Turkey defiant as US threatens Ankara over Russian S-400 missiles

US Vice President Mike Pence warned Turkey on Wednesday that it could risk its membership in NATO if it goes ahead with plans to buy a Russian air defence system despite widespread international opposition.

Pence’s escalating rhetoric came after Turkey insisted on Wednesday that the Russian deal was done, signalling an apparent impasse between the two NATO allies.

Speaking at a NATO 70th anniversary event in Brussels, Pence said Turkey risks expulsion from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme, which could cripple Turkish manufacturers who are making parts for the aircraft. And he raised the possibility of much broader repercussions.

TRUMP WON, YOU LOST, WE NOW SET THE RULES; LIKE IT OR NOT.

The gauntlet has been thrown down by Mitch McConnell. No longer 60 votes for confirmation, the new rule is 51, take it or leave it.

After more than two years of putting up with the Democratic “resistance,” SenateRepublicans finally had enough this week. They voted to curtail abuse of Senate prerogatives and restore the principle that most presidential appointees can be confirmed with a simple majority vote.

In other words, most people nominated by the president for government positions will now actually get a fair up-or-down vote, just as the framers of the Constitution envisioned.

In most previous administrations, the Senate has confirmed almost all political and judicial nominees. The Senate’s confirmation power was intended to stop only those who were patently unqualified.

SENATE REPUBLICANS ENACT PROCEDURAL CHANGE TO SPEED CONFIRMATION OF TRUMP JUDICIAL PICKS

But Democrats enraged by the 2016 election have sought to obstruct the smooth functioning of government at every turn. This was a fundamental – and unpatriotic – break with the past.

Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, have been extremely hesitant to change Senate rules and traditions. But this week they finally had enough. The Senate narrowly voted 51-48 for the change. All but two Republicans – Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine – voted for the change.

UP-CHUCK SCHUMER IS BESIDE HIMSELF. Constituents confirmed that his face turned red and pants brown. He was visibly upset according to eye witnesses.

The recent election in Wisconsin to replace a Supreme Court Justice was won by a conservative judge. Holder went all in on this one, but when the votes were counted he held a losing hand.

However, the loser will not fade from the scene because she refuses to concede, saying she won. This is typical of the losing side, Florida and Georgia gave proof of head games these losers from America’s gutter perpetrate. The liberal press picks it up too for not calling them out. They, the fake news outlets, stream vitriolic diatribe like they were the neutral observer, far from the truth.

Wisconsin voters appear to have delivered a stunning rejection to former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s latest political objective, in a state that’s not only sure to be a 2020 election battleground, but also pivotal in the upcoming decennial redistricting process.

Holder is the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a tax-exempt, 527 political organization that primarily operates for the purpose of influencing elections. The group’s stated aim is to favorably position Democrats in select “red states” and presidential swing states for the next round of redistricting after the 2020 census.

A key race in that effort occurred Tuesday, when liberal-backed judge Lisa Neubauer faced conservative judge Brian Hagedorn for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Despite overwhelming outside support for Neubauer, the April 2 election has Hagedorn leading by nearly 6,000 votes.

Hagedorn, a former aide to Republican Gov. Scott Walker, claimed victory on Wednesday, saying “the people of Wisconsin have spoken, and our margin of victory is insurmountable.” The election, however, is likely headed to a recount, although such margins of victory are rarely overturned.

Holder was unusually active in what would seem an inconsequential race for President Obama’s former top law enforcement official. But he invested his time and reputation, as well as hundreds of thousands of donor dollars, in what looks to be another surprising Wisconsin defeat.

(Tea Party PAC) – Thank goodness for a voice like Tucker Carlson on the mainstream news, otherwise cable news networks would be full of fawning and apologizing for the now notoriously bigoted Rep. Ilhan Omar, who hides behind her intersectional points while insulting Americans.

Amen Tucker, Amen!

"Maybe our immigration system should prioritize people who actually like this country and are grateful to be here. Why wouldn't we do that?" pic.twitter.com/2CljBqZTl7

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) April 2, 2019

In a recent interview with Vogue Arabia, which is apparently a thing, Omar, who came to the US as a refugee from war-torn Somalia as a girl, said that living in Trump’s America is “an everyday assault.”

I wonder what a mouthy, pant-wearing, divorced women like herself would experience in a Muslim country. That hijab wouldn’t get her very far.

“It’s an everyday assault. Every day, a part of your identity is threatened, demonized, and vilified. Trump is tapping into an ugly part of our society and freeing its ugliness. It’s been a challenge to try to figure out how to continue the inclusion; how to show up every day and make sure that people who identify with all the marginalized identities I carry, feel represented.”

Carlson was having none of it.

On Monday, he absolutely slammed the hypocritical, anti-American Congresswoman.

“How does she repay her adopted country, the one that literally saved her life? She attacks it as hateful and racist… Maybe our immigration system should prioritize people who actually like this country and are grateful to be here. Why wouldn’t we do that?” he said.

This is a monologue you won’t want to miss. We absolutely cannot afford to let this woman get away with her attacks on the country that took her and her family in.

She wouldn’t be where she is now if it weren’t for the tolerance and liberty only found in the US.

The results are in. Voter in Turkey rejected the autocratic rule of the despotic criminal, Jew Hating Muslim Brotherhood aficionado, NATO belligerent and United States antagonist. Istanbul and other major cities through in with the opposition. Although all votes are not counted and there is the usual call from the loser that ballots were stuffed, the dog face Erdogan has suffered a humiliating defeat. And why? The economy has tanked, the Turkish lira has collapsed, seeing a 30% implosion versus the dollar. Take that to the bank.

As the votes came in, Erdogan’s party AK prevented them from being displayed at headquarters. And at one time were calling for a halt to the counting. The delay tactic utilized in the past was a safety valve measure to stuff the ballot box. This time there were preventive measures by the opposition CHP party to prevent this type of hooliganism.

Anadolu’s unofficial data shows Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) candidate Ekrem Imamoglu won the heated mayoral race in Istanbul, the country’s largest city and economic centre, with 48.8 percent of the vote, while the AK Party candidate Binali Yildirim got 48.5 percent.

In the capital, Ankara, unofficial results showed that CHP candidate Mansur Yavas had garnered 50.9 percent, with the AK Party nominee Mehmet Ozhaseki trailing on 47.2 percent.

In the third-largest city, Izmir, the CHP candidate, Mustafa Tunc Soyer, was leading with 58 percent votes while AK Party’s Nihat Zeybekci stood at 38.5 percent.

The usual statements from the losers came forward; how ironic. “Ballots were stuffed, illegal votes were counted, not all the votes were in.” But this time the opposition was well prepared for the onslaught. There was no going back, Erdogan was the Turkey with his head caught off and more. Now officially gelded, his power has been diminished.

There are a lot of unanswered questions arising from Robert Mueller’s investigation, and some of the most compelling ones involve President Obama’s seemingly inept handling of (CLICK)Russia’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election.

According to numerous reports, the Obama administration was well aware of the Kremlin’s operation, but refused to take strong steps to address it until it was too late.

If President Obama really had concerns that Russia might be working with members of the Trump campaign to influence the outcome of the 2016 election, then it is curious that his administration failed to coordinate with candidate Trump to investigate the FBI’s suspicions and take any steps that might be necessary to rid his campaign of Russian saboteurs. They certainly had ample opportunity to do so during the regular, high-level intelligence briefings that presidential nominees receive during the campaign as part of the presidential transition process.

Sarsour called Orthodox Jewish City Councilman Kalman Yeger “a blatant bigot”  and demanded a public apology from him for saying that the State of Palestine does not exist. Otherwise, she said, he should be removed from New York’s Immigration Committee.

The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), described as representing over 1,000 traditional rabbis in matters of public policy, issued a public statement on March 29 in support of Yeger and said that “achieving peace requires we address the reality — and to claim that Arabs have a ‘right’ to take more land from the Jews of Israel inverts reality, in a classically antisemitic fashion.”

The battle between Yeger and Sarsour started last Wednesday when Yeger tweeted that United States Representative Ilhan Omar is an antisemite and then that “There is no Palestine.”

“Palestine does not exist,” Yeger wrote. “There, I said it again. Also, Congresswoman Omar is an antisemite. Said that too. Thanks for following me.”

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WOMEN’S MARCH LEADERS REFUSE TO CONDEMN FARRAKHAN AFTER ANTISEMITIC SPEECH

In recent years, Farrakhan has embarked on a wide-ranging, anti-Jewish campaign, which has featured some of the most hateful speeches of his career.

BY DANIEL J. ROTH MARCH 3, 2018 01:09 SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE ON TWITTER

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan addresses the audience at the metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in in Washington June 24, 2015.. (photo credit: REUTERS)

NEW YORK – High-profile leaders of the popular Women’s March movement are refusing to condemn an antisemitic speech delivered by Louis Farrakhan last week.

Women’s March Co-President Tamika Mallory, Treasurer Carmen Perez and Assistant Treasurer Linda Sarsour have all failed to speak out against the Nation of Islam leader after he described the Jewish community as his “enemy” during an address at the 2018 Saviour’s Day event in Chicago, according to The Anti-Defamation League. 

“In the audience at last weekend’s conference was… Mallory, one of the leaders of the Women’s March, who got a special shout-out from Farrakhan and who regularly posts laudatory pictures of him on her Instagram account  —  as does Carmen Perez, another leader of the March,” ADL President Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement.

“Linda Sarsour, another March organizer, spoke and participated at a Nation of Islam event in 2015. Her most notable response to his incendiary remarks this year was a glowing post on Perez’s Facebook page to praise Farrakhan’s youthful demeanor.”

Activist Linda Sarsour addresses attendees at a vigil for Nabra Hassanen, a 17 year old teenage Muslim girl killed by a bat-wielding motorist near a Virginia mosque, Manhattan, New York, U.S., June 20, 2017. / REUTERS/AMR ALFIKY 

In response to the 84-year-old’s comments, Perez refused to denounce his antisemitism and instead retorted “there are no perfect leaders.”

Mallory and Sarsour did not respond to a request for comment by The Jerusalem Post.

The Women’s March describes itself as a grassroots movement that aims to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change, a statement on the group’s website explains.

“Women’s March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect,” it adds.

Amanda Berman, head of the New York City branch of the progressive Zioness Movement, said she was dismayed that an organization devoted to social justice and tolerance had failed to speak out against such blatant bigotry.

“No one expects progressive leaders — who are humans — to be perfect. We expect them to be inherently good, as opposed to profoundly racist. It would be absolutely unacceptable to Mallory, Perez and Sarsour if any other leader made heinous, bigoted comments like this about their respective communities, and therefore ironic and hypocritical beyond words that they continue to align themselves with someone with such deeply held, hateful worldviews,” Berman said.

“Either the Women’s March leaders endorse the vilification of the Jewish people or they don’t — and if they don’t, why do they so vehemently refuse to unequivocally condemn it? This episode only reaffirms the Zioness Movement’s commitment to activating and empowering new leaders in the feminist movement who show up to fight for the civil and human rights of all people, not just some people,” she added.

In an apparent response to the controversy, Mallory posted to Twitter on Friday evening: “Family… thank you for loving me and for knowing the truth about who I am. My work speaks for itself…my words have been clear… my love for people is deep. Whatever else they say about me is a LIE. Thank you for continuing to hold me up. I stand on my reputation!”

Family…thank you for loving me and for knowing the truth about who I am. My work speaks for itself…my words have been clear…my love for people is deep. Whatever else they say about me is a LIE. Thank you for continuing to hold me up. I stand on my reputation!

Funny how folks interpreted my mention of one having enemies the same as Jesus, as me describing a certain group of people. That’s your own stuff. My point…Jesus had a number of enemies as do all black leaders. Period point blank.

Speaking to thousands of followers, Farrakhan also railed against the Jewish community’s supposed influence over the media, an antisemitic trope that has been a popular talking point for the 84-year-old black nationalist leader.

 In one part of the address, Farrakhan said that the “Jews were responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out turning men into women and women into men.”

“White folks are going down. And Satan is going down. And Farrakhan, by God’s grace, has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is through,” Farrahkan added.

Saviors’ Day is a holiday of the Nation of Islam commemorating the birth of its founder, Master Wallace Fard Muhammad.

Other notable remarks made by Farrakhan during the his speech in Chicago included the notion that Jews are part of “the Synagogue of Satan;” that the “white people running Mexico” are Mexican-Jews; that Jews control various countries including Ukraine, France, Poland and Germany, where they take advantage of the money, the culture and the business; that Jesus called Jews ‘The children of the devil’; and “when you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door.”

He also claimed Jews control the government and the FBI, and that they use marijuana to feminize black men.

The ADL noted that in recent years, Farrakhan has embarked on a wide-ranging anti-Jewish campaign, which has featured some of the most hateful speeches of his career.

“He has repeatedly alleged that the Jewish people were responsible for the slave trade as well as the 9/11 attacks, and that they continue conspire to control the government, the media, Hollywood, and various Black individuals and organizations,” the organization said.

Despite Farrakhan’s disposition towards the Jewish community, the New York native has been able to garner support from well known politicians and public officials over the years.

US Rep. Danny Davis (D-Illinois) recently praised Farrakhan as “an outstanding human being.” He later told the ADL that he was misquoted and insisted he rejects antisemitism in all forms.

US Reps. Maxine Waters and Barbara Lee of California, Al Green of Texas and William Jefferson of Louisiana have also been captured embracing Farrakhan, with a video posted to YouTube in 2009 showing them coordinating a response to Hurricane Katrina. 

“At a time when antisemitism indisputably is on the rise and our society seems more divided, the inability of public figures to denounce the words and leadership of Farrakhan is a problem  —  not only for Jews, many of whom are and want to continue to be active partners in the fight against hate in this country  —  but also for all those who believe in equal justice and dignity for all,” Greenblatt said.FARRAKHANMALLORYPEREZSARSOUR

Cloward and Piven on Steroids

Many Americans are asking why the Democrats and their running dog RINO accomplices in Congress are so adamantly refusing to move to even slow, much less stop, the massive invasion of illegal aliens across our southern border. It’s an excellent question to which there are seemingly myriad answers, many of which are partially correct. However, underlying them all is one that is now fundamental, the driver, that is propelling the juggernaught: the Cloward and Piven strategy.

Students of leftist strategy and tactics are familiar with Cloward and Piven, but everyone who cares about preserving America as a free, capitalist, constitutional republic needs to be, too. You may remember hearing the names occasionally during the Obama years. They were mentioned sometimes as the creators of the strategy that the Obama radicals were pursuing, but since the strategy is a revolutionary leftist one, and the Ministry of Leftist Propaganda, aka, the “mainstream” media, did not want the public to realize that Obama was out to destroy America, little was said about it, and the subject was always changed as quickly as possible.

So, what is it, and why is it so important to understand it now?

Developed by two “professors” at Columbia University (supposedly, one of Obama’s alma maters) in 1966, it was a plan for overloading the welfare system to the point that it could no longer function – not enough money, people, resources – bringing about its collapse. Extended to the entire system – healthcare, education, jobs and unemployment, housing, and so on – it would all be overwhelmed, and the country would collapse. Revolution without guns.

Obama, et al. tried their best to wreck the economy and so force more and more people to rely on government welfare programs. They did a great job, slowing growth to nearly nothing, driving up unemployment, and expanding all sorts of government giveaways, including the current student loan scam which has created a whole generation of debt slaves. They also encouraged illegal immigration, making sure the border stayed wide open, and “immigrants” and “asylum seekers” were allowed in with minimum vetting and shipped into red state communities before anyone knew what was happening.

While President Trump has done everything he could to bring the growing invasion under control, he has been blocked and undermined at every opportunity by ALL the Democrats, and a large portion of the Republicans, and of course, the radical judicial activists infesting the federal court system. Under our America First president, we have seen Congress and Democrats at the state and local level, flaunt the Rule of Law by refusing to obey all sorts of federal laws by illegally declaring “sanctuary” cities, counties, and states. The result has been a massive increase in the number of invaders, to the point…wait for it…yes, the systems are becoming overwhelmed.

Immigration enforcement is now “catch and release”. Ninety-seven percent of those required to appear in court never show up. Crimes committed by invaders keep the police tied up and the prisons overcrowded, but even when they actually end up in jail, they are not deported when released. It’s appalling, too, how many of those convicted of crimes have been deported multiple times in the past, but just re-invaded again. Thousands of Americans killed, tens of thousands raped and robbed, have put a huge load on police emergency services and the courts.

Based on what appears to be a very low estimate of 12.5 million invaders in the country – the figure is likely much closer to 60 million – the cost to the federal government is calculated at $45,870,474,332; the cost to state and local governments calculated at $88,992,981,032, for total cost to the American taxpaying citizens of $134,863,455,364. The taxes paid from jobs illegally held by the invaders are estimated at a total of $18,968,857,700, leaving you and me on the hook for $115,894,597,664. One hundred-fifteen BILLION, eight-hundred ninety-four MILLION, five-hundred ninety-seven THOUSAND, and change…(https://www.fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers).

Remember, too, that these figures could be five times higher, based on 60 million, rather than 12 million invaders, somewhere around half a TRILLION of OUR dollars.

This is money that is not going and will not go to provide services for Americans. If you are actually in need of welfare, you may be SOL. Need health care from an emergency room? The hospital you used to go to may well have shut down, making whatever is still open way overcrowded. Someone breaking into you home and you need a cop? They’re stretched thin, so it may be 20 minutes, maybe an hour, before anyone can get there. And so on…

Between one and two more million invaders are predicted to illegally enter the country this year, since there is nothing to stop them, and the “caravans” appear to be well funded and organized. Congress appears complicit in allowing some very wealthy and powerful forces to use “migrants” as pawns in a Cloward and Piven strategy, aimed at bringing about the collapse of America so it can be replaced by a totalitarian, collectivist police state. What, my fellow patriotic Americans, are we going to do about it?

The reckless 9th Circuit Court of Appeals known for its progressive agenda has met its match in none other than President Donald Trump. He has nominated two more conservative justices to serve on the 9th. This court

The most recent approval of Eric Miller has the Democrats fuming. (CLICK)Feinstein and Harris are going bonkers because they were not consulted.

Following Miller’s confirmation month, in an analysis titled “Thanks to Trump, the liberal 9th Circuit is no longer liberal,” The Washington Post noted that once all of Trump’s current nominees to the bench are confirmed as expected, there will be 12 Republican-appointed judges on the 9th Circuit, which consists of 29 full-time judges.

The left has a problem with “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”. They ask the question when was America Great? Apparently their memory does not severe them in a way that it serves others. What they are inferring is that America was never great. Our past was littered with dead bodies, wars, slavery, injustices and all sort of crimes against humanity. We destroyed countries, polluted the air, the rivers and destroyed the habitat that once belonged to the Native Americans. Wow, we were BAD DUDES. If that is the case why does anybody come here?

The only problem with that scenario is this. Eric Holder, the gun runner lipped in with the same derogatory byline used by those who have a felt discriminated against.

Yesterday on MSNBC, President Obama’s self-described “wing man,” Eric Holder, came out of the closet:

Host Ari Melber had asked him: “There is a lot of talk about America being a leader as a democracy, quote unquote, in the 1800s when women and African-Americans couldn’t vote. What kind of democracy is that?”

Holder, unprovoked, then used his answer to tear into Trump’s campaign rally cry.

“That’s exactly right. And that’s what I hear these things about ‘let’s make America great again’ and I think to myself, ‘exactly when did you think America was great’?” he said on the show.

“It certainly wasn’t when people were enslaved. (God, people from Africa were enslaved, then freed in 1865. If things were so bad then why didn’t they head back to the Great Country their ancestors were from?) It certainly wasn’t when women didn’t have the right to vote. (Voting was something new, very few countries allowed women to vote, in fact only the landed gentry were allowed to vote. White men without land could not.) It certainly wasn’t when the LGBT community was denied the rights to which it was entitled.” (What rights were those? Didn’t the constitution levied the same rights to every person?) Always fighting the last battle is Holder, he won’t be satisfied until the White slave owner mentality, the White Privilege mentality and the White multi billionaire is forced to relinquish their estate. Go to Venezuela Holder, second thought we will send you on a one way ticket to Barbados. There you can dwell on the savage mentality you inherited.

Melber then asked Holder if he believes Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan had discriminatory undertones.

“Does that phrase echo as discrimination in your ears?” the MSNBC host asked.

“It takes us back to what I think, an American past that never in fact really existed. This notion of greatness,” Holder replied. Glad you cleared that up Eric.

So we have to set the record straight on why America is GREAT NOW AND WHY IT WAS IT WAS GREAT THEN.

Eric Holder’s parents were from Barbados, Obama’s father from Kenya, Obama’s step father from Indonesia, Omar the Jihadist from Somalia, Tlaib from Israel, Yes Israel, no such thing as a Palestinian, Valerie Jarrett’s father was from Iran, Ocasio’s family had roots in Puerto Rico before it became a United States territory.

The drift here that if AMERICA WAS NEVER GREAT WHY DID THE ABOVE AND THEIR KIN WANT IN? Because AMERICA IS AND WAS THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH. TAKE THAT TO THE BANK.