Doesn't anybody here do any fact-checking before commenting? Viskovic is an attorney for Cyber Ninjas, who are conducting the audit on behalf of the GOP. "The dems" are not in a position to hire attorneys to represent Cyber Ninjas.
They definitely still have a niche, though one can now send and receive a "fax" from/to a computer or phone, leaving permanent electronic copies on one or both ends, so the added security of faxing has largely disappeared (government regulations and related corporate policies are lagging behind, as usual). But they never had as big an impact on commerce as experts anticipated, simply because they were eclipsed by e-mail in a fairly short time after they achieved broad enough adoption to be really useful.
I remember hearing that FedEx (before it bought Kinko's which it turned into "FedEx Office") invested heavily in fax machines early on, thinking that there would be a large market for people wanting to go to a FedEx location to fax documents more quickly and cheaply than they could physically send them via FedEx. Of course, fax machines quickly appeared in practically all offices, and many people were free to use their office fax machines for personal transmissions. And it wasn't long after that, that e-mail penetrated both office and home environments, almost simultaneously.
It is ironic how the people who seem to be falling for every sketchy tale attributing severe illness or death to the COVID vaccines just because the victim (or alleged victim -- in many cases, it's not clear any real-life victim even exists) is among the millions of people who had very recently received a vaccine, seem to be largely from the same group who (correctly) called BS on the sketchy official statistics that wildly overcounted deaths "attributable to" COVID. It's like they just automatically embrace claims that official sources are lying to them, regardless of the credibility, or lack thereof, of the specific claims in question.
Yep, just like the guy who died of injuries sustained when he fell off a ladder. Death was counted as COVID-related because he tested positive.
Neonatal thrombocytopenia is a thing. Usually not fatal, but it can be. It's tragic, but the chance of fatal thrombocytopenia being caused by an infant breastfeeding from a mother who was vaccinated is extremely close to zero.
Exactly. The books turning up at the shelter isn't evidence of the problem. The politically pressured bulk purchases back in January 2019 were the problem, when Harris was "only" a Senator. But basically every in-office politician or recently out-of-office politician who is still perceived to have a lot of influence and/or to be likely to land in other high-level elected or appointed position in the foreseeable future, who has published a book has played this game -- and it's not limited to Democrats, though I suspect they're laundering donations this way on a much larger scale. One of Hillary's past books was reported bought in massive quantities by unions, which couldn't even give most of the copies away to their members.
Why do people keep posting versions of this story with post titles that make claims not found in the linked article or any other source? Where's the evidence that any tax money was involved in this? One post yesterday contained a claim in the title that "the White House" was providing a copy of this book to each child held in federal detention facilities a cost of $11.85 each moving the book to #2 on Amazon. The linked article didn't contain a word to support any of these claims, and the book appears nowhere on Amazon's 100-book-long children's bestsellers list.
The books were seen in welcome kits at ONE facility in California. Most likely some organization (e.g. maybe a teacher's union) that was pressured to buy the book in bulk when it was published in January 2019, figured donating them to the shelter was a great way to get rid of the boxes cluttering their storage room.
Where's the evidence that any government agency paid for these? They probably came out of the basement storage room of some California teacher's union that was pressured to buy boxloads back when the book was released in January 2019.
There is absolutely no evidence that any tax money was used to put these books in the kids' welcome kits. This book was published in January 2019. I have no doubt that Kamala received a fat upfront fee for putting her name on and that her political cronies were pressured into making bulk purchases so the stupid book would make the NYT's scammy bestseller list. Same thing happened many years ago with one of Hillary's stupid books. Unions got stuck with boxloads of them. Sooner or later, the organizations that get stuck with boxloads of books like these need to unload them. The storage space they take up is worth more than the books, which nobody actually wants.
I'm not defending her. I'm pointing out the irrational thinking involved in people making posts like this, and other people believing the baseless claims. Trump/MAGA supporters need to learn to think rationally if there's to be any hope of getting our nation back on track to sanity and liberty. If we don't, this disgusting woman is likely to end up occupying the Oval Office for 6 or 7 years.
Of course the publisher gave her a big upfront check, in January 2019. She already made whatever money she was going to make off the book before she even ran for POTUS and ended up settling for VP. Brand new copies of this book are selling on eBay for under $10. Whatever route a few boxes of these books took to a California shelter for immigrant children, it certainly did not involve anyone buying individual copies at retail list price, and it's unlikely it involved anyone buying them from the publisher at any price. It's much more likely that some outfit (like a teacher's union), that acquired them in bulk during the original distribution, figured this was a good way to unload the boxes of these books that had been gathering dust in storage.
You might as well tell him that turning green is "a potential side effect". This story is totally unconfirmed (no obit or death notice anywhere for anyone with the name "Nora May" given in the posted version of this tale). And IF some unfortunate infant died of "idiopathic thrombocytopenia" or any other kind of thrombocytopenia after its breastfeeding mother was vaccinated, this is no way suggests that the death was caused by the mother's vaccination.
Conservative Treehouse used to be better than this. Why is this ridiculous clickbait story getting plastered all over this forum tonight? A few copies of this stupid book show up in welcome kits for immigrant kids at a single shelter in California, and people are trying to spin it into some huge scoop about a crooked money-making scheme.
Not a speck of evidence that the federal (or California state) govemment paid a dime for these books, much less paid to purchase them from the publisher, which would be the only conceivable way Harris could get a cent from them. And it's rather unlikely she was ever compensated in a sales-dependent way for putting her name on this book in sales-dependent way (more likely just a flat upfront fee for putting her name on it and agreeing to have her name and likeness used in publicity).
This is the kind of book that gets distributed at initial publication through a few sales at mainstream book retailers, and a lot of bulk sales under pressure to the "author"s political pals and their pet organizations. These organizations (often including unions) end up with unwanted boxes of the books, and eventually need to unload them. These are probably from boxes that have been gathering dust in a storage unit belonging to a California teacher's union, or something along those line.
No. Harris does not make her money peddling children's books. She would have gotten an upfront fee for putting her name on this silly book back in 2019, and quite likely nothing further no matter how many copies were sold. She's evil, not stupid. If she was going to risk getting caught arranging for the federal government to transfer taxpayer dollars to her personal pockets, she'd do it with something big, and her name would not appear anywhere in any aspect of the deal.
But of course there is no evidence whatsoever that any federal funds were used to purchase any copies of this book. And there has only been a report that the book is being included in welcome kits at one newly opened shelter, that has a maximum capacity of one thousand children (though no particular reason to think that the book will be a permanent feature of the welcome kits). Also no evidence that Harris will receive a dime as a result of this book distribution, which is probably courtesy of some outfit that was politically pressured to buy a bulk shipment of the books back in 2019, and is eager to unload them for free or at least a lot less than they paid for them. Harris wouldn't have any way of getting any money from a resale.
She's evil, but not stupid. No way in hell would she open herself to an expensive legal challenge by engaging in or allowing the blatantly illegal federal purchase of a book with her name on it in an arrangement that would result in any of the money going to her. She does not make her money peddling children's books.
There is NO evidence that any taxpayer money was used to buy the books. If any was, it was likely a small amount, paid to some party that had already purchased them in bulk and wanted to unload them, in which case, not a dime of any money which might have been paid by some government agency would have gone to Harris. Harris would only have gotten paid a small fraction of the purchase price of books purchased directly from the publisher; she gets nothing from resales by sellers who don't have a contract allowing them to return unsold books to the publishers (such contracts are typical for large retailers, e.g. Barnes & Noble).
I'm not dodging the question. There is simply no evidence of any conflict of interest involved in these books having landed in welcome kits for immigrant kids at one shelter. The idea that Harris would be getting any direct financial benefit from this arrangement is preposterous. The amount of money involved -- even in the implausible scenario of all the books being bought directly from the publisher at standard bulk prices such as book retailers would pay -- would be so tiny that it wouldn't make a dent in the legal bills Harris would face in the absolutely certain event that her receipt of money via sales of the book to a federal government agency was legally challenged.
In all likelihood, Harris doesn't even get any money from sales of the book at this point -- she probably got an upfront fee for putting her name on it back in 2019, possibly with some additional incentive fee if it made the NYT "bestseller" list (which is a total scam, but that's another story) in the first few weeks after its release, so she would have incentive to do some publicity for it.
Why should anybody care if some immigrant kids in a shelter are being given copies of this silly book? ALL the immigrant kids in ALL the federally-sponsored shelters are about to be dumped into the public school system, which IS paid for by taxpayers, and where every single bookand other material used in the curriculum (and paid for by taxpayers) is filled with leftist indoctrination, which will be hammered into their little minds by unionized leftist-indoctrinated teachers?
Doesn't anybody here do any fact-checking before commenting? Viskovic is an attorney for Cyber Ninjas, who are conducting the audit on behalf of the GOP.