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Location: Dubach, LA | Memes can get you 10 years in Federal prison. FBI arrested a guy today for political memes on Twitter. |
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Miracle in the Making
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Miracle in the Making
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| CanCan - 2021-01-29 4:49 PM
Memes can get you 10 years in Federal prison. FBI arrested a guy today for political memes on Twitter.
to bad they can not arrest como for his lies and deaths |
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Location: North Texas | jbhoot - 2021-01-29 7:07 PM
It's only the beginig. Hard to believe that 80 million voted for this.
They didn't. Not even close. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Where did you hear this? This sounds like fake news.. |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | The story was on Tucker Carlson the other evening. Guys name was Doug Mackey. Whole thing was a bit complicated. |
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| CanCan - 2021-01-29 3:49 PM Memes can get you 10 years in Federal prison. FBI arrested a guy today for political memes on Twitter. While I don't agree with shuting down someone's right to free speech - I definitly don't have a problem with the arest of ANYONE that made such a concentrated effort to ILLGALLY influence the outcome of an election. Even if he was trying to help Trump. This wasn't "just memes". https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/press-release/file/1360826/download this is what he was actually arrested for. This Vanity Fair article is obviously slanted against Tucker Carlson,(so I wouldn't call it unbiased reporting by any means) but it gives a pretty good quick overview of the kind of guy Douglass Mackey really is, and what he was trying to do.. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/tucker-carlson-conservative-journalist-ricky-vaughn-racist
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| joe is a devout catholic so how do we given forgein aid billion when american can pay rent or groceries on table 4 billion aid including abortions oh another excutive order |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | KindaClassey - 2021-01-30 6:33 AM
CanCan - 2021-01-29 3:49 PM
Memes can get you 10 years in Federal prison. FBI arrested a guy today for political memes on Twitter.
While I don't agree with shuting down someone's right to free speech - I definitly don't have a problem with the arest of ANYONE that made such a concentrated effort to ILLGALLY influence the outcome of an election. Even if he was trying to help Trump. This wasn't "just memes".
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/press-release/file/1360826/download this is what he was actually arrested for.
This Vanity Fair article is obviously slanted against Tucker Carlson,(so I wouldn't call it unbiased reporting by any means) but it gives a pretty good quick overview of the kind of guy Douglass Mackey really is, and what he was trying to do.. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/tucker-carlson-conservative-journalist-ricky-vaughn-racist
I'm not going to sit here and read though this bullish!t to try and determine what the guy did wrong, so why don't you just tell us. Obviously, this can't be just about memes. I'm not real familiar with this. The last thing I want to do is read something from Vanity Fair this morning. I'd rather slather honey on my ass and sit on a fire ant hill. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | So this is a true story about this man getting arrested, but it was not over memes?!! |
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Location: Kansas | Southtxponygirl - 2021-01-30 9:56 AM
So this is a true story about this man getting arrested, but it was not over memes?!!
Roxie, I would suggest googling it. It happened in 2016 under the name Ricky Vaughn and is a mishmosh of reasons to arrest this guy and makes very little sense to me. You know, kind of like this last presidential election or trying to impeach a private citizen.  |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Frodo - 2021-01-30 12:18 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2021-01-30 9:56 AM
So this is a true story about this man getting arrested, but it was not over memes?!!
Roxie, I would suggest googling it. It happened in 2016 under the name Ricky Vaughn and is a mishmosh of reasons to arrest this guy and makes very little sense to me. You know, kind of like this last presidential election or trying to impeach a private citizen.
LOL, I googled and wow a whole lot came up, was a bit overwhelmed with how much came up, I did read a few. And he was like a memes creator of the political one that had fake numbers, I read more but this kinda stuck. If this was all in 2016 why now?!! |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Southtxponygirl - 2021-01-30 1:16 PM
Frodo - 2021-01-30 12:18 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2021-01-30 9:56 AM
So this is a true story about this man getting arrested, but it was not over memes?!!
Roxie, I would suggest googling it. It happened in 2016 under the name Ricky Vaughn and is a mishmosh of reasons to arrest this guy and makes very little sense to me. You know, kind of like this last presidential election or trying to impeach a private citizen.
LOL, I googled and wow a whole lot came up, was a bit overwhelmed with how much came up, I did read a few. And he was like a memes creator of the political one that had fake numbers, I read more but this kinda stuck. If this was all in 2016 why now?!!
Because Trump is not around to put a stop to the foolishness. Those in power are out to punish everyone who may be remotely responsible for electing the bad orange white supremacist. Also, the FBI lawyer who changed an email from the CIA about Carter Page, which eventually led to a 32 million dollar witch hunt paid for by us, gets probation. If it weren't for double standards, the left would have no standards at all. Rules for thee but not for me is no way to run a country, but here we are. |
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| Bear - 2021-01-30 8:56 AM
I'm not going to sit here and read though this bullish!t to try and determine what the guy did wrong, so why don't you just tell us. Obviously, this can't be just about memes. I'm not real familiar with this. The last thing I want to do is read something from Vanity Fair this morning. I'd rather slather honey on my ass and sit on a fire ant hill.
Well Bear - of course we would not want your ass to get chaffed or biten. But the honey could help sooth both. Basically in a nutshell, this guy and other co-consperaters designed and implimented an elaborate scheme to use twitter and facebook to spread false memes. They have records of lots of messages back and forth about what memes to make up to trigger and stear certain voting groups. Apparently this guy was ranked the 107 highest social influencer of the time, so what he put out really got a lot of attention and shared. While he spread a lot of false things out there, the one that sparked the most outrage and issue was when he launched a campagn to make people believe that they could vote for thier canidate on Facebook or on twitter, or by a text instead of having to actually go to the polls. It sounds so silly that anyone would fall for that, but apparently this was no small time hoodlem living in momma's basement, but a massive, coordinated effort. As i understand it, the FBI considered it serious enough that he is facing charges for illegally attempting to interfere with the 2016 election. Apparently he is also quite the peach of a person, but to each their own since it's not illegal to have racist views as long as you don't act on them "..... Mackey previously advocated for the formation of white-only communities, condemned interracial relationships as an attack on “our unique culture and racial heritage,” and repeatedly pushed the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory suggesting that Jews are puppet masters using the media to control society. In 2016, Mackey became fully committed to his support for the Trump campaign and shared xenophobic content aligned with Trump’s call for a universal ban on Muslims entering the U.S. Despite Mackey’s later attempts to distance himself from white nationalism, he maintained that he was a self-described member of the “alt-right” not long before HuffPost revealed his identity in 2018." |
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Location: Texas | KindaClassey - 2021-01-30 4:18 PM
Bear - 2021-01-30 8:56 AM
I'm not going to sit here and read though this bullish!t to try and determine what the guy did wrong, so why don't you just tell us. Obviously, this can't be just about memes. I'm not real familiar with this. The last thing I want to do is read something from Vanity Fair this morning. I'd rather slather honey on my ass and sit on a fire ant hill.
Well Bear - of course we would not want your ass to get chaffed or biten. But the honey could help sooth both.
Basically in a nutshell, this guy and other co-consperaters designed and implimented an elaborate scheme to use twitter and facebook to spread false memes. They have records of lots of messages back and forth about what memes to make up to trigger and stear certain voting groups. Apparently this guy was ranked the 107 highest social influencer of the time, so what he put out really got a lot of attention and shared.
While he spread a lot of false things out there, the one that sparked the most outrage and issue was when he launched a campagn to make people believe that they could vote for thier canidate on Facebook or on twitter, or by a text instead of having to actually go to the polls. It sounds so silly that anyone would fall for that, but apparently this was no small time hoodlem living in momma's basement, but a massive, coordinated effort.
As i understand it, the FBI considered it serious enough that he is facing charges for illegally attempting to interfere with the 2016 election.
Apparently he is also quite the peach of a person, but to each their own since it's not illegal to have racist views as long as you don't act on them "..... Mackey previously advocated for the formation of white-only communities, condemned interracial relationships as an attack on “our unique culture and racial heritage,” and repeatedly pushed the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory suggesting that Jews are puppet masters using the media to control society. In 2016, Mackey became fully committed to his support for the Trump campaign and shared xenophobic content aligned with Trump’s call for a universal ban on Muslims entering the U.S. Despite Mackey’s later attempts to distance himself from white nationalism, he maintained that he was a self-described member of the “alt-right” not long before HuffPost revealed his identity in 2018."
OK, so the guys a jackass. But, what line is crossed when it comes to the first amendment? I'm no legal scholar, but I'm guessing they had think long and hard to come up with charges. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | OK the guy's a prick. What did he actually do to deserve prison? Surely there's more to this story. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I think ole MaDonna should have gone to prison after she made that threat that she wanted to Blow up the WhiteHouse with President Trump in it. Now I think shes more of a threat then what this guy could ever be.. If someone had made a threat like this to Biden, now what do you guys think would have happened in a hurry?!!! |
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Miracle in the Making
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| actually there is a bunch that should have gone if tis guy goes biden 1 of them dam sure maxine waters harris for suggestiong contribution for the rioters and looter fyi did you go back and read obama on blm and the shooting of 5 dallas cops snoop dog want to kill the president and trump in a body bag why are they not in jail that so called comidentiam with trump head the you got the fbi lawyer he lied he altered cost untolled expenses and villified trump Ex-FBI lawyer given probation for Russia probe actions ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — A former FBI lawyer was sentenced to probation on Friday for altering an email the Justice Department relied on in its surveillance of an aide to President Donald Trump during the Russia investigation. Kevin Clinesmith apologized for doctoring the email about Carter Page's relationship with the CIA, saying he was “truly ashamed” of an action that he said had “forever changed the course of my life." “I pledge to Your Honor that I will never allow myself to show such poor judgment again,” Clinesmith told U.S. District Judge James Boasberg at a sentencing hearing held remotely because of the coron |
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| Bear - 2021-01-30 5:33 PM
OK the guy's a prick. What did he actually do to deserve prison? Surely there's more to this story.
I don't know - what part of a massive and coordinated attempt to get people to vote in a manner that means their vote didn't count. don't you understand? Since many on the Trump side are feeling the sting of an election that might have been taken away from them by suposedly nefarious means (ie vote tampering)- its surprising the legality of his charges are even in question. Or is it only illegal when the "other" side does it and not "our" side? |
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