Obviously if anybody actually was making bulk purchases of the book for this (or any other) purpose, they wouldn't pay full retail price for a bulk purchase? And you can purchase a brand new single copy on eBay right now for less than $11.85 including shipping. Nobody pays full retail price for bulk purchases of anything. Again, every single claim made in the title of this post is either provably false (e.g. the "#2 on Amazon" claim) or has no supporting evidence whatsoever.
My motive is to try to reduce the amount of information being spread on this forum, and to try to reduce the gullibility of Trump/MAGA supporters who read and participate here. All this clickbaity garbage distracts people from the massive amounts of very serious work that needs to be done if we're to have any chance of saving our nation. The powerful people who are destroying our nation laugh with great satisfaction when they see all this crap being posted and believed here.
Where's the evidence that any US government agency is paying a dime for any of these books? This book was dated 2019, and as with most politician vanity books, we can assume that a bunch of private organizations were bullied into making bulk purchases of the book, and got stuck with boxes full of them that nobody wanted. The publisher may also have gotten stuck with a bunch of them, if they printed more than the bullying campaign could get sold. There is a report that children at one shelter in California are getting these books in their welcome kits. That's it.
Try reading the article you linked. What it actually says is:
Unaccompanied migrant kids brought from the U.S.-Mexico border to a new shelter in Long Beach, Calif., will be given a copy of her 2019 children’s book, “Superheroes are Everywhere,” in their welcome kits.
Not "to each child held in federal detention facilities", not at a cost of $11.85 per book (no mention of any money at all being paid for the books, much less $11.85 a pop for copies of a remaindered 2019 book, much less a dime of tax dollars -- may well be donations from some outfit that got stuck with a bunch that Harris' political machine bullied them into buying), no "moving the book to #2 on Amazon" (pretty damn easy to disprove that ludicrous claim: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Books-Childrens/zgbs/books/4/ref=zg_bs_pg_1 -- it's not even in the top 100, and that's as far as Amazon's childrens bestseller list goes).
So somebody dumps a few boxes of old unwanted children's books that Kamala put her name on, at a single shelter for illegal iimmigrant kids, and somebody here spins that into a story of all immigrant kids in federal shelters getting copies, with each copy being bought for the kids at a cost of $11.85 a pop, and driving the book almost to the very top of Amazon's bestseller list . . . and you STILL believe this even after you've gone searching the internet for evidence and found only this NY Post article which says nothing of the sort.
It's not legal and it's not happening. Don't worry about it.
Edit to add: Somebody donating some old excess inventory of these books to the single shelter in California where there's a credible report of the book being included in immigrant children's welcome kits, is perfectly legal. But nobody is making mass purchases of this book, with taxpayer money or any other money -- Amazon's children's bestseller list includes the top 100 sellers, and this 2019 title isn't anywhere on the list.
That's why I spend so much time debunking things on this forum. It really does matter that so many Trump/MAGA supporters genuinely have no clue how to distinguish click-baity internet tales from real information. Lots of people from this forum fell for Lin Wood and John Pierce's phony #Fightback foundation, actually sending their hard-earned money to these scammers, because they believed the scammers' transparently false claims that they were going to be defending Kyle" (later modified to "assembling and leading a team of elite lawyers to defend Kyle", after too many people publicly pointed out that neither of them had a speck of experience in criminal defense) and that the money would be used "for Kyle".
Internet. Obituaries, and especially recent ones are posted far and wide. Usually to multiple news"papers" in the area, and also to Legacy.com (to which obits and simple death notices are fed directly from news media and funeral homes).
Bulk paper stock is often watermarked. There are no special watermarks capable of tracking individual ballots. If somebody tried to dump a batch of fake ballots in with the real ones, and used random paper stock to print their own fake ballots, that might get picked up checking for a standard watermark used on the county's ballots. But the serious perpetrators of election fraud were professionals, and they would have made sure to get the legit paperstock if they had to print more ballots. But more likely they just had access to lots of extra real blank ballots. There are no watermarking systems that make any individual ballot traceable.
Exactly. Large scale election fraud is perpetrated by professionals. They have access to blank ballots, and if necessary to blank paper stock identical to what was used to print legitimate ballots. If there's any watermark on any ballots, it's no different than the watermarks on stationery stock that you can buy at Staples -- same ordinary watermark on every sheet of paper of the same brand.
Not this crazy watermark story again! Look, many specialty papers are watermarked, including probably much of the paper stock for ballots. Hundreds of thousands of sheets of paper, all with ordinary and identical watermarks. The professional election fraud perpetrators who snuck lots of fake ballots into the system had access to the real paper stock, so all the fake ballots will have the same watermark as the real ballots cast in that state or county. There have never been any unique-to-one-sheet watermarks used on any paper ballots anywhere.
"Nora May", eh? Funny how there's no death notice or obituary for anybody with that name in the past month. And all the earlier ones are very old women, some for who May was the surname and others for whom "nora May" was their first-middle names.
Probably there was some recurring late fee accumulating, and some computer glitch didn't stop accruing it when it hit the full value of the tape, and then interest accumulated on top of that, resulting in the unpaid amount hitting a dollar threshold that qualified as a felony. Still doesn't hold water, but I expect that's how it happened. Not returning a rented VHS tape is obviously not a felony.
They said the jet was also placed on an alert status — fueled and ready for takeoff — for possible responses to protests over the murder of George Floyd by a police officer and to any unrest sparked by the Nov. 3 presidential election.
WTF? Does this mean the citizen militia now needs to be equipped with shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles?
VAERS just collects reports. "A report in VAERS" doesn't mean anyone has established a connection between a vaccine and the reported adverse event. It's appropriate for physicians to make a report any time they think there might be a connection between a vaccine and a patient's adverse event, so that the possibility of a connection can be considered and investigated.
It's comparable to people responding to a police bulletin asking the public to be on the lookout for a missing person. Just because the police got a report that somebody thinks they might have seen the person pictured in the bulletin in a park a thousand miles from where they were last known to be, doesn't mean it's been established that the same person was actually in that park. But if police get multiple reports from different people who think they saw the person in that general area, they will prioritize searching in that area. That's how VAERS works.
Actually so far, the Pfizer mRNA vaccine seems to be the safest, wiht the Moderna mRNA vaccine a close second. The J&J and AstraZeneca ones (not available in US) are both adenovirus-vectored vaccines, and both are displaying a very small, but still significant number of serious clotting after-effects.
I haven't seen that. Whatever page you're on when you do the edit, e.g. the thread or your own profile or a reply to a message in your inbox, the edit will show up there as soon as you hit save. But if you hit refresh, or go to one of the other pages where you comment will be displayed it won't show up. But later on it will show up on all those pages. So it didn't de-edit itself from when you saw it right after you saved it -- nobody else was able to see the edit at that point, from any page, because the edit hadn't "taken" yet. Clear as mud?
LOL! What could possibly go wrong?