The wall may be crowdfunded.

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It's over $1M in just over a day on a $1B goal (max GoFundMe amount).

 

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It's over $1M in just over a day on a $1B goal (max GoFundMe amount).

Less than 24 hours later it is over $7M. It will be interesting to see how much this raises.

 

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Democrat Party.

Alyssa Milano Mocks Triple Amputee Veteran for Crowdfunding Border Wall Instead of ‘Taking Care of Our Veterans’

https://twitter.com/x/status/1075804158320492544

https://twitter.com/x/status/1076001587426803713

"Celebrities" are not real human beings.

 

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People with Trump Derangement Syndrome ignore recent history.

 

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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=327506667855727

 

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Less than 24 hours later it is over $7M. It will be interesting to see how much this raises.

24 hours later it has doubled again, pushing $14M.

 

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..and the divide between the Globalists and the rest of us continues.

Jimmy Kimmel Trashes ‘Dopey People’ Donating Their ‘Meth Money’ to Build the Border Wall

“The president might not need Mexico or Congress to pay for the wall at all, because there’s some very dopey people ready to pay for it themselves,” Jimmy Kimmel joked.

“This Trump supporter, Brian Kolfage, started a GoFundMe campaign to raise $1 billion for the wall. He launched it on Sunday, it’s already up to almost $9 million. This is what people do with their disposable income when they don’t have loans from college to pay off.”

“Donating money for a wall that will never exist — it’s like starting a college fund for Harry Potter,” Kimmel continued. “It’s a waste — a more useful thing to do with your money would be to go outside and feed it to a bird. But, you do have to admire the sacrifice they’re making — I mean, a lot of these people are dipping into their meth money for this.”

 

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The Swamp is not happy.

Washington Post Reporter Fails to End Vet’s Wall Funding Campaign

A reporter with the left-wing Washington Post disapproves of a triple-amputee veteran’s Go Fund Me campaign to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border that has raised more than $13 million. The reporter tried to shut it down, claiming the effort violated the fundraising website’s terms because it discriminated against mostly Latinos trying to get into the United States.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

..and the divide between the Globalists and the rest of us continues.

Jimmy Kimmel Trashes ‘Dopey People’ Donating Their ‘Meth Money’ to Build the Border Wall

Mmmmmmm. That's a little distasteful.

 

[Robert]

Mmmmmmm. That's a little distasteful.

Much about this is distasteful but it's Fake News anyway.
Mexico is paying for the Wall.
This is obviously just some money-making scam by a Libertard.
Or maybe the Chinese.
Don't fall for it.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Much about this is distasteful but it's Fake News anyway.

Sure, but using meth addicts as a joke is ... I don't know Kimmel very well, but is making fun of addicts part of his normal schtick?

 

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Sure, but using meth addicts as a joke is ... I don't know Kimmel very well, but is making fun of addicts part of his normal schtick?

Making fun of Republicans is part of his normal schtick, and nothing is off the table when doing so.

 

[Robert]

Sure, but using meth addicts as a joke is ...

Sure, but using any misfortune of others as a joke is always distasteful yet any outrage is almost always selective.
And almost always predictably so.

I don't know Kimmel very well, but is making fun of addicts part of his normal schtick?

I don't know him at all - had to look him up - so I have no idea what his normal schtick is.

Having said that, many comedians that make me laugh are far more distasteful and "offensive" than that.

And the fact that such trivia - comedian says distasteful thing - is the talking point here is pretty funny in and of itself.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Sure, but using any misfortune of others as a joke is always distasteful yet any outrage is almost always selective.
And almost always predictably so.

Having said that, many comedians that make me laugh are far more distasteful and "offensive" than that.

I laugh at much more offensive seeming ideas but it had to be in the form of a joke. This bit didn't land for me as there really wasn't anything about meth addicts that wad relevant to the construction. It was just adhominem against the pledgers. Name calling can be funny but meth addiction isn't and a meth addict donating money to the wall doesn't even have enough logic with the joke narrative to do the lifting being asked of it.

So, for me the joke fails on technical aspects alone, however, I get the feeling from what Kimmel I have seen, that this the sort of joke he would lambaste if it came from the right.. like if someone had made the joke that Obama's campaign crowd funders were dipping into their crack budgets.

People are crowd funding the wall. I'm sure there's a vein of homour in their - but this wasn't it.

 

[Robert]

I laugh at much more offensive seeming ideas but it had to be in the form of a joke. This bit didn't land for me....

Me either but that's a somewhat different discussion to the original point.

I get the feeling from what Kimmel I have seen, that this the sort of joke he would lambaste if it came from the right.. like if someone had made the joke that Obama's campaign crowd funders were dipping into their crack budgets.

I don't know much about him other than this thread so you might be right but "I get the feeling" you're projecting.

People are crowd funding the wall. I'm sure there's a vein of homour in their

For me there is more than one vein.

but this wasn't it.

Perhaps not directly but the reaction to it has given me a giggle.

First it was "comedian says distasteful thing".
Then it was "comedian isn't very funny"
Now it's "comedian *might* be a hypocrite".

None of those things, or even the combination thereof, would normally merit so much as a mention on here.
Are those really the reasons he has you criticising him?

Strikes me as unlikely but I suppose that's me projecting now.

 

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Me either but that's a somewhat different discussion to the original point.

I don't know much about him other than this thread so you might be right but "I get the feeling" you're projecting.

For me there is more than one vein.

Perhaps not directly but the reaction to it has given me a giggle.

First it was "comedian says distasteful thing".
Then it was "comedian isn't very funny"
Now it's "comedian *might* be a hypocrite".

None of those things, or even the combination thereof, would normally merit so much as a mention on here.
Are those really the reasons he has you criticising him?

Strikes me as unlikely but I suppose that's me projecting now.

Jokes have a set up and a punch line. Just calling names or smearing a group of people is not humor. Jimmy Kimmel is not alone. I don't recommend it, but if you turn on ANY late night show you will hear the same thing, demonization of Trump supporters under the guise of humor. Even though you personally would have a confirmation bias, I doubt you would find the humor in it. Its not done to entertain, it is done to brainwash the masses. In the US we have a huge subculture of people that follow Pop Culture like a religion. They literally take their political and other views on life from TV, Movies and Music.

 

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Sanders Gets Called Out for Supporting $18 Billion Wall In 2013 But Opposing $5 Billion Wall Now

“Yes. And senator, in 2013 you voted for comprehensive immigration that included $18 billion for a wall in border security,” Baier interjected.

Baier then asked Sanders why the $5 billion is a nonstarter for him.

“Well, I’m saying that you have $5 billion as part of tens of billions more for a wall. What I’m saying right now, sometimes you vote for things that are part of a broad package,” Sanders said, before changing topics.

 

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I don't care if others want to fund a vanity project, as long as I don't have to pay for The Wall Of Shame, I'm fine with others doing as they please.

This article has an interesting take on the whole thing.

"Individuals start or contribute to crowdfunding campaigns for their own reasons, but on a collective scale, Americans’ willingness to pitch in 20 bucks to a stranger online is among the defining phenomena of 2018. Its popularity is made possible by two intersecting realizations: Some of the vital structural underpinnings of life in the U.S. don’t work very well, and the ideas that end up mattering most are often those with money behind them."

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Are those really the reasons he has you criticising him?

I'm criticising the joke.

And Kimmel is quite funny, but that joke didn't work for me for the stated reasons. My initial reaction was due to all of the reasons I later gave, but I didn't think I needed to spell them out until you seemed to indicate that you saw none of what I saw, at which point I explained in more detail the problems I had with the joke itself.

 

[Robert]

My initial reaction was due to all of the reasons I later gave, but I didn't think I needed to spell them out until you seemed to indicate..

Except you did feel the need to spell out one - and only one - reason before I indicated anything:

That's a little distasteful.

As you went on to explain, that reason alone is not normally enough for you to criticise a joke but it was the one you cited and that's why we ended up discussing it.