Quick Hits: Volume CCCLXXXIV

- Democrats are wholly incapable of condemning despicable behavior by one of their own without a "but TRUMP!" deflection. 

The latest example is the saga involving Jay Jones, the Democrat Attorney General candidate from Virginia who once fantasized about a Virginia Republican being shot in the head. Given that in the past year alone politics has been the catalyst for multiple murders, we ought not be so dismissive of such rhetoric, even if it occurred in a private text conversation. 

As Noah Rothman at National Review points out, prominent Dems view this as little more than a distraction. 

They cannot call for Jones to submit to consequences for his repulsive actions because to do so would implicate the Virginia Democratic Party within a month of crucial statewide elections. Sure, Senator Mark Warner called the comments “appalling.” Gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger said she was “disgusted.” State Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell said the remarks represent “a serious lapse in judgment that cannot be defended.” But they stopped short of calling for Jones to exit the race. Indeed, Democratic voters “have to be mature in our thinking and how we vote,” said Virginia House Speaker Don Scott. “We can’t get distracted, because they want us to get distracted by the text message here or something else.”

What are we witness to here but an effort to have it both ways — a situation in which those who practice or welcome political violence are somehow also the sympathetic victims in their stories? They’ve been driven to madness by provocation after provocation by the real villains in this tale. Can we honestly blame them for their discrete antisocial or even criminal actions unless we condemn all the environmental factors to which they’re supposedly responding?

The separation of the wheat and the chaff has never been more apparent. 

- Speaking of progs sanctioning violence......

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If you listen to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, he basically implies this wouldn't be happening if that nosy Trump administration weren't so hellbent on enforcing Federal laws. 

- I imagine there are a good number of people who are mind-numbingly confused over how a devout Christ follower like Charlie Kirk was "allowed" to be slain. Kudos to Megyn Kelly for being so transparent in her own struggle. 

 

Megyn Kelly: "I'm Mad at God!" #God #Christianity@megynkelly pic.twitter.com/6XSJ9M0nts

— Frank Turek (@DrFrankTurek) October 7, 2025

If Jesus Christ himself can feel separated from God (i.e. his asking "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"), it's certainly no disgrace if we wonder aloud about His plan not making sense to us.

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