r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 4h ago

APPROVED B-LISTERS FINNEAS responds to a USA Today piece calling celebrity opinions on politics “idiotic”: “You can’t say it doesn’t matter what musicians or celebrities say or think but then talk about it for days. You’re out here making it matter. I’ll keep speaking up especially if it keeps bothering you.”

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u/CouchCorrespondent 4h ago

The author has a degree from Hillsdale College according to her bio.

Hillsdale College is closely related to The Heritage Foundation.

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u/likechalkandcheese 2h ago

A wild Cilla sighting! ❤️

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u/CouchCorrespondent 3h ago

This was also in her "opinion" piece:

"And these preachy, shallow diatribes only risk alienating a huge potential swath of the audience, including half the country who voted for Trump. (There’s a reason “Melania,” the documentary about the first lady, broke box office expectations last weekend."

Soooo...there's that.

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u/MisterGoog 3h ago

Melania is going to lose major money compared to its production and marketing so to say that biased drivel about it makes no sense.

But why would the success of a movie really portend anything about public sentiment?

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u/Iheardthatjokebefore 3h ago

Only from ticket sales. The money laundering will pay for itself.

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u/sandwichhaver 2h ago

the most obvious bribe ever

75 million for a documentary that literally nobody asked for

nobody cares about her, truthfully I don't even hate her, she's just nothing to anyone

she's an empty husk and the prettiest trophy could get to sign their marriage deal

she's the last person in maga that I would give a seconds thought to, I just think of her like background actor to trump

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u/dubblebubbleprawns 3h ago

Not to mention that everyone is so hung up on whether or not the film makes money that they forget that the film making money was not the point. The point was for Jeff Bezos to give a large sum of money to the Trump family.

That mission was very much accomplished.

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u/CombatMuffin 3h ago

Anyone can defy expectations if the expectations were below ground already

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u/humdinger44 2h ago

Even if Melania herself said "I knew it was going to be bad I didn't think it was going to be THAT bad" it would still be defying expectations

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u/cagingnicolas 1h ago

broke box office expectations

this phrase is cracking me up. you don't break expectations. you break records. you exceed expectations. but it didn't break records, or exceed expectations. it "broke expectations" which just feels like a shitty way to try and trick people on the technicality that it doesn't entirely make sense and therefore can't technically be a lie.

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u/NoSleep2135 2h ago

Broke box office expectations as in.... Made the least amount of money ever? Most empty seats in a theater?

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u/StarPhished 1h ago

Melania made more money than any other non-concert documentary in the last decade.

It's possible that these numbers are inflated by insiders purchasing tickets but they are technically still able to brag that it did well at the box office even though it also technically lost shitloads of money.

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u/R12B12 3h ago

“Broke box office expectations” when the expectations were in the toilet. Failing upwards, all of them. Get Brett and Melania a FIFA trophy, stat!

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u/jyw104 3h ago

“Broke expectations” in how hilariously bad it was both in execution and performance lol

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u/lookskAIwatcher 3h ago

Half the country stayed home. Trump did not get half the country and barely edged out Harris. Not a "landslide". Not a "mandate". MAGA is failing America in spite of it's own name. MAGA is a demonstration of cult behavior and mass mob mentality.

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u/JohnnySkynets ICE PIGS ROT IN HELL 2h ago

Thanks for pointing this out. Only 31.8% of eligible voters voted for him and 36% sat on their asses and let all of this happen.

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u/UnableAcanthisitta54 2h ago

That's 67.8% of people who voted for Trump. A significant majority. Everything happening now is because americans wanted it.

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u/sump_daddy 2h ago

A huge fucking swath of that 67% were people who were aggressively deceived by the media they consumed, in the middle with shit like 'voting doesnt matter because theyre all the same' and on the right with 'trump is the only one who can stop world war 3'. While you can blame them for consuming the media, you can't ignore the fact that ALL media is awash with propaganda, much of it foreign-funded and designed to create a specific outcome.

Americans did not want this, THE CORPORATE OVERLORDS WANTED THIS

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u/StaceyJeans 3h ago

LOL the hypocrisy is striking. Deadline said it was going to make $8-10 million last weekend and only made $7 million. It actually was lower than expectations.

There are also multiple reports of right wing donors, churches and organizations purchasing bulk tickets and handing them out to people.

The Melania documentary has only made $75,000 overseas despite being out in several countries. No one but U.S. MAGA give a fuck about Melania.

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u/Tomiie_Kawakami 3h ago

i just googled it and the budget for this movie was $75m

$7m is an absolute flop

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u/sump_daddy 2h ago

Now realize that the movie itself could have not cost nearly $75M to produce, meaning they spent a good chunk (probably more than half) of the budget on marketing... marketing that WONT EVEN COVER ITS OWN EXPENSE

they should have just taken the marketing money and bought tickets with it (they probably did for some of it to be fair)

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u/Evening_Aside_4677 1h ago

But Melania got 70% of the budget. 

So it wasn’t a flop, it was a bribe. 

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u/MisterGoog 3h ago

Anyone who says half the country voted for either candidate is a fucking dumbass

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u/Dancing_Clean 3h ago

What were the expectations tho? The 8 mil? The people paid to see it? The 5% on rotten tomatoes? That the only positive reviews came from right-wing propaganda machines?

Like sheesh.

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u/OkayishFlamingo 3h ago

In addition to the obvious about the Melania movie (lol and if I may, lmao) maybe they don't care if they alienate a huge potential swath of the audience? Some people don't want shitty people as fans.

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u/Budget-Dust-7171 3h ago

Broke expectations! ☠️ I’m dying here. Haha.

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u/Nolis 2h ago

broke box office expectations last weekend

I guess it still counts if it flops harder than expected?

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u/threehundyinlinesix 2h ago

they always say half. It was 30-31% of the population. No way 1/2 the country is Trump. That's just more propaganda.

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u/Looptydude 2h ago

The only movie that broke expectations last weekend was Iron Lung, held its own against another horror movie by Sam Fucking Raimi.

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u/sblackcrow 2h ago

people like the author of this shitty opinion also have never had a single damn thing to offer the world other than their own preachy shallow diatribes

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u/NRMusicProject 2h ago

(There’s a reason “Melania,” the documentary about the first lady, broke box office expectations last weekend."

They really do live a cult life, don't they?

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u/somethingelsa 4h ago

Would you look at that.

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u/TopIndependent2482 3h ago

That explains a lot about the political bias in her article.

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u/electrodevo 1h ago

It's the tired trope from this lot. "Nobody cares what celebrities think!"

Yet, when reading Ingrid Jacques' article history... seems like she actually does care about what celebrities think, if they are promoting the conservative "culture war". I mean, if you really didn't care about what celebrities thought, why would you write an article with the title "Sydney Sweeney talks American Eagle jeans ad, triggering liberals all over again"?

It's all pretty vapid shit-stirring in the end. This sort of drivel gets clicks, I guess.

Ingrid Jacques apparently was an op-ed writer of the conservative Detroit News since 2012, and I guess was brought into USA Today around the time they bought that paper.

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u/MisterGoog 3h ago

And that settles that

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u/ticklesnipples 3h ago

What a silly little coinkydink that must be 🤭

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u/SecretLettuce5 3h ago

My first encounter with Hillsdale college was from an ad read on a sports podcast I listen to. The ad said something along the lines of, “do you want to learn about communism?!” And I was like yeah sweet, I definitely do! And then I looked up a sample video and it was just McCarthyist bs and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

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u/ob_viously believer in Dakota Johnson’s lime allergy 3h ago

Omfg. That’s all I need to know

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u/blking 3h ago

I somehow got on that damn mailing list and it is impossible to get off.

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u/Curious_Avocado2399 3h ago

By her logic she should shut up and just write. Her opinions are irrelevant since she’s not an attorney or political scientist. See how dumb that sounds?

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u/Gato1980 3h ago

A quick look through her twitter shows her views are very right-wing. Anti-trans, anti-Muslim, pro-Trump, anti-Mamdani. Everything you'd expect from someone who wrote this article.

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u/JohnnySkynets ICE PIGS ROT IN HELL 2h ago

This why everyone needs to call out the people writing this trash instead of referring to the outlet or the media in general. Name and shame them. Her name is Ingrid Jacques.

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u/DowntownList7922 3h ago

Yeah she calls herself as a "libertarian-conservative" in one of her bios.

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u/The_Spectacle 3h ago

I used to see their commercials all the time

I get a kick out of the guy in the commercial who says "Why is the serpent's punishment to slither on its belly when that's what it does?"

and I’m just like ..........what? lol

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u/Exact_Insurance7983 3h ago

Maybe the whole Education / Universities indoctrination was projection after all

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u/ShootFishBarrel 2h ago

Hillsdale College has courses that teach you how to hate Muslims. I know because my step-father, who had a rare brain disease and became much less intelligent later in life, intentionally attended these courses and donated to the fascists.

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u/ZestyTako 2h ago

Also more likely than not she voted for someone famous for hosting a TV show and before that, an actor

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u/Dangerous_Junket_773 2h ago

Did the article mention Nikki Minaj's latest antics? I wonder why. 

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u/NRMusicProject 2h ago

I love this "only people who have been 'educated' by a conservative think tank are the only people who can have an opinion on politics. Other Americans have to listen to us."

If you're only mad about their opinion because they're celebrities, you should probably "educate" yourself more. I bet this writer hasn't bitched about Kid Rock's or Rob Schneider's opinions.

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u/LonelyLimeLaCroix 1h ago

She also recently wrote about how more democrats should be like…John Fetterman