Ted Cruz making money by signing Dr. Suess books and selling them for $60

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Ted Cruz Raises Money By Signing, Selling Copies Of Dr. Seuss Book He Did Not Write

The Texas Republican is fundraising by charging $60 for the “cancel culture collectible."

www.huffpost.com

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is trying to cash in on the trendy conservative "cancel culture" by signing and selling hundreds of copies of a children's book that he did not write.

Cruz, via fundraising emails and Facebook ads, this week asked supporters to pitch in $60 or more for a copy of Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham" that he'd autographed himself. Copies are selling on Amazon for $4.79.

"Stand with Ted & Dr. Seuss against the cancel culture mob to claim your signed copy of Green Eggs and Ham!" the politician urged on his donation page:


"Right now, the far left is trying to 'CANCEL' Dr. Seuss," Cruz declared in a paid Facebook ad. "As someone who has always been a big fan of Green Eggs and Ham, I won't let that stand," he wrote. "So please rush an urgent Contribution of $60 and I'll sign a copy of Green, Eggs, and Ham just for you!"

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lol damn I wish I had a lot less shame, I would totally get in on this to make money off the dumbest motherfuckers on earth.

 

[Deleted member 31923]

Grifter gonna grift.

 

[Charizard]

But... but Green Eggs and Ham isn't cancelled...

 

[Cross-Section]

The grift... continues.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

THE ORGANIZATION LITERALLY IN CHARGE OF THE SEUSS ESTATE PROACTIVELY DECIDED NOT TO PUBLISH MORE COPIES OF 6 OBSCURE BOOKS WITH RACIST DEPICTIONS YOU MASSIVE ASSBAG.

 

[Jmdajr]

Pathetic

 

[Soapbox Killer]

Strange that I hate Ted Cruz but this does not bother me at all. I guess my expectations of people in general has fallen.

 

[Kyuuji]

He reminds me of Ratigan.

 

[SwampBastard]

Oh, The Places You'll Go, Ted Cruz! Like hell, I hope.

 

[Deleted member 22750]

THE ORGANIZATION LITERALLY IN CHARGE OF THE SEUSS ESTATE PROACTIVELY DECIDED NOT TO PUBLISH MORE COPIES OF 6 OBSCURE BOOKS WITH RACIST DEPICTIONS YOU MASSIVE ASSBAG.

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Doesn't matter to them

see how trump is telling donors to not give to the GOP for future use in elections and saying to donate all money to his super pac that allows trump to spend how he wants....AKA keep the money.

not one republican stood up and said not to give trump the money.

they're totally bankrupt of morality

 

[scottbeowulf]

But the Suess estate was the one that brought this up. WTF is this shit?

 

[tangeu]

Canceled how?? An independent business deciding not to sell certain products....didn't they fight for that exact thing when it was bakeries?

 

[Deleted member 4212]

Cancel culture is over

 

[HockeyBird]

Isn't Cruz the one who quoted Green Eggs and Ham to oppose Obamacare which revealed that this fucker didn't understand the entire message of the story?

 

[Indy in the Fridge]

I will not tuck him into bed
I will not take him on a sled

I do not care to keep him fed
I do not care for what he said

All I'll say is
Fuck you Ted

 

[Jedi2016]

But... but Green Eggs and Ham isn't cancelled...

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It's the only one he could think of when he came up with the idea.

 

[Clay]

THE ORGANIZATION LITERALLY IN CHARGE OF THE SEUSS ESTATE PROACTIVELY DECIDED NOT TO PUBLISH MORE COPIES OF 6 OBSCURE BOOKS WITH RACIST DEPICTIONS YOU MASSIVE ASSBAG.

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Well, looks like we know who ISN'T standing up against the radical leftists at the Seuss Estate in order to defend the Seuss Estate from cancel culture, don't we everyone.

I'd love to see how many people bite on this. Just because he's offering it doesn't mean he'll get many takers. I want to believe no one out there is this far gone...

 

[thecouncil]

1. Nobody is trying to cancel Dr. Suess.
2. I don't think the far left gives a shit.
3. Green Eggs and Ham isn't one of the discontinued books. I wonder why he's not signing the actual ones.
4. Imagine paying $60 for that. Lol.

 

[Team_Feisar]

 

[HylianSeven]

But... but Green Eggs and Ham isn't cancelled...

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I'd cancel Green Eggs and Ham after this.

 

[Hrodulf]

It's so fucking bizarre to constantly see people within the conservative sphere (like Twitter conservatives) make snide comments about anyone showing concern about genuine issues being "grifting", yet completely ignore incredibly blatant stuff like this.

 

[skeptem]

Canceled how?? An independent business deciding not to sell certain products....didn't they fight for that exact thing when it was bakeries?

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Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Weiss]

...Is that legal?

 

[bdbdbd]

zero-effort grift. At least buy up copies of the titles that aren't going to be published anymore and sign those.

 

[Rob]

I fucking hate this man with every fiber of my goddamn being.

 

[Strike]

Grifter gonna grift.

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[Zombegoast]

I remember when Romney wanted to fire Big Bird and the media made a big deal about it

JFC.

This is American politics

 

[Aurongel]

Good for him, if idiots are going to throw their money at such a transparent grift to "own da libzzz" then I say let them.

 

[Birdie]

If you're cynical the Seuss estate doing this has like ended up super lucrative for them lol.

 

[The Albatross]

Ted Cruz is pissed he didn't qualify for the stimulus because they lowered the income level, so he's getting creative

If you're cynical the Seuss estate doing this has like ended up super lucrative for them lol.

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Thought about that last week.

A brilliant retirement strategy is to write like 50 books and have 4 of them be kinda racist for the times, hoping they become mainstream racist 40 years from now, then have your publisher cancel publication of them when you're ~65, and watch income soar for your remaining acceptable library.

 

[808s & Villainy]

This is legal?

 

[Gwenpoolshark]

Lmao anyone who buys these is such a fucking loser.

 

[NCR Ranger]

I can see why Cruz is doing this nonsense. I for the life of me can't figure out why anyone would want to pay $60 for this though. There was a time I used to feel like I could understand the conservative base, disagree with, but understand why they do the things they do. Now with their veneration of Trump and general acting like a bunch of dumb fucks for a while I now no longer understand how they are even functional adults.

 

[AliceAmber]

What a fucking loser.

 

[Lost Lemurian]

I'm sure people will buy these, but I don't understand why.

Are they doing it to support human-embodiment-of-a-moist-fart Ted Cruz?

Or do they think purchasing these books somehow upsets "libruls"? Like someone is gonna burst into a party full of hemp-wearing vegans in Seattle and scream, "People are buying Dr. Seuss books signed by Ted Cruz!" and everyone will spit out their wheatgrass juice and start wailing and pulling their hair out?

 

[King Dodongo]

Those Cancun travels aren't going to fund themselves, you know?

 

[Justin Bailey]

They're children. How any adult can vote for these people is simply beyond my understanding. I can only assume they just don't give a shit about anything and like seeing the world burn for their entertainment.

 

[Blader]

Anyone who is paying for this deserves to be fleeced.

 

[maabus1999]

I'd imagine a cease and desist letter is on the way now from Random House.

 

[the chris]

I'm sure a lot of these GOP politicians know that the Suess estate themselves are the ones pulling these books from publication. It's easier for them to distract their constituents from real problems caused by their party by using phrases like "cancel culture" and telling them that the "left-wing socialists" are coming for their childhood. However, in a party of slimy turds Ted Cruz manages to stand out as one of the most rancid.

 

[Altairre]

Buying a book you don't really care about just to show how anti-SJW you are sure sounds like virtue signaling to me.

 

[Necromanti]

Buying a book you don't really care about just to show how anti-SJW you are sure sounds like virtue signaling to me.

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Conservatives/grifters make entire careers revolving around "virtue signaling".

 

[Garlador]

...Is that legal?

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This is legal?

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Reselling used copies of books is legal, no matter how much you scribble on them.

It's still a grift, though, especially since a copy of Green Eggs and Ham costs $4.79 on Amazon, so Ted Cruz thinks his name is worth an extra $55+.

 

[Dever]

Hmm, if they genuinely will never print those 6 books again, I imagine they'll be quite valuable in the future. Probably less valuable with Cruz' dumb signature though.

 

[BassForever]

This is legal?

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Why wouldn't it be? People buy and then later sell stuff all the time. The only way it would be an issue is if Cruz was using the logos and characters from Dr Seuss to push this grift.

 

[Layell]

His signature would lower the value what the hell.

 

[Tbm24]

Hmm, if they genuinely will never print those 6 books again, I imagine they'll be quite valuable in the future. Probably less valuable with Cruz' dumb signature though.

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He's not signing those books, he's just reselling Green Eggs and Ham with him signature like that matters. Trying to grift by implying the book is going away when it's not.

 

[BobLablow]

lol at morons departing with $60 for a Ted Cruz autograph and a Dr. Seuss book that isn't worth $60 today. Yet these same people will complain about how they don't have enough money during a pandemic and blame Democrats.

 

[Vonocourt]

Hmm, if they genuinely will never print those 6 books again, I imagine they'll be quite valuable in the future. Probably less valuable with Cruz' dumb signature though.

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Green Eggs & Ham is totally in print, if you want proof just look at what Ted Cruz is doing.

 

[shintoki]

Tough as Texas