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Teh One Who Knocks
08-22-2017, 12:28 PM
Jim Treacher - The Daily Caller


https://i.imgur.com/2VlPx84.jpg
Actress Naomi Watts (L) and former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson

Remember Valerie Plame? She’s tired of people always answering that question with “No.” She spent years failing to take down George Bush, and now she wants to spend years failing to take down Donald Trump. She needs your help. More importantly, she needs your money.

http://i.imgur.com/03FOg4C.png

Um, it’s called logic, people.

I’m not a fan of Trump’s tweeting either, but I guess I’m a bit skeptical about this approach. From Plame’s GoFundMe page:


Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter. 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.

It’s time to shut him down…

Twitter is a publicly traded company. Shares = power. This GoFundMe will fund the purchase of a controlling interest in Twitter…

Let’s #BuyTwitter and delete Trump’s account before he starts a nuclear war with it. The whole world will thank us when we do!

Plame figures she needs to raise one billion smackeroonies to get this done. How’s that going so far?

https://i.imgur.com/BGqihE9.png

A little under $3,000 in five days. At the rate of $600 a day, she should raise enough money to buy Twitter in, let’s see… only 4,500 years or so. In a mere 45 years, she might even take in as much cash as Fair Game did.

Well, the important thing is that she’s staying woke. At least she’s showing her #Resistance without beating people up in the street, or throwing bottles of piss at them, or trying to blow up Confederate monuments. These days she’s practically a moderate.

DemonGeminiX
08-22-2017, 01:15 PM
No wonder why Bush/Armitage outed her. She's a fuckin' idiot.

Muddy
08-22-2017, 01:16 PM
Who?

DemonGeminiX
08-22-2017, 01:21 PM
She's former CIA. This was a huge scandal back in the Bush Jr. Presidency. She was covert and she was outed by a newspaper. I don't think it was the first time an undercover operative was outed, but it was the first time I'd ever heard of such a thing.

Remember Scooter Libby? He was convicted of lying to investigators but Bush pardoned him or commuted his sentence because of all of this junk.

PorkChopSandwiches
08-22-2017, 03:36 PM
:haha:

Teh One Who Knocks
08-22-2017, 05:39 PM
Free speech for everyone, right? :-k

PorkChopSandwiches
08-22-2017, 05:46 PM
as long as you are on their side

Teh One Who Knocks
08-22-2017, 06:24 PM
as long as you are on their side

:doh:

Godfather
08-24-2017, 04:55 AM
I feel physically dumber for having read this. I don't even know where to start. You can't just fucking buy twitter with $1 billion dollars :lol: It's worth probably $10 billion with a $12b market cap, so to buy a controlling stake you'd need AT LEAST half that much (which is almost certainly impossible because I'd wager to guess that more than half of their shares are held by founders/early investors, are not for sale, and have higher voting privileges). Even in an imaginary scenario where you bought 51%, there are almost certainly articles in their charter and bylaws preventing a takeover, 'poison pill' preventions - it would take YEARS, if ever. Secondly even if you managed to buy say 25%, they're not going to take your crazy ass' tender offers. They'd take extreme defensive maneuvers to prevent your hostile takeover.

I thought organizations like the CIA vetted their hires with extreme care... the idiots who already donated the first $2900 should be subject to psych evaluations.

As I finish writing this I realize I'm the moron feeding the troll for going on this rant :lol:

DemonGeminiX
08-24-2017, 05:19 AM
I feel physically dumber for having read this. I don't even know where to start. You can't just fucking buy twitter with $1 billion dollars :lol: It's worth probably $10 billion with a $12b market cap, so to buy a controlling stake you'd need AT LEAST half that much (which is almost certainly impossible because I'd wager to guess that more than half of their shares are held by founders/early investors, are not for sale, and have higher voting privileges). Even in an imaginary scenario where you bought 51%, there are almost certainly articles in their charter and bylaws preventing a takeover, 'poison pill' preventions - it would take YEARS, if ever. Secondly even if you managed to buy say 25%, they're not going to take your crazy ass' tender offers. They'd take extreme defensive maneuvers to prevent your hostile takeover.

I thought organizations like the CIA vetted their hires with extreme care... the idiots who already donated the first $2900 should be subject to psych evaluations.

As I finish writing this I realize I'm the moron feeding the troll for going on this rant :lol:

She's appealing to people who don't know nearly 10% of what you know about finance and valuation. And if you tried to educate these people, you'd be branded a racist, white supremacist, cis-gendered, fascist, privileged scum.