Senator Lindsey Graham (U-DC) was apparently in Turkey around the same time as the NATO summit. According to a Twitter announcement by Graham he has returned to the U.S. hopeful to close the deal on selling F-16”s to Turkey now that Turkish President Recep Erdogan has removed opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
“I will do all in my power to support the Biden Administration’s decision to sell F-16s to the Turkish Air Force,” Graham writes.
Also adding, “These fighter jets, in the hands of our NATO allies, will create a sense of stability and provide capability to the Turkish military that is most definitely in America’s national security interests.” {link}
On Tuesday of last week Turkey removed their block of Sweden and Finland from joining NATO, and on Wednesday Joe Biden agreed to sell Turkey 40 Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighters and nearly 80 modernization kits for its existing warplanes:
Newsmax – The Biden administration threw its support on Wednesday behind the potential sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, a day after Ankara lifted a veto of NATO membership for Finland and Sweden.
Celeste Wallander, Assistant Secretary for Defense for International Security Affairs at Pentagon, said strong Turkish defense capabilities would reinforce NATO’s defenses.
“The United States supports Turkey’s modernization of its fighter fleet because that is a contribution to NATO security and therefore American security,” she said. (read more)
Finland now represents an additional 1,340 km (830 mi) long direct border with Russia. The border runs mostly through uninhabited taiga forests and sparsely populated rural areas.
What a disgusting little man. On jan 6th this coward screamed for the guards to use their guns. But nobody loves long-range killing more than Miss Lindsey.
What is his kick back?
Juicy, MSK, juicy..
I believe the current rate for this current administration is 10%!!!
Joes 10 percent is just part of it; CONGRESS has “the power of the purse” and so to get U.S. Foriegn aid, whether its food and blankets, or bombs and bullets, you got to grease Congresses hands; Dems in Senate, Dems in House, R’s in Senate, R’s in House.
And then yes, you have to grease the admins palm, thru the State Dept.
Hillary wanted State, for the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks.
Hillary/Sutton what an outstanding analogy…
Russia must have some nasty info on Miss Lindsay.
Wish they would use it.
They have nasty information on each other. Like any other mafia, if you want to move up, you have to do the dirty jobs.
Ya think!? I’ll bet, as Mittens would say ” Binders full of stuff!”
Boeing.
Sorry, Lockheed Martin.
I bet his butthole is sore.
he looks more and more alcoholic, even in profile
Rummy nose.
And more feminine. Must be the baby face.
This crud gets along great with his former Senate colleague, Brandon. Trump not so much.
He 100% does. Total booze face and tummy.
I’m sure Miss Lindsey spends most of his time in Turkey in Turkish bath houses. Oops, I dropped the soap! Again!
Lindsey looks bloated and hungover.
Those Turkish male escorts are well known for wearing a body out.
I can think of no other RINO more disgusting than Graham, unless it’s “Butch” Cheney.
McCain
Mitt….there really are no shortage of disgusting RINOS, they are ALL horrible, McConnell the worst?
Romney
Wait until Osama/Biden soon lay the metal of freedom at the feet of no names family.
It’s gonna be soon too and the rest on that list will make any American 🤮
Cornyn
Tillis & Burr
I’m so disgusted with my two corrupt Senators.
She prefers to be referred to as Lez Beau Cheney.
Kitzinger!
While you can bet he had several trips to the Turkish bath house with the young boys too.
The jabs are kicking in.
N/M
Looks like he is being schooled to me.
and the ‘guy’ with the tall forehead, doesn’t look all that smart!
The Turk is tickling him in the tummy…
Probably the monkeypox….
Look, Miss Lindsey thinks she knows something.
“Slackback Sugarbritches and the Jive Turkey”..
Anyone else note that all of Lockheed’s F16 work is in South Carolina?
We have a Lockheed in Lufkin, TX but no one seems to know what they do there because you can’t get near it.
Orlando has Lockheed, but like you said, you’d never know.
So, is this how it benefits his constituents ?
Is that why he’s there negotiating ?
At least that would make more sense.
Nope. That’s not it. They’re headquartered in Maryland
Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace, arms, defense, information security, and technology corporation with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington, D.C. area. Lockheed Martin employs approximately 115,000 employees worldwide, including about 60,000 engineers and scientists as of January 2022.[3]
Spot on Fishman. No doubt Lockheed has been working on justifying their plant in Greenville and Lindsey came thru for them. Of course, I’m sure he was rewarded handsomely.
March 2017 “Lockheed will deliver the last F-16 from its Fort Worth factory in September, then take a two-year break in production to move the line to Greenville, S.C., the head of the firm’s aeronautics sector said Tuesday. Dwindling orders make the break possible.
Back in Texas, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter assembly line will expand into the vacated space.”
https://www.defenseone.com
A legitimate and hard-nosed opposition party would be BLOCKING these sales until such time as we take power.
Ms Linda is one of the most pathetic rinos in the GOP. Easy to imagine the huge kickback cash from this F16 sale and that those planes will most likely be used against Israel at some point
The optics of that bottom picture are amusing. The people running his twatter account thought having a finger pointed at him during negotiations would be beneficial somehow?
Yes, everything is carefully staged.
Now Miss Lindseed wants in on some
Of the action
How much more obvious in our face
Corruption can We the People take?
Is there some reason the GOP-Uniparty keeps getting reelected?
Why are there only a couple of worthwhile GOP Governors?
Cheating; been going on since Abraham Lincoln’s election;
Watch this interview with Jovan Pulitzer for details of how the cheating is done; Obama didn’t win Arizona (BTW)
https://rumble.com/v1ag4y3-devolution-power-hour-episode-67-62922.html
Idiot voters.
Because the Uniparty-GOP controls the individual states’ GOP parties as a private club. Only those challengers who agree to do the bidding of GOP bosses are allowed to win any elections, but definitely NOT if the incumbent is favored by GOP party leaders. Voters’ concerns and preferences (and actual votes) play only a very small role in statewide elections.
Ah, but its NOT (apperently) 100 percent.
PDJT won in 2016, MTG and Boerner won, and Boerner just win a second term.
And, I believe true A1 candidates “punch above their weight class” and so every one that gets in, is incredibly valuable to OUR side, and incredibly destructive to theirs.
A big part of it is, they all, like DJT, EXPOSE the RINOS.
When you have a small A1 contingent, (MTG, Boerner, Ghomert) making a stink about the J6 political prisoners, while Lindsey says they should rot, Lindsey is exposed.
When PDJT got us oil independant, sealed the border, etc.it invariably invites “compare and contrast”; “WHY weren’t any other POTUS’s doing this?”
THEY are fighting, tooth and nail, to protect the RINOS, and using every dirty trick in the book, to try to prevent any A1 candidates from winning.
THAT is what this election is about; the “red wave” is NOT about “Republicans winning against Dems”, it is about A1 candidates winning, against Uniparty.
Yes, not 100%. Probably about 80%
Excuses, excuses.
That is why we have to get heavily involved at the local level. From city council, to judge, to water board, to community college board, every election we need to vote against RINOs and avowed leftists and put MAGA candidates into office. Those people then move up to state legislature, to governor, then to Congress and in the process, MAGA takes control of the party and influences who gets to run for office.
I have a friend in NC who became a state representative in the legislature, then became a state senator and ended up as a lobbyist for a non profit. He didn’t have a pot to piss in when he started. He ended up with a beautiful home in the Piedmont of NC and another place on the coast. Even small time politics pays off.
Graham: a deep state actor for decades. He and others like him are the reason the American people no longer influence government decisions. I wonder how much money he’s taken over time selling the American people out?
Many millions.
Good ‘ol Lindsey beat the Afghanis to the deal. He must’ve written a really good letter.
What’s your commission lady Lindsey, to make this happen??
Just about every weasel in Congress and the administration is making big bucks off the war in Ukraine. They are perfectly happy to see soldiers (Ukrainian, Russian, and Donbass militia) and innocent civilians die if it makes them rich and hides the evidence of their corruption and secret dealings in Ukraine. Defense contractors are also making a killing (literally and figuratively) and using campaign donations to keep the cowards in government promoting war. It’s disgusting.
Good job, Lindsay, you worm.
Erdogan was smarter than all of NATO, and held out on vote to accept Sweden and Finland until it could get the goodies it wanted.
Graham: “fighter jets will create sense of stability and security”.
Turkey is all about the Muslim Brotherhood, period.
“Worm.” I like that, good descriptor.
A seedy gun runner dressed up to look like something different
Drunk Auntie Warmonger. Send his fat ass to fight.
Are those F16’s green? Won’t that negatively impact climate change?
I hate these bastards.
That corrupt rat bastard…
Hillary must feel so left out. Or maybe not.
Just a quote from a movie –
Senator Charles F. Meachum : Are you out of your mind? Are you out of your damn mind? I am a United States Senator!
Bob Lee Swagger : Exactly.
Love that film…
Ahh, the bribe to ensure Finland and Sweden were approved by Turkey to join the despicable NATO worked! Slimy Congress, slimy Rhinos.
Am very worried about mid-terms due to the abortion issue…Dems are milking it for all it’s worth with ads declaring it THE issue “…states want to ban all abortions…” is their claim.
I am worried about the midterms, too, but because of the cheating. We’ve already seen obvious RINO cheating in the primaries. It’s going to be just as bad, or worse, than in 2020.
Maybe not; 5 lawsuits in GA are going on and that doesn’t include the challenge filed, by Voter-GA; Garland Favorito, on the 2022 Primary races in all 159 counties!
Many are digging in and fighting very hard.
It’s time to contact all representatives daily and drive them nuts with protests of making it easier to cheat.
If you have the time check out Jovan Pulitzer and see what he is doing to win this war.
I’m not giving up just yet because True the Vote has more coming out; timing is everything.
Yes, you’re right, their cheating of course is the biggest issue. But abortion has really fired up the Left, hell they’ve nothing else to run on.
I can’t imagine another fair election with Dominion machines and Dems’ ballot mules!
What in the world is a US Senator doing hawking the goods of US Military defense contractors? His job is oversight and legislation, not running around the world on the taxpayers’ dime selling weapons platforms.
But, he probably does love a god Turkish bathhouse “rub and tug.”
You can not discuss the details of a BRIBE over the phone or internet; even Hillary knew such negotiations must occur face to face, behind closed doors, in a room swept for listening devices.
Thats the Occams razor answer to your question, because the ONLY relevance Congress has to “arms sales” is the power of the purse. Tenous at best.
well blow me down!!!!
I do not RESPECT the people in South Carolina that keep electing this individual.
I have LESS RESPECT for the so-called Republicans in Congress who befriend him.
America – Love it or leave it!
Graham controls the State party, obviously.
Its up to S. Carolinians to get involved, and change out those in leadership positions, from precinct captain to State chair, and no one else can do it FOR them.
Yes it is…..but it feels good to vent now and then!
Hope you are enjoying the Independence Day weekend……while its still legal to celebrate it!
It’s not the people in SC whose at fault; it’s the system.
Open primary, machines programmed with winners and losers by the top echelon in both parties.
Most people believe that they have voted when they scan the ballot; but that’s not so…that doesn’t happen until the Machine Totals all ballots at the end of voting period.
Too many have been blinded all these years and now the light is shining bright on the election thefts.
see me comment to Dutchman above….. same to you!
Graham is happy to pour gasoline on the flames of war
but not to end the conflagration by pushing hard for peace.
It is people like him that make me wish neither my late father nor mother’s brother
had volunteered to fight against Hitler’s forces – with many other men who made huge sacrifices.
When I was a teenager I wanted to sign up and believed that each and every young person should be part of the defense of their country…
Today many years later …….. in ALL circumstances I would never go to fight for my country (UK) if I should live it all again….. unless that ‘enemy’ is actually standing on my country would I fight……… and then I would not unless the guy that wants me to fight is standing right in front of me for the battle…..
Your father and uncle went for the right reasons ……..but the wrong people….. Politicians!
It’s all a distraction; Lindsay is all about the NOISE.
What is he The Military Industial Complex President? It would appear that way. Just can’t sell enough ,huh Lindsay?
Forget Graham…….(not worth thinking about) I actually thought Turkey was not gonna allow this foolish agreement….I thought they had principals???? What a fool I was…….
The only thing this does is bring Armageddon a lot closer……
Put him in a toga, and he looks like a senator.
The truly naive may wonder why a Senator is engaged in foreign policy, negotiating arms sales, as one would think that would be a function/responsibility of the Executive branch, NOT the Legislature.
In order to recieve ‘foreign aid’, military or non military, Congress has to “approve” it, due to holding “the power of the purse”.
Therefore, as the recipient, the country must bribe the R’s in the Senate, the R’s in the House, the D’s in the Senate, and the D’s in the House.
And, such complex negotiations, with details on HOW the payoffs will be paid, can only be negotiated face to face, behind closed doors.
(This is why Hillary logged WAY more air miles than any previous SoS.)
Graham and until he croaked McStain were the “bagmen” for McConnell, and were “in on” the arms transfers to the ME “Freedom fighters” that turned out to be ISIS, and if one were to look, no doubt got a pay off for every arms transfer or sale Congress had to approve, going back many years.
The Hubris and hypocrisy of the U.S. Govt lecturing the World about ‘fighting corruption’ in other countries, while simultaneously encouraging and modeling it is ,..staggering?
No, they have no shame.
It appears to me Turkey’s President Erdogan agreed to accept Sweden and Finland into NATO. However there is no deal without some strings attached.
F-16 aircraft and new parts to upgrade older warplanes were IMO the United States price we had to pay Turkey to secure the deal. (Aircraft run on fossil fuels, not solar power or wind turbines). Oh no!
Sweden and Finland had to agree to extradite some people to Turkey that Pres. Erdogan regards as terrorists. That is what we know so far.
Sen. Lindsey Graham would be a logical person for Joe Biden to send to Turkey. Plus Sen. Graham likes action and cameras.
By sending Ms linseed greydork, makes it look bi-partisan!
Well, that, and Lindsey’s sweet on Joey
I appreciate your clear-headed explanation.
Prior to Trump, I always knew there was corruption in our government institutions. I now see things quite differently, in that I realize it multiple times worse than I realize.
I agree with you. Also, I used to get very angry when Iran called the US the Great Satan. Now I just see it as a statement of fact.
Thats why they had to get rid of Trump. NO WARS they must have a war to make the big money.
This is sickening.
Yet, believable. Absolutely believable.
He’s got a soft-spot for the M.Bros.
He bonded with the Sultan way back when, just as with Huma.
Why is it that I don’t trust stay turned Lindsey Graham? Could it be the knife that he keeps sticking in our back?
Well, Leslie is no fan of Greece now, is she?
C’mon karma……!!!!!!
Will they be used on the Kurds?
Our RINOs see failure coming with this fall’s election and are busy harvesting all the corruption they can while they still can; CRT, immigration, Red Flag laws, Ukraine aid, etc. Damn the 17th Amendment
Wish this were the outlook, . . . but comfortable reelections of Thune, Langford, others would seem to secure enough power for them to continue the grift.
We should make some progress, but do not see enough yet. The chance is that there could be enough new blood that the grifters have to shift to a more American first program to keep any credibility at all. Will there be a strong, numerous enough new cadre (to ally with some current members) to force a difference???
Graham earning his pay from his corporate, foreign and globalist backers.
US should start a war somewhere and have Graham an infantry person and get shot dead first. Would possibly prevent WW3
Aunt Fancy is a War Pig’s War Pig.
He even looks like one.
Why waste a millsecond on his BS opinions – But riddle me this ‘ Is Turkey going jeopardize itself by fighting outside of its sphere of influence against Russia to save a mainly Christian Ukraine, NATO or no NATO?’ -seriously don’t think so. – That F-16 ‘bribe” shipment is pointed south at Kurds and others and at Greece ( inconveniently another NATO ally) . Turkey got what it wanted in order to give its ok , and it cost them nothing , it was like taking candy from a baby . Little Lindsay has to go there to dress it up a bit with some diplomatic lipstick … …
He looks old and tired.
Like an old bag of bones.
Yuk
The arrogance of these self serving scumbags is truly astounding. Absolutely no shame whatsoever.
They don’t even try to hide their contempt for us anymore, the people they are supposed to “serve.”
We now live in a feudal society- Biden is king, the Bidenistas and oligarchs are the nobles and we are the serfs.
I can see it now. Turkey receives F-16’s and other hardware. Then 3-6 months later drops out of NATO and joins BRICS.
My money’s on the strong horse. The Saudis too seem to be flirting with Brics. Hmmm.
They should secretly have a remote device on these f-16’s that would cause them to crash, when activated, in case they later
renege on the deal !
Actually, they’re about to put them into American cars so the gov’t can turn them off.
Turkey, the country that wouldn’t let the 4thID enter into Iraq, things may have turned out a little differently, but we will never know.
With the cost of fuel either he should have hitched a ride on a freighter or taken a commercial flight!
Why are we paying for these clowns to get face time?
Weren’t jet fighter sales suspended to Turkey due to its purchase and use of Russian anti missile systems?
According to this article from 2019, there is a law forbidding the sale of weapons to Nato members who also purchase from Russia:
“Buying military equipment from Russia also leaves the NATO member liable to U.S. sanctions retribution under a 2017 law known as the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, or CAATSA.”
Is this just another law we can conveniently ignore? And why involve Turkey in this? They’re about as allied with the US as Senator Lindsey Graham is. In a saner world, Turkey should have already been kicked out of Nato.
Sounds like WWI’s system of entangling alliances which allowed what could have remained a regional issue to quickly escalate into a world war.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-trump-idUSKCN1UB27J
There’s nothing quite like willingly handing a gun to someone you know will shoot you…
When will the OTAN/Soros be installing missile sites on the Finnish/Russian border? We keep NO promises to anybody in the World any more. Those F-16s WILL take part in Armeggeddon.
Could someone answer a question for me ?
in what capacity does this type of “ work “ benefit South Carolina constituents?
Is he on some committees that allows him to represent the sale of military weapons and airplanes ?
They’ve all lost the plot. He’s probably getting financial incentives to do this. It’s all infuriating.
There is an F-16 plant in SC.
I think Graham is on Armed Serives Committee. He was McCain’s protégé.
Hate that creature, but idiots in this state keep him in office. I used to think the vote was rigged until I met the snowbirds who just adore him. Pox be upon them all.
Small details on those 80+ Upgrade Kits.
Turkey has about 240+ F-16’s.
Note: These are not “new” aircraft but major Block Upgrade Kits to be INSTALLED in Turkey by Turkish Aerospace company Tusas, in Ankara. Tusas was originally a creation of General Dynamics back in the 19080’s, which started with the ability to assemble & test.
Those kits represent a major improvement on the Aircraft’s Air to Ground capabilities … in terms of accuracy and munitions delivered.
The Iraqi-Kurds cannot be too happy about this one … you know those former allies of ours who helped remove Saddam.
Besides the US, Sweden and Finland had to betray their Kurdish allies too in order to join Nato.
We’re a great bunch!
(And of course Greece is none too happy either.)
Another interesting example of a lack of Biden admin morals and scruples:
Judge puts Biden on the spot over immunity for Saudi crown prince
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/03/judge-puts-biden-on-the-spot-over-immunity-for-saudi-prince-jamal-khashoggi
Well now we know how we got Turkey to agree to Sweden and Finland joining NATO! So Senator Ms Graham is in charge of selling F-16s to NATO! Who knew? This warmonger needs to be removed from the Senate! Can’t happen soon enough!!!
From the pic, it looks like Miss Lindsey’s got her nuts in the jaws of a Turkish vice.
Ya gotta admire the wordsmithing skills of these propagandists implying the Biden administration threw its support behind something that already existed a day after Turkey announced their withdrawal of opposition. Why not just say the U.S. bribed Turkey with American F16s in order to coax them into withdrawing their opposition. ? Ooh, they are a NATO member and therefore their security is our security and their offensive capability is our offensive capability or something like that. All his power he says. Must have been a nice commission. Lockheed approves.
Believe me in regard to the F-16 deal, there is a ton of money being made by all these tyrants.