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Every bar has that one drunk guy who tries to pick up other guys... raves against meat... and wouldn't recognize a fascist if he met Platner with his shirt off.
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You post this shit repeatedly. The tax credits expiring was part of the Democrats Obamacare bill. Republicans knew that subsidies weren't a viable long-term plan, which is why they opposed it. You are just passing off your party's mistakes from a decade ago on Trump and asking Virginia's taxpayers to pick up the tab.
NO.
The subjectivity of “distress” and the ease of applying the label leave significant room for inconsistent or selective enforcement on political, personal or revenge - not real grounds.
Virginia’s overall Medicaid program is roughly $29 billion per year (state share about $8.2 billion).
The ~300,000 figure is Virginia’s own estimate of Medicaid expansion adults (out of ~550,000) who MAY be at risk when federal work/community-engagement rules and six-month renewals start in 2027.
It is not a forecast that all or most of them will actually lose coverage.
State officials have repeatedly noted that many already work, that exemptions exist (caregivers, medically frail, etc.), and that a major risk is people falling off due to missed notices or paperwork rather than pure ineligibility.
Taxing the life out of Virginia and blaming Trump... liar.
The state tax on diesel fuel in Virginia is 33.6 cents per gallon for the period from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027.
This total includes several distinct state-level components:
Diesel Excise Tax: 33.6 cents per gallon (under the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles schedule)
Wholesale Sales Tax: 9.7 cents per gallon
Storage Tank Fee: 0.2 cents per gallon (effective July 2026 – June 2027)
Combined with other state charges, total state taxes on diesel come out to approximately 43.5 cents per gallon.
High diesel prices are driving up the costs of transporting crops, timber, livestock and other goods.
I’ve signed an executive directive that aims to reduce the strain on Virginian industries that rely on diesel by making sure that dyed diesel is available for on-road use. 13newsnow.com/article/traffi…
I know... In fact it runs in the family. just look at his Grandson... picking up where Mao Zedong left off.
Xi is scared of him. Major General Mao Xinyu making his own purge.
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Without France, Americans would be Canadians today.
Vice President JD Vance:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have to understand what happens when our nation gives in to these kinds of people…
Like so many of you today, I've been watching the terrible scenes taking place across the ocean in France, which, by the way, is a beautiful country. One of America's... arguably America's very first ally more than two hundred and fifty years ago.
My friends, the scene of destruction in Paris may be an ocean away, but ask yourselves, are they really so hard to imagine here in the United States of America?
And I guarantee you, if those rioters were burning down New York or Detroit, the Hassan Pikers and the Al Sayed would be right there leading in gratitude, the desire to destroy rather than the desire to build, that exact same cancer is what has corrupted Abdul El Sayed, writ large.
It is absolutely the sort of thing that has taken over the man's soul, and you can see it in the way that he talks about Michigan, and you can see it in the way that he talks about the United States of America.
That hatred is downstream of leaders who stopped feeling any obligation to the people they serve, who threw open our borders, let our jobs leave, and taught our children to hate their own country.
And if sovereignty means anything, ladies and gentlemen, it means that the United States of America belongs to its people. It belongs to the people of Michigan.
When you forget that, it's how you get Paris in flames. And unfortunately, it's exactly what El Sayed seeks to bring to the shores of the United States of America.
But you know what I believe?
I believe that this country belongs to the people.
@Acyn
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Future USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG 127) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer coming into Norfolk, Virginia - October 27, 2026 SRC: YT- ThimbleShoalsShipwatching
I reposted your post only because the Community notes stated the truth - Mao was a dictator who killed millions.
You can bend over for cash - but not me.
Desde LALIGA lamentamos profundamente las declaraciones de Kylian Mbappé que han causado malestar y ofensa en China. Entendemos el daño ocasionado y, en nombre de LALIGA, quiero trasladar nuestras sinceras disculpas al pueblo chino.
Durante muchos años hemos construido una relación de respeto, confianza y cooperación con China, sus autoridades, sus instituciones deportivas, sus operadores audiovisuales y millones de aficionados al fútbol español.
No podemos permitir que una actuación individual empañe esa relación ni perjudique a los más de 20 clubes de nuestras competiciones profesionales y a millones de aficionados chinos.
Estamos adoptando las medidas a nuestro alcance y trabajando directamente con nuestros socios e interlocutores en China para superar esta situación.
Nuestro compromiso con China, su pueblo y sus instituciones es firme. Una relación construida durante tantos años no puede quedar dañada por un episodio individual.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Contexto importante: Mao Zedong fue efectivamente un dictador.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
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Desde LALIGA lamentamos profundamente las declaraciones de Kylian Mbappé que han causado malestar y ofensa en China. Entendemos el daño ocasionado y, en nombre de LALIGA, quiero trasladar nuestras sinceras disculpas al pueblo chino.
Durante muchos años hemos construido una relación de respeto, confianza y cooperación con China, sus autoridades, sus instituciones deportivas, sus operadores audiovisuales y millones de aficionados al fútbol español.
No podemos permitir que una actuación individual empañe esa relación ni perjudique a los más de 20 clubes de nuestras competiciones profesionales y a millones de aficionados chinos.
Estamos adoptando las medidas a nuestro alcance y trabajando directamente con nuestros socios e interlocutores en China para superar esta situación.
Nuestro compromiso con China, su pueblo y sus instituciones es firme. Una relación construida durante tantos años no puede quedar dañada por un episodio individual.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Contexto importante: Mao Zedong fue efectivamente un dictador.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Mogami-class 30DX frigate JS Noshiro (FFM-3) leaving Maizuru, Japan - October 27, 2026 SRC: X-@pHfIfKY07AKg6b4
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Meanwhile she’s yammering on about “the joy of children” at an abortion celebration.
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Outside the paywall. Trump started a maelstrom in Germany when Audi announced an investment in the US. This was not the US news German automakers and public wanted to heard
The Bavarian Backlash: How Trump’s Dealmaking Rattled Germany’s Auto Industry siphtor.com/public/posts/the…
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨
Lobbyist for China-owned Smithfield Foods hides CCP-tied owner on 30th straight disclosure report.
A federal disclosure report filed last week by the U.S. lobbyist for China-owned Smithfield Foods @SmithfieldFoods has once again omitted the company’s Chinese owner.
That makes 30 straight noncompliant federal disclosure reports dating back to 2019 where Smithfield’s lobbyists have improperly left off the company’s Chinese owner when asked to name any foreign entities with an interest in the lobbying activity.
As I’ve previously reported, Smithfield Foods is 87% owned by China’s 万洲国际 (WH Group) and its leadership is connected to the Communist Party and People’s Liberation Army. It controls 1,600 pig farms across 10 states, 25% of the U.S. pork market, and about 85,000 acres of American farmland.
On its October 20, 2026, third quarter lobbying report, Greenberg Traurig @GT_Law reported another $180,000 in lobbying for Smithfield on the Senate Farm Bill. Smithfield is lobbying to include Sen. Joni Ernst’s @SenJoniErnst and Rep. Ashley Hinson’s @hinsonashley pro-CCP “Save Our Bacon Act” (SOB Act) in the Farm Bill and to allow continued Chinese ownership of American farmland.
Smithfield’s Chinese owner 万洲国际 obviously has a vested interest in this and stands to benefit significantly.
I reported exclusively last month how, after a federal complaint, Smithfield’s lobbyist Greenberg Traurig amended its 2026 second quarter disclosure filing to name its Chinese owner.
One day after my story was published, they submitted another amendment and deleted WH Group’s name again.
Senator Rick Scott @SenRickScott responded to my story with a post saying, “This is strange. My office is looking into this.”
Senator Scott is right.
Smithfield’s lobbyists should be investigated immediately by the U.S Attorney in DC and the DOJ for violations of lobbying disclosure laws related to foreign influence…
We need to keep the CCP out of our food supply.
@JudgeJeanine @ChinaSelect @TheJusticeDept @DOJNatSec @USAO_DC
🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨
The Smithfield-China lobbying cover-up scandal I exposed last week just got worse.
Just 24 hours after my exclusive viral story last week about how China-owned Smithfield’s @SmithfieldFoods @SmithfieldBrand longtime lobbyist from @GT_Law Greenberg Traurig hid the company’s Chinese ties and was forced to report it after a watchdog complaint, Smithfield’s lobbying disclosure was amended AGAIN on Sept. 3 to ERASE any mention of the company’s CCP-linked Chinese owner 万洲国际 (WH Group).
This is super shady.
Here’s the timeline:
On July 20, Smithfield lobbyist Christopher DeLacy at Greenberg Traurig @GT_Law checked "NONE" on the foreign-interest disclosure box when asked on a federal form whether his lobbying for Smithfield to influence the Farm Bill and allow China to own U.S. farm land benefited any foreign interests. They wrote the same thing on all disclosure reports dating back to 2023.
On August 18, after a watchdog group filed a federal complaint, the disclosure form was amended and resubmitted to add that Smithfield’s Chinese owner 万洲国际 (WH Group) had an interest in the lobbying.
Then, on September 3, one day after I exposed the coverup and it went viral, the firm submitted another amendment to its lobbying disclosure that completely deleted any mention of Smithfield’s Chinese owner (after adding it 2 weeks earlier).
What the hell is going on? Smithfield is 87% owned by China. Their CCP-connected Chinese owner obviously has an interest in their lobbying on the Farm Bill, the Save Our Bacon Act, and other efforts to give Communist China more control of the US food supply.
With the next Farm Bill vote approaching soon, Smithfield’s lobbyist’s cover-up of the company’s Chinese ties is extremely alarming and needs to be investigated immediately.
Congress, the Trump Treasury Department and the American people deserve the truth about the extent of China’s dangerous influence over our agriculture and food policy.
RECEIPTS 👇🏻
@SenRickScott @SenTomCotton @ChinaSelect @RepMoolenaar @SecScottBessent @POTUS
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USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier leaving Norfolk, Virginia - October 27, 2026 SRC: X-@AirAssets
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MORE Democrat crime
Carla Wyatt, the Democrat Treasurer of Harris County, Texas, has been accused of not carrying insurance after allegedly causing a 4-car collision last month.
Wyatt has already been arrested MULTIPLE times since taking office, including at least two DWIs and a burglary charge.
She's up for re-election next week.
