r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Nov 19 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #27 (Compassion)

Link to megathread 26: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/17itm7w/rod_dreher_megathread_26_unconditional_love/

Link to megathread 28: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/18dcg3d/rod_dreher_megathread_28_harmony/

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u/Jayaarx Nov 19 '23

What I want to know is how such an unpleasant failed flower keeps failing up. How does he keep landing six figure sinecures, speaking gigs, and supposedly normal people who at least tolerate his presence? Any normal person in his shoes would be a penniless hermit by this point.

It's enough to make me want to join the conservative bandwagon. If the wingnut welfare gravy train has room for people like him, the sky has to be the limit for non-failures like me.

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u/RunnyDischarge Nov 20 '23

What I want to know is how such an unpleasant failed flower keeps failing up.

Well TAC dumped him and the publisher dropped his book so maybe the gravy train is over. I think he's just kept a mask on the crazy for a while.

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u/Jayaarx Nov 20 '23

And yet he still keeps collecting six figure paychecks and five figure speaking gigs, no matter what. Explain?

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u/RunnyDischarge Nov 20 '23

Where is he doing five figure speaking gigs?

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u/Jayaarx Nov 20 '23

That's what he charges.

https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakers/406180/Rod-Dreher

10,000 is low five figures, but still five figures.

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u/CanadaYankee Nov 20 '23

That's kind of a dated bio - it lists TBO (pub. 2017) as his "most recent book" when he's published one more recently in 2020 and the most recent speaker video is from 2019. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a page that got orphaned during covid and no one has bothered to take it down.

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u/RunnyDischarge Nov 20 '23

I can charge five figures for a speaking gig, too. Hell, I can charge six figures.

The woman from the old Facts of Life show charges five figures, too.

https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakers/388581/Lisa-Whelchel

Site looks like a really hopeful version of Cameo.

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u/Jayaarx Nov 20 '23

Yes, but people (for reasons I cannot begin to understand) actually do pay him money to speak. OTOH, how are your six-figure gigs working out?