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The 5 Most Inept Fictional Drug Kingpins, Ranked

These upward-failing crime bosses should’ve been canned a long time ago

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2 min readFeb 27, 2021

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5. James St. Patrick (‘Power’)

Dude. You literally had one job: Don’t have a romantic affair with the person investigating you. It’s simple. Ghost went above and beyond the ideals of trash kingpinning by destroying his family and his criminal empire over a COP he’d had a crush on back in high school.

4. Tommy Buns (‘Belly’)

We’re glad this man found a higher calling, because he may have been the most unhinged drug dealer of all time. Getting so drunk and high that you rile up your little homies to gun each other down in a fancy Olive Garden? Getting so hooked into the game that you’re now an assassin for the CIA? We’ve gotta be sincere — if hustling was a desk job, Tommy would’ve been X’d out in his first week.

3. Stringer Bell (‘The Wire’)

This guy was making like $1 million a day and he threw it all away just because he passed an Econ midterm at Baltimore Tech Community…

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