'January 6th is going to be pretty fun': How MAGA activists are preparing to undermine the election if Trump loses

[Dennis Donovan]

CNN - ‘January 6th is going to be pretty fun’: How MAGA activists are preparing to undermine the election if Trump loses

By Curt Devine, Casey Tolan and Donie O'Sullivan, CNN

Published 7:00 AM EDT, Thu October 31, 2024

Before Election Day has even arrived, the “Stop the Steal” movement has reemerged in force, with some of the same activists who tried to overturn former President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss outlining a step-by-step guide to undermine the results if he falls short again.

For months, those activists – who have been priming Trump supporters to believe the only way the former president can lose in 2024 is through fraud – have laid out proposals to thwart a potential Kamala Harris victory. Their plans include challenging results in court, pressuring lawmakers to block election certification, and encouraging protests – culminating on January 6, 2025, the day Congress will once again certify the results.

“I have a plan and strategy,” Ivan Raiklin, a former Green Beret and political operative who has close ties to associates of Trump, told a group of Pennsylvania activists earlier this month. “And then January 6th is going to be pretty fun.”

Trump’s allies – and the former president himself – are increasingly pushing debunked claims of voter fraud, spreading their rhetoric through podcasts with massive audiences, megachurch sermons and political rallies in key states. Some Trump backers, including pastors associated with Christian nationalist ideas, have described the election as a fight between good and evil, describing Harris as the antichrist or suggesting that God has anointed Trump as the victor.

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[bdamomma]

1. Fun????

meaning what????? causing violence? Again. Infusing that extreme religious ideology. False prophets.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Hope they think prison is fun

cause that's where they'll go

[Solly Mack]

3. Sounds like conspiracy to committ a crime.

[RJ_MacReady]

4. that's fine

The military will be turned on them if they try that again.

[Emile]

5. Lock them all up.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. Trump wont be in charge of the Oval Office this time

His administration wont be there to allow him to foment riots and unlawful acts. He can still rile the MAGAs, but only from the outside.
The transfer of power will go on.

[BootinUp]

7. We will get the prisons ready then. nt

[tetedur]

8. Because that plan worked out so well for them last time.

They did succeed in dragging the country through some time wasting bull crap. Apparently they know they can't win the election the normal way. The only question is what they have up their sleeves.

We have to prepare for the expected and the unexpected. There will be trouble.

[louis-t]

9. He thinks jail will be fun?

Try it, asshole.