#greg locke

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Curt Devine, Casey Tolan, and Donie O'Sullivan at CNN:

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.

Four years ago, Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden didn’t truly materialize until after the election. They were largely improvised and ad hoc, with a flurry of hastily filed lawsuits that went nowhere and efforts to convince state legislators to block certification that fell short. But this time around, MAGA activists have been planning to undermine a potential Harris victory well in advance of the election, with some even arguing that state legislators should simply ignore the election results and award electoral votes to Trump by default. Congress passed a measure in 2022 that makes it harder to overturn a certified presidential election, and with Trump now out of office, he and his allies cannot wield levers of the executive branch to try to influence the election. But experts say that the people involved in these conspiracy theory-driven efforts appear to be better organized, more determined and, in some cases, more extreme than four years ago.

Federal law enforcement officials are also ringing alarm bells. A bulletin put out earlier this month by the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Intelligence warned that extremist rhetoric about the election could motivate people to “engage in violence, as we saw during the 2020 election cycle.” Marc Harris, a former investigator for the House select committee that investigated January 6, 2021, told CNN he’s concerned that the tactics to undermine the election have evolved since 2020, even with the safeguards put into place since then. “Those looking to overturn the election are way ahead of where they were in 2020,” said Harris. “But on the flip side, the pro-democracy defenders are also more prepared. How that shakes out is not clear to me.”

Baseless fears of a ‘steal’

Unfounded claims about malign forces conspiring to cheat Trump out of an otherwise inevitable election win have been increasing in recent weeks from influential members of the MAGA movement. “Yes, the steal is happening again,” Emerald Robinson, a right-wing broadcaster with nearly 800,000 followers on X, declared in a blog post earlier this month, criticizing the fact that votes may take days to count in some states. “It doesn’t take days to get election results. It takes days to cheat.”

Patrick Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO who donated millions of dollars to efforts investigating the 2020 election, warned on Telegram this week of a cyberattack that would rig the election and lead to imminent “death and cannibalism” unless Americans stand together. And Greg Locke, a prominent Tennessee pastor who spoke near the Capitol the day before the January 6 riot, told his followers in a sermon earlier this month that the US would be hit with “a catastrophic storm that is going to be man-made” in the days before the election, as an apparent method of stealing the vote. “If Kamala wins this election, hear me when I tell you, we will never have another one,” Locke predicted. Some of the debunked ideas that surfaced after the 2020 election and sought to explain how Trump lost remain rampant, such as the notion that voting machines are flipping votes to favor Democrats or that election officials in swing states have been complicit in widespread voter fraud.

“The same systems are being used. Many of the same players are in place,” Joe Hoft, who has contributed to the conspiracy-theory-peddling website The Gateway Pundit, told CNN when asked about the 2024 election. “I don’t trust the process. The process is broken.” In recent episodes of “War Room,” a prominent program airing election conspiracy theories started by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, guests have repeatedly suggested that Democratic governors in swing states or Democratic members of Congress could block certification of a legitimate Trump victory.

They’ve cited comments like Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin telling Axios earlier this month that he didn’t assume Trump would use “free, fair and honest” means to win – even though Raskin said he would “obviously accept” a Trump victory if it was honest. “They call us election deniers all the time,” GOP Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said on a “War Room” episode last week, in which she raised concerns about overseas military voting. “But it looks, it appears to be that there is a big fight being set up over the certification of the election and the outcome of the election.” Greene has also floated a conspiracy theory that recent US Capitol Police training exercises are connected to a plan by congressional Democrats to keep Trump out of power even if he wins. Trump himself has echoed some of the conspiracy theories pushed by his supporters, suggesting that election fraud is rampant in 2024. But party officials have struck a different tone.

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Plans to block a Harris win

While some groups have been gathering supposed examples of election fraud for lawsuits to challenge a potential Harris win, other pro-Trump activists have coalesced around a plan to ensure Trump returns to the White House: state legislators can simply allocate their state’s electors for Trump regardless of vote counts. The strategy generated headlines last week after Rep. Andy Harris, the chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, said it “makes a lot of sense” to allocate electors that way in North Carolina, where he suggested damage from Hurricane Helene may disenfranchise some voters.

Harris, who later walked back his comments, initially voiced support for the proposal after hearing a presentation from Raiklin, who’s known for having posted a memo that argued then-Vice President Mike Pence could have blocked certification of the 2020 election results. Raiklin has been espousing the plan for legislators to seize control of awarding electoral votes in various states in recent weeks and receiving support from other far-right figures. Mark Finchem, a Republican candidate for state senate in Arizona, wrote on X that the “extraordinary circumstances” in North Carolina – a reference to the hurricane damage – “provide a justifiable pathway for the legislature to take action.” Noel Fritsch, publisher of the far-right online publication National File, has argued that the US Constitution gives all state legislatures the power to choose electoral college members, which he told CNN he believes could create more national stability.

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Concerns about violence

Incidents of political violence and threats have already occurred this year, including two apparent attempts to assassinate Trump, shootings involving a DNC office and suspicious packages mailed to election offices. In the weeks ahead of the election, some pro-Trump activists have been openly alluding to more violent chaos that they say is on the horizon. Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn said on a program last week that he thought Trump would win all 50 states if there’s a fair election but offered a grim prediction if the winner remains unknown for days. “I feel like people are going to go to those locations where there’s counting and there could actually be violence because people are going to be, people are so upset after 2020,” said Flynn, who four years ago drew comparisons to Civil War battlefields in a speech the day before the Capitol riot.

This CNN article is a must-read on how right-wing election deniers seek to launch January 6th 2.0 if Donald Trump loses.

See Also:

Daily Kos: MAGA zealots are reportedly planning Jan. 6 chaos—again

MMFA: Here’s the familiar playbook Trumpists will use to try and overturn the election if he loses

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We all saw this shitshow right?

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John Macarthur and Mental Health

John MacArthur and the fight against psychology in conservative Christian culture

CW: SI, Depression, SA, and Anxiety. If you follow any of the links to Samantha Field’s blog, be aware she discusses SA at length as well. John Macarthur has made it into the national news cycle again. And no it’s not for blatantly ignoring covid guidelines, victim blaming, encouraging women to stay in abusive marriages,1 or ignoring child abuse in his church.2 This time it’s been for his wild…

[pastored123]

Watch Out! I’m About to Fuss!

I am sickened by and profoundly angry at fraudulent, hateful and arrogant preachers parading around as authentic representatives of God’s mercy, grace, peace, and empowerment of a resurrected Christ. One horrible example of this unfortunate reality is Greg Locke, a Tennessee based pastor and internet faux-Christian speaker. Without any hesitation on my part I can clearly pronouce he is an…

[psychotrope777]

on one hand it almost feels like it's not worth getting mad at these people at an individual level bc greg locke is just one in a sea of millions of evil little roaches and the problem is societal but i do really wish some good samaritan would like, kidnap him and saw his legs off or some shit

[gaykarstaagforever]

This is serious! He might burn GOOD books next!

[captain-sweatyfanstudent-stuff]

Okay... I just heard the story of how some Christian wackaloon named Greg Locke destroyed a Barbie playset on stage during a sermon about unclean spirits... With a baseball bat wrapped in bibles... Y'all know I didn't care for the movie. But here's the thing, there's alot of good things I can say about that movie. Seeing people lose their shit over Barbie leaves me with one question: Has anyone informed these asshats that it's JUST A MOVIE? Literally just another Hollywood product aimed at making money off idiots willing to pay for the opportunity to watch? And yes I watched it free of charge thanks to a friend managing a movie theater.... Again, some weird dude gave a corporation money to get an object to destroy in order to look like a fucking moron... People wonder why I'm atheist. Here's a better idea of how to show you don't like something: Don't engage with it, don't give the creators of what you don't like your money...

[starwarsfangirl]

Adulterer Greg Locke hadn’t made any wackadoo headlines lately. People are bored with his burning of Harry Potter books.

[whatisonthemoon]

Patriot Games III: The Moon and the Machine Gun

Unification Church, Rod of Iron Ministries, Sean Moon, militias, Waco, Branch Davidians, David Koresh, January 6th Event, Gladio, American Gladio, growing up Moonie, Unification families, Rod of Iron Ministry's paramilitary activities, special operations forces, Special Operations Command (SOCOM), Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Craig Sawyer, about Christopher "CT" Thompson, Charles "Sam" Faddis, CIA, Special Activities Division, SAD, anti-CIA, operators culture vs intelligence/military, Tu Lam, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Tu Lam as video game character, gamer culture in psyops, QAnon, Joey Gibson, Patriot Prayer group, New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), Pastor Greg Locke, Black Robe Regiment, cults/religious groups as paramilitaries, Sea Sparrows, Moonies in Iran-Contra, I Am, Silver Shirts, Council for National Policy (CNP), Larry Pratt, American Gladio, PATCON, Charles Buasman, The Right Stuff, Konstantin Malofeev, White Russians, Sovereign Order of Saint John, General William Boykin, Russian honeypot or collaboration?  

Part I: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/patriot-games-i-the-alt-right-white-russians-the/id1625511894?i=1000603926055

This podcast episode features former Unification Church member and anti-fascist researcher Alisa Mahjoub

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Eric Hananoki at MMFA:

The Trump-backed ReAwaken America tour is holding an event in Michigan this week that will feature numerous speakers with histories of anti-Muslim rhetoric. Those commentators have said that “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL,” bragged about helping Trump with his “Muslim ban,” and claimed that “Muslims are stockpiling weapons in Islamic centers.” They have claimed that “Islam is a terrorist organization,” that “Islam has been and remains the GREATEST threat to the Western Civilization,” and that ”Islam IS NOT our friend." 

The ReAwaken America tour will be held in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on June 7 and 8. An online itinerary states that numerous Trump allies will speak at the event, including son Eric Trump; former Trump Defense Department official Kash Patel; former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani; RNC attorney Christina Bobb; Trump attorney Alina Habba; and longtime ally Roger Stone. Tour host Clay Clark has specifically touted his events as closely tied to Trump, stating that “Eric Trump is a good friend of mine” and “it's exciting … that Trump's inner circle is now going, they're all reaching out to our tour, to the ReAwaken America tour, to Gen. Flynn, to myself, to Kash Patel. And they're all saying, hey, can we come to the tour?” During a promotional appearance last month, Clark said “Trump’s entire inner circle will be there” at the Michigan event. 

The pro-Trump and Christian Nationalist ReAwaken America Tour is visiting Michigan this weekend, and several speakers-- including Greg Locke, Michael Flynn, and Jackson Lahmeyer-- have had a history of pushing Islamophobic attacks against Islam.

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I put all my 愛 for the game into this one, to everyone who has beared my shouting about this modern classic for the last 4 years, I thank you!!!

Commissioned by Greg Chun (eng voice of Kaname Date) He will be doing a signing session at a later date where you can get this as a print, go follow him for more info on that!

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[kankalin]

i fear this image says much about me

[sideblog-9000]

Just finished house last night. And in my beautiful mindscape, house and Wilson live happily together and Wilson doesn't die, you know how? Because I'm crazy, I'm currently IN the rubber room filled with RATS and theyre TELLING me that he's going to be okay.