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

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12mo ago

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

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12mo ago

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

www.cnn.com /2024/10/31/politics/maga-activists-preparing-undermine-election-if-trump-loses/index.html

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MAGA is a terrorist organization.
- Their own words.
  
  They thought they were joking but it has to be not true for that type of joke to work.
- Can't be a terrorist if they are white /s
- A pretty fun terrorist organization
  
  If fascism, corruption, hate, and narcissism are your kinda thing, you should probably die about it.
  
  I feel like this was meant as a tongue-in-cheek jab at the post title, but sarcasm of this type is lost in text.
Hey dumbasses, Trump won't be in office to stop the deployment of law enforcement this time. I predict that when Harris wins the Jan 6th crowd will be a tenth the size as last time and when they see all the cops lined up they won't do a damned thing.
- Yeah, and Capitol police will probably be much more willing to default to lethal force considering they lost a few people the last go-round.
- Fwiw, USSS has declared the highest level of security for that day already.
- I fear it won't be centralized just in Washington this time and they could try to take many state houses that simply aren't prepared as the Capital clearly will be. There was a clip of two men walking away from Jan 6 that haunts me. They were remarking on what an incredible day it was, and one of them says, "but next time we bring the guns". If 100k armed idiots people show up at the Capital looking for a 'revolution', cops aren't going to be enough. And even worse if they take to local streets looking for anybody who opposes them. I hope the fever doesn't get that high, but I'll for sure to be staying far away from any of those crazies for a while.
  
  If anywhere near that amounts of armed idiots shows up to DC this time, I'm certain the National Guard will be waiting for them.
  We saw the limits of relying on Capital Police and DC Metro Police last time. A Biden admin transitioning to a Harris admin is not going to make that mistake again, and the MD National Guard will probably be ready and waiting for the assistance call like the one that came way too late 4 years ago.
  
  Send in the Guard then. And have other areas around the country on high alert. Also: watch these fuckers, and all their leaders of these little terrorist groups. Infiltrate them now, if they have not already. And the minute they start seeing them booking flights, renting cars, etc....track their movements. It's not like there weren't plenty of warnings last time around. These people were broadcasting their terrorism last time. And now they are emboldened, most of them will be just as open about it this time around.
  
  Ding! My prediction is it'll mostly be state capitols and voting tabulation centers.
- All the cops? Nah. National Guard. If it's just cops, it'll be like the scene from Braveheart when Long Shanks sends in the Irish.
I will most definitely have fun watching fascists getting arrested.
If they're wearing MAGA gear, does that count as a "uniform"?
- Idk, I doubt the police are just going to arrest themselves…
  
  If the police are known for anything, it's protecting their own.
  When the mob heads for the Capitol again, there's going to be an imperial fuckton more police there. When the mob attacks the police again, it's gonna be "find out" time, which I fully expect will include National Guard mobilization.
1/6 will be different if Trump loses because he won't be allowed to have a gathering in D.C. That shit will be shut down faster than you can blink.
Even if Trump WINS, he still won't be allowed a gathering until the inauguration on 1/20.
- Also, the scale of protest and organizing and protest in 2020 was orders of magnitude greater than right now. Trump may have increased the aggrieved class in this country, but he hasn't expanded their on the ground organizing. The fact that the right simply isn't nearly as organized (on the ground; I'll cede they may be more organized politically) makes this a very very different threat environment.
  J6 didn't emerge out of nothing. They had been organizing MANY right wing events in the run-up to J6 to get MAGA trained up and activated to show up for that kind of event, for literally months before it happened. That has not happened so far, and there really isn't time to get that kind of groundswell activated.
  
  The "will be wild!" tweet was, what? 12/19?
  https://www.npr.org/2022/07/13/1111341161/how-trumps-will-be-wild-tweet-drew-rioters-to-the-capitol-on-jan-6
It's a GOOD THING our Justice Department gave out HUGE Consequences for LAST January 6th to Deter this kind of Behavior!
- biden better not pull any fucking punches
  
  He goes back and forth. There's a chance he'll deliver.
I hope the response is to have overwhelming force there to protect against any of the magabrainz, and with orders to shoot.
- No matter who's in charge the police and military control the populace, and you support it.
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I call bullshit.
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Its not too late to invoke the 25th. I trust Kamala for the defense of the nation far more-so than I trust Biden. Biden isn't even aware of his day to day. He can't be trusted to face down the literally insurrection thats being planned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO3KbXMxHfw
I think with Biden as president, it would go something like this.

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