It should no longer be called an insurrection. Call it the ATTEMPTED COUP.

[Funtatlaguy]

Clearly that’s what it was.
Led by and designed by Donald Trump and the Republicans.
Pound that language from now until the midterms.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And too bad our media and society have two completely different set of rules

for cons vs everyone else.

Cons get the benefit of the doubt 1000 times more often and are rarely held accountable.

That none of them are indicted and Gillum is, sigh...

[Funtatlaguy]

2. True. But all we can do is have a STANDARD, UNIFIED message.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Talk to ANY repub you know and everyone else, tell them we WILL LOSE our country

and democracy if they dont do the right thing in Nov.

[Funtatlaguy]

4. Absolutely.

[Aroundabout23]

5. ONGOING ATTEMPT AT A COUP.

[mzmolly]

6. .. and treason.

[Funtatlaguy]

7. That word goes "too far" for some. I'd stick with coup for now.

[TwilightZone]

9. It goes too far because it doesn't apply.

Treason requires an active, declared war. Many confuse sedition with treason. The former applies; the latter doesn't.

If the Rosenbergs didn't meet the treason bar, then Trump certainly doesn't.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/americans-have-forgotten-what-treason-actually-means-how-it-can-ncna848651

[Funtatlaguy]

10. So, sounds like "seditious attempted coup" would work.

[mzmolly]

11. I respectfully disagree.

https://www.ideastream.org/news/yes-capitol-rioters-were-armed-here-are-the-weapons-prosecutors-say-they-used

[The Grand Illuminist]

12. I think it is up to the judge to determine

The absolute definition of the word "levy". Either impose (which I think that is the better definition), or enlist.

[Hekate]

8. Or, as Rachel Maddow calls it, "A plot to overthrow the government."

[Initech]

13. This is starting to make Watergate look like a 7-11 robbery!