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We are starting day 2 just past 50% funded for the short story collection! Pledge, share, reserve your copy today! This is definitely happening!

kickstarter.com/projects/alexa…
Meant to attach a picture to that.
Why do I use Kickstarter for my story collections?

- It lets me afford a professional painting for the cover instead of stock photos.

- It serves as a pre-order mechanism.

- Helps build hype.

- If I am very lucky and very good, it can serve as something of an advance.
Fully funded means I just about break even and will then make small profits over time from sales. Anything over that is money I can live on in hard times or use for fun in good ones.
It's risky, though, doing a campaign like this when I make my living crowdfunding day to day and month to month. It's a balancing act to try to make money now while also plugging something that might pay out in a few months, mostly to the same audience that supports my other work
Which isn't to say don't pledge, obviously. Just an observation. The magic ingredient that makes crowdfunding sustainable is to grow the crowd.
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Alexandra Erin
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One of my plausible nightmare scenarios is that the Trump GOP ever more explicitly articulates their premise that Democratic leadership is bad for the country and that any action is justified to prevent it... threats, violence, forcible prevention of voting, etc.
If a president cannot be indicted for the assassination of a rival candidate (and current guidance from the DOJ, honored by the courts and congress, is that this is so) and if as Dershowitz maintains a president cannot be impeached for a crime taken to guarantee re-election...
...then there is no argument against a president assassinating the opposition except the moral one. Which fails in the case of no morals and in the case of a genuine belief that the other party represents an existential threat to the US or is somehow inherently immoral.
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Big question, so I'm making a new thread.

I do not, and I don't think it's possible, short-term.

And part of that effect is Trump and part of it is his base and part of it is the way the media and electorate have been tuned by the GOP for decades.

Part of it is that Trump just does not care and will not stop until someone stops him. In many cases, PHYSICALLY. Stuff "sticks" to politicians because they acknowledge it, if not in the sense of "Yes, that's true. I resign." but they... pull back. Grow cautious.
"The Access Hollywood Tapes would have ended most politicians' campaigns." is an almost invisible use of passive construction. The truth is: most politicians would have ended their campaigns, figuring it's better to do it on their terms and cut their losses than fight and lose.
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My biggest problem with the "Trump is petrified of running against Biden" narrative is something I alluded to yesterday when talking about Bernie in the general election:

The GOP hate machine will do this to whoever the opponent is. With the same force and fervor.
When the opponent is not a respectable older white male, we get people who start saying "Gee, this person has so many unfavorables. Maybe we should find a candidate with fewer weak points."

When it's someone like Biden, it becomes, "The enemy is terrified. Good."
And that right there is a weakness in how we view the field. It shows our bias as an electorate, that the exact same behavior BY THE GOP (not the candidate) is viewed as a strength for a white man and a weakness for anyone else.
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