Kamala Harris To Be Offered $20 Million in a Media Payoff Disguised as an "Advance" on Book Royalties<br>Plus: Media Makes Excuses for Covering Up Biden's Obvious Senility

Kamala Harris To Be Offered $20 Million in a Media Payoff Disguised as an "Advance" on Book Royalties
Plus: Media Makes Excuses for Covering Up Biden's Obvious Senility

At Victory Girls, as reported by the Daily Mail, another corrupt media company will offer Kamala Harris a $20 million bribe in the form of a "book advance" for royalties they know she'll never, ever earn.

Kamala Harris, who bizarrely blew through a record $1.5billion on her failed presidential campaign, may soon earn some big-bucks payback.
Top publishers, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively, are willing to pay the soon-to-be former vice president and twice-failed Democratic presidential hopeful a whopping advance of as much as $20million for an inside look at President Joe Biden's, 82, White House and presidential campaign tell-all.
According to a Kamala insider: 'Virtually the moment Kamala lost to Trump, the offers began pouring in from the publishing world for her to do the definitive book on what really went on between Joe and Kamala -- what went right and what went wrong -- inside the Oval Office walls, and all the ups and downs of her campaign.
'They are throwing around advance numbers in the $20million range, maybe more with other publishing rights.'
...
A prominent executive at one of New York's top liberal-leaning publishing houses told DailyMail.com: 'More than anyone in the Biden White House, Kamala as the number two, and then as Joe Biden's campaign successor after he dropped out of the race, knows all the secrets, knows where all the skeletons are buried.
'She was there from the beginning of the administration and participated in all the presidential decisions, right or wrong. She's the one who can tell the consummate story.

Sure, sure. She'll "tell all." Sure.

These outsized "advances" for leftwing politicians are simply bribes. An advance is just the royalties you would collect in the future, but paid in advance. It's literally an advance on expected future royalties.

But no one, and I mean no one, expects Kamala Harris's book to earn $20 million in royalties. She'd make about 10% per book in royalties, so a $20 book would earn her $2. She'd have to sell ten million books to make $20 million royalty.

She won't. She'll struggle to make a one million dollar royalty.

This is not a payment, this is a pay-off. Remember, she still intends to run for office. There is no way to pay off a politician legally for future favors -- except through these corrupt "book deal" payoff operations.

All politicians should be required to only take real royalties for their book deals. No "advances" which are completely divorced from reality. They can earn for their books, but they should earn what they actually earn, not what a multibillion dollar media conglomerate with business before the government thinks they might be worth as a paid operative.

Unrelated: Former CNN Thumb Chris Cillizza admits he is a weakling and coward who can easily be bullied by more aggressive people. That's why, he says, he refused to report on Biden's obvious mental decline.

The White House worked to make him "feel bad" about any reporting on this, the admitted beta male follower cuck says to excuse himself of responsibility.

"Republicans would regularly ping me and say 'Why don't you ask more questions about Joe Biden and how he's doing? He's 76, 77, 78-year-old man,'" Cillizza said. He continued, "And I would sort of brush them off because what I would say is 'Well, there's no obvious evidence that he's declining. He moves a little slower. He talks a little slower but there's no evidence that he's declining.'
"And the White House and the people around Joe Biden were absolutely adamant that suggesting anything...asking the question about whether he was in some physical, mental or both decline was offensive. 'How could you?! It's age shaming.' And I think impacted me at some level. Because while I did ask the question from time to time...I didn't really push on it if I'm being honest."
A bit later he returned to this adding, "There was a shame factor that went into that. People around Biden worked to make you feel bad when you asked whether he was up to the job of being president, running for president again and serving for another four years...And they did a very good job, until they couldn't any more, of hiding it."
Two points here. First, I guarantee you that there are 50 or 100 other DC reporters who could all tell this same story. All of them were cowed by the White House for years. That's obvious in retrospect. Few wanted to risk their access to the exclusive club by stating what was increasingly evident to everyone. That was especially true given that the right had taken up the issue. No media person wants to agree with them. It's career suicide to take anything the right says seriously.

More at Sexton's article. He points out that Cillizza says that the Trump debate showed everyone that Biden had "good days and bad days," but Sexton wants to know: What "bad days" did Biden have that we didn't see on video? Did he have a "bad day" when he sleepwalked through the Afghanistan bug-out debacle, for example?

We'll never know, because reporters never bothered themselves about it. They just kept repeating the mantra that when the cameras were not running, Joe Biden was performing Chinese Kung Fu Human Pyramid Attacks like he was one of the Five Deadly Venoms.*

Scott Adams made the point that Cillizza pretends that the only reportage he could do was asking questions of the White House staff. Because the White House staff would not admit Biden's obvious senility, he could do no stories about it.

Are we pretending the only way reporters could know Biden was incompetent is by asking his staff?

We observed his incompetence since 2019. https://t.co/M95N5NLVmW
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 20, 2024

But everyone on the right could report this without an admission by the White House, because we could see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears. Cillizza is claiming that a reporter cannot report anything he sees himself, unless a high ranking member of the Democrat Cult confirms the report of his own eyes officially.

This says a lot. This tells you what the media's idea of "confirmed story" vs. "conspiracy theory" is: A "confirmed story" is one a Democrat endorses. If no Democrat endorses it, it's a "conspiracy theory."

All claims that hurt Democrats are disinformation and conspiracy theories until they are so obvious to everyone that the media is forced to admit them. Here's "reporter" Nancy LeTourneau of the Washington Monty informing you that all of your impressions that Biden is frail and incoherent and protected in a Basement Bubble is just "disinfofmation:"

🔥VDH just unleashed on legacy media, the Obamas and the Democrat hierarchy for lying abut Joe Biden’s cognitive state for four years:

"This was the greatest presidential fraud and deception since Woodrow Wilson had a stroke in 1919, and Edith Wilson kept that from the American… pic.twitter.com/3KsUCURE1T
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 20, 2024

* Actually that wasn't in the Five Deadly Venoms, but I know I saw a Shaw Brothers movie (or that type of movie) featuring kung fu artists assembling into human pyramids to fight as some kind of Ninja Voltron. Anyone remember what that movie was? Maybe a sequel to Five Deadly Venoms.

Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM

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1 Offered $20 million for what exactly? To make her go away and not spills the beans on the coup to get rid of joe biden?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2024 04:21 PM (Rcnd3)

2 If Hunter's paintings are worth $500k, why shouldn't she get a million per book sold?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (pIfcn)

3 Read the content like a sucker.

Good content though.

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (yf7Pm)

4 They pay for access and favors

Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (KQk9m)

5 Just got back after two hours away reading David Sandals story and I see that while gone, Ace posted whole thread about it.
Great read. And I could a been first except this took this long to poke out.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (4780s)

6 Called the Corgis. Or whatever the cool kids say nowadays.

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (yf7Pm)

7 So, an establishment friendly industry is handing 8 figures over to Kamala for a book that will get prominent media play in a year or so.

I guess this is evidence that the establishment hates Kamala and wants her to just go away.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

8 Offered $20 million for what exactly? To make her go away and not spills the beans on the coup to get rid of joe biden?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2024 04:21 PM (Rcnd3)

Two members of the British Royal Family wondered what color her children would be. No, wait, that was a different, nominally female, waste of space.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (ExV1e)

9 That's pretty SOP. Barry got it, Big Mike got it, Hillary got it. The fun part is when the NEA orders multiple truckloads to pump up the numbers.

Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (14URa)

10 We observed his incompetence since 2019.

2019? Oh, it was waaaaaaaayyyyyy before 2019, Scott.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (sAmhv)

11 "He moves a little slower. He talks a little slower but there's no evidence that he's declining."

No evidence, except that he moves and talks slower.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (VGRuw)

12 $20 million? I foresee a very, very angry Dr. Jill.

Posted by: EveR at December 20, 2024 04:24 PM (MUpk6)

13 The fun part is when the NEA orders multiple truckloads to pump up the numbers.
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (14URa)

And an African village will use them to build huts.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:24 PM (ExV1e)

14 From the last thread: I guess we're getting more Snake Surprise from Johnson?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at December 20, 2024 04:24 PM (gHSfI)

15 There is no way to pay off a politician legally for future favors -- except through these corrupt "book deal" payoff operations.

Ahem

Posted by: fat university "speaking fees" at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (xesY+)

16 The politicians don’t even write anything. The publisher hooks them up with a ghostwriter to do the real work. If the mob did this shit it would be illegal.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (ZKG7+)

17 And an African village will use them to build huts.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:24 PM (ExV1e)

And the rest will be on the bottom shelf over at the Dollar Tree.

Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (14URa)

18 16 The politicians don’t even write anything. The publisher hooks them up with a ghostwriter to do the real work. If the mob did this shit it would be illegal.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (ZKG7+)

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The ghostwriter will make $150. They will mostly use ChatGPT.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

19 Finally!

America will finally have an idea how many times Biden publically shit himself.

I bet 5!

Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (jvJvP)

20 There were no comments when I got to the bottom.'

Stupid stupid stupid.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (aD39U)

21 The fun part is when the NEA orders multiple truckloads to pump up the numbers.
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (14URa)

And an African village will use them to build huts.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:24 PM (ExV1e)

I'd rather see FEMA use them to build temporary shelters in the Carolinas.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (VNX3d)

22 "Media Makes Excuses for Covering Up Biden's Obvious Senility"

And these tools can still sit in front of a camera scratching their heads wondering why they are considered irrelevant now.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (N39Ws)

23 The money is coming from someplace. Doubtful it's actually the publisher.

Where, and perhaps more importantly, how do they hide the trail?

Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (i0F8b)

24 The ghostwriter will make $150. They will mostly use ChatGPT.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

Chapter 1: I was born in a middle class family.
Chapter 2: Lawncare.
Chapter 3: Venn diagrams and me. A love story.
Chapter 4: Discovering what has been.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (ExV1e)

25 ...Kamala as the number two,

Well, they got that right.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (W/lyH)

26 I hope it's a book on tape so we can hear the cackles.

Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (v0R5T)

27 Kamala Harris To Be Offered $20 Million in a Media Payoff Disguised as an "Advance" on Book Royalties
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Advance on royalties?? I'm setting the over/under on the total royalties on her "book" at $20, so they'll be just $19,999,980 short of recouping the advance.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (YqDXo)

28 Now I want to see the Five Deadly Venoms!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (wyMQY)

29 Cillizza is the Thumb… Maddow is the Cashew… we have more appendages and plants on the Left, surely…..

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (PCK5/)

30 Subpoena all the financial documents of the publisher.

Find out where that $20 million actually came from.

Prosecute everyone and their dog who's involved in this shit for money laundering. RICO their asses until they whistle dixie.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (VoAdT)

31 Chapter 1: I was born in a middle class family.
Chapter 2: Lawncare.
Chapter 3: Venn diagrams and me. A love story.
Chapter 4: Discovering what has been.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (ExV1e)
_____________
Chapter 5: Appreciating the significance of the passage of time.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (YqDXo)

32 I wonder when these elite reporters will get around to figuring out the 2020 election was stolen? That should be some groundbreaking news.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (LkLld)

33 25 ...Kamala as the number two,

Well, they got that right.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (W/lyH)

Fluffer??

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (PCK5/)

34 Now I want to see the Five Deadly Venoms!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (wyMQY)

Two more than the Three Storms.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:30 PM (aD39U)

35 At least neither she nor her husband will have to get actual jobs. Don't we owe them that for their years of public service??

Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:30 PM (14URa)

36 Isn't $20million one of the Kamala campaign's unpaid bills?

Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:30 PM (i0F8b)

37 The money is coming from someplace. Doubtful it's actually the publisher.

Where, and perhaps more importantly, how do they hide the trail?
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (i0F8b)

It's no secret. Let's say you write a book. It sells 1 million copies. That's $900M. The bookseller gets $100M. The publisher gets $100M. It costs $10M to produce. You get $20K. The rest is a slush fund for political payout.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:30 PM (ExV1e)

38 >>>28 Now I want to see the Five Deadly Venoms!

it's not in that, though. I thought it was, but I watched it, and-- no human pyramids.

Like I said, it may be a sequel, because I remember it as the Five Deadly Venoms. But it's not.

I just don't want you to be as disappointed as I was.

Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 04:30 PM (KRtlO)

39 Pam Bondi should investigate this obvious payoff.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (fs1hN)

40 She won't. She'll struggle to make a one million dollar royalty.

Normal authors have to pay their advances back if their books don't sell.

Only politicians get guaranteed advances that they don't have to pay back.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (uxCna)

41 Chapter 1: I was born in a middle class family.
Chapter 2: Lawncare.
Chapter 3: Venn diagrams and me. A love story.
Chapter 4: Discovering what has been.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (ExV1e)

Chapter 5: Fight! Fight! Fight!
Chapter 6: Favorite Drink Recipes!
Chapter 7: Oral Sex Secrets Women's Magazines Never Mentioned.

Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (jvJvP)

42 Chapter 5: Appreciating the significance of the passage of time.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (YqDXo)

Chapter 6: Just fell out of the coconut tree.

Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (14URa)

43 Ace, have you seen this?? Best economy ever my ass.

Big Lots plans to close all stores: See full list of locations around the US
Story by Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY

https://tinyurl.com/mtpw99e2

Party City closing all stores
Story by Emmy Abbassi and Jordan Valinsky, CNN

https://tinyurl.com/5emxk9t2

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (jHelr)

44 the Five Deadly Venoms has one of them, like Scorpion or Toad, running up the walls and across the sequel. Confusingly, it wasn't Spider.

but no human pyramids.

Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (KRtlO)

45 Chapter 5: Appreciating the significance of the passage of time.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
......

Chapter 6: My neck wattle journey

Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (v0R5T)

46 I hope it's a book on tape so we can hear the cackles.
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (v0R5T)

It will get a Grammy for best spoken word book.

I keep reading your hash as 'worst'.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (aD39U)

47 rick, I saw the party city one but not big lots.

Best economy in history, Fat.

Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (KRtlO)

48 Chapter 10: The MacDonald's Years.

Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (i0F8b)

49 Just imagine... it's entirely possible...

No one noticed how senile he had become because they all already knew the bastard from stinking up DC for half a fucking century, so they're all like "Yeah, he's a fucking dolt who can't even put his pants on without trained professional assistance. We already know this, what's the big deal?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (VoAdT)

50 The politicians don’t even write anything. The publisher hooks them up with a ghostwriter to do the real work. If the mob did this shit it would be illegal.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (ZKG7+)
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The publisher is on the phone to Bill Ayers even as we speak.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (YqDXo)

51 Normal authors have to pay their advances back if their books don't sell.

Only politicians get guaranteed advances that they don't have to pay back.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

heh

Posted by: B. Hussein Obama, who reneged on on original advance repayment, and stiffed his agent at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (xesY+)

52 This 20 million might actually be legit if the rest of the story is true, which is that these numbers are only being thrown around on the condition that she actually dishes on everything. If she told what she knows about Biden and who was running things, it would sell bigly.

But that would mean shivving a bunch of fellow dems and killing whatever prospect she (wrongly) thinks she has of future office. So it's the money for a tell all, or the Cal gov run. She can't have both.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (Dm8we)

53 47 rick, I saw the party city one but not big lots.

Best economy in history, Fat.

Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (KRtlO)

At least you will still be able to source shelving materials.

Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (14URa)

54 Chapter 8: Jailing blacks for profit!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (VNX3d)

55 i think the venoms were Snake, Toad, Scorpion, Spider, and.... one I forget. I think it was the least nasty poisonous creature, like a good-guy poison creature.

Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (KRtlO)

56 36 Isn't $20million one of the Kamala campaign's unpaid bills?
Posted by: davidt
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Could be. Maybe she's somehow paying herself from campaign funds? Soros to launder a payment via a 'white knight' to pay for the campaign 'debt'. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (fs1hN)

57 Nice "work" if you can get it. Or would that be "twerk"?

Posted by: pookysgirl would rather have time than money at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (dtlDP)

58 I hope she entitled the book "I Blew It."

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (rQHR5)

59 How do publishers stay in business? It has to be some kind of money laundering scheme.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (aD39U)

60 Chapter 5: Appreciating the significance of the passage of time.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
......

Chapter 6: My neck wattle journey

Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (v0R5T)
_______________

Chapter 7: How I learned to cackle
Chapter 8: Fellatio as a career booster

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (YqDXo)

61 Wikipedia says:

The five pupils are the Centipede, Snake, Scorpion, Lizard, and Toad.

No spider. I guess that's why spider didn't climb the walls.

Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

62 Hard to read her book with something in her mouth.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (hXd3r)

63 That'll buy a lot of scotch.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (/U5Yz)

64 Will there be a lot of blank pages in this book?

Posted by: dantesed at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (+arps)

65 Of course she will not write a single word of this book.. anyone here think she has any literary ability??

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (PCK5/)

66 Hey, it's not like Kamala's going to work for a living!

Posted by: tsj017 at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (xakWh)

67 Chapter 9: Outer space is above us.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (YqDXo)

68 I keep reading your hash as 'worst'.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (aD39U)
.......

Do you really have 39 ADU's on your property?

Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (v0R5T)

69 Publishing accounting must make movie accounting look honest.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (aD39U)

70 The ghostwriter will be Baby Groot (KJP).

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (rQHR5)

71 Chapter 7: How I learned to cackle
Chapter 8: Fellatio as a career booster
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (YqDXo)

Editor's note...

Chapter 7: Hillary, or How I Learned to Cackle

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (ExV1e)

72 Will the book come with complimentary kneepads?

Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (14URa)

73 67 Chapter 9: Outer space is above us.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (YqDXo)

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And below us, if you think about it, a postscript.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

74
Foreward

And that little girl was me, right Willie?

Posted by: Miklos, ed. at December 20, 2024 04:36 PM (xesY+)

75 Of course she will not write a single word of this book.. anyone here think she has any literary ability??

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (PCK5/)
______________

Maybe as a poet:

"Roses are red
Violets are blue
I lost the goddamned election
Boo freakin' hoo"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (YqDXo)

76 70 The ghostwriter will be Baby Groot (KJP).
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (rQHR5)

"Tell me what to write."

"Tell me what you want to write."

"Tell me what to write."

- fourteen hours later -

"Tell me what to write."

"Tell me what you want to write."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (VoAdT)

77
This is not a payment, this is a pay-off. Remember, she still intends to run for office. There is no way to pay off a politician legally for future favors -- except through these corrupt "book deal" payoff operations.

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I know these deals aren't straightforward or reflective of reality, but who's being paid off or bribed for what? I thought it was more like money laundering, especially with the Obamas.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (I87yH)

78 LMAO....how bad a candidate are you if they pay you $20 Million to disappear?

That's the only benefit to paying her. She's not going to spill juicy damaging items. She was too unattached to her job to actually be able to accumulate them. She's not going to mangle a going forward strategy. No one listens to her or takes her seriously. She's not going to take a hardline against any Leftist policies because she hasn't faintest idea how to accomplish that.

If I were going to pay $20 Million to her and I was a leftist. It would require that she switch to the Republican party and make an effort to become loudly involved in their acts. It's where she could do the most damage.

Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (dIske)

79 >>>70 The ghostwriter will be Baby Groot (KJP).

We've been very clear on all of our lies.

Posted by: Latrine John-Pissoir at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (KRtlO)

80 The ghostwriter will be Baby Groot (KJP).

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (rQHR5)
________________

With a foreword by Hank Johnson.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM (YqDXo)

81 "This is not a payment, this is a pay-off."

Oh, you dear sweet naive child.

The way it works is a corporation, or even a rich individual, approaches publishing house X and says "I think Kamala Harris biography is going to be a massive hit. Sell record amounts. In fact, I'll sign a contract right here and front you $20 million in exchange for 5% of the profits."

This is a private contract - nobody sees it but the lawyers.

Publishing house hires a ghostwriter - they get $30k. They sit down with Kamala and listen to her ramble for, I dunno, a week. They write the book. Book comes out and sells maybe 50,000 copies. Embarrassing low numbers. Easy answer, another "investor" swops in to buy 200,000 copies - enough to get it on the bestseller list. Copies go to local libraries or the landfill.

Why is that important? easy - the first "investor" then swops in and says "hey the book is selling so well, let's line up some travel for Kamala hawking her book. First class world travel, all expenses paid. basically, a giant vacation with maybe a couple of hours work here or there.
And at the end, the investor, who "lost" all this money writes it off on their taxes.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM (nLFEI)

82 I know these deals aren't straightforward or reflective of reality, but who's being paid off or bribed for what? I thought it was more like money laundering, especially with the Obamas.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (I87yH)

I guess it's more that it's a payoff to all the people she still owes $20 million to. Not really her, herself.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM (VoAdT)

83 Chapter 1: I was born in a middle class family.
Chapter 2: Lawncare.
Chapter 3: Venn diagrams and me. A love story.
Chapter 4: Discovering what has been.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (ExV1e)
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Chapter 5: Appreciating the significance of the passage of time.
Posted by: Deplorable

Chapter 6: Space is big, very, very big.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM (AXDbb)

84 How do publishers stay in business? It has to be some kind of money laundering scheme.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (aD39U)
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I think it works a lot like Hollywood. Publishers have a stable of "tentpole" authors that keep them afloat so they can speculate on lesser known authors (promoting a few to "tentpole" status if their works really take off) and pet projects.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM (BpYfr)

85 81 Publishing house hires a ghostwriter - they get $30k. They sit down with Kamala and listen to her ramble for, I dunno, a week. They write the book. Book comes out and sells maybe 50,000 copies. Embarrassing low numbers. Easy answer, another "investor" swops in to buy 200,000 copies - enough to get it on the bestseller list. Copies go to local libraries or the landfill.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM (nLFEI)

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The NYT admitted in court that its best seller list is completely untethered from sales numbers and is just editorial content.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

86 I would love to see a list of leftist politicians who got book deals. Then I want to see how much they were paid vs return on investment for the publishing house. This is legal money laundering being rubbed in our faces

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (DopAq)

87 The pitch:

"Okay, you've heard about a coffee table book about coffee tables, right? Now, how about a book about the whores in D.C written by an actual whore?"

Posted by: spongeworthy at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (CDWlY)

88 86 I would love to see a list of leftist politicians who got book deals. Then I want to see how much they were paid vs return on investment for the publishing house. This is legal money laundering being rubbed in our faces
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (DopAq)

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It's nothing compared to the speech circuit.

$250,000 or more for the biggest names for a 1 hour speech.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

89 "How I Blew It"

Posted by: Suggested title at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (vFG9F)

90 89 "How I Blew It"
Posted by: Suggested title at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (vFG9F)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

91 This has been a scam since U.S. Grant. But the scam has become ever more sophisticated. It's why the library is filled with racks of politicians writing their autobiographies. It's all payoffs.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (nLFEI)

92 And that little girl was me, right Willie?

Posted by: Miklos, ed. at December 20, 2024 04:36 PM (xesY+)
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As opposed to Obama's line: "And that little willie was mine."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (YqDXo)

93
Normal authors have to pay their advances back if their books don't sell.

Only politicians get guaranteed advances that they don't have to pay back.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

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Ehhhh, not true. They only have to pay back advances if they don't product a manuscript in a timely fashion or otherwise violate their contract.

Of course, Barry-O missed lots of deadlines on his first book but the publisher never canceled or demanded their advance back.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (I87yH)

94 I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

It's okay, lots of guy don't.

Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (14URa)

95 It's why the library is filled with racks of politicians writing their autobiographies.
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That no one ever reads.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:41 PM (YqDXo)

96 I would love to see a list of leftist politicians who got book deals. Then I want to see how much they were paid vs return on investment for the publishing house. This is legal money laundering being rubbed in our faces
Posted by: Smell the Glove

But Newt Gingrich had to resign because he wrote a book that actually sold.

Posted by: Miklos, Happily Houring at December 20, 2024 04:41 PM (xesY+)

97 I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

SHE BLOWS TRANSITIVELY AND INTRANSITIVELY

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at December 20, 2024 04:41 PM (VoAdT)

98 Chapter 8: Fellatio as a career booster
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Chapter 8: embracing the suck in success

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 20, 2024 04:41 PM (0v8AM)

99 My wife's gonna be pissed about Big Lots.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 04:42 PM (BI5O2)

100 It's why the library is filled with racks of politicians writing their autobiographies.
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That no one ever reads.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

It's not that their fans don't read.

I'm sure they would if they could.

Posted by: Miklos, Quite Happily Houring at December 20, 2024 04:42 PM (xesY+)

101 They'll just write it off.

Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:43 PM (i0F8b)

102 Chapter 1: I was born in a middle class family.
Chapter 2: Lawncare.
Chapter 3: Venn diagrams and me. A love story.
Chapter 4: Discovering what has been.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (ExV1e)
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Chapter 5: Appreciating the significance of the passage of time.
Posted by: Deplorable

Chapter 6: Space is big, very, very big.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM

Chapter 7: Collard Greens in the Bathtub and Word Salads

Posted by: huerfano at December 20, 2024 04:43 PM (DKIGo)

103 I began to suspect Biden was in decline when he shit his pants in one of our first meetings

Posted by: PRESIDENT XI at December 20, 2024 04:43 PM (oOc/o)

104 Obama naturally took it to a new level - Net flicks paid him and Michelle $millions to "produce" movies. What they did - buy a bunch of already produced documentaries. Neither had any media experience whatsoever.

They also, jointly, got paid $65 million for their memoirs.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:43 PM (nLFEI)

105 I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

It's okay, lots of guy don't.

Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (14URa)

*rimshot*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 20, 2024 04:44 PM (i24o9)

106 My wife's gonna be pissed about Big Lots.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Me too.

That's my affectionate nickname for Darleen.

Posted by: Miklos, maybe she doesn't know yet at December 20, 2024 04:44 PM (xesY+)

107 Harris literature: on a scroll shrink wrapped with eleven other copies.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 20, 2024 04:44 PM (QSrLX)

108 What a great book. It will look perfect next to the Anthony Fauci votive candles and my moth eaten fusty old pussy hat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:44 PM (VoAdT)

109 A publisher is going to give a $20mil advance they know they'll never recoup.

Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:44 PM (i0F8b)

110 I would love to see a list of leftist politicians who got book deals. Then I want to see how much they were paid vs return on investment for the publishing house. This is legal money laundering being rubbed in our faces

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (DopAq)
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Consider Obama. As a totally unaccomplished punk, he got a book deal with a hefty advance. He buggered off (?) to Bali, leaving his lovely "bride" to honeymoon on her own. In Bali, he strained and strained, but there was no splash. In the end, he had to return the advance, minus the cost of treating the STDs he got in Bali.

Then again as a totally unaccomplished punk, he got ANOTHER book deal, but the publisher had the good sense to engage Bill Ayers to write the goddamned thing on behalf of the CPUSA.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:45 PM (YqDXo)

111 Just remember, Cillizza is a reporter, so he doesn't have a side.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2024 04:45 PM (1bNHn)

112
$20 million? I foresee a very, very angry Dr. Jill.
Posted by: EveR

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Hah, Jill's going to "write" a "book," too, you know. Ten mil? Fifteen mil? Anyway, 8-figures mil.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:45 PM (I87yH)

113 They also, jointly, got paid $65 million for their memoirs.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:43 PM (nLFEI)
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"I was born at a very young age ..."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:46 PM (YqDXo)

114 $250,000 or more for the biggest names for a 1 hour speech.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

Actually, been a to a few of these. They'll get up, 1 hour, and give a repeat of the campaign speech they have given a hundred times for free. Also, luxury travel baby!

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:46 PM (nLFEI)

115 Dr. Jill will probably get an intern to bodge together a blurb for the Harrison's guide of internal medicine and rake in a modest $10 mil for it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:46 PM (VoAdT)

116 Hunter will have to write a book. Tentative title: It was my coke.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:46 PM (aD39U)

117
Of course, Barry-O missed lots of deadlines on his first book but the publisher never canceled or demanded their advance back.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office

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Woops, corrected by Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:45 PM (YqDXo)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (I87yH)

118 The Christmas market mass murderer is a 50 year old Saudi medical doctor.

http://tiny.cc/i092001

Remember when people were putting up pictures of hostages taken in the Oct 7 massacre? A whole bunch of people were videoed defacing these posters and outed. Many of those outed were Muslims in the medical field.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (Odg76)

119 It's why the library is filled with racks of politicians writing their autobiographies.
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That no one ever reads.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

It's not that their fans don't read.

I'm sure they would if they could.
Posted by: Miklos, Quite Happily Houring at December 20, 2024 04:42 PM (xesY+)

If they're looking to recover the costs, then have Kamala write a very short book on how best to do blow jobs. With her, it's probably a short book, with pictures, and can also be used as a fan in hot weather.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (VNX3d)

120 114 Actually, been a to a few of these. They'll get up, 1 hour, and give a repeat of the campaign speech they have given a hundred times for free. Also, luxury travel baby!
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:46 PM (nLFEI)

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This is what you peons get instead of a bonus!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

121 I'm going back to my original title for Kamala when this all started.
"Veep Throat"

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (vFG9F)

122 Hah, Jill's going to "write" a "book," too, you know. Ten mil? Fifteen mil? Anyway, 8-figures mil.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:45 PM (I87yH)
__________________

"Call Me ~~Bwana~~ DOCTOR"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (YqDXo)

123 Willowed:
Best barstool advice I ever got: Never meet your heroes.
Posted by: Nelly

I met Buck Dharma (Blue Oyster Cult). I thought he was going to be some kind of other-worldly demigod (which he is on guitar) but, nope, just a great dude whose humility may even exceed his chops. Maybe I actually met Donald Roeser instead. Glad I did either way.

On T - I actually think Harris would be good on SNL. She's genuinely entertaining and while a few women out there can emulate her cackle, she's the only one who can do the genuine thing.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (KAi1n)

124 Math on this doesn't work. How much does the ghost writer get paid?

Or does he take it out in trade?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (wBaIH)

125 E-book only for DOGE's sake.

Posted by: DaveA at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (FhXTo)

126
Chapter 12: November 5th, 2024 - Falling From the Coconut Tree

Chapter 13: My Campaign's War Chest

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (BI5O2)

127 109 A publisher is going to give a $20mil advance they know they'll never recoup.
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:44 PM (i0F8b)

never recoup?

They don't give out the advance until it's already hit their accounts. No, no that account, the other one. In the Caymans.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (VoAdT)

128 Chapter 8 "Getting ahead with Sucklemental Income"

Posted by: THE GHOST WRITER at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (oOc/o)

129 Are we pretending the only way reporters could know Biden was incompetent is by asking his staff?
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Yes. That's it precisely. And it's not just about Biden's senility. It works the same way if the question is whether Hunter and Joe are honest, or whether Haitians are eating pets. You ask a Democrat; what he says is Real True Information, not the mis-dis-malinformation the far right conspiracy theorists are spreading.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (1bNHn)

130 23 The money is coming from someplace. Doubtful it's actually the publisher. Where, and perhaps more importantly, how do they hide the trail? Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (i0F8b)

I sign a private contract with you and front you money to invest. There is nothing to "hide" - there are no rules about what I can or cannot invest in as a private party.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (nLFEI)

131 If they're looking to recover the costs, then have Kamala write a very short book on how best to do blow jobs. With her, it's probably a short book, with pictures, and can also be used as a fan in hot weather.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (VNX3d)
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Very short book? Hell, it could be a pamphlet.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (YqDXo)

132 The Christmas market mass murderer is a 50 year old Saudi medical doctor.

http://tiny.cc/i092001

Remember when people were putting up pictures of hostages taken in the Oct 7 massacre? A whole bunch of people were videoed defacing these posters and outed. Many of those outed were Muslims in the medical field.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (Odg76)

We don't need OUR people to study medicine because we can just import doctors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (ExV1e)

133 $20 million? I foresee a very, very angry Dr. Jill.
Posted by: EveR

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Hah, Jill's going to "write" a "book," too, you know. Ten mil? Fifteen mil? Anyway, 8-figures mil.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office
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Again, these numbers would not be unrealistic if they actually told us what the fuck was going on behind the scenes these last four years. That book would be a huge seller. And yes, I know they'd never do it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (Dm8we)

134 129 Are we pretending the only way reporters could know Biden was incompetent is by asking his staff?
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Yes. That's it precisely. And it's not just about Biden's senility. It works the same way if the question is whether Hunter and Joe are honest, or whether Haitians are eating pets. You ask a Democrat; what he says is Real True Information, not the mis-dis-malinformation the far right conspiracy theorists are spreading.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (1bNHn)

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I'm reminded of a little kerfuffle around the Trump assassination attempt.

A CBS reporter was defending herself for not using the word "assassination".

Why? Because the government hadn't classified the event as such...yet.

She was too stupid to realize that she was admitting to being nothing more than a government stenographer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

135 Chapter 12: November 5th, 2024 - Falling From the Coconut Tree

Chapter 13: My Campaign's War Chest

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (BI5O2)
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Chapter 14: How to Spend Money Wisely

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (YqDXo)

136 Heck, seriously - a lot of these politicians don't even "know* they are being bribed. They honestly think their musings are worth $20 million.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:50 PM (nLFEI)

137 If they're looking to recover the costs, then have Kamala write a very short book on how best to do blow jobs. With her, it's probably a short book, with pictures, and can also be used as a fan in hot weather.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (VNX3d)
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Very short book? Hell, it could be a pamphlet.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (YqDXo)

Jewish-American Sports Legends - for some light reading?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:50 PM (VNX3d)

138 I'm a bit miffed at VDH. He botched the Adm John Byng execution. But then, naval warfare was never Hanson's strong suit.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2024 04:50 PM (1bNHn)

139 Loaded semi-trucks are pulling out with the border wall parts that FJB is selling for pennies on the dollar. Continuous stream of loaded trucks.
I thought Texas was going to buy all of these parts?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2024 04:50 PM (/U5Yz)

140 Chapter 15: Mind The Nanny

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2024 04:51 PM (vFG9F)

141 If Kammie writes like she speaks, it will take all of their editors to even publish in English. I would add that she probably won't be able to get around to finishing it, what with all that box wine sitting in the fridge.

And as for Biden, my dog knew he was in decline before he was even running for POTUS. Are you saying the legacy media is dumber than a sled dog? Yes, yes I am.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 04:51 PM (K861k)

142 VDH is giving cruelty to so many worthy Dems this holiday season. Truly the gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 20, 2024 04:51 PM (Vyll1)

143 Again, these numbers would not be unrealistic if they actually told us what the fuck was going on behind the scenes these last four years. That book would be a huge seller. And yes, I know they'd never do it. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (Dm8we)

They MIGHT. a) the dems hate Joe Biden, thinking he cost them the white house b) the dems hate Kamala, thinking they cost them the white house. Pay them to destroy each other and go away.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:52 PM (nLFEI)

144 War is heck!

https://youtu.be/7Thq-SBtukg

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 04:52 PM (L/fGl)

145 Who actually wants to read a book ghostwritten for Kamala.? That's not the point, though. The point is the payoff. Which publishing company is it?I think people should write in and say they are boycotting any books this outfit publishes,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 04:52 PM (G5/PO)

146 52 This 20 million might actually be legit if the rest of the story is true, which is that these numbers are only being thrown around on the condition that she actually dishes on everything. If she told what she knows about Biden and who was running things, it would sell bigly.

But that would mean shivving a bunch of fellow dems and killing whatever prospect she (wrongly) thinks she has of future office. So it's the money for a tell all, or the Cal gov run. She can't have both.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (Dm8we)

She will write a tell-all then when she announces her soon to be failed campaign for some office she'll say, "Nevermind the tell-all, it was only a book! CACKLE-CACKLE"

Next day she will be shot in both knees. As retribution from the publisher- pain and destruction of her only other way to make money.

Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2024 04:52 PM (aBgBM)

147 Publish it as an ebook only.
Rich benefactors can order thousnds of copies.

think of the trees this will save.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2024 04:52 PM (/lPRQ)

148 And as for Biden, my dog knew he was in decline before he was even running for POTUS. Are you saying the legacy media is dumber than a sled dog? Yes, yes I am.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 04:51 PM (K861k)
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"And I wuz framed!" - Biden's dog, Commander

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:53 PM (YqDXo)

149 Again, these numbers would not be unrealistic if they actually told us what the fuck was going on behind the scenes these last four years. That book would be a huge seller. And yes, I know they'd never do it. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (Dm8we)

Suicide by book.

Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:53 PM (i0F8b)

150 8 of 5,000 or 0.16 percent of DoE employees show up to work in any given day.

http://tiny.cc/s192001

Maybe they're all effectively working from home. I doubt it, though.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 04:53 PM (Odg76)

151 She was too stupid to realize that she was admitting to being nothing more than a government stenographer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)
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Maybe the media is being paid by the government, of so, then she wouldn't be wrong.

Stop all government payments to media, direct and indirect. Maybe things will improve.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 04:53 PM (fs1hN)

152 Willowed:
Best barstool advice I ever got: Never meet your heroes.
Posted by: Nelly

I married mine. About 27 years ago. He just went out to get the mail, should be back shortly.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (K861k)

153 It's horrible that an unelected man can run the whole government except when that unelected man is running Biden--then it's a good thing.

How about a Congressional hearing on who presented all those pardons to Biden, to start?

IIRC, the J6 Committee shit all over Executive Privilege and even got court orders to bless such.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (VAkB9)

154 139 Loaded semi-trucks are pulling out with the border wall parts that FJB is selling for pennies on the dollar. Continuous stream of loaded trucks.
I thought Texas was going to buy all of these parts?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2024 04:50 PM (/U5Yz)

Can't vouch for this but I did read (from one of the Texas mucky mucks) that it was all rusted/rotted and basically worthless.

Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (14URa)

155 Jewish-American Sports Legends - for some light reading?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

That chapter on Sandy Koufax, alone, is going to be pretty heavy. He's not the only one, you know? Lots of us Hebes in baseball history.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (KAi1n)

156 But that would mean shivving a bunch of fellow dems and killing whatever prospect she (wrongly) thinks she has of future office. So it's the money for a tell all, or the Cal gov run. She can't have both.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (Dm8we)
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You left out the spin around Dealey Plaza.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (YqDXo)

157 100,000,000 words later...

"so my first day was like wow, gee, etc..."

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (MkuC5)

158 So if I buy her book will she autograph it with her knee prints?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 04:55 PM (W/lyH)

159 I wonder if any of this $20 million will go towards paying off her campaign debt?

LOL.......

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2024 04:55 PM (Rcnd3)

160 A prominent executive at one of New York's top liberal-leaning publishing houses

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Liberal-leaning? They all are, there is no other kind. It's just that some do want to make some money and will publish conservatives authors.

Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2024 04:56 PM (unUNN)

161 84 How do publishers stay in business? It has to be some kind of money laundering scheme. Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (aD39U)

Easy a) they get 90% of the profits and b) they pay the writer zero. Someone else is taking all the losses.

This is a massive source of profits for publishing companies.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:56 PM (nLFEI)

162 149 Again, these numbers would not be unrealistic if they actually told us what the fuck was going on behind the scenes these last four years. That book would be a huge seller. And yes, I know they'd never do it. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (Dm8we)

Suicide by book.
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:53 PM (i0F8b)

It's not like she was aware of anything going on, after all. So, no harm no foul. Or some such shit.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 04:56 PM (K861k)

163 If I could get the truth from Kamala, I'd ask her how she felt about Butler. When she found out the Secret Service plan failed, she must have been furious.

If they popped Trump and walked Brandon across the line as planned, she *would* have been President, something she certainly must have known by then she couldn't achieve on her own.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 04:56 PM (BI5O2)

164 Kamala will produce a pop-up book.

Maybe a coloring book too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:56 PM (YqDXo)

165 Chapter 15: Swingers in the White House
Chapter 16: How I Found Out that Dr. Jill isn't a Medical Doctor

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 04:57 PM (fs1hN)

166 Jewish-American Sports Legends - for some light reading?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

That chapter on Sandy Koufax, alone, is going to be pretty heavy. He's not the only one, you know? Lots of us Hebes in baseball history.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (KAi1n)

Going from memory from Airplane! Shirley, my memory isn't that bad - or is it?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:58 PM (VNX3d)

167 Jewish-American Sports Legends - for some light reading?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

That chapter on Sandy Koufax, alone, is going to be pretty heavy. He's not the only one, you know? Lots of us Hebes in baseball history.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (KAi1n)
***

Moe Berg gets a chapter.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 04:58 PM (W/lyH)

168 8 of 5,000 or 0.16 percent of DoE employees show up to work in any given day.

-
I guess they lack energy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 04:58 PM (L/fGl)

169 You all are missing the setup here.

They are now 'admitting' their sins by not going after Biden, so they can then go after Trump for any perceived gaff.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 04:58 PM (QAkQ3)

170 I wonder if any of this $20 million will go towards paying off her campaign debt?

LOL.......
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2024 04:55 PM

You are far too tender of years to espouse this level of cynicism.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 04:59 PM (a3Q+t)

171 How about we start the next session of Congress by declaring that all of Biden's acts for the last 4 years are null and void as there is no proof that he was the one that actually made the decisions?

If he had "good days and bad days," shouldn't we know that he wasn't making decisions on the "bad days?"

And if he wasn't, what days were the "bad days?"

And who was making decisions--usurping his authority-- on those "bad days?"

Or are we going to have to accept that he was making national security decisions on "bad days" as well as "good days?'

This limited modified hangout of "good/bad days" isn't good.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 20, 2024 05:00 PM (VAkB9)

172 ewish-American Sports Legends - for some light reading?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

That chapter on Sandy Koufax, alone, is going to be pretty heavy. He's not the only one, you know? Lots of us Hebes in baseball history.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (KAi1n)
***

Moe Berg gets a chapter.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 04:58 PM (W/lyH)
_______________

But then so does Arnold Rothstein.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:00 PM (YqDXo)

173 Baby it's cold outside.

And windy with intermittent snow.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:00 PM (4XwPj)

174 Five Deadly Womens

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (Drm1A)

175 >>They are now 'admitting' their sins by not going after Biden, so they can then go after Trump for any perceived gaff.

I don't think they need an excuse to keep doing what they've already been doing for the last 9 years.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (LkLld)

176 $20M seems like asslint compared to what she surely stole from her $1.5B campaign haul.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (vs8ws)

177 Hawking: A Brief History of Time

Haris: The Significance of the Passage of Time

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (L/fGl)

178 116 Hunter will have to write a book. Tentative title: It was my coke.
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If I Coked It

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (hovnC)

179 "Profiles in ~~Courage~~ Mendacity"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:02 PM (YqDXo)

180 I think the movie is Shaolin Prince. The pyramid formation was called The 18 Buda attack

Posted by: Machiavelli at December 20, 2024 05:02 PM (6/GGU)

181 178 116 Hunter will have to write a book. Tentative title: It was my coke.
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If I Coked It
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (hovnC)

No, I Don't Want a Pepsi!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 05:02 PM (VNX3d)

182 Kamala's book is already for sale at Walmart.

You'll find it in the "office supplies" section disguised as reams of copy paper.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 20, 2024 05:02 PM (VAkB9)

183 The Word Salad Diet

Pow Wow Cow

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (hovnC)

184 178 116 Hunter will have to write a book. Tentative title: It was my coke.
--------
If I Coked It

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (hovnC)
_______________

"Coke: The Pause That Refreshes"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (YqDXo)

185 Have none of you any sympathy for the chaos that the secondary market for Hunter's art has been thrown into lately?

It's like I know you people.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (a3Q+t)

186 It's my coke and I'll choke if I want to.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (Drm1A)

187 Words of praise on the cover by Willie Brown:

"This book's got teeth. It's got bite. Which doesn't surprise me. Bitch never could get it right."

Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (dIske)

188 Lot of outhouses in third world countries are gonna be well stocked on tp.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (XTmTf)

189 I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (DobEs)

190 It’s snot! No really, it’s snot’
- by K. Herris

Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2024 05:04 PM (jgmnb)

191 The Word Salad Diet

Pow Wow Cow

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (hovnC)
________________

Right next on the shelf to Obama's cookbook: "Bow Wow Chow"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:04 PM (YqDXo)

192 Michael Jackson got burned with Pepsi. Richard Pryor got burned with coke.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:05 PM (hovnC)

193 The Golden Child:
He Died and They Got Stuck With Me

By Hunter Biden

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:05 PM (4XwPj)

194 LeTourneau’s article is from 2020

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2024 05:05 PM (vs8ws)

195 Heard that Ashley is the chick in Hunter's twang video.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:05 PM (Drm1A)

196 Right next on the shelf to Obama's cookbook: "Bow Wow Chow"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:04 PM (YqDXo)

I'll stick to the Horde Cookbook, thanks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 05:05 PM (K861k)

197 Unburdened by What Has-Been?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 05:06 PM (BI5O2)

198 I can't believe the press is attacking Biden over his life-long stutter by smearing him with accusations--without evidence--that it is signs of mental decline!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 20, 2024 05:06 PM (VAkB9)

199 Yeeeeeehawwwwww! Friday, Morons.

Posted by: Orson using his Howard Dean voice at December 20, 2024 05:06 PM (dIske)

200 Hunter's book: "METH Head Acting"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:06 PM (YqDXo)

201 195 Heard that Ashley is the chick in Hunter's twang video.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:05 PM (Drm1A)

I have done my best to avoid that pervert's actions, but this does not surprise me. Can we just put all those white trash asshats in the rear view?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 05:07 PM (K861k)

202 "Coke: The Pause That Refreshes"
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Right next on the shelf to Obama's cookbook: "Bow Wow Chow"
===
The paws that refreshes.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:07 PM (hovnC)

203 The Hunter book actually makes more sense. He could clean up on a truthful tell all, and then lamb it to the Carribean. It's not like he's risking future office like Harris thinks she is.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 05:07 PM (Dm8we)

204 Unburdened by What Has-Been?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 05:06 PM (BI5O2)

LOL.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:07 PM (YqDXo)

205 Don't Blame Me, I'm a Drug Addict!

By Hunter Biden

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM (4XwPj)

206 Rosa DeLauro is an absolute freak.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM (LkLld)

207 >>>I have done my best to avoid that pervert's actions, but this does not surprise me. Can we just put all those white trash asshats in the rear view?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December
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Thirty days and counting but I don't think they are going away.
If they don't go away they are fair game for ridicule and persecution.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM (Drm1A)

208 Did Mondale or Dukakis get a $20,000,000 "advance" when they went down in flames?

Posted by: Chaim Yankel at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM (G5+As)

209 "My life with Dougie: A Jewish Love Story."

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 05:09 PM (K861k)

210 I have done my best to avoid that pervert's actions, but this does not surprise me. Can we just put all those white trash asshats in the rear view?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 05:07 PM (K861k)
______________

No, not yet. It's cathartic to ridicule them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:09 PM (YqDXo)

211 This belongs in the last thread but I think it bears repeating: The driver that rammed his car into the Christmas celebration crowd in East Germany apparently didn't hear George Bush declare Islam to be the Religion of Peace.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 05:09 PM (hwLGC)

212 On My Knees
The Story of My Faith in God and My Political Career

By Kamala Harris

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:09 PM (4XwPj)

213 need a drink.
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (DobEs)

It's after 5:00 EST and you're apparently in DC and you don't have a heavy work schedule. I expect you've already had a few drinks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:09 PM (IYvE+)

214 Thirty days and counting but I don't think they are going away.
If they don't go away they are fair game for ridicule and persecution.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM (Drm1A)

Yeah, I guess their felonious perversion go like stink.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 05:10 PM (K861k)

215 The Victim, Hunter's Travail
_Hunter Biden

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:10 PM (Drm1A)

216 206 Rosa DeLauro is an absolute freak.
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The Color Purp... never mind. That ones already been done.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:10 PM (hovnC)

217 Thirty days and counting but I don't think they are going away.
If they don't ~~go away~~ commit seppuku they are fair game for ridicule and persecution.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM (Drm1A)

FIFY.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:10 PM (YqDXo)

218 So, reporters are just a gastrointestinal tract, moving stuff from one end to the other, transforming low-nutrient, high-carb comfort food into genuine s**t?

Posted by: Paco at December 20, 2024 05:10 PM (mADJX)

219 187 Words of praise on the cover by Willie Brown:

"This book's got teeth. It's got bite. Which doesn't surprise me. Bitch never could get it right."
Posted by: Orson

*Spits coffee on monitor. *

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 05:11 PM (xblT4)

220 I'll wait for jill's tell all on kumala.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 05:11 PM (XTmTf)

221 They are now 'admitting' their sins by not going after Biden, so they can then go after Trump for any perceived gaff.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 04:58 PM (QAkQ3)

Oh, absolutely. They won't make that mistake again, amirite??

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 20, 2024 05:11 PM (OX9vb)

222 Hunter's TV show: "I'm a junkie, get me out of here!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:12 PM (YqDXo)

223 I recall that a former mayor of Baltimore wrote a "children's book" and made millions because anyone who wanted a city contract had to buy a lot of those.

Which were to be "donated", but mainly being e-books, never really existed.

Posted by: Miklos, who has seen some scams at December 20, 2024 05:12 PM (xesY+)

224 I love The Five Deadly Venoms. My brother and I would stay up late Friday nights to watch Kung Fu Theater after the Sammy Terry-hosted horror movie. On some of those dubbed chop-socky flicks, it sounded as if one guy was doing all of the voices, and he was hilarious, easily the hardest working guy in show business. We were torn about which of his voices was our favorite, his sweet love interest of the hero voice or the wise but cranky old crone voice.

Posted by: troyriser at December 20, 2024 05:12 PM (DPeYO)

225 I'll wait for jill's tell all on kumala.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 05:11 PM (XTmTf)
_______________

And vice versa.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:12 PM (YqDXo)

226 On My Knees
The Story of My Faith in God and My Political Career

By Kamala Harris

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:09 PM (4XwPj)

Bravo!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 05:13 PM (hwLGC)

227 Bet kumala won't be payin off that 20mill in campaign debt with this advance.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 05:13 PM (XTmTf)

228 Tim Walz's book: "Bitch Set Me Up"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:13 PM (YqDXo)

229 Blows to the Head: My Life, From Willie to Doug

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 05:13 PM (BI5O2)

230 How is getting a BJ from Old Lady Emhoff similar to like skydiving?

You know it’ll be fun but it is scary when you look down.

Posted by: Rimshot at December 20, 2024 05:14 PM (DobEs)

231 Did Mondale or Dukakis get a $20,000,000 "advance" when they went down in flames?
Posted by: Chaim Yankel at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM

To be fair, I got to be Vice President by going down, and no flames were involved (yet).

Posted by: Kamala! 2028! 2032! at December 20, 2024 05:14 PM (a3Q+t)

232 I never knew, til looking him up the other day to get a detail straight, that Dave Roberts (left-handed pitcher from the 70s/80s, not manager) was Jewish. Tall, lanky, twang-talking Texan.

He lived across the street and I did their yard work when he was with the Padres. In 1971, the year Seaver had a 1.76 ERA, Dave had a 2.06 - on the cellar-dwelling expansion team. So he's there in the pantheon of Jewish pitchers. He also could hit, including HRs (a world long ago where pitchers could hit).

Very nice people, they were happy he got traded to Houston, where they both were from.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 05:14 PM (1m82a)

233 I think the movie is Shaolin Prince. The pyramid formation was called The 18 Buda attack
Posted by: Machiavelli

Another Hungarian mention

Posted by: Miklos, too lazy to add them up at December 20, 2024 05:15 PM (xesY+)

234 Did Mondale or Dukakis get a $20,000,000 "advance" when they went down in flames?
Posted by: Chaim Yankel at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM

To be fair, I got to be Vice President by going down, and no flames were involved (yet).

Posted by: Kamala! 2028! 2032! at December 20, 2024 05:14 PM (a3Q+t)
_______________

Although some of her ... uh ... clients did report a burning sensation later.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:15 PM (YqDXo)

235 Republicans better figure out how to grift off this shit pronto.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 05:16 PM (Q4IgG)

236 Personally, I noticed the first big decline of Biden between the Fall of 2019 and March of 2020.

Yeah, he had lost a step or two in the Fall of 2019 but by March of 2020, Biden was clearly regressing. And this was still before most, if not all, of the primaries.

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 05:16 PM (o0+oQ)

237 To Spit or to Swallow

A biography by Kamala Harris.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 05:16 PM (xOhpI)

238 The original Q site (8chan) got taken down because of people posting vids from Hunter's laptop... for disseminating child porn. Just searching for it could get you a visit.
That's why the guy who recovered it went to the feds.

Posted by: Reforger at December 20, 2024 05:16 PM (xcIvR)

239 I think the movie is Shaolin Prince. The pyramid formation was called The 18 Buda attack
Posted by: Machiavelli

Another Hungarian mention

Posted by: Miklos, too lazy to add them up at December 20, 2024 05:15 PM (xesY+)

Stop being a Pest.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 05:16 PM (hwLGC)

240 Ace, the chop-socky that you are talking about might be Duel to the Death, starring Norman Chu and Damien Lau.
Although, in DttD there is a giant ninja pursuing a monk through the desert. When the giant ninja gets close to the monk the giant is actually made up of 5 ninjas, who proceed to capture the monk and imprison him.
It's a great flick, highly recommended.

Posted by: KwaiChangMandelblit at December 20, 2024 05:17 PM (gLdUb)

241 So many electrons wasted on these idiots ("journalists").

They are as dumb as they claim to be. What's with the 1,875-dimensional chess to figure out whether it's "bias" or stupidity and ignorance? Take them, like everyone, at their word. They are in fact as stupid as their "reporting".

Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 05:17 PM (1m82a)

242 Another Hungarian mention
Posted by: Miklos, too lazy to add them up at December 20, 2024 05:15 PM

Hungarian notation > Hungarian mention

Posted by: Charles Simonyi at December 20, 2024 05:17 PM (a3Q+t)

243 Cocks & Glocks: One Woman's Journey from Side Piece, to Sidearms

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 05:17 PM (BI5O2)

244 Yeah, he had lost a step or two in the Fall of 2019 but by March of 2020, Biden was clearly regressing. And this was still before most, if not all, of the primaries.

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 05:16 PM (o0+oQ)
_________________

Nancy Pelosi just recently lost a step, too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:17 PM (YqDXo)

245 Oddly enough, I could imagine someone in Hollyweird giving Hunter a reality show.

Where's Hunter's Coke?
Spend a few wacky days with Hunter Biden while he searches for his misplaced cocaine! Follow along and see if you can spot the clues! Just find the clues and text the location to #helpthedummyod! Help Hunter find his coke and win a weekend in Las Vegas!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:18 PM (4XwPj)

246 Is there a political memoir actually written by a President or candidate for President that wasn't ghost written and that is actually worth reading?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:18 PM (TXJK3)

247 246 Is there a political memoir actually written by a President or candidate for President that wasn't ghost written and that is actually worth reading?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Try The Reagan Diaries.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 05:19 PM (xOhpI)

248
I think the movie is Shaolin Prince. The pyramid formation was called The 18 Buda attack
Posted by: Machiavelli

Those cats were fast as lightning

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 05:19 PM (63Dwl)

249 Actually, Coke could hire Hunter as an advertising spokesman.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 05:19 PM (hwLGC)

250 Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:18 PM (4XwPj)

You could also make that into a board game or video game!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:19 PM (MQJVv)

251 Stop being a Pest.
Posted by: Chairborne!

There he was, that hairy hound From Budapest.
Never leaving us alone,
Never have I ever known
A ruder pest

Posted by: Professor Miklos Higgins at December 20, 2024 05:20 PM (xesY+)

252 Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 05:19 PM (xOhpI)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:20 PM (MQJVv)

253 Oddly enough, I could imagine someone in Hollyweird giving Hunter a reality show.

Where's Hunter's Coke?
Spend a few wacky days with Hunter Biden while he searches for his misplaced cocaine! Follow along and see if you can spot the clues! Just find the clues and text the location to #helpthedummyod! Help Hunter find his coke and win a weekend in Las Vegas!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:18 PM (4XwPj)
______________

Never work - there's no suspense. Everybody would immediately go to the White House. Maybe that's why they call it the White House.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:20 PM (YqDXo)

254 Is there a political memoir actually written by a President or candidate for President that wasn't ghost written and that is actually worth reading?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Pierre Salinger is unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Miklos thinks he may have read PT-109 at December 20, 2024 05:21 PM (xesY+)

255 Jewish athletes? As a Tiger fan, I've naturally gotta mention Hank Greenberg.

Posted by: Paco at December 20, 2024 05:22 PM (mADJX)

256 You could also make that into a board game or video game!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I'm still working on Moronopoly

Posted by: Miklos has Ideas at December 20, 2024 05:23 PM (xesY+)

257 Sounds like someone writing a book on Jewish-American athletes might be worth a $20 million advance. Lots of people to include, and probably a better seller than political trash.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 05:23 PM (VNX3d)

258 I don't think even politicians on their deathbed have ever told the real truth about what actually went on in any of these books. Certainly not any that even have the slightest chance of getting another Golden Ticket to Wealth at Our Expense

Posted by: azjaeger at December 20, 2024 05:24 PM (iixBX)

259 Is there a political memoir actually written by a President or candidate for President that wasn't ghost written and that is actually worth reading?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:18 PM (TXJK3)

I am pretty sure Ulysses S. Grant's Memoirs were not ghost written.

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 05:24 PM (QTCRF)

260 ...and it's worth reading

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 05:24 PM (QTCRF)

261 Is there a political memoir actually written by a President or candidate for President that wasn't ghost written and that is actually worth reading?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Actually, I think Grant wrote his own.

And is well written and worth reading.

Posted by: Miklos so believes at December 20, 2024 05:25 PM (xesY+)

262 Mind O'Horde

Posted by: Miklos so believes at December 20, 2024 05:25 PM (xesY+)

263 *shakes fist at Miklos

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 05:25 PM (QTCRF)

264 Teddy Roosevelt's The Making of a President

Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (XTmTf)

265 I once had Cillizza. My doctor prescribed this cream that I had rub on my balls and eventually it went away.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (xxf6X)

266 Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 05:24 PM (QTCRF)

Yes, that would be a good choice. I think they were done to pay off debts however.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (MDf/p)

267 Mark Twain was advising Grant on that book. He also pushed the publisher to give Grant an advance so he could die in peace knowing his family wouldn't be destitute.

Didn't ghost write it though.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:27 PM (4XwPj)

268 *shakes fist at Miklos
Posted by: runner

*shakes double martini*

Posted by: Miklos in accustomed mode at December 20, 2024 05:27 PM (xesY+)

269 Blow coauthored by Hunter and Kamala.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:27 PM (hovnC)

270 I'm still working on Moronopoly
Posted by: Miklos has Ideas at December 20, 2024 05:23 PM (xesY+)

Someone else was also working on this. They posted a link to the PDF of the work in progress around November 16th.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 05:28 PM (VNX3d)

271 Pierre Salinger is unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Miklos thinks he may have read PT-109 at December 20, 2024 05:21 PM (xesY+)
_______________

He had real skill. He turned a court martial offense (dereliction of duty*) into a vehicle for the offender to be elected President.

*JFK had the dubious distinction of being the skipper of the only PT boat in naval history to be run down by a warship.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:28 PM (YqDXo)

272 nood Dems

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:28 PM (hovnC)

273 Yes, that would be a good choice. I think they were done to pay off debts however.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (MDf/p)

267 Mark Twain was advising Grant on that book. He also pushed the publisher to give Grant an advance so he could die in peace knowing his family wouldn't be destitute.

Didn't ghost write it though.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem

Later, Samuel Clemens had to knock out some books to avoid bankruptcy and pay debts himself.

Posted by: Miklos has minimal royalty income at December 20, 2024 05:29 PM (xesY+)

274 I once had Cillizza. My doctor prescribed this cream that I had rub on my balls and eventually it went away.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (xxf6X)
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I once had a Cenk on my Uygur. Right near the tip, too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:29 PM (YqDXo)

275 Coke in the Coat Room, it wasn't Me
_Hunter Biden

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:33 PM (Drm1A)

276 Has anyone seen a publisher attached to Kamala Harris’ $20 million ?

It’s usually someone like Simon and Schuster

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 05:38 PM (o0+oQ)

277 Chapter 1: I was born in a middle class family.

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If you were born in the 60s and one of your parents was a professor at Berkeley, you were upper middle class. If you had another parent who was a professor at Stanford, you were definitely upper class.

Bitch has no idea what middle class is.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 20, 2024 05:40 PM (xxf6X)

278 Moe Berg gets a chapter.

My dad had an autographed picture of Hank Greenberg, the Hebrew Hammer.

I myself am partial to Maury "Some days you can't make a buck" Rose, who, after winning Indianapolis three times, became chief engineer for a Chevrolet project called Corvette.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 20, 2024 05:40 PM (zdLoL)

279 I once had a Cenk on my Uygur. Right near the tip, too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:29 PM (YqDXo)

I actually laughed out loud. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 05:42 PM (hwLGC)

280 https://youtu.be/GqPwr7dXDyI?si=tSeomqsUvchydPTu

Posted by: Machiavelli at December 20, 2024 05:44 PM (6/GGU)

281 >>>Media Makes Excuses for Covering Up Biden's Obvious Senility

It wasn't really a coverup. More like an elaborate prank.

Gotcha.

Posted by: The Media at December 20, 2024 05:48 PM (vlXMQ)

282 Now they've been saying Slow Joe couldn't take calls about the Afghanistan withdrawal so the military was on it's own, therefore if it went badly it's all Slow Joe's fault because he didn't lead.

Is it just me, but isn't that the exact opposite of how the brass generally try squirm out of responsibility?

Usually, we get "the CinC was being all micromanagy and we couldn't do our jobs."

Now it's " we can't make good decisions on our own, we need help from a dementia sufferer "

Posted by: Just Lily at December 20, 2024 06:09 PM (RLLZj)

283 It wasn't "Five Deadly Venoms." It was either "Treasure Hunters" or "Disciples of the 36th Chamber."

Posted by: Darwin Akbar at December 20, 2024 06:09 PM (mEBMr)

284 $20 million.
Wow, that's exactly how much her campaign is still in debt for.
How lucky.

Posted by: Old Man Mike at December 20, 2024 08:19 PM (C9Oe7)

285 Why do people say Biden's deception was the worst since Wilson's stroke? Wilson's stroke happened in October of '19, so he only was debilitated for the last 18 months of his term. Biden was debilitated for his entire term.

Biden's deception was worse for many reasons including: 4 years v 18 months, Biden wasn't that smart to begin with, and the US President is about 10 times more important to the world now than 100 years ago.

Posted by: Dave at December 20, 2024 10:37 PM (nLwaa)

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Kamala Harris To Be Offered $20 Million in a Media Payoff Disguised as an "Advance" on Book RoyaltiesPlus: Media Makes Excuses for Covering Up Biden's Obvious Senility

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Kamala Harris To Be Offered $20 Million in a Media Payoff Disguised as an "Advance" on Book Royalties
Plus: Media Makes Excuses for Covering Up Biden's Obvious Senility