There is infinitely more outrage in the media today about a DUCK in the Reflecting Pool…
…than there ever was about my neighbors in Western North Carolina living in tents in the cold after Hurricane Helene
That’s so messed up.
Every time I fill up my tank, I remember that Virginia Republicans proposed a gas tax holiday and Democrats blocked it.
Then I remember that Republicans proposed multiple bills to repeal the car tax, and Democrats killed those too.
Even the most mundane tasks have become reminders about how much Democrats betrayed their “affordability” promises.
Virginia Democrats approved a 194% pay increase for members of the General Assembly. This will cost tax payers $2.1 million every budget cycle.
Making life more affordable for the politicians. All you other schmucks - get to work and pay your taxes.
Virginians who elected Democrats are shocked we’re not getting tax relief or affordability in their proposed budget.
Really. REALLY?
Did you really think they’d do anything to make our lives more affordable? 🙄 They’re Democrats. 😂
Hope all the Trump hate was worth it.
Why are Virginia taxpayers bailing out the City of Richmond for $15 million when they have their own budget to do this stuff? Also, it doesn't take $15 million to demolish one building. Where is that money really going?? #valeg
So NO tax relief for Virginians despite @GlennYoungkin leaving @SpanbergerForVA a billion plus surplus, yet $ to TRIPLE the salaries of politicians in Richmond. I get it, “affordability” was for themselves not Virginians!
My biggest takeaway from Vance on The View is honestly how shitty and undisciplined the hosts STILL ARE. After all these years they still get basics facts wrong, flub easy questions and can’t get through a segment without yelling at each other.
Vance handled it all very well.
You just keep on stacking up the wins, don't you @GovernorVA? Wow.
Youngkin brought the state back from the edge of the abyss, and then in less than six months you plunged us into it.
And there will be more... and she knows it.
Thus, every time @SpanbergerForVA let's one of these guys go, she is a knowing accomplice to the following crime.
Spanberger, who previously declared Governors shouldn’t interfere with the governance of universities, just fired the most beloved Rector in Va Tech history, John Rocovich. The man who was the force behind recruiting James Franklin to save the football program, who has served twice before as Rector, who has given decades of his life to his beloved alma matter was fired without explanation. This is a shameful act to appease her leftwing base & proves once again she is Governor Bait & Switch.
Barbara Walters writes:
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War.
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho LoPrison, the "Hanoi Hilton."
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "peace activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received.
He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward onto the camp commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton". . . The first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action." His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat. . . At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper...
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
I was a civilian economic development adviser in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Banme Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)
We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals."
When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received. . . and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient."
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.
These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women." Lest we forget. . . "100 Years of Great Women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer, and she needs to know that we will never forget. See less
I am so proud of my wonderful wife and Virginia’s amazing First Lady, Suzanne Youngkin. Suzanne’s top priority when she was First Lady was combatting the fentanyl crisis to save lives and stop the scourge of this epidemic. Her efforts - through the "It Only Takes One" initiative - helped Virginia lead the nation in fentanyl overdoses with a 59% reduction. There is more to do, but Suzanne’s work has left a lasting impact to protect Virginians from the dangers of fentanyl.