Hey here’s another idea for convenient housing for the troops deployed to the Capitol. There is a certain nearby Federal building that has been leased out and converted to a hotel. As private luxury liners were requisitioned for war service, I am sure there is a statute providing for a Federally owned facility to be requisitioned for housing of troops during a National Emergency. Problem solved, with an extra scoop of irony and a cherry on top!
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I know what you mean. Serving is hell. You might have expected these Guardsmen to have taken this difficulty in stride.
But the question is whether the order for them to move over was justified.
Meanwhile, what we see looks too much like that Kushner story where the Secret Service detail guarding the family was not allowed inside to use the facilities. Those people, too, often serve in very difficult circumstances and frequently risk their lives, but what the Kushners did to them was nevertheless unacceptable.
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Plus covid is in the ranks. Whoever among the Capitol police did this needs firing and banishment.
Any National Guard trooper who needs a hospital due to covid…trump should pay the bill. It was his insurrection after all.
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Yes.
In fact, they had been in the Visitors Center. Why exactly someone ordered them to move out is unclear (to me).
But I also like your idea of requisitioning the Old Post Office building that is now Trump’s hotel.
(Incidentally, his lease technically does not run out until the 2070s, but I doubt his holding companies will last that long.)
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Seems donnie’s businesses are crashing wholesale. The best that can be said is the Doral golf course broke even while most other enterprises are down 40% to 65%. And those figures are before his riot. The riot really bagged his brand.
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The Kushners see themselves as some sort of Royalty I guess.
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Will you call the Tiny Violin Quintet or should I?
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I’d contribute a couple of boxes of Puffs, but they are in such short supply lately.
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The rest of the story is the neighborhood complained about the portapotty installed to supplement the 6½ bathrooms, so SS went down the street to the Obama’s bathroom. Then the Obama secret service detail kicked the Kushner SS out because they left such a mess. What’s with that? Maybe Kushners were justified? Solution was to rent a nearby apartment for bathroom facilities. Taxpayer cost 3,000.00/mo.
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I agree that relegating these Guardsmen to the parking lot or to sleep on stony floors is awful but lets not forget…they have leaders within their Corp. Those enlisted men and women sleeping on floors have officers above them and you can bet your ass they weren’t sleeping on the floor. They weren’t looking out for their men either.
This folks is the Military. A useless failed elitist organization that costs the shit out of America.
Not in my book.
If some individual agent(s) had to be disciplined or transferred, then that’s what you do. You don’t just punish everyone.
(Here I’m criticizing the Service as well as the Kushners.)
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Heh, may I put a visual to it?
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It makes you wonder if there are internal battles over who is in charge. I would also like to know what kind of risk assessment has been done. Is there a happy medium between having soldiers sleep in the capital and leaving it completely unprotected?
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Why don’t they bring in some FEMA trailers and hide them away in some obscure spots, for these guardsmen to bivouac in?
Wasn’t Homeland Security invented to overcome the gaps of authority between agencies? Shouldn’t they be thinking this way too?
We need a wholesale expulsion of all of Trump’s “Best People” still plaguing the process.
Someone from Trump’s team of self-destructive managers is jerking us all around still, and they are wearing a uniform.
I there any other explanation for this?
The chain of command seems disjointed, if not broken.
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When the US Military wins a war again ( not done since WW2 ) we can all sit in awe of their organization. There was no Military reason to relegate these soldiers to the garage. The company grade officers in charge of that clusterfuck obviously didn’t give a shit. Maybe they had a field setup O club and were more concerned about olive vs onion.
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I agree with the leadership failure aspect. This entire deployment has been poorly handled and the leadership needs to be evaluated. From the time when the first images of a bunch of soldiers lying around on the floor of the capitol was disseminated (fortunately looked at positively by the public) I’ve been struck by how badly it seems to have been planned and executed. Part of leadership responsibility is proper provisioning, including dealing with the optics that are actually part of the mission. This is just my opinion after a career as a Marine officer.
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Didn’t Nancy ask for the resignation of the Head of the Capitol Police?
The lack of firm leadership in the force could have something to do with it, too?
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But not his alone/ We could also send bills to those who spoke at the rally, Rudy, Mo Brooks, et al.
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I heard the Lewandowski Philharmonic Trombone Ensemble already secured the “Womp Womp Symphony” performance.
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There have been reports that many within the Capitol police department are on leave, pending investigation. Then there are some I assume that might still be recovering from injuries received, and thus their ranks may be diminished. So my guess is that chain of command is a little wonky right now.
And speaking of wonky this is about a GA defense attorney whose own defense attorney is pleading with a judge in GA not to lock him up because he needs to be in court to defend his clients. This GA attorney was in DC on 01/06 and one of the first in Pelosi’s office. Oh and he is getting treatment for his prostate cancer and needs to be for those.
I wonder how many other attorneys will be starring in their own version of “Attorneys Gone Wild: DC edition”?
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