Joe
Biden's Inauguration from 3am Thursday 21 January Sydney, Australia time will be screened live on SBS TV. The actual swearing-in occurs at
12noon Washington time, Wednesday 20 January.
Trump has organised 2
distractions hours before the Inauguration:
1. A military parade at nearby Andrews Air Force Base (see map below) to which a Trumpster crowd is invited. The crowd are due to assemble from 11.15pm (Sydney Time) Wednesday 20 January. Trump may well do more crowd incitement. Trump's timing allows several hours for this crowd to travel to central Washington, to do their worst during the Noon (US time) Inauguration. As Andrews Air Base is about 15 miles southeast of the Inauguration at the Capitol Building Trumpsters could even start a riot distraction within the Andrews area itself.
During Trump’s 6 January Insurrection many Trumpters appeared to have military training in coordinated action. So riots drawing the attention of security forces (Secret Service, FBI, National Guard and police) may be coordinated with more deadly shooting and bombing incidents.
(Map courtesy WashPost via Twitter).
2. Instead of attending the Inauguration (as is customary) Trump will fly from Andrews Air Base to one of his palaces, just north of Miami Florida. This will establish an alibi before the likely riot in Washington. It is also possible Trump may incite a crowd in the Miami area.
Additional scenarios to Trumpster violence in/around Washington are Trumpster Riots of Opportunity in US State Capitals and other major US cities. These may happen while most US security attention is focused on Washington.
If any violence happens this will dominate Aussie morning news, on Thursday 21 January. The most sustained reporting for us, is likely to be "ABC America World News" 12.30pm Sydney time, on SBS TV. This will be immediately followed, at 1pm, by "PBS NewsHour" on SBS TV.
Here's hoping nothing
violent happens.
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P.S. After the Inauguration.
Well I wrote "Here's hoping nothing violent
happens." above and that was happily met.
But it seems some Far Right Extremists expected Trump to dream up some strategy to extend his Presidency. Some of them are angry about Trump not doing that and are holding their fire potentially for another day.
In that regard see 5 minutes 20 seconds of this PBS NewsHour video on the Washington D.C. "Mall" hours after the Inauguration Swearing-In: Just click on 17:40 to 23 minutes.
Expect more Far Right Extremist activity once US Security's guard drops a notch.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38790/australia-reportedly-looking-at-an-alternative-to-its-costly-new-french-designed-submarines says Defence is looking at son (child?) of Collins. You can read AFR article for free if you click it from Google.
ReplyDeleteHi David Candy
ReplyDeleteRe The Drive article carrying the latest in a long line of Swedish suggestions for a Swedish designed Collins II.
My response has become so long that I will respond with an Article in about 16 hours time.
And this is assuming violence at Biden's Inauguration hasn't amounted to a new crisis.
Regards
Pete
President Biden at 3am EDST, President Harris by 4am?
ReplyDeletePete,
ReplyDeleteThe article's heading itself is problematic in my view i.e. it presupposes an event conducted by a group of people regarding a future state that has yet to happen. Calling a group of people that has yet to meet as "rioters" is symbolic of a major problem in a very polarized society. Facts become irrelevant; due process doesn't apply but attribution and supposition is the name of the game.
In contrast, the Portlnd riots went on for weeks, burning down properties estimated at a valuation of $2 billion. The MSM insist it was mostly peaceful and that the "rioters" had the right to protest even burning down public properties. We are living in an age where it is simply opinion and not reality where right is wrong and wrong is right.
Calling the recent Washington event as Trump's insurrection is a one sided political narrative based on attribution and not facts. In the second debate between Biden and Trump. Biden was asked about the BLM riots and his response was that BLM is simply an idea. One can argue that Biden's response was giving aid, comfort and encouragement to a bunch of rioters and anarchist and should be impeached the moment he takes office. That is the present standard being applied to Trump and in fairness should also apply to Biden. I would not hold my breath though because the society I see today is neither rational nor logical and double standards have become the means to an end.
Brumby
Pete,
ReplyDeleteClearly there was no "rioting" during the inauguration but BLM did turn up on MLK day to cause trouble resulting in injuries to 11 police officers. Funny how the news media still call them protesters.
Such is the age of disinformation and ideological bias (hypocrisy).
https://abc7ny.com/nyc-protest-on-mlk-day-nypd-clash-with-police/9793273/
Brumby
Hi Brumby
ReplyDeleteYes potential pro-Trump rioters, aware that US Security elements fully had their guard up, didn't riot over the last 24 hours, as far as I can see. This doesn't preclude violence by pro-Trump extremists, somewhere, sometime, when the Security Guard is lowered a notch.
Thanks for https://abc7ny.com/nyc-protest-on-mlk-day-nypd-clash-with-police/9793273/ - on Martin Luther King (MLK) Day, January 18, 2021, this looks like a serious riot.
Most media, often center-left, do have a double standard, and pretty much like everyone else, they were focussed on Washington Inauguration January 20 issues.
It will be interesting to see how Biden and Harris handle left-BLM-style rioting during the next 4 years. I predict police forces will eventuall be permitted to crack down on left-BLM rioters.
Harris after all, has a tough Law and Order reputation from her California State office-holder/politician days https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/23/18184192/kamala-harris-president-campaign-criminal-justice-record
Regards
Pete