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”. . .
Gee...what a compelling business model!!
She is a flaming lib. She always WAS a flaming lib. When they were whining about being ‘outed’, it was nothing more than a political stunt. She really is just one molecule apart from being totally worthless.
The Democrat Party is the world's most successful hate group. It attracts poor people who hate rich people, black people who hate white people, gay people who hate straight people, muslims who hate Christians, immigrants who hate Americans, feminists who hate men, civilians who hate the Police, environmentalists who hate the combustion engine, and lots of spoiled college kids who hate their parents, their teachers, and anyone else in authority. However, the real secret of the party's success, is that it attracts the support of journalists who hate Republicans, and who therefore work tirelessly to spew hate, false narratives, and fake news, in order to convince the rest of us that we should vote for Democrats. She is a terrorist
Cynthia Reagan - Community College of Denver
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FAVOR/REQUEST
From: Hillary Clinton
To: Lauren Jiloty
Date: 2011-03-04 11:30
Subject: FAVOR/REQUEST
UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05785354 Date: 10/30/2015
RELEASE IN PART B6
From: H
Sent:Friday, March 4, 2011 6:30 PM
To:'JilotyLC@state.gov'; 'Russorv@state.gov'
Cc:'BStride
Subject: Fw: Favor/Request
Pls follow up w Burns and prepare letter(s). Thx.
Original Message ----
From: Burns Strider [mailto:
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 12:09 AM
To: H; Huma Abedin
Subject: Favor/Request
Ploughshares provided a significant amount of funding to us and others... and carried out a lot of organizing on their own for passage of New START... We would not have had the resources to build the Generals/Admirals/Clergy voices including op-eds, fly-ins for Hill visits, letters, calls, etc without Ploughshares... They're in a decision mode now on how much to resource for supporting ATT... My request, if possible/appropriate, is a Thank You letter to them... Here (below)are names and address if possible... As always, thank you so much for considering...
Attn: Joe Cirincione & Naila Bolus
Ploughshares Fund
1430 K Street NW, Suite 550
Washington, DC 20005
Burns Strider
Check this out.
No worries: they can always get Roger Clinton to help with that.
I wonder how much Uncle Georgie is kicking in.
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=25685
ROFL!
Give her another 200 years and she might raise enough to make a bid for twitter
I would lend you the money for that except then I won’t be able to cover my Obamacare premium.
That was my first thought. . .maybe Steve Bannon could add that to his new media outreach.
btt
Wow, that looks like a scene out of Days of Wine and Roses.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055895/
“An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his “passion” together.”
This isn’t the first time someone has set up a GoFundMe for purely greedy selfish purposes.
Gab is an instant message platform recently launched as a conservative alternative for people who are tired of censorship on Twitter.
If Miss Plame wants her own instant message platform to compete with Twitter (but, presumably one dedicated to hate speech), she is free to do what the Gab developers have done.
GoFundMe is filled with SCAMS.
This should be BIG news, can you imagine if anyone had tried this hard to keep Obama or Clinton from communicating? I realize if she buys it she can shut him or anyone else off, but just the thought that someone would plan to buy Twitter just to deny Trump an account is mind boggling. He is really living in their heads rent free.
I guess it doesn’t occur to her that he would figure out another way to communicate and all of his followers would go there to read what he has to say...
is it tinfoil of me to suggest McMaster wants feet on the ground in Afghanistan to secure poppy fields?
Chasing the same old AQ/ISIS terrorists there for sixteen years?
IDTS.
So all the kiddies will send their tuition money to Blondie so she can buy & own controlling stock in a public corporation? What are the tax ramifications of using GoFundMe in this way?
BTW, I thought her husband was the radical idiot. He listed her in Who’s Who as a CIA employee, right? They had no reason to bitch, and they managed to convict the wrong guy. Typical CIA F-up.
I always knew the hard core liberals are cheap...
Love the Airplane reference!
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