Posted on 02/14/2021 12:51:16 AM PST by Libloather
Reporting on the antics of the impeachment-frenzied liberals, Liberty Nation has likened the second attempt to a circus. The simile is apt. But there is a dark side to the Dem shenanigans. The backdrop of seven-foot-high fences with razor concertina wire affixed to the top and armed National Guard soldiers patrolling seems more suited to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s image of the Soviet gulag than to the capital of America, land of the free.
The Trump Derangement Syndrome that afflicted Democrats while the former president was in office has turned to hysterics in his absence. And the left’s histrionics now come with a high price tag, as American taxpayers are paying the bill. According to John Kirby, the assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, in a video press briefing, the cost of having 5,000 to 7,000 National Guard soldiers bivouacked in Washington, D.C., from January to March will be $483 million. At one point, the number of Guardsmen was 26,000, deployed to provide security for Biden’s inauguration, 13 times the estimated 2,000 attendees.
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The purpose is simple: keeping alive the notion alive that somehow Trump supporters are amassing at any minute to storm Capitol Hill and take down our government. That image perpetuates the single count on which the liberals hang their impeachment hopes: that Trump incited an insurrection.
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Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) said in an opinion piece written for Fox Business News,
“I sit on the Intelligence Committee, but I’m aware of no specific, credible threat reporting - as distinguished from aspirational, uncoordinated bluster on the internet - that justifies this continued troop presence. Thus, I believe the rest of these soldiers should also go home to their families and civilian jobs.”
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This is all Bull Shit. ANTIFA AND BLM have burned down and destroyed hunks of many cities across the USA and the democrats, especially China Joe, said they were just an idea.
But when good Americans protest against the communists who stolid the election and the local cops shot unarmed people in cold blood they call out the military.
Next time the good Americans protest they probably need to be armed.
Green Zone-2021 would probably be a more appropriate term.
I expect by the end of March...the Sergeant-at-Arms crowd and the Capital Police...will be given some mandate to ‘grow’...thus lessening dependence upon the National Guard. Wouldn’t shock me if both double in size over the next 18 months.
The National Guard will be there throughout 2021 to some degree...maybe downsizing to 1,500 members for the remaining second-half of the year.
Even the Guard guys (with Baghdad time) will comment that it looks more like Baghdad’s Green Zone than old DC.
“...armed National Guard soldiers...”
They are unarmed with no magazines and bullets
But hey, if you wanna pocket rocket battle then fine..
But it wouldn’t take long to get them magazines and bullets, would it? They’re already there...
The DMZ.
If those creeps are afraid of we the people, I count that a good thing.
I simply cannot believe that our good military is supporting all this bogus BS .
What has happened to their pride, patriotism and honor?
Shame on them
After they get tired of having troops surrounding the capitol and sent them home - then we’ll storm the place.
“Mrs. Pelosi, tear down that wall!” would be a good line for President Trump, or anyone who supports him.
Banana republic.
They know we know...that is the bottom line. The election was rigged...everyone knows it. That is why the capitol is surrounded. They know we know. They are listening to our phone calls, they are watching every key stroke. They know we know and they are terrified that the truth will come out. They know...
They know the truth is out; that is why they are fortifying like the capitol in “The Hunger Games”. They conquered the will of the people, and are anticipating backlash.
Joe Biden lost the election and was installed as a ChiCOm Quisling.
The guards should move to the outside of the wire so they can contain the threat.
Send our troops to Portland.
They will stay there until Trump is back in the Whitehouse. That’s the reason they came in the first place.
Didn’t the army put down the Bonus Army in the 1920s? Soldiers will serve whoever is paying them.
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