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.
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.
Seems pretty clear to me.
So if retards thought he was serious when it was obvious that he wasn't then it's his fault and not there fault for being stupid whiny hitches
Hurr durr he was only pretending to be retarded.
That's a legitimate argument when people walk something back suddenly claiming they suddenly started trolling or something.
He does it all the damn time though, it's clearly his style, his schtick. Go listen to him for 30 mins except at special events, if he hasn't done it 5 times, I'd be surprised. The anime is satanic one just made the news.
"[What do you think of anime?] I think it's all Satanic. I have no argument for it -- I have no argument for why it's Satanic, it just seems that way to me"
Are you seriously not at all suspicious that maybe there is a bit of either exaggeration or sarcasm there? Not just fleeing to a 'i was just trolling actually' position when there was no trolling in the first place, an actual initial position of at least exaggerating for comedic effect from the get-go there. Cmon, it's one step below 'it came to me in a dream'
Never implied that I think its his true belief, only that the "say something retarded for laughs" shtick is something retards do. It can work in rare cases, but he has a lot of hardcore listeners that legitimately think retarded shit like that and only get emboldened when he says it, so at some point the "come on guys he's obviously trolling lmao haha get trolled haha" falls flat. It might be worth a hearty chuckle from the seats of the Matt Walsh fan club but from the outside looking in it's just eye roll inducing. Not gung ho about people mentally associating the current right with satanic panic retardation either. That's honestly the bigger problem.
Except he's clearly joking. He has a dry sense of humor and will just say shit to piss people off sometimes. He literally trolls like an old fashioned troll. Probably because he was a minor shock jockey at one point
It doesn't matter whether or not he's actually joking. It is not helpful when he has listeners that unironically believe stupid shit like that. We aren't far removed from a time when that was a semi-mainstream opinion, and his fan base is exactly the place where you would expect to find people who are still that retarded.
Not to mention the fact that countless people who are just bystanders and only know about this from a legacy media article now associate the current right with satanic panic retardation. The "say something retarded that is not what I actually think but it's okay because I'm just joking" only works when the thing you're saying is so beyond ludicrous no one could believe it. Otherwise, the media is licking their lips at the softball they just got thrown as they look to take things out of context and make the right lose favor with anyone they can.