Fu*%face Von Clownstick

"Selling" books is a sham.

Little of the money goes through a cash register like a brick store front. They books are a phony way to raise campaign money or to pay for their life style. Many will be 'best sellers' because cronies buy them by the pallet from printers. Those pallets of books go right from the printer to the book pulper to be recycled as twelve pack boxes. Never to end up in anyone's hands to be dog eared or find that important passages are highlighted.

Look at the selling price of these books. They are super inflated in a contrived way to make the money raising a dodge around campaign fundraising.

Carl Hiassen has been contracted, well, contacted anyway, to ghost write my story. Some of my Treebuzz buddies will be quoted on the jacket and shill for me on Colbert.
 
Tom Dunlap said:
"Selling" books is a sham.

Little of the money goes through a cash register like a brick store front. They books are a phony way to raise campaign money or to pay for their life style. Many will be 'best sellers' because cronies buy them by the pallet from printers. Those pallets of books go right from the printer to the book pulper to be recycled as twelve pack boxes. Never to end up in anyone's hands to be dog eared or find that important passages are highlighted.

Look at the selling price of these books. They are super inflated in a contrived way to make the money raising a dodge around campaign fundraising.

Carl Hiassen has been contracted, well, contacted anyway, to ghost write my story. Some of my Treebuzz buddies will be quoted on the jacket and shill for me on Colbert.
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There was an article (3-4 years ago) on how they can use campaign funds to purchase their own books, and it is legal to do. Found it.
www.forbes.com

Senators Use Campaign-Donor Money To Buy Their Own Books

Tom Cotton, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth and others seem to be snapping up their own books using money that donors gave to support their political campaigns.
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
Makes you wonder just how much of what you donate to a politician's campaign actually goes to campaigning. The Duck is spending all his donated campaign money on his legal defense bills. Not going to spend his own money when he can spend his sheep's money on million-dollar expert witnesses that fail miserably on the stand, and lawyers who don't know their way around a courtroom. But, I am all for that one. Spend away! Shear them sheep!
 
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Shadowscape said:
There was an article (3-4 years ago) on how they can use campaign funds to purchase their own books, and it is legal to do. Found it.
www.forbes.com

Senators Use Campaign-Donor Money To Buy Their Own Books

Tom Cotton, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth and others seem to be snapping up their own books using money that donors gave to support their political campaigns.
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
Makes you wonder just how much of what you donate to a politician's campaign actually goes to campaigning. The Duck is spending all his donated campaign money on his legal defense bills. Not going to spend his own money when he can spend his sheep's money on million-dollar expert witnesses that fail miserably on the stand, and lawyers who don't know their way around a courtroom. But, I am all for that one. Spend away! Shear them sheep!
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Using campaign donations to buy your own books?!? How is that not embezzling!?!?
 
Shadowscape said:
Quality source of information you post there from a very conservative outlet.
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I had never heard of the Washington Times. It popped up first in the Google machine. But
I gotta think they’re still a step above MSNBC or CNN if we’re judging bias/credibility as a news organization. ;)

FWIW the same Monmouth poll was cited by Fox News, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News among others. I’ll spare you the screenshots. Point is, his numbers aren’t great. So now I’m confused. Because @rico tells me we’re living the dream; it’s the roaring 20’s all over again, milk and honey everywhere- including his pecan tortilla.

Problem is my damn lying eyes and ears. I haven’t met a single person in recent memory who has anything good to say about the economy. No one- and we work for customers of all backgrounds and income levels. No one thinks things are good because they aren’t. No one is talking about how easy it is this year to buy Christmas presents. Because it’s hard. You get the point. My theory is that people vote their experience. They trust their gut and their eyes more than any article in the NYT about how everything really is great- when food and rent are about all you can muster.

If and when people vote for Trump it has little to do with the man. He is simply a GIANT middle finger to the people currently presiding over our obvious and precipitous decline. He’s just a symbol. A wrecking ball for an elite administrative class that should have been condemned years ago.
 
Sounds brutal. Hasn't it been tough sledding in the Midwest for a long time though? Things are pretty flourishing where I am. It's slowed and changed a bit for me but I think that's the post covid low. Generally though the juice is flowing.
 
Yea, the economy is looking pretty great around here. Folks are building bigger crews and buying tons of equipment. Everyone is starting entry level, as well as low skill jobs, higher than state minimum wage. I can't think of anyone around here other than the big farms that use undocumented workers, though they use a lot. They're building sooooo many entire neighborhoods for 1000's of people who seem to fill them up as fast as they get built. Next time you hear a bunch of bellyaching about the economy, tell them that if they don't like it, they can move to California, or Colorado, or whatever.
 
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Bucknut said:
I had never heard of the Washington Times. It popped up first in the Google machine. But
I gotta think they’re still a step above MSNBC or CNN if we’re judging bias/credibility as a news organization. ;)

FWIW the same Monmouth poll was cited by Fox News, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News among others. I’ll spare you the screenshots. Point is, his numbers aren’t great. So now I’m confused. Because @rico tells me we’re living the dream; it’s the roaring 20’s all over again, milk and honey everywhere- including his pecan tortilla.

Problem is my damn lying eyes and ears. I haven’t met a single person in recent memory who has anything good to say about the economy. No one- and we work for customers of all backgrounds and income levels. No one thinks things are good because they aren’t. No one is talking about how easy it is this year to buy Christmas presents. Because it’s hard. You get the point. My theory is that people vote their experience. They trust their gut and their eyes more than any article in the NYT about how everything really is great- when food and rent are about all you can muster.

If and when people vote for Trump it has little to do with the man. He is simply a GIANT middle finger to the people currently presiding over our obvious and precipitous decline. He’s just a symbol. A wrecking ball for an elite administrative class that should have been condemned years ago.
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So Trump, the man who inherited nearly Half A Billion Dollars from daddy dearest is gonna be a wrecking ball to the elites? Fucking priceless bro.

And as much as you want it to be so, the narrative in your head can never change reality.

unemployment rate when Donny left office - 6.3%
current unemployment rate under Biden - 3.7%

Jobs created during Trump presidency - net loss of nearly 3 million jobs
Jobs created during Biden presidency - nearly 14 million so far.

The GDP grew by 1% during the Trump presidency, which is the slowest growth in modern history (since WW2).

3 million less Americans had health insurance under Trump

Federal debt increased by almost 7 trillion dollars under Trump

That my friend is what a failed presidency and an unmitigated economic disaster looks like. Thanks for nothin’ Donny.
 
Shadowscape said:
Why is The Duck now trying to take credit for Biden's economy?
Food for thought.
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The fact that Donny is trying to take credit for our current economic numbers speaks volumes, and is an admission that the economy is growing under the Biden administration. Donny better be very careful though, because his brain dead cult members might start believing that the economy is in fact progressing and getting better.
 
Matias said:
Yea, the economy is looking pretty great around here. Folks are building bigger crews and buying tons of equipment. Everyone is starting entry level, as well as low skill jobs, higher than state minimum wage. I can't think of anyone around here other than the big farms that use undocumented workers, though they use a lot. They're building sooooo many entire neighborhoods for 1000's of people who seem to fill them up as fast as they get built. Next time you hear a bunch of bellyaching about the economy, tell them that if they don't like it, they can move to California, or Colorado, or whatever.
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I’m not sure which Ohio @Bucknut is living in where it’s all doom and gloom and the economic sky is falling, but the real Ohio here In Merica currently has an unemployment rate of 3.6%, and a Real GDP growth of nearly 2% thus for in 2023. Again nothing earth shatterin, but progress
 
The Colorado supreme court just declared him ineligible to be on the 2024 ballot in that state based on the 14th amendment, which I was genuinely not expecting to happen. Has two weeks to appeal until the state's deadline for candidates to be on the primary ballot. The US supreme court could also weigh in to vacate the state court's ruling so.. I give it 50/50 I guess
 
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The Colorado supreme court just declared him ineligible to be on the 2024 ballot in that state based on the 14th amendment, which I was genuinely not expecting to happen. Has two weeks to appeal until the state's deadline for candidates to be on the primary ballot. The US supreme court could also weigh in to vacate the state court's ruling so.. I give it 50/50 I g
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this is very good news…
 
If they can't stop Trump through these legal proceedings, and it looks like he will beat Biden in an election, it seems likely that they will find some pretext, war, terror attack, or pandemic, to cancel the election alltogether.

Would you support the canceling of the election to save the democracy from the threat to it that a second Trump presidency would pose?

I think many here would.
 
Order was stayed by the same court that issued it. Nothing changes until Jan 4.

Colorado Supreme Court is comprised of 7 Dems and the vote was still 4-3. Make of that what you will.

Fascinating that in order to “save our democracy” one side refuses to simply let us vote. Ah yes, that purest and most elusive form of democracy: distant unelected lawyers get to decide which candidates are suitable to appear on the peasants’ ballots.

This should end well.
 
Bucknut said:
Order was stayed by the same court that issued it. Nothing changes until Jan 4.

Colorado Supreme Court is comprised of 7 Dems and the vote was still 4-3. Make of that what you will.

Fascinating that in order to “save our democracy” one side refuses to simply let us vote. Ah yes, that purest and most elusive form of democracy: distant unelected lawyers get to decide which candidates are suitable to appear on the peasants’ ballots.

This should end well.
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For a few minutes earlier I thought maybe you were absorbing some facts and pausing to think about them. Then these two box of rocks showed up and you chucked that all aside and jumped back on the idiot wagon. ***sigh**
 
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