Saturday, January 23, 2021

tip of the hat and applause to Rep Madison Cawthorne, who brought pizza and offered a place to sleep to the troops who Biden forgot, after the powers that be decided that 25,000 national guard troops needed to sleep on the floors of parking garages in Washington DC


I can totally ignore the self serving phot op for anyone that will pay for and deliver pizza. I'm not that proud, as I do love pizza. 

National Guard troops were let back into the U.S. Capitol complex after being banished to a parking garage for their rest area on Thursday.

CNN reports, after protecting the Capitol during the Inauguration, thousands of National Guardsmen were moved into a parking garage and were told they could no longer use space within the US Capitol Complex, including areas like the cafeteria of a Senate office building, as a rest area.

“Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service. Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage ...” one Guardsman

All National Guard troops were told to vacate the Capitol and nearby congressional buildings on Thursday, and to set up mobile command centers outside or in nearby hotels, another Guardsman confirmed. They were told to take their rest breaks during their 12-hour shifts outside and in parking garages, the person said.

“Just made a number of calls and have been informed Capitol Police have apologized to the Guardsmen and they will be allowed back into the complex tonight,” added Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.  an American politician and retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel serving as the junior United States Senator from Illinois since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented Illinois's 8th district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017 ), who lost both of her legs in combat. “I’ll keep checking to make sure they are.”

“As Congress is in session and increased foot traffic and business is being conducted, Capitol Police asked the troops to move their rest area,” Murphy said. “They were temporarily relocated to the Thurgood Marshall Judicial Center garage with heat and restroom facilities. We remain an agile and flexible force to provide for the safety and security of the Capitol and its surrounding areas.”

Guard leadership did not make the decision and are “doing their best to provide rest shelter for troops who are still on 12-hour shifts protecting the Capitol and congressional grounds,” the second Guardsman said.

The group was forced to rest in a nearby parking garage without internet reception, with just one electrical outlet, and one bathroom with two stalls for 5,000 troops (which proves that the military should always be supplied with decks of cards)

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/national-guard-troops-vacate-capitol-461220

Reminder, the Capitol and congressional grounds

They are the jurisdiction of the "capitol police force"

 1/2 the size of the entire Washington DC police dept, 

with it's own intel dept, 

a 456 million dollar annual budget, 

which was shown a couple weeks ago to be unable to secure one building in the face of an expected disruptive protest, nor was that an incident that just slipped under the radar. The joint session inside was the single biggest news event in the United States that day, and the rioters had been planning disruptive protest for weeks, in the open. 

In the past two decades, the Capitol Police has grown into one of the largest, best-funded and most single-focus police departments in the country, with a budget of more than $460 million and around 2,000 sworn officers to guard just 2 square miles of the capital.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/08/capitol-police-failure-456237

Also keep in mind, that packing tens of thousands of troops into garages; which to thousands, and thousands of troops, are also known as tight quarters - during a pandemic, which is known as a time of a contagious disease, after they are no longer needed (when the actual police force for that building are still getting full pay and benefits despite being replaced by minimum wage national guard troops). 

The massive deployment incited by the media and Democrats succeeded in bolstering a theatrical production, which painting Trump, and his supporters, as an imminent threat, and it was successful in convincing a large number of people which don't think about, for a moment, that such events are nothing more than propaganda created to sway them to be convinced of a point of view conducive to the incoming political party who can pull off such events. (wag the dog, does that phrase ring a bell?)

Also, this on the same day Biden decides to order face masks on EVERYONE on federal property, so he is not wearing his mask at some speech at the Lincoln Memorial

I'm certain that there is a positively liberal democrat explanation why he shouldn't wear a mask after signing an executive order to do so. Must be very illuminating. Do I want anyone to send me a single word about it? No. Not so much. Just remember, I don't need to be proven wrong to make me a better person, I'm pretty much ok with being less than perfect in every way, every day, and just move along. 

https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-federal-mask-mandate-empty-122415690.html

Biden’s executive order says that people in federal buildings must comply with the CDC’s public safety guidelines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Lincoln Memorial isn't a federal building in Washington DC? It's not a federal government funded monument? 


Also, keep in mind, I am just a car guy, who has a blog. I don't ask you if it's ok with you that I post this, or anything else. If my post upsets you, gee, that really doesn't matter to me, not even a little bit. If after 46,000 posts, you're upset that I say something about memory challenged -


hypocrit pedo -


people I do not like and you should not let within reach of your daughters


Sadly, it's the 2 party political system of pay back politics for campaign contributors that has let down a nation of barely staying out of poverty citizens (how's that credit card, mortgage, and student loan debt?) by not motivating and selecting from a group of wonderful people who will be willing and able to be respected while in elected national office, like the presidential or congressional offices. 

I don't know how hard it is to find a Mike Rowe, a Roy Rodgers, Will Rogers, Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, or a fire fighter, nurse, grade school or high school teacher, carpenter, plumber, hero, icon, or simply some retired person that realizes they are fed up with politicians, and instead, will run for office because it's the tail end of a lifetime of public service which began with the scouts as a 2nd grader. I've got 24 heroes that I recommend http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/hero and where the hell is Maine State Trooper Stephan Murray when he country needs him? Dang, he'd be a great president. 

I think you can find 46,004 other posts where I don't mention politicians. This is not a political blog, never has been, and this wasn't a political post, it's complimenting a guy who remembers the troops, and brings pizza. If you can't support that? Find something else to like that doesn't support the national guard, pizza, or people who are in wheelchairs because they were a passenger in an 'asleep at the wheel' crash.

10 comments:

  1. There’s a scene in the 1941 film “Maltese Falcon” that goes like this: Kasper Gutman (Sidney Greenstreet) offers a toast to Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) saying, ”Here’s to plain speaking and clear understanding”. That, my friend, you have achieved.

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  2. I'm with you brother. Clay.

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  3. You've been out in Cali too long. The ruling class makes the rules, the servile adhere to them. Simple as that. Underneath it all realize they know what's best for us.

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  4. As a veteran I was appalled at this treatment , thanks for posting it so others can see how they feel about our military.

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  5. I see what is happening before me, and pray God save us, God save America.

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  6. Thank you, Jesse.

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  7. several years ago I stopped visiting your blog over some political stuff you were proclaiming. I did like the car stuff. So after a few years I checked back in and guess what? You have changed your opinions quite a bit. Good for you. Churchill said, "when the facts change, I change my mind." Well only the narrative has changed but still I'm glad to see that your mind is open.

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  8. I'm curious how a decent blog ca be produced by such a sorry, sorry, human being?

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  9. Thanks Jesse for having a place that is real. Yours is the last blog I read before bed because it it's good. The shit going on in DC piss's me off. Today at walmart parking lot there were 3 cops outside near me and one of them was sick and vomiting. I offered them some bottled water so the guy could at least rinse his mouth out.

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  10. You're a good person. Ignore the trolls.
    Great site!

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