. Most shops and restaurants are closed. Embassies are boarded up. The hum of the free world's power center is eerily muted.
Should things ever get back to "normal," remember that a right-wing assault on the Capitol — driven by conspiracy theories, white nationalist gangs, and the "Big Lie" of election fraud — destroyed the normalcy of the peaceful transfer of power. Trump's failed coup robbed America of the one thing a democracy needs to survive
But stripped to its barest essentials, every American could take pride in the fact that the peaceful transfer of power was maintained over two and a half centuries — even through a Civil War in which Americans killed other Americans for four years.We now know that thecould have been far deadlier and politically disastrous had the rioters been able to lay eyes on any of the lawmakers who fled their chambers with barely minutes to spare.
As a result, the District is essentially under military occupation, with more troops here than are currently stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan — byNational Guard troops at a checkpoint in Washington, DC, the day before Joe Biden's inauguration on January 19, 2021.I spoke with some of those troops. They seemed bored, pacing the hours away, many holding unloaded automatic rifles.
insidernews anthonyLfisher FUCK THE GLOBALIST, WE WANT TRUMP! TRUMP SHOWED US THE CORRUPTION AND SCANDALS WITHIN OUR GOVERNMENT, HE SHOWED US KNOWLEDGE WISDOM UNDERSTANDING IN MORE WAYS THEN ONE, TRUMP SHOWED US THAT THERE ARE LEADERS UPON US THAT HAVE ULTERIOR MOTIVES TO ERASE OUR FREEDOMS.1776
anthonyLfisher Biden won by tampering votes He bribed everyone
anthonyLfisher Never forget how cities burned and communities were looted for weeks on end and the media encouraged it*
anthonyLfisher BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA Unity. Good job business insider fn derp galore.
anthonyLfisher Trump sucked but the media has their hands dirty helping split this country apart. Time to stop the blaming and get this country back together and moving forward.
anthonyLfisher Trump bragged today there were no new wars during his tenure. I guess having DC look like a war zone and 400,000 Americans dead due to a virus don’t count.
anthonyLfisher Come on! Stop the F-ing Whinning. America was always like this already. Karma is hit us back and hard!
anthonyLfisher Never forget the SenateGOP aided and abetted in his crimes against America.
anthonyLfisher Get out of here!
anthonyLfisher Well what did you expect with this guy in charge.
anthonyLfisher thanks
anthonyLfisher The blaming of everything on Trump begins
anthonyLfisher Never forget how we got Trump who got us here.
anthonyLfisher Trump’s fault