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How many consecutive days did DC go without a homicide once the guard was deployed?

Also, you may recall, in 2021 the guard was deployed in DC from Jan 2021 through May 2021.

$BTW, that $350 billion is more than 1/3 the ENTIRE military budget.

#11 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT"

Assuming the reported numbers are even correct - $1 million per day for 35 days is $35 million. Your number is WAY off. Astronomically so.

Typo on your part?

"#13 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-08-29 02:42 AM | REPLY | FLAG:"

When pressed by Eberly you claimed you plonked LegallyGivesHead.

Yet, you emulate that POS 80% of the time. I am beginning to think the only reason you have that despicable bot "plonked" is because it is you and you think that you are so smart (Vizzini) that a simple obfuscation will confuse us plebes into questioning the possibility (likelihood) that LGH is a sock puppet account of your creation.

"e also remember, unlike you, why they were deployed."

For 4 months?

You are in a conundrum. You don't see it, yet, but when you do you are going to be FURIOUS with me for recognizing it.

"I'm sure this will be bulls*&^, but go on.

#18 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-08-29 02:57 AM"

The national guard presence post J6 was 'ostensibly' to guard the capitol. I am not aware of any credible reporting that the J6 riot was anything other than a protest that turned violent for a few hours.

I have never seen any allegations, certainly not backed by credible reporting, that J6 was anything other than a one-off. Yet, the core capitol buildings were temporarily transformed into military compounds for 4 months without any credible evidence of anything remotely akin to a repeat event.

This thread is about the exorbitant cost of the deploying the guard for 1/4 of the time they were deployed in 2021 and they are being much more active than being stationed to "deter" a threat that no longer existed vs. being productive for this time frame.

For the record, My only opposition to National Guard troops being deployed to DC for 4 months during 2021 was because it seemed like it was purely to create a narrative that J6ers were a genuine threat when it was already neutralized within a day.

That's all it did.

Yet, the recent deployment has resulted in seriously tangible results in actual crime reduction.

As a Federalist, broad executive actions need constraints. So, when Trump talks about doing the same in Chicago...No. Not without consent or with narrow quelling of ongoing riots and passive protection of federal assets.

I hope that provides light as to where I am currently at with all of this.

"You're okay with spending $35 million taxpayer dollars so the national guard can pick up trash. "

You cheered 4 times that much being spent in a less productive manner Jan - May 2021 'protecting' federal buildings that were not in any kind of danger....

"That dips*&^ is fine with whatever Trump tells him to be fine with.

Expecting any sort of standard, consistency or integrity from ballwasher is like expecting...well...I don't know. I can't think of anything that absurd.

#20 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-08-29 03:08 AM | REPLY | FLAG:"

Learn how to understand conceptual arguments.

1. Right now - Spending this kind of money on a daily basis to facilitate keeping the peace (with measurable results) resulting in substantial reduction in crime rates across almost every metric, arose the board.

2. Back in 2021 - Spending 3 times period of time to "guard" buildings that were under no tangible threat that required already established security that required any back up beyond what was already in place.

*For far less expenditure #1 is accomplishing more than #2 ever did, for less cost.

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I don't want this current DC blitz to go beyond 30 days. I absolutely don't want it to go to Chicago unless it's consensual.

LA was different- prolonged riots were fomenting and the guard was sent in to protect a federal building and to protect ICE officials carry out their duties. Contrary to 2020 these riots were very short-lived.

JPW lionizes the homicides and all of the other attrocrites of of the 2020 "Summer of Love" riots and then acts like 4 hours during J6, while bad, were exponentially worse than a mass extinctive event.

Screw you with well beyond Snoofy equivalencies.