New in PJ Media:
Donald Trump has been indicted, essentially for the crime of being Donald Trump and opposing the Left’s total hegemony over everything. But as Trump himself has often warned, they’re not really after him, they’re after us, and he is just in the way. A 33-year-old Trump supporter named Douglass Mackey discovered the truth of that adage in the worst possible way on Friday, the first day of America as a Leftist banana republic in which foes of the regime are targeted solely for their opposition to that regime. Mackey was convicted of election interference and faces up to ten years in prison, all because of a meme he tweeted during the 2016 election. Yes, you read that right: a meme.
Back during the wild and woolly days of that campaign, according to a Friday press release from the “Justice” Department, Mackey, under the name Ricky Vaughn, “established an audience on Twitter with approximately 58,000 followers. A February 2016 analysis by the MIT Media Lab ranked Mackey as the 107th most important influencer of the then-upcoming Presidential Election.” The Justice for Democrats Department didn’t bother to explain exactly what it means to have held a position so illustrious as that of the 107th most important influencer of the 2016 presidential election. How did the DOJ go about determining this? Did it somehow discover that Mackey/Vaughn had induced a certain number of people to change their votes, but that 106 other people had gotten people to change more votes?
These are actually important questions because on Friday, Mackey was convicted “by a federal jury in Brooklyn of the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights stemming from his scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.” That’s what he faces ten years in prison for doing. Mackey’s “conspiracy” was really quite simple. While the language the Department Formerly Associated with Justice used sounds quite weighty and conjures up images of Mackey meeting in dark rooms with other sinister figures to plot ways to sabotage voting machines or prevent people from being able to enter polling places, what they’re really talking about is a meme.
One of the ten-years-in-the-slammer memes can be seen here. Vaughn tweeted a photo of what looked like a Hillary ad, but was actually a parody of a Hillary ad. The caption read: “Avoid the line. Vote from home. Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925. Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.” The Justice Unless You Support Trump Department explained that this was a heinous crime because “Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encouraged supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to ‘vote’ via text message or social media which, in reality, was legally invalid.” Yeah, wow, doggonit, that sounds terrible. Thousands, maybe even millions, of people, must have been bamboozled by the 107th most important influencer of the then-upcoming Presidential Election to send in a text and think they had voted, right?
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Johnny B says
Communism never was a good idea to begin with, why bring it back to life? Especially in a country that used to be the anti-thesis to that horrendous system..
Phil says
Our Republic is truly circling the drain. Lord Jesus come.
JimJFox says
Lord Jesus is busy right now but has no interest at all…
somehistory says
It’s arrogant to attempt to speak for Someone in Whom you don’t even believe exists and can’t possibly know.
Keith O says
For a starter, the mythological figure called Jesus died over 2k years ago, so can’t possibly exist and as there are no longer any eye witnesses to his life, only stories written years after the events, how can anyone claim to “know him”.
This is a similar situation to the mudslimes belief in Mohamed, did he exist or is he the product of the twisted mind of a story teller?
somehistory says
For an *ender*….Jesus actually lived as a Man in Israel and there are historical records of His life apart from the Bible; with at least one written by someone who didn’t put faith in Him. Josephus was writing history in the later years of the First century….the same century when Jesus was preaching.
Since you have no knowledge of this fact….apart from my comment here,,,you can’t be trusted to know whether He is alive in heaven. .or anywhere.
And an atheist such as fox above, can’t possibly know whether Jesus is “interested” or not. Mocking belief in such a Man as Jesus was, and the Divine Eternal Father, Mighty God that He is now, may make the mocker feel superior, but it doesn’t establish any facts, nor does it make the lives of others better. It just reveals the heart and soul of the mocker.
You have a religious belief. Would you like it to be compared to mozlums? Christians are the brunt of that charge over and over, and yet, we haven’t been going around threatening the lives of others, raping, stabbing, etc.
Would you be upset with fox if he mocked you?
What proof could you present to him if he did?
gravenimage says
You don’t have to believe in Christianity to realize what calumny it is to compart it to Islam.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
To your point, even left-leaning Wikipedia states this:
“Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus
gravenimage says
Thank you. Somehistory and James.
somehistory says
According to their religious rules, “voting is sacred,” but **life** is not.
“Woe to those who say bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter, light is dark and dark is light.” ( not an exact quote of Isaiah 5:20)
Just as h clinton didn’t face prison time for doing what it is claimed d. Trump did, those who voted for her and *interfered* with maga voters, won’t see prison from the inside.
“Woe to those putting evil for good and good for evil.”
The “woe” will be when the *reaping* of what they are sowing takes place.
Keith O says
Trump is correct when he describes the legal events as a “witch hunt” and the demented peasants are gathering wood for the fires on an epic scale.
The implications of the prosecution of Trump supporters as well as the man himself are truly frightening.
This is the sort of scenario we see being played out in such wonderful places as Iran, Venezuela, Pakistan and Somalia, not a civilised nation.
gravenimage says
Trump Supporter Found Guilty, Faces Ten Years in Prison for 2016 Anti-Hillary Meme
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Good grief. Any half bright voter knows that you cannot vote by text. I can’t believe he got *ten years* for a non-violent *joke*. Not only should this not be a crime at all, but many get lesser sentences for 3rd degree murder.