This meme got Douglass Mackey 7 months in jail.
https://t.co/kdswMU7S1B pic.twitter.com/r4LnjHXeLG— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) October 18, 2023
Posted on 10/18/2023 10:02:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Chalk up another one to the very disintegrating system of justice that we seem to have now in this country and add another to the pile of the "two-tiered" application of the law.
Douglass Mackey was sentenced to seven months in prison on Wednesday. He intends to appeal, and let's hope that's successful.
His big crime? He got convicted for spreading a meme.
This meme got Douglass Mackey 7 months in jail.
https://t.co/kdswMU7S1B pic.twitter.com/r4LnjHXeLG— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) October 18, 2023
His conviction was ridiculous.
Mackey was convicted on a single count of conspiring with others to interfere in the 2016 presidential election after he shared from his far-right Twitter account phony advertisements that encouraged Clinton supporters to vote via text message.
“Avoid the line. Vote from home,” one meme says. “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”
U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly handed down the sentence, calling the conspiracy “nothing short of an assault on our democracy.”
Who in their right mind would believe such a thing? If you fell for it, you truly don't deserve the vote. Anyone with even one brain cell would know that it was nonsense, the type that is spread from both sides of the aisle. If anyone actually tried texting that number, they would have gotten a message that it wasn't associated with the Clinton campaign, so it wouldn't have been a very effective conspiracy in any event.
This is truly a troubling case when they actually pursue criminal charges for such speech.
X owner Elon Musk didn't hold back when he eviscerated the government for going after Mackey. He also pointed out the contrast in the treatment of this case versus the matter of the Hunter Biden laptop.
That had no material impact on the election.
What prison sentences were given out to those who suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop information? That *did* have a material impact on the election.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 18, 2023
Musk noted that Mackey's actions "had no material impact on the election."
He then asked, What prison sentences were given out to those who suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop information? That *did* have a material impact on the election."
Gotta love it when Elon lets loose on them like this. He seems to have no fear and isn't willing to shut up about what he thinks. He knows that he's being targeted as well with multiple investigations, but he's talking out anyway.
He's right, if the polls about the issue are any indication. Surveys last year showed a massive number of people think that would have changed the election had more people known about the laptop. Yet there have been no consequences for that suppression or election interference or for that infamous letter put out by the 51 former intel officials. They all have the protection of the magical "D" after their names so there are no consequences for their actions.
Russiagate had a material impact on the election with a large number of people still believing in collusion. But we are learning now that the Clinton-connected Alfa Bank researchers also had a significant role in attribution for the DNC hack…
Still needs an investigation.— Undead FOIA 3.0 (@UndeadFoia) October 18, 2023
They were given jobs at CNN and MSNBC— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) October 18, 2023
Ann M. Donnelly, ClownBammy stooge.
all in the defense of democracy
democracy = democrat rule
not governance
rule
welcome to tyranny
Standard democrat slogan. Anyone using it is a democrat hack.
A Democracy with fake elections is actually a dictatorship. America has been one since 2020. This case is just another example of our young growing tyranny.
Anyone dumb enough to take that joke seriously is too dumb to be voting.
The guy should get an award for performing a public service.
Crap. I think I remember posting during the last election that to avoid the crowds the government had Republicans voting on Tuesday and the Democrats on Wednesday.
This can't be said loud enough or long enough.
If you know anyone ignorant enough to not know this already... Explain it to them.
There are times when I genuinely want to see these judges hurt in the worst way.
A democracy is Hell unless it's coupled with a Republic like ours, with a Constitution and Bill of Rights. (At least ours used to be.)
Once both parties realized they could use the system to loot for themselves and their families it's become more like an oligarchy. Where rich powerful people vie for the same pot of gold. And we all became the Golden Goose, which they now seem to be trying to kill.
Imagine what peril we'd be in if it was just a democracy right now where the mob could just vote away your rights with a simple majority.
Stalin and his minions were extremely good at it too. You didn't want to be in political opposition to Stalin in Russia in those days.
Kinda' reminds me of Herr Biden at the moment.
Avoid the stairs.
Vote from your basement.
And that's exactly what many Demonrats plan to do, early and often. In partnership with Facebook and the American Postal Workers Union, 2024 early voting reproduction orders have already been sent to Chinese print shops and slave labor camps.
This must apply to journalists.
Put a white face on it, and it’s laughed off by the rats as stupid and ineffectual. Put a black face on it, as shown, and it becomes a threat to democrats who all carry the bigotry of low expectations of blacks.
So cute how Elon likes to use his 42 billion dollar toy. Twitter is very good these days.
Elon should be proud that Twitter got the truth out first on the Gaza hospital bombing. That it was Hamas clowns who killed their own people.
That 51 signed the letter to suppress the laptop, is proof of conspiracy. That the laptop was effectively buried, is proof the conspiracy affected the election.
This is far bigger than Watergate.
yep.
Elon should put his money where his mouth is and pay for that guy’s appeal.
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