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2017-08-24 Home Front: Politix
Ex-CIA agent wants to buy Twitter to boot Trump
[IsraelTimes] Valerie Plame Wilson is trying to crowdfund enough money to purchase the social media platform, and ban the US president from it
I thought she was supposed to be smart. Clearly she hasn't considered why the current owners of Twitter have not already done this.
Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is looking to crowdfund enough money to buy Twitter so US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
 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 with a billion-dollar goal says Trump’s tweets "damage the country and put people in harm’s way."

She says she hopes the fundraiser will allow her to buy enough Twitter stock for a controlling interest in the company.

As of Wednesday morning, she had raised less than $6,000 of the billion-dollar goal.
Adorable.
Wilson’s identity as a CIA operative was leaked by an official in former president George W. Bush’s administration in 2003.
...though not the one who went to jail for it.
That's because she wasn't a clandestine operative. She was likely (moving about with her Ambassador hubby) an employee of various Chiefs of Station (COS) enjoying Official Cover (OC). Party-going wives of Diplomats in 'true name' make pi** poor clandestine operatives. The host country already assumes they are soiled.
She left the agency in 2005.
Come now, no one ever really 'leaves.'
So if they don't raise quite a billion dollars, does she get to keep what they do raise? If so, I wanna buy it, too. My goal is a billion and a quarter so I can outbid her.
Clapper really jumped the shark yesterday. I thought he was a retired flag officer. Evidently he's a psychiatrist as well.
Posted by trailing wife 2017-08-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Maybe she is feeling irrelevant these days?
Posted by gorb 2017-08-24 00:47||   2017-08-24 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone has already set up a Gofundme to out bid her.
Posted by phil_b 2017-08-24 01:09||   2017-08-24 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Well OK then he will have to send Presidential texts to all phones nation wide thingy Obama came out with every time the media lies about something.
Posted by Hupeting Sforza8196 2017-08-24 01:42||   2017-08-24 01:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Let's see...

1. raise a billion $. (cue video of snowball fights in Hell)
2. buy a controlling interest in Twitter.
3. ban Trump.
4. watch stock price go to zero.
5. spend the rest of your life being sued by stockholders.

I love this plan!
Posted by PBMcL 2017-08-24 01:44||   2017-08-24 01:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought she was supposed to be smart.

She is smart. Crowdfunding won't buy out twitter, but it will buy some pretties for Valery.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-24 05:28||   2017-08-24 05:28|| Front Page Top

#6 She is smart. Crowdfunding won't buy out twitter, but it will buy some pretties for Valery.

General Quarters has been sounded aboard the 'Bird of Prey.' She, like all the others, is answering the call.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-24 05:34||   2017-08-24 05:34|| Front Page Top

#7  I thought he was a retired flag officer.

If he is, he is subject to active duty recall and the UCMJ article about disparaging remarks about the C-in-C. Tread lightly.

Article 88 Contempt toward officials

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-24 06:58||   2017-08-24 06:58|| Front Page Top

#8 A billion will only buy around 8% at current prices. Enough for a chair on the board, but not enough to force twitter to dump Trump.

Seems more like a fund raising political run.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-08-24 09:20||   2017-08-24 09:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Good Rope-a-Dope gigs are hard to find. Social Media has scores doing what she aspires to do.
Posted by  jack salami 2017-08-24 09:31||   2017-08-24 09:31|| Front Page Top

#10 The biggest haters in this country are trying their damnedest to get rid of Trump.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-24 11:28||   2017-08-24 11:28|| Front Page Top

#11 I'd rather see Scooter become the owner simply as retribution for his misguided sentence.
Posted by warthogswife 2017-08-24 12:36||   2017-08-24 12:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Are we sure it's Val and not GAB?
Posted by Barbara 2017-08-24 14:24||   2017-08-24 14:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Plame's original asking amount was more modest.
Posted by Spereth Trotsky4095 2017-08-24 15:51||   2017-08-24 15:51|| Front Page Top

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