Is Ben Shapiro real or a parody?

[herzlos]

I'm currently enjoying the whole Barbie movie premier week and Benny making a bizarre fool of himself.

So apparently he was dragged along to the Premiere by his producers, and was dressed just like Ken.
He complained about it being the worst film he's ever seen because of all the wokeness, and then released a 43 minute video complaining about it. The film itself only runs for 114 minutes.

Some of the other stuff he's come out with is bonkers.

So do we think that he's actually like that, or is it all an act to grift on the right wingers?

[Disciple of Fate]

Shapiro seems to just be a grifter, after the WAP thing it has to be an act.

[mdgv2]

He could be a Poe. But he genuinely could be Just That Thick. Frankly I don’t know which is worse.

[bobtheinquisitor]

I feel like a lot of them start off as grifters and then become so steeped in their own product they become true believers. Looking at Tucker Carlson’s leaked texts, he knew he was grifting, but looking at his most recent behavior he has either become a believer or decided he has a tiger by the tail. He’s rich enough to just walk away and live like a god-king in most places, yet he’s humiliating himself with Twitter videos.

[A Town Called Malus]

I don't think Shapiro has the creativity or imagination to be a parody.

He certainly never demonstrated any talent in those particular aspects before he resorted to right wing grift.

[Disciple of Fate]

Tucker was already rich before his Fox job. I think his Twitter antics are much more about his ego needing to prove Fox wrong for firing such a star or just craving some sort of spotlight.

[mdgv2]

Matt Walsh is of course another motormouth gobshite perfecting willing to make stuff up, misquote and indeed quote mine, despite his moronic tagline of “facts don’t care about your feelings”.

I dunno how we get shot of such liars.

[easye]

Barbie was good, great writing, stellar cast, AND "Woke" as feth.

If that isn't your thing, there is always The Sound of Freedom

I saw some crazy stuff about how the Barbie movie was anti-"traditional" values and man-hating while Disney is trying to suppress The Sound of Freedom was being suppressed because of its anti-human trafficking message. Clearly, those people had not really seen either movie.

However, I do find it ironic that the people so "concerned" about human trafficking also want "Traditional values" like the woman having no rights in a relationship. I guess that is NOTHING like human trafficking.

[mdgv2]

Whilst I myself am not especially interested in Barbie?

I’m totes gonna show my own level of solidarity by watching Tank Girl!

[republicanpsycho]

He’s a gatekeeper, boosted to fame by an Israeli talent agency and paid adverts on yt and fb just like every other conservative. He gatekeeps the right and promotes israel friendly policy, he agrees with all of your liberal priors.

[mdgv2]

Oh. Hey grog.

Yes you’re rumbled again, our kid.

Mulligan?

[pacific]

From what I have read Shapiro was a failed script/screen-writer within the Entertainment industry. He then found a discursive/popularist line to trot, realised that he could get the attention/fame he was denied by his attempt at a previous career, and his since run with it.

There is an element of Boris Johnson in there; when someone doesn't have any real morals or philosophy of their own, they just want to be popular, and so they find a group, grab a flag, and then run in front of them waving their fist. And they end up with everyone talking about them, which is why they do it.

[easye]

That also describes Tucker to a tee.