Here's the story of Doug Mackey, the twitter poster who helped Trump win the election in 2016, and is now being persecuted by the Biden DOJ for posting memes. He goes to trial today, and faces ten years in prison. This is the situation, and what it means for you.
Ricky rose to fame as a brilliant twitter personality. At his peak, he was more influential than NBC, CNN and the Colbert Report. He reached and energized millions.
He had a talent for making Hillary Clinton look foolish and for eviscerating journalists. President Trump was elected in part bc of the groundswell he helped mobilize. They never forgot this.
In 2018 he was doxxed and afterwards went to go live a quiet life in Florida away from the spotlight. But the incestuous trifecta of academics, journalists, and government officials that make up the Deep State hadn't forgotten him.
In 2021, mere days after Biden took office, Doug was charged with election interference and arrested by the FBI. They'd been sitting on the case and finally saw their chance to strike.
Remember, for years they had been trying to get Trump with completely false "Russia collusion" allegations. If they couldn't get Trump, they'd get one of his supporters.
He's accused of committing a crime for posting on Twitter. Specifically, the DOJ alleges that he engaged in conspiracy to defraud people of their voting rights by posting a satirical meme.
Bear in mind that this kind of joke around elections is quite common. Here's an example from 2016 that is apparently of no concern to Biden's DOJ.
He's being charged under 18 U.S.C. § 241, a 100-year old law written to prosecute the KKK for violence that has NEVER been extended before to speech. This has chilling implications. The U.S. government is now in the business of deciding what's a lie or what's satire.
As eminent 1A scholar Eugene Volokh explains, there is no limit to how this law could be applied. The law is also not limited to elections, it extends to anyone who 'conspires to deprive someone of their rights.'
This means that if you shared statistics about COVID, or trans surgery for example, in an effort to get a local school to disinvite a public speaker, and law enforcement decided that you lied or knowingly spread "false information," you could be charged and arrested. Imagine!
Many other disgusting overreaches too: the politically motivated timing, the petty and vindictive nature of the persecution, and the use of secret witnesses. The DOJ is bringing a secret witness who has pled guilty and agreed to cooperate. Is this America or Eastern Bloc USSR?
In short, the Biden DOJ is pulling out all the stops in an effort to crush a private citizen simply because he made them look like fools and helped President Trump get elected in 2016. They hate to be embarrassed and would rather shut up anons forever.
You can help Doug in three ways: 1. Donate 2. Write to Congress 3. If you have the connections, bring this matter to the attention of prominent personalities.
You can find more information about how to help below. Includes links for donating, templates for writing to Congress, and a short, easy-to-share summary of his story. These abuses must be stopped now and forever, or free speech on Twitter is dead.
Basically the argument is this:
“Civilization” is predicated on getting a lot of people to do things that are hard and have very delayed rewards. Soldiers fighting in controlled manner, honest business dealings, men and women forming stable marriages and raising children. Etc.
None of these things are normal compared to the span of human history. So vast effort went into maintaining these behaviors using a series of carrots and sticks.
For example marriage: getting married was a source of status for men and women. Married men used to be prioritized for hiring, and women earned respectability and actually quite a lot of social deference for being married.
This gets to the heart of the matter. These people imagine a nation where you can be a soldier without fighting and a woman without a family. All of the outward forms and benefits of civilization without any of the hard parts. A nation of eunuchs. Barren at the center.
In Buttigieg’s America you can even be President without leading. You can run a company like Boeing and build airplanes that fall out of the sky. The essential element that animated every social role and made it work has been hollowed out and now they tell you it never mattered.
The Deep State doesn’t want you to know that you can jamón-max. You canbuy a whole jamón serrano to put on your counter and just carve slices off with a big knife when you’re hungry. They can’t stop you. You can get them on Amazon now.
You can get a decent jamón from Fermín for $200. It won’t be ibérico grade but it will blow that supermarket boiled ham in your fridge out of the water. Learn to carve it properly and keep your knife sharp. Eat with sliced bread and cheese and tomato rubbed on bread 😘👌
Here's some more info about jamón maxxing. Jamón serrano is dry-cured for several months. Jamón serrano is common grade, while jamón "iberico" is a superior kind of ham. Jamón de "pata negra" is the best and most expensive. All grades are delicious.
There are some people who think that the only reason men do not break down crying when losing a job is only because of a “performance.” As in, they want to cry but prevent themselves to maintain “facade.” Ofc this is a female way to think, but I will explain the actual reality.
Tears are a result of being overwhelmed by a situation. As a child, I remember (as many do) some personal calamity that would provoke an emotional response of overwhelming emotion. The immature response is to cry, because this is how infants ask parents for help.
So crying is confrontation of a problem that is beyond your means to solve, and this provokes is extreme emotion at not being able to obtain what you want. So when children or adults cry they are signaling for someone else to step in and solve their problem.
[Thread] Today marks 54 years since the American space program first landed men on the surface of the moon. On that day, the whole world celebrated the success of the Apollo mission. But what if they had failed?
The risks were enormous, the outcome was never certain. Malfunctions and fatalities were common in spaceflight, and a mission of this scale had never been completed before.
So NASA prepared remarks for President Nixon to read to the world in the event that Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins died in the attempt. It's a memo that has since become famous, a poignant reminder of the risks and significance of exploration.
When Toyota first started building cars in the US, they came out all wrong, with myriad quality problems. Toyota Japan blamed American manufacturers and said they weren’t following the plans correctly … (cont)