Ukraine ‘Freaking Out’ After McCarthy Removal, Says it’s Hostage to Washington Upheaval.

Ukraine is nervous as they watch the possible disruption of their money tree. Few probably have more at stake in the outcome of the House speakership. Add to their angst that Trump just came out in support of Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan? Who has been adamant that he wants more accountability as the money flies out the door. Here is the best understatement of the year by a Ukraine official.

“We have to go through these 45 days without a major corruption scandal,” he stated. This comes even after Zelensky in the last two months fired a range of top officials, including his longtime defense minister and a half-dozen other top defense officials. 

A year ago, Jordan spelled it out:

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan discusses if the U.S. should send more money to Ukraine after reports that Russian forces are fleeing from the Kharkiv region on ‘Varney & Co.

The first portion covers his Ukraine position then goes on to other things.

“We are freaking out. For us it is a disaster,” Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, an MP who chairs the committee on Ukraine’s integration into the EU, told Politico in a report published Wednesday. “We are interested in getting things sorted out so American democracy can function, and so we can restore the bipartisan consensus on supporting their own national interest by supporting Ukraine.”

Now Ukraine officials are scrambling in the wake of Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as House speaker in a move widely seen as a direct shot at the Biden admin’s ‘blank check’ approach Ukraine aid.

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below is a key section of the report, wherein a Kiev official expresses that Ukraine has become a hostage of Washington internal politics: 

Privately, however, there is dismay and confusion in Kyiv. 

“Well, that’s a setup,” one Ukrainian MP told POLITICO. 

“Honestly, we are watching for now,” said one Ukrainian government official, who asked not to be identified while discussing sensitive matters.

Ukrainian officials typically avoid expressing public criticism of partners so as not to seem ungrateful. But this week some have expressed shock. 

“There is nothing good, but, objectively, we have simply become hostages of their internal politics,” said Ukrainian lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak, first deputy chairman of the parliament committee on finance, after the emergency U.S. budget deal was announced.

But Zhelezniak has also admitted that corruption is a major issue which has played a part in the withholding of external aid. “The biggest (public) complaint about us is corruption,” he had earlier conceded in a weekend social media post. 

Read more at Zero Hedge

I sympathize with this Tweet. I don’t begrudge Ukrainians for asking for help. What I do find problematic is when American taxpayers funding the war are called treasonous for worrying about the risks of escalation and the costs at a time when so many Americans can’t get a home. https://t.co/Xjcd44Dfru

— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) October 4, 2023

Here we learn that it is getting more bizarre. All we are left with is to shake one’s head over our foreign policies. The Hindustan Times take on it…..

A bizarre and stunning report against the U.S.’ arms supply to Ukraine has emerged. Reports suggest that the U.S. shipped “seized” Iranian arms to Ukraine to fight Russia. Washington reportedly sent a whopping 1.1 million rounds of seized Iranian ammunition to Kyiv. The U.S. military said ammo was seized last year from a vessel shipping weapons from Iran to Yemen. 

Yes the swamp is deep, and very deep on this one. If the gang of eight that threw out McCarthy did nothing more, it caused Ukraine not to take the U.S. for granted.

Twitter House Hearing: Higgins Threatens Executives With Jail For ‘Interfering’ in 2020 Elections

The best hearing of the week came with the Twitter hearing held by Oversight yesterday. Sock it to them!

‘Who The Hell Do You Think You Are!’: Boebert Explodes At Ex-Twitter Exec For Shadow-Banning Her. Once she gets off the ground,,,, you go girl! The gals get the job done.

The hearing was vastly overshadowed by Biden’s speech….excellent planning GOP.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops The Hammer On Ex-Twitter Execs Over Her Ban From Twitter

Notes:

Watch as Representative Higgins and Jim Jordan grill Twitter executives under oath! This intense hearing showcases the power of our elected officials as they hold the big tech companies accountable. But remember, these executives are under oath, meaning they are obligated to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Will they be truthful in their testimony or will they try to dodge the questions? Watch now to find out!”

Here is a taste…. he gets off the ground around 1:15.

Former Twitter Executives Testify on Hunter Biden Laptop Story.

The full hearing is below. I doubt anyone wants to spend 5 plus hours, but just listening to the GOP is worth the ride.

Former Twitter executives testified on the social media company’s role in blocking access to an October 2020 “New York Post” story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. The hearing took place before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. Three former Twitter executives testified before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee examining the social media platform’s decision to suppress a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020.

Twitter’s former chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, former deputy general counsel James Baker, and Yoel Roth, former global head of trust and safety, appeared before the House panel. Former Twitter policy official Annika Collier Navaroli also testified.

 

 

 

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Calculus of Decay

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Common Cents Blog

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The Night Wind

AMERICA’S COLLECTIVE MELTDOWN IN THE STRATOSPHERE

Tacky Racoons (Good memes)

The Bloonship

The Daley Gator

President Mumbles vs the Straw Men

The View From Lady Lake

How conveniently do they forget about Hunter?

The Vermont Troth

The Draft of the WHO Pandemic Treaty Promises to EQUALLY Destroy Your Rights — Renegade Tribune

Other than that, the very best of the swamp.

 

Jim Jordan Vs Anthony Fauci in epic take down

 

Something to brighten the day. The Jester who has been running our country gets knocked around a bit finally.

 

Rep. Jordan Clashes With Dr. Fauci On Covid Restrictions: When Do Americans Get Their Freedom Back?

 

 

 

Scalise Confronts Fauci With Migrant Detention Pics: “Does this look like social distancing to you?”

 

During a House hearing with Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, Rep. Steve Scalise asked if the detention practices on the southern border conformed to proper COVID-19 protocols.

 

 

Bonus time. Coming to your town soon. Apparently on our way here in mine.

 

Illegal Migrant Children from El Paso, Texas Arrive in Erie,PA – More Children are Expected to Follow

 

The children — 146 girls — arrived at the Erie International Airport around 9 p.m. on a direct, 3-hour flight from El Paso, Texas.

The Boeing 737 — a government-contracted flight — taxied to nearby North Coast Air, where the children deboarded onto three buses bound for a dormitory at the Pennsylvania International Academy in Summit Township.

Trish Danner, spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services said that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services may eventually contract local teachers to instruct English, geography, and math for the children.

 

The very best of the swamp.

 

Jordan on Refugees: ‘We can’t vet these people’

H/T:Weasel Zippers

Prince Faisal bin Hussein is the younger brother of Jordanian King Abdullah II and serves as Regent when the King is out of the country. One of his areas of interest is information technology. When he says the Syrian refugees can’t be vetted, he knows what he’s talking about, particularly since he has 655,000 of them camped out in his back yard. Further, it has come to light that a “glitch” prevented U.S. vetting personnel from searching CIA databases which would have revealed pertinent information regarding Syrian refugees. The Obama regime knew about this “glitch” yet continued to tell us that the Syrians already allowed into the U.S. had been “rigorously” vetted.

Via Daily Caller:

Prince Faisal bin Hussein told GOP North Carolina Congressman Mark Walker the Jordanian government could not vet Syrian refugees, The Washington Examiner reports.

Walker, the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, was in Jordan at the time of the comment for a fact finding mission. The U.S. Department of State reportedly tried to tell Walker that the vetting process was thorough, just hours before Hussein told him, “we can’t vet these people.”

The United Nations High Committee on Refugees believes 655,000 Syrian refugees currently reside in Jordan, dispersed across multiple camps.

Hussein’s comments echo the security concerns expressed in the executive order by President Donald Trump Friday that indefinitely suspended the Syrian refugee program. The suspension came just days after news broke that the FBI is revetting Syrian refugees allowed into the U.S. that must be revetted.

The lapse in vetting reportedly stems from a 2015 glitch that prevented U.S. authorities from gleaning possible “derogatory” information about the refugees at the time. The glitch prevented relevant personnel from searching CIA databases, which included potentially compromising information on refugees. New investigations include several dozen Syrian refugees, and began before President Donald Trump took office.

Federal agents speaking to The Los Angeles Times elaborated that one of the admitted refugees may have been in contact with an Islamic State operative, and another failed a polygraph test.

Former President Barack Obama’s administration repeatedly emphasized the rigorous nature of the refugee vetting process. Former White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in August that the administration was able to increase Syrian refugees in 2015 “without cutting any corners when it comes to security.” Earnest continued, claiming that “significant screening was put in place to ensure that these individuals don’t pose an undue threat to our national security.”

 

Obama gives King Abdullah 5 minutes, treats him as badly as Netanyahu

Obama treats our only true Muslim friend in the Middle East as trash. Five minutes at the airport? But anyone who disagrees with our King is not worthy of hearing a few words that oppose his righteous thought.

King Abdullah is the war time leader I wish we had. Obama was blowing off a meeting with him until there was such an outcry, that he spent less than 5 minutes with him in the airport as the King was leaving. Abdullah really understands what is happening, has no problem calling it a ‘civil war within Islam’.

U.S. President Barack Obama walks to boards Air Force One for Nebraska and Louisiana, after a short meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, January 13, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria 

Addressing members of Congress that evening, Obama emphasized, “As we focus on destroying [IS], over-the-top claims that this is World War III just play into their hands.” The American leader’s assertion that such dire warnings about IS are misguided directly contradict one of Abdullah’s main talking points when traveling overseas.

Over and over — whether at the United Nations General Assembly podium, during an interview with PBS’ Charlie Rose or even in Kosovo — the Jordanian monarch has declared that the battle against IS is “a third world war, and I believe we must respond with equal intensity.”

After IS kidnapped Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath Al-Kaseasbeh and burned him alive in a cage in February of last year, the Jordanian air force launched a series of strikes against IS targets in Syria and Iraq. Jordan claimed to have killed 7,000 fighters in the days following Kaseasbeh’s execution.

Obama’s minimizing of the IS campaign speaks to a fundamental divergence with Abdullah and has led many leading thinkers in Amman to question America’s determination and willingness to, in the president’s own words, “degrade and ultimately destroy [IS].” If the world’s strongest and most advanced military cannot defeat a far inferior and less organized group, what are Obama’s true intentions?

Read more at  theAl Monitor

H/T:Weasel Zippers

Obama and his treatment of Jordan and Israel

Let’s see if we can figure how this goes. Jordan’s King met with members of Congress, but no plan was in the works for him to meet with the President until a photo-op presented itself after the report of the killing of the Jordan pilot. But Israel? Nope, Bebe cannot talk with Congress and now our boy king says he will never, ever meet with Israel again. I think I have this.Israeli Newspaper: Obama May Not Meet with Netanyahu Again
White House Dossier.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “toast” at the White House following his acceptance of an invitation to address Congress, and President Obama may never meet with him again, according to one of Israel’s leading newspapers.

Writing in the liberal Haaretz, known as “Israel’s New York Times,” diplomatic correspondent Barak Ravid paints a dire portrait of the relationship between Netanyahu and both Obama and Secretary of State Kerry, saying the animus is now deeply personal.

And how is our best and only partner willing to do some bombing?

After ISIS execution, angry King Abdullah quotes Clint Eastwood to U.S. lawmakers | WashingtonExaminer.com

Washington Examiner‎ – 

King Abdullah of Jordan,  met with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman.

Members of the House Armed Services Committee met with Jordan’s King Abdullah Tuesday not long after news broke that ISIS had burned to death a Jordanian pilot captured in the fight against the terrorist group. In a private session with lawmakers, the king showed an extraordinary measure of anger — anger which he expressed by citing American movie icon Clint Eastwood.

“He said there is going to be retribution like ISIS hasn’t seen,” said Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr., a Marine Corps veteran of two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, who was in the meeting with the king. “He mentioned ‘Unforgiven’ and he mentioned Clint Eastwood, and he actually quoted a part of the movie.

Nothing on the Schedule —   why not? Our major partner?

Obama Schedule || Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Posted on February 2, 2015, 7:10 pm by Keith Koffler

10:00 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing

11:35 am || Meets with Americans who wrote letters about how they benefitted from the Affordable Care Act; Roosevelt Room
2:10 pm || Holds a Cabinet meeting; Cabinet Room

All times Eastern

Oops- found time for a photo-op with the President.

Jordan begins ‘Arab Spring’ – U.S forces present

There is barely a mention in the press that Obama has stationed troops on the Jordan and Syrian border. At the time, October of 2012, the only voices were Kucinich and Paul, who complained that according to the constitution, he needed Congressional approval, but what the heck. Why is it important? Because Jordan will soon start its full “Arab Spring”. Since we don’t know or perhaps we do- that the Syrian anti-government forces are mostly of the Muslim Brotherhood persuasion, we are getting in bed once more with characters that do not mean us well. What are we doing in Jordan? Supposedly it is to keep our eye on the chemical weapons. Or are we helping to destabilize Jordan as well.  Jordan’s King Abdullah II has agreed to new elections next year, and we know how that goes, don’t we? Keep your eye out for the highlighted statement below:

U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton phoned the monarch and backed his efforts to accelerate political reforms in the kingdom and implement economic reforms, a palace statement said.

BRUSSELS — The United States has sent troops to Jordan to bolster its military capabilities in the event Syria’s civil war escalates, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday, reflecting U.S. concerns about the conflict spilling over allies’ borders and about the security of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II fears such weapons could go to the al-Qaida terror network or other militants, primarily the Iranian-allied Lebanese Hezbollah — a vocal critic of Jordan’s longstanding alliance with the United States. Detroirt Free Press

AMMAN (Reuters) – Thousands of demonstrators chanted the Arab Spring slogan “the people want the downfall of the regime” in Jordan on Friday

The mainly urban Muslim Brotherhood announced on Friday it was joining the protests, lending the voice of the country’s largest opposition movement to demonstrations which had previously been focused on rural and tribal areas.

Abdullah cancelled a visit to London he had been due to make next week, Britain’s Foreign Office said, without giving further details.

U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton phoned the monarch and backed his efforts to accelerate political reforms in the kingdom and implement economic reforms, a palace statement said.

Instability in Jordan would come at a dangerous time for the region, when Syria’s war risks spilling across borders and Israel is bombing Palestinians in Islamist-run Gaza. Yahoo News

The Arab Spring, sold to the U.S. public as a wave of democratic fervor overthrowing Muslim tyrants to establish liberty, has instead given a powerful stronghold to the Muslim Brotherhood from which to exert its will toward its ultimate goal of a Muslim caliphate.

The “spontaneous” attacks and demonstrations throughout the Middle East and parts of Asia were just the first message from the Brotherhood telling Obama who’s really in charge.

If U.S. troops become involved in fighting in Syria or Jordan, they will be working alongside the Syrian “rebels” who are Obama’s proxies in this war. Many of them are Muslim Brotherhood-recruited members of al Qaida, some of whom were even recruited from Afghanistan and Pakistan, fresh from fighting against our troops there.

Now with his Arab Spring plan’s failure in open view, and the State Department tripping over itself to cover up for the boss, Obama is willing to spend more American lives and money in a pointless war he helped start that threatens to ignite into a full-blown conflict between Russia and NATO, with the most likely result being the creation of a new Ottoman Empire.

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