It was the culminating moment of a transfer of power: President Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, walked up the driveway to their new home on Wednesday, ascended the steps to the North Portico, waved to the crowd as a military band played “Hail to the Chief,” turned to head inside — and came face-to-face with a closed door.
As the world watched and a small crowd of Biden family members came up behind them, the first couple waited.
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For one, there was no chief usher to greet the Bidens when they arrived. Although it is unclear exactly what caused the delay with the doors — which are normally opened by Marine guards — the chief usher of the White House, who manages the residence, had been fired less than five hours earlier.
Actually not.Then the soldiers were virtually discarded after Pelosi’s fantasies were proven stupid. — NOS4A2
The staging of soldiers (not the two definitions of staging here) inside the Capitol is similar window dressing as putting an armed guard or tank at a busy intersection or next to a tourist attraction. The major reason is to show people that "security has been raised".
No. I didn't.No, it’s awesome because the Democrats spent a lot of time dismissing their activity and feigned outrage whenever it was suggested to bring in the national guard.
Maybe you missed that way over there in Wherever, Europe. — NOS4A2
I have never once denounced partisanship, a fundamental feature of democracy — NOS4A2
Partisanship is not a fundamental feature of democracy; it is the fundamental corruption of democracy: suspending your own right to vote in your interest by instead subscribing wholesale to the views of someone else.
Without parties we get the single-party politics of fascism and communism. In democratic countries, at least one can choose to assemble with others of like mind and influence politics. He can also, like myself, remain independent of any single party. — NOS4A2
but for a justified purpose — Benkei
also, maybe stop equating skin colour with race, racist.
You're operating under the moronic assumption that every discrimination on the basis of skin colour is wrong. — Benkei
It is wrong because race, as fuzzy as it is superstitious, is no proxy for genetic susceptibility and actual biology. — NOS4A2
Skin colour (and not "race", but a telling leap of logic there from you mr "colour blind") is most definitely a proxy for melanoma risk by the way. — Benkei
I never said there is anything wrong with discrimination, so your point about bleach is a stupid one. — NOS4A2
I have always been speaking about race, race-based discrimination — NOS4A2
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