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I seriously doubt the majority of those donors know what 'eminent domain' is but you have to wonder about the people who do, and donated anyway. How was this private 'We Build the Wall Co.' going to get on to people's property and start building shit w/o their permission? Mind boggling.

And is that the most fake Fallout-esque name you ever heard? Good grief. Reality is more ridiculous than the parody. 😩
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This private company would buy a single property and build a little wall. Then declare victory and keep the rest.
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This stupid wall gofundme has over $20,000,000 and my little wife's end costs and my life at the moment gofundme has $475. The world is stupid.
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Daehawk wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 1:14 pm This stupid wall gofundme has over $20,000,000 and my little wife's end costs and my life at the moment gofundme has $475. The world is stupid.
I know you're dealing with a lot, but just a small bit of advice DH... you should re-post that URL in a separate thread, or put it in your signature, or something. I had been watching for that, but must have missed it when you did post it, and had to dig around to find it. If you bring it to the community's wider attention I think you'll have much better luck. :D
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Sepiche wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 3:24 pm
Daehawk wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 1:14 pm This stupid wall gofundme has over $20,000,000 and my little wife's end costs and my life at the moment gofundme has $475. The world is stupid.
I know you're dealing with a lot, but just a small bit of advice DH... you should re-post that URL in a separate thread, or put it in your signature, or something. I had been watching for that, but must have missed it when you did post it, and had to dig around to find it. If you bring it to the community's wider attention I think you'll have much better luck. :D
Yeah, you do need to flog it. I probably get 3-4 fundraising pitches a week via facebook, so you can't just post it once and leave it. (I was able to extract a few contributions from my circle of friends, but we're played out now.) Are you even trying to get on Fox News? :wink:
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Through this effort, Kolfage gathered 3.5 million names for his database of easily duped morons, and will now get to work on making some real money. Gee, what shocking news this is.
Through his border-wall campaign, he claims to have gathered 3.5 million email addresses, which are essential to his broader operation — a wide-ranging and multipronged effort to collect a list of Trump supporters who have proven to be sources of donations for conservative efforts, former employees told NBC News.

According to former employees and public records including website archives, Nevada business registrations and property records, Kolfage has repeatedly created GoFundMe campaigns and published inflammatory fake news articles, pushing them both from websites that he sought to hide behind shell companies and false identities, in part to harvest email addresses. Those addresses were then used to push people back to Kolfage’s websites, to sell a brand of coffee he owns, or to be stockpiled for future use by conservative campaigns.
It's so weird how quiet em2 has been about this whole thing.
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Thanks guys...sorry new to this. Ill hate to remove it one day I bet..not for the donations but the ..well I dont know.
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Thanks for putting up the link. I also missed it earlier I guess.
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Skinypupy wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:15 pm It's so weird how quiet em2 has been about this whole thing.
Just got back from my tailor. :mrgreen:
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Like I said, database of easily duped morons.
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Crime against fashion and humanity, at the same time.
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It's been a few months, so let's check in and see how the revamped "We Build the Wall" campaign is going, shall we?

Uh oh.
Organized by triple-amputee veteran Brian Kolfage, the campaign eventually morphed into a nonprofit called We Build the Wall, which promised to build portions of the wall on private land using the money it raised.

Months later, there’s no evidence that any construction has started, despite claims from Kolfage and his allies that construction would start in April. And now Greene is wondering what ever happened to that wall he was promised his dollars would fund?

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Complicating the effort further is that it’s not that easy to find private land right on the border where a wall can be built.

Kolfage and We Build the Wall’s board of directors have spent plenty of time in Arizona, ostensibly scouting private land to build the wall. But The Phoenix New Times reported in March that the “vast majority” of land on the border in Arizona is owned by the federal government. Meanwhile, many of the people who actually own land on the border told the New Times that they hadn’t been contacted by We Build the Wall.

We Build the Wall didn’t respond to requests for comment. In a Facebook comment this week, the group claimed, once again, that it was very close to building the wall. Conveniently, though, We Build the Wall claimed the information about the private wall’s location had to be “secure” in order to confound liberal foes.
I, for one, am SHOCKED that this entire thing is turning out to be a scam from known grifters who used it to get money from xenophobic morons.
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Technically, he shouldn't be here.
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And?

I’m sure they will all just vanish if there was a big ol’ wall there, right?
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It's a shame we have to get real news from a foreign power. :wink:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... 4DoNuURhkM
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em2nought wrote: Sat May 11, 2019 3:06 pm It's a shame we have to get real news from a foreign power. :wink:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... 4DoNuURhkM
So...

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They could make it like the Vietnam Memorial and honor the 500,000 that Cheney killed.
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For the millionth time, the dailymail is a tabloid. Every second article is about the bat kid or similar.
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He must have the same people who built the Obamacare website working on it. :wink: That website only took longer to build than WW2. :mrgreen: I guess it's good for me that I gave my spare dinero to Ron DeSantis prior to this.

Oh wow, the Obamacare website cost more than $2 billion. :shock:
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Damn, you sure knocked the hell out of that strawman!
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Fraud and difficult coding for a 50 state problem are equivalent?

Or has corruption and fraud become part of the Republican platform?

If you seriously want the Wall built, this shit should make you mad.
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Grifters gotta grift.

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Zarathud wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 3:09 pm If you seriously want the Wall built, this shit should make you mad.
If it's true it will make me mad, but we know that people can tell you things are true for two years and then they turn out to not be true. :wink:

I can't believe that's all the boat a $1 million will buy? If that's the boat he bought(if true) I don't want him buying sections of wall. LOL I'm still thinking the wall should be built from $2000.00 shipping containers.
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em2nought wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 4:28 pm
Zarathud wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 3:09 pm If you seriously want the Wall built, this shit should make you mad.
If it's true it will make me mad,
No it won't . He's white and he supports Trump.
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hepcat wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 6:33 pm
em2nought wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 4:28 pm
Zarathud wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 3:09 pm If you seriously want the Wall built, this shit should make you mad.
If it's true it will make me mad,
No it won't . He's white and he supports Trump.
I think there's an episode of Golden Girls on TV right now, you better hurry off. :mrgreen:
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Okay?
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Logic doesn't exist for him, hepster.
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hepcat wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 7:17 pmOkay?
I thought Bea Arthur was your "thing"? LOL :mrgreen:
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Not in R&P though.
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Over the weekend one mile went up trying to fill a dangerous gap between two existing sections.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bannon-built ... 49962.html
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From the article:
The group hastily “purchased the rights” to the land and went at it Friday evening. “We had to catch them by surprise,” says Bannon, who predicts residents are “gonna freak out” when they see what was erected over the past two days.
Why am I suddenly reminded of this.



Although perhaps this is more appropriate.



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The CEO is Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, who had raised $20 million to build the wall through his GoFundMe project, but it appeared to be floundering until Bannon took the helm.

Bannon, who for much of the weekend was in Kazakhstan for a geopolitical seminar, says the project, overseen by construction mogul Tommy Fisher of North Dakota-based Fisher Industries, involved hundreds of workers and cost $6 million.
So best case scenario for WBTW is that they can build two more miles with the funds they've raised ($6M/mi with $20M raised). Worst case is they are one and done.

Depends what the over/under is for cash stolen used by Kofage.


The big question is who has been, or will start, buying up border land. Bannon's cronies or opponents of the wall? Or just random speculators?
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LawBeefaroni wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 9:54 am The big question is who has been, or will start, buying up border land. Bannon's cronies or opponents of the wall? Or just random speculators?
I'm pretty sure that's why they got this section up on the down low. Hard to work with a bunch of Trump Derangement Syndrome addled protesters blocking your heavy equipment. :mrgreen:
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It's also important to spend a small amount of the money you're embezzling in order to make it look like you're actually doing something other than buying luxury boats.

But who knows, perhaps he'll park one of those boats in front of the border and declare it a wall. It's not like your average Trump supporter has enough smarts to understand when they've been conned. :mrgreen:
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LawBeefaroni wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 9:54 am So best case scenario for WBTW is that they can build two more miles with the funds they've raised ($6M/mi with $20M raised). Worst case is they are one and done.
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The mayor of Sunland Park, New Mexico, has issued a cease-and-desist order to a private group that raised millions to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The cease-and-desist order was issued on Tuesday after it was determined that the group did not have the proper permits for construction, city spokesperson Peter Ibardo told The Texas Tribune.
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Speaking to KTMS, Sunland Park Mayor Javier Perea added that the wall is also in violation of city ordinances that regulate how tall a structure can be. Perea said that the application for construction were never returned to the city by American Eagle Brick.

The company owns the land where the wall was partially constructed over the Memorial Day weekend, the Tribune said.

Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who sits on the advisory board for We Build The Wall, told the Tribune that the land owner obtained the proper permits needed for construction and that inspectors were present at the build site prior to the start of the build.

However, Ibardo disputed the statement, telling the newspaper that while an application form was filed, it was incomplete and no permit was issued for construction. Inspectors who attempted to visit the site last week were not allowed to do so, he added.
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"Mr. Kofage, tear down this wall!"

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Color me surprised that the Gofundme dipshits are either incompetent or sleazy.
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