Welcome to The United States of America in 2023, where we see the first ever criminal conviction of a U.S. citizen for creating a meme. A man created a picture determined to be illegal by a Dept of Justice focused on the arrest and incarceration of people working against the interests of a weaponized government.
We will see what happens on appeal. After the jury remained deadlocked for three days, and after thrice telling the judge they were deadlocked, Judge Ann Donnelly threatened not to release them from duty unless and until they came to a decision on guilt. The jury subsequently found Douglass Mackey, a 33-year-old who went by the name Ricky Vaughn on Twitter and a resident of Florida (insert DeSantis silence here), guilty of creating a meme against the interests of the U.S. government.
The DOJ Celebrates – Douglass Mackey, also known as “Ricky Vaughn,” was convicted today 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. The verdict followed a one-week trial before United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly. When sentenced, Mackey faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), announced the verdict.
“Mackey has been found guilty by a jury of his peers of attempting to deprive individuals from exercising their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice in the 2016 Presidential Election,” stated United States Attorney Peace. “Today’s verdict proves that the defendant’s fraudulent actions crossed a line into criminality and flatly rejects his cynical attempt to use the constitutional right of free speech as a shield for his scheme to subvert the ballot box and suppress the vote.”
In 2016, Mackey 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.
As proven at trial, between September 2016 and November 2016, 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. (read more)
This is a dark day for our nation. However, let this serve as a warning for what lies ahead as the United States Senate attempts to create criminal laws that will take control over online content. This conviction for the expression of speech is the first of many if the Restrict Act is passed as written.
Retired Magistrate here: I can’t believe how fast our once great nation has fallen.
Every day, a new horror….
Yes, new horrors. The beginning of “pogroms” for Patriot Americans. Despicable. If we continue to do nothing, it is over for our country and us. Hey, Republican House and Senators: Where are you????? If they do not condemn this BS IMMEDIATELY, it means they are part of it.
my heart has sunk to my stomach, and my stomach has sunk to my knees. I pray frequently, but prayers without action by the so-called servants we voted for, it’s a lost cause.
Tucker Carlson is leading with this story today
He points out that a Democrat woman put out a nearly identical message to Republicans, yet she has received no scrutiny from Dept of Justice
ah – sorry – oldersoul has posted the Democrat message just a short distance downthread
Tucker’s got Stephen Miller on, by the way, they’re talking about PresTrump’s greatest sin was foiling the entrenched Foreign Policy / Military Adventures hierarchy of the Feds
… and that shortly after them getting rid of Trump, we’re on the verge of a World War over the boundaries of Ukraine
Never mind.
I was going to respond in disagreement, then I realized the Ukraine supporter is Tom Cotton.
Tom Cotton the weasel.
Talk to your successor gently about this miscarriage. Also of course mention the Trump fiasco in Madhattan. No long polemic. Just toss 2 coins in the fountain.
“ Just toss 2 coins in the fountain”
Reality for the day🫡
Rapidly sinking over the last two years.
Hi Magistrate….may I ask how this man from Florida was tried in NY? I know next to nothing about this stuff.
Retired Magistrate here: One of the messages he posted on social media must have occurred in New York; that established jurisdiction (power to make a legal decision) and Brooklyn established venue because an important related event to the case occurred there. Of course, with the current administration/judges in place what should happen under the rule of law and what is happening are two different things.
Look at the case District Attorney Bragg brought against President Trump; the statute of limitations has already run, the case has no merits, the chief witness was convicted of perjury, but hey, not a problem. The D.A.’s are making it up as they go along. Anything to achieve the end they want and they are getting away with it because there is no push back from the Republican party. Mackey may win on appeal, but his life, as he knew it, is over.
Thank you….you are basically suggesting there may be a legal case to be tried in NY but who knows because everything, including the courts, are a political sideshow nowadays.
The lesson I takeaway from this is if I go to a Blue State best not send anything political from my devices. I don’t make a habit of traveling to such places but I will be cautious if I do. Just in case I am caught there.
That’s kind of why I like Florida guys. We still have a decent amount of common sense here. If they came after me in my state for any reason they would need to find me in the swamps. I would sooner give myself to the gators. At least I know the terrain and the people living on it.
What would happen if say an Australian posted this meme? Would this person be on America’s most wanted?
“I can’t believe how fast our once great nation has fallen”
If you have read Ayn Rand, you will not believe it took this long. She saw this all coming 60, 70 years ago; no wonder she was so reviled by elite opinion.
read “45 goals of Communism” – From “The Naked Communist” —-1958 !!!!!!!!
By W. Cleon Skousen: I read it in high school, at which time I had concluded that Joseph McCarthy had been right about Communists in the government.
Skousen had been an F.B.I. agent for about 20 years.
Later events and revelations proved McCarthy had absolutely been correct!
The Communists are in charge throughout our government right now, as this prosecution proves, along with the persecution of President Trump.
McCarthy’s intuition was dead-on accurate but he was unfortunately too clumsy in his tactics. He too was fighting against a mostly Deep-State brainwashed / propagandized America.
Truth be told, McCarthy had access to classified information at the time. Later declassified, one can find some of those details within the VENONA files .
https://archive.org/details/thevenonafiles
Also “Non Dare Call It Treason” by John Stormer
“Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.”
John Harington
I thought Jim Garrison / Kevin Costner said that…… 😛
Also, read the “The Red Thread” (pub. 2019) by Diana West. She is all over the 70+ year long assault on America & the Constitution by the commies. She has the history and the details – including the Who’s Who of America’s Commiecrats…
She has written other excellent works as well. American Betrayal, The Death of the Grown-Up, and more. I highly recommend her books.
https://www.dianawest.net
Ditto.
I’ve read Atlas Shrugged twice. The other day I was asked by someone at the bar who my favorite author is. I said “Ayn Rand” she blanched…
Maybe some of us should unretire?
Retired Magistrate here: At 75 with health problems, I am blessed to have made it this far. The stress level with being a Common Pleas Court Magistrate is extremely high. That coupled with the death threats from people I sent to the workhouse for not paying child support, was enough for me. I have talked to several young attorneys, who are conservative and filled with passion and handed the mantle over to them.
Thank you for your service; you deserve to retire in peace.
This is their moduus operandi to wear us all down. Relentless attacks on anyone who dissents
We have been teetering on the edge for decades. Once we went over, gravity has asserted itself.
“Once we went over…” yes, with the election/selection of “the black jesus” in 2008.
monkeys could never make it work in africa or anywhere else so they tried it here.
They were surprised to learn their inferiority wasn’t due to geography.
Might you kindly cease and desist your uncivil comments based on skin color, dear Sir!?!
Look at the countless times DOJ silent on crimes where lives/property/jobs were lost. How far how much deeper contemporary man has fallen.
God has not changed. Man without God is a contradiction, a paradox, a monstrosity. He sees evil as good and good as evil. That is why some people love evil and hate that which is good—they are still in their sins.
Man changes the moral code – supplanting God’s when moral code is modified to fit man’s behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with our moral code. Nothing is firm today. We are not on solid ground.
Another way evil is called good is allowing the conscience to be perverted – certainly our consciences today are perverted. Right is right even if nobody is right. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong. God does not change the moral law to suit our behavior.
Self-centeredness is so inclined to call evil good. Profit or pleasure we are inclined to call it good, even if we know it is dead wrong. “But it’s what I’ve always wanted,” or, “It’s good for me, although I know it’s wrong”, or, “Times have changed, everybody is doing it” are the alibis we have manufactured to justify evil and call it good.
“What’s in it for me?” We think of God as we think of everyone else—in terms of what He can contribute to us personally; namely, we want God to be our servant.
The Bible, which has withstood the ravages of time, tells us a different story.
It says that we possess a nature that wars against us, that seeks to destroy us. The Apostle Paul said: “I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good” (Romans 7:21).
Evil is present in us disguising itself as good, controlling us and deceiving us. Sin is why the atonement was necessary.
Christ died on the cross to make us one with Him—dead to sin and alive to righteousness.
“Woe to those who call evil good!” Focusing our eyes outward instead of inward and heed the words of Jesus:
“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matthew 6:33)
It must be very hard for you and all the other lawyers, law enforcement officers and soldiers, whether active or retired, to see that which they so strongly defended being ripped to pieces. Tough days ahead for everyone but also don’t think all is lost.
Retired Magistrate here: It is very hard as I was also a police officer in the 70’s and a fraud investigator in the 80’s. I know tough days are ahead; however, I do what I can to educate and encourage others and live my best life now.
I’m reminded of a passage in the book “The Gulag Archipelago” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, where he describes an incident where a janitor was sweeping the halls of a government building during Stalin’s reign and the janitor became warm, so he took off his jacket and placed it across one of the many busts of Stalin placed throughout the building. Another worker happened to witness that and reported the janitor to the “authorities”. The janitor was soon picked up by one of the mysterious black lorries that roamed around Moscow in the middle of the night and was put on trial and found guilty of “Subversion”, or some other such charge and sent to Siberia for twenty years.
And THERE you have it!!!
Neither Jefferson Davis nor Robert E. Lee were ever charged with any crime!
I want to keep reading great analysis…too close to walking the line, at least after today!
And now I hear the “Court” has arrested lawyers for a J-6 defendant. The injustice is now unbearable.
I’m just an old lady, forced to retire as an RN in October 2021 because I refused to get the “clot shot.” And now my savings are dwindling at a breathtaking rate…. But enough about me.
Many, yes, MANY of us are now victims of this out of control cabal.
Meanwhile, this one gets a full pass:
It’s (D)ifferent.
One rule for one, one for another.
The colour of our Banana Republic is turning a darker shade of yellow with each passing day.
Unconscionable.
So exactly where is a DA to indict Ms. Wong here?? We have a crisis of guts amongst our glitterati… What’s that? Election interference is a Federal crime you say? Ohh, tell DA Bragg that fun fact..
Where is the DA? Collecting his or her envelope of Soros cash. The psychopath who owns the (in)justice system in the USSA.
He’s getting his money’s worth.
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper.”
I didn’t realize what “prosper” meant. Now I understand that it means “come to its final conclusion.” It’s another way of saying= It’s not over until the fat lady sings.
This gives me hope. Soros has been at this his entire life, targeting the victors of ww2 as a type of revenge and to force his ideology upon others.
In the end, Soros’ efforts will have been for nothing. He will not win in the end. Burning in hell will just be the icing on the cake.
Here’s the problem, bara
Soros is a malignant cancer who has metastasized. And I truly regret to say that there is a Son of Soros.
From all I read he is as malevolent as the devil that spawned him, if that is possible. He learned at daddy’s knee.
We will simply have to leave it to Almighty God as to Soros’s eternal home.
Guaranteed his money will be no good where I suspect he’ll be taking up residence.
Two sons I believe, recently read one on each coast to run ops.
The same DA and AG who refuses to charge Hunter and the Biden family for their treason.
This is beyond the pale. If the so-called Repubs we voted for do not stand up to this infamy, we are DONE as the USA as founded.
There are a lot of posters on this forum who attack anyone who suggests that we should not vote GOPe if a MAGA is not on the ballot. They believe the GOPe is better than the Dems.
In my opinion, the difference between the two Parties is simply the water temperature. Both Parties intend to boil the frog. One is just moving quicker and more in the open.
“The colour of our Banana Republic is turning a darker shade of yellow with each passing day.”
Demographically and figuratively
We’re past yellow and Banana Republic and full tilt into red.
As in RED China and the RED threat of communism.
It’s actually purple revolution.
there are no chinks in her armor
Careful, wouldn’t want to conclude that you have some nasty tendencies.
Banana republic.
How come what he did is a federal crime?
When election officials deliberately sabotage voting machines so that the ballots won’t be read properly and get rejected, it is a nothing burger. When election officials send home the observers because they have stopped counting due to a “pipe burst”, and then proceed to bring out suitcases of ballots previously hidden and start counting them in the dead of night, it’s a nothing burger too.
There are so many documented cases of real election interference that the courts refuse to even look at, yet Ricky Vaughn’s case somehow ended up with a federal conviction?
Apparently the prosecutor couldn’t even find any witness that was harmed by Ricky’s memes to testify against him.
Kristina Wong must be a fairly common name. I know there’s a good Kristina Wong on Twitter, I think she writes for the NY Post. Sometimes I think that’s how the deep state like to muddy the waters, duplicate names and such. I hope if people go after this one, they make note of the twitter handle above and don’t mistake the other one.
I’ve seen articles on this one before. Seems like a real beauty, as (the real) POTUS would say.
This lady was trying to fool White voters. Ricky Vaughn was trying to fool minority voters. I don’t believe anyone fell for it (white or minority) and I don’t believe this lady or Ricky had any ill intentions deep inside. They were just being stupid/funny.
My question is when are minority voters going to realize that the Left treats them like children to score political points. And when the politics are over they don’t give two shits about them…..that’s a rhetorical question btw.
Got a sweet chuckle a couple months ago. Seems the founder of BLM cousin got killed dealing with the police. Never saw the video but heard it was somewhat flagrant. I think her name is Patrice and she was putting out tweet after tweet calling for justice…..crickets!! I suspected it would be bottled up. Why, because the media and the Democrats said so that’s why.
Where is a SINGLE Republican DA somewhere in the entire Country willing to press charges against Kristina Wong. This tweet appeared in all 50 States for sure.
If the Republican Party was on our side it would happen.
I won’t be holding my breath…
Why, dear Lord?
On Palm Sunday Weekend?
John 15, 12-25.
Because we are cowards. G-d hates cowards, even if Jesus loved them.
You got a private line to him, sort like you know everything like below,
“Ryan
March 31, 2023 7:19 pm
IF we don’t fight back, then what comes is on our backs. Personally, I think that most American conservatives are the party of stupid fighting the party of crazy.”
Thanks DanQ… Ryan keeps tryin’ at pryin’ while lyin’
Just because God / Jesus loves us doesn’t mean Jesus has a love for cowardliness in the face of injustice.
God / Jesus loves justice and proper judgement. God and Jesus are echad/one.
God’s people have a DUTY to stand up against corruption.
It is His Spirit that will supply what we lack to enable us to take the proper stand.
Whoever “G-d” is for you, you can’t even mention God’s Name while inserting ‘hate’ to “G-d”?
Sacred Scripture tells us God is full of power, grace, wisdom, covenant love, and compassion. If we believe our God is all-powerful, all wise, and full of mercy and compassion.
Jesus loves cowards you say.
Jesus is God, Second Person of the Holy Trinity. Jesus the Man, is our brother. Then why do you say ‘we’ who are cowards, brothers of Jesus, are hated by GOD, who is Love?
Was it God’s plan that the Christ should suffer and die for the salvation of man?
The Bible teaches that “If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen”.
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. (1 John : 4:20-21)
You know why, we all do. Heading into Holy Week and Trump gets indicted. Now this. Evil.
“They” Hate God.
Preparation to re-live the passion of Christ. Remember, Jesus never backed down. He answered his inquisitors honestly, yet he was convicted to die a brutal death, crucifixion.
If the Repubs in Congress do not come to Trump’s defense NOW, we are done.
You mean the Republican Party is done.
Bringing home yet again the fact that Christ’s death was an act of unjustice.
The Innocent are not to be killed. But if He hadn’t laid down His life, would any of us have atonement?
It feels extra poignant this year, but it’s driving home our individual need for Him.
jmo
The Restrict Act … slipping under the radar while everyone’s focused on the Trump hit.
Yes, Hawley was wrong on this issue (I like him generally). Rand Paul was right spot-on in this case.
If this Act passes, we are under the surveillance of the DOJ, FBI cabal forever.
I’m a little confused on the status of this bill. I keep seeing articles about the Senate and how they feel or may vote, but not about the House. Did the House already vote on this? Surely this bill can’t pass a Republican House? What am I missing?
By design.
I contacted both of my useless senators. I got the usual canned response that they are diligently working to protect us… blah blah blah.
All of this censorship talk
Has me thinking of a new hobby
Ham Radio
Wonder how expensive a initial buy would be 🤔
few hundred bucks to get started and a license if your into that… It’s easy..
why do we need a license?? /s
FCC catches you on the amateur bands with out a license and it can cost you some money
because prosecutors can indict a ham radio
Ask Nellie Ohr, rumor has it she can get you started 😉
Nellie is my inspiration!
Communications outside the system
At the rate we are going
It might soon be the only way to pass factual information 😕
Ask Nellie Orr
That’s what I thought, but there are ham monitors listening to make sure no rules are broken. Political discourse isn’t forbidden, but whenever I get on, it seems like everyone just talks about the weather. Ham radio can really come in handy in emergencies, so I still recommend it. But as far as a forum for free speech? It hasn’t been as interesting as I hoped. Maybe other hams have had different experiences. If so, I’d love to hear about them!
Worth also noting communication has to be in the clear no secret number codes etc.
Ham, you say? Well, ham (sandwich) can be indicted very easily nowadays.
I’m thinking the same thing! Even though I presently have no clue about how to buy one and operate one.
Figure in the area of $800 to get a decent radio and maybe another $100 for a wire antenna in your attic or trees.
It all depends on which bands you wish to use. There are many different bands (frequencies) and the equipment cost varies as do the antenna requirements. Some bands require rather large antennae.
https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/Band%20Chart/Band%20Chart%20-%2011X17%20Color.pdf
Info on the bands: https://hamradioprepper.com/us-amateur-radio-bands/
NO CHARGES FOR THE BELOW
Obungo is ceye-eh. Obungo is also just the stage figure, the actor.
Our enemy is not of flesh and blood….
Can you say Senior Executive Services(SES)?
The only “crime” Donald Trump committed was defeating Hillary Clinton.
The only “crime” Mackey committed was making fun of her supporters.
I miss my country.
How did they manage to get an entire jury of whiny GenZ and millennials.
NY – Democrats will always convict you if they know you are a Republican or Conservative or religious, etc. They want us dead. That includes the little old lady down the street that voted for Biden, your union member father in law that votes Democrat, your feminist aunt/sister/etc.
They plan to kill us or put us in gulags and the Democrats you know will turn you in to them.
They didn’t. The article states the jurors were threatened by the judge that they could not go home until they had the “right” verdict. Up until that point, it was a hung jury
Yep. Whoever the hold-out(s) was/were, they should go public with the fact that they were threatened and did not feel safe maintaining their position.
So people caved because they couldn’t go home? So weak.
I assume the real threats were worse than that
I’ve been saying this today and yesterday on Truth.
We’ve passed the point of a jury of our peers being in NY or DC. We’ve got to change this so prosecutions are brought in the defendant’s home county.
It won’t stop all bad juries but it would seriously curb judge and jury shopping for the ultra liberal areas.
If a prosecutor loses the suit, the government pays the defendant all legal expenses and opens the door for a civil wrongful prosecution suit which also is tried in the jurisdiction where the case was lost.
And yet Hillary had classified documents on her home server subject to access by the ChiComs and she’s “free as a bird”! Mackey should have pleaded “no intent” the Hillary defense!!!
Everyday is a dark day for this Nation, the US is a joke to the rest of the world, it gets more corrupt every single day.
very dark week.
I’m telling you all right now. You are not getting out of this through peaceful resolution.
The longer this goes on the more violent this will have to become to extricate ourselves from this.
These cowards will do nothing. Conservatives have lost the ability to fight back. They are now the party of stupid.
You really are an ignorant troll.
Antifa/FBI/CCP(…) did not teach you well enough to phrase your attacks so that you blend in.
Find another medium to attempt to rouse people up.
Ray Epps you are not.
I am glad you got it all figured, so what is your plan????
My plan is to get you and every other patriotic American to have my back.
The biggest resistence is from you and others like you.
Most seriously,
There are too many cowards. Here is a plan- The Path Forward: Build and Balkanize – Gab News
Didn’t say I had a plan, nor did I advocate violence.
All I know is how criminals act.
They don’t understand reason, so peaceful resolution will not work.
Eventually this will come to blows.
Ask yourself a question, how did the founding fathers resolve there problem?
Answer that question and you will understand that begging for freedom never works.
Is that you Ray Epps???
Yah that’s right I’m Ray Epps.
Prove me wrong, show me the history of tyrants and how they are so willing to negotiate with you.
All they want is freedom also, right?!
No, violence is what the Biden Administration desires. Be careful, because the justice department selectively enforces the law.
Violence by the political Right is exactly what the Left has been trying to incite for awhile now. There is a lot of strategic & tactical territory between violence and passively sitting in front of keyboards.
I understand that GB. But when does it become enough?
When do people who want freedom and liberty realize were just banging our heads against the wall.
Show me what conservatives or right leaning people have accomplished.
Rush limbaugh was correct when he said “the world is governed by the use of force”
Either we start seriously considering other alternatives or we might as well just join our enemies.
Please don’t misconstrue what I’m saying, I don’t want anything bad to happen.
I would love peaceful solutions to happen, but we’re dealing with insane evil people and they’re becoming more insane by the day.
“force” can be applied in different ways. Deadly / lethal force is but one of those ways.
Conservatives have not yet applied non-lethal force in any sustained, nationwide way. However they are getting increasingly close to it, which is why the Left senses their own impending peril and why they are lashing out violently in desperation.
I just have no hope for Americans lately GB, I see too many people just sitting back and taking it up the rear while not having any understanding of the seriousness of this mess we are in.
My family is from Vietnam and we know what happens at the end.
The Secret Service for Trump is ready for Tuesday.
This could be facing The liberal Gangs of New York.
Hell they might want to bring their mask and deer sent just in case.
Sir ,try and stay on topic.
IF we don’t fight back, then what comes is on our backs. Personally, I think that most American conservatives are the party of stupid fighting the party of crazy.
And you are the word warrior.
So if I put out a meme on a social that election day was Thursday instead of Tuesday, I could end up in prison.
Is the judge a close friend of Hillary’s, or just a raging communist?
Embrace the power of “and”.
And if you “lie” to a federal agent about honey nut cheerios for breakfast when they were really plain cheerios you can go to jail.
Yes and yes
Republicans vote on Tuesday, Democritus vote on Wednesday.
Will saying that get someone in prison?
Demorats vote for 3 months before and 3 months after the actual election day. Until their totals win.
Don’t forget Dems also vote when dead.
You know Russia looks better,and better with each passing day.
Is it that bad in Venezuela?
They have cheap gas..
Not from where I sit.
Watching some of Russian political and patriotic or travel videos on you tube, it is amazing how proudly the embrace their Orthodox Christian faith. Not like in the USA where faith is to be hidden. Unless of course your faith is wokeness.
A jury of his peers. In Brooklyn???
I keep saying it.
Until we commit to convicting every Democrat that comes before us when we have jury duty this doesn’t end. It should just be the default at this point if you are on a jury and someone is charged with a crime and you know they are a Democrat or frankly are pretty darn sure given their blue hair or other Democrat characteristics that you vote guilty.
They are at war against us and plan to eventually put us in camps.
Agree. Dozens, maybe hundreds, of Dems are guilty of genocide (with both covid and the vaccine). They killed people in every single county in the nation.
Why can’t your local prosecutor indict Anthony Fauci tomorrow?
Because the DS and their cohorts are running/in charge of Our Country.
So he toyed with the minds of stupid people and is now going to prison?
Mattress tags next?
Xi will be happy to hear
Communism here is being fast forwarded.
Posting “us when we see transphobes” after the murder of three children and two adults is perfectly fine, however.
Dispicable scum running rampant under the guise of justice. Lord have mercy.
The Constitutional Republic is for all time, and can only ever be constituted from natural law from the individual ‘sovereign’ consent of We the People, by definition.
Further, this ‘consent’ can only be ‘Constitutionally’ transferred via an honest election system, by definition. An election system that we now know, beyond all doubt, is corrupted throughout.
As such, the United States of America is occupied by an illegitimate government, which is acting on behalf of foreign and even worse satanic powers; not unlike before the ‘first’ American Revolution. But then we only faced the depravity of mere men, not satan himself.
So yes the Republic still lives but only ‘now’ in the hearts of patriots, +100 million strong, just in the USA alone.
While the coming fourth turning will be difficult, I have no doubt that spring will return. All fires eventually run out of wood to burn. The Tree of Liberty will ‘eventually’ drink its full.
But, perhaps this is not an ordinary turning from winter to spring as recorded throughout human history. Perhaps some of us will live to witness the most glorious springs of all times; the Return of Christ himself.
Some estimates place Jesus’s Death and Resurrection between 28 and 30 AD; and the Bible tells us that a 1000 years is just one day for God.
From Adam, 2 days of ignorance (until Abraham), 2 days of teaching (Jewish people), and 2 days for the Gentiles (Jesus + Christians), bring us to day seven (The Day of the Lord, 1000 human years) or starting in 2028 or 2030.
Thus my prediction of Jesus’s return is ‘exactly’ 2000 years from his ascension.
Jesus basically skipped over those 2,000 years only to arrive at this future point in time.
If I’m wrong and Jesus doesn’t return in our lifetimes, don’t worry evil ‘always’ destroys itself. Just look at what satan’s helpers have done to the inner cities and even our nation. Even the worst fires run out of things to burn.
Spring will return, as spring is always based upon a rebirth of life. Something that satanic people hate most of all, just like satan.
Matthew 7:15-20
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
isn’t there a movie about NYC being run by Apes….? Planet of the….somethings…….
Idiocracy…watch the movie. That is New York, no that is the whole country;
So what is the difference between this meme and political cartoons? I saw a couple political cartoons in the newspaper today. Of course, they were tearing down Republicans, so they are government approved.
A psuedo-conservative website R*d State (Miller) today stated basically people that are saying we’re sliding into communism is just silly. Really?!? Convicting Americans for speech or wrong think is a police state. I wonder if this author would think differently if HE was put in jail by this regime government destroying his civil liberties. He either doesn’t care about what’s going on or he’s dumb as a rock. Probably both.
God bless the United States and protect every American from tyranny.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/social-media-influencer-douglass-mackey-convicted-election-interference-2016
“As proven at trial, between September 2016 and November 2016, 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. For example, on November 1, 2016, in or around the same time that Mackey was sending tweets suggesting the importance of limiting “black turnout,” the defendant tweeted an image depicting an African American woman standing in front of an “African Americans for Hillary” sign. The ad stated: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925,” and “Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.” The fine print at the bottom of the deceptive image stated: “Must be 18 or older to vote. One vote per person. Must be a legal citizen of the United States. Voting by text not available in Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska or Hawaii. Paid for by Hillary For President 2016.” The tweet included the typed hashtag “#ImWithHer,” a slogan frequently used by Hillary Clinton. On or about and before Election Day 2016, at least 4,900 unique telephone numbers texted “Hillary” or some derivative to the 59925 text number, which had been used in multiple deceptive campaign images tweeted by Mackey and his co-conspirators.”
it’s clearly a satire…
q for the legal folks here: is there an actual criminal violation for “attempting to deprive individuals from exercising their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice”?
furthermore, it is my understanding that there is no evidence whatsover to not vote…or to cause anyone to vote incorrectly against “choice”. yes?
for instance IF you texted that number, it would have been obvious it was not authentic. short codes have an auth process. this one was faked. everything about the meme was faked.
which is clearly the point of satiric memes.
also noting: only 4900 texted the number…this according to the court records. So out of 58,000 so called followers (read: more like 100 who then reposted it to others…who reposted to others…and so on and so forth…thanks facebook for obscuring what followers actually means. and also thanks twitter 1.0 for massively dumping fake bots behind political narratives to suggest large interest and following!
I think this is ripe for appeal. If anyone knows the legal representation for Mackey, I would be interested to know what they intend to do on appeal. It’s clearly an overreach and conflating real fraud with a simple prank.
I seem to recall clearly getting robocalls from ‘conservative orgs before 2016 and 2020 that strained the imagination.
I recall getting massive amounts of false information from political orgs who misrepresented President Trump .
is that a crime? not even. It’s politics. It’s slimey..it’s brutal and it’s distasteful. But not illegal.
It’s similar to the case a long time ago…also horribly distastful..something about the moral majority leader having sex with his own mother. Gross…low class….but clearly satire. No friend of the dirty repugnant larry flint..but when it comes to satire the courts are pretty clear…it’s not fraud…it’s not slander…it’s not libel. It’s satire.
in the appeal, all mackey has to do (sorry for over simplifying) is to demonstrate that he used satire and humor in other political aspects…or has a history of producing memes…doing so, establishes this not as a crime, but just someone who enjoys making pranks…jokes…
I am sure there is other case law that will help him out in an appeal strategy. He certainly needs to pursue this.
I have contacted Matt Taibbi and also grenwald and turley. See if they will look at helping out on appeal ….would be nice to see the DOJ get put in its place…again!
God Bless America
This from Revolver News:
As we’ve reported earlier, this is the most important First Amendment case in the country. The Biden DOJ is attempting to codify the disinformation scam into the criminal code. Mackey’s meme conviction, for which he could face up to 10 years in prison, represents the complete breakdown of the rule of law and constitutional norms in this country—we are in uncharted territory.
Mackey’s attorney has released the following statement:
“This case presents an unusual array of compelling appellate issues. I am optimistic that the conviction will be vacated.”
excellent. I read revolver too. small world! 🙂
Did anyone actually fall for the joke? In other words, was there an actual victim or is this just another riff on process crimes?
If someone fell for it, being that stupid should hurt.
Stupid should not be allowed to vote.
agreed
even IF they did “fall for it” would not make it a crime.
I can go tell my next door neighbor to go jump in the lake.
it’s not against the law to tell my neighbor to jump in the lake.
if he does jump in the lake, I would not be held liable for HIS ACTIONS.
now there are some caveats. I most certainly would be held liable perhaps even criminally liable for telling a CHILD to jump in the lake.
but the courts would have to prove.
a. that the child did jump in the lake based on what I said.
b. that there was HARM.
c. that my intentions were malicious.
none of these factors were considered by the courts in the mackey case.
and I think that is a VERY IMPORTANT issue to notice.
another canceroo court….working clearly to concentrate power for a secret police spy state..
the first thing a tyrant state does…every single time..it to criminalize speech.
it IS the reason why our young americans were unanimous in making that document centered around the doctrine that speech is to be protected….with prohibitions of the state to dictate what that speech should be or not be.
God Bless America
Apparently not.
James Howard Kunstler (The Legend)…”Trump has prompted the government to go to war with the American People.”
Very well said. I suspect its more to do with psychology over anything DT has really done to them. Some sort of deep seated envy and resentment. Hurt the people to get to Trump and hurt Trump to get to his people.
“if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved”
Peter is a great name for that statement.
When Congress validated an obviously fraudulent election, their actions or in actions set us on a collision course that ends the nation and the union.
No, our ‘representatives’ have never been the Nation or the Union. Only We the People can only achieve that. Not these illegitimate prostitutes of foreign powers, or even worse satan himself.
They had to steal the mechanism of achieving the rightful transfer of We the People’s sovereign power to ‘Represent’ us.
Don’t you see this? Stealing something doesn’t make it yours.
Thus fraud invalidates everything this coup has done before the eyes of God himself.
Our nation has not ended.
Rather it will be reborn, unfortunately though after much suffering.
You are correct, spaul. The government and, might I add, the political parties are not the country.
All this stops when it is STOPPED.
It will not stop because of conscience, voting, mass protests, appeals to integrity or any human virtue as those in power are not human–they are under the control of demons; remorseless, pitiless and evil to the core.
This stops when WE the PEOPLE stop it.
All while the “trans” community rallies around the murder of 6 people because they were Christians.
Pit in the stomach heartbreaking.
Please let there be a fantastic lawyer step up and appeal this disaster. Also, please let this victim of weaponized government, aka Ricky Vaughn be allowed to stay free on bail while these demon lawyers and judges decide what punishment they intend to meet out on this person.
This man must have had one of those RINO public defenders – this is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
I’m sure Wray will get his Stasi agents right on it to investigate and arrest everyone involved in creating and sharing the illegal, dangerous only to Democrat idiots and fools, meme!!! I wish I was joking!!!
And just think of how many people that “contribute” here on Conservative Treehouse might share a cell together?
They could never hold me.
But it would be a riot to share a wing with Treepers!
This has nothing to do w a meme and everything to do w getting Hilary supporters to think they could cast their ballot online via text. Especially rude was it was targeted twd Blacks and Hispanics. Kind of shocked to see the facts so completely misconstrued. Not cool and completely unnecessary.
so you don’t like satire…good to know.
have you even bothered to actually read the meme and understand that mackey did not even produce/create it.?
and even if it “bothers” you that this was used to prank blacks and hispanics…which clearly is PART OF THE SATIRE if you understand that those TWO groups were being manipulated by a horde of demonstrably false political gambits BY THE DNC…
can you point to a single vote that was not cast from this meme?
maybe you should ask the federal prosecutor that question.
spoiler: they never proved a single vote was manipulated by this prank…
it was a meme…
you do understand what a meme is right?
and that the first amendment even allows me to legally call you an idiot and a moron and….wait for it…a bigot white hating racist. I mean I could do that and there would not be a single legal percussion. Is it the right thing to do…is it tasteful? certainly not.
but we don’t live in CHYNNAAAA. We have for better or worse the protected right to be mean to each other.
it’s not against the law to be mean to someone.
and that is a GREAT A PROFOUND DIFFERENCE IN OUR LEGAL SOCIETY that separates us from third world shitholes. Because you start making laws that decide what is the right speech, what is a legal insult….well…that’s how you end up with a state that is simply a bunch of people obedient to someone else’s interpretation about that it means to have an opinion…even to insult someone.
noting: I am NOT insulting you here…I am demonstrating a point. I hope that you understand this excercise.
fight me. I welcome it. the answer to the debate over free speech is MORE SPEECH.
just don’t except too many people around here to take nicely to comments that seem to impugn sundance. He has demonstrated incredibly high ethical standards in his reporting and most of us here agree with his great analysis and opinions. But we also are a very open group too. It’s the debate that makes this place special….just don’t expect to post something like this and not get some pushback.
God Bless America
Thank you regitiger.
We are heading to third world shithole status at warp speed. We must turn this ship around. Volunteer at your polling stations is something anybody can do. We MUST secure the vote.
Bullshit. This is NAZI intimidation by the same Gangsters who stole MILLIONS OF VOTES, INCLUDING MINE.
So you think blacks and hispanics are more gullible and stupider than whites???? Shame on you.
And you got your facts… Where?
The truth is the left is afraid some of their supporters would fall for it
You cannot vote your way out of this, folks.
Why is the police dept holding this guy?
W.T.F. Apparently Marxist Dem DAs don’t know of the existence of the First Amendment to the Constitution that they’ve supposedly sworn to uphold and protect….
MORE Commie traitors keep exposing themselves EVERY DAY !
Absolutely terrifying.
Anyone remember the black panthers that were intimidating voters back in 2008? Obama’s DOJ refused to prosecute them.
And the Supreme Court has been quieter than DeSantis.
The only man with hormonnes on the court is Thomas. The rest are soy boys or transgenders.
Alito has some testosterone left!
Interesting isn’t it that the U.S. and Canada are both instituting draconian internet censorship laws in sync with each other.
Almost seems like a plan/s
Better be prepared to lose access to most conservative resources. And click on useless bookmarked sites.
As well Russia is in the process of introducing the digital ruble. So it looks like the great reset will be universal.
Matrix: China is the model.
Google didn’t field test their surveillance crap in China for nothing.
depriving them of….. their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice
oh. Is that kind of like votes cast for one candidate are not credited to that candidate…is that kind of like them being deprived of the right to vote….??? Maybe not.
It looks like the rights of the stupid and the ignorant take extreme precedence over the rights of those who know how and where to vote. (Since jokes of any form are now illegal, maybe this means that Joke Biden can be impeached, convicted, and removed from office for constantly joking about life and death matters….)
Oh, well, at least it’s consistent with all the nonworking and the illegals and the incompetent and the lazy being protected until hell freezes over—-at the expense of the normal employed American who pays his own bills, including his taxes that are taken to pay the bills of the nonworking, the illegals, the incompetent and the lazy.
These scumbags just stole 100 million Trump votes–and they go after a joke about voting?
Father, bring the unrepentant wicked to nothingness as Your Word says, in the Name of Jesus, Amen!
I feel as though listening to The Battle Hymn of the Republic would be a good place to start for lifting our spirits for what lies before us.
Here ya go:
Thank you! That was special.
This is disgusting.
#NukeNYC
A Legal Manipulator named Peace. There’s the Pinnacle of Irony.