Is what happened in Sri Lanka the goal of the USA insurection?

No, they are not comparable. Sri Lanka is undergoing an economic crisis resulting in discontent with the current government.

The Trumpets insurrectionists were attempting to install Trump as President for a mother term by invalidating the election results. They also wanted to execute Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi by lynching. Not the same as the citizens having a sit in in the Capital.

The difference is that the crowds in Sri Lanka have legitimate grievances and their protests are mostly peaceful. Trump on the other hand is Trump and anyone listening to him should have his head examined.

@RedDeerGuy1 You are correct. The goal of the J6 protests were to get the certification of the election denied. That would only be a delay tactic to allow investigations into all the irregularities of the election. It was not an insurrection despite the grandiose claims of those on the left.

However the similarities to Sri Lanka exist. This article shows the issues racking that country. Let me cut and paste this from the opening statement:

“Sri Lanka is already in a serious crisis in people’s living conditions, in the economy, foreign reserves, political system, government’s legitimacy, public administration, foreign relations, and government’s day to day decision making processes.”

Biden and the Dems took a good, stable economy and drove it into the ground. That makes living conditions for many difficult, the economy is in the toilet, our foreign affairs are abysmal, the political system is corrupt, the government’s legitimacy is being questioned on every front, public administration is becoming bloated and corrupt and the government cannot make a decision on any day. All they can do is point fingers. And when they do push a policy, it does more damage than good.

The Sri Lankans are hungry for food.
The insurrectionists were hungry for Gilead.

Not even close to correct.

I get why the comparisons are being made since these people have “stormed the presidential palace” much as the Jan 6th jokesters bum-rushed the Capitol. But the Sri Lankans are trying to get leaders to resign (and seem to have been successful so far), not attempting to overturn an election.

The attempt at insurrection was of course poorly planned, and as the footage of the event clearly demonstrates, the participants cannot be categorized as criminal masterminds executing precision planning. Stupidity itself, is not a crime. In fact it is now currently accepted as one of our most basic and fundamental freedoms. And it should trouble us considerably that the trait should be so
readily identifiable by the degree of enthusiasm its practicioners exert toward displaying and waving our flag around. But just because these poor dupes placed their trust in the pronouncements of a lying pig who has now effectively destroyed any plausible future regarding productive lives for thousands of them now labeled criminals, the severity of their crimes must not be dismssed as mere pranks. And no comment is required regarding the stupidity of anyone claiming loud proclamations of lynching Pence and Pelosi while overrunning and looting the seat of government as suitable tactics toward correcting voting irregularities, imagined or not.

A big difference between the two cases is that in Sri Lanka the protests are against those in power while the attempted insurrection on Jan 6 tried to prevent the transfer of power to the duly elected next president.

@HP As I read your post I strangely find myself agreeing with you! Stupidity is a trait so
readily identifiable!

The two countries are majorly different.

Both actions, the storming of the US Capitol, and the Sri Lankan President’s residence, have some similarities. However, I think their differences mark them more. The economic situation in Sri Lanka is unraveling and normal life has been replaced with queues for fuel and waiting for the electricity to come on, hunger is rising. In the US, a smaller, louder proportion of the people have been literally driven to madness by sensational ideas and rhetoric, while real crises lurk at the periphery.

Both groups of protesters seem diverse in their exact motives, unclear about the exact path to their goals, and mostly effective as a symbolic act, which seems about par for angry mobs.

In Sri Lanka, people protested against the government by going out in the streets. In the U.S., even though incumbents have a large advantage, people protested against Trump by voting him out of office. On Jan 6, Trump supporters tried to stage a coup to prevent the new president from taking office.