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The DoD leaders sent troops to defend their own houses hours before they sent troops to the Capitol (Original Post) Nevilledog Apr 2021 OP
Why aren't any of these treasonous pricks locked up?!? onecaliberal Apr 2021 #1
Names, we need all their names published and shamed, and kicked out of the military or their offices onetexan Apr 2021 #7
Something new coming every day. Cracklin Charlie Apr 2021 #23
Jail, or worse. These traitors are a huge danger to the nation. lagomorph777 Apr 2021 #27
Hard to see this as anything other than a military/trump coup UpInArms Apr 2021 #2
Exactly! PortTack Apr 2021 #3
+1 2naSalit Apr 2021 #18
It was a well coordinated attempted coup malaise Apr 2021 #4
👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 onecaliberal Apr 2021 #9
It was a well coordinated attempted coup malaise Apr 2021 #5
Precisely onetexan Apr 2021 #8
It never surprised me that the coup failed... Ferrets are Cool Apr 2021 #19
It didn't fail. It was practice. jaxexpat Apr 2021 #33
It did fail malaise Apr 2021 #34
Tet 68 was a failure but they still won in 75. jaxexpat Apr 2021 #35
I too worry that they will try again malaise Apr 2021 #36
So they thought if they sent in troops Dear Leader's mob would turn on them? tanyev Apr 2021 #6
Can you imagine how much bamagal62 Apr 2021 #10
Every new piece of information about that day makes me more angry. Biophilic Apr 2021 #11
Why are DOD leaders even allowed to send security to their own private homes?? Or did riversedge Apr 2021 #12
Need to identify the names of those officials. LiberalFighter Apr 2021 #13
Who did they think was going to come to their houses? CrispyQ Apr 2021 #14
Good question. Maybe they were worried about blowback if the coup was successful. Gaugamela Apr 2021 #15
They were not protesters. lagomorph777 Apr 2021 #28
I'm not referring to the insurrectionists. I'm referring to all the liberals who would take to Gaugamela Apr 2021 #30
I didn't get that at all from your post. lagomorph777 Apr 2021 #31
Anyway, I don't advocate violence. N/t. Gaugamela Apr 2021 #32
That's the first thing I though of also. They must have expected something much bigger crickets Apr 2021 #20
Drummed out? lagomorph777 Apr 2021 #29
Hand them each a pistol and send them each into a room alone. rickford66 Apr 2021 #16
WTF?! summer_in_TX Apr 2021 #17
Obviously if their dear leader wanted a rebellion... Kablooie Apr 2021 #21
If this is swept under the rug we might as well wipe our asses with the Constitution Mr. Ected Apr 2021 #22
I don't think that the pentagon's own security forces are troops... reACTIONary Apr 2021 #24
Didn't T45 request 12K troops? IbogaProject Apr 2021 #25
Multiple long prison sentences will be needed. lagomorph777 Apr 2021 #26

onetexan

(12,994 posts)
7. Names, we need all their names published and shamed, and kicked out of the military or their offices
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 12:07 PM
Apr 2021

If civilian.

malaise

(267,845 posts)
4. It was a well coordinated attempted coup
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 11:50 AM
Apr 2021

Last edited Sun Apr 11, 2021, 12:39 PM - Edit history (1)

Thankfully it failed. Lock them all the fuck up starting with the insurrectionist in chief

malaise

(267,845 posts)
5. It was a well coordinated attempted coup
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 11:50 AM
Apr 2021

Thankfully it failed. Lock the all the fuck up starting with the insurrectionist in chief

Ferrets are Cool

(21,064 posts)
19. It never surprised me that the coup failed...
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 02:01 PM
Apr 2021

it has, however, astounded me that it did not turn into a siege/standoff with hostages...with them demanding "their man" be declared the winner.

jaxexpat

(6,703 posts)
33. It didn't fail. It was practice.
Mon Apr 12, 2021, 11:35 AM
Apr 2021

The fact that no one has yet to suffer ANY consequences is proof of its success. The next time it will be the anti-insurrectionists who suffer consequences of failure to prevent the coup. I mean it's April already and the public has yet to hear a single believable excuse for the NG tardiness that day

jaxexpat

(6,703 posts)
35. Tet 68 was a failure but they still won in 75.
Mon Apr 12, 2021, 06:57 PM
Apr 2021

90 days and no straight talk from the Pentagon about their performance on Jan 6. Who's running that place anyway? The commander in chief or what? Trump lost the election. His NOT squatting in the White House isn't victory. It's government functioning normally. What next a national holiday because we have no Marshall law? Yet? It could just be that I've been traveling, yea me first time in 15 months, through the south this week. If there's a change of heart in the general populous it's not showing up in Georgia or Tennessee or Kentucky. That is if truck stop rest room graffiti or public mask usage is any indication. Maybe it's just that I'm not accustomed to the regular flag waver crowd so heartily wishing a white potus so much ill. Feeling manipulated more than usual of late.

tanyev

(42,363 posts)
6. So they thought if they sent in troops Dear Leader's mob would turn on them?
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 11:52 AM
Apr 2021

Or they truly believed Antifa would show up for an epic DC Armageddon? I’d like to think that our military leaders are not a bunch of self-absorbed chickensh** cowards.

bamagal62

(3,218 posts)
10. Can you imagine how much
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 12:24 PM
Apr 2021

More evidence they probably have that we haven’t been privy to yet? There must be justice. There must be accountability. People need to go to jail.

Biophilic

(3,488 posts)
11. Every new piece of information about that day makes me more angry.
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 12:41 PM
Apr 2021

And I was plenty angry before. I do hate the feeling that these people will get away with this-at least in that there won't be any consequences for them...and that makes me even more angry. They tried to take over my government!!! Urg a thousand times than another thousand. How many times do we have to clench our teeth and try not to hurt ourselves with our tightly fisted hands? I am so over this.

riversedge

(69,731 posts)
12. Why are DOD leaders even allowed to send security to their own private homes?? Or did
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 12:45 PM
Apr 2021

they do this just because?? were there threats?????


And WHO are these leaders?? so many questions.

CrispyQ

(36,234 posts)
14. Who did they think was going to come to their houses?
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 01:13 PM
Apr 2021


Trumpers? Antifa? Not getting this. Also, how far away from the Capitol are their houses? If it's several blocks or more, what exactly were they expecting? A massive riot? Or targeted attacks against each one of them specifically? We need answers. Will we get any?

Gaugamela

(2,486 posts)
15. Good question. Maybe they were worried about blowback if the coup was successful.
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 01:20 PM
Apr 2021

Shoot the protesters in the street, like Myanmar.

Gaugamela

(2,486 posts)
30. I'm not referring to the insurrectionists. I'm referring to all the liberals who would take to
Mon Apr 12, 2021, 11:03 AM
Apr 2021

the streets to protest against a right wing coup. The protesters being shot in the streets by the Myanmar military aren’t insurrectionists. Once the coup takes place the reaction of the population has to be suppressed.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
31. I didn't get that at all from your post.
Mon Apr 12, 2021, 11:06 AM
Apr 2021

The Pentagon brass aren't stupid. They know which side has all the gunners, and which side does all the damage. They knew the right-wing rebellion was dangerous to them, and to the country. They chose to protect themselves.

crickets

(25,896 posts)
20. That's the first thing I though of also. They must have expected something much bigger
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 02:15 PM
Apr 2021

than what occurred (which was scary enough, tyvm) so of course somebody's first thought was to throw away oaths to the Constitution and protect their homes before protecting elected representatives and the rest of us. They literally left the country undefended to take care of their property first. If only to see them drummed out of the service, we need names. There's just no way this should be allowed to slide.

Kablooie

(18,572 posts)
21. Obviously if their dear leader wanted a rebellion...
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 02:21 PM
Apr 2021

Who were they to object?
The election was stolen from him after all.

...

I haven’t heard a single thing about them actually supporting trump and his hoard but every thing points to that.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
22. If this is swept under the rug we might as well wipe our asses with the Constitution
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 02:26 PM
Apr 2021

Or at least put an asterisk next to it, as in *not meant to be taken literally.

reACTIONary

(5,749 posts)
24. I don't think that the pentagon's own security forces are troops...
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 03:08 PM
Apr 2021

... I think they may be the federal security force, basically police, some not much more than rent-a-cops.

And before this the real troops were approved and were gearing up.

IbogaProject

(2,694 posts)
25. Didn't T45 request 12K troops?
Mon Apr 12, 2021, 10:41 AM
Apr 2021

Wasn't there a report that T45 had requested ten or twelve thousand troops and the DOD slow walked it. They had a clear idea it was going to run out of momentum by happy hour time and troops would have aided T45's goal to declare martial law. So maybe this time they may have done ok, in hind sight.

I am in favor for DC becoming a state w a governor and a clear National Guard force w/o political appointees in the chain of command.

I am also in favor of investigating this issue of security being deployed to them selves before they moved to protect the civilian political chain of command, Pence, Pelosi and whomever in that line of succession was in danger.

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