Memer Found Guilty Of Election Interference For Meme About Texting In Your Vote For Hillary

This has been one of the craziest weeks in the American justice system. The J6 Shaman was released 14 months early after the public found out about significant and likely exculpatory evidence that was withheld from the defense in a major violation of the defendant’s rights. Then Donald Trump was indicted by a jury for 34 significantly trumped up counts relating generally to campaign accounting and finances, which is hilarious considering the amount of money politicians spend every year disappearing people or stories that might be detrimental to their campaign or term in office. Oh, and it’s funny that the Alvin Bragg would bump these charges up when he’s been very public about bumping down most of the crimes being committed in New York in his social justice effort that has actually endangered the lives of New Yorkers. And that’s saying nothing of the many politicians (and their families) who have somehow managed to wiggle out of any number of impressively shocking crimes over the last decade or so, none of whom have been brought up on charges.

Now, Douglass Mackey was found guilty of election interference relating to a meme he posted during the 2016 presidential election cycle. In the meme, he hilariously and sarcastically encouraging people to vote for Hillary Clinton via text. The issue, of course, is that it was bogus because you can’t text your vote to a random unsecured number. But the meme advertised the possibility as preferable to the lines at voting booths. Mackey’s lawyer claims that if anyone had been stupid enough to actually fall for the joke and think they texted in their vote, then that person would have been called as a witness to prove that the meme damaged the election in some way, and no one was.

Another interesting consideration is that there was another post circulated at the same time which was basically the exact same thing, only on the opposite side of politics. It encouraged Trump voters to “TEXT in your vote,” promising that “text votes are legit” before offering the alternative to vote on “Super Wednesday,” which would have meant voters entirely missed their chance to vote in the election. Interestingly, the poster, Kristina Wong, hasn’t been indicted or put on trial for her joke. Because we have two standards of justice in this country, one of which protects all the cases that are (D)ifferent, if you know what I mean.

I guess when a major portion of your voter base is so incredibly low IQ that they can be duped out of their right to vote by a crude meme that takes about 5 seconds to debunk, then you have to criminalize memes and throw memers in prison in order to protect your ability to be elected in the future. That’s outrageous and makes a complete mockery of the 1st amendment and our entire American justice system.