The Grauniad on the Alleged January 6th Insurrection/Coup

This Grauniad woman is an idiot. [WARNING: GRAUNIAD LINK! NOT ACTUAL NEWS SOURCE!]

   I don't know her name, but I recognize her picture, and that's enough.

   Really, if you want to maintain your objectivity about this, such as it may be, that isn't the kind of thing you need to be reading. Find something less...like that is.

   My view on it hasn't changed a lot in the last couple of years. First error: to think that everything fits into neat, dichotomous categories in the actual world. So: determinately either coup or not, insurrection or not.

   The Capitol riot was somewhat like a coup or insurrection...but not very much like one.

   But it was way, way, way too far in that direction.

   The left is hysterical and dishonest about this...like everything else. But they're not completely wrong.

   Of course if there were a real coup--a coup coup--in the USA, you'd know it.

   For one thing, there would have been weapons.

   Real Weapons.

   Not zip dies and fart spray or whatever they found.

   We are, after all, the most heavily-armed society in the world--and those weapons are concentrated on the right.

   What it was was a demonstration that got way, way out of hand.

   That's not to make excuses.

   It did get out of hand--again way, way, way out of hand.

   Though it wasn't "The Deadliest Day," it was appalling. After it, I regretted having voted for Trump, and said I wouldn't do so again.

   But here we are.

   The left continued to get crazier--which a priori I would have thought impossible--and I eventually decided that I had to think more about the future than the past.

   But, anyway.

   I don't have anything particularly interesting to say about this. All I can really say is: you're better off not reading rags like the Guardian, especially on topics like this.

   Here's the much more sober take from the other side.