Somebody who works in a bookstore had some fun with Ivanka's book.

[kpete]

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[dalton99a]

1. Awesome.

[Aristus]

2. Good for them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Message deleted by DU the Administrators

[GallopingGhost]

4. ha ha awesome. n/t

[underpants]

5. Seen on FB

[3catwoman3]

6. Very creative.

And very true.

[BSdetect]

7. The entitled ones are impervious to reason

[FakeNoose]

50. So are the deplorables

I doubt if they ever go into a bookstore and this would never happen at Walmart.

[El Mimbreno]

64. Naw,all that happens at WalMart...

Is that the tabloid rags with t's pic get turned around. After all, there are kids coming through the checkouts with their parents, and kids should not be exposed to something that vulgar.

At the grocery, there was a magazine special (Newsweek?) on t. Somehow, the Michelle Obama mag kept getting in front of it. Much more attractive. BTW, the Michelle mags were almost sold out, but the rack of t mags was still full. Made it hard to squeeze the Michelle mag in front. Who, me?

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Truly epic ! nt

[Beautiful NM]

9. Perfect

Very well said.

[Hekate]

10. Applause!

[heaven05]

11. love it

and a 20% off price too. Nope, not even if it was 99% off......

[blueseas]

12. Thank you kind bookseller

Please read my fellow Americans, it will do you some good!

[iluvtennis]

13. Love it!

[LAS14]

14. Anyone know where this store is???? San Francisco? Boston?

Seattle? San Antonio? Portland, OR?

[athena]

15. I bet it was a customer.

Anyone who is an employee would have been afraid to lose their job.

The next time you're at a bookstore and feel bored, ....

[DeminPennswoods]

58. Yes, it was very likely a customer

The job of bookstore employees is to help the store make money for salaries, benefits and profits. It doesn't matter if the sales are of liberal, conservative or any other shade of book, it's all green to the bookstore.

[obamanut2012]

60. Yeah, do not do this if you are bored, you are a bad customer

You are causing extra work for employees already very overworked and very underpaid.

[niyad]

16. works for me. I used to have all kinds of fun with reichwing bs when I worked in a bookstore.

[Eliot Rosewater]

31. I was SO looking forward to season two of "Man in the High Castle" but when it came

out it became reality, not fiction, so I have not watched and wont.

Way too depressing.

[niyad]

66. had never heard of it--but from what I just read--yeah, too close to reality.

[HughBeaumont]

17. I'm more LOL'ing at the "Rewriting the Rules for Success" part . . .

"Fall out of the correct womb" is the most tried-and-true "rule" to success it's ALWAYS been.

[countryjake]

26. Sounds like a most appropriate & typical Trump subtitle...

and it's amazing that she had no idea how ironic plastering that on the front of her book would appear.

[Alice11111]

42. That was Warren Buffet's no1 rule, in jest. Also, it is his

argument for having a reasonable estate tax, rather than the one we have now, which applies to very few people.

[Doreen]

18. I laughed enough that I am glad I did not have food in my mouth.

So funny.

[judesedit]

19. Too funny

[murielm99]

20. Children of the Self-Absorbed and

Toxic Parents...

I have read both of those books and discussed them on the advice of my therapist.

Narcissism isn't funny. But the display is funny!

[countryjake]

23. Me too, bought "Toxic Parents" back when it came out...

during the time that it was necessary for me to spend time back home while my daddy was very sick and dying, years ago. Even discussed parts of it with my mean old mother, ha!

Whatever their underlying cause may be, toxic parents aren't funny.

Yup, the arrangement of those books is hilarious!

[mainstreetonce]

21. Should include a title

about inappropriate .daddy/daughter fun.

[lapfog_1]

33. like this

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTZ5ivoU5JWvjVBFQ5IvZ8CvwRrQwyzt8PB-XgpZBgr5XSgiYtl

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

22. I do that...

... at Sam's Club, Walmart and Costco to any pro GOP books. I cover Ann Coulter books with Hillary books, Al Franken over Bill O'Lielly books, etc...

[crazycatlady]

32. There's an old internet pic

Where Sean Hannity's book is placed next to Summer's Eve. Very appropriate.

[SpankMe]

24. This is pretty funny. But,...

...I think we should think about leaving Ivanka and Melania alone. I know their perception and practice of feminism is off the mark and they are completely out of touch with the other 99.999% of women out there. But, in the long run I think they're staying pretty quiet and are essentially harmless so far. The damage they're doing is minimal.

A lot of women do admire them - even some non-Republican, non-whack-job women - and we risk alienating more than the Klan-centric right wing when we come down hard on the Trumpettes.

I get that people will disagree with this assessment. But we give our detractors firepower against us when we get overly nasty about Melania and Ivanka. I love Bill Maher, but his Ivanka incest joke was too rough and undignified even for him. I gave it a chuckle, but it energized right-wing fucks like crazy.

We need to reserve our firepower for Trump, Pence and the cons who are truly threatening America. When we pick apart peripheral characters, we incentivize the right to inflate their rhetoric and their ranks more that it would otherwise be inflated.

[Vinca]

25. I disagree - especially about Ivanka. She's inserted herself into the nightmare by choice.

I have slight empathy for Melania. She understandably doesn't seem to want to have much to do with BLOTUS and realizes her role in this is "eye candy."

[onecent]

63. It's very fair to pick on Ivanka........

[murielm99]

27. I figured it was fair to pick on Ivanka

because she is a spokesperson for her father and part of his administration.

Before I knew much about her, I thought she was attractive. Now, I see more of her personality and I find her vapid. I would feel the same way if she was a Democrat.

[grantcart]

28. Ivanka volunteered and is making money off it and her

husband is the most powerful counselor in the WH.

I agree to give M a break as long as she stays quiet.

When she starts an "anti internet bullying" campaign and her husband is the worst bully on the internet and is trying to bully witnesses, she becomes fair game.

[3catwoman3]

29. Ivanka is enabling her bat-shit crazy father.

That is harmful, and not just a little, IMO.

[crazycatlady]

34. Ivanka is fair game

If we're going to leave a Trump daughter alone, her name is Tiffany.

Ivanka put herself in the spotlight. She and her husband have jobs/offices in the WH. They're fair game.

[Alice11111]

41. Hey, she and Kushner are Counselors to the Pres, FT

Of course, they should be scrutinized.

Barron, age 11, not involved, is a different matter. Off limits.

If Tiffany stays out, mostly, give her a pass. If she immerses herself, she's an adult, so scrutiny is correct.
DT Jr and Eric were avtive FT in the campaign,and they are running the businesses, those in the so called blind trust (a joke and a lie) and others. IMO, that makes them subject to scutiny too.

[crazycatlady]

43. your typo is hilarious

Makes them sound like cannibals.

All of 45's kids with Ivana are fair game. Or as I like to call them, the Children of the Corn.

IMO the only kids of politicians that should not be off limits are the ones that put themselves into the spotlight (and not just family photos for campaign literature). And IMO ALL minor children should be off limits.

[Alice11111]

44. Yeah, even cannibals.

[countryjake]

35. Arranging a few select self-help books beside Ms Trump's ...

own published book display isn't exactly what I'd consider coming "down hard" on the woman.

I agree with your main point about the innocent family members of rethug asshats, but the extended Kushner family have effectively inserted themselves into vital aspects of the leading of our nation. That fact right there should worry us all, don't you think?

[BarbD]

38. Today's reality is tragic.

I totally agree that we need to focus on Trump and those who are tearing apart our country now. His immediate family can be considered victims of abuse.

[7962]

49. I agree. Most here dont. You are correct.

Attacks on women who are republicans or "with" them arent considered misogyny.

Disagreeing & being critical of them is one thing, but I'm sure you've seen the really nasty stuff posted by some about Ivanka & Melania

[RhodeIslandOne]

53. They deserve the same criticism as the male grifters of the family

But thanks for your concern.

[7962]

57. Criticism is fine; I'm speaking of the nasty derision & comments.

If you do it to them, then you cant criticize the RW for doing the same exact thing to HRC, Michelle Obama, Chelsea Clinton, etc.

[RhodeIslandOne]

52. Please, they are as fair game as the idiot sons and Kushner

They are all grifting their asses off.

[coco22]

55. No..

And that oldest son needs to be investigated.

[grantcart]

30. Now if we can only get Trump supporters into bookstores

and get them to read

and get them to put 2 & 2:together lol

[DinahMoeHum]

36. Message deleted by DU the Administrators

[ChoppinBroccoli]

37. A Favorite Book Store Prank Of Mine

There is a small book in the Philosophy section titled, "On Bullshit." I take as many copies of that book as the store has, and I put them on top of RW books, so they're quite literally ON bullshit.

I also like to move pro-RW books to the Fiction section. And when it's clear that the person shelving the books is prominently displaying only RW books, I cover them up with better selections.

If they ever have a section labeled "Donald Trump Books," I would fill it up with Mein Kampf and a few other choice selections. Book store prankery is fun.

[Alice11111]

40. Well, keep choppin...good idea.

[DeminPennswoods]

56. All this does is make work for bookstore employees

I know you think you're being clever, but bookstore employees are around the shelves, displays and end caps all day and inevitably, the books are returned to where they're supposed to be shelved. I saw these kind of pranks done a few times and it just made extra work for me and my co-workers who only had a limited time to refill the bookshelves with the prior day's deliveries.

[obamanut2012]

62. Read my replies in this thread

100% agree with this -- this garbage isn't funny at all.

[obamanut2012]

61. So then, when an employee can't find those books for a customer

The employee gets yelled at. And, whenever the books are found, they have to be reshelved. Or, the inventory will be adjusted and the store will have a shortage marked against them.

Think before you do this stuff: you are only hurting the underpaid and overworked staff, period.

[Alice11111]

39. Clever, and subtle

[Control-Z]

45. That is brilliant!

Even a deplorable might get the point. Though what are the chances a deplorable would be in a bookstore?

[IrishEyes]

46. I expect to see this book in the $1 section of my local used bookstore soon.

There always books there by right wing crazies. They stay for awhile because no one buys them even for $1. I'll admit that I have hidden a few right wing crazies books behind real books when I'm at a bookstore.

[Grammy23]

54. They often wind up at The Dollar Tree

Where everything in the store is one buck. I saw some of Sara Palin's books there. It always warms my heart to see books like hers at the last stop before the landfill.

[Books_Tea_Alone]

47. I also move T.rump's books

I move them to the pet section (no disrespect to pets of course...)

[Hortensis]

48. Setting up orange kitten lovers for a nasty shock...

Welcome to DU, Books!

[llmart]

51. Now THAT is clever...

and so creative. Love it!

[obamanut2012]

59. Having worked in a bookstore many years ago: the customer who did this can go to hell

No way an employee did this, customers did. And, employees had to fix the CORPORATE MANDATED endcap and reshelve all the books, and possibly get yelled at by wingnut customers. All for barely above minimum wage.

Having been a retail slave in my youth, I never, ever think this stuff is funny.

[DeminPennswoods]

65. Worked p/t at a big bookstore

I worked in a location that was in a very liberal area and one in a very conservative area. I only saw these "pranks" in the liberal location. Every time I'd see it, I'd be slightly amused, but never thought it was anything other than juvenile behavior. And I encountered customers who thought the store carried too many conservative authors or too many liberal ones. For each store, their inventory is all about what sells in that store's particular location, period.

Obamanut2012 is right, the end cap displays come down from the store's corporate HQ. They are pre-programmed and the individual store doesn't have a say.

And, tbh, most of the political/fad/current events books end up being returned to the publisher, then returned later as bargain/clearance books.

[obamanut2012]

67. And yes about being remaindered!