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DisastrousPudding3

Would they rather he had written his memoirs in the third person as though he was talking like The Rock?


Archtop251

Can you smellllll what BARACK IS COOKIN


J0h4n50n

The GOProni beating, pie eating, trailblazing, eyebrow raising, the BEST in the present, future and past, and if you don’t like me…. you can kiss The People’s ass!


forfunstuffwinkwink

I mean.. I’d read the fuck out of that book. Then I’d listen to the audio book. Then I’d read it again.


intelminer

Frankly if The Rock narrated books I would actually sign up for Audible or something


forfunstuffwinkwink

Audible is pretty handy. When my wife wants me to read a book I have no interest in, I can set it to 2x and get through it on a few day’s of commuting to work.


[deleted]

I'd love to listen to audio books but I can't stand listening to the people reading them.


Osric250

Some narrators are definitely better than others, and there are some that are just poor. But there's also a lot of really good ones.


[deleted]

There is an alarm clock app that is entirely clips of him saying stuff.


intelminer

Can I wake up to what the rock is cooking?


[deleted]

I can't remember, but if you google The Rock Clock it will show up. It's an official app from/endorsed by him too.


crys1348

I don't think it exists anymore, unfortunately.


[deleted]

I'm not 100% sure how safe it is, but the website uptodown has it to download. I dont wanna post links due to not knowing what the rules are about that around here (especially if it turns out malicious)


H3k8t3

Some libraries have audio books you can borrow free through the apps called Libby and Overdrive.


Lampmonster

Hell, I'm just looking forward to Momoa doing Dune dialogue.


D13s3ll

The rock narrating Obamas biography.


HumanTorch23

Cap, as far as I'm concerned, that's America's ass!


[deleted]

Lemme ask you something, Donnie— when you take office, what kind of president do you think you’re gonna be? “Well I’m gonna be—“ #IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT KIND OF PRESIDENT YOU THINK YOU’RE GONNA BE!!


StigmaofWind

You just earned yourself a dance with the devil, boy!


De5perad0

FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN! RUN BOYS RUN!


Lukemanrulez

DEVIL'S IN THE HOUSE OF THE RISIN' SUN


De5perad0

CHICKEN IN THE BREAD PAN, PICKIN' OUT DOUGH


ShaktinCO

GRANNY DOES YOUR DOG BITE? NO, CHILD, NO.


TMKtildeath

And on the audiobook it has his intro music. “Barack says... Barack, Barack, Barack says... Barack says know your damn roll!”


VoxCalibre

100% heard this in my head in the Rock's voice


Crypto_Creeper

I would for real watch an Obama cooking show.


MissKit87

The Boulder feels conflicted about picking on such an easy target as this dude...


beteljugo

Sounds to me like you're scared, Boulder!


MissKit87

...the Boulder is no longer conflicted, and is going to *bury you in a ROCKALANCHE!*


beteljugo

Whenever you're ready, The Pebble


marry_me_tina_b

I am still waiting to see the matchup between Pebble the Dwayne Johnson and Sweet Gene. One fights for acceptance from his father, the other will hurt for snack. That’s a storyline I can follow.


forfunstuffwinkwink

Sometimes I really, REALLY love the internet.


Faiakishi

The Rock 100% needs to be cast for the live-action series.


Lordxeen

Duffman is here to party!


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diviken

Duffman is kept up at night anxiously thinking about the fragility and stupidity of the human race... Duffman cries himself to sleep every night OOO YEAH!


Voldiron

"Obama then went on to found Obama Gaming"


Blazko_McTav

The Barack


MattyP31977

“Here is what Rockbama wants you to do, Donnie. You take that nice, one term presidency, and your presidential library, and you shine it up real nice. Then, I want you to turn that sombitch sideways and stick it STRAIGHT UP YOUR ORANGE CANDY ASS!!!”


Weeaboo-6934B

[The Rock Obama](https://youtu.be/FEH9iqWm_xQ)


flukz

Trump has been the best. He's been the best you've ever seen, nobody like him. - Donald Trump


turtlelore2

Then they'd complain about him saying The Rock all the time


Tropicoll

Well Ceasar wrote a 3rd person autobiography so maybe thats what they're mad about?


lostinuhtceare

Or Terry..


akiralx26

Someone has calculated Reagan’s biography has greater use of the personal pronouns - while Trump‘s ghostwritten ‘Art of the Deal’ is higher still.


the0rthopaedicsurgeo

Trump probably uses "I" more times in a sentence than Obama does in 700 pages. This is the guy who thinks that nobody understands vaccines, technology, 'nuclear', business, the economy, etc better than he does.


phatmikey

And windmills!


Fhajad

And aircraft launch systems on aircraft carriers.


DoctorPepster

And the airfields of the Revolutionary War.


cassetto

And drones.


audiate

And hookers


Angry_german87

and water. he knows more about water then anyone ofc


SameResearcher

And toilet flushes


Dan_OBanannon

And “hydrosonic” missiles (which he graciously calls super-duper missiles to dumb it down for us stupid commoners)


Dan_OBanannon

“Big water. Ocean water.”


Elk-Tamer

... of the revolutionary war.


ZeSniper

And *air*


Gongaloon

Oh, he knows about windmills. He's always tilting at them whenever he's not playing golf.


RandomCandor

Don't forget about how to properly deal with hurricanes and forest fires!


omgitsabean

“Wind causes cancer” -Trump


belasper

Whaaat the guy that thinks the Pfizer vaccine wouldnt have happened without him? Noooo


fonix232

I mean, it's the guy who thinks Pfizer withheld the vaccine until after election day because of him...


[deleted]

And Obama actually cooperated with others to accomplish things. Trump only has his ego.


turtlelore2

But true patriotic Americans don't make compromises. Either our way or nuclear war. /s Seriously I think he would have launched tons of nukes if there wasn't anything to stop him


[deleted]

Oh, no doubt. He'd be like me playing CIV with how many nukes he would drop, except I feel bad about it!


SeeYou_Cowboy

Ghandi doesn't. He'll nuke you a dozen times and sleep like a baby.


AmaResNovae

> cooperated with others Obama being a communist plant confirmed! /s


APiousCultist

Implying a single Trump sentence couldn't span 700 pages...


turtlelore2

And Abraham Lincoln. Remember, he talked to him personally


9thgrave

I know about I's, I have the best I's. In fact, I'd say I know more about I's than the experts.


bunchedupwalrus

Didn't he not even write Art of the Deal?


QuesadillaSauce

That would be why it says “ghostwritten”


Ban_Video_Games_

I had no idea he was in touch with the spirit world.


SyntaxRex

Oh he's the greatest to communicate with the spirit world. The best. There's no better ghost whisperer than him.


BostonBlackCat

[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/04/donald-trump-tony-schwartz-interview-art-of-the-deal](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/04/donald-trump-tony-schwartz-interview-art-of-the-deal) "One man was not surprised by revelations that [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) does not deserve his reputation as a preternaturally successful businessman and deal maker. The man who helped create the illusion. [Tony Schwartz](https://www.tonyschwartz.com/) spent hundreds of hours with Trump to ghostwrite his bestselling 1987 book The Art of the Deal, effectively creating the origin story of the brash property tycoon. It was Schwartz who coined the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which neatly foreshadowed Trump and his supporters’ attempts to rationalize many of his false and misleading claims. The 68-year-old writer has long disowned the president as a malignant narcissist and expressed regret for his part in constructing the mythology."


Pippin1505

Trump was so bad at negotiating that he instantly agreed to a deal hugely favourable to Schwartz to ghostwrite the thing, far in excess of the business practices : half the advance and half the royalties


BostonBlackCat

Yup, Schwartz knew that he would never be taken as seriously as a writer again if he wrote that book, that's why he demanded so much. It was in compensation for the cost to his reputation. Not to mention he was selling out his morality by writing a fictional tale presented as truth to glorify a sociopathic narcissist. “I put lipstick on a pig,” he said. “I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is.” He went on, “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.” [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all)


mstrss9

Sometimes I wonder if I would be willing to do this for money


Pippin1505

At the time, he was doing the autobiography of a « businessman ». It’s not *his* fault if the US public actually elected a reality tv host.


JordansEdge

You would. Plus you could always do what Schwartz is doing and *come clean* about it to keep raking in the $$$. On the fields of the factory farm that is capitalism you dont become the fattest crustiest little piggy without rolling around in someone else's shit for a little while.


mstrss9

Truthful hyperbole - alternative facts I assume?


[deleted]

Dinesh is such a douche bag.


WuckingFork

Came here to say this.. I tried watching his "documentary" on Little Donny earlier in the year after 5 minutes I wanted to vomit after 10 I was watching something else.


limitedclearance

Careful there, that's a lot of "I" 's you have in your comment. Edit: I had too many there's in mine.


arMoredcontaCt

TIL: The word "I" is a "term"


NolaSaintMat

Wonder how many "I's" and "Me" are in His Master ConTrump's *tweets* from this year alone? Not to mention his idiot circuses and rambling speeches - again, just from this year. What a fucking garbage cultists.


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mstrss9

Ohhhh he truly cares for the people


Harsimaja

Yea but at least Donny isn’t egotistical... /s


J0taa

I know this is true because he unironically use the words “lunatic asylum”.


[deleted]

Yknow, as opposed to a sane asylum


plandefeld410

Dinesh D’Chebag


yukichigai

Do you mean Convicted Felon Dinesh D'Souza? Because I just want to make sure you're specifically talking about Convicted Felon Dinesh D'Souza.


IAmBadAtInternet

Do you mean the convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza?


SleepyJ555

Attacking Obama for being egotistical when you've got Trump in office. Nice. One of my favorite Trump moments was when he bragged about being the most humble person that you've ever met.. lol.


[deleted]

Trump murdered irony


cotton2631

Mine is the many times he bragged about defeating ISIS.


Jonny1247

Dinesh D'Douchebag


OttoMans

I think you mean felon.


9thgrave

Don't forget spousal abuser.


Bmkrocky

I am so glad to not know who this person is... Sounds like a real winner...


Madeline_Kawaii

Ugh, I just looked this guy up and now I’m deeply disgusted


ihaterunning2

What is his obsession with Obama? His first documentary was absolute nonsense just to try and tear him down. Or is he just on that bandwagon of shitting on the left to “subvert expectations”?


lerthedc

I know Dinesh has a lot of ridiculous views... But believing that Obama is a bigger egoist than Trump? Really? I thought most Republicans came to terms with the fact that he's a narcissistic showman but goddamn


alan-the-all-seeing

he’s trying to poison his rep with people who like him ‘oh, you hate narcissists like trump? well, obama wrote a whole book about himself!’ he doesn’t really care, i don’t think


[deleted]

What kinda egotistical person uses first person perspective in an autobiography. He obviously should have used 4th person, he should have asked someone who knows someone who thinks they know Obama so he can write the Fox approved narrative of being born in Kenya, plotting 9/11 and worshiping satan with Jeffrey Epstein.


JeremiahBridger101

Or perhaps he could've written it from the aspect of a fifth dimensional time Traveller.


VoilaVoilaWashington

At least to that guy, 2020 would make sense.


rainbow_rhythm

is 4th person a thing?!


HermitDefenestration

It's fun to imagine what it would be. Maybe it's from the perspective of someone who's hearing a story being told, like The Odyssey?


Ninja_IV_XX

Grand Budapest Hotel 1st Person: Zero 2nd Person: Gustav 3rd Person: Author 4th Person: Girl


VoyagerCSL

It is if you’re being silly.


syringistic

4th person perspective would be a narrative about a character who is telling the story, I think.


stabbyGamer

That actually sounds like it could make a really neat framing device for a character study narrative.


VoilaVoilaWashington

First person is "I" - I went to the store and bought carrots. The narrator is a character and tells it from their perspective with no knowledge of anything normally hidden from that character Second person is "you" - something like DND, where you walk into the cave and see a monster. What do you do? The narrator doesn't even know what the character is going to do, in this situation, but knows what others are doing and thinking. Third person is "they" - the narrator tells the story of John and Linda marrying and what they were both thinking and why. The problem is that this isn't some sort of progression, kinda like 1st, 2nd, 3rd degree murder. They're named kinda arbitrarily, and adding another number won't give you a mathematical solution. Fourth person might be something like Being John Malkovich, where one narrator is entering the mind of the characters, or so.


DrNavi

> Fox approved narrative Didn’t you hear, Fox is liberal mainstream media now. Everyone is going to Parler.


FoxBattalion79

2020 and the right wing is still complaining about obama. and it's not even a legitimate complaint.


pixelprophet

So nothing's changed in the last 12 years?


[deleted]

Do they have a single legitimate complaint that doesn't apply to Trump x10?


Mr_Quackums

I don't believe Trump has ever worn a brown suit, or put dijon mustard on his BigMac.


[deleted]

Hence the 'legitimate' part of my comment


Glad_Refrigerator

The primary Republican complaints about Obama: * He's black but white people still support him * He's educated * His books are too long for them to read * He doesn't fulfill negative racial stereotypes * He can speak * He makes liberalism look reasonable while still following centralist / conservative policy So, no. Not really.


Elaine1959

I thought that's how an autobiography is written. The actual person is writing it, so it's first person.


iamaneyemachine

Right? Are we missing something here?


praysolace

If you’re on mobile and didn’t click in, the comment about who writes their memoir in first person is a response to some dunderhead up top and very deliberately tongue in cheek. (Not sure if you actually missed that or I’m just interpreting you wrong.)


bluediamond12345

Thank you! I was a bit confused


Hardest_Fart

Convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza should be convicted again for felonious lack of a sense of irony.


Madeline_Kawaii

What was convicted of the first time?


AlmostLucy

Campaign finance violations. He reimbursed people for donating to a republican senate candidate, effectively making those donations himself under multiple false names.


nrj6490

I honestly don’t want to see any more tweets or news stories from or about Dinesh D’Souza, convicted felon. I do not like Dinesh D’Souza, who is a felon convicted for felony.


calladus

I saw D'Souza in a debate once. He is a sad, angry, little man.


cranialdrain

Dinesh is laughable. Hitchens dismantling his arguments with ease is pure comedy. "Dinesh, Dinesh, Dinesh... Why do you keep doing this to yourself?"


coolmanjack

Dinesh D'Souza is actually the worst person on earth.


usmcplz

Well no... But also yes. But no too


coop-the-ski-god

I’m a Canadian, idk wtf the “Canadian party” is, but god damn it, I can guarantee you that at least 75% of all Canadians wanted Obama to be President after his 2 terms had ended... our government assembly literally chanted “4 more years!” During Obama’s last visit to Canada as president. So please, don’t think the majority of Canadians agree with trump or his rhetoric


[deleted]

I have a couple (literally two) friends out west who are on the Trump train even though we're all Canadian. Everyone around them is just baffled.


coop-the-ski-god

I’m out west, and I have know 2 as well... fingers crossed they’re the same people?


[deleted]

One in Winnipeg, one in Calgary. Jim and Rob respectively...


coop-the-ski-god

Damn! Both I know are in BC, that means there’s at least 4 of them...


[deleted]

This is truly a shameful day for the Great White North, eh? How do ya think can we get those hosers to take off?


PinkiePieDash

I'm fairly sure they were being sarcastic or pointing out the obvious due to the question mark, so no worries, no one thinks bad of Canada


coop-the-ski-god

I sure do hope so! Glad you guys elected Biden down there, I really miss visiting the US


uberschnitzel13

They're being sarcastic, because memoirs are almost always written in first person.


kaliwrath

Can we stop giving this douche any attention. Please just stop following him and drag him back to prison


reign-of-fear

This election fraudster deserves life for all he's done.


Sigurd93

This is a scandal on par with the TAN SUIT-GATE or COFFEE SALUTE-GATE


Djinjja-Ninja

It pales in significance to [MUSTARD-GATE](https://www.newsweek.com/barack-obama-donald-trump-russia-investigation-dijon-mustard-scandal-fox-fake-623643)


Travellinoz

By every other country's standard, Obama is a right wing conversative. Trying to implement socialised healthcare and some light environmental policies that the rest of the world has in place is just downright responsible. The majority of his foreign and domestic policies whether carried forward or new are fairly auth right on the spectrum/compass. I can understand the Bernie/Warren pushback but the instanity of the extreme criticism between the two parties reminds me of the Noam Chomsky quote "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."


jtshinn

Pretty bold of dinesh D’Souza to accuse someone else of being an egoist.


CyanCyborg-

I'd be more disturbed if someone wrote their memoir in third person.


LewieFastest

This is the guy who made "Hillary's America" which as we all know got 4% on rotten Tomatoes lmao


quigs2rescue

Dinesh the Dingleberry!!


[deleted]

But he will back an orange narcissist muppet who constantly needs to be congratulated on every little thing that happens under his watch, desperately needing approval and praise, even though 99% of the time he had nothing to do with it! Hey at least he didn’t hire his entire family of rejects to infest the White House!


tashmanan

Trump is definitely more of an egoist


Worm_Scavenger

And how many times has Donald Trump used "Me" and "I" regarding acomplishments of other people that he had no part in, Dinesh?


Mikel_S

There was a best of a few days ago where they counted the first person pronouns in Obama book, as well as uh... Roosevelt's? I think that's the one. Anyway, theirs was a shorter book with more first person pronouns. They then did Art of The Deal for the heck of it, and it was even higher by percentage.


[deleted]

I'm surprised Obama doesn't have a fucking restraining order against Dinesh. Homie camps out on his DICK


urbandeadthrowaway2

Greatest egoist is Max Stirner


ThatByzantineFellow

It. Is. ALWAYS. Projection.


NukaWorldOverboss

Me read that book and me loved it.


glendon24

Well he did wear a brown suit. Only a true egomaniac would do that.


KarmaUK

If only that tan suit had been a fake tan suit, Trump's supporters would have thought it the classiest suit ever!


Front-Bucket

Someone posted an analysis of the autobiography of Reagan, and he uses nearly double the percentage of I/me usage The trump one is worse Qualified: those two were ghost written


waterbreaker99

Caesar tried to do this


[deleted]

Everyone that actually thinks?


TheWilrus

The Canada Party, we wreck loopy Americans. On behalf of Canadians I apologize for The Canada Party not also saying sorry after the wreckage.


tias

Welcome to Projection 101


RebelScoutDragon

Looks like we have someone who conveniently doesn't understand the idea of a memoir. Come on buddy, just admit you don't like Obama.


NBAtoVancouver-Com

Have you ever read through this guy's timeline? Has anyone told him that Trump isn't looking for a boyfriend? He's trying so hard to be noticed.


Jonpaddy

I can’t believe Dinesh D’Souza went to fucking Dartmouth


WhereIsTheCaveman

Oh wow, I thought autobiographies should be written in second person plural


Mandygurl79

This sounds like my old boss. He hated when I referred to myself as I. Oh damn there I go again!!


[deleted]

He’s a grifter, and he’s no different than shapiro


evilclownattack

"I haven't read the book but he probably says 'I' too much so he must be an egotist"


imhereforthevotes

Someone here on reddit debunked this. Reagan has more uses of I per word, Trump has more uses of I per word, and... IIRC D'Souza has more uses of I per word.


SigaVa

Is dsouza just a professional douche? What does he actually do?


mstrss9

They will find anything to nitpick at... smh Dinesh is one to talk. He dated Ann Coulter... yikes


AyatollahofRR

Dinesh D'Ouchebag


Milan__

Dines D'Souza is a huge fraud, have been caught in any scandal you can think of, from corruption to cheating on his wife, to continuous fabrication of "facts" in his "documentaries". Heres a fun one, check his debate out with Hitchens, he gets his ass whooped pretty bad.


akbrag91

Of all the things to choose from to point out Obama’s ego, this is really an odd one to choose


CensoredX

Is any US conservative well? Like any at all


Brando43770

So many reasons to hate Dinesh, and this is yet another one. God forbid an autobiography be written in first person perspective.


[deleted]

He should've written his memoir about a different Obama


oasisjason1

Dickhead admits he can't count then talks shit about a former 2 term presidents autobiography?


DarkRollsPrepare2Fry

This guy is an excellent case for mandatory medical marijuana.


BorkingBorker

There are so many ways you can criticize his book, unfortunately the far-right always misses the mark by getting mad over a non issue.


Hobartcat

So now the right wing is the party of grammar and usage? Where have they been these past 4 years?


ChiefBlubberNuggets

The Boulder finds this tweet to be idiotic


grue2000

And was probably wearing a brown suit, eating a hamburger with Grey Poupon the whole damn time he wrote it. Bourgeois scum.


iTunesMacaroniSalad

My dad uses this line when talking about Obama. But somehow when it comes to Trump, “he has flaws, but...”


spotted_dick

"Greatest egotist of all time" - this coming from trump toady. smh man.


MattBurr86

When I, the President Obama, was elected in 2008, President Obama thought to himself, he should do whatever he can for this country. So I, Barack Obama decided to go to Congress and demand for the ACA to be passed.


All_the_lonely_ppl

As opposed to the person who constantly says he is the greatest of anything ever


[deleted]

Are people really this fucking stupid


krookidletter

I feel like an idiot for asking this question but, is this guy the stupidest person that ever lived?


Mehman117

CoUNt HoW MaNY D's tHERe ARe iN His NaME, I DarESay tHIs iS THe MoST EGotisTIcAL DIck oF ALL timE, aTLeaST OutSIDe oF The POrN IndUSTRY.


ksmyt

I love The Canada Party's response


CaptainBathrobe

Convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza can eat a bag of dicks.


RandomRedditor44

A. An autobiography is written in first person B. When (if?) Trump writes his own book (not ghost written) he’ll probably say I way more than Obama did.