Ben Shapiro and Danny Trejo Are Making a Pro-ICE Film. Crew Members Quit When They Found Out Its Politics
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Danny Trejo's involvement with this is.... Unexpected.
Also, it's funny that they'd lie and obfuscate what the movie is about, because they know people won't want to work for them. It's like they know what they're doing is despicable, and that's why they're trying to hide it in the first place.
Standard operating procedure for right wing shitbags.
"Unexpected, this is. And unfortunate."
He was blindsided by Shapiro's involvement and is stuck in a terrible contract. https://lemmy.world/comment/26299853
Keep in mind he's in his 80s, so he might not have been as investigative about the role as he would have historically been. He really just wanted to play the part of a good guy and jumped at it. Poor form from his rep.
I thought Danny Trejo was cool. Oh well.
Dude literally was a drug dealing and did armed robbery. These people have zero self awareness. Danny will probably be calling for help when they load his ass on the plan last?
This comment is so fucking funny. Firstly "Dude literally was a drug dealing". Secondly, none of those things a relevant to a persons political views.
All you did with your comment was prove how fucking dumb and ignorant you are.
Didn't Ukraine bomb your troll farm already?
Another comment from his son says Trejo didn't know who Shapiro was before signing the contract
Ok, sure danny
Danny….. why?
Aparently he didn't know until it was too late
Looks like it's not an isolated incident.
There's still no indication he knows who Ben Shapiro is, or even watched the show
I thought there was more to the story, but he still needs to say something himself. If it's a lawsuit he's worried about, he'll lose more "being professional". He's losing friends, fans and his legacy.
with as long as he's been in show business you'd think he'd have fuck you $ by now, with a lawyer on retainer. could probably argue the contract void for a number of reasons
He filed for bankruptcy in 2023 and owes the IRS amount two million dollars in back taxes. I am probably financially worth more than him at this point.
If doesn't fire his agent IMMEDIATELY then Danny is just as much to blame.
It should have been obvious that it would be a disgusting film when zionazi Ben Shapiro is involved
Gotta remember that the average person is not as plugged into politics as the average lemming. It is perfectly normal for someone to not be aware of who Ben Shapiro is
An profestional actor is supposed to have an overview on who is involved in an project before accepting
im guessing gina carano wasnt enough.
I smell bullshit
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What a racist POS idiot you are that has no idea how serious breach of contract can be to someone in their 80s who filed for chapter 11 and owes the IRS $2 million. You must be a right-wing prick.
Had to check to see if I was in a shitposting sub. Nope, y'all just love ole machete so much you'll upvote what appears to be a lily white accountant who has eaten too much breakfast cereal and cocaine for a Monday, going off in his defense, during an aneurysm.
Shut up and eat your admiral crunch.
for real. this saddens me.
His experience with Mr. Birchum was just so good had to reunite with the daily wire.
But also, let's not ignore that Harvey Keitel is also in this propaganda.
Mental decline probably
This is likely for a lot of these actors. They're on their expiration chapter, look at the photo. That's not the person you watched in movies growing up. Same with Tyson walking with Drippy Diaper Don, I mean at least he has an excuse of multiple concussions.
tyson has the excuse of "I am mike tyson, a violent rapist, and I support other violent rapists."
Fuck mike tyson, Fuck him two decades ago, Fuck him yesterday, and Fuck him tomorrow. trump is tyson's brand, not some anomaly.
He did say I'm going to fuck you till you love me ---got on TV so yeah...
And he was convicted of, then served time for, rape.
UPDATE: Apparently he got tricked, and forced under an NDA to never speak ill of the project.
Damn. Can beloved actors please stop doing things to ruin their likability?
Thanks.
Harvey Keitel is in this too according to the article.
He said "beloved" actors
Fair lol
You do realise that an actors literal job is to pretend to be likeable
Some like Pedro Pascal do method acting and actually live being likeable.
It's their job to appear likeable. It isn't their job to fake it. Some of them actually are likeable.
most actors are surprisingly conservative, and only until recently they dont express thier political leanings for fear of blacklisitng from hollywood.
frankie muniz is another, gary sinese, the late shannon dorhety., sorbo was given. Trump pratically gave them a megaphone that it was ok to be racist, bigot.
frankie is somewhat surprising, although not really. the signs were there, hes into nascar primarly watched by republicans, and he made several statements how he dint like his costar on MIM, thier political leanings bothered him, but he felt like his politics were correct. he became more radicalized as he was looking online for republican/conservative propaganda to consume.
sinese was a no brainer, hes obsessed with authotarian figure roles in movies/shows. and his current obsession is with veterans, only because one time after his debut in forrest gump, he thought he was one of the boys when he visited a va hospital one time.
Okay, look, you named four people.
That does not remotely equal "most".
Neither you nor I nor anyone else here have anywhere near enough information for your claim there. The only thing I can definitely say is that it's an irresponsible thing to say.
there are literlally more people than that, just the 4 on top of my head. you sound like conservative, no thanks and your opinion was not warranted. you act as if there are next to no conservatives in hollywood, and think its a conspiracy dont you?
Okay, you seem to have forgotten the conversation that just happened. Let's go over it again. You said:
and I responded:
And you said
You DO understand that YOU were the ONLY one who made a claim, and that me saying that neither of us have enough information to make a statement about what you just said was baseless and then you doubling down by claiming that I said there are no conservatives in Hollywood just made you look ridiculous, right?
You DO understand that, right?
It always is a bit shocking when immigrants are hard liners for immigration
Tbf, I’m trying to think of a time Danny said no to being in a film.
"Bruce, did you know that some actors turn down roles?"
I've heard he'll do student films for free if they cover his transportation. Or something along those lines.
Ha! You've got a point
when they arnt giving him money. he was on SGA on one episode.
My cousins are half-Thai, their mom is an immigrant from Thailand that my uncle married while serving in the Navy. My uncle was a trumper and virulently racist and anti-immigrant and taught his sons to be the same. For bonus points, thanks to the genetic dice my cousins happen to look generally central american and got abused more for that growing up in Florida than for being half Asian. How you could have that kind of background and still be a white supremacist is beyond me, but they've pulled it off. It helps a lot that they are just straight up stupid.
most asians love white people, especially rich people, they want to emulate them. its a strange parasocial, cultural relationship. thats why mr beast, the rock, cena can make it big in asia. plus china loves to use white people as thier "cultural ambassador" to legitimize thier companies. as an asians, my relatives are very much obssesed with musk, tesla.(thats why white people who has drama in the states flee to asia.(they dont know the drama or quite ignorant towards it.
The leopards told them they're only eating the faces of those who are bad.
It’s shocking that immigrants that jumped through the hoops to do it legally are against those that skip all that and immigrate illegally?
Also, Danny isn’t an immigrant. He was born in California lol.
ICE locks up legal immigrants and asylum seekers.
People on holiday, US citizens, their own grandma (probably).
What an arbitrary distinction given that legal immigrants are in just as much danger from ICE right now, and ICE is completely lawless — first amendment, fourth amendment, violating habeas corpus (a legal principle older than the Magna Carta), masking their identities, not to mention executing people. If the Supreme Court weren’t illegitimate, everyone involved with ICE would be in prison.
Damnit. I liked Danny. So much for that.
I sense a future Leopards Ate My Face moment here. A Latino actor makes a pro-ICE film thinking, I dunno, that spinning their murder of a woman who made the mistake of seeing too much, and then later faces deportation, and tells people he didn't think they'd come for him after he tried to change public opinion about them.
he was born in cali, but yeah. he’ll get into shit.
Does Danny know um... like, he's brown? Does he know that? There is no such thing as "one of the good ones", pal. They don't think of you as human and you'll figure that out when you are no longer useful.
Fucking dumbass.
Like a third of ICE are hispanic
Race traitors. They're next when they get rid of the illegal ones.
It's very common for AMABs to jump at any opportunity to remove other AMABs from the dating pool, same race or otherwise
I doubt you're interested but jsyk according to the Intersex community AGABs/ASABs should not be used for that purpose; They tell you what you were Assigned as and nothing else.
???
it might mean Assigned Male At Birth. idk...
It does but the statement still makes no sense
They're saying it's common for men to compete against other men in a dating sense.
More generally, it's common for men to compete against other men for resources. In a more twisted sense, someone who is well aware they will never be fully accepted may screw over others in the same boat, because it's an easy way to get handed more resources by the people doing the accepting.
Relevance
i seen some videos where there were african americans to, wonder what the percentage on that.
And this: https://lemmy.ml/post/53916463
Can you please summarize the post? I'm not clicking on an .ml link.
Something about palantier and the guy at the center is definitely some kind of brown but probably not Hispanic brown, probably Indian brown. Clearly one of us at the very top trying to hurt their own community.
Here, this might be useful with your project
https://allthatsinteresting.com/jewish-gestapo
sadly there are old conservative and well off Hispanics who fall for Trump and racist bullshit as well as white Americans.
conservative hispanics, literally think they are white by association, simply because of "European" descent.
A Pro-ICE film? Finally something that will be an even bigger blockbuster than the sweeping hit that was 'Melania'!
My favorite part of Melania is the part where she hops on a private jet and flies away while a woman is screaming "Rape! Murder!"
being directed by the sex pest, brett ratner who is an epstein associate, and hosted on a platform by another epstein associate, bezos.
In 2020 Trejo said he was a Democrat as was his father.
Democrats are pro-ICE, too.
Most Democrats are not pro-ICE, and those who are don't endorse their present tactics. All Republicans are pro-ICE.
Most democrats citizens are not pro ice. Most democrat politicians are
That’s because the greatest lie that was ever told to the American public was “democrats are the left progressive party”
Every time there is a vote on ICE, the exact minimum number of Democrats required to pass the issue vote in support. That is true even when they hold a majority. Your post makes it sound like that is a carefully orchestrated phantasm.
I want to present an alternative explanation.
I can't, but I want to.
It happens over and over again.
Actually I learned something new today. Thanks to entitled wine moms like Neera Tanden, who won’t shut the fuck up about Hasan Piker and how he’s “a predator” and need to “get out of our party”, I learned about the Democratic Leadership Council and Tanden’s own Center for American Progress exist to keep right-wing plants in charge of the Democratic Party to prevent it from moving further left, even though a large majorly of its constituents want a left-progressive party to vote for.
The fucking rich people swooped in and pushed the left-moving party right. They stole everything from us including our political party.
Fuck these fucking ghouls, we are coming for our party back in November.
The leader of the Democratic party in the Senate whipped votes to endure the ICE expansion would pass, and voted for it himself.
The Democratic party might talk some shit about ICE, but the guy who they have elected as their party leader for 20+ years voted to quintuple its budget.
Obama gave ICE "cazr" Tom Homan a service award after Homan created the policy to separate children from the parents during immigration issues. Seems like a Trump policy, but nope, it was Dems. Never let the republicans claim they are crueler to immigrants than Dem leaders are. Biden and Obama made Trump look like a dirty hippie by comparison.
I was with you until the last sentence, can't cosign that one, trump is a grotesque, but yeah Obama and Biden have a LOT of blood on their hands.
Most Democrat politicians are pro-ICE. Most Democrat voters claim to be anti-ICE, and then vote for pro-ICE politicians in primaries anyway
most are not, the ones that do are people like SCHUMER and hakeem, notice thier silence in all of this. its the dinos.
if anything that statement from trejo sounds extremely wishy-washy to me.
, before him.
Phew, thanks for pointing that out. I thought he meant the father that was a democrat after him.
Oh no how could I have forseen this
The grip or audio tech or camera op or whoever (The crew) don’t usually look in to all the details of the work before accepting. Its more of a “hey, can you work?” “Sure” type of thing.
It's spelled p-r-o-p-a-g-a-n-d-a
I hope he quits too. He's not rich, he needs money like the rest of us, but there are some lines you don't cross.
I watched a bit of that Merlin bullshit he produced and my eyes rolled so much they did a 360 when they started with the proselytising
How the fuck do you think merlin should involve proselyzation‽ Also isn't he Jewish, they aren't supposed to do that at all. Mind you I have had someone try to convince me to convert to Judaism, but she was drunk and in the process of conversion herself
I was so disappointed in that garbage. I noped out halfway through the first episode.
HOLA ICE
Is it just me, or did that article not even mention Danny Trejo, except for the title? Did I miss something?
Atleast here the crewmembers quit. In my country, though....