As I have advised you many times there is neither a requirement to either read my comments nor to reply to them. They aren't really intended for you. They are intended to provide a counter-argument and not to allow warped and dangerous sentiments stand unchallenged.

If "jacking-off" to the speaking clock floats your boat, carry on. It wouldn't be the strangest thing I have ever heard happens in the Fens.

And you should know having embraced the local culture/community spirit for 12 years

Let's take this away from the 20th into more of a political positioning perspective.

While Trump's definitely an elite's he's also a nationalist so at the very least he represents a challenge to the near monopoly of globalism.

A stop gap if you like....a delay of the process.

I'd say you'd agree that the west as a society is heading towards a western 'China 2.0'...more corporate focused perhaps but an elite monoculture that controls an economically 'serf-like' population it keeps in nihilistic slumber with technological bread and circuses.

Now I know you think this system will ultimately win out...maybe it will. However, to bring in a silly Star Wars analogy if you are faced with supporting the republic, the Empire or being Han Solo (who later joins the republic) surely you aren't going to side with the Empire just because it possibly wins.

The X wing or the Tie fighter......Trump is Luke Skywalker ....just a rather horrible version who actually loses at the end of the first movie.

Better to die at the 'hot gates' than to be a slave to the Persians.

Ok, now I know these analogies have gone too far....but I'm two JDs in and I'll be having a third.

Edited by Stirlingsays (17 Jan 2021 10.34pm)

Quite.

But something really does not seem right at all. Those security measures seem completely over the top. In fact none of the security around Washington makes any sense whatsoever.

On the 6th of January, you have the kind of security measures you might see at a Dulwich Hamlet game. And now, for supposedly the most popular US President ever, tens of thousands of troops deployed and security measures on a level never seen before employed.

I also note, and would be incredibly happy to be told why, that it is primarily National Guard units being used and not regular Army.

Is that how these things are usually done or is there more to this? A 100% genuine question by the way with no slant or expectation of an answer I want to here. Just curiosity.

I am guessing here, but when was the last time the regular army were commissioned to quell public disorder? Surely, it is the job in the US for the National Guard to support local PD in extremis?

I quite enjoyed this summary of the mob

‘Still trying to wrap my head around the fact that a bunch of people
who think bill gates is going to inject them with a chip stormed the US capitol with their cell phones’ location data enabled.’

And this - an absolute classic

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