# When is an attempted coup not an attempted coup? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 20, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991 "2023-04-20T22:15:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/41 "2023-04-21T13:47:34Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > And hey, this talk about police dying is a hijack. So stop that, mkay? To be fair (and balanced), this was me. šŸ™ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/42 "2023-04-21T13:51:02Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > As evidence, he will show video footage of them being polite and patient while waiting to to board their flights. Plus, what kind of ā€˜Attack on Americaā€™ was it if America still existed afterwards? At most it was just some minor infringements of FAA regulations! ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/43 "2023-04-21T13:51:09Z")
I did not see this thread going in this direction. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/44 "2023-04-21T14:03:36Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > I did not see this thread going in this direction.   This is the Pit! As in string theory, there are at least 10 dimensions here and maybe as many as 26, and all of them are fair game! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/45 "2023-04-21T15:11:52Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > The 9/11 hijackers were just normal tourists overly eager to see the sights of downtown Manhattan and too impatient to wait in the cab lines at the airport. Lee Harvey Oswald was just cleaning his gun when it accidentally went off. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/46 "2023-04-21T15:49:20Z")
In May of 1940, the Germans just had a groupon to a nice little cafe in Paris. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/47 "2023-04-21T15:50:43Z")
You all are better at this than me. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/48 "2023-04-21T15:52:59Z")
The Japanese at Pearl Harbor were just helping the US Navy dispose of a few obsolete battleships. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/49 "2023-04-21T15:53:58Z")
The Blitz was a filmed German airshow whoā€™s armorer/prop-master mistakenly allowed live bombs on the planes. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/50 "2023-04-21T16:14:57Z")
Jeffrey Dahmer just had a very adventurous palate. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/51 "2023-04-21T16:23:17Z")
Poor Hitler, his order was simply misunderstood. Dummkopf, ich gesagt _swill the booze!_ ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/52 "2023-04-21T16:50:02Z")
ā€œIch hat _swill the booze_ gesagtā€ ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/53 "2023-04-21T17:13:19Z")
Matt Gaetz and Jeffrey Epstein were just trying to buy Girl Scout cookies and it was all just a big misunderstanding. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/54 "2023-04-21T17:57:09Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I donā€™t think the poster in question is trolling or intentionally malicious, With posts like this? > [@Does Overturning an Election equate to Overthrowing the Government?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-overturning-an-election-equate-to-overthrowing-the-government/982986/47): > > All I have is bourbon, can I drink too, or is it everyone except me? Not sure the rules on this oneā€¦ Survey says - self-aware troll. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/55 "2023-04-21T18:07:00Z")
Well, aware that theyā€™re being piled on, anyway, in that no one agrees with them. From the limited available evidence the poster seems non-malicious but possessed by delusions that are consistent with having Fox News wired into their brain. Of course one cannot exclude the possibility that we have in our midst that remarkable marine mammal and phenomenon of passive-aggressive argumentation, the sea lion. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/56 "2023-04-21T18:14:32Z")
When is an attempted coup not an attempted coup? When it is an attempted sedan. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/57 "2023-04-21T18:25:06Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > From the limited available evidence the poster seems non-malicious but possessed by delusions that are consistent with having Fox News wired into their brain. And thatā€™s exactly the mindset of many of those who took an impromptu tour of the Capitol on Jan 6th. Stupid, but _not_ harmless. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/58 "2023-04-21T20:23:51Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > The 9/11 hijackers were just normal tourists overly eager to see the sights of downtown Manhattan and too impatient to wait in the cab lines at the airport. And why do people freak out about them not learning to land? After all, they were attending flight school, not landing school. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/59 "2023-04-22T15:04:51Z")
> **[Ask the ā€˜Coupologistsā€™: Just What Was Jan. 6 Anyway?](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/19/jan-6-coup-authoritarianism-expert-roundtable-00052281)** > > Without a name for it, figuring out why it happened is that much harder. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/60 "2023-04-22T15:06:30Z")
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