4 ms·

So the US has decided that it is a riot now not a coup attempt? Can't handle the truth? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Spanish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt

So the US has decided that it is a riot now not a coup attempt? Can't handle the truth? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Spanish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Spanish_coup_d%27%C3%A9... Nobody in Spain denies this. Wonder why America is different.

aww_dang 3y ago
From your linked article, first paragraph: >Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero led 200 armed Civil Guard officers into the Congress of Deputies during the vote to elect a President of the Government. The officers held the parliamentarians and ministers hostage for 18 hours, during which time King Juan Carlos I denounced the coup in a televised address, calling for rule of law and the democratic government to continue. The royal address fatally undermined the coup. Though shots were fired, the hostage-takers surrendered the next morning without killing anyone. I really do not see the equivalence here at all. Only through a highly partisan stretch could a professional gymnast make this leap.
- WeylandYutani 3y ago
  It was not a spontaneous outburst everything was preplanned and orchestrated by Trump and co but unfortunately we will have to leave it to future historians not the FBI.
DoItToMe81 3y ago
Peacefully occupying a building and leaving on your own accord is not a coup. If you think this is comparable to armed groups lead by the military occupying parliament and threatening to murder the people inside if demands are not met, I have no idea what to say.
- ModernMech 3y ago
  Peaceful? We all saw what happened in real time. What I saw was not peaceful. If it was peaceful, why did they bring (and use) so many weapons? Why did Rudy Giuliani call for “trial by combat” at the Ellipse Rally? Why did so many people get injured? Why was so much damage done? Why did people die?
  - zxcasdqw 3y ago
    it's mostly peaceful but not fiery
- asimpletune 3y ago
  I mean, they were there to stop the transition of power from one president to another... that's a coup, even if it failed.
yutani_subhuman 3y ago
[dead]

aww_dang 3y ago

From your linked article, first paragraph: >Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero led 200 armed Civil Guard officers into the Congress of Deputies during the vote to elect a President of the Government. The officers held the parliamentarians and ministers hostage for 18 hours, during which time King Juan Carlos I denounced the coup in a televised address, calling for rule of law and the democratic government to continue. The royal address fatally undermined the coup. Though shots were fired, the hostage-takers surrendered the next morning without killing anyone. I really do not see the equivalence here at all. Only through a highly partisan stretch could a professional gymnast make this leap.

WeylandYutani 3y ago
It was not a spontaneous outburst everything was preplanned and orchestrated by Trump and co but unfortunately we will have to leave it to future historians not the FBI.

DoItToMe81 3y ago

Peacefully occupying a building and leaving on your own accord is not a coup. If you think this is comparable to armed groups lead by the military occupying parliament and threatening to murder the people inside if demands are not met, I have no idea what to say.

ModernMech 3y ago
Peaceful? We all saw what happened in real time. What I saw was not peaceful. If it was peaceful, why did they bring (and use) so many weapons? Why did Rudy Giuliani call for “trial by combat” at the Ellipse Rally? Why did so many people get injured? Why was so much damage done? Why did people die?
- zxcasdqw 3y ago
  it's mostly peaceful but not fiery
asimpletune 3y ago
I mean, they were there to stop the transition of power from one president to another... that's a coup, even if it failed.

yutani_subhuman 3y ago

[dead]