A trump signed Mein Kampf reprint would have likely sold better.
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Is American democracy the shittiest version of democracy on earth?
Considering it's one the oldest/longest lasting, that checks out
I really struggle to understand why Americans are proud that they have never updated their constitution in 200 years. It's a bug, not a feature.
Idk if you're painfully ignorant or just lying but it's been amended 27 times.
As an American, same. Except for the original reason behind freedom of speech and a few other things protecting the people, we need a lot of updates. A lot of updates.
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There's 2 types of right wingers, dumb ones and disingenuous ones.
Money laundering via book 'sales' isnt something confined to republicans
All politicians have books.....a single person is free to buy 10,000 copies, book seller gets a cut and politicians get the rest..... 100% legal, clean profit. And the person that bought 10k copies gets access to said politicians
Scared, stupid and selfish. The 3S framework of conservatism. You don't have to be all 3 to be conservative, but you're at least one.
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honestly surprised no one has tried this before? or have they?
like for once the man is selling an actual product with sort of mass appeal instead of weird niche stuff with low utility like sneakers or NFTs. and like $60 is expensive, but not orders of magnitude expensive? correct me where i’m wrong
edit: typed 70 instead of 60 🤦♀️
$60 for a public domain bible, public domain constitution, public domain pledge of allegiance, and public domain declaration of independence? Sounds like an infinite order of magnitude expensive to me.
heads up i don’t think you know what orders of magnitude means
Their use of it seems no more objectionable than yours.
Printing it costs money. Not much but some.
Yeah but not that much money. First run hardcover novels cost like 15-25 bucks and it's my understanding they earn the publisher the most money of any printing run and that's even with the cut going to the author. So unless they're producing these things with some high quality materials, which seeing who's hawking these I doubt it, I think it safe to assume these things are earning at least 40 bucks in profit per sale.
Which, even assuming a generously low run of 100k, is still $4 mil. That assumes that Evangelical churches won't buy these by the millions - and I assure you, many will.
You'll also get megachurches getting in on the action - there are a scary amount of mega pastors who are just waiting to be the new face of propaganda for a theocratic regime.
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He's only scamming the religious. I don't see an issue with it.
He’s not scamming the religious, he’s bribing them. Elect Trump, and he’ll enact their zionist dreamscape. This is a transaction.
That religious money buys a lot of legal LGBTQ+ hate
Armed queers bash back.
socialistra.org
We got 'em and we know how to use them
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There's a loophole grift for everyone!
A Super PAC for all your greenback "free speech"!
Limited Edition shoes for scalpers and people who like collecting shiny shit!
NFTs to offload your crypto wallets!
Truth Social to legally funnel Wall Street money through holding companies!
Bibles for churches to spend money while saying they are "updating their library".
Come one come all, ye shady source of funding!
but the bible isn't copyrighted? right? Is there any other aspect than just the economic abuse of religions trump fans?
This is like buying merch from a YouTuber. It's not about buying a product for what it's worth, it's about donating to a "cause" with something to show off that you did. (Not hating on supporting YouTubers, just a comparison)
Yes. See OP.
I think the question here is how is this money laundering? I could sell Sherlock Holmes for $60, and that wouldn't be Arthur Conan Doyle giving me money under the table. How is this any different?
It's laundering because when someone is expressly forbidden to give you money and you start to sell them snow in the winter that's what is called giving you money. And the cheaper you get stuff to sell the less you pay to clean up the funds
Is there any evidence of churches buying these stupid bibles? If there is that's a pretty serious accusation. If it's just weirdo Trump cultists then that's not actually money laundering.
You're right, if anyone deserves the benefit of the doubt it's Donald Trump and Evangelical Christians.
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Hey I'm sure Trump will release the sales records right?
Right after he tells us who's buying up all the shares of Trump Media & Technology Group that just went public but just BEFORE he releases his taxes.
I'm all for giving the benefit of the doubt inititally but those days are long long past. He's definitely using this to funnel money into his campaign.
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You can copyright a translation of a bible, and they usually are unless they're an old translation.
The KJV is not copyrighted in America. Trump bibles are kjv.
Any preface or art work or anything else attached? Those parts can be copyrighted. Even the cover design could be.
Indeed. So Trump made something cheap he can sell for $60. Like a plastic bottle of tap water or a thin slice of chuck steak with ink on it.
Let's be honest Trump has nothing to do with the making of this thing, someone somewhere figured they could make a quick buck off the evangelical right and got Trump to sign on for, probably, a revenue share.