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Is This Woman Naive Or A Moron?
Topic Started: Aug 24 2017, 12:33 PM (52 Views)
Tybee
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Does she actually think she's going to raise $1 billion through a crowdfund effort so she can buy Twitter and kick the cretin in chief off the venue? I wish her well, but I think her chances are less than winning the lottery.
Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is looking to crowdfund enough money to buy Twitter so President Donald Trump can't use it.

Wilson launched the fundraiser last week, tweeting: "If @Twitter executives won't shut down Trump's violence and hate, then it's up to us. #BuyTwitter #BanTrump." The GoFundMe page for the fundraiser says Trump's tweets "damage the country and put people in harm's way."

As of Wednesday morning, she had raised less than $6,000 of her $1 billion goal.

In an emailed statement, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the low total shows that the American people like the Republican president's use of Twitter.

"Her ridiculous attempt to shut down his first amendment is the only clear violation and expression of hate and intolerance in this equation," the statement read.

Wilson wrote on the fundraiser's GoFundMe page that she hopes to raise enough money to buy a controlling interest of Twitter stock. If she doesn't have enough to purchase a majority of shares, she said, she will explore options to buy "a significant stake" and champion the proposal at Twitter's annual shareholder meeting.

If Plame were to hit her $1 billion goal, she'd still fall far short of gaining a controlling interest in the company. As of Wednesday, a majority stake would cost roughly $6 billion. But a $1 billion stake would make her Twitter's largest shareholder and give her a very strong position to exert influence on the company.

Twitter declined to comment Wednesday on Wilson's tweet about seeking to buy the San Francisco-based company.

Wilson's identity as a CIA operative was leaked by an official in President George W. Bush's administration in 2003 in an effort to discredit her husband, Joe Wilson, a former diplomat who criticized Bush's decision to invade Iraq. She left the agency in 2005.

http://www.ajc.com/news/former-cia-agent-wants-buy-twitter-kick-trump-off/FW3WOUiybGeHbOms1k2s0N/
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She and her husband both always seemed a couple bricks shy of a load, to me at least.
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I'm more surprised to see Twitter capitalized at $1 billion. My broker asked me if I'd like to buy a 100 shares, just for shits and giggles. I told him I'd rather invest that amount with a donation to St Jude Children's Hospital. I'd reap much more reward in that. I just thought Twitter would go the way of My Space and Friendster.
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haha that's funny. I read an article about this on yahoo news and a lot of fools said they would love to donate to her. I told them how they should just give the cash to me or pretty much anyone or anything else, or spend it on money for food for a local food bank or animal shelter since the money would be actually used then.
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