ 

The unhinged moment left the Democrat‘s staffer with several bruises on her arm and she told police she was upset over being physically harmed by the older man, according to the police report reviewed by the outlet. 

‘She was physically pushed. It shook her up emotionally. Someone in your face, screaming at you and then physically shoving you to the side. I mean, public servants shouldn’t have to put up with that,’ Smith said.

The town hall meeting was canceled following the alleged violent assault. 

Priest and two others were arrested for trespassing, per the police report. He was also hit with an assault charge after police interviewed the injured woman. 

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Lunatic Who Set Virginia City Councilman Lee Vogler on Fire Reveals Why He Tried to Kill Lawmaker

The deranged man who set Virginia City Councilman Lee Vogler on fire over the summer told police he tried to kill the lawmaker because he was having “an affair with his wife.”

In July, Danville, Virginia, City Councilman Lee Vogler was doused in gasoline and set on fire in his office.

According to reports, the attacker, identified as Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29, of Danville, threw five gallons of gasoline on Vogler before setting him on fire.

At the time of the attack, Danville police said the attack appeared to be personal and not related to Vogler’s position as a city councilman.

The Daily Mail reported that Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes’ wife filed for divorce just two weeks ago.

Showcase Magazine’s Andrew Brooks said Shotsie Hayes forced his way in the magazine’s office as Vogler was visiting and poured a five-gallon container of gas on him.

“Lee attempted to flee, ran to the front of the building,” Showcase Magazine owner Andrew Brooks said in a Facebook video. “The individual followed him and set him on fire.”

Vogler was flown to the UNC burn unit in Chapel Hill, according to WSET.

Lee Vogler is reportedly still in the hospital recovering from severe burns to more than 60% of his body.

It was revealed in court on Tuesday that Shotsie Hayes attacked Vogler over his alleged affair.

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Which States Experienced the Most Attacks on Churches in 2024?

Although the backlash to the overturning of Roe v. Wade appears to have subsided, vandals, arsonists, and worse targeted hundreds of churches in 2024, according to a new report.

Travis Weber, vice president for policy and government affairs at the Family Research Council, which released the report Monday, said most Americans would be surprised to hear that 383 churches suffered 415 attacks in 2024.

“We have a tendency in the West and in the United States to think of ourselves as safe and freedom-loving, tolerant, and protective of religious freedom, including religious freedom to practice Christianity,” he told The Daily Signal in an interview Friday. “So, I think the fact that we have hundreds of incidents—specifically, 415—in the year 2024 is very revealing.”

While these 415 attacks represented a decrease from the 2023 high of 485 attacks, it still included hundreds more incidents than in 2022 (198), 2021 (98), and previous years.

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Violence And The Permanent Adolescents Of The American Left

Over the past 18 months, the irrational and near psychotic hatred and fear of Donald Trump that permeates the Marxist-inspired American left and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Democrat party, has evolved into violence, upheaval, and murder. This anti-American cabal, fearful that it is on the cusp of being decisively defeated, has unleashed its army of permanent adolescent foot soldiers in a desperate bid to retain its power and influence.

American Leftism is a unique amalgamation of Marxism, Darwinism, and oligarchism that requires an army of brain-dead acolytes who dwell in a state of permanent adolescence. The vast majority of these foot soldiers do not understand that the leadership of their movement consists of avowed Marxists determined to establish a one-party socialist oligarchy in which they will be viewed no differently than the rest of the unwashed masses.

The acolytes’ overriding trait and why they are permanent adolescents is their intractable belief that their lives will only be meaningful if they are part of “the in-crowd.” Over the past six decades, the American left, by seizing the mantle of anti-establishmentarianism on college and university campuses, has evolved into the ultimate in-crowd.

In this way, the left was able to determine what those desperate to belong must fervently believe and act upon. And, as in the fairy tales relayed to them while in childhood, as well as the comic-book-based movies with which they’re obsessed, the leaders of the American left working in academia indoctrinated these future pawns to believe that there is a monolithic entity that can guarantee prosperity, happiness, and equity.

That entity, of course, is a government under the Marxist-inspired left’s permanent control. Once attained, this would then be the true “democracy,” not the bastardized version the slave-owning founders of the United States created 250 years ago.

The other powerful weapon the American left has used to recruit and control these permanent adolescents is guilt. Over the past 60 years, these self-serving would-be oligarchs have made certain that there is always something in the United States to be guilty about. Leftists have used guilt as a weapon to indoctrinate and incite their mind-numbed minions to seek collective absolution by doing their bidding, even to the point of violence directed against the left’s perceived enemies.

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Democrats’ Relentless Demonizing Paves Way For The Next Political Assassination

n their perverse pursuit of power, leftist politicians are daily signing the death warrant for the next political assassination. 

It’s now a matter of when, not if. 

You can’t relentlessly call your political enemies “Nazis”, “fascists,” and “tyrants” without giving license to homicidal leftists to do what they do best: Attack their perceived existential threats. Just ask the family and friends of Christian evangelizer and conservative icon Charlie Kirk. Or President Donald Trump, who is intimately familiar with what the unhinged left is capable of. 

American politics is a tinder box right now, and leftists like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker keep striking matches. GOP Rapid Response on Monday released a list of 10 of the more incendiary comments from Democrat pols in the days following Kirk’s cold-blooded murder on Sept. 10. It’s a veritable who’s who of hate from liberal politicians stoking the fires of political violence. 

‘FASCIST!’

Newsom, who has visions of presidential sugar plums dancing in his head, has cranked up the hateful political vilification, even as his fellow Democrats offer platitudes about “turning down the heat.” Newsom’s official state press X account on Friday called Trump adviser Stephen Miller an all caps “FASCIST!” 

“DING DONGS IN THE WHITE HOUSE: IF YOU DON’T WANT US TO CALL YOU A FASCIST THEN STOP DOING FASCIST THINGS,” Newsom’s team declared in a separate post.

Apparently to Newsom and crew, enforcing federal law, restoring America’s borders, and in general doing what voters elected you to do in a constitutional republic is the stuff of dictators.  

According to Pritzker, the duly elected Republican president of the United States and his administration are architects of the next Holocaust.  

“Look, I’ve built a Holocaust museum with survivors, I’ve also read a whole lot about authoritarian regimes, this is the playbook folks,” the morbidly obese liberal told former Biden liar Jen Psaki a week after Kirk was murdered by a suspect saturated in leftist hate. I don’t know what the hell Pritzker is reading, but Trump 2.0 is nothing like the Third Reich’s systematic extermination of millions of human beings. It is a false and vile equivalency. 

Pritzker urged his liberal listeners to do something about it.   

“If you’re not paying attention now and doing something about it, well then you’re going to have to sit down for the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away,” he told Psaki. 

What does that mean? What does that mean to the violence-inclined liberal in the throes of severe Trump Derangement Syndrome? Here’s the Democrat Party’s constant message: You will lose “democracy” if you don’t stop Trump. That seems like a lot to lose. It isn’t true, but it is urgent. 

“This type of vile rhetoric led to Charlie Kirk’s assassination,” the Republican National Committee said in response to Pritzker’s violence-stoking comments. “When will enough be enough?”

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Gavin Newsom Escalates Rhetoric That Makes Political Violence Inevitable

Charlie Kirk was murdered less than three weeks ago by a deranged leftist who inscribed anti-fascist slogans on bullet casings. Kirk’s murder should have been a wake-up call that inflammatory rhetoric smearing conservatives as “fascists” or “Nazis” or “Hitler” has deadly consequences. Instead, it’s only emboldened the left to increase such rhetoric.

Nowhere is that more apparent than California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s official press account, which spent the weekend calling White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller a “fascist” and demanding Miller kowtow to the left if he wants to stop being slandered.

“STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST!” the account posted on X on Sept. 26.

Newsom’s team doubled down on the rhetoric, saying they are “calling out [Trump] and his authoritarian stooges for being fascists.”

“Textbook definition,” Newsom’s team posted with a graphic they made claiming to prove Trump and Miller are “fascists.”

“DING DONGS IN THE WHITE HOUSE: IF YOU DON’T WANT US TO CALL YOU A FASCIST THEN STOP DOING FASCIST THINGS,” a separate post read.

This isn’t random name-calling. It’s an assassination prep campaign. The left — and in particular, the office of the governor of one of the largest states in America — is demonizing and vilifying conservatives as fascists in order to desensitize Americans to political violence.

Such language implicitly justifies resistance by any means necessary, since no free person wants to live under a fascist dictatorship. The logic goes: If Trump and his administration are legitimate fascists — the same people who slaughtered and oppressed millions during WWII — then violence against them is not merely permissible, it’s actually noble. The left preys on these historical associations, knowing that when people hear “fascist” or “Nazi,” they think of enemies who rightly had to be defeated. By blurring that line, the left conditions its audience to see violence against today’s so-called “fascists” as not only acceptable but necessary.

Even Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman has the clarity to see the danger of such rhetoric, posting on X: “Unchecked extreme rhetoric, like labels as Hitler or fascist, will foment more extreme outcomes. Political violence is always wrong — no exceptions.”

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Don Lemon Says White Men Are “Lazy, Dumb” and Believe Violence is the Answer

Former CNN hack Don Lemon lashed out at white men after the latest mass shootings in North Carolina and Michigan.

White 40-year-old military veterans were behind the latest shootings over the weekend, so Don Lemon opened up his podcast by attacking white men.

Don Lemon is married to a white man.

“White men, something deep in you is broken. You guys believe that violence is the answer,” Don Lemon said.

Black men are way more violent than white men.

Last week, Don Lemon lashed out over the Christian messaging and worship songs at Charlie Kirk’s memorial and said speakers only quoted Biblical scripture because they were “demanding submission.”

A beautiful memorial service was held for TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk at the State Farm Arena in Glendale, Arizona, last Sunday.

Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, delivered a moving speech focused on forgiveness.

In the most powerful and memorable moment of the evening, Mrs. Kirk forgave the assassin who took her husband’s life.

Don Lemon trashed the Christian messaging at Charlie Kirk’s memorial and claimed the service was merely a political rally.

Don Lemon also said, “Donald Trump stood on the stage like a man at the center of prophecy. He called Charlie Kirk a martyr…. as if the passing of the man had lit some sort of sacred fire.”

“What we saw in that arena was not simply faith finding public expression, it was religious nationalism on full display,” Don Lemon said.

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