Posted on 01/05/2022 2:51:47 AM PST by Kaslin
As the Congressional Select Committee winds its way to its pre-ordained conclusion that what happened at the Capitol last year was an attempt by former President Trump, every elected Republican, anyone who has ever worn a red hat (MAGA-emblazoned or not), and everyone who has ever stayed at a hotel to overthrow the government, it should be noted -- quite clearly and succinctly -- that seven hours in January was not Seven Days in May.
Despite the endless, tedious and inaccurate anniversary media coverage -- all delivered with a joyously smirking “kid in a candy store” tenor -- has been claiming, the January 6 riot had all (maybe really only some) of the hallmarks of, well, a riot and none of the indicators of an actual “insurrection,” let alone an attempted coup d’état.
A coup is an extremely tricky proposition, as Burt Lancaster’s character in the 1964 film Seven Days in May, discovered much to his chagrin. The film (and the book) notes the level of detailed planning necessary, the prior co-option of various levers of power that needs to occur, the cruciality for speed of implementation, and -- just as importantly -- the requirement of a post-coup strategy. It cannot in any way, shape, or form be said that the event of January 6 even remotely involved any of these elements, a fact proven, ironically, by the very information being released or leaked or whatever by the Select Committee itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
RATS commemorate ‘parading’. Good for them.
What Thomas Buckley describes is proof that only Democrats could successfully pull off a coup, and that’s exactly what did occur, and it was successful. A coup via stolen/stuffed ballot boxes.
Fletcher Knebel would have laughed at J6.
How many times has a coup ended when the police told everyone to go home for dinner, as happened a year ago in DC?
Since conservatives are cowards, the left effectively used the January 6 protest to capture and control DC. Cowards don’t resist
Cowards co exist
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