Attempted Coup in the United States: Tracking Investigations and Fallout

It was in my AP American History text and class (back when Bush the Greater was president), but it was in muted tones with emphasis on the ringleader rather than the participating funders.

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Holy motherfucking dirtbags, Batman!! Has this one been indicted yet? If not, they need to get on that promptly!

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But, but he was just at the door of the Capital and didn’t go in see.

Surely video will tell. Anybody associated with the insurrection should be barred from any form of public service. Unless it’s picking up roadkill from our highways and byways.

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prescott bush was one of those coup financiers as well if memory serves. the grandfather of bush sr i believe.

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The lack of focus on successful coups and attempted coups in history classes - and describing why they are terrible events to be avoided - might be why some groups keep trying it. Look at how supremacist groups managed to change how textbooks describe the Civil War, and who used those books in school.

It’s been brought up above, too:

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Interesting in the context of this thread.

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14 Amendment

Section 3

No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

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Star Trek GIF

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When you have to plan a terrorist attack but you don’t have time to clean up before the real estate agent shows up


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Maybe a whiteboard isn’t the right technology for planning a secret violent uprising?

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Maybe it was a tactical whiteboard? :man_shrugging:

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Wow, one of them finally had the brains to actually run off to a country who would be friendly to them before they got charged. Honestly this is a shock to me.

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“Europe’s last dictatorship”

Huh? Isn’t that also true of that Republican dream land, Hungary?

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