It pisses me off that I continually hear people call it a “riot”.
It wasn’t a “riot”, that’s a republican rebranding of what happened that day. It wasn’t a bunch of people that got pissed off and suddenly decided to start breaking things.
It was a planned and coordinated attack on our nation’s capitol with the specific goal of stopping the peaceful transfer of power and installing an unelected individual as head of government by any means necessary, up to and including the attempted assassination of members of both houses of Congress.
That’s a coup d’etat, Not a riot. Normalizing the phrase “capitol riot” is rewriting history.
The attack on the capitol was just a small piece of the coup. It was a delay/scare/chaos tactic to use the alternative electoral certificates. There is no doubt or subjective interpretation here, this was a coup attempt, and there is a long trail of evidence due to the many layers of government they had to go through to make it happen.
It is past time caring how the members of this hostile faction are calling and interpreting it. They’ve been denying their intentions, crimes, and reality for a god-damned long time. They’re even denying the weather of the day. You’re right, and don’t dignify their rebranding with a response, just call it what it is.
It pisses me off that I continually hear people call it a “riot”.
It wasn’t a “riot”, that’s a republican rebranding of what happened that day. It wasn’t a bunch of people that got pissed off and suddenly decided to start breaking things.
It was a planned and coordinated attack on our nation’s capitol with the specific goal of stopping the peaceful transfer of power and installing an unelected individual as head of government by any means necessary, up to and including the attempted assassination of members of both houses of Congress.
That’s a coup d’etat, Not a riot. Normalizing the phrase “capitol riot” is rewriting history.
The attack on the capitol was just a small piece of the coup. It was a delay/scare/chaos tactic to use the alternative electoral certificates. There is no doubt or subjective interpretation here, this was a coup attempt, and there is a long trail of evidence due to the many layers of government they had to go through to make it happen.
It is past time caring how the members of this hostile faction are calling and interpreting it. They’ve been denying their intentions, crimes, and reality for a god-damned long time. They’re even denying the weather of the day. You’re right, and don’t dignify their rebranding with a response, just call it what it is.
riot /‘rī′ət’/ noun -