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DC hunkers down for the night after Trump's impeachment: National Guard troops rest at the Capitol as workers set up barricades, businesses board up and a non-scalable fence is erected outside the Trump Hotel
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 14, 2020 | Marlene Lethang and Emily Crane

Posted on 01/14/2021 5:00:55 AM PST by C19fan

National Guard troops hunkered down at the Capitol building Wednesday night following the House of Representative's historic impeachment vote as workers toiled into the night setting up additional barricades and a non-scalable fence was erected outside the Trump hotel.

Security measures are being heightened inside and surrounding the Capitol in the wake of the January 6 riot that left five dead and ahead of anticipated violence in the countdown to Inauguration Day.

A total of 20,000 National Guardsman have been authorized to descend on Washington to safeguard the nation’s capital. There are already 6,200 troops on the ground in DC and at least 10,000 more will arrive by Saturday.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 1621; impeachment; realitysettingin; riot; trump
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To: C19fan

Calling National Guardsmen takes tax dollars.

Where will they bivouac?? Where will the porta-potties be located? Will that include those sodium-rich MRE’s? What coffeeshops will REFUSE them service?
These are, after all, military mall police, and NOT ‘the regulars’.

And lastly, they are NOT ‘locals’.

(If I sound acidic, I am a Katrina survivor, who spent several weeks in a ‘FEMA /Red Cross shelter’, hosting Iowa armed National Guardsmen.)


21 posted on 01/14/2021 5:20:59 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: C19fan

Don’t you get it??? Just like January 6 they have enlisted antifa / blm to wear Trump gear and go to dc to raise hell so Trump can be blamed once again. Then the commies can say “see, we told you. Trump and his supporters are domestic terrorists”.
You think that’s rediculous??

WAKE UP PEOPLE SHEESH!


22 posted on 01/14/2021 5:21:11 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: C19fan

2021 so far just as horrible as 2020. What has this country come to.


See tag line.

It’s interesting that this time they apparently voted without arguments like last time. The sheer stupidity of this house is breathtaking. Did they do the “funeral march” to the Senate this time?


23 posted on 01/14/2021 5:22:39 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Texas Eagle

“I’m not following. Why would antifa riot over the impeachment vote?”

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It won’t be seen as Antifa rioting, it will be see by the ignorant masses as Trumpers rioting, because Antifa will dress as Trumpers and pose for the complicit media cameras.


24 posted on 01/14/2021 5:23:14 AM PST by alicewonders
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To: View from the Cheap Seats
STAY HOME , GUYS. Let the good guys take care of things. Who does the National Guard in DC report to? Yeah, that guy.

I wouldn't count on it...You can bet there's not too many Trump supporters in their chain of command...

25 posted on 01/14/2021 5:23:26 AM PST by Iscool
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To: C19fan

“2021 so far just as horrible as 2020. What has this country come to.”
Not sure why anyone thought 2021 was going to magically be better just because the clock struck midnight on January 1st.


26 posted on 01/14/2021 5:24:23 AM PST by Durbin
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To: mikelets456

Their challenge is this: When the left acts, they come out with bricks and umbrellas - and attack cars and businesses, rather than the government that is the enemy. When the right acts they come out with guns, and attack the government that is the enemy.

So, if motivated to bring it to that level, the right is far more dangerous. The left is a pet Chihuahua. The right is a pet Lion. Stop feeding it at your peril.


27 posted on 01/14/2021 5:24:52 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: 21twelve

Back at you. See MY tag line. ;)


28 posted on 01/14/2021 5:25:24 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: alicewonders
Ahhh, I see.

So they think they will be mowing down Trump supporters but they'll really be mowing down antifa.

29 posted on 01/14/2021 5:26:07 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, demonicRATS would have no standards at all.)
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To: C19fan
Imagine that! A non-scalable fence!

Stay tuned.....

30 posted on 01/14/2021 5:27:15 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: Road Warrior ‘04

That fence won’t work when the DC cops open the gate and let folks in.

Again.


31 posted on 01/14/2021 5:28:41 AM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: Iscool

DC National Guard is different chain of command.


32 posted on 01/14/2021 5:32:59 AM PST by View from the Cheap Seats
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To: cuban leaf; All

There’s no one at the Senate to receive the vote for impeachment. Senate is not in session until Tuesday. The earliest they would take up consideration of a trial is one hour after the inauguration. People attack McConnell but he’s the one who made it impossible for them to have a second show trial. If he was serious about voting to convict and remove, he would not have set the timeline in this fashion. He wanted that story leaked out there for his own political cover while he protected the Senate from the insanity of the House.


33 posted on 01/14/2021 5:35:43 AM PST by newzjunkey (America First - Vote Giant Meteor in 2022)
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To: Road Warrior ‘04; All

But fences don’t work. /s

Take note of the optics here, they are fencing the American People out of the halls of power but decry efforts to fence drug cartels and human traffickers out at the border.


34 posted on 01/14/2021 5:38:19 AM PST by newzjunkey (America First - bring on Giant Meteor in 2021)
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To: newzjunkey

But this was in the house for a very long time before they voted. We got to watch vindman, et al destroy themselves. This time, a simple “we hate Trump” vote and, POOF, he’s impeached.

What a clown show.


35 posted on 01/14/2021 5:41:57 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: kearnyirish2

maybe not bizarre. Some one else posted the National Guard in DC reports directly to Trump.

People here are posting like Dems are putting all these guards in place.

So I wonder, who requested them?

If Trump is the one that controls them, why is Trump putting them there? Why so many?

Is some thing else anticpated by Trump he’s preparing for?


36 posted on 01/14/2021 5:43:50 AM PST by b4me (Repeated lies does Not equal TRUTH. )
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To: C19fan

I read a ton of web pages every day. I have yet to read any realistic stories or comments that indicate any massive movements towards any capital, let alone DC.

My Son in Law is a state trooper and my daughter is in Emergency Management in MA. They haven’t heard of any credible threat, anywhere in the state.

The ONLY place I see or hear fear of “attack” is on the main stream news outlets.

These guys sure know how to put on a show.


37 posted on 01/14/2021 5:44:14 AM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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To: newzjunkey

When is Bitch officially out as senate leader?


38 posted on 01/14/2021 5:44:34 AM PST by mund1011
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To: C19fan

It’s a good thing when the government fears the people.


39 posted on 01/14/2021 5:50:23 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: b4me

It is bizarre because other states are sending Guard units; it would make more sense if it was just DC.


40 posted on 01/14/2021 5:51:12 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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