Donald Trump on Friday said he does not enjoy running for president and criticized state and federal prosecutors for not offering him plea deals, capping a rough seven days for the Republican presidential nominee.
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Last time Trump actively prevented security forces from doing their jobs. This time the fuckers won’t have that kind of luck.
Justice Roberts: “Well, actually, the constitution actually says the last president does take control of the nation’s armed forces, so long as he currently lives in a state that isn’t north of Virginia. It also specifically says this only counts if he needs to wear suntan lotion while he golfs at his own course, weird.”
Biden: “Well, actually, locking you up in gitmo is an official act. You are acting in support of a domestic terrorist. I’ll make sure they have a soft serve machine for you.”
One can only hope.
I can’t even hope that much.
It took biden’s admin over two and a half years to get fucking nuclear secrets back… because that’d be “political”.
When trump stopped being president he had no need to have or access those documents. That case should have been simple, cut and dry, and a total slam dunk.
But it took them another 3 years to get the special prosecutor going on it.
Naw. I have zero hopes that Biden will actually swing back.
Not running for reelection, I dunno… maybe dude grows a backbone and surprises us. Not holding my breath… but who knows… maybe we get lucky?
I sure hope that is the case, but I pessimisticly fear a weak response to the next Jan 6 attempt because taking steps to put down a violent insurrection is “too political.”
They’ve already declared the highest level of security in the city for that day, fwiw.
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It would not surprise me if there is a full military division guarding the capital. They aren’t going to get anywhere near the place.
Last inauguration times the military setup huge concrete barriers and had the legit soldiers in place and I’m assuming it was DC national armed guard not you know US military cuz of rules and whatnot but nobody was getting into the capital with the gravy seals.
Right…
But anything less than that isn’t going to be enough. “Standby” isn’t enough.
And I don’t think Biden will want that optics. And I don’t think Kamala will push him to do it for the same reasons
I hope I’m wrong, it wouldn’t be the first time
But I really don’t think we’ll have enough in place, and that trump will do anything to avoid prison.
Hell, after last time they shouldn’t even let anyone close to the building. Set up a perimeter a block out and anyone that breeches doesn’t get back up again. I don’t think it’ll only take one bullet twice.
Attacking Congress to overturn an election has to be the definition of “fuck around and find out”. It can’t be less than protesting for civil rights.
It doesn’t matter what’s on standby off-site. Shit needs to be there and ready. A display of excessive force is the only thing that might prevent the attempt.
If they think the only thing between them and Congress is a couple dozen cops in riot gear…
trumpers aren’t known for their skills at risk assessment, they’ll go for it. Even knowing NG is a phone call away, they’ve blocked traffic in cities for dumber shit, the people doing it probably wouldn’t even know why they’re doing it, they’d think that was the whole “protest” like the rest of the city shutdowns they keep trying.
Biden is rightly not going to give a shit about “optics”. He cares about democracy. Full stop. There will be a fuck ton of military guarding the capital on Jan. 6.
We had the national guard post folks who were sleeping while armed in hallways in Congress in the aftermath of the last riot on the Capitol.
That seems like the minimum level of security that we should be having this time around, too.