Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

What’s going on in Washington, D.C.?
American Thinker | 18 Jan, 2021 | Terry Paulding

Posted on 01/18/2021 5:06:26 AM PST by MtnClimber

Have you seen any reasonable excuse offered for the massive military build-up in the capital?

The last time I checked, this was the USA. A free country. A country where, when mobs of thugs were destroying Minneapolis, Portland, Kenosha, and other cities, the media reacted in horror at the suggestion that a few National Guard troops might help return calm for the residents trying to live peacefully in their homes, do business as much as possible in the circumstances, and stay afloat during a pandemic. As Portland’s Mayor Ted Wheeler said when offered federal troops to quell the violence, “This is not the America we want.” The very idea is repugnant!

Now, I am seeing pictures of Washington DC preparing to inaugurate Biden to the Presidency, while 25,000 armed troops are parading around, dividing the city into zones, barricading it, and walling it. Guns bristling from Coast Guard ships in the Potomac. It’s chilling!

I also saw pictures of a mass of armed SWAT guarding Governor Newsom’s home in Sacramento. Against what, exactly?

What don’t I know here? I feel just a tad queasy, worried because this response is so far out of character for our country, and so over-the-top compared to anything that has happened — the incursion into the Capitol was small beer compared to the riots in many other cities all last summer. There’s also been virtually no coverage of who was involved in the January 6th events, other than seeing some BLM/Antifa types that were indeed involved freed without bail.

Oh, and Ashli Babbitt died, and we saw a cufflink-clad arm that held out a gun and shot her in the throat. Because, you know, giving us information that’s accurate about what and who, all of whom have no doubt been identified because of CCTV,


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; insurrection
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-82 next last
To: MayflowerMadam

Colonial-era pastors preached fire and brimstone and the Word of God, and afterwards; went out and shot redcoats. Good times.


61 posted on 01/18/2021 6:34:50 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: who knows what evil?

“Good times.”

For sure! The real America.


62 posted on 01/18/2021 6:36:33 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (They HAD to kill somebody for their plan to work. RIP Ashli.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: MayflowerMadam

Sadly those churches are few and far between. IMO, the offering plate is the final word that determines what is preached many of the pulpits.


63 posted on 01/18/2021 6:37:32 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

What is going on? Here’s my take.

In the Vietnam war, The Viet Cong (VC) were sacrificed by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) during the 1968 Tet. The stronger communists go rid of the weaker.

In WWII, the Nazi SS killed off the Nazi SA during the Knight of the Long Knives. The stronger got rid of the weaker.

Is it possible that the hard core communists pulling the democrats strings (China, etc.) have setup the weaker liberal organizations like QAnon, ANTIFA, and BLM to be sacrificed this week in a battle that they will blame on Trump supporters? The stronger communists getting rid of the weaker? Two birds, one stone?


64 posted on 01/18/2021 6:47:02 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CodeToad

When did Qanon become a liberal organization...?


65 posted on 01/18/2021 6:55:35 AM PST by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies]

To: Texas Eagle

Wow! I go to a small Southern Baptist Church. We are far from perfect, but we do not get money or ask for money from the government. We do not have Recovery Night. We are all sinners.


66 posted on 01/18/2021 6:58:07 AM PST by FoundinTexas
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

I think it has something to do with BiteOne, although not in the way that most of the public has convinced themselves of.

We shall see.


67 posted on 01/18/2021 7:00:36 AM PST by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: I got the rope
only the president can approve that. why would he do that?

BINGO.

68 posted on 01/18/2021 7:02:29 AM PST by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: caww

It looks like a military coup.

—————————————

That’s because it is. Anytime insurgents overthrow a government, the military is always involved.

The question now; Is the military there to enforce an illegal and unconstitutional inauguration of Joe Biden? Or are they there to put down an open rebellion against legally elected president Trump?

I think we all know the answer to that.


69 posted on 01/18/2021 7:27:16 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: stars & stripes forever

Where was the church(protestant &catholic) when Roe v wade was passed? Where was the church when prayer was removed from school? When schools taught children about “two mommies” & the joy of sodomy? Where was the church when homosexuals took over pulpits? Legalized homosexual “marriage”?
The past several decades has provided numerous opportunities for the American church to be salt & light.
Instead it got fat & happy & comfortable. And now is so weakened by apostasy & worldly influence it is impotent in the face of evil.
So let’s stop wondering “what’s led to this”?.
And let’s stop blaming everything else for the church’s failure.


70 posted on 01/18/2021 7:27:46 AM PST by AnxiouslyWaiting
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
Oh, and Ashli Babbitt died,

Ashli Babbitt apparently died as one corner of a love triangle.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9147335/Dead-MAGA-mobster-Ashli-Babbitt-Marine-ex-husband-THROUPLE-bartender.html

ff

71 posted on 01/18/2021 7:30:44 AM PST by foreverfree
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Guenevere; All
AT keeps revealing

Even as it disables its comments. Again.

ff

72 posted on 01/18/2021 7:32:24 AM PST by foreverfree
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: CheneyClone

Where were all of these troops when cities were burning this past summer? Reasonable folks expected some type of response along these lines but saw nothing but the govt give a wide berth to rioters. That is one reason we the people have lost faith in out institutions.

———————————————————————

In hindsight, we see now that President Trump should’ve sent in the National Guard to Portland and Seattle and hell holes like that and put down the antifa mob. But because he did not do so, they have been so emboldened as to steal an election and in turn continue the overthrow of America, now at our nations capital.


73 posted on 01/18/2021 7:32:52 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

I did a thread on this on Twit the other day.

Some alternatives here:
1) Troops are purely props so that Biteme can have the excuse of no one being there for his inauguration, so he’ll have an audience. (I like this one)
2) They really do expect violence. They are always a day late & a dollar short so they are back on Jan. 5.
3) This is a setup with fascist so-called antifa dressed as Trumpers so that they can initiate a false flag.
4) There is a genuine FOREIGN threat to Biteme that no one is talking about. This is hard to believe. I mean, the whole world wants Biteme in there rather than Trump, esp. the ChiComs.
5) The Q story: The troops are all gonna arrest the Deep State.


74 posted on 01/18/2021 7:38:49 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LS
Larry, thanks for the reply. I am a big fan of your work.

Some of my thoughts on your Twit list (you have not been banned on Twit yet?):

Some alternatives here: 1) Troops are purely props so that Biteme can have the excuse of no one being there for his inauguration, so he will have an audience. (I like this one)

Agree, no audience would be a spotlight on the election fraud.

2) They really do expect violence. They are always a day late & a dollar short so they are back on Jan. 5.

Maybe. If Antifa and BLM showed up in numbers they could show their joy by burning things and embarrassing Joe

3) This is a setup with fascist so-called antifa dressed as Trumpers so that they can initiate a false flag.

Yes, they already did this on Jan. 6. Just like accusing their opponents of being Russian operatives, they will keep using something that worked in the past.

4) There is a genuine FOREIGN threat to Biteme that no one is talking about. This is hard to believe. I mean, the whole world wants Biteme in there rather than Trump, esp. the ChiComs.

Definitely! Renewing the Iran Nuke Deal is a huge threat to Israel. The 0bama staff being brought back were very antisemitic too.

5) The Q story: The troops are all gonna arrest the Deep State.

I need to think about that. Would they be trying to cover up that they may be the ones behind the Q stories?

75 posted on 01/18/2021 8:06:50 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Well they denied our Presidents request for the military departure he asked for. This will never be seen by the public as they’re trying to sell it....even non-supporters of Trump don’t like what’s going on with all this military in DC.


76 posted on 01/18/2021 9:50:04 AM PST by caww (Our God Reigns.....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]

To: LS

Definately no 1..... Troops are purely props so that Biteme can have the excuse of no one being there for his inauguration, so he’ll have an audience. (It would be an International Embarrassment and reveal his weakness... of major proportions on the World Stage, as I mentioned before)


77 posted on 01/18/2021 9:57:42 AM PST by caww (Our God Reigns.....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy
I, speaking for myself, have seen much speculation about the killer's ID but nothing certain. That would be Ashli Babbitt's killer we're talking about, just to be clear about it.

A few different theories are in play but the best I can tell, no one is really able to tell if Ashli's killer is a black or white, male or female.

OTOH maybe I don't have all the available information.

That said, a Republican congresscritter from my own state, Markwayne Mullin, has indicated, quite by accident, that he would be able to identify the killer if he were asked to.

So far as I've heard, no one has asked him, or if anyone has, the killer's ID is being kept secret.

78 posted on 01/18/2021 10:07:45 AM PST by OKSooner (IT'S HOWDY DOODY TIME!! HI SENATOR LANKFORD!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: OKSooner

It seems to be a mystery.

I would say this — on the other side of the encounter, there was a crowd of citizens, from who-knows-where, who entered the Capitol building. Wearing hats, coats, masks, and whatnot. They’d never been in the building before. They suddenly appeared and moved about unpredictably. As best I can tell, as hard as the task may have been, some of those citizens seem to have been identifiable. Fine police work!

But on the really interesting side of the encounter, there was an individual who seemed to be a government employee working in the Capitol building. Someone who was apparently licensed to carry a firearm. Came to work every day. Entered through the same front door. Left through that door. Regularly walked the hallways, to meetings, restrooms, and whatnot. Was captured on all the building cameras as they went about their job for days, weeks, months, years.

The cameras on Jan 6 captured various people moving about. Apparently no one has any idea who the shooter was? Unrecognizable on any videotapes? No one has ever seen that person before? Just a face in the crowd? Shots ringing out, no way to tell who fired them?

Yeah, I’m calling BS on that.


79 posted on 01/18/2021 10:23:30 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]

To: jughandle

Oh, I remember that kid! Someone burned his locker and flattened his bike tires, that kid?


80 posted on 01/18/2021 4:41:07 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-82 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson