If you don't know what this is, Hershey in canada made a stupid ad for "women's day" with a tranny in it. The Daily Wire hosts made a lot of fun of this, and rolled out a rapid response offering to sell a "Jeremy's Chocolate" supposed alternative to "woke chocolate". This was modeled to look like a repeat of their "Jeremy's Razors" company, which they made to spite a razor company that loudly quit advertising on Daily Wire as a woke virtue signal. They used the same ad style with Jeremy Boreing doing his little "wannabe god king" routine.
So this is their product page. It's $7 for a 1.5oz bar of chocolate. So how much does the same product from Hershey's cost? Only $1.20. That's an insane markup. I just put a single chocolate bar into checkout. It's USD $12.53. For something I can get for $1.20 at the store. It's more than 10x the price.
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Asking conservatives to pay $7 for a product that widely retails for $1.20 is just taking advantage of and cheating your customers. I haven't priced out Jeremy's Razors, but I'll assume they are competitive. This is not. This is an exploitative short term cash grab, not an attempt to build a new brand or make a competing product. It's just trying to get themselves rich by exploiting a political movement. That's grift.
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The Daily Wire is not a public company. It's a private for profit corporation owned by Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boreing, Caleb Robinson, and Farris Wilks. Giving them lots of money doesn't "support the cause" it just boosts their net worth. If the company was taken public, that would be a different story, but as long as it's a private for profit company, it exists to make its owners rich more than anything else. Nothing wrong with that as long as they offer an actually competitive product.
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I think the whole "Jeremy Boreing as god king" bit is stupid. I think they put him as the front man on these side hustles because he has nothing to do, unlike Shapiro who is churning out content. Jeremy Boreing comes across as effeminate to me to the point of almost seeming homosexual. Him trying to act like a cross between James Bond and Donald Trump doesn't work at all.
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If you don't know the logistics of how Daily Wire can launch a chocolate product in 24 hours, it is simple. You know how Costco has the Kirkland brand, and how supermarkets have their own "store" brands? Factories that produce products will wholesale those products out with the buyer's branding. China is famous for this especially since nobody wants to buy Chinese branded shit. (though China got better at fake branding and now dominates Amazon, for example) I would bet that all the chocolate factories in the US are already owned by brands. So basically all the Daily Wire did was contact a chocolate wholesaler and set up a contract to buy chocolate in bulk for a discount where the factory will print and package using the Daily Wire's branding. We have no way of knowing what the source of this chocolate is unless they admit it. It could be coming from China for all we know. It should be pretty obvious that DW is paying much less than $1.20 per bar, though.
The Right has to put up with a lot of grifters because the "establishment" doesn't serve us, and for now, we are a niche market which lacks the ordinary competitive checks and balances are more highly competitive market would have.
My main problem with Jeremy's Chocolate is that it is fundamentally disrespectful to charge people an insane markup 583% over Hershey's retail price, and then try to market it as "stick it to the wokes! support conservative business! we're building alternatives!" No you aren't. Stop lying. You're taking advantage. Fuck you.
Considering they got their razors from China already? Probably a good bet.
I have definitely soured with Daily Wire over the last few years. Ben and Jeremy let their TDS and establishment tendencies lead them to making strange calls that are not helpful or not supported by the conservative base (although more Jeremy than Ben in this regard). Knowles is becoming a Neo-Evangelical like a lot of conservatives Catholics, even though most of the base wants to move on to "Culture War" and economic issues and has ceased to give a damn about religion (especially the puritanical strain that is effectively "Woke but Christian"). Klavan has lost his mojo over the years, I just cant put my finger on exactly what it is.
I just like to see Matt Walsh dunk on trannies.
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You say that like it's a bad thing, as though the abandonment of faith in God isn't what led to our current situation.
If that is what most of the base wants, then they are wrong, misguided, and doomed to fail. There is room for a conservative catholic voice or two, not every voice needs to all pander to the same mass of godless lolbertarians.
I am not saying they are wrong in their beliefs, or that they have no place. And I agree that faith is useful (I am a Lutheran after all). But the simple fact of the matter is if you are going around saying that video games are the devil and Anime is Satan, you are going to be losing a ton of your support. Especially since a ton of the people (especially younger) joining the conservative movement for the last decade or so have done it on the grounds of "I dont like SJW's censoring my games, movies, and jokes."
If you turn around and say "Cool. But we are going to censor your games, movies, and jokes for being satanic and ungodlike." Then they are going to say "Oh, so you havent changed since the '90's then" and walk off.
In fact, I would go so far as to argue that a lot of Trumps initial success and popularity is because he didnt overtly pander to Evangelicals.
Wasn't that Walsh? And half of what he says in tongue in cheek or deliberately provocative. You got trolled.
Who is saying this?
Knowles hasnt exactly had a lot of good to say about them either. But perhaps he has changed his mind and I am unaware. So if that is the case, I can walk back that part at least.
And it really doesnt matter if Walsh was saying it in jest. Plenty of people thought he was genuine. Doing it in jest is fine when you can make it obvious that is (even I have done that joke in company of Anime nerds). But since he didnt, plenty of people believe he was not trolling, and that is not helpful to anyone.
Hurr durr he was only pretending to be retarded.
His coworkers are soy-swilling grifters. That wears on a man after a time.
I haven't heard anything about it in a while, but did you watch Shadiversity's video in which he went over the contract the Daily Wire offered Crowder, line by line? It was a ridiculously exploitative offer, to the point that it was outrageously insulting. When someone asks for a job or a partnership, your first offer shouldn't be suggesting they become slaves.
It showed a light on how Boering and Shapiro conduct business and how they really are, as people.
Yeah, I did. I also saw Nick Rekieta give his "as a lawyer" breakdown of it. And he even went further that not only is it a bad contract, it is a contract that you would never expect to see from people who are so called "friends". Because if you are making a contract with someone who you consider a friend, you would probably want to negotiate in good faith.
I don't think I've seen that one. Do you have a link to Rekieta's video on it?
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While I was also critical of the contract, this is taking it too far. Business are not charities, and your default assumption should be that they are trying to take advantage of you (which they are).
You don't get to be successful by being moral. It's just impossible. So I'm happy with the success that the Daily Wire has, regardless of some dubious business practices.
Jeremy can suck a dick. The dude is an egomaniac and I'm not buying any of his shit anymore than I'll buy Hershey. If big tech told him to stop selling chocolate he would immediately acquiesce.
Knowles it the only one with the right take on transgenderism though.
Matt Walsh, who has actively lobbied governors and written legislation regarding the transgender issue: "Am I a joke to you?"
Matt Walsh is excellent. But...
I see a lot of people on the right be very stupid about the matter. Knowles, as a Catholic (I assume), has a bit more grounding. He lately got it exactly right by pointing out that there can be no genocide against 'transgenders', because that is not a valid ontological category. He also said that genocide refers to genes, which is false, but he got the important part right.
This is something I've pointed out for a long time. Having a delusion does not put you in a different category, it just means that you have a delusion. "Trans" people do not exist, just like "cis" people do not exist.
The right will say stuff like "I WILL MISGENDER YOU", completely undermining its own position by buying into the premises of its opponents.
Fair point, and I do agree Knowles would be good for moving the Overton window back in that direction. But the reality of the situation is that the extreme edge you have to start with is "Will Misgender You", and start working back toward the center. Especially right now that there are a ton of people suddenly open to that view due to the Harry Potter shitshow.
And then once they are at the "Misgender" position, you start showing them Knowles and he starts telling them "But is it even real?"