Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Jun 17 A publishing friend wrote me
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The Republican party could just as well be called the Sociopathic party, no concerns for anyone but themselves.
EIther he doesn't have enough work to do, or he hired a ghostwriter. Either way, I won't even check it out from the library, let alone pay for a copy.
He's as much a narcissistic sociopath grifter as his master, Thiel.
Corruption is so off the charts, this one doesn't even register.
I remember Obama wrote a book that got him elected president. Everyone is copying that now. ButVances book is a con job, and he is a pathological liar.
I care!
Perfect example how numb people become to the shadiness of this administration. No way ever should the sitting VP be on a book tour. I know it’s basically a meaningless job, but can he “act” like he’s working 🙄. Not to mention we’re paying to cart his smoky eyes all over the country selling it 😤.
Isn’t there only money if someone buys the book?🤮🖕
This entire administration is all about grifting and improving their wealth.
Yeah, with all the other corruption the current regime is engaging in, keeping the money from a book deal while holding office is pretty small potatoes...
Oh that is why he is doing the circuit. I first thought they are trying to humanize him.
I bet it's fiction.
My concerns are growing that the media is gonna let this MF off the hook for everything.
His book will flop
The GOPDeathCult of criminals.
I don’t understand how any public officials can have paid side gigs while in office - books, speaking engagements, stock trading, etc. Why is this legal?
He’s horrible and he’s going to be president in a couple of months. But there is a silver lining. The 2020 retribution program will end. As will the gold-ification of DC.
A government of the criminal, by the criminal, and for the criminal, will always profit from this Earth.
It's the hidden money he's taking where he gets a million a year for membership and all the farms gone bankrupt he is quietly acquiring and the pedophelia protection that gets me.
I can confidently say that no one would miss him...or even notice that he'd gone. He'd be like a vague, unpleasant memory that you couldn't quite put your finger on. It would be, "remember that soulless, baby-faced, couch-fucking, racist idiot? What was his name?"...An utterly pointless human being.
Nobody should be surprised. He’s going to need all the money he can get because this admin is a disaster career-wise.
With what all is going on in the world, how does he have time to write and hawk a book? Doesn’t he have an actual job? Like one funded by taxpayers?
You can't care about small fry like that when the whole country is on fire.
I believe it.
Trump has taught all of them that the purpose of public service is branding, marketing, and making as much money as possible from public office.
The greed is very strong with this one. *with all of them, frankly
He figures that he will be out of a job soon.
it is true no one cares about vance
You couldn’t give me that piece of shit book.
And so odd that it's a book about his personal religious journey, instead of something like "Profiles in Courage" or some history or insightful commentary on his chosen career field.
People care, but we also bet that his book will be far from a best-seller. Unless, of course, he buys up all the copies 😉
Doesn't surprise me at all. Vance has amply proven via his words and actions that there is no bottom to his ethical 'standards.'
Keeping the money? You mean someone is actually buying his bullshit?
It was sickening to watch JD and the woman on the view. They should have Fact Checked Him. They were to nice to JD. It was disappointing & disgusting. Did ABC higher ups tell the Women to be Civil to JD?
It's such a low floor, anymore.
And Harper Collins? Really?
More correctly, "write" a book.
what were you expecting from JD?
Certainly he's in on the special contracts: drones, construction, painting, scaffolding assembly... he's trying Hillbilly Vol.2 to get people to like him. <s> Poor lad, it never occurred to him to not keep the money. </s>
AND go on a fucking book tour on our dime. Is he riding AF2?
hey, indie booksellers! do not order!
Because it's just a drop in the bucket, just pennies, when compared to the billions they're stealing from everywhere else.
They can write a book and fuck up the government at the same time and....get paid for it priceless 👌
i care
Well, he'll be unemployed soon, so he'll need the cash.
JD Vance is a shape shifter. One day he's a shithead, next day a bullshitter and most days just a piece of shit.
It's surprising that the greatest grifter to occupy the people's house didn't write an autobiography entitled "I am the Greatest - just ask me."
Oh, I can believe it. Expect it, even.
Who’d buy that book? Maybe there won’t be any money.
Compared to the other issues with Vance, that one is small change.
And we’re paying for his book tour!
Looking forward to the Trump one being ghost written #ouija
Writing fictional books about himself has been the only real job he's ever had post military that wasn't funded by his benefactor Thiel.
Every fucking maga hack in king rapey’s retinue has a side hustle. Including the pedo-king itself.
Not really surprising when you think about all the billions the tRUMP Crime Family is raking in.
Anybody enforcing the Hatch Act anymore? Hello?
Every copy belongs to the presidential records act.
we expect it from them
Note to your friend: I can! This is the admin of formalized, pre-announced grifting to anyone who would vote for them.
The avalanche of corruption can be overwhelming....
Wait until he orders 500K for government training for the royalties.
Has she been here the whole time? THIS is unbelievable? Cmon now
They've turned the grift up to 11 and not many people seem to care.
I was wondering if this had ever happened before. 😠
The reason no one cares is because this corruption ranks maybe #179 on the list of outrages and scandals of this criminal regime.
Can’t keep up with all the corruption without a scorecard.
Where has she been? The president is hawking bibles, phones, coins, sneakers, etc and keeping all of the money. Plus he is out and out stealing from us and no one seems to give a shit! I am so sick of the grift!
Stupid.
And here’s another law that should be on the agenda of the new Congress. No grifting or graft by those in the White House on any level anytime anywhere.
And it’s a BS book cuz it’s about his so-called religion and faith. 🙄
Well, I'm only one person, but I certainly don't care. I have a lot of things to worry about, and this isn't one of them.
This is a “keep all the money” regime.
"Birds of a feather..." Nothing this administration does surprise me anymore. It's always what's next?
The entire admin is amoral, hateful, spoiled and grifting/stealing US taxpayer dollars. We must hold them accountable if we are ever to know our Constitutional Republic again. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels--EVERY ONE.
Right. They should write an opera.
You can’t put lipstick on a pig, but you can put eyeliner on a Vice President.
I'm amazed that someone who is second in command of our country, with a wife and three young kids, ever found the spare time to write anything. Being VP must not be all that time-consuming.
Vance writing a book and keeping the cash seems almost like a Mickey Mouse crime compared to his King Donald. #EpsteinFiles #TheyreBothTrash
I think this news just got lost in the sauce.
But Hunter Biden sold a painting!
And Whoopi, Joy, and Sunny helped him sell it.
...and nobody is surprised. 💁
I mean yeah but Trump is straight up shilling Trumpcoin at Freedom250 UFC fight night or whatever rofl. America is getting stripped for parts.
(Well here comes a way for me to make friends and influence people!😆): Get used to that guy. If Trump either takes the dirt nap or if the Dems run a moussed-up mannequin like Gavin "Trans doesn't test well" Newsom, he's the next keeper of the Project 2025 flame. The police state will be next level.
We are in this era - no one is going to hold any of these degenerates accountable and our hair is on fire from 10 other things.
to be fair this doesn’t even crack the top 20 most corrupt things this administration has done in the last 6 months
Alt text: “I can't believe no one cares Vance is the first sitting president or vice president to write a book in the white house and keep all the money.”
I wondered about that too. It's unethical but this regime makes up there own rules.
let me guess, 25M from the publisher?
Order bell hooks book Communion. Also Appalachian Elegy during his book release week. Clown.
Grifters gonna grift.
Reaching fascist exhaustion phase 1. Realizing no heroes are coming, and underground resistance will be our only hope of waiting for outside forces to free us will be phase 2.
Seems quaint by comparison
The least of the corruption
Is she new?
I care.
The grift continues. Gotta play the God Card…
I care and I am outraged! Also I read Hillbilly Elegy and didn’t care for the book, but suddenly it became a movie, Jd was on the scene thanks to Thiel, now Thiel has left the US and we are in shambles. Argh!
He is also the first sitting vice president to fuck a sofa in the White House. Truly, a man of many talents.
They've achieved what rotting garbage dump bannon wanted - they've flooded the zone with so much shit we can't keep up. I didn't even really have this on my radar - that he wrote the book while VP meant that OF COURSE he did it on, essentially, our time, or that he shouldn't be profiting from it.
Didn't Mike Pence write one about his gay pet bunny?
I have been posting about his book tour since it started
I think most of us are assuming it won’t make any money and that AI wrote it, but this point still stands!
Pretty far down the list of transgressions.
🤔 It’s not that we don’t care it’s just that our meter that gauges corruption criminality + cruelty has broken from being so relentlessly taxed.
It's no golden phone, but it's the best grift Vance could come up with.
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The firehose of corruption is hard to keep up with.
This is the least of “evils” from this POS administration.
People care - they just don’t know what to do about it or how to prioritize the outrages
At this point, it's so far down on the list of atrocities from this administration that it's gotten hard to care. It's like caring if a door hangs slightly crooked on a house that's been hit by a tornado. Yea...it is, but that's barely going to register on the list of shit that needs to be handled.
But Hunter Bidens paintings! Lol
We can’t keep up.
He wrote a book?
I had assumed it wasn't gonna be a lot of money.
And Vance is the first VP (as far as I know, anyway) to want to send federal troops to crack down on Americans peacefully protesting. I blame him for the deaths of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and many more not yet known to me.
That’s quaint corruption, right there. JV can’t even grift as effectively as his daddy.
He has time to write a book? No res flags there.
I pointed this out immediately. I guess he’s just got so much free time that he can write a book and go on a dog and pony book tour to promote it. Was that Peter’s idea?
That's all he has after Trump stole the rest of the money.
Anyone surprised?!
And who wants to read a book of lies! He is a master liar! He has learned from the best!
Pretty clear his boss has it in for him by making him sign the Iran Deal. Someone want to explain too how TF this guy has time to vacation, write a book etc?
The government will buy a million copies with taxpayer money to make it a million seller.
I’m sure a portion of the proceeds will go to his church. Though I never heard of him going to church. Or donating money from a portion of his books before. So scratch that.
To be fair, I’m not sure the people who would be up in arms are paying all that much attention to JD’s book, let alone book deal. Speaking for myself, the recent mentions if it totally make me roll my eyes and move on, so thanks for the heads up.
Why do you fools keep acting surprised when someone in the administration does something they’re not allowed to do?
All of them Thieves!
Compared to all the criminal activity happening on the daily, it's peanuts.
Expecting this group Of republicans to have any ethics or standards is a waste of time.
I can't belive there is still anything remotely surprising about the guy who said "they're eating our pets" and is nicknamed Couchfuck McGee. Seems like just another day in Stupidstan.
Grifting is their brand!
In the long list of crimes of this administration, that's small potatoes.
Vance honed his understanding of successful grifting by revising his view from flyover country after sucking up to trump.
i would not wipe my dog's butt with it...just sayin'...
Yeah, I thought they were supposed to wait until they left office before they wrote a book.I guess vance is jumping on the bandwagon.He'll write a couple of em before he's out of office.And use that money to run for president.Even though we know he will lose
Greedy,evil,garbage creature
When working in finance, we had to sign agreement to not have outside work. But these days sitting VP and Senators can write books and host podcasts while "serving"?
A crooked book deal once took down Speaker of the House Jim Wright. It can take down JD Vance, too
He’s learned from the best!
Amusing and if you believe those lies from the Putin Minions and the Foreign Fox News AI Clone Bots, I have a bridge to sell you.
He had no choice, Trump would not share his largesse
Of course he is because EVERYTHING MAGA does revolves around two things: hating certain groups of people and grifting for themselves. The end.
It is legal for him to use his position to promote his book and make money.?
But Hunter's laptop and Hillary's emails!
It just seems like such a small slight after all the other evidence of him being a total cunt.
And I’d be very surprised if anyone actually bought the book or cared to read it! 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻🤢
Hopefully the book sits on the shelves and is an abysmal failure.
He is one of many - in WH- doing the same thing- profiting while in public office
Everyday a new corrupt action by someone in this regime
Apparently, this is another new norm. Add it to grift that’s rampant throughout this administration. 🎶A whole new world. A new fantastic point of view. No one to tell them, "No"🎶
He’s on his book tour - how hard would it be to get someone to ask: “How did you find time to write this book while also being the VP? Will the American taxpayers participate in any payment or royalties that you make?”
Of course, as VP and father to young children, he has plenty of free time to write a book. He’s a useless POS.
I can’t believe that anybody’s surprised given the low caliber of this entire presidential party! It’s MAGA! Like the spider to the fly, what did they expect?🤨
I can
Throttlebottom wrote a book? Wait—you say he wrote TWO books? Well, that’s two more books I don’t have to read. I’m waiting for Usha Vance’s memoir, tentatively titled “Why My Husband Says Hinduism is Bad, and Why I Have No Comment on That, Despite Having a Brain.”
Really? You can’t believe it?
To be fair, I think he has a lot of free time
We care. At least some of us do.
To be fair, how much money do you think it's really gonna make? Two whole dollars? Maybe three?
The law means nothing to them!
If by no one they mean the 435 members of the House of Representatives and the 100 senators in the Senate, then where have they been? Democrats can’t coalesce around the simple message of graft and corruption, or any other messaging for that matter. It’s why voters will stay home again in November.
That doesn't surprise me. He raised a ton of money in my state, supposedly to help fight the heroin and opioid crisis in Middletown, where he's from and used all the money for his campaign instead.
Greed incorporated.
Not enough people care, sadly. Although I’d rather have Vance work on something of no value rather than doing his actual job, whatever the hell that is. By the way, everyone in this country should boycott whatever Vance pens in a book. Don’t buy it and don’t read it.
I said the same thing. How can he do a book tour?! While serving the country?? Such a scam.
I can't believe he's capable of writing a book
The grift writes itself.
Well its small potatoes next to trump
That’s little league-level graft in this White House, that’s probably why no one cares. He clearly can’t compete with the true crooks in this administration, and certainly not with the big guy and his family.
"J D Vance is one of the most craven politicians in America". ~ Sen. Raphael Warnock
Doesn't he have a job to do? ....... where the hell does he find time to write a book?
AND to go on a book tour I'll bet too. So who is vice presidenting while he's filling his collecting extra. $$$$
They get to do whatever they want. Who’s going to stop them. Republicans always find a way to legitimize this administration’s actions no matter how vile.
It’s “His“ communion. Praise Jesus!
Doesn’t make the Top 500.
Are people actually buying it? 🤔
We care….we just can’t do anything about it.
I can believe it. The parasitic cons of these people is exhausting!
And, as a sitting VP, is out doing press to promote it!!
My brother laughed and said, “Aren’t they supposed to do that when they leave?” 😆
I love all the side hustles. So corrupt.
He should be TOO BUSY to write a book
Meh. The whole rest of the house is burning down. The book on the table is pretty low priority.
1st. Most of USa would never know that he kept the money as we don't have access to his earnings! 2nd. Most wouldn't expect a book by him to make any money! 3rd. What else would we expect from a person in 🤡💩trump's regime but that he would take/keep every penny he could get hands on?
Is Ron Howard going to direct the Movie?
I can't believe he's not losing money....
How does a VP have the time to write a book during his term? He is a smooth talker but has no decency, no empathy, integrity and is only a “believer” when it’s convenient for him. The Pope saw that!!
Compared to the rest of the grift, it seems kosher. That's the worst thing this administration is doing -- normalizing unethical behavior and improper grift across the board.
We care but don’t have a department of justice
Small crimes don’t attract much attention when you’re watching an entire syndicate rob the country blind and filling their own pockets
Disgusting