This just makes me sad.
It’s like the bomb got stuck in the bay and he’s Slim Pickens.
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I’m sure those “high level contacts” are among the “very best people” that trump hires.
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Doesn’t go fund me have rules about hate groups?
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The extra layer of irony on this is that I’d wager a good portion of the folks who are pledging money for this are against any increase in their taxes (for any reason).
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If the 63 million people who voted for Trump each pledge $80, we can build the wall.” That equates to roughly 5Billion Dollars, even if we get half, that’s half the wall. We can do this.
that’s a radically socialist idea. has anyone told bernie sanders about this?
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Ooh this drives me crazy. I get truly irritated by people who have strong opinions that could be easily figured with some simple math, yet they don’t even do or look for numbers… they just chirp cognitive dissonance louder. Comes up around toll roads a lot. No you are not saving nor being saved any money by a toll road unless you never needed to drive on it in the first place and never will. You pay much much more than you ever would for the taxes to fix existing roads… and you NEVER stop paying because at least here there is no requirement that the road ever stop being a toll road. God that kind of “I can’t even do basic math but I think I understand economics and taxation” thinking really irritates me.
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Nothing dumber than giving money to a “billionaire”.
If Trump is so rich and wants the wall so badly, he can pay for it himself. He can build it himself too while he is at it.
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This is the land of the free. We are still allowed to have stupid ideas and support stupid things. And people are allowed to be stupid and think that a person’s life circumstances carry any weight on the topics they support.
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From the person. And yes, I’ve considered the possibility that regardless of what the funding level is he takes the money and runs (or rolls I guess, although the pictures could be a lie too). The problem with that theory is the GoFundMe is too large (unless most of the pledges are from bots) and if he tries to split people are going to open an investigation. It would probably even make the news.
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I am intensely curious how much he will raise. The frothing idiots are eager when it is someone elses’ money. But will they put their money where their mouth is?
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His math is right with $80 from each of the 63 million voters will bring in $5 Billion. But, again, I don’t think that many people will care enough to spend $80.
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When he doesn’t reach that goal, will the average person go, “Huh, this whole idea doesn’t seem to have a lot of real support behind it. Maybe it is bullshit after all.”
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Even if they raised $5 Billion - that won’t be enough. This whole fucking idea is a huge fucking waste of money. The cost of maintenance and the supposed added patrols will be huge as well. You want to build shit, we have literally crumbling infrastructure.
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I think a more useful solution, when they come up short, is to determine how many feet of wall they can afford, and then build a compound in which all the donors get to spend the rest of their days, fully encircled by a Big, Beautiful Wall. I hear that there are some pretty sweet land deals in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain they may want to consider.
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By the time he reaches that $1B, the whole circus around Trump will have moved on/ have been fired/ put in jail. Because… That’s what they do, right? So he will probably spend a certain amount trying to figure out who to contact in the White House.
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How’s about they move into the nuke waste storage under Yucca instead.
If they want a stupid F’g wall so much why don’t they just join hands along the border and pray to jeebus.
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The US Treasury is happy to accept donations, but as far as I know there is no mechanism for private citizens to steer money to any particular department, project or cause. That power lies solely with the Congress. I think it would be hilarious if this money wound up in the treasury without the MAGAs realizing these facts. A nice little object lesson in basic civics.
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“Jobbing carpenter seeks work, can provide own hammer and nails.”
“Missy, you seen this ad on the Craig list?”
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“I don’t do wooden crosses or mangers.” “or fucking walls.”
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Remember, a picture of Him only takes one nail…
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The best response I’ve seen so far: https://www.gofundme.com/ladders-to-get-over-trump039s-wall
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I hear the weather at Hanford Reach is lovely this time of year.
“Hello. You have reached the Trump Administration. We’re sorry, but everyone is currently either under indictment, in prison, or has fled the country. Please leave a message after the tone, and we will never get back to you.”
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That’s worth paying for the laughs! Like tipping a comedian.
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