Vince Haley, former candidate for the Virginia Senate in the 12th district, and candidate for Chairman of RPV has been appointed a White House advisor:
Vince Haley, Advisor for Policy, Strategy and Speechwriting – Vince Haley is a longtime associate of former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. He served as policy director and later campaign manager of Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign. Mr. Haley holds an undergraduate degree from the College of William & Mary, a law and Master’s degree from the University of Virginia, and a Master’s of law from the College of Europe. During the President-elect’s successful campaign, Mr. Haley developed ethics reform policies.
Congratulations Vince!
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Least expensive cocktail at Trump’s DC hotel is $24.
The scamming and the price gouging never end . . .
Source: Washingtonian
And you thought the $14 cocktail was too pricey? The Trump hotel’s lobby bar has raised its cocktail prices yet again. The cheapest option now is $24, while the most expensive is $100.
It’s safe to say the Trump hotel’s Benjamin Bar & Lounge is now the most expensive overall bar in all of Washington, and its price hikes are the hugest I’ve ever seen, especially in such a short period.
When the hotel opened on September 12, cocktail prices ranged from $16 to $20—not cheap, but not totally unheard of for a luxury hotel. Then in October, we noted those exact same cocktails had been jacked up to the $20 to $24 range
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There is a bright spot: If you order anything with tequila, Mexico will pay for it.
That is completely ridiculous. Several of my friends go to the Trump hotel weekly for cocktails and often dinner. They would NEVER spend that kind of money for any cocktail!
Not that it really matters ( he can charge whatever he wants) but, per The Washingtonian, if your friends have “NEVER”, they will now be paying $24 minimum for their swill of choice.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonian.com/2017/01/05/the-cheapest-cocktail-at-the-trump-hotel-is-now-24/amp/
There’s this new thing called Google…..
Sorry, I don’t care what the Washingtonian says, they’re wrong. Surely you don’t believe everything you read, do you?
Nah, that’s why I at least attempt to get supporting references regardless of who is making the statement. You’re an intrepid member of the new media, do you have a contradictory picture of the menu? If nothing else, that’s a great excuse to do some investigative reporting on TBE dime.
I’m not intrepid, I’ve spoken with three people, none of whom who have paid that much for drinks at Trump’s new hotel.
Where have we seen this before??
Fox, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, DailyCaller: All allied with RT as stooges for Putin.
Clinton for Prison*
Julian Assange Special: Do WikiLeaks Have the E-mail That’ll Put Clinton in Prison?â€
Clinton cannot be trusted
“Clinton and ISIS Funded by the Same Money.â€
Corrupt Clintons
“How 100% of the Clintons’ ‘Charity’ Went to…Themselves,â€
Rigged!
“Trump Will Not Be Permitted To Win,â€
* Underlines for framing scope
01/06/17 – release of the Intelligence Communities analysis.
On 6 August, RT published an English-language video called “Julian
Assange Special: Do WikiLeaks Have the E-mail That’ll Put Clinton in
Prison?†and an exclusive interview with Assange entitled “Clinton and
ISIS Funded by the Same Money.†RT’s most popular video on Secretary
Clinton, “How 100% of the Clintons’ ‘Charity’ Went to…Themselves,†had more than 9 million views on social media platforms. RT’s most popular English language video about the President-elect, called “Trump Will Not Be Permitted To Win,†featured Assange and had 2.2 million views. – TPM Pg 14 of 25
All of them were produced by….?
THE KREMLIN. And rebroadcast by Fox News & RW media outlets to hoodwink American voters into voting for the Russian backed candidate.
Romanian hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, ‘it was easy’ – Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/04/romanian-hacker-guccifer-breached-clinton-server-it-was-easy.html
Assange: Clinton & ISIS funded by same money, Trump won’t be allowed to win – RT
https://www.rt.com/news/365299-assange-pilger-saudi-clinton/
Funding terrorism — and the Clintons – NY Post
http://nypost.com/2016/06/15/funding-terrorism-and-the-clintons/
96 Percent Of Hillary’s Charitable Donations In 2015 Went To Clinton Foundation – The Daily Caller
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/12/96-percent-of-hillarys-charitable-donations-in-2015-went-to-clinton-foundation/
Clintons’ ‘charity’ is to themselves – Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/12/clintons-charity-themselves/
Any questions about who is on whose side?
Trump stiffs another DC contractor who puts lien on his DC hotel, bringing total of liens to $5 million . . . at least three contractors stiffed by Trump.
Workers from AES Electrical apparently went all out to make sure Donald Trump could open his luxury hotel on the day he wanted.
In the frenzied final six weeks of work at the hotel, while Trump
touted the project on the campaign trail, AES of Laurel, Md., claims it
assigned 45 members of its staff to work 12-hour shifts for nearly 50
consecutive days to get the lights, electrical and fire systems prepared
on time.
“We had people there well over 12 hours a day for weeks because they
had a hard opening of Sept. 12 and you can’t open if the lights don’t
work and the fire alarms don’t work and the fire marshal can’t inspect
it,†said Tim Miller, executive vice president of AES. “There is a lot
of work that went into that hotel, and it didn’t happen by accident.â€
Trump got his wish: The hotel was ready enough that on Sept. 16 he
held a campaign event there honoring veterans, which was carried live on
national television. He touted the hotel as having been completed
“under budget and ahead of schedule†and said that when it opened
officially the following month it would be “one of the great hotels
anywhere in the world.â€
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2017/01/06/third-lien-on-trump-hotel-brings-alleged-unpaid-bills-to-over-5-million/?postshare=1211483732803018&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.56c34ba09f50
Honestly, OR, you really need to stay on topic. You’re more than welcome to start your own blog, but if you can’t keep your comments germane to the discussion we’re going to ask you to leave.
Donald Trump’s BFF, Julian Assange, says if you have a Twitter account, he will spread your personal info all over the ‘net — name, address, phone numbers, etc.
From WikiLeaks Twitter account
WikiLeaks Task Force Verified account
â€@WLTaskForce
We are thinking of making an online database with all “verified”
twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships.
10:03 AM – 6 Jan 2017
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Trump’s BFF . . . I trust you republicans are happy.
Off topic, please stop.
Let’s see what the republican criminal organization has been up to this week.
http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r589/duadmin/170106-wingnuts-of-the-week_zpsghlbrh35.jpg
Can’t you put this up on your own blog and not liter our blog with it?
Thanks
A post was deleted because it had nothing to do with the topic of the post.
Did you mean “litter?”
Since old_redneck posts random *&^% all over these threads that have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TOPIC then I guess I can do the same too, right ?
I just want to say HOW HAPPY I am that Republicans in Congress took the first steps to getting rid of the ACA law, the worst law ever passed in my opinion, and I don’t mean that as hyperbole. I can’t WAIT until that law is gone. Every time they remove a provision of the law I’m going to have a party of some kind, even if its just a cupcake with a candle in it. This crap can’t be gone soon enough.
Thank you Congress.
Speaking of which …
I’ll say it, I think after MONTHS of spam from old_redneck that he has zero interest in actually participating in this forum. All he does is spam the place with random nonsense, and I don’t know about ya’ll but I’m really kind of tired of it. It would be different if he engaged us in some meaningful way, or even if he was spamming the forum with *&^% that was actually on topic, but he isn’t. After months of this BS, have we finally given him enough of a chance ? I’ve defended old_redneck’s right to post here, and I know others have too, but frankly its just getting old and he has no respect for the forum or anyone here, and I’m starting to think the forum should stop indulging him. I don’t even care that he hates everyone on the forum, I really don’t, but his posts are like advertisements that we have to wade through at this time and I’m sick of reading them.
Upset are we??
Stop whining, snowflake, and suck it up.
Not upset, bored. Your *&^% is just lame and boring.
To be upset I’d have to be interested.
I don’t agree w much if it but unless I’m missing something, does it violate any forum rules?
Nothing wrong (imho) w a challenge to the status quo or if nothing else, find a chuckle of it. To quote the great philosopher Joker, “why so serious”?
The person that says he’s “not upset (or interested) but takes the time to reply (not refute), is both…..just sayin’. 😉
You got it wrong – I LOVE to debate, but that’s not what old_redneck is doing here, at all.
What if I just started posting random crap I read that agrees with my political viewpoint on threads that don’t even have ANYTHING to do with the topic of the thread on Blue Virginia, over and over ? I mean if they’re talking about the latest local DNC meeting and I cut and paste an article written by someone saying Obama isn’t born in the U.S., or they are talking about a bill before state legislature and I cut and paste an article about AR-15 rifles being banned in California, don’t you think after about a few HUNDRED of those the guys at Blue Virginia would eventually get sick of it ?
Hell I’d LOVE to debate old_redneck, but that’s not what he’s here for.
Like I said, I’m not upset, I’m just BORED. He might as well be posting stuff about breeding pot belly pigs, or fixing clogged fuel injectors or something. If what he was posting was (1) more than just cutting and pasting crap he reads somewhere and (2) ON TOPIC, I’d love to debate him. I don’t even care that he’s belligerent, but at least debate us and stop the endless freaking SPAM. He hardly ever responds to anything anyone writes in response to him, all he seems to care about is boring the *&^% out of people.
Agree. He needs to stick to the topic and stop the ‘copy and paste’ on other subjects.
His relevant post has been removed.
Can’t handle the truth, eh?
This article and the ensuing thread are about an individual who is part of the Trump team. It’s important that we see what the Trump team REALLY is.
They were not the Trump team, it wasn’t true and it absolutely nothing to do with Vince Haley.
Congratulations to Vince Haley! President-elect Trump continues to surround himself with great people like Vince who’ll help #DrainTheSwamp & #MAGA.
Thanks for reporting this exciting & terrific news, Jeanine & TBE! This significantly raises Virginia Republicans’ stature to have one of our own so close to the President.
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Do you have a link to this it’s too small to read.
I first saw this on infowars but they change them almost daily. took some time to find else where. Do a search on “ben garrison trump cartoons” .He does some good ones but they seem hard to copy and transfer…
http://www.freedomsback.com/cartoons/trump-new-year/
You can also look here.. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/51b95d2914e8de4e681e0d2cbc2d561a9cf8aad86f7089ac7a822c7367ecb806.jpg
http://grrrgraphics.com/index.html
Another establishment hack.
What about that swamp draining?
Vince is not establishment. Ask around.
Well, well . . . isn’t this special: Dave Brat says he’s ready to add ONE TRILLION
DOLLARS to the deficit just so he can kill the Affordable Care Act.
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Some of the most conservative members of Congress say they are ready
to vote for a budget that would — at least on paper — balloon the
deficit to more than $1 trillion by the end of the decade, all for the
sake of eventually repealing the Affordable Care Act.In a
dramatic reversal, many members of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus
said Thursday they are prepared later this month to support a budget
measure that would explode the deficit and increase the public debt to
more than $29.1 trillion by 2026 — a figure that is contained in the budget resolution.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/conservatives-ready-to-support-1-trillion-hole-in-the-budget/2017/01/05/76d4bf34-d391-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html
— end quote
And before you respond, remember, Brat is a very active member of the “House Freedom Caucus.”
So much for republican fiscal responsibility.
You made me curious with the headline, then totally lost me with “Washington Post”.
The Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, Vox, Salon, MSNBC, CNN, Huffington Post, etc, I can’t even see these names anymore without thinking F-A-K-E … N-E-W-S.
These places burned the last bit of credibility they had during the 2016 election, and I mean the very last bit. They’ll do just about anything to discredit conservatives, and they’ve proved that.
This article from the New York Times will live on forever.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/business/balance-fairness-and-a-proudly-provocative-presidential-candidate.html?_r=0
FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS
Do you know what the headline was in the News York Times the day after Obama won the Presidency ?
OBAMA ELECTED PRESIDENT AS RACIAL BARRIER FALLS
Do you know what the headline was in the New York Times the day after Trump won the Presidency ?
DEMOCRATS, STUDENTS AND FOREIGN ALLIES FACE THE REALITY OF A TRUMP PRESIDENCY
And I’m supposed to believe anything the LA Times, New York Times, Washington Post, etc, have to say ?
I DON’T THINK SO.
Great point!
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How much will the ACA costs add by the end of the decade?
It estimated that the total net cost of the insurance coverage provisions of the law would be $1.35 trillion over 10 years, from 2016 through 2025. This net cost includes gross costs of $1.993 trillion, which includes spending on subsidies for insurance obtained through the exchanges, tax credits to small businesses and expanded Medicaid coverage, minus revenues of $643 billion
As we all know, House republicans attempted to protect their criminal members by placing the organization that investigates ethics complaints under the House Ethics Committee, thereby emasculating investigations. Public outcry killed that under-the-cover-of-darkness move.
Now we find House republicans attempting to hide evidence of their damage to the economy.
The move, shrouded in a “rules package†referred to as House Resolution 5, (https://policy.house.gov/legislative/bills/hres-adopting-rules-115th-congress)
bans the Congressional Budget Office from calculating the deficit that will result from repealing the Affordable Care Act . . . expected to add $1.5 trillion or more to the deficit.
So — republicans want to keep their ethics violations secret as well as keeping secret their additions to the deficit. Is there anything you clowns want to see made public? Oh, wait, Hillary’s emails. . . .
By the way, did you see that Paul Ryan’s proposed budget will cut between $300 and $500 million from the State Department embassy security budget? What was that about Benghazi?
Again, completely off topic. Please stop.
Did you even read the article you posted? Brat is joining Paul in questioning this. “Other Republicans, including Paul, still question whether it is ever acceptable to support deficit increases, no matter how symbolic.” And this, “Not all conservatives are convinced. Paul is joined by deficit hawks like Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) who worry their voters won’t countenance even a seemingly meaningless vote to increase the deficit.”