Tristan Justice: "DoD Intentionally Delayed National Guard Deployment to the Capitol on January 6th" (?)

I don't really understand what's going on about all this.

The strongest version of the blue-team story seems to go like this: we didn't want the Guard deployed because we were afraid Trump would try to use it to seize power.

The red-team story goes like this: Trump wanted the Guard deployed to make sure there was no trouble. The blues prevented it so...uh...that there would be trouble?

It's true that the Capitol riot wouldn't have happened--or at lest the Capitol building wouldn't have been breeched--if the National Guard had been there. So, making some assumptions, Trump was right about the need to deploy.

But I find the theory that the Dems were basically laying the groundwork for the riot to be pretty damn implausible.

I suppose the above part of the Trumpista version of the story is supposed to mesh with the theory that Feds and Fed "assets" in the crowd egged the rioters on.

(There's a quasi-inconsistency at the heart of the Trumpista theory of this: The riot was justified because they stole the election...but we'd never have done it if the Feds hadn't set us up...)

Now, there's all sorts of reasons to be suspicious about all sorts of things here. 

And I still accept the following guiding principle:

After Russiagate, we can't put anything past the Dems.

I might eventually add:

After the shameless, lunatic lawfare against Trump we also can't put anything past them.

But anyway: I don't buy the red team's story.

Pelosi's story--we don't want the Guard there because of "bad optics"--doesn't strike me as all that plausible. Especially since the "optics" would mostly be bad for Trump... This is a guy they're willing to impeach and prosecute and throw in jail on (mostly) preposterous charges. Why would they hesitate to make him look bad?

They certainly didn't care about bad optics when they deployed the Guard soon after all this and put up fencing and concertina wire on Capitol Hill during their efforts to paint all Trump supporters as "white supremacist" insurrectionists--around the time of Biden's Stalinesque red speech...

But things like this...they're almost too complicated for me to make any kind of judgment on. People think they're not all that complicated and we're all entitled to an opinion...but I'd have to sit down with a gaggle of research assistants and pore over all this evidence for months to really deserve much of a position this.

Probably so would you.

And don't forget the lunatic smokescreen of lies that the blues generate around everything Trump does. Patent absurdities like HE TRIED TO GRAB THE STEERING WHEEL OF THE BEAST!!!!111 It's all lies all the time with those people. Trump's own penumbra of bullshit doesn't help...though it's less bad than the other thing, IMO.

Well, anyway.

The die has now been cast.

We're out of the fire and back in the frying pan...