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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBuild the Wall GoFundMe is starting to dry up.
Over the first five days, it brought in about 15.5 million. On day 6, it brought in about 700K. Over the last 24 hours? 300K.
Could be that it's almost Christmas and people are doing other things. Or, as I tend to believe, everyone who was really enthusiastic about the wall donated right away because they were excited. Now that they're done, there's nobody left and it's drying up.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Many
Are
Grifting
Again
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Youre fucked.
calguy
(5,324 posts)Gotta save some back for cigarettes and beer you know.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)still in the tank for him enough, to give him a dollar.
The internet isnt reflective of the true size of his following. They're mostly paid russians. Imagine 50 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia...breaking rocks and forced to make 250 posts a night on every forum America uses. All for a crust of bread and some polonium water.
I remember the 'feel' of a paid poster as far back as 2001. Pretty sure back then it wasn't the reds though.
Stinky The Clown
(67,817 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)I can't imagine they sat at their laptops and made them all up one by one.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Actually, I suspect it is " John Barron".....nudge nudge wink wink.
DFW
(54,436 posts)The rest were probably made-up or taken at random from the Chicago or L.A. phone books. $20 million is pocket change to people like Adelson and the Mercers.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)When I think of how many hundreds of rich right wing Trump buyers have lost good money on their "investment"....
On a more pleasant note.....hope you and yours are having a very good holiday.
DFW
(54,436 posts)Everyone is scattered to the four winds now. Mom in law is back in her village in the northwest. Daughters, boyfriend (Germany) and baby granddaughter are on their way down to the Lake of Constance, and fiancé to the other daughter is on a plane form NYC to Zürich, where he will rent a car and drive up to Germany and join the others before they all drive off for a couple of days of skiing in Austria while my wife and I head for South Carolina via Paris and Atlanta in about 3 hours.
There is never a dull moment, believe me!
Hope yours was somewhat more tranquil!
Luz
(772 posts)his stupid wall. I hope they pay some sort of fee before getting a refund.
Just a Weirdo
(488 posts)Keep the cut, refund the rest, bill the cut & service fees to Kolfage and finish the refund.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)Appears the vast majority of his voters don't actually want the wall that much...
matt819
(10,749 posts)Figured out that $5 million is not 50% of 1 billion but rather 1/2 of 1% and that its going to take a gazillion years to reach $1billion, much less the $30 billion needed to build the fucking wall.
caraher
(6,279 posts)On Thursday, a JZ Knight donated $10,000 to the GoFundMe campaign called, We The People Will Fund The Wall.
Knight claims to channel the spirit of a man named Ramtha who lived more than 30,000 years ago. She runs a school in Yelm that purports to pass on his teachings.
Only three other donors gave more money than the $10,000 for the the wall campaign, which organizer Brian Kolfage says will be donated to the government.
And from an earlier article:
Ramtha predicts Trump will receive the protection of UFOs while flying in his jet: And the first time he looks out the window when he sees two silver disks as escort, he is going to know it all and this is a man who is not afraid he is going to know it all.
onethatcares
(16,178 posts)to get the magats on another forum to donate $150.00 in my name. No takers as yet.
what better way to piss off a liberal?
KWR65
(1,098 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,044 posts)If I recalled it was $50 million and they were saying they were at 50%. Not good at math.