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>>> They are also presently discussing their next day-out for rednecks in the form of another insurrection and coup attempt on the 17th of January.

> But if you play out the actual implications then you can use hyperbole and call it a coup. That's valuable language and you don't want to let a crisis go to waste.

The GGP labeled this with an both the correct term and an incorrect term.

1/6 was an insurrection, not a coup. An insurrection is a rebellion against civil authority, which this clearly was, even if it was incompetently executed. I think a coup is typically used for when power is illegally taken by military or police authorities, which this was not.



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