What a mess! Its like the PAC who made it hired a 13 year old who makes little dark age edits, from 1950s kitchen appliance ads, to be their campaign manager.
Aside from embracing a degree of queerphobia which might be off putting for even the boomers who vote in Republican primaries (the ad essentially calls Trump a cuck for holding a rainbow flag, and shows gigachad.jpg after a reporter called Florida's trans policies genocidal) its above all else terminally online. Filled with clips of Patrick Bateman and Thomas Shelby as the sigma music plays. For everyone whose not in the "teenager whose tiktok bio says libertarian traditionalist-Fascist" demo, it's completely bizarre.
Meanwhile Trump ads attack Desantis for stuff that boomers actually care about, like wanting to gut social-security and raise sales taxes to 23%, no wonder DeSantis is floundering so hard when he's failing the first TrueAnon rule: be normal.
Anyway here's the ad if you're interested (TW: extreme queerphobia)
https://streamable.com/zorrfy
The people behind Peaky Blinders issued a statement yesterday, or the day before, calling them out for using their work. There's not much that can be done because Meatball's gang o' goons aren't passing it off as their own work, merely using it as part of something else. There could be an issue with licensing, but it's so tenuous its hardly worth fighting.
Bale's American Psycho imagery has been used on 4chan and elsewhere for decades at this point, if he was concerned about it harming his career he would have done something about it already.
I just figured there's a difference between a political advertisement vs shit posting as far as free use goes