Posted on 01/21/2021 8:42:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Thousands of National Guardsmen were forced to vacate congressional grounds on Thursday and have been photographed having to sleep in parking garages while temperatures in the nation’s capital were set to dip down to near-freezing temperatures.
The photos of the living conditions that the National Guardsmen were forced to endure come after Democrats took complete control of the federal government this week following Joe Biden being sworn in as the nation’s 46th president.
“Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service,” a National Guardsmen told Politico. “Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage. We feel incredibly betrayed.”
“All National Guard troops were told to vacate the Capitol and nearby congressional buildings on Thursday, and to set up mobile command centers outside or in nearby hotels, another Guardsman confirmed,” Politico reported. “They were told to take their rest breaks during their 12-hour shifts outside and in parking garages, the person said.”
“Speaker Pelosi personally met with the Secretary of the Army to demand 14,000 National Guard troops be deployed to the Capitol,” a source familiar with the security discussions at the Capitol told The Daily Wire in a statement. “But there was no logistical plan provided by the Speaker’s office on where the service members would sleep.”
And if you want to use the bathroom, well pic.twitter.com/YXLawaqA0Q
— Alex Horton (@AlexHortonTX) January 22, 2021
MILITARY SOURCE IN DC: “For the last week my battalion has been sleeping on the floor in the Senate cafeteria. Today the Senate kicked us out & moved us to a cold parking garage. 5000 soldiers. 1 power outlet. One bathroom. This is how Joe Biden’s America treats solders.”
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The title of this article is wrong. It was NOT Democrat-run DC that caused this mess. It was Democrat and Republican run Congress that displayed their usual and long-standing inability to work together to solve problems. This lack of function has existed no matter which party had the majorities. It is unlikely to be solved until voters of both parties insist that their representatives learn to work productively together. For example, will we ever get an infrastructure bill?
Pay attention. He was not sworn in before noon. He started speaking ten minutes early, but the swear in time was a minute or 2 after 12. I was watching carefully, and wondered about the early start but he was not president then.
“’..This is how Joe Biden’s America treats solders.”’
Horrible.
I hope the NG rises up and goes to the Hill to protest.
Shake up these liberal fascists who do not act like Americans.
If they continue their rape of America, they will end like the
Ceaușescus.
If it makes you feel any better, there won't be any "TV" soon. People under the age of 30 are not watching any TV whatsoever.
The big media, entertainment and sports are all, very deservedly, dissolving and going the way of the hardcopy periodicals. "Cablevision" is joke and unsustainable.
Yeah, I know. Everything today is “something +” on everything you see on regular TV. Stinking ESPN has what, five channels on TV. But, if you want to watch Italian soccer or the German soccer league play, you have to PAY EXTRA and get their ESPN + to see them. On Sunday mornings they give your their WORTHLESS Game of the Week in the Italian league. If you are lucky, one of the two teams might be in the top 10 in the standings. But it normally #16 vs. #17 or something like that. No German league games at all. It is all ESPN +. I am surprised those leagues allow it. I would think that your viewership would drop for your league. I will not pay extra to watch it. To hell with them. I pay enough now. AND we are right now taking a very hard look at our DirecTV programming. We are about to cut a lot off it. We rarely watch 80% of the channels I am told I can watch. Sorry but I don’t give a tinkers damned about MTV or such channels. So, we are closely looking to cut at least half of it. Our cable company is a joke. It has changed names more often than Liz Taylor changed her married names!!!
Heck; the PRESIDENT doesn't even say THAT!!
Chief Justice John Roberts then administered Biden's oath of office at 11:47 a.m., with 13 minutes remaining in Trump’s term. Biden recited the following, as prescribed by the Constitution:
I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,
and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
[So help me God.]
Not to worry; for Kamala said it:
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor administered the oath of office to Harris at 11:40 a.m. Sotomayor became the first woman to administer an inaugural oath twice after she administered Biden's at his 2013 swearing-in.[181] Harris recited the following:
I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion;
and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
[So help me God.]
That's why Al Gore invented emojis!
Are you assuming their gender?
Yep, all military branches take an oath to first and foremost support and defend the constitution BEFORE taking orders from the President.
Democrats spent all last year circumventing state legislatures and overturning election laws so they would have an easier time ballot harvesting. That’s completely, utterly unconstitutional. Only state legislatures can change election laws, so the election was unconstitutional, invalid. What we have in the White house now is an occupier, not a valid POTUS.
When Democrats and RINOs ignored the constitution and demanded that the election was valid and Biden won, Trump should have ordered the military to follow their oath, defend the constitution, and take into custody every last member of congress who supported the violation of the constitution.
Gov. Chris Sununu is ordering the “immediate return” of New Hampshire National Guard members from their deployment in Washington, D.C.
I see other govs have followed suit.
Lol!!!! If they were Marines, they would have been set up in tent city,eating MREs with no complaints. That’s why the guard are called Nasty Girls. Poor babies!
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