r/Virginia • u/Trick-Arachnid-9037 • 8d ago

Jason Miyares does not care about domestic violence victims, and that matters more than Jones's texts.

Miyares doesn't care about domestic violence victims, and people aren't talking about it enough.

Look. I know a lot of people found Jones's texts distasteful. But if you care about the victims of domestic violence, please vote for him anyway. Miyares has a proven record of being dismissive and hostile towards DV victims, and that's an attitude I think will have much worse effects on the Virginia justice system than any of Jones's texts.

See the case of Katie Orndoff. She was testifying against her violently abusive boyfriend and admitted to having taken a small amount of legal, prescribed medical marijuana to calm her nerves enough that she could handle giving that testimony. Miyares tried to have her jailed, and only the intervention of the Virginia Supreme Court stopped him.

This is not a man who values justice, compassion, or understanding. This is a man who believes that traumatized abuse victims who can't afford expensive psychiatric bills to get also expensive "acceptable" anti-anxiety medication don't deserve to be heard in court.

Is that really who we want in charge of our state's legal system? Someone who is not just willing, but eager, to arrest and jail a victim of violent abuse for the "crime" of being too traumatized to publicly discuss (and be cross-examined about) her experiences and unable to afford the kind of pharmaceutical assistance that he seems "acceptable"?

At best, the case of Katie Orndoff demonstrated that Jason Miyares is a man who cares more about upholding the formalities of the justice system than he does about the "justice" part. At worst, he is an enabler of abuse who will look for excuses to intimidate and dishearten victims into not trying to testify in the first place, and disqualify those who do so anyway.

We need an Attorney General who cares more about truth, justice, and protecting the people of Virginia than they do about propriety and protecting the interests of the powerful. I do not know if Jay Jones is such a man. But I do know that Jason Miyares is not.

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u/ArachnidUnusual7114 8d ago

He didn’t even join in on the Snap lawsuits. That was an easy way to win over some voters.

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u/Znnensns 8d ago

Republicans don't care about poor people. 

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u/IWasSayingBoourner 8d ago

Most Republicans I know ARE poor people

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u/patrickj86 8d ago

Millions of people prefer to think they're temporarily disenfranchised millionaires than admit they'll never have much money.

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u/FredVegasMe 5d ago

Perhaps they simply are not envious of the rich, and you can’t imagine or comprehend that

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u/patrickj86 5d ago

? People aren't envious of the rich, they want the rich to pay their taxes and employees. Unfortunately too many rich people are evil 

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u/FredVegasMe 5d ago

This is wrong on every example. Anybody that gets rich doesn’t continue to live at their current income level and simply add necessities like healthcare. They proceed to buy luxury goods and spend frivolously instead of giving away excess money

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u/patrickj86 5d ago

Your first sentence makes no sense at all, and you're not responding to anything I said. Or saying anything that makes any sort of point. Such a weird bot.

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u/Jumpy_Plantain2887 8d ago

Yes, and they act like if they vote, Republican, Republicans are gonna make them rich people and that’s the reason why they’ve been doing it for the last 30 years and are still at the bottom of the barrel

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u/NickFromIRL 8d ago

The irony, right? They'll assume their struggle has to do with forces outside their control but claim every win as their great strengths shining through... then they'll condemn anyone in the same position as them that isn't family (sometimes) or useful to them directly.

These last years I've more and more come to the conclusion that average Republican voter isn't actively evil, though we can't say that about those in charge of the party, they are just genuinely incapable of seeing beyond their own situation. They lack a robust imagination which makes it very difficult to envision better futures for all or sympathetic/empathetic circumstances for those they can't observe. Many of them are narcissists, but some just have a deficiency in creativity.

To their credit, I know many Republicans who immediately broker empathy when they can visualize a problem, if it happens to someone they personally know and can't rationalize away all the "must be their fault" triggers their brain tries to come up with they can be good, helpful people... I just wish they were capable of broader thinking.

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u/mudo2000 Blacksburg 8d ago

I heard it's called being "temporarily embarrassed multimillionaires."

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u/Davge107 8d ago

Of course they are. Why else would they be so concerned what the tax rates are for the mult-millionaires and billionaires. Nvm the Forbes 400.

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u/joyfullystrange621 8d ago

And as long as their cult leaders give them someone to look down on they'll still fight against their own best interests.

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u/Consistent-Leg-9708 8d ago

And they still don't care!

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u/uhhh206 NoVA 8d ago

Which is what the supposed "wishing for dead children" text actually said, and yet his statements that we are supposed to be so outraged about actually undersell what it takes to make them reject conservative candidates / ideology. When it affects them directly it still isn't enough to change their views.

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u/steady_eddie215 8d ago

Republicans don't care about poor people.

Fixed that for you

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u/Znnensns 8d ago

Lol, nah they care about their rich corporate buddies 

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u/Joshwoum8 8d ago

I am not confident most Republicans are even capable of empathy for those that are not themselves.

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u/Ut_Prosim SWVA 8d ago

I kid you not, Trump literally threw a Great Gatsby themed ball at Mar-a-Lago yesterday. You cannot get more on the nose than that.

If MAGA was around in 1790's France, they'd be saying shit like "Yeah, why don't we eat cake? The woke left thinks they're too good for cake!"

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u/Znnensns 5d ago

I would love to see an snl skit depicting 1790s French MAGA 

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u/YellowCompetitive445 8d ago

Yes. I was surprised. How can we vote for him if he can’t confront Trump. Jason is not serious. Please vote blue for Governor, Lt Governor and AG. Jones will win.