Justice Roberts: “Well, actually,

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.”

They’ve already declared the highest level of security in the city for that day, fwiw.

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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.”

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.

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

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.

That would be ideal. Preferably with duct tape over his mouth and tiny hands.

And even if there’s no “protest” as cover, 100 guys in trucks rolling up with body armor and illegal automatic weapons would be a huge problem if NG isn’t already in place and settled in.

they can be tucked out of sight on capital hill grounds. Set up barriers and emplacements ahead of time. if you have the space it takes just a few minutes to get an MG emplacement set up.

The reality is, though, that non-scalable barriers needed to have been used the first time around. the crowd control barricades are only really useful for guiding crowd flow when the crowd is compliant (like, at concerts or stuff, to just keep people moving the direction they’re supposed to go. They’re not meant for riots.)

For riots (or potential riots,) you need something like these:

Or:

The first is outside Hennepin County Gov center after the Floyd protests broke out. The second is the US supreme Court building after the RvW leaks ahead their Dobbs decision. HCGC has since updated their external security perimeter to permanent non-scalables that fold out in a hurry. Otherwise they’re basically tall, triangular steel towers that look “almost” like some kind of art.

Basically each tower serves as 3 sections along a fence. two sections swing out and lock into the sections of the next barrier-tower. Normally, they’re folded back to allow more or less free movement (but they also act like bollards to stop vehicles and things.) but can be quickly deployed once word goes out that something is coming. IIRC, they added those only around the entrances to the HCGC, and the courtyard would have to be secured separately. Those only took like a year to install at HCGC.

and to anyone saying the optics are bad. The Jan 6 optics of insurrectionists smearing human feces on the wall were, and remain, far worse.

D.C. has crazy gun restrictions precisely for this reason, so a bunch of guys rolling up in 4x4s with AR’s aren’t getting far.

The reason 1/6 was so bad was because Trump had 2 months to collect them there for a legit, permitted speech.

If he has no power, there is no permit.

If there’s no permit, there’s no gathering.

100 guys in trucks rolling up with body armor and illegal automatic weapons would be a huge problem if NG isn’t already in place and settled in.

Then there will be 100 deaths. Because the military guarding the capital will be more like 7000 troops. And the entire Maryland national guard will be about 10 minutes away.

Why would he do a speech?

Last time it was a speech he had that encourage the riot. Doesn’t mean it has to be a similar style of speech the next time, but kinda makes sense that someone would think of this as the first thing that comes to mind.

He won’t be anywhere near DC this time.

Yeah he can probably give a speech from literally anywhere else in the US and there wouldn’t be much difference. Why would he want to get his hands dirty anyways?