Valerie Plame Wilson, former CIA operative, wants to buy Twitter and ban President Trump

[steve2470]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/08/22/valerie-plame-wilson-wants-buy-twitter-and-ban-president-trump/590982001/

Valerie Plame Wilson's on a mission to get President Trump off Twitter.

How?

By buying it, of course.

Wilson — best known for being revealed as a CIA operative because of a leak during the George W. Bush administration — has started a GoFundMe page to buy a controlling interest in Twitter, in order to delete the president's account. The company is currently worth nearly $12 billion, with its shares going for around $16.

"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," Wilson wrote on the campaign's page "But threatening actual nuclear war with North Korea takes it to a dangerous new level."

[Hekate]

1. Ah, the American Way! Buy the thing and shut it down (or at least the obnoxious parts). nt

[yodermon]

2. Apple has enough cash to do this in 5 minutes. n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Now at $1,000, with a goal of $1 billion.

[Bonx]

4. So there's a chance?

- Lloyd Christmas

[DavidDvorkin]

5. A rather slender one, of course

But it is up to $11,000 now.

Here's the URL:
https://www.gofundme.com/buytwitter

[tavernier]

6. That won't shut him up.

He'll just find another outlet.

[steve2470]

8. exactly, or he will attempt a hostile takeover bid nt

[dembotoz]

7. if i thought there was a snowballs chance in hell.....