Current Events > Anti-Woke Superhero Movie Blown Up in $1 Million Con

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An attempt to make a right-wing superhero movie has ended in disaster, with $1 million missing in China and a participant facing a federal indictment.
I wouldnt count on us getting the money back, Theodore Beale, a far-right blogger known as Vox Day, admitted to his fans and investors in a video last week.
This isnt how Beales followers thought their investments would go in 2019 when they started contributing to fund a film based on a Confederacy-themed superhero comic book character created by Beale. A trailer promoting the proposed movie, Rebels Run, featured the character Rebel fighting a global police force hunting down freethinking conservatives.
Frequent Tucker Carlson collaborator Scooter Downey signed on to direct. Beales supporters rapidly blew past an initial $750,000 funding goal, ultimately raising more than $1 million.

That money was supposed to be held in escrow to secure several million more dollars in funding. Three years later, though, the cash is gone, and with it Beales hopes for a movie.
The Rebels Run collapse stands as a cautionary tale for conservatives who dream of seeing their ideas turned into films, and comes as right-wing media outlets increasingly dabble in motion pictures. Commentator Ben Shapiros company has a streaming website that offers movies with a conservative tinge, including a thriller about a school shooting and a western starring canceled actress Gina Carano. Earlier this year, Breitbart News distributed a Hunter Biden biopic. But Rebels Run collapse stands as a cautionary tale for conservatives showing that the jump to movies isnt a risk-free endeavor.

Confederacy-themed superhero comic book character

Confederacy-themed superhero

A trailer promoting the proposed movie, Rebels Run, featured the character Rebel fighting a global police force hunting down freethinking conservatives

freethinking conservatives

They should have just watched Peacemaker

The show features a minority lesbian couple and points out that racism is, in fact, bad on more than one occasion.
They would've hated Peacemaker.

LMFAO what the shit did i just read

I was shooting heroin and reading The Fountainhead in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
Bad news, detective. We got a situation.
What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?
Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars worth of bitcoins.
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?
Not yet. But mark my words: were going to figure out who did this and were going to take them down provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.
Easy, chief, I said. Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.
He laughed. Thats why youre the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.
Dont worry, I said. Im on it.
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
Home Depot Presents the Police! I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. Nobody move unless you want to! They didnt.
Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime? No one spoke up.
Come on, I said. Dont you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?
It didnt seem like they did.
Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, Im just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didnt care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
Subway Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag! I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
Stop right there! I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. Listen, Ill pay you to stop! I yelled. What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? Ill offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn Bob Barr 08 extra-large long-sleeved mens T-shirt!
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
All right, all right! the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.
Whyd you do it? I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs on the guy.
Because I was afraid.
Afraid?
Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers, he said. Im a central banker.
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street, I said. No matter how many bitcoins you steal, youll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.

The show features a minority lesbian couple and points out that racism is, in fact, bad on more than one occasion.
They would've hated Peacemaker.

The show features a minority lesbian couple and points out that racism is, in fact, bad on more than one occasion.
They would've hated Peacemaker.

I gotta figure out a grift. This is just money waiting.

Lol fuck 'em. Way to piss away a million dollars of stupid people's money.

The Rippaverse is an anti woke superhero comic universe starring a black character and is making tons of money

Lmao. Stay dumb conservatives

Comic books are cheaper and easier to make than a full picture movie, so no surprise there.

The Rippaverse is an anti woke superhero comic universe starring a black character and is making tons of money

What kinda oxymoronic shit...

He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-woke-superhero-movie-rebels-run-blown-up-in-dollar1-million-con

Is there an easier grift out there than outraged conservatives?

outraged liberals is way easier. so emotional

outraged liberals is way easier. so emotional

outraged liberals is way easier. so emotional

The Rippaverse is an anti woke superhero comic universe starring a black character and is making tons of money