#GoFundTheWall has raised over $5M in 3 days to privately fund building Trump's "wall"

[Joe_K]

The idea is to donate it to any government program that will fund the wall, then ensure donated funds go only to building the wall.


For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭2:5‬ ‭

[Irving]

Why not donate money to repeal the NFA?

[Irving]

On one hand I was trying to make the point that you can't just give the government money and expect them to do what you want. On the other hand, seems like that's what lobbyists and politicians do, so why not give it a shot?

[Joe_K]

I do, various Pro gun, gun rights groups.
But we?re discussing a different subject entirely, but since you brought it up, we could all have suppressed M2?s on MRAP?s and completely repeal every 2A infringement, yet if we have open, porous, unsecured borders and coasts, we will continue to pump untold millions of socialist rabble that will tear down the Republic from within.


For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭2:5‬ ‭

[DireWolf]

To DireWolf, of course people raise money for losses and medical issues, but it's usually not into the millions unless they have some celebrity backing or makes nationwide news or something.

Finally, I'm not even necessarily saying that this is some scam, I just can't picture how gathering a pile of money is going to translate into getting a wall built.

Agreed, on both counts.

On the second point - ultimately, the money, while certainly helpful, only represents a small part of the issues/challenges involved. I actually think the dollar amount matters less than what the volume of donations is representative of, and the message it sends.

[Joe_K]

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭2:5‬ ‭

[DireWolf]

Well dang, up past $8.5M so far, and looks like the political sponsorship is in place. Will be interesting to see how this plays out...

[Bailey Guns]

I donate to building the border wall every two weeks thru payroll withholding. It's called "taxes" and that's what it's for. I would, however, donate to a GFM campaign to fund about 2 or 3 million people marching on DC to remind the public servants there who it is they serve. We could even take our modern-day pitchforks with bump-stocks on them.

[Eric P]

I give enough to the guberment. Well actually I don't give, they take.

[TheGrey]

The guy that made the GoFund account is the same guy raised $600,000.00 for Kavanaugh but who knows what for or what he did with the money. FB shut him down for spreading fake news, consopiracy theories, making multiple fake accounts with inauthentic activity.

When he was asked about these issues, Kolfage told NBC News he didn’t want to mention his website Right Wing News or Fight4FreeSpeech because he “didn’t want it to be a distraction.” “I don’t wanna mix the two. That shouldn’t be the focus. My personal issues have nothing to do with building the wall,” he said.

Since this website https://fight4freespeech.com/ was shut down, he seems to have simply made a new website: http://iraq.trendolizer.com/2018/10/...n-kolfage.html and guess what? You can donate money here as well.

Interesting.

Interesting, yes.
Very interesting.

Let's take each of these points.

"The Guy" that made this GoFund account is the same person that raised $600,00 for Judge Kavanaugh. Uh, NO. THAT particular account was started by John Hawkins, of North Carolina. It raised $488,500 of the $600,000 goal....and was not the only GoFundMe account that was started and raised money for Judge Kavanaugh. Many, many people felt that the despicable attacks dealt to him and his family were beyond the pale, and wished to show their support. The Judge's family could not ethically accept the funds, so they were donated to the Archdiocese of Washington, which runs the Catholic Youth Organization. There is no "who knows what for or what they did with the money"- a simple Google search and 30 second's time was all it took to shine the light on that aspersion.

Kolfage is a triple amputee lost both legs and his right hand, when a 107mm rocket landed 3 feet from him after his base was attacked in Iraq. He had worked with Facebook in the past, and FB collected $300,000 dollars in ads from him- and then scrubbed his site and 3 other FB sites without warning. His FB site was his primary income- he sold Military Grade Coffee and his Right Wing News site was 17 years old. And suddenly, FB deletes his site on October 11, 2018. No warnings.

Interesting, isn't it? How FB collected their money all this time, and THEN shut down the site?

His wife competed to be a Maxim Cover girl, in a campaign to donate money to Homes for the Wounded Warrior Foundation, too. Is that also 'Interesting'?