Daniel Greenfield January 24, 2021 @ Sultan Knish Blog
On a cold, windy day with a small group of spectators watching from
behind barbed wire, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. swore another in a long
series of false oaths before his motorcade passed between a long row of
soldiers with their backs to him looking outward for threats.
No
inauguration has been this empty in a century of American history. And
at no inauguration have the spectators been outnumbered by a raw display
of armed force. American presidents have been inaugurated in wartime
and during actual national emergencies with a better turnout.
Through
world wars and wars on terror, Washington D.C. has remained a national
capital where the hundreds of millions of taxpayers who labor to pay for
its grand edifices, free museums, and lavish lifestyles could briefly
come to enjoy a little of the life lived by the ruling class in the
Imperial City. Now the ruling class has made it clear that it doesn’t
want peasants entering D.C.
Even as Biden’s team prepped the
executive orders that would end the national emergency at the border and
shut down construction of the wall, new walls topped by razor wire were
rising across the imperial city. The new Fortress of Government sealed
off two miles of the National Mall and parts of downtown D.C. and filled
it with more soldiers than are deployed in Iraq.
The Secret
Service designated green and red zones. Some 25,000 National Guard
members were dispatched from Vermont, Maine, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Ohio,
Minnesota, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Arkansas, Missouri, South
Carolina, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Colorado to prepare for a fake
invasion that never came. But the armored vehicles and heavy weaponry
did come. President Trump had wanted a military parade that would show
America’s strength to the world. Biden held his own military parade to
intimidate his fellow Americans.
Democrats had deployed more
soldiers in D.C. than they had in Iraq and Afghanistan while authorizing
them to use lethal force and investigating their politics before the
deployment. The radical leftists who had resisted using the military to
fight terrorism or secure the border from invasion were eager to deploy
the military against the people of the United States of America.
The
handfuls of ordinary people who arrived, as Americans always do, to
attend the inauguration of a new president were confronted with heavy
weapons and barbed wire.
D.C. had become a Baghdad and Berlin of
checkpoints, choking off access to much of the city, closing roads,
bridges, and metro stations. Soldiers could be seen on every corner, and
the 25,000 troops were bolstered by 4,000 Marshalls, and a motley crew
of local forces, including 200 members of the NYPD, 40 members of the
Chicago police, New Jersey and Maryland state troopers, Miami-Dade cops,
and other law enforcement officers who were needed back home.
24
people were shot in Chicago this weekend and murders are already up
125% this year in New York City. Those officers could have done more
good at home, but Democrats don’t care about murder victims in urban
areas, instead redeploying officers to D.C. in a show of force.
Biden
took office in a city under military occupation whose businesses were
closed and boarded up. The D.C. government had tried to force hotels to
shut down. The hotels didn’t close, but there were hardly any people.
Instead the hotels were filled with soldiers tramping through their
lobbies. Any tourists that did come found nothing to see except
barricades and barbed wire.
Sometimes what you don’t see is more important than what you do see.
Filling
D.C. with soldiers meant that no one was going to measure Biden’s
crowds. The only crowds were heavily armed and had been ordered to come.
The complete lack of enthusiasm for the new one-party state that was
getting its Mussolini on was the dog that didn’t bark.
Questioning
Biden’s election has been deemed to be incitement. It’s enough to get
you censored, deplatformed, and fired by the companies standing behind
him. The election challenges have been used as the pretext for a
military occupation of Washington D.C. But the cloud of a disputed
election, like the winter clouds overhead, still hung over the
inauguration.
There were no crowds, just soldiers. After the
military and police contingent, the second largest group there for the
inauguration weren’t Biden’s civilian supporters, but his propagandists.
With few people, the media had to work twice as hard to manufacture the
illusion that this was a popular leader taking office instead of a
usurper imposed by Amazon, Google, Facebook, and the rest of the
political, cultural, and economic oligarchy which owns the media on
America.
CNN, a subsidiary of AT&T, had already gushed about,
"Joe Biden's arms embracing America". MSNBC, a subsidiary of Comcast,
compared Biden to God. "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their
wounds." The only wounds being bound up were those of the ruling class
which had temporarily lost electoral power to an army of flyover country
workers and peasants, only to reclaim it with sedition, wiretapping,
abuse of power, billions of dollars, and soldiers in the street.
Popular
leaders, elected or unelected, might have troops in their cities, but
they also have adoring crowds to cheer them on. Biden’s only cheers were
coming from employees of huge corporations whose jobs depend on
praising him as the greatest thing since SuperPACs.
Biden
couldn’t manage the cheering crowds that greeted even the most mediocre
presidents on their arrival. The band might as well have struck up a
rousing chorus of, “Hail to the Thief.”
Jokes like that are all
but illegal these days even though they were ubiquitous during the Bush
and Trump administrations. But jokes only need to be banned when they’re
too close to the truth. The hysterical fascist theater with troops in
the streets and fawning praise on the lips of the press are all efforts
to overcompensate for the hollow man taking a false oath on a bible.
This
isn’t the pageantry of Stalin or Hitler. It’s the weary theater of
Brezhnev, a senescent leader of a decaying regime being propped up by
desperate threats of force by the nomenklatura. Even though the media
has told us more about Biden’s dogs than it has about any of the
Americans killed by Islamic terrorists enabled by the open borders that
Biden just reinstated, no one cares.
Biden isn’t a charismatic
leader. He isn’t moving the cause forward. He’s a placeholder for a
ruling class that wants homes in Dupont Circle that it buys by selling
out America to China, by ruining our economy with environmental
consulting gigs and racial contract quotas, and for all the manifold
ways which the swamp is coming back as Biden’s wetlands restoration
project.
“Hail to the Thief” is as much their anthem as it is
Biden’s. They fought to keep hold of D.C., the center of their power
base not because they care about its history or that of this country,
but because it’s where they network, collaborate, and do their dirty
little deals at our expense.
The troops in the street are their warning to the rest of the country about who is really in charge.
And
it isn’t Joe Jr, who, along with his criminal family, will be allowed
to dip their beaks in cash and cocaine until they’re sopping wet, along
with every aide, staffer, and associate. Biden will be fawned over, his
idiot wife will be dubbed a doctor, and the investigations involving his
son and brother will be swiftly dropped. And when the time is right,
Kamala Harris will step into his place.
When the Soviet Union was
entering its last days, one leader quickly made way for another. The
parade of old Communist hacks in their dotage became a procession of
political funerals. Generations after the revolution and the purges, the
only thing anyone in Moscow believed in was the power and decadence of
the ruling class. That and the threat America posed to them.
These are still the only three things that Washington D.C.’s ruling class believes in anymore.
Democrats and their media claim that this charade is a “victory for democracy”.
"We’ve
seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would
destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. And this effort very
nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it
can never be permanently defeated," Amanda Gorman, the Harvard youth
poetess, sonorously recited her tin-eared Maoist verses at the
inauguration.
But where is this democracy? Where are the adoring
crowds, the joyous mobs celebrating and the people cheering the
tremendous victory of the democracy of Google, Facebook, Amazon,
AT&T, Comcast and their D.C. lobbyists and associates over the Rust
Belt and the flyovers?
Biden and the Democrats celebrated their
democratic victory with barbed wire, troops in the streets, political
terror, and the threat of even more political repression to come.
"There
is a broader societal issue that is going to take years to detox the
disinformation," Ben Rhodes, the Obama adviser who had boasted of
creating a media echo chamber, ranted on Comcast's MSNBC. On that same
state TV news network, John Brennan warned that "because of this growth
of polarization in the United States" members of the Biden team would be
"moving in laser-like fashion" to "root out an insidious threat to our
democracy".
Democracy is in a state of permanent emergency that
requires locking down D.C., filling it with soldiers, walls, and barbed
wire, and investigating political crimes. And D.C. will do everything it
can to end the threat that Americans pose to democracy even if its
ruling class has to live in its green zone surrounded by troops and
barbed wire until democracy is saved from Americans.
Biden, we
are told by the political interests and corporations advocating this, is
incredibly popular. But the crowds of his devotees can’t be allowed to
come to Washington D.C. Anyone who doubts that Biden is incredibly
popular is inciting violence and will have to be rooted out as an
insidious threat to our democracy. The more people doubt Biden’s
popularity, the longer D.C. will have to be under military occupation
until finally no one doubts his legitimacy in office.
Daniel
Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an
investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and
Islamic terrorism.
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Daniel Greenfield is a journalist investigating Islamic terrorism and
the Left. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz
Freedom Center
