The regime wants to cut the legs off the populist movement before it can run
Roger Stone, General Flynn, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Peter Navarro, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates—we know what unites these men.
Donald Trump.
2016.
The greatest upset in American political history.
The most stunning, the most humiliating reversal the nation’s arrogant America-last ruling elite has ever suffered, regardless of what then happened—or didn’t happen—during Trump’s four years in office.
There are other names too, of course, but these are the “big beasts.” All of these men were instrumental, one way or another, in ensuring that Hillary Clinton’s childhood dream of being “madam president” will remain just that: a dream—or better perhaps, a nightmare none of us will ever have to live through. Steve Bannon: the strategist. General Flynn: the proud warrior and security advisor. Alex Jones: the firebrand voice of the people…
For their part in the miracle of 2016, along with President Trump himself, each one of these men has been punished. They have been slandered, defamed, prosecuted, bankrupted and jailed.
Just like with Iraq, the regime had its “most wanted” deck, and now, with the imminent jailing of Steve Bannon and the liquidation of Infowars, the regime has collected all its top cards.
But as important as the ongoing persecution of Trump and key Trump allies is—not least of all because it’s being used to influence the outcome of the election this November—we need to remember that the regime wants to go much further than this.
Yes, the regime wants to strike at the power players who made 2016 happen, but this isn’t just about making Trump and his close allies pay for what they did and preventing a second Trump term.
The regime is looking beyond Trump. The regime wants to make another Trump, once Trump is gone, impossible. They want to cut the legs off the populist movement before it ever gets the chance to start running. And that means going after the ordinary people who support Trump as well.
Trump has said more than once, “They’re going after you and I’m just in the way,” or words to that effect, and he’s totally right. So while the media focuses on the plights of Steve Bannon and Alex Jones, it’s worth remembering some of the less high-profile victims of the regime’s persecutions.
One of those victims is Douglass Mackey. You may already know him as Ricky Vaughn, a popular Twitter account that posted spicy memes and hot takes during the 2016 election. Mackey was just one man with a computer, but he had an outsized influence, even if it’s hard to quantify exactly how many people he reached and who he actually swayed. The MIT Media Lab named him ahead of NBC News, Stephen Colbert and the Drudge Report in its list of the top 150 influencers of the 2016 election. He had many thousands of followers, and his posts and memes were regularly retweeted by some of the biggest mainstream conservative figures.
Days after Biden entered the White House, the police came knocking for Ricky Vaughn. By January of 2021, it was well established that Ricky Vaughn was actually Douglass Mackey, thanks to a Huffington Post exposé three years earlier. Even as 2016 faded in the rearview mirror, the mainstream media continued to pursue Ricky Vaughn, eventually hitting the jackpot when disgruntled congressional candidate Paul Nehlen doxxed him on Twitter. Mackey moved to Florida to start anew, but the regime had other ideas.
Mackey was now charged with election interference for his Ricky Vaughn account, under a statute brought in against the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. The argument was that, by posting certain memes, Mackey had deliberately suppressed the rights of voters—no less than the bedsheet-wearing cavalry of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
The prosecution’s case focused, in particular, on a meme that encouraged African-American and Latino voters to cast their votes for Hillary Clinton by text. Mackey hadn’t even made the meme himself. He’d simply posted it on Twitter after seeing it on 4Chan.
Voting by text has never been legal and never will be. The intent of the meme was clearly satirical. Prosecutors couldn’t even find evidence that anybody had seen the meme and been unable to vote properly because of it. But still Douglass Mackey was found guilty. Because that’s what happens. The regime wants you to be found guilty and so it finds a way of making sure that happens. In many cases—Trump, Bannon and Mackey—that involves little more than ensuring the trial is held in the right New York courthouse, by the right judge.
Mackey is currently appealing his conviction. You can support him via his website.
The prosecution is not just directly targeted at Mackey. Mackey is a stand-in for all the anonymous Twitter and 4Chan posters who did so much to energize the Trump campaign, to give it its subversive, rebellious edge and to drive a silver stake of ridicule right through the heart of the war-mongering vampire Hillary Clinton.
The regime knows the power—the danger—of ridicule. With a president who can barely control his bowels long enough to stand through the Last Post, it had better. It’s afraid—and not just of the smell.
The regime has the mainstream media. It has CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, Snopes.com and Media Matters. But it doesn’t have Twitter. The regime can only hope, for the time being, that it can have a chilling effect: that a case like Douglass Mackey’s will make sh*tposters think twice before they post a meme, lest they too end up in legal hell, staring down the barrel of a ten-year sentence in a federal penitentiary.
Our enemies have made their intentions clear. They’re rigging American politics so that 2016 can never be repeated. So that the interests of the American people can never win out again over the interests of the profiteers of American decline. To do that, they need to eliminate patriots at every level of society.
They need the full house.
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