How A Guy With No Writing Skills Makes The Best Seller List.
Many of you have heard about Dan Crenshaw, Republican congressvarmint near the Houston area. He’s the new rising star in the GOP. And, seriously now, it’s because he’s handsome and has an eye patch from a war injury serving as a seal. Personally he’s pretty much of a dick.
Right now, his big thing is that the United States should be able to sue China for giving us the Coronavirus. Yeah well, I hope the American Indians get a good lawyer.
Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen took notice of this a few days ago. There was an expenditure of close to $250,000 from the National Republican Congressional Committee for books. Alfredo and I wondered who they were trying to put on the best seller list.
Today, we found out. Dan Crenshaw. They used his book to raise money for them and give him the royalties and the fame.
A PARTY OFFICIAL said the promotion raised the NRCC $1.5 million. A campaign filing made public Wednesday showed $240,800 of these purchases from Politics and Prose. The party official told us the remainder of the purchases totalling $394,800 will appear on the next campaign finance filing.
So that’s close to $400,000 toward royalties for Crenshaw. Nice.
And then oh Lord, Trump adds to the jackpot by tweeting about Crenshaw’s book.
… followed by a big ole gigantic picture of Crenshaw’s book. And of course Trump can order his followers to buy the book because Office Government Ethics rules prohibiting federal employees from endorsing commercial products don’t apply to him and never have. It must be helpful to be able to bribe Members of Congress by tweet.
And let’s hope Crenshaw donates all of the royalties on the sale of those books to charity to avoid converting campaign funds to personal use. ‘Cuz he’s supposed to.
So go ahead and order yourself a copy of Crenshaw’s book. You can eat a bowl of cereal and read his book one evening and go to bed with nothing on your stomach and nothing on your mind.
“Faux Outrage” would be a good title for any book ghostwritten for Republicon wingnuts. It would save the rest of the time and trouble of sorting through books to read and whatever nonsense the crazies are accumulating between two covers to raise money for terrorist candidates.
Throw Dan a fish.
1Ah Yes, the man in the Hathaway shirt from waay back, replete with eye patch.
Here is another take on the theme with both eyeballs, featuring Brad Parscale except in a dimmer light but still cashing in and making the Morbid Mango look like a old TV has-been.
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Raw Story May 21, 2020
Edit: Lincoln Project’s new ad mocks Trump for letting his Ferrari-driving campaign chief get rich at his expense
Edit: A new ad from the anti-Trump Republicans at Project Lincoln mocks President Donald Trump for letting campaign chief Brad Parscale get rich at his expense.
“Brad is getting rich. How rich? Really rich,” the ad begins and then goes on to list all of the things Parscale has bought with the money he’s made from running Trump’s campaign.
“Don’t tell Donald — he’d wonder how Brad can afford so much,” the ad continues. “A $2.4 million waterfront house in Fort Lauderdale. Two Florida condos worth almost $1 million each. He even has his very own yacht, a gorgeous Ferrari, a sleek Range Rover.”
Watch video:
2https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/watch-lincoln-projects-new-ad-mocks-trump-for-letting-his-ferrari-driving-campaign-chief-get-rich-at-his-expense/
As a Vietnam vet (drafted), I find these Rambo-wannabe’s disgusting and odious. Note Venezuela with these two captured idiots right now. Oh, frickin’ please! (Buy a video game, idiots)
3I saw him interviewed on Bill Maher a while back and because Maher knows nothing about Texas, Crenshaw just slimed his way through the interview.Hes probably a good match for his constituents!
4@Grandma Ada: #4,
I thought Crenshaw was at least articulate, and had more than half a brain. I didn’t agree with him, but he was able to say stuff I would at least try to refute; rather than simply rolling my eyes and shaking my head at not wanting to feed the troll…
5Ugh. Unfortunately I’m one of Crenshaw’s not-by-my-vote constituents. Earlier this year I started receiving paid for by taxpayers email, formatted to look like a letter with his formal congressional letterhead. As I have never contacted his campaign or office, much less to say him personally, I haven’t a clue how his campaign/office got my personal email address. But it’s unnerving. However, here’s the kick. The address is for a former residence from which I moved in 2017. More than a year before he was elected in 2018! The former residence is now vacant and abandoned (thanks slumlords). I absolutely hate to see our tax dollars go to waste but if his incompetent office/campaign staff can’t be bothered to check the voter rolls for his own district and they’re sending his campaign mail-outs to an invalid address, it’s no skin off my nose. Crenshaw’s not near as clever as he puffs hisownself up to be. My end of this wildly gerrymandered district is fairly blue but the larger part of it isn’t so he’ll probably be easily re-elected.
6Don’t forget how Hitler made his money. He wrote an awful screed (Mein Kampf) while in prison for trying to launch a revolution from a Munich beer hall. The Nazi party literally bought millions of copies and made every member purchase one. Industrialists and businessmen who wanted some muscle to break strikes and stop union organizers found all they had to do was buy enough copies of the book, and like magic thugs would make their opponents disappear into jails, concentration camps, hospitals, or cemetaries.
The second big money maker for Hitler was putting his picture on postage stamps, and the German post office had to pay a fee for that privilege. Here’s my prediction: if Trump succeeds in breaking the USPO, the company that gets to take it over will have nothing but stamps with Trump, his disgusting get, and his hotels featured on them. And they’ll have to pay 50% of the cost of each stamp to him for the honor of using his image.
OK, I just disgusted myself. Gotta go out and buy a bunch of “forever stamps” and hope they’re still accepted when the USPO becomes Jared and Ivanka’s Premium Delivery Company.
7@ #6 yet another baby boomer: Make sure you check your voter registration to make sure they have your current address. Wouldn’t surprise me if Republicans try sending letters to an old address, then try and void people’s voter registration -if they think you’re not MAGA enough.
8The joke is on them. Politics and Prose is one of them liberal bookstores.
9My first thought: When did Russell Crowe lose an eye?
My second: Who did the actual writing?
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