Its guilt by association (other than the billboard), but it’s a very strong association. We can’t point to a single meme and say, “We have proof that Lucky paid $10 to have this meme created and posted to twitter and Reddit. Here is the check stub.” But the memes are emanating from members of the group he is sponsoring.
The memes themselves go beyond mere anti-Hillary, and well into the racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and misogynistic. They’re being posted in “appropriate” threads. Some threaten violence—depictions of a Pepe the Frog in Nazi regalia murdering the recepient, who is adorned with a Star of David, for example. Other memes were anti-black or anti-Mexican and included false crime statistics or photos of recent victims of police brutality (with racist captions). A majority of these memes (that I saw, anyway) were posted by users with “deplorable” in their user names and white supremacist code words in their bios, as well as pro-Trump hashtags. Alt-right stuff.
It wasn’t all memes. There were tweets containing death threats and rape threats.
Maybe I should have been screen capping all this stuff, but it really makes me sick. Not gonna do it. I’m more the block it and forget it type.
This stuff was on the upswing until Lucky got nailed. Then it seemed to slow,down a bit. Again, that’s circumstantial. At this point Donald Trump, Jr. posted that skittles meme, which provoked a huge reaction/backlash. The impression I got was that somebody was telling the deplorable posters to cool it. The stuff I’ve seen in the last day have been retweets.
I don’t know if Palmer Yucky is directly responsible. But he’s closely associated with this network of posters/tweeters. That’s enough for me to not want anything to do with anything he has touched. I dont care if he’s not voting for Trump and is only doing this for the lulz.
You don’t have to believe me. Go on twitter, look through pro-trump and white supremacy hashtags. When you see one posted by a deplorable, look at his followers and who he’s following. You might have to dig a bit, but eventually you’ll hit gold. When you do it will be a bonanza.
