What do these protestors hope to accomplish?
The actual answer is probably that they do not believe the claims of election fraud have been sufficiently investigated. I'm sure they want a more thorough investigation to be held before the election results are officially recognized by congress.
That and they're just angry people who have resorted to rioting - like how a toddler resorts to a tantrum when it doesn't get its way. This appears to be an increasingly common theme with modern US politics.
These are angry people being disruptive and destructive. That's what a riot is. Calling it a coup is conspiratorial.
It's true that they don't seem to have the ability. But they didn't seem to have the ability to take over the Capitol building either. It's very dangerous to look at people trying their hardest to do a coup and dismiss it just because it'd be an uphill battle to make it work.
Not sure what to make of the "luck" comment. I suppose we're always lucky that bad things aren't worse than they end up being.
The luck is assigned to all of us, including the idiots that tried this.
I think it's a mistake to think that these people argue in good faith. I tried listening to what they have to say and they're not consistent, they're not coherent, they're not honest and they want the truth only if it confirms their beliefs.
There is no organization. There is no plan. There is no sign of a premeditated attempt to overthrow the government. There is just a mob of angry rioters barging into a government building.
I'm curious what you believe constitutes a coup.
Considering that the senators and house representatives have been evacuated, the latter is looking more likely.
The idea with Nazi Germany was that it didn't suddenly pop into existence, as many would believe. It had a long, gradual, slide into it.
In 1932 there was The Beer Hall Putsch [0] when the nazis tried to get the power but failed. As a consequence, Hitler was jailed and wrote his book and after he got out he continued his ascent.
The scary implication of the comment is that even if this coup attempt fails, the USA is down a long slide out of democracy and this is just the beginning.
It is quite scary for me as a non-US citizen because I used to look up to the US. Not anymore. The current world order is supported by US hegemony. Upending this could end up badly for the rest of the world, since transitions of power on the world stage are rarely peaceful.
It's scary because the US seems heading down this road that is eerily similar to what happened in the past. And they say that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
1923::2020/2021
Weimar post-WW1 trauma::Global War On Terror slow pull-out quasi capitulation
Rosewood massacre::Floyd,etc
Ruhr occupation::China's covid resurgence, and next step across the Strait
Treaty of Lausanne ending the Ottoman empire::End of the USA's role-model status
Cooking it slow...
Ps. From Wikipedia: Hyperinflation in Germany has seen the number of marks needed to purchase a single American dollar reach 353,000 – more than 200 times the amount needed at the start of the year. ... I guess this makes it a good target for BTCUSD...