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Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump railed against “so-called Christians” and “pieces of s—” evangelicals who supported Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the 2016 Iowa caucuses, according to a forthcoming book.

At the time, allies of Cruz had been making hay of Trump’s flub before an audience at Virginia’s Liberty University, a conservative evangelical college, in which he botched a question about his favorite Bible verse and replied that it came from the book of “Two Corinthians,” rather than “Second Corinthians.”

“The laughter and ridicule were embarrassing enough for Trump,” Tim Alberta writes in his new book, “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism,” an excerpt of which was reported by the Guardian.

“But the news of [Family Research Council President Tony] Perkins endorsing Ted Cruz, just a few days later, sent him into a spiral. He began to speculate that there was a conspiracy among powerful evangelicals to deny him the GOP nomination,” Alberta adds. “When Cruz’s allies began using the ‘Two Corinthians’ line to attack him in the final days before the Iowa caucuses, Trump told one Iowa Republican official, ‘You know, these so-called Christians hanging around with Ted are some real pieces of s—.'” ***

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, 45, who polls show is in a distant second place to the thrice-married real estate billionaire and former reality TV star, on Tuesday won the endorsement of “Iowa Caucus kingmaker” Bob Vander Plaats, a prominent Christian evangelical leader in the Hawkeye State.

“What we saw in 2022, the supposedly ‘red wave’ really only happened in Florida and in Iowa,” Vander Plaats told Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier.

And one more thing pal...ya may want to do a little background checking before your next pathetic troll attempt.

But I guess they don’t give you that level of detail over at KoS and DU...

https://www.startawildfire.com/amazon-sales-ranking-calculator

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“1. A good Amazon sales ranking doesn’t mean you’re selling many books.

As you can see above, a good ranking between 5,000 – 10,000 means you’re only selling anywhere from 10 – 40 books per day. That’s quite a wide range. And, even selling 100 books a day doesn’t mean you’ll get rich anytime soon. If you maintained that level for 100 consecutive days (100 x 30), you still only sell 3,000 total units in a month.

Therefore, there is NO reason to brag or get depressed about your Amazon sales ranking. The only authors selling a ton of books on Amazon are those with rankings less than #500 who maintain that level for several months. Those are the icons of the industry with major publishers and massive resources behind their book campaigns.

As another example, I consulted on a backlist book that consistently maintained an Amazon sales ranking of less than 500, which is amazingly rare. Yet, it typically sold only 2,500 – 3,500 copies per week. Sure, that’s way above average, but no one is retiring to a private island on those numbers.

2. If you tell people your book is a #1 bestseller on Amazon, it means absolutely nothing.

I’m fed up with how many misguided authors tell people their book is a #1 Amazon bestseller. Any author who makes such a claim smacks of desperation and a lack of ethics. Here’s why:

Amazon sales rankingAny author can mount a marketing campaign that temporarily spikes a book to #1 in an obscure Amazon category for a brief period of time – maybe one day or two. But, that spike is a fleeting moment, which quickly drops off. If a book gets to #1, you could use my chart above and guess that it sold 100, 250, or even 1,000 copies in one day. That’s good, but it’s still not that many copies sold.

Then, what about the next day when the ranking quickly falls off to 500, 2,500, or 5,000? Sales are back to modest amounts of 50 – 100 per day. Therefore, a brief spike to #1 on Amazon doesn’t mean a lot of books were actually sold. In order to hit the legitimate bestseller lists, such as the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, or Publishers Weekly, you’ve got to sell around 5,000 copies or more in a week. (Amazon now has their own official bestseller list called Amazon Charts.)”

Well, if you think that what this author alleges Trump said about certain self-professed Christians is bad, you should hear what Jesus Himself said about some of His self-professed followers.

"Not everyone who calls out to me, 'Lord! Lord!' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter." Matthew 7:21.

That is way worse than just calling them a stinky name. That is telling them they are actually going to lose their souls forever! Their Gospel platitudes and phony professions were all meaningless, as the Lord looks at their hearts. What does this book author and the New York Posterior have to say about Jesus?

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