{"id":35113,"date":"2019-01-05T15:11:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35113"},"modified":"2019-01-05T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:11:13","slug":"an-update-on-the-gofundme-page-for-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35113","title":{"rendered":"An Update On The GoFundMe Page For The Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Breitbart<\/a> posted an article updating the information on the GoFundMe Account to build the border wall.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

We are witnessing something truly extraordinary. In merely 19 days, a GoFundMe campaign to raise private contributions to build sections of the wall along the Mexico border has raised<\/span><\/a> an astonishing $19.0 million. It will soon be the most successful GoFundMe campaign ever\u2014the current record<\/span><\/a> holder is the Time\u2019s Up Legal Defense Fund for victims of sexual assault, which raised $22 million in 2018 over a much longer period of time. The campaign to build the wall should blow past that number in a few days.<\/h2>\n

The article\u00a0 mentions that the Presidential Election Campaign Fund Tax Check-Off, which does not actually add to the tax burden for the people who check it off, raises less than a million dollars in a typical month.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

The astonishing number of contributions that this project has received from ordinary Americans demonstrates just how important the wall is to the American people. Citizens see the crime, wage depression, and other negative consequences of illegal immigration, and they want something done about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

More than that, building the wall makes clear that the United States is a sovereign nation that is willing to do what is necessary to control its own border. Indeed, securing a nation\u2019s borders is one of the most fundamental obligations that a government owes to its people. For decades, the federal government has failed miserably in fulfilling that obligation. Now, Americans are making a grassroots effort to solve the problem themselves, while sending a message to Washington. As Kolfage put it, \u201cThis is giving them an avenue to be heard.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u00a0 have to wonder what the focus groups are telling the Democrats about the wall. There have been a number of polls showing that Americans overwhelmingly support the wall, so to continue a government shutdown to stop the wall is not a wise political move. The only rationale might be that the Democrats are depending on the media to make the case to the American people that the wall is expensive and not in line with modern technology. I have already seen these talking points used, but I am not sure they are useful. The latest talking point I heard was that the wall was immoral, but that doesn’t even make sense. Does that mean locking your doors at night is immoral?<\/p>\n

The next week is going to be very interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today Breitbart posted an article updating the information on the GoFundMe Account to build the border wall. The article reports: We are witnessing something truly extraordinary. In merely 19 days, a GoFundMe campaign to raise private contributions to build sections … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10303,10348,6252,853,11581,6388,5565],"class_list":["post-35113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-border-wall","tag-breitbart","tag-breitbart-com","tag-democrats","tag-gofundme","tag-government-shutdown","tag-talking-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35115,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113\/revisions\/35115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}