As was reported earlier by Cristina Laila — “Ricky Vaughn” a pro-Trump meme maker and Twitter troll was indicted Wednesday by the feds for using the social media platform to ‘spread election disinformation’ to Hillary Clinton voters in 2016.
“Ricky Vaughn” AKA, Douglass Mackey, used Twitter to post memes and troll Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election cycle.
31-year-old Mackey was arrested in West Palm Beach on one charge of conspiracy against rights and faces up to 10 years in prison.
According to the unsealed indictment, Mackey conspired with others on Twitter to encourage black people to cast their votes via text message.
The Eastern District of New York said in its indictment that one week before the 2016 election, Mackey tweeted an image of a black woman in front of an “African Americans for President Hillary” sign.
Emblazoned on the picture was the message: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home. Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925. Vote for Hillary and be a part of history”
According to the complaint, more than 4,900 people ‘cast their vote via text message.’ more
h/t Brad.
Ha!
Double standards….We are suppose to accept it….OR….the alternative.
Hell, the dude was simply ahead of his time.
How many African-Americans voted on Wednesday this past election?
Hell, I remember a video of a black woman wheeling out coolers full of votes at 3 AM in Georgia.
Vote by text?
I’m sure many did!
Oh, dear. Looks like we need a recount of the 2020 votes!
Democrat slogan: It’s OK when we do it.
Didn’t some counties in Oregon, California and Washington vote by text for local shit?
Sounds like a very good demonstration for why we need to vote at polling places in person. I think anyone who says otherwise should be impeached for sabatoging democracy.
When shit like this starts happening, it becomes beyond being ‘funny’ anymore.
More like very VERY concerning.
And politically poisonous and dangerous to free speech.
@ghost — What free speech? I used to have free speech but it looks like I lost it somewhere. I’ve looked everywhere and I just can’t find it. For a moment I thought it might be that I’m getting old and maybe not knowing where my free speech went is just a problem with my aging memory. But I vividly remember having free speech until fairly recently.
Gee I guess that anyone who ever served in the military and took the oath to protect and defend the Consitution and is pointing out how all this bull and new rules are unconstitutiona are now domestic terrorists Who would have thunk it. guess I’ll have to go into hiding
@Uncle Al – yeah, I get it, free speech was being lost as soon as it was given.
Well maybe not that fast…
But the thing is?
This IS the Tavern of Free Speech right now for many of us and I am a BIT…concerned…that the new ‘Dystopic building department’ will show up with some effed up ‘violation’.
I dare not EVEN wonder what they might consider a Neo-Modern Violation??
(how do I do italics and bold?!?!?!?! Been meaning to ask ya for the longest…)
Scary shit. We all have to band around him.
Already this site doesn’t show up unless I type iotwreport.com
Fuck em’ all. There’s too many of us. TRY arresting or intimidating us.
The feds are threatening a dime for free speech? LOL! I’ll take that case and fight it all the way. The feds don’t have the money for that. They just want a plea bargain. FUCK THEM. TAKE ALL OF US TO COURT.
Mainly because I want I want my say in the court transcript. But also because I’m fucking DARING the US government to make me a political prisoner.
Try it.
But the guy in 2016 was working as a government contractor.
The US government has become the enemy of the people.
“Mackey conspired with others on Twitter to encourage black people to cast their votes via text message.”
“According to the complaint, more than 4,900 people ‘cast their vote via text message.”
So 4,900 people are basically admitting to the rest of the world that they’re retards who were taken in by some internet shit-poster’s gag. Which sounds about right: anyone that stupid probably IS a Democrat…
@ghost — re: italics and bold
To display a string of letters in italics, enter this:
One Two <i>Three Four</i> Five Six
and you’ll see:
One Two Three Four Five Six
A “b” instead of an “i” gets you bold. Enter this:
One Two <b>Three Four</b> Five Six
and you’ll see:
One Two Three Four Five Six
p.s. How I get those HTML tags to appear as text instead of operating on the strings is a geek secret. Neener.
If you’re dumb enough to think you can vote by text you’re too stupid to vote. If you’re dumb enough to take memes seriously you’re too stupid to vote.
@Uncle Al – Thanks!
Ricky Vaughn is a comedian! He was just making a joke!
Come on man!
Caveat emptor. The guy did nothing wrong. It’s not his fault if people are stupid.
Kristina Wong did the exact same thing to Trump supporters in 2016, but there was one critical difference: Trump supporters weren’t stupid enough to fall for it.
@uncle Al : Thanks!