#DraftOurDaughters
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About
#DraftOurDaughters is a satirical social media hashtag launched by supporters of Donald Trump which encourages American women to register for Selective Service in preparation for hypothetical scenarios of United States military operations that would supposedly be launched by Hillary Clinton if she were elected as president of the United States.
Origin
On October 27th, 2016, Twitter user @Ultra_Victoria[5] tweeted a composite photograph of Russian president Vladimir Putin superimposed over a group of female U.S. military personnel with the caption “No Man Can Beat Us,” encouraging American women to “pre-register” for military service, a mandate known as the Selective Service system which requires virtually all male U.S. citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 to express their consent for potential military conscription during wartime. The same day, the account[6] posted a still shot of Katy Perry from her 2012 music video “Part of Me” (shown below, right) with the caption reading:
"2016: women take down Trump / 2017: women take down Putin"
Shortly after, Twitter user @WDFx2EU7[7] posted a photograph of several female pilots with the caption "They are ready to go to war for her / Are you?" along with the hashtag "#DraftOurDaughters" (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet received upwards of 320 likes and 270 retweets.
Spread
That day, Redditor whocaresguy submitted an image of a female soldier captioned with the message "I'm ready to fight for her / she will be our greatest wartime leader" along with the hashtags "#EnlistForHer", "FightForHer" and "NoGenderDraft" to /r/The_Donald[12] (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post gained over 5,800 votes (86% upvoted) and 380 comments.
On October 28th, other Twitter users began posting #DraftOurDaughters[4] tweets (shown below). That day, a thread about the hashtag was submitted to the "/pol/": (politically incorrect) board on 4chan (shown below).[2]
Meanwhile, BuzzFeed community user TylerBrandon submitted a listicle titled "Hillary Clinton Wants To Get More Women In The Military And It’s AWESOME," highlighting various #DraftOurDaughters image macros (shown below).[3] In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the satirical hashtag, including PJ Media,[10] Bearing Arms,[11] Mic[8] and Snopes.[9]
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External References
[1] Twitter – @OnMessageForHer
[2] Archive.is – /pol/ thread
[3] Archive.is – BuzzFeed article
[4] Twitter – #DraftOurDaughters
[5] Twitter – @Ultra_Victoria
[6] Twitter – @Ultra_Victoria
[8] Mic – Will Hillary draft women?
[9] Snopes – Draft Canard
[10] PJ Media – 19 Hilarious Hillary Clinton Draft Our Daughters Ads
[11] Bearing Arms – Draft Our Daughters For Hillarys Endless Wars
[12] Reddit – /r/The_Donald
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![18. Finally, on or about October 28, 2016, approximately ten days before the Election, the participants of both the Fed Free Hatechat and the War Room discussed the "Draft Our Daughters" meme, which suggested that the Candidate would provoke armed conflict and draft women to fight the resulting wars. MACKEY was a participant in both groups using MACKEY Account 2. Members in both groups suggested that the meme would influence women voters and thus should be distributed (“#DraftOurDaughters is trending," "[i]t's trending and normie'3 liberal women are freaking out about it," “I need to do a tweet on that. It's f------ hilarious," "it's eliciting sheer terror from the woman vote. Lean in on it," and "I haven't seen a single issue make the shitlib woman vote waver in this election, until this. This is resonating hugely."). That same day, MACKEY used MACKEY Account 2 to tweet or re-tweet the DraftOurDaughters meme numerous separate times, including retweets of tweets by Co- Conspirator 2 and Co-Conspirator 3.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/004/208/28c.png "#DraftOurDaughters discussion cited in Ricky Vaugn indictment")
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