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Especially given that if there's one country known for its design restraint and lack of color, it's India.

 

If that's a joke about Indian newspaper design, it went right over my head.

 

I believe it is a cricket joke.

 

It was a thinking man's protest. LOL

 

The man from Al Capone's Vault
Says it's Donald Trump

‘Fox & Friends’ panel erupts after Geraldo Rivera blames Trump for inciting violence

 

Dude looks like he’s gonna sell me a set of whitewalls.

 

Reports say it was Geraldo who drew a map in the dirt so rioters could find Pelosi's office.

 

Not today, Satan.
::saunters off, crunching a grape Jolly Rancher::

 

This is probably the sort of discussion that only happens in environments such as copy desks. That being said, I think that using “coup” takes the lawless riot of Jan. 6 to a level it might not have earned.

Here’s part of a New York Times story that better expresses that line of thinking:

“But the violent, anti-democratic attack on the Capitol doesn’t fit the technical definition of a coup even though the president incited and encouraged it. That matters, experts say, because different actions are required to prevent this type of attack from harming democracy.

A coup is an illegal attempt to take power through force or the threat of force, usually involving at least a faction of the military or formal security forces, though sometimes they are backed by paramilitaries or other armed groups.

That’s not what happened in Washington yesterday.

Although some of the people that stormed the Capitol were armed, they do not appear to be part of any organized military or rebel organization. And while Mr. Trump encouraged his loyalists in his capacity as a leader of their movement, he did not try to call the military to their aid, or otherwise use the formal powers of the presidency to help them, said Naunihal Singh, a professor at the Naval War College whose research focuses on coups.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/world/americas/what-is-a-coup-attempt.html

That being said, a more commonly used definition of coup d'etat would be far less specific.

Perhaps it’s my own nativity or hopeful thinking, but I feel a coup is only a whisker away from civil war and I hope we are nowhere near that point.

 

I think storming the Capitol is the definition of being a whisker away from a civil war.

 

Trumpists are big mad about Twitter nuking tens of thousands of bots and real Qanon people.

 

It was a coup.