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Is Washington now the safest city in the World with all the police and troops in it?

  • 19-01-2021 12:16am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,849 ✭✭✭✭
    Ms


    It reminds me of a Star Trek DS9 episode "Paradise Lost" except it's on a smaller scale as in the episode when they think the shapeshifters are on Earth the whole planet Earth goes into lockdown with troops everywhere.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Mules


    AMKC wrote: »
    It reminds me of a Star Trek DS9 episode "Paradise Lost" except it's on a smaller scale as in the episode when they think the shapeshifters are on Earth the whole planet Earth goes into lockdown with troops everywhere.

    I like your analogy. I feel like watching that episode now :D
    I read an article earlier about the FBI running background checks on the national guard members who are at the Capitol. Apparently they are worried about an attack from within (changelings obviously :eek:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,717 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Apparently they are going to having counter intelligence snipers ready to shoot any of troops who tries something on, mad stuff


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Cerveza


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Apparently they are going to having counter intelligence snipers ready to shoot any of troops who tries something on, mad stuff

    Biden might drop the hand on lady ga ga


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,762 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    More US troops there now than Iraq and Afghanistan combined.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,382 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Well, people somehow managed to storm the capitol, an allegedly secure building, and someone else was able to fly a plane into the pentagon. I'm also pretty sure the National Guard is full of even loonier loons who couldn't get into the loon brigade army (but open to correction on this). Whatever they're like, I would not fancy being anywhere near that area.


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  • Posts: 5,369 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If you happen to be near the actual event, yeah it's 'safe' from random everyday crime.

    None of the police and military on duty will be patrolling or even be looking for normal crime though so muggings, etc shall continue


  • Posts: 5,369 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well, people somehow managed to storm the capitol, an allegedly secure building, and someone else was able to fly a plane into the pentagon. I'm also pretty sure the National Guard is full of even loonier loons who couldn't get into the loon brigade army (but open to correction on this). Whatever they're like, I would not fancy being anywhere near that area.

    National guard are reserves with normal jobs. Many may well have served full-time and plenty more will have been deployed abroad.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,596 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The murder rate in Washington, D.C., is 22.8 per 100,000.

    In Ireland its 0.9 per 100,000.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Cerveza wrote: »
    Biden might drop the hand on lady ga ga

    Maybe about 20 years ago


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Cerveza


    Maybe about 20 years ago

    She was only 14 then. You’re sick man.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Cerveza wrote: »
    She was only 14 then. You’re sick man.

    I was joking about bidens penchant for sniffing kids and his alleged tolerance for his sons alleged nefarious actions.

    Nowt to do with me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭Wilhelm III


    Cerveza wrote: »
    She was only 14 then. You’re sick man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,454 ✭✭✭NSAman


    great to see the democrats promoting unity of all Americans.

    Now if they could only change 80 million voters who didn’t vote for them..somehow calling those who voted for Trump white supremacists, domestic terrorists, is not the way to do it.

    D.C. is an awful bloody place and certainly not safe. Looks more like Guantanamo Bay than the nations capital at the moment. Mind you most city centers do.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 46 vurstflavor


    It's not safe someone could set off a bomb


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    NSAman wrote: »
    great to see the democrats promoting unity of all Americans.

    Now if they could only change 80 million voters who didn’t vote for them..somehow calling those who voted for Trump white supremacists, domestic terrorists, is not the way to do it.

    D.C. is an awful bloody place and certainly not safe. Looks more like Guantanamo Bay than the nations capital at the moment. Mind you most city centers do.

    What else should they call white supremacists and domestic terrorists?

    The right have some neck in calling for unity after so much forced division for so long. Thought the supposed party of law and order would recognize the need for accountability for ones actions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭the immortals


    What else should they call white supremacists and domestic terrorists?

    The right have some neck in calling for unity after so much forced division for so long. Thought the supposed party of law and order would recognize the need for accountability for ones actions.

    Everyone who voted for trump is a white supremacist, especially the Latinos, sure everyone knows that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Everyone who voted for trump is a white supremacist, especially the Latinos, sure everyone knows that

    Absolutely not. And no one is saying that.

    Not every one who voted for Trump is a White Supremacist, but I'd say it's pretty much guaranteed every white supremacist who voted, voted for Trump.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭Datacore


    Safe would imply it’s stable, peaceful and secure. It’s just the most heavily armed city in the world at the moment.

    It’s not somewhere I would particularly enjoy being right now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Stihl waters


    Everyone who voted for trump is a white supremacist, especially the Latinos, sure everyone knows that

    No one said that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Das Reich


    No one said that

    Read againg the comments baby.


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    Absolutely not. And no one is saying that.

    Not every one who voted for Trump is a White Supremacist, but I'd say it's pretty much guaranteed every white supremacist who voted, voted for Trump.

    So if not all 70 million Trump voters are white supremacists, then don't label all 70 million as white supremacists.

    There are probably a few thousand actual white supremacist KKK types in the states. They basically no longer exist and are an exxagerated bogeyman on the left. The people that stormed the Capitol are nutjobs, sure, but there was nothing racial about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭rapul


    More US troops there now than Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

    And Syria, 25k altogether apparently


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    So if not all 70 million Trump voters are white supremacists, then don't label all 70 million as white supremacists.

    There are probably a few thousand actual white supremacist KKK types in the states. They basically no longer exist and are an exxagerated bogeyman on the left. The people that stormed the Capitol are nutjobs, sure, but there was nothing racial about it.

    FBI don't agree with you. But sure what would they know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Das Reich wrote: »
    Read againg the comments baby.

    Can you quote the comment where someone said everyone who voted for Trump is a white supremacist.


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    NSAman wrote: »

    Now if they could only change 80 million voters who didn’t vote for them..somehow calling those who voted for Trump white supremacists, domestic terrorists, is not the way to do it.
    .

    Your response to the above was...
    What else should they call white supremacists and domestic terrorists?
    Can you quote the comment where someone said everyone who voted for Trump is a white supremacist.

    Now that's a little bit in bad faith.

    You clearly made the obvious insinuation, but left yourself enough wiggle room to claim you never explicitly said it.

    Its a dishonest way to discuss and you know it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Your response to the above was...





    Now that's a little bit in bad faith.

    You clearly made the obvious insinuation, but left yourself enough wiggle room to claim you never explicitly said it.

    Its a dishonest way to discuss and you know it.

    I trust you guys will keep this insistence on specificity in mind when referring to BLM protestors as rioters and vandals.

    All of a sudden there are concerns about everyone being tarred with the same brush. Oh how the turntables have.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,717 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    It's not safe someone could set off a bomb

    No one will get a bomb anywhere near the Capitol today, it is basically set up like Baghdads Green Zone at the moment with a ring of steel around it.

    There is a real danger that a lone wolf tries to bomb some federal building in another state capital though. FBI said the capitals in Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin are a particular worry.

    Anyway its great to see Trump is finally out of office by midday tomorrow. He was easily the most divisive US President in living history. He is also leaving the office as the most unpopular President since polling began in 1938 which speaks volumes about what people now think of him.


  • Site Banned Posts: 26 Privacy Notice


    You'd be more likely to get shot at there by security at the moment. Possibly making it one of the least safe places to be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Everyone who voted for trump is a white supremacist, especially the Latinos, sure everyone knows that
    From the BBC:
    The Republican president gained six percentage points among black men, and five percentage points among Hispanic women.
    So yeah, all of those black men and Latinas are now white supremacists. :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭bocaman


    Wouldn't go to Washington right now if you paid me. As regards being safe all it needs is one Trump cult member to cause trouble and the whole scenario could go down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    You'd be more likely to get shot at there by security at the moment. Possibly making it one of the least safe places to be.

    Probably by Brad or Chuck dropping his AR 15.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I trust you guys will keep this insistence on specificity in mind when referring to BLM protestors as rioters and vandals.

    All of a sudden there are concerns about everyone being tarred with the same brush. Oh how the turntables have.....

    There was no insistence of specificity.

    I was pointing out you were being dishonest in your inference.

    But now, you have no issue with alluding that all trump voters were white supremacists yet were concerned that all BLM protesters were described by some as looters and vandals.

    Oh how the turntables have....


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    FBI don't agree with you. But sure what would they know.

    The FBI probably have the KKK on their list from 100 years ago when they were a genuine danger. They can't prove definitively they that are gone so just leave them on that list by default because they know that removing them would kick up a dust storm among the Democrats who still think there are hordes of armed racists just giving around America ready to lynch black people just for being black.


    These people are so desperate for a racist enemy just so they can be the ones who get to defend the world from racism.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    There was no insistence of specificity.

    I was pointing out you were being dishonest in your inference.

    But now, you have no issue with alluding that all trump voters were white supremacists yet were concerned that all BLM protesters were described by some as looters and vandals.

    Oh how the turntables have....

    You're two turntables and a microphone short of being an honest debater......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭up for anything




    I've never watched one of those videos before. I thought his behaviour was being exaggerated. He's every girl's worst nightmare uncle. I had one where I'd lock myself in the bathroom on his arrival and departure so I'd miss the clammy creepiness. Ugh.


    And turntables...is it not tables have turned unless I'm missing some folk reference?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    I've never watched one of those videos before. I thought his behaviour was being exaggerated. He's every girl's worst nightmare uncle. I had one where I'd lock myself in the bathroom on his arrival and departure so I'd miss the clammy creepiness. Ugh.


    And turntables...is it not tables have turned unless I'm missing some folk reference?

    Yes you are.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I've never watched one of those videos before. I thought his behaviour was being exaggerated. He's every girl's worst nightmare uncle. I had one where I'd lock myself in the bathroom on his arrival and departure so I'd miss the clammy creepiness. Ugh.


    And turntables...is it not tables have turned unless I'm missing some folk reference?

    He s creepy alright.

    And it's a reference from the US Office.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    I saw the BBC correspondent reporting from Washington earlier. He was in the middle of a field it looked like miles away from the city, so they are taking no chances :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    The land of the free


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Up to 12 military people have been removed from working at the inauguration tomorrow because of suspected anti-government views or links to white supremacist groups.

    https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1351627703330471942

    Meanwhile the Governor of Texas thinks it is insulting that such checks are being carried out. Says it all really. The party of Law and Order as long as it is their law and their order.


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