Jay Jones, a Democratic candidate for attorney general in Virginia, sent a disturbing series of text messages to his former legislative colleagues in the wake of the recent death of a Republican state legislator named Joe Johnson. The National Review uncovered the messages, and found out that Jones intended to kill anyone who disagreed with him.
00:00:16.680Tell the Ford government to get serious about tackling overcrowded classrooms, because smaller classes would make a big difference for our kids.
00:01:01.620We've got many examples today from a Democratic candidate who is directly wishing death on his political opponents, talking about how much you can't wait to see their children die in their arms.
00:01:12.120We've got ICE agents being assaulted in Chicago with what would appear to be the assistance of the state and local government.
00:01:20.880And, of course, we have Hassan Piker, someone we did a show on here recently, obviously a violent, narcissistic, sociopathic leftist, but also a animal abuser.
00:02:59.680I'm shocked as you that they did something very useful.
00:03:02.820But they uncovered the story of Jones sending out these text messages to his colleagues who were, in their defense, completely shocked and surprised at the level of violence and vitriol he had for his opponents.
00:03:16.660He was just dripping with the desire to murder anyone who disagreed with them, to watch their children suffer.
00:03:23.240And despite multiple of these people calling him up, saying, hey, we're worried about you.
00:03:36.000They're fascists, and I want them killed, and they want their child to, like, bleed out in front of them.
00:03:40.080So we're just going to kind of go through the story real quick to get the gist of what's going on here.
00:03:45.160It says, on August 8, 2022, a Republican state legislator received a disturbing string of early morning text message from a former colleague, Jay Jones, this year's Democratic nominee for Virginia Attorney General.
00:03:57.440Jones, who at the time was recently resigned from the state house after a brief stint as representing Norfolk, had strong feelings about the political class,
00:04:06.540was eulogizing recently deceased former legislator Joe Johnson, Jr., a moderate Democrat with a long tenure in Virginia politics.
00:04:16.080Republican legislators, like House Speaker Todd Gilbert, had begun making public statements honoring Johnson's memory and political legacy,
00:04:23.260and some of those statements were making the rounds in the state legislative group chats.
00:04:26.740Around 8 a.m., Jones shared those feelings with former state legislative colleague Republican House Delegate Kerry Conner.
00:04:35.140In a series of text messages obtained by National Review, Jones derided Johnson's political centrism and scoffed at the glowing tribute that were being made in his honor by Republicans in the wake of his death.
00:04:47.520Damn, that was for Mark, he wrote to Coyer, suggesting he meant to send the text to someone else.
00:04:53.660And yet that realization didn't stop Jones from joking about what a P.O.S. Gilbert would say about me if I died.
00:05:00.700Then the conversation took a dark turn.
00:05:03.020So he's sending this to a Republican colleague when he meant to send it to someone else.
00:05:07.740But even though he recognizes that he sent it to the wrong person and this might not be the person to make this point to,
00:05:13.680instead of backing it up and saying, OK, sorry, no, he decided to go deeper in and attack all of these people, wish death upon them.
00:05:22.400He says, if these guys died before me, Jones wrote, referencing the Republican colleagues who are publicly honoring the deceased Johnson's memory,
00:05:30.320I'd go to their funeral and piss on their grave to send them out awash in something.
00:05:35.820Jones then suggested that presented with a hypothetical situation in which there were only two bullets,
00:05:40.720I was faced with the choice of murdering then speaker, House Speaker Todd Gilbert, or two dictators.
00:05:45.700He would shoot Gilbert every time, prompting pushback from his former colleague.
00:05:49.920Jones, quote, these three people, two bullets, Gilbert, Hitler, Pol Pot, Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.
00:05:58.420Spoiler, but Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know, he receives the bullets every time.
00:06:03.580So already, I believe that my Republican opponents are more evil than Pol Pot and Adolf Hitler.
00:06:11.940So when I tell you that when they say fascist, what they mean is, I want to kill you, this is what I'm talking about.
00:06:18.440When these guys are talking between each other, and remember, he's sending this to a Republican, right?
00:06:23.420Now, I have no idea how Republican she is.
00:06:53.280Maybe even she doesn't like these people, despite her being a Republican.
00:06:55.980But we don't talk about people like that, even in private.
00:06:59.360Like, even just two people, like, we don't start talking about murdering these people because they disagree with us.
00:07:06.540Like, that is not the way that we should be conducting ourselves.
00:07:09.460The private messages offer a disturbing glimpse into how Jones, who's looking to oust incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Mears this fall,
00:07:21.600describes his political adversaries in private conversations.
00:07:24.320The violent rhetoric complicates an already contentious and competitive race roughly a month out from Election Day in Virginia,
00:07:36.760Asked about the years-old text exchange, Coyer condemned Jones' rhetoric and said she sent screenshots to the conversation to Gilbert that day.
00:07:46.340She said that she and Jones haven't spoke since, aside from a brief conversation about policy issues.
00:07:52.700On October 8th, 22, she describes the text and why she was disturbed by them.
00:07:58.420Jones and his campaign spokesman did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
00:08:02.580Gilbert also did not respond to requests for comment.
00:08:05.480Following publication, other outlets published a reaction from Jones where he says,
00:08:09.740Like all people, I sent text messages that I regret, and I believe the violent rhetoric has no place in our politics, he said,
00:08:15.860after his campaign ignored repeated requests for comment from National Review.
00:08:21.040Let's be clear about what is happening in the jury general race right now.
00:08:25.820Jason Mears is dropping smears through Trump-controlled media organizations to assault my character and rescue his desperate campaign.
00:08:34.080This is a strategy that ensures that Jason Mears will continue to be accountable to Donald Trump, not the people of Virginia.
00:08:40.480This race is about whether Trump can control Virginia, Virginians, whether Trump can control Virginia or Virginians control Virginia, end quote.
00:08:50.260So you'll notice here, yet again, we see the Democratic non-apology, right?
00:08:55.020This guy said something that was absolutely atrocious, absolutely horrific, disqualifying on every level, right?
00:09:02.720On every level, but we're in a post-Charlie Kirk assassination era, right?
00:09:10.680Now, I get that in 2022, that was not the case, but we are in a situation where the President of the United States has been shot.
00:09:28.680So this language should have been disqualifying at any time for anyone, but it's especially disqualifying now.
00:09:35.600And if you're the candidate who said this, then you, if you gave a crap about your country at all, like just the smallest, minutest detail about your country, you would step down.
00:09:45.440Knowing that this rhetoric is incendiary, that at this time, maintaining that type of rhetoric is completely unacceptable, right?
00:09:54.060If you cared about the country even a little bit, you would say, okay, I understand.
00:10:34.140Also, didn't apologize for what he said.
00:10:37.820He didn't apologize in the slightest for what he said.
00:10:40.460He says, I just oppose political violence.
00:10:42.300Well, actually, you clearly don't because you were fantasizing about it repeatedly.
00:10:48.200But on top of that, you did not apologize for espousing the political violence in the tweet.
00:10:53.920Saying some blanket catchphrase like I oppose political violence is not an apology for the time when you actively supported political violence, which is the same thing Jimmy Kimmel did.
00:11:07.660Now, Jimmy Kimmel goes on explicitly says, you know, the shooter was a MAGA guy and Maggie's just trying to lie about that.
00:11:16.500Says it point blank for everyone to hear.
00:11:18.360Then when he's required to come back and say something about it, he gives a non-apology where he lies and says, oh, well, I never meant that, even though that's obviously clearly exactly what he meant.
00:11:30.640And if you heard that from me, well, that was your mistake.
00:11:33.540I understand why you would make that mistake, but it's your mistake.
00:11:36.040Because I condemn political violence, even though I literally just covered four political assassins.
00:11:44.000This is what the left is doing now, right?
00:11:47.240They're not backing away from the rhetoric, but it gets even worse.
00:11:53.320Coiner's alarm at her former colleague's violent rhetoric towards Gilbert prompted Jones to call her and explain his reasoning over the phone.
00:16:42.920He says whatever he wants and you don't care.
00:16:45.380Because winning an AG race is more important to you than holding the country together.
00:16:49.760The left is not dialing down the temperature.
00:16:51.980They are putting more and more people into power who want to kill you.
00:16:56.500While you debate whether or not they should have freedom of speech to call for your death, they are putting more and more people in power.
00:17:04.000While you're sending a few more guys, a few more conservative personalities to debate people on folding tables on college campuses, the left is putting people in power to murder you.
00:17:17.140Who openly discuss their desire to murder you, who feel no guilt, even when their calls for murder of children are exposed and who face no consequences and will not step down and will not be asked to step down by any of their colleagues.
00:17:34.100Because these people are absolutely murderous and insane.
00:17:40.320It's just straight evil, guys, and there's too many of these people in the left.
00:17:46.400There are Democrats who ultimately don't agree with this, but it's less and less every year to the point where now you can just say this stuff openly.
00:17:56.300I mean, this is just straight up civil war language, right?
00:17:58.800There's no other way to put this, right?
00:18:01.360This is a guy who is fantasizing as soon as he has power about murdering his opponents.
00:18:07.420What else is there to say at this point?
00:18:40.240Have you so little self-preservation that you would let these people openly talking about how they would revel in the murder of your children and then install them into power?
00:18:50.280Because that's your principles or something.
00:18:55.880Sorry, my principles are not having people who want to murder me in power.
00:18:59.720If that is a problem for you, if that's some kind of violation of your deeply held principles, we have a problem.
00:19:06.300Because my principles are not installing murderous people to be in charge of armed officers who will come to your door and kill you.
00:19:15.740Who will not be in charge of the prosecution of the Antifa foot soldiers who will inevitably come and burn down your neighborhood and try to kill you and then get off scot-free.
00:19:26.060Because the guy who is in charge of deciding whether or not charges are leveled at them agrees with them entirely.
00:19:32.600Is directing them and calling for the very violence he's supposed to prevent.
00:19:49.940Nothing ever happens like Charlie gets shot through the threat, through the neck, right?
00:19:55.300Nothing ever happens like ICE agents getting fired on by snipers.
00:19:58.980We're going to be going deeper into this, guys.
00:20:00.760This is far from the only advancement in left-wing violence this week.
00:20:05.060There have been plenty more steps towards complete lawlessness by the left and complete violent, you know, just unhinged action by the left in the last week.
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00:22:32.160All right, so let's take a look at some of the other ways in which the left has completely gone off the rails.
00:22:43.720Breaking DHS announces federal agents in Broadview, Illinois were rammed and boxed in by 10 cars.
00:22:50.040So for those who aren't familiar, this is a classic possible death trap, right?
00:22:55.500If you ram into people's cars and freeze them into place, you're boxing people in like this, this could easily be a setup for another sniping event.
00:23:05.420But ICE agents should have been, you know, there is honestly no reason an ICE agent wouldn't expect they need to shoot themselves out of this situation.
00:23:12.380You have multiple, you have someone ramming and boxing in your cars.
00:23:18.540Well, you have a history of other Antifa troops sitting on roofs, sniping people.
00:23:23.680Like this very easily could have turned into fish in a barrel where they where they block these people in and they just start opening fire.
00:23:32.400And at that point, anyone who, you know, drives up on a DHS or ICE officials or anything like that, you have to assume they're just going to kill you.
00:23:42.620Which means that now the agents have to consider the fact that they might need to just completely open fire on anyone doing this kind of stuff.
00:23:49.840This included a woman armed with a semi-automatic gun who has was posted online threats saying F ICE was flagged by a CBP Intel Bulletin.
00:24:01.360DHS says the feds were fired on the feds fired on her defensively.
00:24:07.120DHS, quote, Pritzker's Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area.
00:24:15.740There's a crowd growing and we deployed a special operations to control the growing crowd.
00:24:20.800So not only do you have these initial terror attacks, but on top of this, you have a completely uncooperative Chicago police and wider Illinois police apparatus.
00:24:33.960They've been told specifically by the by the mayor of Chicago and the and the governor of Illinois to not involve themselves, to not help, to not assist.
00:24:45.840So you have a complete breakdown and cooperation between any local law enforcement and the agents themselves.
00:24:53.560So the agents can't do their job specifically because there are terrorist attacks going on in Illinois.
00:24:59.580And basically the police are being told, whatever you do, don't stop the terrorist attacks, which means functionally the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago are aiding and abetting, if not directly assisting in terrorist attacks on federal officers.
00:25:15.640Like, I don't know, again, yes, no one's coming out and saying, oh, the civil war has started.
00:25:24.280But when you have people again, I'm trying not to use incendiary rhetoric here, but I'm running low on ways to describe the situation that don't make it clear that the rule of law, the monopoly on violence, the degree of order provided by the American system is completely gone.
00:25:43.300You have a state that is that is in direct defiance in every way of basic immigration law.
00:25:50.940And when federal officers come in order to try to enforce that law, the state government and the city governments specifically go out of their way to ensure that those people meet the maximum amount of violence that these Antifa foot soldiers can produce.
00:26:07.560Yeah, they're not opening fire on the ICE agents as, you know, Chicago PD, I guess we're not at that level yet, but they are functionally allowing Antifa foot troops, this like semi-militaristic force to go on the ground, act as the foot soldiers of the left, of the Democratic Party, and do violence in the name of these people.
00:26:32.920But just because they don't have badges on, because they're not officially part of the state, because they're a paramilitary organization instead of a formal military organization, well, we're not there yet.
00:26:46.540Okay, I guess we're pretty close, though.
00:27:16.480A chaotic scene on Westminster Road Tuesday morning in Rochester as federal agents were carrying out an ICE enforcement and removal operation.
00:27:25.360So, basic law enforcement, you have to go in and remove illegal aliens.
00:27:40.180And in the time it takes to get these guys off the roof and start to arrest them, the citizens suddenly show up, surround the ICE enforcement.
00:27:52.700And you can see here, their tires have been slashed.
00:27:58.960This is clearly, we're no longer, this is not some peaceful protest.
00:28:03.320They have, they have assaulted, or I don't, I'm not sure, I guess vandalized at the very least, the police vehicle.
00:28:12.700These people should have been arrested immediately because obviously they're committing a crime.
00:28:18.760They're not just standing there protesting, though that would be enough, right?
00:28:22.060Like, if you have a situation where the people of the city are rallying and bringing people in to try to stop legitimate police actions on a regular basis, you already have a lawless situation.
00:28:33.100But we're not just seeing the attempt to, like, bring cameras and bring protests.
00:29:20.860So just John Oliver leading his audience in a ritual where they cheer for these officers having their tires slashed, having their ability to enforce the law stopped.
00:30:08.080John Oliver is not hiding it any more than Jimmy Kimmel was hiding it any more than Hasan Piker was hiding it any more than Ilhan Omar is hiding it any more than AOC is hiding it any more than Jay Jones is hiding it.
00:30:28.040These people want you dead and they are training crowds of people to kill you today.
00:30:35.420Today, it's just boxing you in preventing the lawful arrest of people chanting and blocking your ability to do your job.
00:30:43.460Can you get out when they start firebombing you, which has already been something they've tried to do?
00:30:54.560Can you get out once the sniper opens fire on you?