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Virginia slammed for ‘truly demonic’ election that excused political violence to spite Trump, critics say
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Many political observers nationwide equated an upset win by Virginia Attorney General-elect Jay Jones and the Democratic ticket as a «demonic» example of the left putting politics ahead of decency.
A majority of Virginia voters ignored scandals that roiled Jones’ campaign, including his envision of murdering a top Republican lawmaker and their children, to put him in office and unseat more than a dozen GOP state delegates.
«They overlooked it because they hate Trump more than they care about what … the Virginia attorney general[-elect] said,» Outkick founder Clay Travis told Fox News on Wednesday.
«Miyares did an incredible job. This is an example of outrage at Trump motivating the turnout,» Travis said on «America’s Newsroom.»
LIBERAL MEDIA DOWNPLAYS SCANDAL OF DEM VIRGINIA AG HOPEFUL JAY JONES’ TEXTS FANTASIZING MURDER OF GOP LAWMAKER
President Trump juxtaposed next to Jay Jones, Democratic nominee for Virginia Attorney General. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Mike Kropf/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP, Pool)
Travis said Trump was clearly a driving force and that there were some Spanberger voters who split tickets in favor of outgoing Attorney General Jason Miyares, but that Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears’ losing margin was too much in an era of rare ticket-splitting.
He said one key observation is that Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger received 600,000 fewer total votes than Trump himself did in the president’s losing battle in Virginia one year prior.
When Trump is off the ballot, Republicans also don’t appear to turn out to vote, he said – as figures from heavily conservative southwestern Virginia bore that out Tuesday night.
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WTAR radio host Kerry Dougherty, who co-hosts an AM dial show in Hampton, wrote on X that Virginia needs to «buckle up.»
«Democrats last night installed a deranged sociopath in the attorney general’s office. A man who may find his law license suspended over chicanery with community service hours. Yep, they preferred him to a moderate, smart and successful Republican. We’re in deep trouble.»
Elsewhere, Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, argued that the political left shows little concern for victims of political violence, calling Jones’ victory the latest proof.
«A deranged lib murders Charlie Kirk, and Democrats respond by electing a sociopath who – in his own words – wants his political opponents and their children dead. Truly demonic,» Gill, wrote on X.
«Truly evil,» added Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier.
VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS HAVE A VIOLENCE PROBLEM
A text message from Jay Jones to Del. Carrie Coyner. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
Uthmeier tried to help Miyares in the closing days of the race, appearing with him, Earle-Sears and now-outgoing Dels. Geary Higgins, R-Lovettsville, and Ian Lovejoy, R-Warrenton, at a closing-days rally in New Baltimore.
Virginia Republican voters were also vocal the morning after – as one wrote that it’s clear his neighbors would be alright if he was dead.
«At least I now know that all of my neighbors with Jay Jones signs up are okay with political violence,» the voter wrote on X.
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«I can no longer in good conscience be associated with them. They obviously want me dead too.»
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson played out the scenario such Jones voters may have thought through before voting:
«Democrats in Virginia saw these texts from Jay Jones and decided ‘yup, he has my vote’,» Johnson said.
JAY JONES’ ‘TWO BULLETS’ SCANDAL OVER VIOLENT TEXTS EXPECTED TO DOMINATE VIRGINIA AG DEBATE
«Truly evil. You can’t live in a country with people that want you dead.»
Jack Posobiec, a conservative commentator and editor at Human Events, responded to Jones’ post-scandal win with his own recollection of political violence:
«I saw a leftist murder Charlie Kirk and I saw them celebrate it,» Posobiec said.
«While conservatives have spent the last few weeks arguing with each other, Democrats just elected an Attorney General who openly fantasizes about murdering us and watching our children die in our arms,» added commentator Matt Walsh.
«These people are the enemy. What more do you need to see? Seriously. What more do you need to see?»
«Ruthless» podcast producer Leigh Wolf wrote on X that the election results in Virginia are the «first empirical evidence» in the public sphere that proves Democrats writ-large support political violence as a tool to achieve power.
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«They saw with their own eyes this absolute psycho go into graphic detail about the need to murder children as a means of achieving political outcomes, and they voted yes,» Wolf said.
«You can’t hand wave away violence as the actions of a few fringe radicals when you affirmatively vote in favor of those tactics.»
In their responses to Jones’ victory, voices on the left steered clear of the question of condoning violence, including one of the attorney general-elect’s top backers, Senate President L. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth.
Lucas posted a clip drawn from Fox News video of Jones greeting voters in Norfolk, which an official at the Republican Attorney General’s Assocation trimmed down to show the Democrat appearing to try to kick a dog in a potentially playful manner.
Lucas re-envisioned that clip as a GIF of Jones making the kicking motion toward the dog – but instead hitting Attorney General Jason Miyares, whose avatar went flying upward toward the sky.
Elsewhere, Democratic state Sen. Mamie Locke of Hampton commented that Democrats wins instead showed that her party won because «Republicans cannot govern, do their jobs and would rather shut the government down than feed people or provide them health care.»
«And, Trump, you were on the ballot. Maybe not literally, but your failed policies were,» Locke said. «Voters told you how they felt about those failures. Your efforts to distract, distort, discourage, discredit, and destroy this country has Virginians and citizens all over America fighting back. This is just the beginning.»
Anti-Trump commentator Tim Miller also commented on X about those observers expressing fears as some conservatives have.
After conservative commentator Megyn Kelly said that «God save Republicans and their children in VA,» Miller called it «the first known case of Spanberger Derangement Syndrome.»
Fox News Digital also reached out to Lt. Gov.-elect Ghazala Hashmi for her view on whether Jones’ election and that of Democrats writ large should be connected with a passivity toward political violence.
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What Jay Jones’ victory means for Democrats and the ‘new era of violent rhetoric,’ according to experts
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Democrats in Virginia elected an attorney general who privately fantasized about murdering his political opponents, raising questions from experts who spoke to Fox News Digital about whether the Democratic Party is serious about condemning political violence.
«The moral rot infecting the Democrat Party is here to stay and voters just proved it,» Mehek Cooke, a GOP political consultant and commentator, told Fox News Digital after Jay Jones won the race for Virginia attorney general.
Jones defeated incumbent Republican Jason Miyares despite a campaign plagued with scandal after it was revealed he fantasized in 2022 text messages about shooting former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert in the head while also suggesting that harm should come to that Republican’s young «fascist» children.
«Jay Jones called for the death of political opponents and their children, yet instead of rejecting that extremism, Democrat voters rewarded it,» Cooke said.
INSIDE JAY JONES AND THE DEMOCRATS’ LATE SURGE TO UPSET WINS ACROSS VIRGINIA, FROM THE SUBURBS TO THE SHORE
Virginia attorney general candidates Jay Jones, left, and Jason Miyares, right. ( Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Julian Epstein, a longtime Democratic operative, attorney, and former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News Digital the «near unanimous rationalizations» from Democrats is driven by a «moral relativism that is a race to the bottom for any civilization.»
Epstein explained, «The collective shoulder shrug about a candidate who fantasizes about the assassination of his opponents and the death of his opponent’s children is of the same piece with the new era of violent rhetoric from the left and the data showing that nearly half of young progressives think that political violence can be justified. To look the other way on this because of political expedience is to lose the plot as to why one is in the public square in the first place.»
Ultimately, Cooke told Fox News Digital, the election of Jones in Virginia will help Republicans going forward.
TRUMP APPEARS TO JAB DEFEATED REPUBLICANS, SAYING IT’S ‘EASY’ TO WIN ELECTIONS ‘WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE FACTS’
Virginia attorney general candidate Jerrauld «Jay» Jones speaks at an event in Norfolk, Virginia. (Trevor Metcalfe/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
«These reckless choices by the Left, including the election of Jay Jones, will only electrify the Republican base heading into the midterms and beyond,» Cooke said.
Kentucky GOP Rep. Andy Barr, running for U.S. Senate next year, echoed the sentiment that Republicans look better to voters overall than Democrats after Tuesday night.
«The Democrat Party just elected a Socialist to run the financial capital of the world and a Leftist Attorney General who wished for Republican leaders and their children to be killed,» Barr said. «Meanwhile, one year after the greatest political comeback in history, President Trump is Making America Great Again. Our golden age will continue as the Democrat Party disgraces itself.»
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Voting booths and voters are seen at a polling location. (Graeme Sloan for The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to the Jones campaign for comment.
News that Jones had sent the controversial texts, first reported by National Review, sparked a firestorm in early October, with many pundits believing the Jones campaign would be doomed for promoting political violence in a climate still reeling from the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
However, Democrats in Virginia remained behind Jones as gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger and prominent elected Democrats in the state refused to call on him to step down after he apologized for the texts.
«At the end of the day, this election has never been about me or my opponent,» Jones said in his victory speech. «It has always been about every single one of us and the future of Virginia.»
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Detuvieron a un hombre con antecedentes pedófilos que importó una muñeca sexual con apariencia infantil
Un nuevo caso de importación de muñecas sexuales con apariencia infantil sacudió a Francia y encendió las alarmas de las autoridades. El lunes, empleados de un depósito cercano a Marsella detectaron un paquete sospechoso: era voluminoso, pesado y estaba parcialmente abierto. Al revisarlo, encontraron una muñeca de silicona de 1,30 metros, con rasgos de preadolescente.
El envío, que tenía como remitente a la empresa Zech, de origen chino, fue inmediatamente reportado a la policía. El destinatario, un hombre de 56 años que vive en Bouc-Bel-Air y que ya había sido condenado por delitos de agresión sexual, fue identificado y detenido.
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Investigación y allanamiento: la Justicia va tras los compradores
La fiscalía de Aix-en-Provence abrió una causa por “importación, tentativa de adquisición y tentativa de tenencia de imagen de menor con carácter pornográfico”. La policía secuestró la muñeca y realizó un allanamiento en la casa del sospechoso, donde incautó material informático que ahora está siendo analizado.
El hombre, que quedó bajo custodia, “tiene antecedentes penales por agresión sexual y admitió haber encargado la muñeca con fines sexuales», declaró la fiscalía al sitio Actu Marseille.
Shein retiró de la venta las muñecas ante el escándalo. (Foto: gentileza TF1).
El escándalo de las muñecas sexuales infantiles y la reacción oficial
Este caso se da en un contexto de máxima alerta en Francia, luego de que la brigada antifraude francesa denunciara la venta de muñecas sexuales con apariencia infantil en las plataformas chinas Shein y AliExpress. La polémica llevó a que la empresa fuera citada a declarar en la Asamblea Nacional en los próximos días, en el marco de una investigación sobre el control de productos importados.
La fiscalía de París también abrió varias investigaciones contra estas dos plataformas de venta online por “difundir imágenes o representaciones de menores de carácter pornográfico”.
Leé también: Escándalo internacional: denunciaron a Shein por vender muñecas sexuales con rasgos infantiles
Además, el gobierno de Emmanuel Macron anunció que suspenderá el sitio web de Shein después de detectar la venta de muñecas sexuales con apariencia infantil y de armas prohibidas en su plataforma online.
Según el Ministerio de Finanzas, la suspensión se mantendrá “todo el tiempo que sea necesario” hasta que Shein demuestre que cumple con las leyes francesas. La compañía respondió que prohibirá globalmente la venta de dichas muñecas y que cerrará temporalmente su marketplace en Francia para revisar los controles a los vendedores externos.
El portavoz de Shein en Francia, Quentin Ruffat, aseguró que la compañía colaborará “al 100%” con la Justicia y que entregarán los nombres de los compradores de muñecas si así lo requiere la investigación.
Qué dicen los expertos en pedofilia sobre las muñecas con rasgos infantiles
La Alta Comisionada para la Infancia, Sarah El Haïry, fue contundente: “Ir a buscar a quienes compraron estas muñecas en nuestro territorio es una obligación para proteger y controlar el estado de los niños que están en su entorno cercano”.
Según Véronique Béchu, excomandante de policía y directora del Observatorio contra el Ciberacoso y la Violencia contra Menores, el uso de estas muñecas dista mucho de ser inofensivo, sino que “contribuye directamente a la radicalización de la conducta pedocriminal”, afirmó al sitio FranceInfo.
“No es la muñeca la que ‘crea’ la desviación, pero constituye un indicador y un facilitador en el proceso delictivo”, explicó a franceinfo una fuente especializada en caso de abusos de niños. “Este tipo de objeto no canaliza el impulso: lo alimenta y lo estructura”, afirmó.
“Los pedófilos no operan según un modelo de ‘descarga’, sino mediante un condicionamiento progresivo, con desensibilización moral y una búsqueda de escalada en sus prácticas», agregó. Ciudadanos protestan contra la plataforma china Shein tras el escándalo de las muñecas sexuales. (Foto: AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff).
El uso de estas muñecas, a veces provistas de orificios sexuales, forma parte de una “escalada conductual“, continuó esta fuente policial, especificando que “en los casos judiciales, el uso de objetos sexualizados suele ser parte de un proceso progresivo” que comienza con la visualización de fotos y videos de abusos de niños, se intensifica con el uso de muñecas o juguetes sexuales que representan a un menor y alcanza su punto álgido con “la búsqueda de contacto real” . “Esto es lo que la criminología denomina el ciclo de la exteriorización”, resumió la misma fuente.
Florence Thibaut, profesora de psiquiatría y adicciones en el Hospital Cochin de París, especialista en temas de pedofilia, explicó que “entre las personas que tienen fantasías pedófilas, que las expresan y que las padecen, se estima que una de cada dos actuará según sus impulsos contra un niño”.
Medios galos recordaron asimismo que el excirujano Joël Le Scouarnec, condenado en mayo a veinte años de prisión por la violación y agresión sexual de 299 pacientes, en su mayoría niños, vivía rodeado de decenas de muñecas. Incluso había bautizado a algunas con los nombres de sus víctimas.
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A viral video captured the moment a shark leapt out of the water in New Zealand and landed on a fishing boat, stunning the passengers on board.
The incident happened in Whitianga, New Zealand, in early November 2022, according to Storyful.
In the video, the mako shark bursts from the water and lands on the bow of the boat, flopping around before coming to rest near the front of the vessel.
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A shark was seen leaping out of the water in New Zealand and landing on a fishing boat, stunning the passengers on board. (Churchys Charters NZ via Storyful)
After several moments, the shark managed to wriggle free and return to the ocean unharmed.
BEACH BLISS TURNS CHAOTIC AS SHARK LUNGES AT SNORKELER: ‘HE COULD HAVE RIPPED MY ARM OFF’
The incident happened in Whitianga, New Zealand, in early November 2022. (Churchys Charters NZ via Storyful)
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The shocked passengers on the boat were also unharmed.
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