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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 67 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Failed artist to CIA asset pipeline.

Failed artist to fascist dictator pipeline.

Failed artist to twitch streamer sex pest pipeline.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 49 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Don’t forget Ben Shapiro failed at writing movies before he became a pundit.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 24 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought he'd been in the fascist grifter industrial complex since he was a literal child?

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah since he was 17. So I guess he failed the movie thing while doing that.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The most childish thing about Ben is that when Hollywood people ( grown ass adults) rejected the scripts he wrote (as a child) he decided to grow into an evil adult as a form of revenge.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Idk if he grew into it. If youve read any of his fiction books, then you know he was probably trying to write weird conservative propaganda movies in the same vein as Ayn Rand.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I couldn’t have brought myself to read it so thanks for sharing that with me

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 points 4 weeks ago

Its actually on the border of “so bad its good” man. One of the bad guys is a black guy who owns a barber shop that he sells crack out of that makes a deal with a democratic president to become a politician and through DEI and drug legalization and other liberal ideas becomes the dictator of New York. The catalyst of which is a police officer shooting a black child, which Ben bends over backwards to make this dude seem like the victim in the situation. He fails massively, because hes such a bad writer that this golden cop who’s a child killer that HE MADE UP AND PUT IN HIS PERFECT IMAGINARY SITUATION still is indefensible and inexcusable.

Also theres a bunch of motorcycle chapters and Shapiro ONLY refers to them as “hogs.” Like even in the narration. It’s cringey as all fuck man.

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

Not literal child cause his family is likely not as rabidly fascistic as him. They are all involved for generations in the arts. Likely liberal chuds with light progressive tendencies.

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 36 points 4 weeks ago

Whatever happened to the good old failed artist to graphic designer pipeline?

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

A Trump twitch stream would be something else, can we get some trumpPoggers going in chat

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 18 points 4 weeks ago

Does truth social have it's own streaming service? He should go live on weeknights and host a talk show just spilling the tea and gossiping, his element.

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 57 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Trump locking himself in the Oval Office and blasting phantom of the opera comes to mind

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 18 points 4 weeks ago

He's go big plans for the abandoned Kennedy Center.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 14 points 4 weeks ago

He could go on a 10 minute rant about Love Never Dies, the sequel to Phantom with more eloquence and articulation than every single one of his speeches combined.

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 51 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 28 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The Apprentice was just him trying to get back into showbiz where his true heart belongs.

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 20 points 4 weeks ago

I guarantee there was an NBC exec who pitched him to replace Leno.

[–] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 51 points 4 weeks ago

He avoided the Weinstein files by getting in the Epstein files

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 46 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

We could have been freed from Trump if he had just not fucked up every business he ever had.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 18 points 4 weeks ago

This just proves the arts requires more skill than real estate. It's apparently much harder to fail upwards in musical theatre than owning land. Who woulda thought costanza-maoist

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 42 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Alternate ending to The Producers where the scheme actually works.

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 19 points 4 weeks ago

He managed to make more money with a flop than a hit, just in a roundabout way.

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 37 points 4 weeks ago

is that why he's so zesty? he's a failed broadway producer??

[–] WellTheresYourCobbler@hexbear.net 32 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Does anyone have a link to the clip I wanna see this

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 30 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

It might be this?

https://xcancel.com/samfz7/status/1653559922276159491?lang=en

Bannon keeps trying to talk about Covid and trump clearly just wants to talk phantom

[–] Hermes@hexbear.net 14 points 4 weeks ago

His voice in that clip is entirely different, no tangents even.

[–] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 weeks ago

Dude ive seen it but the last couple times ive looked for it i havent been able to find it. If anyone finds it ping me please!

[–] miz@hexbear.net 28 points 4 weeks ago
[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 24 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

trump-enlightened

"{京剧|jīngjù}, folks. Some people call it Peking opera, but it's better than opera. It's very impressive. The music is live, the actors are handsome, and the singing. The singing is very difficult, and many say it takes more skill than opera. They're doing kung fu, they're doing acrobatics, they're singing. I tried buying a {京剧|jīngjù} troupe in Beijing, but they kept saying "Donald, we can't do a Chinese version of the Pirates of Penzance, the cast only know the classics" so I said "Ok, well I'll take my idea and take it to Broadway". And that's how I got into real estate."

Reporter: "uhh, Mr President, the question was "Why did you "pre-emptively" carpet bomb Andorra?""

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Andorra always sounded african to me, and its a tax heaven for spanish and french dickheads so it kinda has it coming anyways

[–] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Andorra is basically Liechtenstein without the blackfacing. I wish i was joking, but i am unfortunately 100% serious.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What do you mean blackfacing?

They start their carnival / mardi gras season with a custom known as "Ruassla" where kids blacken their faces with soot. Here's a historic photo of the practice: https://historisches-lexikon.li/images/9/9a/Braeuche_Ruassla.jpg

[–] tithonis@hexbear.net 2 points 4 weeks ago

So Andorra is incrementally less of a shithole backwater than Liechtenstein? The bar to clear is all the way down in hell, here.

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 4 weeks ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 2 points 4 weeks ago

The Andorrans yearn for freedom, President Trump please liberate Andorra from the twin princes and establish a liberal democracy.

[–] Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 24 points 4 weeks ago

Another failed artist.

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 23 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Meanwhile the left is filled with failed law students.

and the Islamist groups full of failed engineer

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

hey, some of us are software "engineers"

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

Nuh uh, I finished Law school before I gave up. I'm a failed Bachelor of Laws.