Serowbot wrote on 10/19/22 at 14:42:57:A week following the attack, journalists were searching for an appropriate word to describe the event.[514] According to the Associated Press, U.S. media outlets first described the developments on January 6 as "a rally or protest", but as the events of the day escalated and further reporting and images emerged, the descriptions shifted to "an assault, a riot, an insurrection, domestic terrorism or even a coup attempt".[515] It was variably observed that the media outlets were settling on the terms "riot" and "insurrection".[515][516] According to NPR, "By definition, 'insurrection,' and its derivative, 'insurgency,' are accurate. 'Riot' and 'mob' are equally correct. While these words are not interchangeable, they are all suitable when describing Jan. 6."[517] According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "the attack was widely regarded as an insurrection or attempted coup d'état."[518] The New York Times assessed the event as having brought the United States "hours away from a full-blown constitutional crisis".[519]
Naunihal Singh of the U.S. Naval War College, and author of Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups, wrote that the attack on the Capitol was "an insurrection, a violent uprising against the government" and "sedition" but not a coup because Trump did not order the military "to seize power on his behalf".[520][521] The Coup D'état Project of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois, which tracks coups and coup attempts globally, classified the attack as an "attempted dissident coup", defined as an unsuccessful coup attempt "initiated by a small group of discontents" such as "ex-military leaders, religious leaders, former government leaders, members of a legislature/parliament, and civilians [but not police or the military]". The Cline Center said the "organized, illegal attempt to intervene in the presidential transition" by displacing Congress met this definition.[522][523] Some political scientists identified the attack as an attempted self-coup, in which the head of government attempts to strong-arm the other branches of government to entrench power.[524] Academic Fiona Hill, a former member of Trump's National Security Council, described the attack, and Trump's actions in the months leading up to it, as an attempted self-coup.[525]
The FBI classified the attack as domestic terrorism,[526][527] and the Congressional Research Service also concluded that the attack appeared to meet the federal definition of domestic terrorism.[528][529] Republican senator Ted Cruz characterized it as terrorism at least eighteen times over the ensuing year, though he was among the Senate Republicans who blocked a bipartisan January 6 commission to investigate it.[530][531]
Trump's attempts to overturn the election were described by federal judge David Carter as "a coup in search of a legal theory".[513]
So what you’re saying is foxes gathered in the back of the henhouse and agreed on definitions….
And “ hours away from a full blown constitutional crisis“ ? How f’ing ridiculous is a statement like that? I’m seriously supposed to respect and consider listening to organizations who say $hit like that?
What the F do you think was going to happen? Do you think if the dude in the horn hat sat in the chair at the front of the Senate chambers and said “I control the military now”, all the generals were just gonna say “OK well he’s sitting in the chair so we gotta do what he says.”
Seriously, nothing was going to happen. Nothing. We should’ve treated everything just like they do with antifa and BLM riots which is to just back away and once they’re finally done taking selfies and peeing on Pelosi’s desk, they’d leave we’d go in and clean up the mess.
Remember the George Floyd riots? I know it’s hard to remember because there were so many of them but when they tried to break into the White House? In that case the line did not back away and invite protesters in. they held the line despite numerous officers being injured. Oh wait, we can’t talk about that. That wasn’t a planned in surrection even though there was stuff all over the Internet inviting peaceful protesters to meet at the White House. But NPR didn’t struggle with definitions about that, they just kept referring to it as a mostly peaceful protest. It wasn’t a planned insurrection against Trump in the White House.
Jan 6 was a protest that got out of control, perhaps encouraged a little bit by FBI plants, and perhaps even a purposely neglected security force hoping that this would turn into what we saw all summer after George Floyd. But these fair and balanced media giants sniffed out an opportunity to take advantage of Trump’s stupidity and kill off the GOP and Trump forever because they couldn’t do it otherwise.
When the GOP takes over the house and senate in November or when the first session comes in January, there will be massive protest in Washington, like there was on Trump’s inauguration day. Again that wasn’t an insurrection was it? There were leaders who put out a call to action there were plans etc. but it wasn’t an insurrection was it? But when the GOP takes over, you won’t call the riots an insurrection, you’ll call them a mostly peaceful protest. And if the violence gets way out of control, you’ll start saying this was necessary to protect the republic against evil the GOP. NPR, and the New York Times will struggle to come up with any word besides insurrection to describe the riots. Watch this unfold in Nov and Jan. But we won’t read the word insurrection from the corporate news and entertainment culture. They’ll unite and protect their own.
To paraphrase lyrics from a song in Hamilton, “it must be nice, it must be nice, to have Pravda on your side”.
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