• Billiam
    link
    851 year ago

    What, the usual GOP modus operandi of “Launder Russian money by buying a shitload of these books to force them onto best-seller lists and then give them away at our klan rallies” isn’t happening now?

    • @AbidanYre
      link
      English
      351 year ago

      She may be dumb enough to think people were actually buying those books.

      • idunnololz
        link
        141 year ago

        If only her supporters could read 😔

        • @AbidanYre
          link
          English
          71 year ago

          If her supporters could read, they wouldn’t support her.

    • brothershamus
      link
      fedilink
      41 year ago

      Man web search is getting really bad. I can’t find where that happened and normally it would be pretty easy. Was that a Bush II-era thing or was that a Trump thing?

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        24
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        It’s a standard way to funnel campaign donations into your personal bank account. You negotiate a big percentage of each book sell with the publisher or self publish, have a ghost writer whip out a book, then use campaign money to buy the books to hand out at rallies.

        So you get a 30% cut of each sale and you buy 1mil of books with politcal donations, boom! You just got 300k, and you profit from any rube actually buying the book out in the world.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          31 year ago

          Just to add, there’s a reason the GOP and Conservatives are obsessed with the NY Times. I used to work in the Wall Street area, and all the top executives read it religiously. Every wannabe MBA reads it too.

      • Neato
        link
        fedilink
        21 year ago

        Same for search. If I’m trying to search for something that happened in the past and that person or subject has been in the news recently, that’s ALL I get. even using +/- and “” modifiers does nothing and gives me results without my specific search functions.

        • Billiam
          link
          31 year ago

          I have heard other users say that Google ignores those modifiers now, but I hadn’t seen anything from an official publication saying so. But it makes sense when you think about it- the faster you get your search results, the less time you spend looking at ads.

    • @Rakonat
      link
      English
      11 year ago

      She’s pissed off a lot of people in the party so they aren’t helping her the way they would someone like Graham.

  • @Jimmyeatsausage
    link
    661 year ago

    The Venn diagram of people who read and people who care about MTG is an “8”

    • @Why9
      link
      61 year ago

      If those people knew their numbers or even knew what a venn diagram was, they would be unfathomably angry

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        21 year ago

        well if they knew what a Venn diagram was, they’d know such a diagram with no intersections is a Euler diagram not a Venn diagram.

        • @Jimmyeatsausage
          link
          31 year ago

          Incorrect sir/madam! I’ll start by thanking you for making me look this up and question my own assumption about the world. In fact, a venn diagram is any diagram that shows all possibilities in a set where a euler diagram shows only relevant relationships. So, for this example, the venn diagram would be 2 circles with no overlap because there is no relationship, but all members of the aet must be represented. The Euler diagram of the same could, arguably, be null or blank as there is no relevant relationship to display. Though, I imagine it’s also correct enough to use the terms interchangeably in a diagram where the relevant relationship is an empty set.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            21 year ago

            “shows all possibilities in a set”

            fwiw, I’m only jokingly being a pedant, but a Venn shows all relationships not all possibilities — therefore a diagram with no relationships would not be a Venn.

    • @surewhynotlem
      link
      31 year ago

      The venn diagram of people who read and people who care about MTG is boobs

  • @BustinJiber
    link
    571 year ago
    1. Tell everyone reading books is bad.
    2. Write a book.
    3. Profit.
      • TechyDad
        link
        131 year ago

        She forgot step 2a) Have some political action committees purchase thousands of copies of your book to make it appear on bestseller lists despite few actual humans buying copies.

  • @Meltrax
    link
    401 year ago

    She can read?

    She can write??

      • @Gott
        link
        301 year ago

        Their lack of literacy would explain the poor sales numbers.

        • Introversion
          link
          fedilink
          51 year ago

          You’d think they’d be stocking up on burnables for winter, though?

    • @Rakonat
      link
      English
      141 year ago

      Normally all of these books are straight trash but GOP PACs buys up thousands of copies to get them on best seller lists. Greene seemingly doesn’t have support of a competent PAC that knows how to grift. So while on the surface this makes her look out of touch, reading deeper the low sales also mean her support from the party is thinner than her resume.

      • Queen HawlSera
        link
        fedilink
        English
        21 year ago

        That’s a good point, all these “Best Sellers” yet I don’t know anyone who actually reads outside of the people who make reading books their whole personality.

        Which is extra sad for me beacuse I’m a writer

  • @quinkin
    link
    271 year ago

    She can read and write?

  • Tedesche
    link
    English
    201 year ago

    Good. Now stop giving it free advertising by writing about it in your publication!

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    181 year ago

    Yet, we’re writing articles about it, posting about it, commenting on it. Exactly what this freak wants.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    181 year ago

    ranking 9,735 among its best-selling books as of Monday, November 27

    I watched a TikTok over the weekend by an author who was ranked 87th (83rd? Somewhere in the 80’s) on Amazon bestsellers and she dished that the number of books including pre-orders that she sold her first week to attain that rank: 650 copies.

    Now maybe this is the rank on the annual or overall bestselling list where you would expect a recent release to rank poorly (in which case, awful journalism to pick a meaningless stat to manipulate the message - I don’t care if we do happen to align politically, don’t do that shit), but if that is the weekly list, those 8 reviews she got might be the total number of sales.

    • @morphballganon
      link
      31 year ago

      Buying books they don’t read is par for the course for them.

  • @thorbot
    link
    151 year ago

    I’m impressed they were able to teach a monkey how to write at all

    • @tburkhol
      link
      271 year ago

      Just because she’s the author, doesn’t mean she wrote it.

      Like “Trump’s” Art of the Deal: when you’re a celebrity, you can slap your name on any ghostwritten/AI-generated bullshit and get some sales. Guess MTG is not the celebrity she thinks she is.

      • mephiska
        link
        fedilink
        11
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        I always figured these politician written books were just another way to funnel campaign money into their own pockets. Campaign or associated big donors & PACs buy thousands of copies of the books with campaign money. She must not have as much support as she though and her own campaign might be cash strapped.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    111 year ago

    I heard it was a self published coloring book highlighting the various forms of VD this trollop collected while working the glory holes around DC.

    • @15liam20
      link
      41 year ago

      Sounds heavy on the brown.

      • @ExfilBravo
        link
        31 year ago

        He likes to be called “Dark Sienna”