Douglass Mackey, the man who posted a Hillary Clinton meme ahead of the 2016 election, was sentenced to seven months in prison Wednesday for the crime of “conspiracy against rights,” meaning, in this case, election interference. Mackey’s sentencing is unprecedented. It means America is now a place that puts citizens in prison for posting information disfavorable to the left, including satire, a form of speech protected by the First Amendment.
Mackey is going to prison for posting a fake Hillary Clinton ad prior to the 2016 election telling voters to “vote from home” by texting “‘Hillary’ to 59925.”
Anyone with a working brain — especially pre-Covid, when voting was done overwhelmingly in person — knew that casting your vote via text was ridiculous. The meme posted to Mackey’s now-suspended troll Twitter account was clearly a joke, and no one appears to have been foolish enough to actually cast a sincere vote for Hillary via the provided phone number. Neither of those things, however, stopped the feds from going after Mackey.
Ironically, Mackey’s post was making a mockery of Democrat election interference. The Clinton campaign would have loved it if votes could be cast via text, as would all Democrats who persistently push to dismantle voter security rules and regulations, like requiring individuals to vote in person on election day and provide identification.
Even more ironic is that Democrats within the federal government, corporate media, and Big Tech have engaged in real widespread election interference and waged real disinformation campaigns
