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Ex-CIA agent wants to buy Twitter to boot Trump

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Posted by trailing wife 2017-08-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 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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