https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-book-flop-1847015
Greene's recently released book is ranking quite low in the list of Amazon's best-sellers.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 100k of books eith politcal donations, boom! You just got 30k, and you profit from any rube actually buying the book out in the world.
She's pissed off a lot of people in the party so they aren't helping her the way they would someone like Graham.
If those people knew their numbers or even knew what a venn diagram was, they would be unfathomably angry
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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
Yet, we're writing articles about it, posting about it, commenting on it. Exactly what this freak wants.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Watch her pivot to blaming either being cancelled, or the Jews running the media, taking that line to her fans that have never bought a book in their lives.
How do you even write a book when you have no idea what the inside of one even looks like? For all we know the inside of her book is hollowed out to hold a gun.
Step 1) Pay someone to write a book for you. Give them general notes about what you want in it, but they can come up with the details.
Step 2) Sell the book and (theoretically) get profits.
Optional Step 3) Pay your ghost writer. Hey, if you're following the Trump model, paying people for the work they do for you is optional.