Marjorie Taylor Greene's book is a flop

3 years ago by CantaloupeLifestyle to c/politics

Greene's recently released book is ranking quite low in the list of Amazon's best-sellers.
billiam0202 85 points 3 years ago

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

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AbidanYre 35 points 3 years ago

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

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idunnololz 14 points 3 years ago

If only her supporters could read šŸ˜”

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AbidanYre 7 points 3 years ago

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

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Telorand 13 points 3 years ago

Inb4 she's next year's new RINO.

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slurpeesoforion 7 points 3 years ago

Why rhino next year when you can horse this year?

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SinningStromgald -5 points 3 years ago

Horse? Why are we bringing Sarah Jessica Parker into this?

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slurpeesoforion 4 points 3 years ago

I've never agreed with that sentiment.

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brothershamus 4 points 3 years ago

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

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mosiacmango 24 points 3 years ago

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

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

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nilloc 2 points 3 years ago

And you hit the ā€œbest sellersā€ lists for first week sales too.

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Vant 15 points 3 years ago
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Dagwood222 3 points 3 years ago

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

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Neato 2 points 3 years ago

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

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billiam0202 3 points 3 years ago

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

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mosiacmango 1 point 3 years ago
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Rakonat 1 point 3 years ago

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

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Jimmyeatsausage 66 points 3 years ago

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

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Why9 6 points 3 years ago

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

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funkless_eck 2 points 3 years ago

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

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Jimmyeatsausage 3 points 3 years ago

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

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funkless_eck 2 points 3 years ago

"shows all possibilities in a set"

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

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marx2k 6 points 3 years ago

00

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surewhynotlem 3 points 3 years ago

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

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remus989 5 points 3 years ago

Hey! You leave boobs out of this!

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rayyy 1 point 3 years ago

leave boobs out

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BustinJiber 57 points 3 years ago
  1. Tell everyone reading books is bad.
  2. Write a book.
  3. Profit.
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metallic_substance 17 points 3 years ago

Well, in this case:

3. Profit

There is hope for the world

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TechyDad 13 points 3 years ago

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

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Meltrax 40 points 3 years ago

She can read?

She can write??

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agent_flounder 20 points 3 years ago

Her followers can read??

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Gott 30 points 3 years ago

Their lack of literacy would explain the poor sales numbers.

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Introversion 5 points 3 years ago

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

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WhollyGuacamole 16 points 3 years ago

Most likely a ghostwriter.

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Lemminary 5 points 3 years ago
  1. Maybe

  2. Not really

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HawlSera 37 points 3 years ago

She wrote a book for people who refuse to read.

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Rakonat 14 points 3 years ago

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

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HawlSera 2 points 3 years ago

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

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

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quinkin 27 points 3 years ago

She can read and write?

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Pacmanlives 16 points 3 years ago

Amazing what a ghost writer can do lol

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morphballganon 2 points 3 years ago

Probably dictated

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clericc 27 points 3 years ago

Another reader joked that the book had nothing to do with Magic: The Gathering

heh

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Tedesche 20 points 3 years ago

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

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GiddyGap 18 points 3 years ago

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

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MagicShel 18 points 3 years ago

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

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

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

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pottedmeat7910 16 points 3 years ago

It's a book that banned itself.

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Pratai 16 points 3 years ago
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morphballganon 3 points 3 years ago

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

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thorbot 15 points 3 years ago

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

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tburkhol 27 points 3 years ago

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

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

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mephiska 11 points 3 years ago

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

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Ghostalmedia 7 points 3 years ago

Ghost writer yo

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brothershamus 3 points 3 years ago

zorak noises

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Ozymati 14 points 3 years ago

It's almost as if her target audience for it don't read.

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YeetPics 11 points 3 years ago

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

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15liam20 4 points 3 years ago

Sounds heavy on the brown.

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ExfilBravo 3 points 3 years ago

He likes to be called "Dark Sienna"

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ivanafterall 10 points 3 years ago

She looks like a summer sausage.

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ChunkMcHorkle 2 points 3 years ago

deleted by creator

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ivanafterall 2 points 3 years ago

Much more fitting, honestly.

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jordanlund 7 points 3 years ago

I'm sure it will do great once it hits the dollar stores...

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smeenz 5 points 3 years ago

Depends how absorbent the pages are

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Cylusthevirus 7 points 3 years ago

In business I think we call that misunderstanding your core demographic.

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WaxedWookie 6 points 3 years ago

Watch her pivot to blaming either being cancelled, or the Jews running the media, taking that line to her fans that have never bought a book in their lives.

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Techmaster 5 points 3 years ago

How do you even write a book when you have no idea what the inside of one even looks like? For all we know the inside of her book is hollowed out to hold a gun.

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TechyDad 7 points 3 years ago

Step 1) Pay someone to write a book for you. Give them general notes about what you want in it, but they can come up with the details.

Step 2) Sell the book and (theoretically) get profits.

Optional Step 3) Pay your ghost writer. Hey, if you're following the Trump model, paying people for the work they do for you is optional.

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Binthinkin 4 points 3 years ago

Nobody wants to launder money for her or ?

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autotldr 3 points 3 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Less than a week after its release, Marjorie Taylor Greene's book isn't performing as well as that of Republican Senator Ted Cruz, according to data available on Amazon.

In the book, Greene said she speaks of January 6, 2021, gives "inside stories about the Swamp you won't hear anywhere else" and writes about "Jewish Space Lasers"—a reference to an antisemitic conspiracy theory she spread in 2021, when she said that the Rothschild banking family was behind an anti-Christmas plot.

On Amazon, the world's largest online bookstore, the MAGA Republican's memoir was ranking 9,735 among its best-selling books as of Monday, November 27.

Another reader joked that the book had nothing to do with Magic: The Gathering—an iconic game which shares the same initials as the Georgia congresswoman.

By comparison, a book by Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas titled: "Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America" was ranked six in the same category.

Cruz's book, which was released on November 7, is also currently faring better than Greene's in terms of reviews and has a 4.3 out of 5 star rating.


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DBT 4 points 3 years ago

ā€œUnwokeā€ … so… asleep?

Ted Cruz’s book is about being asleep and unaware?

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Jaysyn 2 points 3 years ago

Makes sense seeing as MTG is flop-sweat given human form.

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Plasma 2 points 3 years ago

A book? She can write?

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ivanafterall 2 points 3 years ago

Former political ghostwriter here: nearly zero percent chance she wrote this. It was written by a likely young, underpaid staffer.

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at_an_angle 2 points 3 years ago

I'm gonna wait and keep checking in at book stores. When this book is the bargain bins clearance pile for a dollar, I'll buy it.

Only because I need to know if it's written better or worse than 50 shades, and I could use the paper when I pack extra plates.

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JimmyChanga 1 point 3 years ago

Just read a few pages and put it back down

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1847953620 0 points 3 years ago

she just looks like a chimp with a wig

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