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Tipping the Scales

By David Samuel McCalmont

Oct 16, 2025
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This is Serious Stuff, Don’t You Think?

First, National Review dug up these callous and flippant texts by Jay Jones in which he casually responds that if he had a gun and two bullets, and the choice of shooting two dictators (Hitler, Stalin) or the Speaker of Virginia’s State House, he’d use both bullets on Virginia’s House Speaker (a Republican). This p…

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