Because Biden

[Stuart Galbraith]

[Roman Alymov]

Nothing new - best practicies tested in wars on foreign soil are now in use in USA itself

[Stargrunt6]

Biden and student tuition.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-administration-student-loans-123533071.html

[Jeff]

17 hours ago, nitflegal said:

In all seriousness, can anyone explain the logic of the deployment to DC?  Is this a message to the rest of the country that Biden will use troops in overwhelming force against the right?  Is this a show of force to cow the opposition? Are they legitimately afraid of an invasion from a foreign power?  Are they that terrified of an insurrection?  Is it just that Congress got a whiff of the French revolution and are in a blind panic? The capitol was invaded by a couple hundred people armed with stupidity and clubs at most.  What the Hell explains this?  

30,000 troops and they are asking for more

56th Striker Brigade Combat Team

229th Brigade

160th Engineer Company

261st Theater Tactical Signal Brigade

198th Expeditionary Signal Battalion

262nd Repair Company

177th Fighter Wing armed for Air to air combat, apparently with live ordnance

105th Airlift Wing

174th Attack Wing with drones

166th Security Forces Squadron

We only have 5,500 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.  where we are fighting three active insurgencies.  Never mind all the conspiracies in my head, if we could be a fly on the wall with the Biden transition team what the heck are they trying to do here?

 

It's a threat to the other side, a show of strength to their base and a step in desensitizing the American people towards the abuse of military power inside the US.

[Jeff]

17 hours ago, R011 said:

Most of the work in Afghanistan is being done by the Afghans and it takes more people for riot control and to secure possible targets than to call in A-10s to chastise the unrighteous.  I suspect the failure to properlu secure the Capitol last week has spooked them into deploying overwhelming numbers just in case.

 

Apparently, the Right was going to have a big protest today in DC and all the talk from them on line was how those posters would be ready for violence.  Any news?

These troops aren't equipped with riot control gear, they are carrying battle loads of weapons and ammo.

[Jeff]

Biden to yank Keystone XL permit on first day of presidency

[Jeff]

Next up, purging the military.

 

[Ivanhoe]

2 hours ago, BansheeOne said:

lol!!

[JWB]

The other foot is now in the shoe:

Biden official warns Honduran migrants 'Now is not the time' to come to US

https://www.foxnews.com/us/biden-official-warns-honduran-migrants-now-is-not-the-time-to-come-to-us

 

[sunday]

5 hours ago, TonyE said:

Much yes, is aware. But as much as i do not like it (Team Trump since august'15), most likely he will be on wednesday.

We will see what is going to happen from here to Wednesday.

[BansheeOne]

2 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

lol!!

It should be admitted that in light of the zombie fad over the last decade, the undead threat has certainly been neglected in security planning for presidential inaugurations, regardless of politics. 

On a more serious note, this seems to have been the previous standard post-9/11:

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Securing the Presidential Inauguration: An Inside Look

Protecting the president at the inauguration takes coordination and lots of law enforcement.

By Jeffrey Decker | March 14, 2013

Sometimes the people at an inauguration jeer the president and his parade. Sometimes they’re happy. Unprecedented security protects the president and everyone who comes out to see him.

Pennsylvania Avenue was first sealed in 2001, but hundreds of protesters overcame short fences and overwhelmed understaffed barricades. Four years later, taller and stronger fences were specially ordered to stretch for miles. In 2009, those imposing steel rectangles helped control the record crowd celebrating President Barack Obama’s election. Both of his inaugurations saw citizens smiling for pictures with police instead of throwing food at them or burning flags.

“We had a big battle two inaugurations ago with a group that tried to breach the fence, but they never approached the parade route,” said Cathy Lanier, chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. “They never breached our fence.”

Law enforcement departments have managed violent protests and millions of people in the nation’s capital, and careful planning means they may be ready to handle both at the same inauguration. Coordination between hundreds of local and federal agencies is a “ballet” run “like clockwork,” according to the National Guard and the Metropolitan Police Department. About 800,000 people attended this year’s inauguration; 1.8 million in 2009. Riot gear and gas masks were standard issue when 300,000 people came to George W. Bush’s first inauguration and when 400,000 people arrived for his second. Lately the heavy gear stays in storage as more and more police commute from as far away as Seattle.

“We brought in 86 different law enforcement agencies — more than 2,000 cops,” Lanier said. The D.C. National Guard provided all military ground security before inviting 120 soldiers in 2005 to help. In 2009, more than 7,000 soldiers were asked to be there. Six thousand arrived in 2013.

The Secret Service is in charge of the National Special Security Event, partnered with the Metropolitan Police, U.S. Capitol Police, D.C. Fire and Emergency Management, D.C. Department of Transportation, U.S. Park Police, DHS, North American Aerospace Defense Command and the Joint Task Force National Capital Region.

[...] 

Protesters learned in 2005 how sturdy and defensible the 10-foot tall steel fences are and none challenged the perimeter this year or in 2009. A 20-year-old activist named Marcus joined a group of 70 Earth First! and anarchist protesters, shadowed by a dozen police at McPherson Square before they left for a permitless march. “Washington, D.C., has turned into a micro police state,” he said. “Of course it limits our ability for public access, but we’re a loud enough group that we’re going to be heard anyway.”

Management of potential disruptions is more apparent than how the president is protected during and before the event. How long it takes to sweep the apartments and businesses along the parade route is not released, nor are tricks like securing manholes. “We cannot discuss the means, methods, specific resources or numbers we utilize to carry out our protective responsibilities,” the Secret Service spokesperson said.

But it is clear how quickly and efficiently the city transforms. Traffic zones appear and disappear by midnight. Pennsylvania Avenue is stripped of mailboxes, trash bins and even the streetlights that are anchored in the middle of the street. Most of it was back in place by the next morning when the road reopened. Downtown had no private vehicles one day and was as bustling as ever the next.

National Guard support units arrived Jan. 16 and left on Jan. 25. Like the visiting police officers, the guardsmen were deputized to assist local law enforcement. For the military, the 57th inauguration highlighted civilian control over the nation’s fighting forces. Soldiers outnumbered police, but the police and Secret Service were in charge.

Of the 6,000 soldiers supporting the inauguration, 2,000 marched in the parade. “They come from about 15 states and territories — Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Iowa, even Puerto Rico, to name a few,” said Brig. Gen. Arthur W. Hinaman, commander of the Land Component Command for the District of Columbia National Guard.

[...] 

https://www.govtech.com/em/safety/Securing-Presidential-Inauguration.html

 

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Hail to the Chief -- 2017 Inauguration Day Security

February 26, 2017

Jeff Decker

Welcoming a new president to lead the free world could endanger far more than one person. Hundreds of key leaders and massive crowds are a tempting target for America's enemies. The inauguration can also be a world stage for disruptive dissent, requiring layer upon layer of security to protect against threats inside and out.

Federal, local and private partners started working in April 2016 to make the 58th presidential inauguration last month on January 20 a showcase of the capital city, said Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. “Every four years our government works overtime to keep everyone safe during the peaceful transition of power that is the hallmark of our democracy.”

[...] 

Five metro subway stations were closed, including, for the first time, the Pentagon station. Bomb and chemical-sniffing dogs were prowling stations all day long.

In the air, routine military and civil VIP flights were all canceled. Any private pilots flying over the city faced a license suspension, civil penalties, jail time and deadly force. The District of Columbia National Guard is in charge of protecting the skies over DC under NORAD's operation Noble Eagle. Special attention was paid to detect and destroy small drones that might fly in, according the US Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard lent MH-65 Dolphin helicopters to offer a secure eye over the inauguration, and 19 vessels protected 27 miles of nearby coastline. “In addition,” says Coast Guard Public Affairs Specialist Nate Littlejohn, “There were Coast Guard K-9 teams protecting shore-side infrastructures.” The Captain of the port, Lonnie Harrison, established a security zone, Littlejohn told me, “To prevent the potentially catastrophic impact a terrorist attack against the large gathering of high-ranking U.S. officials, the public at large, and surrounding waterfront areas and communities could face. The security zone was part of a comprehensive port security plan designed to safeguard human life, vessels, and waterfront facilities against sabotage or terrorist attacks.” What threats may have been deterred can never be known. What was turned away was one man paddling into the security zone. “He was quickly escorted from the area without incident,” he said.

When Bill Clinton was inaugurated there were no barriers preventing anyone from attending the parade. Checkpoint tents with metal detectors and searches were first erected after the election of George W. Bush in 2001, though large groups of protesters easily bypassed them by breaching weak fencing. By 2005, sturdy 10-foot square rubber-coated steel fences lined the parade route, and one coordinated effort to unlatch and breach the fence was repelled by police and pepper spray. 

This year, bolts connecting the fence portions were more even more heavy-duty, as were the barricades blocking vehicles from approaching. National Guard trucks and dump trucks filled with sand blocked traffic from coming within blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue, where four years ago empty buses were the primary roadblock. “We use a number of different barriers to prevent a large truck-type situation like we've seen in other parts of the world,” explained Interim Police Chief Peter Newsham. Adjacent sidewalks hosted rows of four concrete barriers, letting pedestrians through, but nothing else.

[...] 

When they weren't disrupted, the lines through security checkpoints moved more swiftly than four years ago. Bags were swiftly inspected and if a belt was thought to be the reason a metal detector went off, that was accepted. X-ray machines were not in use, so large objects like binoculars were taken at face value.

After Bush's election, metal barriers resembling bicycle racks were used, ineffectively, to close off entire streets. Every four years since, those short barriers have lined Pennsylvania Avenue itself, just ahead of single-file rows of National Guard soldiers and police officers. That final barrier between the parade and the public gets thickened each Year. For Obama's first, it was one line of the common 3-foot high metal barriers. For his second, it was a double line. For Trump's inauguration, the double line became a series of linked squares, extending from the curb into the street to create an empty buffer just in front of the police and soldiers facing into the crowds.

Buses brought 3,200 officers in from around the nation to line the parade route. That's more than the 2,000 officers brought in 2013, while National Guard numbers dropped from 6,000 to 5,000, sent from 42 states. This year, officials wouldn't say how many police departments were represented, though four years ago 86 departments sent officers from as far away as Seattle. Each department's team was assigned a liaison officer from DC, guiding them through the city and coordinating any new orders. All of the visiting police officers and guardsmen were deputized to assist local law enforcement, if needed.

[...] 

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/87853-hail-to-the-chief----2017-inauguration-day-security

[Roman Alymov]

Article from one of most popular Russian bloggers on latest events in USA (Yandex-translated from Rus original О причинах ненависти к Трампу - Colonel Cassad — ЖЖ (livejournal.com) )

On the reasons for hating Trump

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On the eve of Trump's departure from the White House, some seriously wonder – if Trump has already actually lost, why the non-stop harassment of both him and his supporters continues, because the Democrats, as the "free and democratic media" claim, have already won and nothing can prevent the occupation of the White House.

The reasons for this are that Trump has destroyed a number of fundamental American myths since 2016, and Trump's current defeat after a dubious election can no longer undo what he did. Therefore, for Trump's opponents, winning the election is not the end point, followed by handshakes, statements about working for all Americans and the unity of the parties in the issue of loyalty to democratic principles. The period after the election and, especially, the period after Biden's inauguration, which will take place "at gunpoint" (when the military was driven to the capital more than in any other African country after the coup), is considered by the democratic establishment as a time when it is time for revenge and revenge on Trump for everything he did.

Let's take a look at some of the things that, from the point of view of the Democrats, Trump did and for which he will not be forgiven. We are not talking about any specific decisions, but rather about those actions that influenced the main American mythologies and ideologies that were shared by the majority of Democratic and Republican voters before Trump, which allowed for an informal bipartisan consensus on most issues.

 

1. Fair elections are held in the United States.

 Since 2016, Democrats have been arguing that Trump won unfairly, thanks to Russian hackers. In 2020, Trump's supporters began to prove that the election victory was stolen from Trump. As a result, more than 70% of Trump supporters do not believe in the honesty of Biden's victory. Internal election results were delegitimized. Naturally, the rest of the world sees the complete moral collapse of the electoral system, which was previously set as an example and enjoyed the support of the majority of the US population.

 

2. In the US there is a free and independent press.

 Since 2016, Trump has regularly claimed that the main American media is "fake news", in fact challenging the myth that there are "exemplary democratic media"in the United States. Trump consistently refuted this myth, and many Americans believed him. "Free Media", in turn, for 4 years consistently participated in the propaganda campaign against Trump, watering him with slops and publishing the most primitive fakes and stuffing, including the notorious "Steele dossier". Naturally, such engagement of the mainstream media did not go unnoticed, and Trump's supporters found in these actions of the media confirmation of the president's statements that all this is false "fake news". All this led to a boom in alternative media, which positioned themselves as a means of replacing the functions of freedom of speech and information that conventional media had ceased to perform. This was followed by an attack on these media outlets with massive acts of direct censorship supported by mainstream media, which cemented the allegations in the public consciousness – the damage from his fight against the "democratic media" became irreparable. The current censorship in the media and social networks perfectly demonstrates that Trump's opponents no longer hope to convince their opponents of something, betting on closing their mouths and hiding inconvenient information. As a result, the myth of a free and independent press has long lived.

 

3. The American Internet is the territory of freedom.

 Despite the fact that the Internet, in fact, was created by the US military, until recently, many seriously considered it the territory of freedom of speech and freedom of opinion. They scolded China for censorship, made fun of North Korea with its closed network, and this was the generally accepted view. But in recent months, the situation has changed – a significant part of American society has become convinced that digital censorship in the United States can be even more ferocious than in China, and the censor is not the Communist Party, but its own digital TNCs that have entered into a cartel to serve the interests of one party. A wave of bans of people and resources under far-fetched pretexts in a matter of days destroyed one of the fundamental myths, after which the great exodus to alternative platforms or even to foreign social networks, which American TNCs can not yet reach, began. The desire to shut up Trump was so strong that Trump's enemies did not notice how the child was thrown out along with the water.

 

And there are plenty of such examples. The story of the wall on the border with Mexico, the ban on the entry of Muslims from disadvantaged countries and the story of migrant children destroyed the image of the United States as the"promised land". Trump's exposure of the US intelligence services revealed both the highest level of incompetence and various aspects of their criminal activities, including on the territory of the country. The conflict with Canada and NATO countries has clearly shown that the transatlantic partnership is not unshakable. And the Ukrainian history with corruption of the Biden family revealed systemic corruption both within the top of the Democratic party, and the connection with this corruption of some Republican functionaries. Previously, all this was shyly covered up with the concept of lobbying.

 

Also gone is the old political correctness that has always been lauded by the US political establishment. Now the outgoing president openly says that the elections were stolen, and power in the country was illegally seized. And, of course, the tradition is broken with the transfer of power and the presence at the inauguration.

 

What do we have in the end? During the 4 years of Trump's presidency, a number of fundamental American myths were either undermined or completely destroyed. There is no trace of the old universal faith in them. Moreover, it cannot be said that this is the work of Trump alone, the Democrats have done no less to destroy them, since for them the desire to destroy Trump has become an end in itself, which forced them to eventually show a real attitude to the destroyed ideological myths. Winning in the short term, they do not even particularly reflect on the systemic nature of the damage caused, believing that the situation can now be rolled back in the Obama era, and all dissatisfied and dissident people can be silenced. Oh, yes, they will certainly try, because they believe that it is still possible to go back to when the crisis of American hegemony was not so obvious.

 But here it is important to remind – the crisis of many great state formations was institutionalized long before they broke up. At first, there was an ideological crisis, when a part of the population and elites ceased to believe in the main ideologems and myths on which majestic state structures were built.

 Even before its collapse, the British Empire was hit by an acute ideological crisis, as part of its political elites and a significant part of its population frankly did not understand why it was necessary to fight for the salvation of a disintegrating Empire, the principles of which were no longer unconditionally accepted. First it broke up in the heads, and only then along the lines of the borders of the falling colonies.

 The USSR approached Perestroika and disintegration, having serious internal ideological defects. By the time of its collapse, a significant part of the population of the USSR no longer shared the main Soviet ideologies, which made it easier to destroy the country.

 The United States is following exactly the same path, and the current crisis of American ideology is an important bifurcation point that the United States has already passed. And here it is important to understand that it is easy to lose faith in the key system-forming myths and ideologies of the state, but it is extremely difficult or almost impossible to restore universal faith in them. The United States, as an empire, may still exist for a long time, but 4 years of Trump's rule and struggle with him have caused it severe internal damage, shaking the very ideological foundation of the United States. What is important, these injuries were seen even by the most ordinary layman, which ingrained ideological changes within American society. And, of course, the American messianic hegemonists will blame Trump for this and they will never forgive him. Although, by and large, Trump only accelerated the processes that were formed during the Obama administration, but which before Trump were visible only to specialists who pointed out the growing defects in American foreign and domestic policy. Then it was written off as anti-American propaganda, but, as we see now, the Americans themselves now broadcast such assessments in relation to their system and their own ideology. And even some of the ideological servants of the United States in other countries noticed this (see the case of Illarionov).

 It may sound paradoxical, but for all the conservatism and reactivity of the ideas voiced, Trump at the macro level acted as a progressive and spontaneous revolutionary, as he forced radical changes within a colossal system that has global significance and claimed global leadership. At the same time, his opponents, who are hurling radical progressive rhetoric with might and main, in fact act as terry reactionaries and restorers in the matter of its preservation and restoration. The slogan "Return everything back" very accurately reflects the main desire of the Democratic Party, which fought for 4 years against the "Russian spy in the White House".

And just as Trump during his presidency consistently destroyed the "Obama legacy", his opponents will now try to restore this very legacy (to demonstrate that a rollback is possible), and destroy the legacy of Trump himself. But if they manage to create the appearance of the first, then there will be problems with the second, since Biden's eroded internal legitimacy will make part of American society immune to these efforts as part of the formation of internal opposition not only to the party dictate, but also to the system itself, which are now intertwined in a hot anti-Trump embrace. And among these masses, Trump's legacy will continue to live on in the form of ingrained ideas voiced by this ridiculous billionaire, who shook seemingly unshakable foundations. And we will certainly see the emergence of these ideas in the medium term.

 

 

Edited January 18, 2021 by Roman Alymov

[Stargrunt6]

Prediction:  several Ruby Ridge-Waco type scandals in the next few years.

[Roman Alymov]

From Russian facebook

[nitflegal]

Biden should go all in just to see what happens.  Keep the barriers up, roll out some Abrams tanks and throw in some Chinese ZTZ-99's in white UN paintwork.  That ought to get the insurrection and guerilla war up and running ahead of schedule.  

[Jeff]

4 hours ago, BansheeOne said:

It should be admitted that in light of the zombie fad over the last decade, the undead threat has certainly been neglected in security planning for presidential inaugurations, regardless of politics. 

On a more serious note, this seems to have been the previous standard post-9/11:

https://www.govtech.com/em/safety/Securing-Presidential-Inauguration.html

 

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/87853-hail-to-the-chief----2017-inauguration-day-security

Yes when tens of thousands were expected to attend. This will be virtual with no crowds.

[Jeff]

They're forting up.

Dems Demand Public Locked Out Of Capitol Grounds Forever – Publish Bill To Install Fence Despite Claiming Walls Don’t Work

[Mobius]

Biden should make a Pretorian Guard of people of color and women.

[Ivanhoe]

3 hours ago, Mobius said:

Biden should make a Pretorian Guard of people of color and women.

Is Gal Gadot available?

[R011]

Too Israeli.

[Ssnake]

7 hours ago, Mobius said:

Biden should make a Pretorian Guard of people of color and women.

Don't be ageist, or ableist. We need one-legged obese women pirates of color, age 70+ to tick off more boxes on the diversity checklist. They make the best bodyguards, everybody knows that.

[Wobbly Head]

2 hours ago, Ssnake said:

Don't be ageist, or ableist. We need one-legged obese women pirates of color, age 70+ to tick off more boxes on the diversity checklist. They make the best bodyguards, everybody knows that.

   The marxist gay vegan, one legged, transgender, Muslim retiree pretoian guard off color will certainly live up to the creed of an army of one.

[Der Zeitgeist]

13 hours ago, Mobius said:

Biden should make a Pretorian Guard of people of color and women.

Be careful what you wish for. 😄

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

They were going to just hire Chuck Norris, but he was part of the team that stormed the Capitol. Allegedly.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/01/14/nolte-twitter-mob-falsely-accused-chuck-norris-of-taking-part-in-capitol-riot/

It has to be a fabrication. If it was the real Chuck Norris, Washington wouldnt be there anymore.

Edited January 19, 2021 by Stuart Galbraith

[RETAC21]

49 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

They were going to just hire Chuck Norris, but he was part of the team that stormed the Capitol. Allegedly.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/01/14/nolte-twitter-mob-falsely-accused-chuck-norris-of-taking-part-in-capitol-riot/

It has to be a fabrication. If it was the real Chuck Norris, Washington wouldnt be there anymore.

The Real Chuck Norris confirmed it wasn't him, as he was in Texas, but then, being Chuck Norris means he can be in two places (at least) at the same time.