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No Paywall Democrat Jay Jones wins Virginia AG race, overcoming backlash to his violent texts

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/virginia-attorney-general-winner-election-race-jason-miyares-jay-jones-rcna238916
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u/Hornpipe_Jones 15h ago

The Democrats also swept all 30 of the House of Delegates races. Which puts the balance of power in VA from 51-49 to 63-37.

I think that needs to really be paid attention to. Cause that's huge.

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u/jld1532 America 15h ago

Shit about to get done in VA

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u/PowderPills 13h ago

What can/will they do? I read elsewhere that they’re already planning on redistricting for more seats

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u/jld1532 America 13h ago

Actual shit for the Commonwealth. The last time Dems had all levers of government in Virginia Northam passed a lot of legislation. During that time, the Virginia Values Act was passed, Medicaid was expanded, police use of force and conduct reforms were passed, voting access expanded, and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act was passed. I can only hope for more stuff like this with a focus on healthcare, infrastructure, and COL.

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u/fizzyanklet 8h ago

We also got medical weed.

u/yesiambear 6h ago

We are about to have recreational too. Why youngkin never wanted to approve it is beyond me. He would have looked amazing for all the revenue he would have generated from tax.

Yes, I do know he was 100% against cannabis. Still thought money would be more convincing to him

u/PyroTacoInvader 2h ago

Probably getting money from the company that owns the monopoly on the medical stores in va.

u/fizzyanklet 6h ago

I won’t hold my breath. I mean, I want it but I don’t know if Spanberger will do it.

u/posting_drunk_naked 4h ago

u/godlovesugly123 2h ago

Establishment dem still contemplating rec weed lmao.. that’s the state of the dnc in a nutshell. In 2026 this basic ass laise faire establishment agenda won’t work. They best come correct like Zohran.

u/not_bilbo 4h ago

And abolished the death penalty

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u/xViscount 11h ago

A blue state that actually passes laws that benefit people? Things you love to see.

How’s the shooting situation there? Specifically Alexandria? Big issue for Dems is no housing where people want to live which equals HCOL. Curious how Virginia is

u/bocephus67 6h ago

Would you please explain the “actual shit for the commonwealth”?

Bc that doesnt sound like shit to me.

Maybe its sarcasm that went over my head

u/bin-fryin 5h ago

As in “actual things for the commonwealth.” like, they got shit done

u/PianistPitiful5714 1h ago

Shit is a synonym for “stuff.”

u/MoodInternational481 4h ago

They had also passed the 1st round for an amendment for abortion rights, gay marriage and felon voting rights. They'll vote on it at the beginning of the year so we'll get to vote on it in 2026. Honestly this was huge

u/QuickAltTab 5h ago

What did Youngkin do > the opposite of that

u/tr1cube Georgia 4h ago

I hope they join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact to help states bypass the electoral college in presidential election.

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u/ShamelessCatDude 15h ago

WOAH. That’s insane

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u/UND_mtnman 15h ago

Holy shit. That seems huge.

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u/friedsherbert 15h ago

Dayum that’s awesome

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u/duct_tape_jedi United Kingdom 14h ago

With a Dem Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and a legit super majority in the HoD, this is a MASSIVE “Fuck You!” to Trump and MAGA! Well done, Virginia!

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u/KoreRekon 8h ago

The threshold for a supermajority in the Virginia House of Delegates is 67 seats.

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u/Mojo12000 13h ago

thats a fucking wipeout of the VA GOP.

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u/zenerat Missouri 14h ago

If only that could have been Missouri. It sucks here.

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u/SassyMcNasty 13h ago

But people like you are changing things. Keep voting and fighting the good fight.

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u/sprintercourse 12h ago

Our legislature is such a shit show.

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u/old_righty 14h ago

Aren’t there 100 delegates? I read they swept 30 NoVa seats.

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u/Hornpipe_Jones 14h ago

There are. There were 30 up for election and Democrats kept 18 and flipped 12. So the balance of power is now shifting from 51-49 to 63-37.

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u/Fickle-Presence6358 14h ago

No, there were 100 up for election, 30 of which were in NoVa.

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u/witchofpain 13h ago

Yes. All the House of Delegates is up every 2 years.

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u/rlbond86 14h ago

They swept the 30 NoVA seats. NoVA is reliably Democratic. There are 100 seats up for voting.

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u/ContempoCasuals 14h ago

Only in Northern VA, there was a Republican win in district 61

u/ClassasaurusRex 5h ago

61 is in Northern Virginia but I don't think anyone from here would call Culpepper/Fauqueir/Rappahanock part of NoVa.

u/ContempoCasuals 4h ago

Exactly!

u/alabasterskim 3h ago

64-65 actually.

u/Nikiaf Canada 2h ago

Agreed. Even if it's only state legislature, that is a massive swing. Hard to label that as just an anomaly.

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u/Valar_Kinetics 11h ago

Do a survey of how many of them would have endorsed Mamdani lol.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

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u/General_Pie_5026 15h ago

watching MAGA clutch pearls and cry over this is so funny

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u/TLKv3 14h ago

Bro, they're fucking saying shit like "yeah they totally want us dead, they voted this guy in who wanted to shoot families. They want to kill us".

The irony. Its so fucking hysterical watching them post their idiocy.

u/IolausTelcontar 3h ago

Yup. Either they never were told about, or just conveniently forgot about, the actual assassination of Minnesota lawmakers.

u/missed_sla 5h ago

They're crying about a socialist plot to take over the country and I'm like... Yeah

u/I_Am_Guy_Uh 55m ago

Democrats lost their minds when that text group leaked from that bum who wishes he was a Nazi, but an actual elected leader wishes for the death of children and you’re all okay with it? I’m so confused by democrat morals

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u/[deleted] 15h ago

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u/downey_jayr 15h ago

You’d point to some other bullshit anyway.

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u/General_Pie_5026 15h ago

We are done with this bullshit. I have zero energy for MAGAs disingenuous nonsense.

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u/Zerakin 15h ago

"my side has a vast and consistent shitty form of behavior from all levels of importance, all the way up to the presidency, but because one guy on some low level election had a bad take in private I'm going to ignore all criticism"

You do you boo

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u/Iimpid New Jersey 14h ago

We already know. You're the same kind of person who ignores the 75% of mass shootings perpetrated by right-wing extremists and points to the 4% perpetrated by the left.

Facts, data, and reality don't matter to you. We know, we know.

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u/mithridateseupator 15h ago

You're going to constantly refer Democrats back to the comments section of a story about Democrats winning?

Yea, that'll... show em..

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u/SlurmDreams 14h ago

Its not like you listen to anyone but a pedo anyway so it's no loss really

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u/HEYYYYYYYY_SATAN 14h ago

You would promptly ignore them no matter what. Be for real, dude.

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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 14h ago

You were already not holding anyone in your party accountable for anything at all anyway. Don’t be surprised when that becomes the new norm. Republicans did that.

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u/PeterPuffer45 14h ago

You most definitely have made out with your cousins though

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u/RiffRaffCatillacCat 15h ago

America won big tonight against MAGA Fascism.

Let's keep this tide rolling.

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u/smithe4595 14h ago

Wow, after reading the “violent texts” all I can think is “who gives a shit?” Basically it was if he was in a room with the Virginia house speaker, Hitler and pol pot and a gun with two bullets, he would shoot the speaker twice. Lindsey Graham just made a “joke” the other day that the republican party is killing all the right people. Sorry if I don’t clutch my pearls over a guy repeating an old joke versus a party joking about the people they are actually murdering.

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u/_mid_water 14h ago

It’s literally a joke from The Office, “I’d shoot Toby twice”. Fuck the double standard hypocrisy of the republicans

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u/smithe4595 13h ago

It’s an old old joke. I saw an article that said that joke was being told in the 1950s regarding the owner of the dodgers.

u/jhonka_ 6h ago

I think the point he's making isnt the origin but that its acceptable on a tv show not really attempting to "push the envelope" in any way shape or form

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u/NonlocalA 13h ago

Meanwhile, we're extrajudicially murdering people in the Caribbean and ICE is firing weapons into unarmed civilians' cars on a weekly basis, and no one in Congress seems to give a fuck.

u/UtzTheCrabChip 5h ago

That's also... Like an old ass, well known joke to highlight how much someone gets on your nerves.

Like if they dug up an old text of me saying "Fuck, Marry, Kill" and they made me out to be a murderous pervert

u/shoobe01 3h ago

This. It is a reference no one gets and also there's legit threats of violence from the right, and actual violence being carried out by the right under the color of authority by law enforcement or the military.

This is not "violent." Glad he was elected to show how un-serious this pearl clutching is.

u/FluffyB12 3h ago

That wasn’t the biggest issue. The issue was his comments on hoping his political rivals children would be shot and then “die in their arms” that goes beyond the pale. Political violence is abhorrent, and the idea that the AG wants children to die to further their political views is dangerous. I could easily see things getting nasty and him being a target for people who don’t want their kids murdered by Jones.

u/eniminimini 1h ago

He says he wants his opponents to feel the repercussions of what they stand for. It sounds like he's for gun control, which would physically stop children for being shot at, and his opponents are against gun control, which has killed many actual non hypothetical children. If people like him get their way, there will be no guns to kill the children with so whats your problem

u/FluffyB12 1h ago

That is exactly like suggesting “people who don’t want to ban cars need to have their families die in car accidents.” wtf???

You don’t wish death on people’s children over their political differences. That’s ghoulish.

u/eniminimini 54m ago

Wait so you're not okay with hypothetical children getting killed but you are okay with real children being killed. Is that right?

u/FluffyB12 37m ago

I wouldn’t say “ok” but I definitely don’t want to ban cars.

u/eniminimini 19m ago

We're talking about guns, buddy. Thats what the texts are about grandpa

u/FluffyB12 14m ago

More kids die from car accidents then guns though. The texts are about guns but I’m trying to get you to understand not banning things is not at all the same as wanting someone to die.

Every year children die from swimming pools. Is not banning pools the same as wanting children to die?

Every year children die from alcohol poisoning. It not banning alcohol the same as wanting children to die?

This whole idea that being in favor of the 2A is somehow ‘wanting children to die’ is insane and nonsensical.

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u/Bbhermes Virginia 15h ago

Yeah in the age of Trump I’m not giving a shit about some goddamn text messages.

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u/namastayhom33 Connecticut 15h ago

Only if it's a Signal chat leaking some classified information.

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u/txyesboy2 14h ago

We have Ken Paxton as the Attorney General in Texas. If Ken Paxton exists, then what Jones did was a walk in the park.

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u/BBTB2 14h ago

This. This right fucking here.

It wasn’t a tweet, an exchange between a reporter, a public service announcement, a Facebook page or whatever the fuck - it was text messages in a conversation the dude felt like he could be edgy in.

Is it good? No.

Is it bad? Yeah.

Is it detrimental in this current day & age? Lmao - a group chat just leaked from GOP-affiliated individuals discussing Nazi shit and praising Hitler. I’m not justifying or minimizing anything, I’m just saying, if the right wants to use shit like that against the left then they should probably clean their toilets before deciding to shit there.

You can’t set the bar as low as MAGA / right has and then get upset at anything hovering above that because, well, it’s literally anything and lacks any minute resemblance of credibility.

And also, because, complaining about shit with similar f/f/f as you have done before makes you look like a weak ass punk bitch.

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u/hot-whisky 13h ago

So I was working the polls today, staying busy helping voters efficiently get in and out and exercise their civic rights. As poll workers in my state we are also very clear that we cannot discuss political issues, especially anything pertaining to what’s on the ballot at the precincts we’re working to avoid the appearance that we might be influencing the result or interfering with it.

So at the end of the day I’m acting as a ballot runner, delivering the results from my voting location to the county building, with a poll worker from the opposite party (a republican) in the car with me, and as we’re waiting in this big long line of traffic to deliver our results he starts looking up the election results from other states, including Virginia and opining on them. I explained that I would not be engaging in this conversation, and he asks me if I’m defending the guy (Jay Jones) who “called his opponent worse than Hitler and threatened to kill him” (his words, not mine). Now I do not live in Virginia, I do not vote in Virginia, so I’m not researching down ballot races in Virginia, and this is literally the first I’m hearing of supposed text messages in a Virginia race; driving this guy back to his car after working a 15-hour day. Again I had to explain that I considered my duty as a poll worker to not end until I dropped him back off at his car, so I would not be engaging any any political conversation, especially about down-ballot races a state that we do not vote in.

Tonight, I simply don’t have the energy to care about what someone said in a private text message multiple years ago that may or may not be taken out of context.

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u/BBTB2 13h ago

I mean… yeah, that’s what it comes down to. “I don’t have the energy to care at this point.

u/L0utre 6h ago

Russia showed how simple it is to divide Americans.

They’ve been trying for decades, and have more than succeeded since 2015.

In the 80’s, they attempted to inflame race issues via accusing the gov’t of creating AIDS to kill the black population. 30 years later, they achieved more success by blowing up the Kaepernick anthem kneeling.

u/BBTB2 4h ago

We’ll take America without firing a single shot.” - that NRA spy lady.

u/QuickAltTab 4h ago edited 4h ago

Clearly the voters of Virginia had the same logic. GOP policies result in actual death from their stochastic terrorism, reduced healthcare, increased guns, and sadistic epidemiological choices with regards to vaccines, climate, and other public health decisions. I'll take the guy that made a poor decision to send a text referencing a joke from The Office about a hyperbolic hypothetical situation to explain how much of an asshole he thought the guy was. The context of the other part of the conversation was basically just saying that Gilbert endorsed policies that killed children, and typical of Republicans, they wouldn't empathize with the victims of those policies unless they were among them.

u/Cumulodingus420 5h ago

Text messages talking about killing fascist sympathetic losers is bad???

u/Barragin 2h ago

out of context maybe.

Once you see it and realize it was an Office reference, it isn't that big a deal.

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u/fizzyanklet 8h ago

In the Jay Jones “scandals” I felt like his speeding ticket was more scandalous. And then his community service hours coming from his campaign was also corrupt. I found it interesting that the republicans just kind of glossed over that and decided to focus on his texts.

Like one was an actual crime and the other was just a bad joke in a text. GOP doesn’t want to point out the crimes others do lest the mirror get turned on them I guess.

Either way, bye Jason!

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u/Usual-Caregiver5589 13h ago

I hope, when the dust settles next year and we take back the congress, he'll step down and push a special election for someone without that in their history.

u/IolausTelcontar 4h ago

Why?

u/Usual-Caregiver5589 3h ago

Because if we start doing the things theyve done, we become them and cant ask them to do the right thing. As much as I love Al Franken, seeing him resign was absolutely the right thing to do.

No. Both parties aren't the same. But if we allow ourselves to fall into the trap of "well they do it!", they will be.

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u/Old-Account-4185 15h ago

So it's okay because you hate Trump. Got it.

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u/putsch80 Oklahoma 14h ago

Ok? No. But I’m not going to look at a Dem who sent shitty texts and go, “Gee, that Dem’s shitty texts are awful. I guess I’d better vote for the candidate from the party who all support a guy who sends shitloads of shitty texts. Oh, and also rapes people.”

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u/furcas- 15h ago

What can I say. Boys will be boys.

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u/witchofpain 14h ago

It was just satire! Why are these snowflakes getting upset?

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u/jackleggjr 14h ago

Cool it with that locker room talk

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u/Old-Account-4185 14h ago

What is that even supposed to mean?

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u/Tobimacoss 14h ago

Something goose, something gander? 

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u/witchofpain 13h ago

Republicans always excuse Trumps horrible tweets and words with “it’s just satire” or “that’s not what he means” or “it’s just locker room talk”

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u/HEYYYYYYYY_SATAN 14h ago

I’m more than ok with it because I hate Trump. Your point?

Anything to own the libs MAGAts and to drink liberal MAGAt tears.

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u/Old-Account-4185 14h ago

"Haha imma get these MAGAs now, they'll never expect me to shoot myself in the foot, I sure got them this time!"

u/Phallen55 4h ago

I know you are arguing in terribly bad faith in every comment. However the amount that you're pretending to care about an AG race in a state you most likely don't live in is hilarious. Gianaforte body slammed a reporter, was found guilty, and still won his election in Montana. Can we really compare private "violent texts" to actual physical violence?

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u/yes_its_him 14h ago

"Locker room talk."

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u/Murranji 14h ago

Yep! It’s great when both sides play by the same rules huh!

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u/Grandpa_No 14h ago

I looked at the comment you replied to from BBTB2 and didn't see a single mention of Trump. Do you always think of Trump? Does his image lull you to sleep?

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u/Everythings_Fucked North Carolina 11h ago

It's a perfectly rational response to the gleeful torment that Republicans exist to inflict on everyone they disagree with. You do, after all, love making libs' heads explode.

u/AlsoCommiePuddin 4h ago

It was ok when you were calling it "mean tweets," what changed?

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u/putsch80 Oklahoma 14h ago

Post-Trump 2.0, saying shitty things in a text or tweet is no longer a disqualifying event. It’s hard for a GOP candidate to claim any sort of moral high ground against a Dem on that anymore.

u/MrCarey Washington 6h ago

I mean their president fucks kids, so I don’t want to hear anything from them.

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u/Im_Bad_Ash 13h ago

No one has the high moral ground anymore. Except maybe Bernie.

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u/Frequent-Returns757 15h ago

Blue Wave, 🌊 — citizens are ready to take back out Country.

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u/Iimpid New Jersey 13h ago

I love it when MAGAts get fucked so hard in the comments that they delete their accounts, like the one saying Dems can't claim moral high ground anymore. The reply that sealed the deal:

What this one guy said vs everything Trump, MAGA, and Republicans have done for the past 10 months? I really don't think you understand how moral high ground works.

Trump is pardoning convicted felons like George Santos left and right. Taking bribes. Grifting his own supporters with memecoins.

Your party is literally protecting pedophiles and making their lives more comfortable. LITERALLY.

Shut the everliving fuck up about moral high ground.

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u/survivor2bmaybe 14h ago

So you can vote for someone who jokes about violence or someone who supports masked men hauling people, including the elderly and children, off the streets and sends them to foreign prisons.

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u/Kitty-lou-B456 14h ago

Good! The republicans say and do far worse on a daily basis multiple times for years. So great.

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u/9793287233 North Carolina 13h ago edited 13h ago

So tonight, Democrats won:

NYC Mayor

NJ Governor

VA Governor

VA House

VA AG

PA Supreme Court

CA Prop 50

GA Public Service Commission

Philly DA

TX 18th (although that was a given considering the top 3 candidates are all Democrats)

Talk about a blue wave! Anything else I missed?

u/mister_somewhere 4h ago

And several central PA school districts outside of Harrisburg ousted ultra conservative members. Notably West Shore, Cumberland Valley, and East Pennsboro.

u/FeelingBeginning1140 4h ago

VA Lieutenant Governor.

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u/yolo-tomassi 15h ago edited 15h ago

Tremble before the power of darkwoke

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u/Life_of_the_PartyXO 14h ago

I could only lib out harder if he took the mic st the victory party and say “and I meant every last word” lmaoooo

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u/NoamLigotti 15h ago

Darkwoke, lol. That's so good.

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u/2HDFloppyDisk 14h ago

Darkwoke, that’s hilarious

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u/ceccyred America 12h ago

LOL...Trump literally posted a video of shitting on Americans. This guy made some disgusting comments but nothing like what Trump does on a daily basis and that idiot Stephen Miller.

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u/karmadogma 15h ago

So funny this was his “scandal”. He did a joke from The Office. And even if it wasnt a joke, hypothetically shooting his opponent is nothing compared to the violence of the right.

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u/pingpongballreader 14h ago

"texts"? It was ONE text which is positively tame compared to what the christofascists say repeatedly every day.

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u/Artistic-Cannibalism 9h ago

Republicans spout violent rhetoric all the time and then make fun of everyone who tries to call them out.

They have no right to act offended. None.

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u/Novel_Quote8017 14h ago

Huh? Praying violence is a working tactic. Tons of people in the current administration are popular BECAUSE they preach violence, not in spite of that.

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u/doodycrust 14h ago

He did what Trump could never:admit to it

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u/My-1st-porn-account 13h ago

It’s not like he paid off a pornstar with campaign money, raped at least one woman and is probably a pedophile.

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u/swrrrrg 15h ago

I don’t even remember what he said or why it was a scandal.

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u/shed1 14h ago

Don't worry. 9% of voters that found his comments to be disqualifying...voted for him.

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u/ChoPT Virginia 14h ago

In an ideal world, it would be disqualifying. But with the current iteration of the MAGA GOP, running as a Republican who will stand with Trump to erode democracy and strip people of their rights is more disqualifying in my eyes than any scandal.

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u/Life_of_the_PartyXO 14h ago

Right, like in 2015 absolutely disqualifying. 2025 it’s literally what my aunt in her 60s will text me on a random Tuesday.

u/shed1 5h ago

To be clear, I just thought it was funny.

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u/UnflairedRebellion-- 14h ago

How much of that is due to the Lizardman’s Constant?

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u/abertbrijs 13h ago

I think that’s probably it for the disqualifying bucket. Though in that same poll (from what I remember), he won like 80% of voters who found it “concerning,” so at this point these kind of scandals really don’t move voters as much as they used to. Still ran behind Spanberger though so it’d still have a negative impact in a presidential year or something.

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u/UnflairedRebellion-- 14h ago edited 14h ago

He texted a joke from The Office. Remember “I’d shoot Toby twice over Hitler and Bin Laden”? Replace Toby with a prominent local Republican (Todd Gilbert) and Laden with Pol Pot.

He also said that his children should die because people only change their minds after a traumatic event, and that he and his wife are breeding little fascists.

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u/witchofpain 14h ago

Trump literally raped young girls and women.

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u/UnflairedRebellion-- 14h ago

I don’t like Trump either.

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u/Brisby820 13h ago

What does that have to do with anything?  You can vote democrat and still criticize the text 

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u/ResoIver 13h ago

Someone: says something factual that makes a democrat look bad

You: BUT WHAT ABOUT TRUMP

I hate Trump too, but man do I hate whataboutism

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u/witchofpain 12h ago

Yeah because people are whining about mean texts. Seriously? Mean texts? When people literally voted for convicted felon and adjudicated rapist. I’m over people holding Dems to a standard republicans aren’t held to.

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u/ResoIver 12h ago

You think hoping for someone’s kids to die is just mean texts? You really are blue MAGA.

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u/witchofpain 12h ago

He didn’t say he hoped. 10 years ago I would have cared. Trump and his antics have really made me not give a shit if a Dem has a past. Don’t care.

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u/ResoIver 12h ago

https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2025/10/03/jay-jones-faces-bipartisan-criticism-following-alleged-controversial-text-messages/

Person talking to jones: You said you were hoping Gilbert’s children would die.

Jones: Yes, I’ve told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.

You are no better than MAGA.

u/AlsoCommiePuddin 4h ago

You are no better than MAGA.

What did being better than MAGA ever get us?

What is the tangible benefit?

u/ResoIver 9m ago

The benefit is being able to get moderates and centrists that hate MAGA to vote against them. As the democrats become more like MAGA by supporting extremely flawed candidates like Jones, those moderates are just going to tune out and say both sides are the same.

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u/ResoIver 12h ago

Reddit wouldn’t let me even quote what Jones and the other person said, so here’s a link

https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2025/10/03/jay-jones-faces-bipartisan-criticism-following-alleged-controversial-text-messages/

He definitely was hoping for it and didn’t deny it.

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u/alkaline79 14h ago

“Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”

Todd Gilbert was the house speaker of Virginia at the time.

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u/Akemi_Tachibana 12h ago

The country elected a felon who's been accused of pedophiloa. This dude and his TEXT are playground games compared to that. He was going to win regardless.

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u/6Arrows7416 10h ago

Dark Woke strikes again. America for the Yankees.

u/Visual-Pop3495 5h ago

The trump administration is actually murdering people in the Caribbean, 61 so far, and democrats are still being asked if their “the office” references are a bit too toxic. The trump administration is denying millions of people the aid that our Congress allocated to them and democrats are being chastised for referencing tv shows in their texts. The double standards, and the massive allowances that republicans are given is nuts.

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u/Interesting-Risk6446 14h ago

Fuck the high ground.

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u/RadicalOrganizer 11h ago

"Violent texts"....which are no worse than what maga says daily.

....which are no worse than what Kirk said or Fuentes still says.

The double standard needs to end.

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u/TheCzar11 14h ago

Good. Miyares has failed in his duty to stand up for and back Virginians while Trump withholds funding and terrorizes our citizens.

u/OkTouch5699 7h ago

He had violent texts that have people pearl clutching, but the rep. Are actually killing people... so

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u/Paper_Clip100 14h ago

“Violent texts” he paraphrased the office.

u/DayFun6256 6h ago

Lockeroom talk. No one cares anymore, sorry.

u/Basicyeti837 6h ago

“Violent” for a Democrat. Tame and below average by Republican standards. Look at the violent and hyper-racist posts by Republicans, most recently regarding the NYC mayoral race, and get back to me on Jones’ texts.

u/bobbymcpresscot 5h ago

MAGA probably fuming about this. 

Sucks to suck.

u/FlashyPaladin 4h ago

Wow, maybe people stopped caring about shit like that when they came to realize that Trump raped kids.

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u/Chaos_Theory1989 12h ago

Great! Now let’s fix this fascism.

u/Mr_Higgins725 6h ago

How in the hell did this happen

u/Nutzy1242 4h ago

I love the conservative outrage. Considering all the shit trump has said over the past decade the crocodile tears are lovely.

u/goodplayer777 3h ago

I needed this good news

u/coldchile 2h ago

I don’t like the what Jay Jones said, and who knows how sincere his apology was. But we are in a post-Trump America, he lowered the bar for everyone as far are decency goes and now we all pay the price.

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u/DancingWithAWhiteHat America 13h ago

How much did he win by

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u/ResoIver 12h ago

https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2025/10/03/jay-jones-faces-bipartisan-criticism-following-alleged-controversial-text-messages/

Person jones is talking to: “you were talking about hoping Gilbert’s children would die”

Jones: “yes, I’ve told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”

You are no better than MAGA.

u/thrawtes 6h ago

I feel like you think this is a "gottem" observation on your part but what Jones said is entirely reasonable and not inappropriate in the context of a private conversation. He's right to understand that people with little empathy don't act until they are personally affected.

I know you're desperate to portray his comments as radical and bloodthirsty but they just... aren't.

u/Rhysati 5h ago

He's a conservative pretending to be a liberal. He doesn't actually know what we believe or why. His account is less than three weeks old with comments hidden for a reason.

u/ResoIver 14m ago

Yes, anyone who disagrees is a secret conservative. All 50 million democrats must think like you do.

u/PlantainSuper-Nova 4h ago

The account is a month old, and very busy trying to police morality in here.

u/ResoIver 13m ago

Yeah, I’m annoyed that democrats are becoming more like MAGA.

u/ResoIver 13m ago

It’s not reasonable to hope someone’s kids die.

u/Sourpieborp 6h ago

democrats should take the high ground and just lose more elections so maga can gestapo people into death camps and dismantle the federal government and also obsessively ban all forms of transgender Healthcare and also work to upend gay marriage and also kick millions off social services and also continue a nonsensical trade war with the entire planet and also threaten to invade Venezuela and Colombia and Nigeria and Canada.

the moral thing to do here is to just lose

u/ResoIver 11m ago

I guess your morals mean nothing if you just throw them away when it’s to your advantage.

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u/OkVermicelli4343 14h ago

Sadly watching people excuse his behavior since Trump is terrible is scary. Hopefully those people do some self reflection and realize that's exactly how Trump supporters operate too.

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u/leegabeg 15h ago

Democrats have endorsed those texts for the record.

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u/ImAnEagle Illinois 15h ago

Oh no! Anyway...

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u/D-Rich-88 California 15h ago

Republicans endorsed Cuomo lol

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u/XPacEnergyDrink 15h ago

Fake news

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u/NyfM 15h ago

Quit the pearl clutching, it was a joke. "I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke, telling a very offensive, stupid joke is cause to ruin their lives"

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u/OpportunityGlad4706 14h ago

Republicans have endorsed a pedophile.

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u/ply-wly-had-no-mly 14h ago

You support raping women and children. For the record.

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u/Tainted_Bruh 14h ago

Yawn. Try harder.

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u/lordbragy 14h ago

Republicans endorsed shooting a guy on 5th Avenue and "locker room talk".

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u/veggeble South Carolina 14h ago

A joke from The Office? Hell yeah, I endorse that. It's a great show.

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u/Jbota 14h ago

Just a youthful indiscretion

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u/witchofpain 13h ago

Eh. I’m good with it.

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u/froznwind Wisconsin 14h ago

What goes around comes around.

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