Sure, some of his deplorables will buy a bible but this thing sounds like a different kind of grift. Some fatcat can make a campaign contribution by writing a check for the books, then sending them to some church or bogus charity and getting a nice tax write-off on it.
Republicans have been trying to abolish unions for the past 40 years, and anyone that believes that Trump isn't the bog-standard Republican is either stupid or has a REALLY short memory. Given MAGA, I'll say both, 99% of the time. Trump has NO policies, has NO principles, and is incredibly easily manipulated. It's ALMOST like his supporters are a reflection of him.
Republicans, who represent the wealth class in America have been opposed to unions since forever. Sure Reagan opened the floodgates of anti-unionism but opposition to unions but back all the way to the first unions.
This sounds like a book out of the freshman entrepreneurship class. Step 1: Identify current fad. When I first heard about the class, it was the rubber bracelets that said "What would Jesus do?" Step 2: Figure out a hook that is a variation that is local to the market. One girl came up with a "Pray first" version. Step 3: Calculate the cost to order the batch of goods from China. Step 4: Figure out the cost to make double the money back, and then sell them for at least that much money, if not more, so you can order another two batches from the factory, and so forth.
That girl made around 2 million from her dumb little "Pray First" rubber bracelets. They sold like hotcakes. She had to hire the rest of the kids in the dorm to help her out as salespeople. She ended up donating a lot of the proceeds to charity. Anyway, she got an A in the class. Smart kid. Nailed the lesson.
Except instead of double the money back, the PAB's Bible is 20x the money back, because of course it is.
I thought the "God Bless the US bible" was actually being sold by Lee Greenwood before PAB got his greasy, grifty hands on it. I wonder if PAB is at least cutting Greenwood in on the grift ( not that I like Greenwood, at all, but I would prefer to see PAB pocket less money from this )
Greenwood is most def in on it -- he did a video ad for the thing IIRC -- but it's Trump's grift all the way. I assume he has to pay Greenwood some kind of licensing fee, but that's between them and their agents.
Considering how may contractors, etc. that PAB has stiffed over the course of years, I would not be surprised if he "negotiated" with Greenwood's agents, but has just delayed making any payments. It could be that Greenwood's lawyers are in preparation of a lawsuit, but we just haven't heard of it yet
I'm not a country music aficionado, but I kinda thought Greenwood had been written off log ago, if he wasn't already dead. ( the one picture I saw of him at the RNC sure made it look like he wasn't long for this world now ). So, who knows, maybe Greenwood's so happy that PAB made him "semi-relevant" once more that he agreed to let PAB use the book for free
Not that the Little Facist Walters' won't try and stock the schools with Trump bibles exclusively ... but they are at least PRETENDING to make the process fairer towards other god botherers in the biblical grift game.
I work in the publishing industry (for those who follow me, I'm in operations as a production and logistics specialist; hence my posts about the ILA strike). I work with dozens of print and paper manufacturers all over China. There is a small handful of Chinese printers who are authorized to print bibles. The Chinese government has a stake in most of them. It is possible or even likely that these bibles were printed with the full knowledge and tacit endorsement of the Chinese government. Here's how it will work if he gets his way with tariffs: when CBP releases its list of tariffed HTS codes, they will also release a (very short) list of exempted suppliers and "preferred" trading partners. Any makers of trump products will undoubtedly wind up on that list. Everyone else can get fucked. Motto: FUJ,IOK
I'd love to see trump's general churlishness be the uniting factor that turns our country into a nation of Norma Raes. Unions helped save America before, and they can help do it again. Hopefully we can make it happen with less violence than before. But you know what they say about what happens when you forbid peaceful protest.
The campaign mailers we receive at Casa de Land Shark: The ones from Democrats have the union seal (Allied Printing Trades Council). The republican ones? Nada.
So it is! I just received a rep[ublican mailer. It says it is a "VOTE TODAY" call. It has VOTE BY MAIL and VOTE EARLY IN-PERSON led. These same assholes are the ones that are gutting official voting lists! You are instructed to "VISIT" trumpvote24.com. Are these DORKS working both sides now?
Why hasn't the media and the Harris campaign hit harder on his proposal for giant tariffs? I know it's not the easiest thing in the world to explain, but it's not THAT hard. Just put it in terms his loser fuckwits can understand:
If China has to pay an extra dollar to be allowed to sell a fifty-cent lug nut to Walmart, they're going to charge Walmart $1.50, aren't they? Then Walmart, which already sells the lug nut for $1 so they can make a profit on it, will sell it for $3, because basically they double the price of whatever they buy. So you're going to be paying double, and sometimes even more, for everything you buy that comes into America from China. Because we can't make a lot of the stuff here. We don't have the factories that make the things. They'd have to be built, or retooled from other factories. How long does it take to build a house in your neighborhood? A year, right? More or less a year. Now think of how much bigger a factory is, and how much longer that would take. And then the factory owner, who had to put all that money into building the factory, needs to get that money back. So now he makes lug nuts, only he can't afford to sell them for $1.50. He has to sell them for $3, because he's spent a hundred million dollars to build a factory that meets all safety standards and has all the equipment needed. And now your lug nut at Walmart costs you $6.
I mean, it took awhile to type that out, but it could be a 30-second ad. And you could use actual facts and numbers, show containers of lug nuts at Walmart with the price tag, and so forth.
I dunno, I just think it seems important. Maybe it's not. But none of my neighbors, with very few exceptions, could withstand a $500 emergency without real pain. If you could make them understand how much everything would cost with that tariff plan in place, you might convince a few of them - not to vote for Harris (I think that's a bridge too far for a lot of his cultists) but just to stay at home on Election Day.
This is why self-sealing stem bolts are an exciting opportunity for the savvy investor. The potential for growth is huge, and I just happen to know a supplier...
Here's the thing, funny: China does not pay one dime of the tariff. A tariff is a tax on US businesses importing goods from China. China does not give one crap about taxes on American businesses. They will (a bit) if it hurts their bottom line, but they know that we will keep buying from them regardless. My company will raise its retail prices and pass that pain onto the consumer. The hard fact is that the product my company produces cannot be made for $2 in the US. It can't be made for $4. There are no means to make it. I know this because I've tried. It's my actual job to try. While trump's tariffs probably won't put us out of business, they will hurt us badly. The last round of tariffs was painful. These will be worse. Why? Because trump doesn't give a shit about you, or me.
Import tariffs are paid at the US port of entry, typically through an electronic system called ACE, and they are paid by the IMPORTER, either a company or an individual in the US.
If Oklahoma is going to mandate Chump Bibles in every classroom, then they damned well better include a copy of the Necronomicon also, too!
For God's sake, I hope Trump never hears about this. The Inflatable Crowd Company – Hollywood’s Secret Extras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66PIr7Z2QZ8
Ta, Robyn. Our Union supports the Harris-Walz ticket, and brought busloads of members to knock on doors in PA not long ago. Solidarity forever.
Sure, some of his deplorables will buy a bible but this thing sounds like a different kind of grift. Some fatcat can make a campaign contribution by writing a check for the books, then sending them to some church or bogus charity and getting a nice tax write-off on it.
If other products coming out of China are any indication those bibles should be falling apart any day now.
They're made for cheap, not durability.
Where's a strident nun bearing a yardstick when you need one?
'Penguin wants to see you'
https://youtu.be/sqkowVU5mZI
Republicans have been trying to abolish unions for the past 40 years, and anyone that believes that Trump isn't the bog-standard Republican is either stupid or has a REALLY short memory. Given MAGA, I'll say both, 99% of the time. Trump has NO policies, has NO principles, and is incredibly easily manipulated. It's ALMOST like his supporters are a reflection of him.
Republicans, who represent the wealth class in America have been opposed to unions since forever. Sure Reagan opened the floodgates of anti-unionism but opposition to unions but back all the way to the first unions.
Capitalists have been trying to abolish unions since before they started.
This sounds like a book out of the freshman entrepreneurship class. Step 1: Identify current fad. When I first heard about the class, it was the rubber bracelets that said "What would Jesus do?" Step 2: Figure out a hook that is a variation that is local to the market. One girl came up with a "Pray first" version. Step 3: Calculate the cost to order the batch of goods from China. Step 4: Figure out the cost to make double the money back, and then sell them for at least that much money, if not more, so you can order another two batches from the factory, and so forth.
That girl made around 2 million from her dumb little "Pray First" rubber bracelets. They sold like hotcakes. She had to hire the rest of the kids in the dorm to help her out as salespeople. She ended up donating a lot of the proceeds to charity. Anyway, she got an A in the class. Smart kid. Nailed the lesson.
Except instead of double the money back, the PAB's Bible is 20x the money back, because of course it is.
I thought the "God Bless the US bible" was actually being sold by Lee Greenwood before PAB got his greasy, grifty hands on it. I wonder if PAB is at least cutting Greenwood in on the grift ( not that I like Greenwood, at all, but I would prefer to see PAB pocket less money from this )
Greenwood is most def in on it -- he did a video ad for the thing IIRC -- but it's Trump's grift all the way. I assume he has to pay Greenwood some kind of licensing fee, but that's between them and their agents.
I was really questioning the idea that PAB would pay Greenwood anything.
Greenwood has big-boy agents. I don't think they'd let Trump slide by without paying anything.
It's possible Greenwood just loves the guy so much that he's putting his name etc. on that Bible for free. But it doesn't seem likely.
Considering how may contractors, etc. that PAB has stiffed over the course of years, I would not be surprised if he "negotiated" with Greenwood's agents, but has just delayed making any payments. It could be that Greenwood's lawyers are in preparation of a lawsuit, but we just haven't heard of it yet
I'm not a country music aficionado, but I kinda thought Greenwood had been written off log ago, if he wasn't already dead. ( the one picture I saw of him at the RNC sure made it look like he wasn't long for this world now ). So, who knows, maybe Greenwood's so happy that PAB made him "semi-relevant" once more that he agreed to let PAB use the book for free
Minor nitpick with this post. Oklahoma updated their requirements to allow for more than just the Trump bible.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/10/09/Oklahoma-Trump-Bible-RFP/6801728475903/
Not that the Little Facist Walters' won't try and stock the schools with Trump bibles exclusively ... but they are at least PRETENDING to make the process fairer towards other god botherers in the biblical grift game.
'Look here, peckerhead. We will let you buy 25 Chick Tracts. Seems a fair compromise'
I work in the publishing industry (for those who follow me, I'm in operations as a production and logistics specialist; hence my posts about the ILA strike). I work with dozens of print and paper manufacturers all over China. There is a small handful of Chinese printers who are authorized to print bibles. The Chinese government has a stake in most of them. It is possible or even likely that these bibles were printed with the full knowledge and tacit endorsement of the Chinese government. Here's how it will work if he gets his way with tariffs: when CBP releases its list of tariffed HTS codes, they will also release a (very short) list of exempted suppliers and "preferred" trading partners. Any makers of trump products will undoubtedly wind up on that list. Everyone else can get fucked. Motto: FUJ,IOK
"Economic Anxiety" is a hell of a drug
I'd love to see trump's general churlishness be the uniting factor that turns our country into a nation of Norma Raes. Unions helped save America before, and they can help do it again. Hopefully we can make it happen with less violence than before. But you know what they say about what happens when you forbid peaceful protest.
The campaign mailers we receive at Casa de Land Shark: The ones from Democrats have the union seal (Allied Printing Trades Council). The republican ones? Nada.
Probably from China.
So it is! I just received a rep[ublican mailer. It says it is a "VOTE TODAY" call. It has VOTE BY MAIL and VOTE EARLY IN-PERSON led. These same assholes are the ones that are gutting official voting lists! You are instructed to "VISIT" trumpvote24.com. Are these DORKS working both sides now?
Kind of reminds me of that time when the Bush '04-campaign had merch made in Myanmar.
Hypocrisy is baked into the fascist cake.
Why hasn't the media and the Harris campaign hit harder on his proposal for giant tariffs? I know it's not the easiest thing in the world to explain, but it's not THAT hard. Just put it in terms his loser fuckwits can understand:
If China has to pay an extra dollar to be allowed to sell a fifty-cent lug nut to Walmart, they're going to charge Walmart $1.50, aren't they? Then Walmart, which already sells the lug nut for $1 so they can make a profit on it, will sell it for $3, because basically they double the price of whatever they buy. So you're going to be paying double, and sometimes even more, for everything you buy that comes into America from China. Because we can't make a lot of the stuff here. We don't have the factories that make the things. They'd have to be built, or retooled from other factories. How long does it take to build a house in your neighborhood? A year, right? More or less a year. Now think of how much bigger a factory is, and how much longer that would take. And then the factory owner, who had to put all that money into building the factory, needs to get that money back. So now he makes lug nuts, only he can't afford to sell them for $1.50. He has to sell them for $3, because he's spent a hundred million dollars to build a factory that meets all safety standards and has all the equipment needed. And now your lug nut at Walmart costs you $6.
I mean, it took awhile to type that out, but it could be a 30-second ad. And you could use actual facts and numbers, show containers of lug nuts at Walmart with the price tag, and so forth.
I dunno, I just think it seems important. Maybe it's not. But none of my neighbors, with very few exceptions, could withstand a $500 emergency without real pain. If you could make them understand how much everything would cost with that tariff plan in place, you might convince a few of them - not to vote for Harris (I think that's a bridge too far for a lot of his cultists) but just to stay at home on Election Day.
This is why self-sealing stem bolts are an exciting opportunity for the savvy investor. The potential for growth is huge, and I just happen to know a supplier...
Here's the thing, funny: China does not pay one dime of the tariff. A tariff is a tax on US businesses importing goods from China. China does not give one crap about taxes on American businesses. They will (a bit) if it hurts their bottom line, but they know that we will keep buying from them regardless. My company will raise its retail prices and pass that pain onto the consumer. The hard fact is that the product my company produces cannot be made for $2 in the US. It can't be made for $4. There are no means to make it. I know this because I've tried. It's my actual job to try. While trump's tariffs probably won't put us out of business, they will hurt us badly. The last round of tariffs was painful. These will be worse. Why? Because trump doesn't give a shit about you, or me.
ONCE AGAIN, for everybody who still thinks that the exporting country or company pays import tariffs...
https://usacustomsclearance.com/process/taxes-on-imported-goods/#:~:text=Anti%2Ddumping%20and%20countervailing%20duties,at%20the%20port%20of%20entry.
Import tariffs are paid at the US port of entry, typically through an electronic system called ACE, and they are paid by the IMPORTER, either a company or an individual in the US.
"Trump wants to tax American consumers". That's it.
That's the tweet.