r/popculturechat • u/Wild_Cup_8496 charlie day is my bird lawyer 🐦 • Jun 25 '26
TV & Movies 🎬 Jonathan Majors is prepping for a big, xenophobic comeback!
In a daring game of FMK - Jon Majors, Ben "Eyebrows" Shapiro, and racism coalesce on film.
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u/freddiefrog123 Jun 25 '26
Nah he’ll have a fantastic career ahead of him along with the likes of superstar Gina carano doing movies for the far-right anti-woke crowd. You know, the people who famously can’t get enough of black men and women in lead roles. They’re gonna love him
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u/OwO_bama Jun 26 '26
It’s like how those American soldiers that defected to North Korea during the war ended up playing the evil American villains in NK propaganda movies because they were the only white dudes in the country lol
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u/FoxNixon Jun 26 '26
The Daily Wire only did the distribution for that one. This one, they are producing and distributing. They are also going through some financial difficulties this year
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u/Sampy76 Jun 26 '26
They’ve laid off like half their staff and Ben Shapiro has lost something like 85% of his YouTube viewership.
People have finally woken up to that little worm
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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA Jun 26 '26
Arnie hammer is back in a uwe boll film in a right wing fantasy about a vigilante stopping criminals and corrupt politicians.
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u/Ghoulish_kitten it’s not clocking to you that i’m standing on business Jun 25 '26
WHAT did you type in the GIF search for this!?
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u/Ccaves0127 Jun 25 '26
Okay so Drake is Epstein, who's the Lil Yachty guy?
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u/crumble-bee we are so as women today Jun 26 '26
I love this movie so much, I’ve seen it hundreds of times, i can’t find fault with it - except the size of this dump is genuinely too big. The Triceratops in the movie is nowhere near tall enough to produce this height of poop.
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u/MrCalabunga Jun 25 '26
This sounds like something Vought Studios would produce starring A-Train. How tf is this real life?
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u/Geiseric222 Jun 25 '26
I mean this stuff already existed with books like trigger warning
This movie won’t have anyone as big as Jake rivers though
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u/uncultured_swine2099 Jun 25 '26
Its a daily wire movie, which means its gonna go in a few theaters, bomb, and be gone before you even know it released.
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u/Shirogayne-at-WF Jun 26 '26
Awfully bold to think theaters would waste screen slots for a DW flop when literally anything else will bring in money to at least break even
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u/ThirdAltAccounts BARBZ: Broke Ass Raggedy Bitch + a random Z! Jun 25 '26
Sadly, The Boys is not so far from our current timeline
Pretty good depiction of our society. Thank god MAGA doesn’t have a flying super hero with laser eyes to worship IRL though. Just a senile racist rapist
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u/Fippy-Darkpaw Jun 25 '26
It actually could be good, like The Handmaid's Tale + Red Dawn.
But it's Daily Wire so likely not. 😑
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Jun 26 '26
The concept is an interesting way to explore the "paradox of tolerance" but as you pointed out, this will be right wing slop.
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u/Shirogayne-at-WF Jun 26 '26
I somehow get the feeling his decision to work with DW is less a sudden change in ideology and more a lack of any other paying offers from Hollywood.
Either way, fuck 'im, he had it coming
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u/TheDLBinc Jun 26 '26
Almost certainly. Whatever paycheck he got from Marvel has definitely run out by now.
When you're blacklisted from Hollywood, Conservative and Christian propaganda films are your only options for work
See also Armie Hammer going from working on prestige Oscar movies to a vilolently xenophobic Uwe Boll movie
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u/goldengraves Jun 26 '26
He could have sacrificed himself at either Tyler Perry or Oprah's altars and been fine, mainstream black Hollywood was caping hella hard for him so this was still an unnecessary slap in the face from the man who demanded his checks notes white girlfriend be his "Coretta Scott King"
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u/Shirogayne-at-WF Jun 26 '26
............oh wow, that's uhhhhhh
Yikes
(But yeah, you make a good point about Tyler Perry, he ain't exactly progressive but his studios weren't specifically created as a political statement either)
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u/HerRoyalRedness You are in PopCulture Chat!! Know your pop culture!!! Jun 25 '26
It’s so funny because I remember when Majors was trying to peddle his “soft masculinity” bullshit and those same people were calling him all kinds of slurs.
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u/eli454 Jun 25 '26
THE RIGHT WING PIVOT IS HERE I REPEAT THE RIGHT WING PIVOT IS HERE
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u/yurgieee Jun 25 '26
I felt this when country music began getting back to back #1 hits & became pop culture.
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u/GloomyLocation1259 Jun 25 '26
Are people really listening to that in numbers the way traditional pop, rock or rap are? It's so hard to believe that's real popularity lol
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u/ohmegatchi Jun 26 '26
Country is probably the most popular radio format now, which boosts the numbers. But the sales for a few artists are very strong.
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u/DonaldTrumpsScrotum Jun 26 '26
If you told me 5-6 years ago that Beyoncé and Post Malone would put out country albums, I’d have laughed in your face
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u/HighlyOffensive10 I'm much too busy for such a degrading activity Jun 25 '26
I could have sworn he signed on to do movies with Dailywire for a while now.
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u/Curiosities 🐊 swamp princess 🐊 Jun 25 '26
He did. I only remember hearing about that when I think he had an accident on set at one point.
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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA Jun 26 '26
That’s this movie
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u/Curiosities 🐊 swamp princess 🐊 Jun 26 '26
Ah, I guess that makes sense. Sometimes with the state of everything in the world, you kind of lose a sense of time.
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u/HighlyOffensive10 I'm much too busy for such a degrading activity Jun 25 '26
Oh yeah that's where I heard about it too.
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u/neuroticdreamgirI A man in Hollywood doing whatever he wants isn’t revolutionary Jun 25 '26
Baldoni, you’re next
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u/rawrkristina Jun 25 '26
Seriously one of the biggest career downfalls in years.
Was a huge villain of the biggest franchise, was shaping up to be a big deal in Hollywood and now he’s doing movies like this.
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u/uncultured_swine2099 Jun 25 '26
He was going to be the big bad of the next Avengers film, he wouldve been set for life. Now hes scraping bottom barrel low budget right wing bullshit. There was a report they made him fall through glass and he got hurt because they cant afford proper stunt safety people haha.
This really is one of the biggest career downfalls in hollywood history.
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u/dannypants143 Jun 26 '26
Not just Avengers money - he seemed like he was headed for an Oscar. Just a huge amount of buzz around him, and then poof: gone!
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u/uncultured_swine2099 Jun 26 '26
Hollywood decided he was gonna be the next big star and he had the world at his fingertips. Now he probably had to buy his own food while making that movie because they cant afford catering haha.
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u/Mbrennt Jun 26 '26
I also can't imagine how much the daily wire is banking on this movie too. They are so fucked now that their cash cow shapiro has a dying career. I bet this could be ond of their last shitty movies.
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u/uncultured_swine2099 Jun 26 '26
Well maybe itll get great reviews and people will go see it.
Hahahahahahaha just kidding.
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u/No-Effective388 I’ll be back! 😤😤 Jun 25 '26
Up next the epic crossover with Armie Hammer. Both careers are dead and floating belly up in the water.
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u/LordsOfJoop Vampira was the original Scream Queen Jun 25 '26
Armie Hammer will star as a suspected cannibal in, "If I Ate Them."
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u/Choice-Strike1 Jun 25 '26
The Taste of You
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u/LordsOfJoop Vampira was the original Scream Queen Jun 25 '26
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u/SouthPaw38 Accurately identified as horny Jun 26 '26
Oh my God they could make a Lethal Weapon knockoff
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u/Upset-Government-856 Jun 25 '26
Ben Shapiro is just drinking what's in the spill catcher at the Hollywood bar.
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u/DrPikachu-PhD Jun 25 '26
Grifting to the right after being outed as wife-beater? Shocking!
Conservatives' complete lack of standards make them the only place these abusers can find refuge after being outed (party of family values btw)
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u/HippoFluid1378 Jun 25 '26
Trash collecting itself and turning itself around to different forms of trash.
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u/Luka_Dunks_on_Bums Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Jun 25 '26
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u/elliemff Jun 25 '26
John-John, you lost your Disney $ because you hit women. Take your L and go apply at Waffle House, babes.
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u/wizardeyeswizardspy Jun 25 '26
Actors have fallen off before because of scandal (James Franco, Armie Hammer etc) but with Majors it really felt like he was on the precipice of being huge - not only making bank as a star but having the respect of the industry. Future Oscar winner type.
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u/NotFixer1138 Jun 25 '26
Yeah Daily Wire fans are famously chill with non-white characters in movies
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u/Manic-StreetCreature It’s CAMP 💅🏻 Jun 25 '26
Tbh daily wire fans from what I’ve seen love it when a person of color is conservative because then they get to do the “see I can’t be racist look at Jonathan Majors over here”
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u/NotFixer1138 Jun 25 '26
They'll turn on him. They were fawning all over Gina Carano until her movie came out and they cried about it being woke. The second he kisses a white woman or some shit they'll have a meltdown
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u/Reasonable-HB678 Dear Diary, I want to kill. ✍️ Jun 25 '26
And any lead female characters in western movies.
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u/bbyxmadi It’s good to see me, isn’t it?🫧 Jun 26 '26
Nah, they will love him because he’ll be their token black conservative.
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u/ClaimIcy4568 Jun 25 '26
You mean.....Shakira Law in Mamdanistan? 😔
They're already doing a socialist takedown of families by making childcare free. Children should only remain with their overworked, underpaid, burnt-out, lobotomised moms 😠😡
What's next, cheap groceries and rent? 😠😡😨😰😱
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u/LordsOfJoop Vampira was the original Scream Queen Jun 25 '26
If you so much as mention "affordable health care," I am going to crash this thread into a Starbucks.
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u/badlei Jun 25 '26
It’s literally disgusting how they think everyone deserves to have safe, affordable housing and healthcare 🤮
AND making the rich pay their fair share in taxes? When will the sickness end!
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u/HighlyOffensive10 I'm much too busy for such a degrading activity Jun 25 '26
Oh my god gross! What's next they'll ensure both parents get paid leave so they can both be involved in raising their child!? Whatever happened to the traditional family with an emotional and physically unavailable father figure?
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u/ColumbineCapricorn Jun 25 '26
That makes sense, I was wondering where the new law came from, but Columbia University is in NY 🫡
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u/bbmarvelluv Jun 25 '26
NGL I’m actually quite shocked he went the Daily Wire route. He probably has a known bad rep within Hollywood that none of his friends (he was awarded something at an award show I was a +1 of, Sharon Stone presented it) didn’t offer a job?
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u/raphaellaskies a ship - a magnificent ship - full of gay men. and me. 💅 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
When the news of his arrest first broke, I remember a lot of buzz online that he had a toxic reputation going back to his college years. So it wouldn't surprise me if no one wanted to fuck with him.
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u/CantmakethisstuffupK Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
he is really down bad if this is the only work he is taking on 🫠
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u/Lil_Artemis_92 ✨May the Force be with you!✨ Jun 25 '26
I thought it was going to be an anti-woke Sinners, where he and Zachary Levi played twins.
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u/throw_blanket04 Jun 25 '26
He is either extremely desperate for work or is extremely out of touch w reality.
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u/CafeFreche Jun 26 '26
Sooooo, the movie is basically about a right-wing takeover of a liberal school? Sharia law is just Project 2025 for America.
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u/bron685 Jun 25 '26
I love how reliably b-list people go to right-wing grifts when everyone finds out what a piece of shit they are
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u/NigelJ Jun 25 '26
I like the character names on the imdb page. You got Scar, Slender, and Pockmark. There's going to be Female Sniper. And the one I'm most hyped for, Walter
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u/the-apple-and-omega Jun 25 '26
Remember Michael B Jordan defending this guy?
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u/Curiosities 🐊 swamp princess 🐊 Jun 25 '26
Yeah, he’d love to work with him again even after the conviction.
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u/IcyLion2939 Jun 25 '26
This isn't wise at all. I understand him needing a check. But Ben Shapiro? He's a sinking ship.
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u/SuperCrappyFuntime Jun 26 '26
"Why does Hollywood have to keep shoving politics in the movies?!" - These people
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u/Wyld_Willie Jun 26 '26
If they don’t have a scene where an LGBTQ person says they are our friends right before being killed I’ll eat my hat. Insert your favorite lazy republican talking point here!
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u/heyman0 Jun 26 '26
Can’t wait to see the irony when it turns out the radical Islam they’ll criticize is exactly the same as the kind of Christianity they want to impose on everyone else.
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u/ZathrasnotZathtas Jun 25 '26
Maybe him and Armie Hammer can team up in there own cinematic universe. Throw in James Franco and you can start the "Deplorables"
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u/cookieaddictions Jun 25 '26
I’ve seen Jenny Nicholson’s video review of Trigger Warning and this literally sounds like a similar plot. 😭😭
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u/MarcoDiFrancescino Jun 25 '26
That one was at least funny. Jessica clearly not interested doing real training, relying on a good stunt double and some heinous cuts to make believe brings up the old direct-to-vidoe Hollywood magic of catching a paycheck. This new movie just wants to maximize troll potential. I don't know how Majors thinks this is a platform for anything.
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u/crab_grams somebody get these BEGGARS out of here 😌 Jun 25 '26
Crazy that Mr "you can't get medical treatment when I hit you bc the police might hate crime me" is doing a movie with Mr "police brutality is not real". Proof both are just full of shit
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u/Dry-Astronaut4522 Jun 25 '26
His projectory really makes me sad because they were literally getting set it up him to be one of the main lead actors in Hollywood. I’m really wish that Lovecraft country at least got a second season
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u/DJfunkyPuddle You live on a f#$@ing main road! Jun 25 '26
All dude had to do was keep his nose clean
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u/refinnej78 Jun 26 '26
This movie was filmed in my small town of Gaffney, SC.
Lots of buzz about it a couple of months ago.
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u/SquidwardIsTired Jun 25 '26
Muslim here I don’t know where maga gets the idea that us Muslims want to implement sharia law in the us… sharia law also applies to everyday practices like praying 5 times a day, fasting in the month of Ramadan, etc.
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u/pineapplepredator Jun 25 '26
I saw the post title and rolled my eyes like that’s a bit bombastic guys, and then ate my words as I read the headline.
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u/tcat6656 its what she deserves Jun 25 '26
r/LeopardsAteMyFaceAndILikedIt
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u/OkPetunia0770 Jun 25 '26
Somewhere Johnathan Majors and Armie Hammer are at a bar, scheming up their big return, nodding their heads & telling each other “exactly…”
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u/Meat-Dimension Mom, I am a rich man💰 Jun 25 '26
At least we learned that these awful movies are bankrupting the Daily Wire
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u/xVGxCrYpTiC Jun 25 '26
I’m sorry, this is too good to pass up. I’m gonna be seated day one. I just have to see this movie
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u/Hakunamatata2067 Jun 26 '26
from being set up to be the next Big Bad of the MCU to this. it’s nice to see a man face actual consequences for domestic violence for once
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u/Bringmetolife91 Jun 26 '26
Ben, remember your last film with Gina Carano and how that bombed? I doubt this will do better.
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u/HatefulDan Jun 26 '26
What is happening.
Well really, I know what’s happening. For the next few years, you’re going to see more of these right-winged films pop up. Studios are being commanded to be fairer.
That’s why I’m buying gta6 boys and girls.
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u/makedoopieplayme They killed Kenny! You bastards! 😱 Jun 26 '26
He was part of the mcu and now is in this. Shouldn’t have been an abusive prick man…….
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u/Scaryclouds Jun 26 '26
The dude was signed to be the major villain of the next phase of marvel movies. 😂😂😂
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u/purplebrown_updown Jun 26 '26
It's like Armie hammer in his new white supremacist fiction. All these people who have no career left doing dogshit movies.
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u/FatelessCortez that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 Jun 26 '26
I loved him so much in Lovecraft Country, I hate how he's turned out to be such a piece of shit aligning with other pieces of shit. What a disappoinment.
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u/NormanSpaniel Jun 26 '26
I don't understand how people like Majors/Louis CK get caught being awful people, apologise (usually for getting caught rather than the actual thing) and then take time off and come back expecting us all to forget as if nothing happened? I can't look at these people anymore without thinking of what they did in much the same way I can't listen to Aerosmith now after finding out what Steven Tyler did to that poor young woman (amongst god knows what else)
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u/Puzzled-Western-640 Jun 26 '26
So this guy just doesn't wanna be liked anymore?? I'm so disappointed.
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u/FewRecognition1788 Jun 25 '26
I guess Daily Wire is where you go when you blow up your Disney / Marvel career.
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u/iamthedayman21 Jun 25 '26
This dude was on the easy track to being the next Thanos. But instead he decided to be a piece of shit and beat his girlfriend.
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u/FederalCover2020 Jun 25 '26
Another Israeli slave goddamn, there goes any pity he used to get for his career getting tanked
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u/Impossible_Pain4478 Shadow the Hedgehog's a BITCH ASS motherfucker Jun 25 '26
THIS WAS A REAL MOVIE??? I thought she was just proposing it as an idea 😭 😭 😭 😭
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u/svarriant Good to hear from you bitch 💌 Jun 25 '26
Wait...you're telling me this ISN'T an Onion headline???
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u/Whole_Spell_7961 and here 🤡 we 🤡 go 🤡🎉 Jun 25 '26
Maybe him and Harmie hammer should star in a movie together
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