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”. . .
If we'd listened to the snowflakes we'd still be "negotiating" with NK about how much it will take for them to stop scaring the liberals. Instead... silence. Well done, Mr President.
Maybe I should should a GoFundMe to beat her to the punch... but Free Republic would get funded, too :)
Plame “outted” her own damn self. She bought her way onto the DC cocktail circuit by regaling the high and the mighty with hair-raising tales of her exploits as a spook. It was the worst-kept secret in the city. She didn’t show much concern for who knew until journalist Robert Novak made the list.
In the fall-out, Scooter Libby was indicted for the leak. Even though the leak ultimately was laid at the feet of Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, they still managed to convict Libby for “process crimes.” A process crime investigation is based on the fact that federal laws are so broad in scope, so arcane, so labyrinthine and so overlapping that there’s hardly anyone who couldn’t be convicted of ...something. You just have to dig deep enough.
Which is exactly what special prosecutor Robert Mueller is engaged in right now. He’s conducting an investigation with limitless scope against POTUS Trump 45 for process crimes.
She has no concept of capitalism. She also can't do math.
Though a controlling interest would require $6.23 billion today, any effort to actually try this would also drive the price by at least 30%.
Quintessential libtard thinking:
““The good news is we can make that decision for them,” she writes.”
I’m pretty sure no matter how much she can raise, Trump Enterprises Inc. can easily beat without breaking a sweat ;-)
Man, how do you get a job like that?!
LOL. Loser.
Either he keeps his Twitter account, or he gets the cash and just hops on over to Facebook... and starts another sales offer. :)
Maybe we get DJT to use Free Republic instead of Twatter ??
Also, I recall President Bush referred to the U.K.'s findings about uranium and Saddam Hussein and NOT Wilson's faulty conclusion from his trip to Niger. Typical Lieberal behavior and it is STILL going on. Facts don't mean anything to them.
Maybe he could build a FR app for social media :)
Hate to say it but she's thinking and writing like a dumb blonde.
Is it possible that she KNOWS bleeping well she’ll never raise enough money to buy a control of Twitter? And that she also knows what she’ll do with the loot after that goal is abandoned? I think it’s worth noting that whenever a lib wants to do something, they assume someone else will pay for it.
Yes. I was going to post the transcript to a Hannity segment on that.
Reminds me of that Monty Python episode: "Mr Neutron".
I'll just link you to a YouTube of the part of the episode I'm referring to. You will be amused, I guarantee. :)
This is true. She had a desk job for years and even some in the CIA said so but the lying press buried that to go after Bush II
The really bad thing was the spineless weasels in the Bush administration, including Bush, refused to stand up and say it was all lies and let Libby swing in the wind.
In between the kooky Bible Prophecy stuff, I love to throw in references which may or may not apply to the thread, LOL.
It’s sometimes fun to do that in real life. Until you find some special person with no sense of humor.
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