nKoan
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Pence is a moist sack of potatoes
I was at the Rally for Our Lives and, granted, that was a massive rally about gun violence with a lot of celebrities performing but the police were omnipresent. To get in anywhere near where the protests were taking place you had to pass through cordons of police officers, heavily armed National Guard, personnel carriers blocking off streets and in and on.
I assumed this was par for the course for any large rally in DC.
Thrag
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What does Pence get out of the deal? You’d think after Trump tried to get him lynched he might want some concessions. Are we going to get a definitive concession and condemnation of his murderous followers?
None
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“Jokes on you! We have all the funding we need from Russia!” - Eric Trump, probably.
Also: thanks for calling me out when I was being a dolt (& @espressojim & @rrmorton)
I guess I was disappointed with where it went after “I think it’s critically important that there be a real, serious focus on holding…”.
Pence has always been a Reek.
Trump gets his Russia money through Deutsche Bank as part of their money laundering business (they’ve been fined multiple times for it), so that’s got to be a disappointment.
I love the warning against “in sighting violence.”
There’s no chance for the whitehose to be protected if this group comes at it, if the police just sit there and take it.
I’d strongly suspect even rubber bullets and tear gas would be more than sufficient to dissuade these people. They aren’t tough and strong soldiers, they’re mostly cosplayers, being used by a few better trained people as cover. I doubt the few well trained people get anywhere when the rest of the crowd disperses.
But this certainly sounds more terrifying, so I better stay tuned to MSNBC!
If 10,000 armed national guardsmen can’t hold back this rabble, then we might as well tell Canada to take over, because we’ve built no military and just have a bunch of settlers wandering around outside the walls of our city.
I guess the difference is all in the rules of engagement. If you are willing to open fire and mow down dozens of citizens intent on breaking in, or if you are willing to setup active deterrents. The optics are a disaster in either case, but yeah.
Bad optics is different from “There is no chance for the White House to be protected”.
Maybe it’s hard to defend without inflicting casualties, if the attackers insist in impaling themselves on the defenses. That would indeed be possible, but I suspect it’s more likely that rounds are fired than that the secret service and any other defenders say “oh, the optics! Here, just take the president and do what you want!”
Can we vote on this referendum?
Just send your closest phalanx unit over to DC, we sent our only units over to the middle east.
Hey, that’s my entire RTS strategy.
/turtle
What makes you so certain that it is already happening, at least to the degree that it should? Have a few folks been arrested? Sure. But are all avenues being pursued for the rest? I don’t know. Having the president-elect saying “make sure that happens” would seem like a good step to make sure LEOs get going on it with some additional vigor.
Yeesh, what a dumb take on Carol Leonnig’s part. I’m not sure what she was getting at. I thought maybe she was going to voice concern that demonstrators could do this at the White House once Biden takes office, if the Secret Service were similarly ill prepared. But she specifically mentioned the next nine days.
So Trump supporters are going to march on the White House next week? And the Secret Service is going to be caught as flat-footed as the Capitol police? Huh???
-Tom
