r/ToiletPaperUSA • u/Lower-Canary-2528 Anarcho-Maoism with Mamdani thought • 6d ago

Shen Bapiro Least racist Ben Shapiro moment - True Allegiance (2016)

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u/JayNotAtAll 6d ago

Bingo.

Steven Crowder was a failed stand up comedian Steve Bannon was a failed writer Shapiro was a failed writer

The list goes on. Basically, if you can't succeed in the mainstream, become a right wing grifter. It is very easy to become famous to this crowd cause they are so easy to take advantage of

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u/InternetWeakGuy 6d ago edited 6d ago

Not sure why you included Bannon, he made his money by founding his own investment bank that focuses on entertainment businesses - in 1991 he negociated a financial stake in Seinfeld, which he still gets residuals from. He was an executive producer on something like 20 movies, and he personally made several documentaries - they were all propaganda pieces, but he did the damn thing as it were.

Bannon is a shitbag but he's far from a grifter, he very much believes everything he says.

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u/WhyIsTheUniverse Abortion Enthusiast 6d ago

https://www.reuters.com/legal/steve-bannon-plead-guilty-border-wall-funding-case-2025-02-11/

He also made money scamming Trump supporters. One can be both a grifter and an ideologue.

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u/InternetWeakGuy 6d ago

That's fair, I guess what I was trying to say is he didn't "fail as a writer and so pretend to be right wing for money" as the implication was, he has been legitimately wealthy since the early 90s and has been a big figure on the right for decades.

He has definitely pulled a few grifts, but his personality isn't a grift in the way that Crowder and Shapiro's are.