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There was an attempted coup in this country, it has still not been fully acknowledged internally, and the danger is still present.

• snypher 5y ago
  "The chief prerequisite for a coup is control of all or part of the armed forces, the police, and other military elements." I don't think it was even close to a coup.
  • tssva 5y ago
    Trump placed loyal allies into key positions at the Pentagon in the weeks just prior to Jan. 6th.
  • throwawaysea 5y ago
    The use of words like “insurrection” and “coup” just feels like propaganda spread by news media and extremists activists, and unfortunately they have succeeded in bringing it into common use. It’s amazing to me that so much focus has been drawn onto this event, with such hyperbolic and inaccurate use of terminology. It feels like this investigation is the political left’s equivalent of the Benghazi investigations, where undeserved focus and outrage lingered for months. Meanwhile the far greater damage, deaths, and impact of BLM riots from 2020 remains ignored and even downplayed by all the same actors.
  • d23 5y ago
    Hence “attempt” and not success. The goal quite plausibly was to the lay the conditions for deploying the military, as he had tried to do in the past against protestors. We aren’t (yet, thankfully) in a place where a president could do such a thing with no pushback.