www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/03/heritage-foundation-trump-revolution/
The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itself | The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
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Iirc, Jan 6 was not bloodless.
And it sure as heck wouldn’t have been if the capitol police let the insurrectionists have their way, either.
I still say the capitol police and secret service should’ve pulled automatic weapons out of concealed locations and opened fire. The insurrectionists were warned multiple times to vacate the premises and yet they pushed on threatening the very seat of power of the nation and until one of their own beloved met her maker.
I still don't understand why the guard wasn't there
Because the sole individual in charge of deploying the guard in DC was the same individual who told his rabid supporters to march there. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the DC National Guard needs to be led by a council (for lack of a better term) made up of the heads of the Capitol Police, National Guard Leadership, The Mayor/Governor of DC, the Speaker of the House, and the President of the Senate. That’s 5 members so there’s always an individual for a tiebreaker, and the US President is already in charge of the regular armed forces, there’s no need for him to be in charge of the DC Guard as well.
The military takes an oath to the Constitution, not the president, and now the president has immunity in any official acts related to removing anyone from rank who doesn't carry out his orders.
Yes, but the reason they didn’t deploy was because the orange fuck didn’t give them an order to. The leader of the DC National Guard came out and said he recalled everyone to get geared up, but that the order from the president never came. Remove him from the equation and we won’t have that problem again.
The military is a hierarchical institution and its conditioned into you to respect the chain of command
Contrary to popular belief people in the military can still spot a tyrannical fascist.
Technically Trump wanted them there, but he wanted them guarding his followers as they marched on the capital. In the end there were concerns of it looking like a coup so he decided not to order the guard in (read that as the military leadership talked him out of using the Nat'l Guard as a goon squad to protect his protestors).
Then when the calls came in that his followers were assaulting the capital he sat on his ass for hours watching it all unfold on TV.
Because of Nikki Haley!!
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I don’t understand why security wasn’t much tighter - better fences, the guard on site before anything got started…
My dumb civvy ass saw it coming enough that I took J6 off so I didn’t have to try to work if things went down. Capitol Hill’s security and our intelligence community had to know shit was gonna happen. Why weren’t they better prepared? Or, more accurately - who all ‘sabotaged’ the security plans?
The right wing are bullies and cowards. Their precious insurrection was over the moment that one of them went to meet their maker. They could have pushed on and broken into the house chamber if they had been willing to sacrifice some of their blood; they were armed. But they were all willing to fight to the last drop of someone else’s blood!
Got that right. Ashli Babbit was rightly shot and died. I guess her military training didn't cover listening to basic commands.
She was told not to breach the door and when she did, she died like the traitor she was.
Certainly a lot of other bodily fluids smeared about as well.