Yes Douglass Mackey aka Rickey Vaughn was just sentenced to 7 Months in Prison for Posting memes to deceive people during the 2016 election
Counter to what many Republican influencers want you to believe, it goes much further than that.
The FACTS:
- Mackey made it clear that he wanted to stop black Americans from voting. He tweeted this and shared it via messages.
- Mackey then decided to tweet out both images and text repeatedly, urging voters who wanted to vote for Clinton to do so via text message or social media by texting ‘Hillary’ to '59925'.
- The images he shared had African Americans in the pictures.
- 4900 people then actually 'voted' by text, with many not actually showing up to the polls.
- This proved that his misinformation via these "memes" as well as text posts cost Hillary Clinton votes and also that he had an intent to deceive them into not actually voting.
- Mackey had about 58,000 Twitter followers and was ranked by the MIT Media Lab as the 107th-most important influencer of the then-upcoming presidential election
- Mackey was CONVICTED by an independent curt with independent jurors.
Alabama has a new, fairer congressional map that gives Black voters an equal opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.
This is a historic win for voting rights and democracy, and it happened thanks to the hard work of Black voters, advocates, and organizations like @RedistrictFdn.
This hurts and I’m tired of it.
The horrible new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds Donald ahead by 9 points against President Biden.
The MEDIA is to blame for this.
In 2016, watching broadcast and cable news normalize Donald, a corrupt and incompetent man, was very difficult for me to endure.
They presented him as if he were a legitimate candidate, despite the many failures and crimes he’d left in his path for over 60 years.
They had no problem airing his rallies in full; they ignored credible allegations of business fraud and sexual assault—as well as actual evidence of his multiple bankruptcies, horrific treatment of treatment of workers, and gob-smacking failure as a “deal-maker.”
And you know what’s horrifying?
They are doing it again. And this time, it’s worse.
As cable news organizations struggle for ratings, they spend more time talking about Biden’s age than Donald’s 4 indictments, 91 criminal charges, and disastrous first terms. Plus, Biden is only THREE years older than Donald!!! In 2016, Donald was the oldest president in history to be elected and no one talked about his age.
That’s because this narrative is complete bullshit.
It is not normal for someone with 91 criminal charges across four jurisdictions to be a party’s front runner for president.
It’s not normal for the media to talk about a man who’s accused of launching a coup against our country as a legitimate candidate.
It’s not normal for the media to talk about a man who was found legally responsible for rape as a legitimate candidate.
None of this is normal.
I know this poll is an outlier, but in a sane country Biden would be ahead by 40 points. In a healthy, functioning democracy, Donald would not even be allowed to run.
I’m fighting back in part by cataloguing in my newsletter not just his crimes but the crimes and complicity of his enablers. We know the corporate media won’t do it on their own. 👇🧵
Help me get the word out before the media’s kid glove treatment gets Donald back into the White House.
We can’t let that happen.
Translation: My lawyers told me if I held a presser and prattled on about a magical report, they’d all quit and testify against me…like most of my other lawyers.
What you’re looking at here is a photo of two people who embody the best of leadership. Two people who actively defend democracy at home and abroad. Two presidents of our lifetimes. Thank you, Presidents Biden & Zelenskyy.
President Zelenskyy and all Ukrainians remind the world every day what courage is.
They remind us that freedom is priceless.
And worth fighting for.
For as long as it takes.
Four months before writing a letter demanding Sec. Buttigieg’s resignation over “intentional ignorance” in lack of oversight about the Ohio train derailment, Sen. Rubio co-signed a letter with 22 colleagues pushing for waivers to allow more automation in train inspections -