Posted on 08/23/2017 6:08:57 PM PDT by Fedora
Valerie Plame Wilson, the undercover CIA operations officer unmasked in July 2003, wants to buy a controlling share of Twitter. Her reason for doing so is to prevent President Trump from using the social media platform.
Plame Wilson was an undercover operative specializing in weapons of mass destruction for the CIA before influential columnist Robert D. Novak exposed her and her husband, Joseph Wilson. Plame Wilson had previously been critical of then President George W. Bush’s statements about Iraq’s purchase of nuclear weapons-grade uranium and accused members of the Bush administration of conspiring to destroy her career by breaking a 1982 law prohibiting the disclosure of the identities of covert CIA officers.
Now, Plame Wilson is crowd-funding to raise the money to buy enough shares of Twitter to block President Donald J. Trump.
“Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter,” Plame Wilson wrote on her GoFundMe page. “From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm’s way. But threatening actual nuclear war with North Korea takes it to a dangerous new level. ”
Plame Wilson says “It’s time to shut him down.”
She criticizes Twitter executives, who she says have “ignored growing calls to enforce their own community standards and delete Trump’s account.”
“The good news is we can make that decision for them,” she writes.
“Twitter is a publicly traded company. Shares = power,” Plame Wilson explains on the page. “This GoFundMe will fund the purchase of a controlling interest in Twitter. At the current market rate that would require over a billion dollars.”
A controlling interest in a company requires an entity to buy 50 percent of its outstanding shares, plus one. Twitter currently has about 731 million outstanding shares and is worth around $11.8 billion.
While raising “over a billion dollars” would be incredible, Plame Wilson says it’s “a small price to pay” to remove “Trump’s most powerful megaphone.” Somehow, she also believes shutting down Trump’s Twitter account will “prevent a horrific nuclear war.”
She has a long way to go, however. Over seven days, she’s only raised $9,522 as of Wednesday afternoon.
“If we can’t get a majority interest,” Plame Wilson says, “We’ll explore options for buying a significant stake in the company and champion this proposal at the annual shareholder meeting. If that’s impossible for any reason or if there is a surplus from this campaign, 100 percent of the balance of proceeds will be donated to Global Zero, a nonprofit organization leading the resistance to nuclear war.”
Plame Wilson announced her funding request on the social media platform she has hopes to take over. On Twitter, she wrote: “If Twitter executives won’t shut down Trump’s violence and hate, then it’s up to us. #BuyTwitter #BanTrump”. . .
[She has a long way to go, however. Over seven days, she’s only raised $9,522 as of Wednesday afternoon.]
Too bad Barry Seal is dead. He could have helped her bring in some cocaine to Arkansas. Oh, wait. That’s tinfoil. I forgot. My bad.
Typical liberal. Cannot win an argument. So shut down debate.
That is totalitarianism.
“100 percent of the balance of proceeds will be donated to Global Zero, a nonprofit organization leading the resistance to nuclear war”...no doubt she has cronies on the payroll of this ‘non-proft’.
I myself plan to take a controlling interest in Amazon — just so I can block Jeff Bezos from ordering books!
I think she'd be better off telling people she needs to raise money for a kidney transplant -- from a gorilla.
Typical liberal as in moron.
Is twitter the only social media platform?
Is she going to buy them all?
Face it, Valerie, the people win.
I say, let her try. Can she really raise that much money?
What a dim bulb this nitwit is.
Global Zero: Our Movement > Movement Leaders > Ms. Valerie Plame Wilson
I’m no master of securities law, but I think she needs to register with some agency to start raising money to buy stock, especially in multiple states.
Liberal -itch.
More seriously, wow, what a way to fleece liberals for more money. To think, she'll likely rake in ten times what Hillary's publisher will realize in profits from her latest book.
Typical liberal. Cannot win an argument. So shut down debate.
That is totalitarianism.
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PROGRESSIVE = REPRESSIVE
Global Zero favors unilateral disarmament (they won’t tell you that). They really really want to disarm Israel.
Is her pocketbook bulging with $11 billion?
I saw she raised slightly over $9,200. Good luck with getting Trump’s Twitter account yanked.
The Trump family empire should buy it first...
Without President Trump ginning up the traffice, Twitter would fold into a pile debt.
When has this outfit ever made a dime of profit?
LOL! Pathetic.
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