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2021-02-14 Home Front: Politix

Biden White House Plan to Keep Occupying Troops in DC Through End of Year

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Posted by Frank G 2021-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Just put a wall and barbed wire around DC's key governmental buildings and bury mines in the streets. Cheaper that way.

Posted by Thineger Sproing6704 2021-02-14 02:46|| 2021-02-14 02:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting, Tiananmen Square redux. the crooked bastards need to be surrounded by troops in order to hold office.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-14 02:53|| 2021-02-14 02:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Or the Green Zone.
Do these assholes realize how ridiculous they are?

Posted by Sheating Sinatra7535 2021-02-14 02:57|| 2021-02-14 02:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I see a future, it is not pleasant for some, do you see that future through the fog too?

Posted by Don Vito Hupaiger9378 2021-02-14 03:04|| 2021-02-14 03:04|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ A very lucrative business development opportunity appears to be surfacing. If I knew their final resting places, I could become an instant millionaire selling maps and grave pissing permits.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-14 03:18|| 2021-02-14 03:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Make the Democrats to produce EVIDENCE of the long term need for more troops than were in Baghdad.

This is smelling more and more like a coup. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1879 should be enforced, and they must answer for why they are breaking the law.

Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. 18 U.S.C. § 1385.

Arrest Pelosi and Impeach Biden NOW.

Posted by Threque Whosing7013 2021-02-14 04:03|| 2021-02-14 04:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Gee, since Biden & Co. have that "mandate from the American people", then what are they so afraid of?

Posted by Clem 2021-02-14 05:21|| 2021-02-14 05:21|| Front Page Top

#8 They are wise to protect themselves with troops.....
Just leave town.

Posted by Xyz 2021-02-14 08:21|| 2021-02-14 08:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, remember how the troops protected Ceaucescu...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-02-14 08:29|| 2021-02-14 08:29|| Front Page Top

#10 The current authorized deployment of 7,000 National Guard troops in D.C. runs through March 12, coming in at a cost of nearly half-a-billion dollars since the January 6 riot at the Capitol. Guard deployment topped out at around 25,000 during the Biden inauguration.

....Being but a Wing Wiper of Very Little Brain, I'm at a loss to understand why this misbegotten deployment is costing north of five hundred billion dollars.

For starters, it should ONLY be DC guard there, though one can make a reasonable case for including MD and VA as well. Instead, units from nearly all states are there and that, quite frankly, is Male Bovine Scatalogical Material and needs to be called out as such.

Secondly, there are LOTS of places in the immediate area that the guys can be billeted using military resources - the Mall, at least two sports stadiums, two Air Force bases, and one Navy Base. (The Marines at 8th and I would probably have something to say about it, and it wouldn't be pleasant.) Oh, wait - if we did that, it would inconvenience people, and we can't have that.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-02-14 09:42|| 2021-02-14 09:42|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ $500 Million, Mike.
It's only that low, because they make the troops sleep in a parking garage

Posted by Frank G 2021-02-14 09:56|| 2021-02-14 09:56|| Front Page Top

#12 They'll need troops and lots of them, to enforce EO changes to the 2nd Amendment and they know it. Just getting us accustomed to the 'new norm' of martial law.

If a policeman refuses to confiscate your shotgun (participates in selective enforcement), he is fired and finds work elsewhere.

If a soldier refuses to confiscate your shotgun (refuses to comply with an order), he goes to Leavenworth.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-14 10:18|| 2021-02-14 10:18|| Front Page Top

#13 All-in fully loaded cost of prob'y $300/day per guardsman
* 7,000 guardsmen = ~$2.1m/day
* ~200 days = $420m

Add in another $70-$80m to account for 7 days @25,000 guardsmen after the CapHill brouhaha and there's your half-billion

Posted by Thenter Pelosi8896 2021-02-14 10:19|| 2021-02-14 10:19|| Front Page Top

#14 The Posse Comitatus Act

Obama Executive Order 13528 Subverts Posse Comitatus Act of 1878

Posted by Snusotch Thravising2360 2021-02-14 10:23|| 2021-02-14 10:23|| Front Page Top

#15 Confucius say, "Boucherie hidden,
And recipes mostly unwritten,
But boudin is made --
Help yourself! Lemonade? --
In the bowels of the City Forbidden."

Posted by Maggie Hupomp2614 2021-02-14 10:48|| 2021-02-14 10:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Wait - you mean they haven't arrested all the crazy right-wing extremists? Surly, they have them 'on the run' by now!

Posted by Bobby 2021-02-14 11:35|| 2021-02-14 11:35|| Front Page Top

#17 In one of the previous cycles of violence from Peking to Taiwan... Taiwan pulled out their Bamboo Gang card.
It turned out some of the premier guards of the top CCP leaders in their homes in the CCP leadership walled community in Peking were both revered CCP trusted communist guards and deeply embedded Bamboo Gang agents. They murdered a couple of top CCP people they were supposed to be protecting and quietly slipped out of the country. This was likely through Burma where one of the old KMT armies was still hanging out as a drug gang.
If the thugs in the CCP couldn't protect themselves at home what in the hell are the Democrats in D.C. drinking to think that they can hunker down behind force if things go south?

Posted by 3dc 2021-02-14 11:46|| 2021-02-14 11:46|| Front Page Top

#18 The Bamboo Gangs were an arm of the KMT army/drug barons in Burma. Since the halt in the civil war if somebody outside China wanted to get mail or money to relatives in China the Bamboo Gangs were a secure functional way to do so.

Posted by 3dc 2021-02-14 11:50|| 2021-02-14 11:50|| Front Page Top

#19 Kuomintang’s 8th Army, 26th Division, and 93rd Division crossed into Burma's Shan State when the KMT main army went to Taiwan.

Posted by 3dc 2021-02-14 11:57|| 2021-02-14 11:57|| Front Page Top

#20 if somebody outside China wanted to get mail or money to relatives in China

Kinda Knights Templar.

Posted by Kojo Big Foot1870 2021-02-14 12:30|| 2021-02-14 12:30|| Front Page Top

#21 Also, they'll be wearing masks. Hasn't helped yet, but that's just because we aren't trying hard enough. Couple more years will do it for sure!

Posted by Angstrom 2021-02-14 17:25|| 2021-02-14 17:25|| Front Page Top

#22 Title 32 vs Title 10. Guard troops in the former are exempt from the provisions of Posse Comitatus since they are under the command and control of their respective Governors and fherefore state forces paid by the federal government. The key is the Governor, not the SecDef or President has command Authority. My guess is Red State Governor have pulled back fheir folks.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-02-14 20:39|| 2021-02-14 20:39|| Front Page Top

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