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The painful symbolism of the 26,000 National Guard troops in D.C.
American Thinker ^ | 19 Jan, 2021 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 01/19/2021 4:29:38 AM PST by MtnClimber

What’s happening now bears no relationship to any version of America that existed before this point in time.

Those of you who are reading this post are the type of people who pay attention to things. That’s why you already know that 26,000 National Guard troops drawn from all over America and from Puerto Rico, have assembled in Washington, D.C., in advance of Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. (That’s about three divisions worth of troops.) But have you given serious thought to what the troops’ presence means?

I’ve heard from some optimistic people who believe that the troops are the last phase in a Trumpian plan to reclaim America and maintain it as a true constitutional republic, rather than the socialist tyranny the Democrats seem to have planned. I’m a perennial pessimist, so I’m sorry to say that I don’t believe that the troops’ presence means anything good.

Instead, I’m inclined to agree with Tucker Carlson’s brilliant Monday night opening monologue regarding the deeper meaning behind a massive D.C. lockdown that makes it look like Baghdad, circa 2003. As Tucker noted, this troop build-up is five times the number of military personnel currently stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

In April 1968, when Washington D.C. was in flames following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, with a riot that injured more than 1,000 people, killed more than 13, and devastated D.C. for the next thirty years, President Johnson called in only half that number of National Guard troops to protect the nation’s capital. Even during the Civil War, at the height of the fighting, there weren’t 26,000 troops in D.C.

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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; wny

See 15.


21 posted on 01/19/2021 5:06:23 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: HighSierra5

“ At this point what difference does it make? Quoting a crafty old bag of chit.“

Free Republic sure is showing up with a lot of quitters


22 posted on 01/19/2021 5:06:26 AM PST by stanne
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To: MtnClimber

Q: How many of these personnel are actually NG? Which units from which states? Who are any others? And are there any foreign nationals in the mix?


23 posted on 01/19/2021 5:06:40 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; wny

Sorry, I meant please see 20, not 15.


24 posted on 01/19/2021 5:07:05 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: stanne

In the 1970s, Carter federalized the State Militias. They report to the Pentagon. Do I agree? Absolutely not!


25 posted on 01/19/2021 5:11:17 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The Capital was attacked by several hundred people. Most of them were there as anarchist Trump supporters but there were some AntiFa people there as well. The only reason the one AntiFa person was arrested was because he showed up on CNN. The rest are probably being ignored by the LEO’s under orders of the Democrats.


26 posted on 01/19/2021 5:12:06 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Travis McGee

Wait. What? Who is in charge of this deployment? Milley? What?

Why is sec def visiting the troops? Why is this joint chiefs group not on cnn nightly announcing their action?

You think this group of idiotic Obama appointees can coordinate these troops to a level where cnn isn’t down there interviewing troops complaining of no food no facilities?

2000 of them got sworn in yesterday as US Marshall’s. To arrest Trump?

I thought you were informed.

This is a quiet secret operation Flynn is directing, Pence is playing a role. Sec def Miller is in charge. And the JCS are our


27 posted on 01/19/2021 5:13:53 AM PST by stanne
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To: MtnClimber

“Denial Is Doom”
> Jan 18
[Excerpt from an outstanding column.]

This is all real. As hard as it is to believe that what we’ve seen in the past couple of months is actually happening to us, it is. The left has just stolen both the presidential election, and the election that decided control of the Senate. Having done so, they have flooded the nation’s capital with tens of thousands of occupying soldiers, who they have screened for political loyalty. On the 20th, Biden will assume power, and nobody is going to stop it.

Trump is finished; he has effectively been out of power since January 6th, and on the 20th, he will be flown back to Mar-a-lago for a quiet retirement. Qanon was fake; there is not and never has been any plan to trust, and “The Storm” isn’t coming. The military isn’t going to overthrow Biden and reinstall Trump; their leadership are completely on-board with everything that has happened. The American Republic is dead; having gotten away with fixing two national elections, the Deep State will assume the permanent role of kingmaker. There will be no more free, fair elections at the federal level.

For appearances’ sake, a nonthreatening Republican of the RINO variety – a Nikki Haley or Marco Rubio – may be allowed to hold the presidency again at some point, but they will never permit another real reformer like Trump anywhere near power. All the holes in the system that allowed his rise have been patched. He’s not getting elected again in 2024, and nobody like him is getting elected then, or ever again.
[rest at link]
https://antidem.wordpress.com/2021/01/18/denial-is-doom/


28 posted on 01/19/2021 5:15:14 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: stanne
Quitters

Here is what we are up against. The Uniparty controls the Legions, the Praetorian Guard (Deep State), the Media, the mob, And the Execuitive, Judicial, and Legislative Branches. Also the militia. Did I mention Big Tech communications? Caesar has just crossed the Rubicon in this last election. Brutus and Cassius May have been right, but they were doomed from the start.
29 posted on 01/19/2021 5:17:28 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“ In the 1970s, Carter federalized the State Militias. They report to the Pentagon. Do I agree? Absolutely not!“

ThebDC NG is in charge. When the state NGs go to DC they are coordinated under the DC NG. He is under the authority of the president. That’s Trump not Fox’s Pretend President elect Joe Biden who is now working only for tge Chinese. This sec def would not take an order from him not now


30 posted on 01/19/2021 5:19:29 AM PST by stanne
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To: Jan_Sobieski

No. The uninstructed does not control the exec branch. Trump does


31 posted on 01/19/2021 5:34:26 AM PST by stanne
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I remember Al Gore saying in 2000 during the hanging chad debacle that we do not have tanks in the streets as we work thru counting every vote and the one thing about America is that it handles these issues and the transition peacefully. Not anymore I guess. It looks like a military coup to me. The ruling class collectively kicked him out likely forever.


32 posted on 01/19/2021 5:44:36 AM PST by Jimmy The Snake (He )
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To: Travis McGee

Tucker gets it.

L


33 posted on 01/19/2021 5:49:53 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: stanne

“ This is a quiet secret operation Flynn is directing, Pence is playing a role.”

You’re delusional.

L


34 posted on 01/19/2021 5:52:15 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Travis McGee

“ All the holes in the system that allowed his rise have been patched. He’s not getting elected again in 2024, and nobody like him is getting elected then, or ever again.”

Even worse no one like Trump will ever dare to even toss their hat in the ring after seeing what’s happened to him

That’s the real point of this.

L


35 posted on 01/19/2021 5:55:02 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: MtnClimber
2500 Troops in Afghanistan which is a huge country.

25,000 in DC which is 10 miles by 10 miles.

36 posted on 01/19/2021 6:05:55 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: stanne

What will it take to show you the reality of our dire situation? Transition to Biden? Deplatforming of Conservatives? Opening of our borders? Transgender indoctrination of our children?


37 posted on 01/19/2021 6:06:42 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: MtnClimber
The painful symbolism of the 26,000 National Guard troops in D.C.

They need an entire army because China Joe and the Ho are so "beloved" by the people.

/sarc

38 posted on 01/19/2021 6:10:56 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction". It is dying on Our Watch.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Biden is stealing a presidential election aided and abetted by foreign states formerly friendly and non friendly.

Why would Trump allow that?


39 posted on 01/19/2021 6:12:22 AM PST by stanne
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To: FreeRepublic

Please stop linking to American Thinker. They caved. AT is MSNBC to me.


40 posted on 01/19/2021 6:12:56 AM PST by BartonC
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