Obamas reportedly sign $65 million book deal with Penguin Random House

>sign 65 million dollar deal
>someone writes it for you

Litterally how.

Is Penguin dare i say retarded?

people are just as stupid as they always were, son. there isn't a sudden influx, it just seems that way since we have access to each and every stupid person's thoughts with our vast communication webs descending on nodes of idiocy. they were already stupid, people just didn't know it.

yeah, who the fuck is gonna buy that shit? holy moly, niggers voted for him, they didn't read him for God's sake.

>He's a smart dude.

I bet he hasn't even read Heidegger.

normies, minorities, and womemes love Obongo though. They all subscribe to his twitter and worship him as "the greatest Kang we never deserved". substance is irrelevant at this point, obongos popularity will turn a profit no matter what kind of horseshit his ghostwrite throws in the 'book"

>burgerpolitics

He wrote pretty good essays on Kant

Pretty sweet scam.

>random house
Better than when Morrissey convinced them to put him in Classics

Trump is a fucking clown, a buffoon, not a leader anybody with a sense of dignity could truly respect and consider dying for. He's a means to an end, a monkey throwing a wrench into liberalism. He waves his ass at Democrats and we laugh, but if you're satisfied with just that then you're part of the problem honestly. I think the only solution is another plague

No, the West is becoming stupider. The average IQ of England has decreased since Victorian times, France dropped an astronomic five IQ points on average in I think about 20 years. Maybe it's just the flood of third world trash, but I think the internet is also rotting people's brains and killing attention spans. Our future is Brazil

>you're lame, Trump rocks, if you disagree you have no sense of humor
This really needs to be in Comic Sans next to a picture of a Minion.

>Trump is...
nobody cares cause he wins dude, I don't even need to finish your sentence.

I'm sorry, I meant humour

>No, the West is becoming stupider. The average IQ of England has decreased since Victorian times, France dropped an astronomic five IQ points on average in I think about 20 years. Maybe it's just the flood of third world trash, but I think the internet is also rotting people's brains and killing attention spans.
Source? Not that I don't believe you.

the iq has decreased as the number of people who have taken this test has increased. which serves my point.

wait, that's it? i guess the guy conceded. i expected this discussion to go quite a bit further.

How much of this will be in the book, I wonder?

3 bombs an hour

War fund and national debt expanded astronomically

Healthcare monstrosity

American education and infrastructure crashing

Record number of reporters arrested under the Espionage Act

Too busy doing reddit amas to bother attempting to do literally anything about the prison problem

he solved the prison problem. he just released a large amount of prisoners. that's it.

Daily reminder that both Obama and baby George Bush have done cocaine and enjoyed it

It will sell really really well regardless of quality

master mixed race president deserves every penny

>$65 million
apart from watching the bin laden livestream there was nothing exciting or particularly noteworthy about the obama admin that could go in a fluff piece like this, was there?

>Autohagiographic

Maybe he could write about the time he directed the IRS to target conservative groups or sold guns to Mexican cartels.

>another shithead imperialist american cunt who makes a load of money telling about he wants change yet doing absolutely fuck all to stop capitalism which is the reason for all the inequality

Big surprise.

You know it's just an excuse to give him another Nobel Prize.

keked

>stop capitalism which is the reason for all the inequality
*groans*

but he's black

It is. Capitalism requires inequality.

And?

Why The 13th Amendment Was A Mistake: The Obama Presidency in Review

Obama is the best writer to be Prez since Grant, though T Roosevelt is close. That combined with the historic nature of a Black Prez makes 65 big Ms sort of understandable.

Has anyone in here actually read dreams from my father? It's fucking great.

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>It's fucking great

If it was even middling it would be shoved down our throats 24/7. Since it's not, I'm gonna assume it's shit.

Obama is easily the most bro american president since Teddy R

>you will never be a ghostwriter for actors, athletes, and politicians
>you will never be paid millions of dollars to assemble their incoherent thoughts into readable form

It's neat how American propaganda works by making people think they've freely chosen to be cattle. This guy right here probably believes in total sincerity that Obama is a talented writer and his ascent to power was a historic milestone, not a meticulously organized hand out supported by every major social institution in the country. He truly believes that his thoughts are his own and based on his reaction to Obama's merit, not the awards on the covers of his books and his affirmative action degrees.

There are two choices given to people, option a and option a-lite, and this retard is really proud of himself for picking option a.

>It is. Capitalism requires inequality.

Not necessarily because economics or trade is not a zero sum game; every party can benefit. Even if we suppose this wasn't the case and an inequality of outcome was a necessary consequence of free trade then so what? Why should I care if some people are better than others at creating wealth?

>Not necessarily

Stopped reading there. Capitalism relies on the exploiters being able to exploit others. It requires different classes so others can "succeed."

Capitalists and the cucks that support them should be beaten to death.

>stop contradicting my dogma
this is why i stopped being a commie

Your first two words were wrong. There's no point in reading the rest of you being wrong. It's not a contradiction to dogma.

This is fallacious thinking right in line with the mercantilism of the 19th century. The idea that one side of a transaction must lose is absurd because then nobody would ever trade.

I was another user, not the guy who made the post you replied to.

>not a meticulously organized hand out supported by every major social institution in the country
was trump's ascent to power the same thing?

If you don't check out primary sources (i.e. actually read the book) you are a) a lazy brainlet and b) consciously letting yourself be manipulated by ideological forces that up-front inform you they want to manipulate you.

Why not make up your own fucking mind, instead of importing explicitly political priors to squat rent-free in your skull? I'm so very tired of people shouting political slogans at me, instead of fucking reading and critiquing something about books.

Individual transactions can be win-win while relying on a class structure to be carried out. This is absurdly obvious.

They're right tho.

>replacing trash with garbage

Fuck gook moot for this catpah trash

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If there’s a lot of money in it, it’s probably going to be shit. Like, what you’d read on a flight or on the toilet.

Agreed. God damn was TR a charming guy. He really shouldn't have said that shit about not running for a second (or third, depending on your perspective) term.

>Obama is the best writer to be Prez since Grant, though T Roosevelt is close.
He's far below Roosevelt. Roosevelt had a style of his own and was a competent prose writers. Obama cannot go five sentences without leaning on some cliches or crutch.

Yeah, haha, just murdering innocent Syrian villagers by the thousands from my luxurious home in central DC with the bros
Hey btw us guys were thinking about singlehandedly destroying health insurance in America with some retarded half-ass fish-out-of-water pseudo-socialist meme bill later, you down?
Til then I'll just be ruling through executive fiat like I always do, catch you on the flip side!

I haven't read anything but the first couple pages of Obama's Dreams from My Father, but I was definitely picking up on some Ralph Ellison mimicry, though it was still fairly pretty in terms of pure prose, so I don't think it's fair to call him incompetent. If this is turning into a Teddy Roosevelt dick-sucking thread though I'm game. That man was a spectacular writer. His book on the African Safari he took after leaving office was chock full of an almost Melville caliber juggling of encyclopedic info and lovely visceral scenes.

Read Lincoln's addresses. Obama's speeches are basically shitty meme versions of his manner of writing.

To be fair, it is kinda impossible to say how much of any given President's speeches he actually writes himself. I thought we were just talking about his prose.

I took a political writing course with TA Barry Obama at Columbia back in '82. We weren't allowed to show anyone our essays outside of the class for some reason. He seemed naturally intelligent, didnt need to look at any notes or textbooks or prepare for any lectures, he just knew his stuff and was super casual.

I saw him talking to a girl on campus one day. He uncharacteristically wore a Fila sweatsuit, the kind that looks like it's made from the same material as parachutes, and trainer sneakers with a matching bandana. That was his pussy hunt outfit apparently. Several times a week, same outfit, I'd see him hitting on women in it. I once saw him wearing it while carrying an identical outfit from the dry cleaners, he had like 4 sets of same Fila sweatsuit.

I asked him about it in class and he said we aren't allowed to discuss anything unrelated to class while inside class, the same way we can't show anyone outside of class our essays. A student called out "but Ralph Ellison isn't in this class and last week you talked about replicating his stereo building obsession if it made your writing any better." Obama stared blankly at the student with dead eyes for 30 seconds in dead silence then said "you just got knocked down a full letter grade. Any other smart asses? Didn't think so." and pushed up his glasses with his index finger.

I remember telling myself this guy will either be super successful or kill a bunch of children with military grade weaponry.

Actually, even Nixon is better

What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America — the chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil, and onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization.

>the angry /pol/ user abusing digits by being a faggot

I dunno, user. That just sounds like the usual grandiloquent puffery to me. If you hadn't said Nixon I would just have assumed any other ambitious politician wrote it. Empty calories.

Then post Obama's beautiful work

I would if I cared enough but I don't. Look at his book on google, or check out TR's African Game Trails (it's free). But just about any random excerpt you pull will be better than that treacly bullshit you posted.

>talking about obama's prose
>brings up TR
lmao
hahahahah u lose faget