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How will they rule ??!

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Putin laughing his ass off at this brain-dead administration giving up total energy self sufficiency...


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I pointed this out a few years ago when Jones magically got a book deal for a book no one wanted to read. Right about the time he decided not to run in the primary.

It's the exact same with all these weirdly rich book deals. No way their market research tells them it's worth that much advance.
Who is Jones?

Apparently, Cuomo got $4M deal for his "Leadership during the pandemic" book which was an astonishingly high number and at his peak, I think had only sold 45,000 copies. That was a vast improvement from his first book which he got a $700K advance. After five months of release, it had only sold 3,000 copies in hardback and 13 audiobooks.

NO freaking way are these boring ass books that aren't revealing in the slightest, getting a return to justify these book deals. Political books often sell badly (and are ghostwritten nearly all the time). How many warehouses just have these shitty books in them taking up space?

Here's an NYT article about the former

Baltimore mayor's $600K book deal being a sham.
Under normal circumstances, any author who raked in $600,000 for a series of self-published children’s books would be snapped up by a prestigious publisher and handed a lucrative multi-book deal.
But in the case of Baltimore’s former mayor Catherine Pugh, the sales were a sham. Most of the “Healthy Holly” books bought by local health care companies and the Baltimore school system were never distributed, and Pugh used the money to finance her political campaigns and renovate a house. (She pleaded guilty to federal crimes on Thursday.)

Politicians love to write books (whether readers finish them is another matter), and Pugh is hardly the first to come under scrutiny over hers. Here’s a look at some others who have.


Herman Cain and Palin also had deals where they used Super PAC money to buy their own books and give to donors.

The public is not reading these books at large. These are fluffed numbers by their own people who then circulate talking points to their media.
 
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How many politicians can actually drive a car anymore or does drive a car?

How messed up it it that we have a group that's located in a small D.C. and NYC bubble dictating literally everything? How insane is it that we have a system where we allow the elite to enrich themselves and rule us and "represent us" despite their huge disconnect from the reality of most of the country?

We allow these people who have never ran a business or had to budget to dictate policy.
These people don't give a crap about gas prices because they do not drive. They don't care about lockdowns as they keep getting paid and take bribes.

The whole system is a scam.
DC is Panem and the 50 states are the districts.
 
I pointed this out a few years ago when Jones magically got a book deal for a book noone wanted to read. Right about the time he decided not to run in the primary.

It's the exact same with all these weirdly rich book deals. No way their market research tells them it's worth that much advance.
The publishing game is completely f**** up. If you think dealing with politics is frustrating, whole-E-sheet, trying to get published with anything less than a liberal manifesto will make your brain explode.

The only way to get published as a first time author is to be famous to begin with, have an in with someone, or sell tons of self published works. That's it.
 
The US used to be the ones buying off countries. But then you conservative morons voted in Bush JR and we got the never ending ME wars that sucked all our money and focus away from anything but bombing Muslims. So China stepped in and completely bought out Africa and Asia.
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A glimpse into the future if things go sideways in this country.


The adviser for Interior Minister of Ukraine alleged that Mr Struk 'was judged by the court of the people's tribunal' and called him a 'traitor'.
 
Amish be pointing and laughing as they pass up the gas stations in their horse and buggies.
A horse and buggy (Old German Baptist...much like Amish except the Old German's have tractors on their farms, but no cars/radios/TVs, etc) go by our property 2-3 times a week. I've always kind of envied their simplistic lifestyle. Now with the price of gas...even more so.
 
Speaking of book deals...who remembers Jim Wright D-Tx speaker of the house? Of course I don't remember any criminal charges, etc.

'In 1988 Wright became the target of an inquiry by the House Ethics Committee. Their report in early 1989 implied that he had used bulk purchases of his book, Reflections of a Public Man, to earn speaking fees in excess of the allowed maximum, and that his wife, Betty, was given a job and perks to avoid the limit on gifts. Faced with an increasing loss of effectiveness, Wright tendered his resignation as Speaker on May 31, 1989, the resignation to become effective on the selection of a successor.[28] He was the first Speaker to resign because of a scandal.'
 
A glimpse into the future if things go sideways in this country.


The adviser for Interior Minister of Ukraine alleged that Mr Struk 'was judged by the court of the people's tribunal' and called him a 'traitor'.
Wow. I'm so jealous of the Ukrainians right now...
 
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Louisville media trying their best to gin up a riot over this verdict. Disgusting

Avoiding downtown for the next few days. But one of my coworkers is married to an officer that was LMPD when the Breonna Taylor thing went down. She said pretty much everyone on LMPD hates the guy and he showed up to the funeral for a fallen officer last month and said "he is lucky he got out alive". I was rather surprised by this but she was incredibly angry and so is her husband.
 
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Hey dipshit, how about worrying about the idiot we have NOW? Smh
You mean the guy who called Putin a souless killer and has rallied NATO and the world against Russia?
Or the guy calling Putin a genius and claiming to be the President of the United States even though he lost?
Which "President" are you talking about?
 
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You mean the guy who called Putin a souless killer and has rallied NATO and the world against Russia?
Or the guy calling Putin a genius and claiming to be the President of the United States even though he lost?
Which "President" are you talking about?
Yeah, the guy still importing Russian oil. The guy in charge of an economy with the worst inflation in 40 years. Record high gas prices. Yeah, that guy.
 
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