WHPR[Day1393] Spain = PtH
James S. Brady Press Room
Citizens of the eUnited States of America,
Yesterday evening I published the debut Grab Bags contest. The final numbers have not yet been tallied, and the Low Roller Contest is still in the process of being double-checked to justify the donations with the bag requests, but I am guessing that somewhere in the neighborhood of 18,000 USD was raised in about 3 hours... yes, that is AFTER prize distribution!
During those three hours I was madly busy updating the Bag Lists as no sooner would I edit the list than 2 more purchasers would show up in the comments. And this was going on for two separate contests, so 200 bags were eventually sold.
After I was done entering all of the names and double-checking them with the requests, Kara Beth logged on (it was well after Midnight Eastern Time where she lives) and she began the work of justifying my list with her donations thread. There was not a single instance of foul play (someone requesting a bag and not paying). Indeed, there were many instances of people donating MORE than the cost of the bags because they so appreciate the work of the Department of the Interior.
By tonight, all prizes will have been distributed and we can announce our next fundraiser. I am considering additional events to fund not only the Interior but also the OMS and USAF. Stay tuned.
America, you have made me proud.
I want to thank Marcus Corwin who worked with Kara Beth and me in getting things set up. I want to thank Kara Beth who has done all of the accounting and distribution work. And I want to thank President Alexander_Auctoritas for giving me the leeway to even try this in the first place.
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Meanwhile, a far less scintillating series of events continues to unfold. It is the
Here is the latest against
Spanish "War" Front - Update
Filed by Israel Stevens
America, I feel like I owe you an apology. I got you riled up. You wanted to Liberate Spain. You wanted a little payback for all the things they’ve done. All the states we lost. The two plus months of repressions. And I understand. Hell, I wanted those things too.
But then I came to a realization. It’s actually a three part realization. All centering around the same idea:
Spain isn’t worth it.
Think about it. They’re really not worth it. Spain is boring. Spain is yesterday’s news. Why conquer a meaningless nation when you could actually do something worthwhile with your damage? Spain will always be there. Spain is to the USA like Ireland is to the UK. We can beat up on them whenever we want. And the only real way for them to stop it is with allied support.
Beating Spain, is like beating Pizza the Hut in a PotUS race. Never a real threat. Just there for our lulz.
Why deal with Spain, when we should be dealing with the real thing? If you want an MPP with the USA, you don’t ask one of Jelly’s 14 Deputies, you talk to the man himself. Let’s do things directly.
Poland wears the pants in that relationship. Even dating back to the days when Spain and Poland were both in EDEN. The only reason Spain left was because Poland did. They are called ’Spoland’ for a reason. (Protip: It’s because Spain is Poland’s b*tch)
See? Told ya!
If you think about it, Spain being in ONE doesn’t make much sense. ONE is a geo-political alliance centered around the Eastern Europe region. Spain is way out in Western Europe, and surrounded by enemies; USA, Brazil, France, Portugal. The core ONE nations (Poland, Hungary, and Serbia), all share close proximity to each other, and have very similar interests. The United States should deal with the leader of ONE (Poland). Not one of it’s 14 deputies....
Where’s Spain?????
And lastly, ignoring Spain is the right thing to do. We ignore them because we are better than they. Better individuals... a better nation. We have morals. We have scruples.
We don’t turn our backs on our allies, like Spain does.
We don’t allow innocent nations to be occupied, like Spain does.
We don’t allow our Defense Department to declare our alliance dead, like Spain does.
The United States should never stoop to the level of the Spanish. Even after turning their backs on their oldest allies, Spain is declaring their new alliance dead, and calling out their own militias for not dealing enough damage. We may have our own internal issues, but no one has ever said that our militias don’t deal enough damage.
We are the United States of America.
And we have to stand for something.
Otherwise, we’ll fall for anything.
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In other news, President A^2 has agreed to an MPP with eCyprus. All eAmericans should be very thankful for our continued relationship with these allies. eRepublik would not be the game it is without eCyprus.
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Keep clicking fight,
Gnilraps
White House Press Secretary
Comments
Wake me up when Spain matters...
/me snores.
Voted.
/me draws on Gnilraps face while he's asleep.
Liberate eNL 😃 o/
Vote
/me giggles because of the drawings on Gnilraps face
I entered the high roller contest. I got nothing in return. Big govt be stealing my monies. >_>
Shino336- It was made clear most would not win, you were giving to a good cause. There stealing nothing.
this article took me 4 hours to read because I fell asleep in the middle of it
Spain? Really? HOW EXCITING!
jkli5: Actually, everyone got something. I didn't get anything either.
The prizes are probably not distributed yet.
Lol@Shino.
I won 10 Rifles, and got about half my money back. Which isn't bad. Still haven't received them, but oh well 😃
@ Shino and everyone, Distribution is not yet complete. NOBODY GETTING RIPPED OFF... pleeeezze
/me shaves off one of gnilraps' eyebrows while he dozes
HAIL USA
HAIL TEDEN
lol and lulz do you really think that we are worried about USA??? xDDDDDDDDDD
jkli5: Lol, I know. I just thought that the winning article where the results were posted meant everything had been distributed. Thus, I thought these were like war bonds. Where I never end up getting what I signed up for. 😁 Thanks for the clarification Gnil.
Voted.
Spain: FOREVER SURROUNDED
Love from ePortugal o7
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9696/spainalone.jpg
So many words about us, I´m proud of you. Btw, we did conquer you, we are still waiting for you. You have 50 regions, we have 17, it should be done fast, don´t you think?
We´ll be here
lol España
Qablo you have the math wrong.
You have fewer regions, therefore you will be faster.
Now continue trolling.
You never know, the next day those Double-Spaniards might start mass PM'ing American newbies and lure them into their conservative dystopias.
I tip my hat at the exquisite metaphor.
funny, coz, if i remember correctly, that same boring spain held much of the USA when USA was wiped out 🙂
and i cant remember it happening the other way round. at least, not recently.
anyhow... im glad to see USA's morale is up.
period before i left was marked with people being quite inactive and ,well, boring.
seems the last couple of terms brought some cool people under the spotlight. : )
Who's a good boy? who's a gooooood boy? yeees you are!
Needs moar Dio.
/me puts gnilraps' hand in warm water while he sleeps
You disgrace and dishonor the memory of James Brady by your persistent use of his name to smear me.
I am James Brady and I approve of this message.
my own "$300 Coffee Mug" promotion of the Grab Bags project netted $15,180 USD in clear profit, plus a bunch of food and a pinch of gold, for the Dept of Interior.
kudos to Kara Beth and Gnilraps for running this fundraiser.
cCc in ci we trust cCc
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voted o7
loooooool maximum
Voted
nice article 😉 Its time to take on the bully! Bring it on LOLland
What is a spain? Something edible?
I understand it's morale boosting article but quality of it's writing is still disturbing :/
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/argentina-choose--1863787/1/20
@Ronald Stevens
After we pretty much raped your country in the last war I would worry about the US if I was you.
Yet another cheezburger article about Spain (the center of your Universe), it must be like number 5896404 in the fatties' press.
Ahhh Spain, the country that brought doom to America, bursted their bubble, wiped them out and -during and after- didn't bother to write a single article about them or give a fuck about them.
Cos after all, USofA is Cheezburgerland. Irrelevant, fat and useless. Not to mention world's most cowardest country by far, the one that never dared a war against somewhat risky odds.
Pfff, Cheezburgerland, pieces of scum not even worth mentioning. Just keep on trying to win the Internet, fatties. Perhaps one day.