Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Keep America Great?

I just rejected the following comment because it is both spam and off-topic of the conversation being invited:

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Still, who are these guys?  Did I just dismiss a potential ally out of hand? Let's find out together.

The Blogger profile they used was just created and tells us nothing. I checked out the website itself, and it's for a PAC that is heavy on NRA/Republican rah-rah imagery. You're invited to "Show your dedication!" to imagery of soldiers, Reagan, the flag... I can almost hear Lee Greenwood singing in the background.

Funny thing: They want to gather our information and solicit our donations, but totally avoid specifics about how they're going to accomplish their nebulous goals and how (or for whom) they're going to use the money they're asking for.

Another funny thing: For being "Keep America Great," you'd think they wouldn't have their website registered through a Canadian proxy that hides who they actually are. Plus they don't give a physical address-- if you want to "Join the Network" or "Make a Donation," you have to fill out their forms, not knowing who is on the other end or where they are in meatspace. They provide no references who have established trust. They don't even have Facebook or Twitter icons so we can see the type of stuff they think important to share.

And funny thing about the PAC: Look up the name given on the website, the KEEP AMERICA GREAT US COMMITTEE on Google and it results in an FEC hit for KEEP AMERICA GREAT PAC.  Otherwise, as you can see for yourself, there are "No results."

IF the Keep America Great PAC is the one we're looking for, we find more funny things, and by that I mean peculiar funny, not "ha-ha" funny.  Start with "No financial data." Then go to "About the Committee."

Nate Lerner? Executive Director of Democratic Coalition, creator of the Boycott Trump app and FireHannity.org? Operating out of an apartment in Hoboken? The same folks sued by a surgeon because he claimed they called him a terrorist for donating to Donald Trump's campaign?

And if it's not the PAC we're looking for, our friends with the Canadian proxy doing the registration no American will do deserve special recognition for making themselves indistinguishable from their "progressive" antithesis, especially when the basic "research" on this took me all of 10 minutes, and I'd never heard of either entity before.

So go ahead and "support the cause" if you want to.  If you find out for sure what exactly that cause is, do get back to me.

In the mean time, I'm suddenly in the mood for some classic Badfinger...

2 comments:

Elmo said...

That PAC's webmaster wouldn't happen to be a guy that goes by the name of Franky Samora, would it?

Ned said...

Wow. Good catch, David.