National Mall to be completely closed for
Joe Biden’s inauguration amid security concerns
Independent (UK),
by
Oliver O'Connell
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
1/14/2021 11:20:29 AM
The National Mall in Washington, DC will be completely closed off to the public on Inauguration Day amid ongoing security concerns.
Only security personnel and the media will be allowed to access the traditional gathering place for crowds keen to see the ceremony, according to officials who spoke to The Washington Post.
The extraordinary shutdown of the entire mall for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden comes as the city and federal authorities act to prevent further violence following the 6 January assault on the Capitol Building.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 1/14/2021 11:25:19 AM (No. 660607)
Let’s just call it: he’s not President-ELECT, except to the Communists.
And, because he wasn’t elected, fairly, he can’t be INAUGURATED as president (small p).
He can be INSTALLED. But he can’t be inaugurated.
(And I don’t even know what to say about Sleeps Around and her new roll [sic])
28 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/14/2021 11:27:29 AM (No. 660611)
Got it. Now the National Mall has become "NMAZ"...the National Mall Autonomous Zone, protected I suppose by NMAZIs, and celebrating the coming "Winter of Love."
26 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Submariner 1/14/2021 11:30:50 AM (No. 660619)
Not necessary, who would show up anyway?
42 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Cherrybark 1/14/2021 11:30:58 AM (No. 660620)
Sounds like the organizers have an entirely accurate take on what the public thinks of their new "President"
27 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
judy 1/14/2021 11:31:34 AM (No. 660622)
Remember the Trump inauguration riot...cars burning, police attacked, streets closed , buildings looted. 70 congress democrat members did not attend ....double standard.
31 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 1/14/2021 11:31:52 AM (No. 660623)
Traitor Joe, the basement president.
24 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/14/2021 11:32:31 AM (No. 660624)
One more thing...speaking of the President-Installed, how come nobody is asking the obvious question, "Who is really the Acting-President?" Seriously, we all know it's not Punxatawny Joe, who is let out periodically to recite a pronouncement from the REAL Acting-President. Who is it? Who is calling the shots, and who has the nuclear codes? Who will be picking up the call at 3am?
Am I the only one asking that question? Who is the REAL Acting-President?
29 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
LesUNo 1/14/2021 11:32:57 AM (No. 660626)
Ah, just to save embarrassment when nobody shows up.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ribicon 1/14/2021 11:34:13 AM (No. 660629)
What if they gave an inauguration and no one showed up? Bad optics, as the thought-shapers like to say; would give people the wrong idea. Poor Joe, cheated out of the biggest crowd ever, probably equal to Obama's and Trump's combined.
15 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 1/14/2021 11:35:53 AM (No. 660633)
Show up at your own Capitol Buildings - peacefully, and waving flags.
6 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ret.TxLeo 1/14/2021 11:36:56 AM (No. 660634)
Spend the taxpayers money but they can't come. Sounds suspiciously like France and "let them eat cake". Don't you know it is because they can't control the hounds of hell they stirred up. And they know the riots and violence that will happen they can't pawn off on Trump supporters.
13 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/14/2021 11:38:41 AM (No. 660636)
And the Dems think this will stop the process of revolution?
They have sown the wind and they will reap the whirlwind.
18 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
blueline 1/14/2021 11:47:18 AM (No. 660649)
Shoot, not to worry: Just paint a half-dozen of those cool 6' circles on the ground and hope there's enough people show up to fill them.
17 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
privateer 1/14/2021 11:53:19 AM (No. 660656)
And Hidenbiden, the cellar-rat commiecrat, will be at home, slurping his jello in his bathrobe. The Pixar CG wizards will have already synthesized his inauguration speech.
13 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
akudaq 1/14/2021 11:56:40 AM (No. 660661)
#7 asks "Who is really the Acting-President?" I believe it's the same cabal that ran our gov't when obama was President. Not just one person, but a group of like-minded people who do not have our country's best interests at heart. The Bill Ayers' community, Valerie, Hillary, Soros, and foreign interests who have bought/bribed their way into having a voice in that group (CCP, etc.).
I realize I sound rather like a conspiracy nutcake, but I never thought obama or biden had the drive or cunning to come up with the schemes/plans to get our country "transformed" so well. I think those two are just cardboard cutouts/mouthpieces.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/14/2021 11:57:06 AM (No. 660662)
What if they gave a party and nobody came ? What if they gave a party and there was no party ? What if they gave a party and "birthday boy" didn't realize it was his birthday. Sounds like a Democrat kind of party.
12 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 1/14/2021 12:00:27 PM (No. 660666)
A convenient excuse: to "prevent further violence...." More likely to prevent an embarrassingly small crowd, like Slow Joe's "rallies" where the press outnumbered his supporters.
15 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/14/2021 12:03:16 PM (No. 660670)
Not surprised I suppose there is no Parade either, and are they building the wooden stands they usually build up around the Capitol and the White House for the Parade viewers?
5 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 1/14/2021 12:03:58 PM (No. 660671)
This is like one of the last remaining Sears stores saying they must limit entry!
14 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/14/2021 12:04:28 PM (No. 660672)
This is a lie - "Crowd size estimates for Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017 fall between 300,000 and 600,000 people, despite protestations and a series of false statements from both the new president and his then press secretary Sean Spicer."
But this isn't a lie - "Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009 is widely regarded to have attracted the largest crowd of any presidential swearing in ceremony, clocking in at an estimated 1.8 million people."
1 person likes this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 1/14/2021 12:05:46 PM (No. 660673)
#15, that's been my thinking. I imagine "committee" or, hey! how's about a politburo?
And as i have asking, where is the jubilation amongst the populace, so happy that Biden won? There were not going to be throngs or thousands or even hundreds, not even dozens, of excited attendees, masked or unmasked.
These people are authoritarians and control freaks.
7 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/14/2021 12:08:36 PM (No. 660677)
The third Jarrett/Soros term is about to begin. We can't even say "you get what you voted for" because we didn't!
9 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 1/14/2021 12:11:59 PM (No. 660682)
So there will be all these Democrats, RINO's, Socialist, Communist in the center with a wall around them, surrounded by 15k military. Just lock the door and call it a day. They made a tidy intern camp for themselves.
It's not over yet. The best part is coming. Fifty years after the original movie the "Sting", we're about to see Part 2.
7 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Donna M 1/14/2021 12:13:27 PM (No. 660685)
I believe that the next thing we will hear is that the swearing in of The Fraudulencies will be indoors, the usual participants will be limited to Democrats, and one media feed. All wearing facial muzzles of course. Due to safety.
6 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
Donna M 1/14/2021 12:15:04 PM (No. 660687)
I forgot to add that Fraudulency Biden's speech to the US will be pre-recorded.
Take Roger Simon's advice and turn off all news media for that day. Including the friendlies.
10 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 1/14/2021 12:18:59 PM (No. 660695)
DemocRats' reichstag fire moment.
4 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 1/14/2021 12:32:21 PM (No. 660706)
No worries - I'm sure the ChiComs will still be able to shop around at the National Mall
5 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
deerejon 1/14/2021 12:50:53 PM (No. 660724)
AW, To bad sleepy Joe,your(FAKE) 80 million voter's will be disappointed.
4 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/14/2021 12:53:58 PM (No. 660728)
The left is in the business closure business.
2 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
LtE126 1/14/2021 1:04:39 PM (No. 660740)
That's cool. I gotta work that day.
3 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
BillW. 1/14/2021 1:18:56 PM (No. 660752)
#2 has read 1984, which is happening here and now.
4 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/14/2021 1:47:19 PM (No. 660784)
Since Joe Biden will be there quite alone, except for his Dr. Jill, he may well think that he is in or near his basement. The Democrats had to find an excuse for few people being there and now they are scaring any of the public who would be there.
4 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
felixcat 1/14/2021 1:52:55 PM (No. 660790)
Does soon-to-be-ex VP Pence still have his Twitter account? Maybe he and Karen can share with Trump (not Pence) supporters photos of this historical event?
4 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
AltaD 1/14/2021 2:50:16 PM (No. 660853)
Until this over-the-top security production began, I honestly thought the inauguration was going to be indoors and virtual because of covid.
1 person likes this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
Italiano 1/14/2021 2:54:15 PM (No. 660860)
They remember how long it took and how much it cost to clean up and sanitize the area after Obama's.
1 person likes this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
red1066 1/14/2021 3:02:48 PM (No. 660875)
I guess the image of ten of thousands of Trumps supporters waving Trump flags and signs would kind of put a damper biteme's phony swearing in.
2 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
mizzmac 1/14/2021 4:27:24 PM (No. 660978)
Far, far easier and less embarrassing than to admit that no one but the on-duty National Guard bothered to show up for the fake President's fake inauguration!
2 people like this.
With Plugs everything is fluid. What happened to his 'virtual' inauguration ?
Everybody needs to turn off all electronics on the 20th.
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