If I announce I’m going to purchase General Motors and run it the right way, and I walk into their headquarters with my checkbook, no one would seriously think this is a legitimate purchase offer. It doesn’t matter how many times you or I may say that I’m gonna take over General motors, it’s simply not true. It’s an impossibility.

Likewise, a bunch of people that showed up at a Trump rally and got out-of-control and broke into the capital. There were a few people who had a little bit more grandiose plans in mind, but that does not make it an insurrection, again you can call an insurrection all you want but it had zero chance of success and the evidence was once they got inside with very little police presence they didn’t do anything. Why? Because they didn’t consider an insurrection either.

Stop calling it an insurrection

So what was the uniting influence that made both actions occur on the same date?

Serowbot wrote on 08/24/21 at 14:11:22:


Trump.
The single biggest mistake Trump ever made was a January 6 rally in Washington DC. Either he knew and wanted violent actions or he fell into the presidential bubble all presidents fall into a lost track of reality.
The other dumb mistake was thinking a military parade with tanks and soldiers walking down DC streets was a good idea.

But, as the FBI have stated, a very few and organized groups planned  to attack the capital. Some of those groups had FBI informants as members and serious allegations that they were in fact driving the discussions. I don’t know how truthful that is. I’m not sure anybody knows right now and I’m also not sure if we’ll ever know the absolute truth about that.

The phrase mob mentality exist for a reason. Those groups began chanting and rushing the capital other people caught up in the moment followed along. That’s how you got a couple of thousand people instead of a couple of dozen.

But even the organized groups had zero chance of success. Not a 1% chance of success. Zero % chance of success. You’re not going to take over the US capital and force senators to change their votes or to leave the building without weapons. Not sharpened flag poles but guns. Lots of guns.
This was not an insurrection
I could get a dozen people with our checkbooks and we could invade General motors board of directors meeting thinking we were going to buy out the majority share and take over. We might have more success with that and a few people with flag poles taking over the US government.
Stop calling January 6 and insurrection.

What difference does it make what I call it?
What difference does it make what you call it?
It is what it is.
It's being called an insurrection by politicians, courts, FBI and DOJ. That matters.
They decide when crimes reach a level to be defined as more than the sum of their parts.
When protest becomes criminal violence becomes insurrection.
That question has been pretty much answered.
The question now is did the President and others commit sedition in inciting it.

When you look at what he said, combined with other actions he took in trying to overturn the election, it's clear he did.  The combination of lies, threats, pressuring authorities, trying to manipulate courts, and inflaming the passion of his base, proves his intent to subvert the will of the people and overturn an election.

I’m right; you two and a bunch of partisan media hacks, bureaucrats, and leftist politicians are wrong.

 Except I agreed with you in part about the insurrection terms being used to reference the whole group, multiple times, but pretend I am saying this was an insurrection.  If only I had said this in my very first post:

So I stand by my assessment.  Some people were protesters.  Some people were violent and assaulted the police.  Trying to say all those people are armed insurrectionists is wrong.  Saying they all went in after the police pulled back barricades and took selfies an committed no assaults is wrong.



 However you won't articulate anything more than ANTIFA did it too.  How many times do you need to hear that comparative logic doesn't answer why you think nobody there was part of an insurrection.  I ask a few questions and you act like I am saying everyone is an insurrectionist.

 I do not agree that all people were unarmed.  Why would they be considered unarmed?

Shorter but more accurate documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmJ0HDbZi5M

Eegore wrote on 08/24/21 at 13:12:15:


So the people that created,
occupied, and,
kept out any police or authority,
in the numerous
autonomous zones.
are not covered under the same law ?

The stealing/looting all across this Nation,
is not covered under the same law ?

The burning/destroying of property,
in numerous Cities,
is not covered by the same law?

The law that  Eegore said,
was the law governing the Capital Protest ?

"Whoever incites,
sets on foot, assists,
or engages
in any rebellion or insurrection
against the authority of the United States
or the law there,
or gives aid or comfort thereto"

OK  Got it !