20,000
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The number of National Guard that Trump authorized on 1/4/21 for additional security in Washington.
Pelosi did not request them.
The President can make them available, but the speaker must make a formal request. Apparently, Pelosi felt they were not needed.
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The fact that a bunch of imbeciles were able to storm the capitol, and that one of them got shot doing so, is a huge and enduring political win for Democrats. It will be taught in schools, with a wink wink that the kids probably shouldn't be on that political side.
Education is extremely important.
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When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The fact that a bunch of imbeciles were able to storm the capitol, and that one of them got shot doing so, is a huge and enduring political win for Democrats.
Or maybe a huge own-goal for the Magatariat.
Yes it's also a huge and enduring emotional win for TDS sufferers. I'm happy for you jon. I think I recall you even making an attempt to squeeze out a tear for the magat that got killed. That was a good show.
Education is extremely important.
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@horace Justice was served to her.
In the proper mood I can feel sorry for her as a victim of the vast magat grift machine that frothed her up. But in yet other moods such thoughts seem patronizing and I feel I should at least credit her with agency, in which case the pity dries up.
