For more than four decades, GWAR has been pissing people off. They’ve “killed” countless controversial figures and it’s raised the hackles of emotionally weak fuck faces. It’s unavoidable. Yet the recent on-stage “disembowelment” of President Donald J. Trump pissed off the MAGA cult so you know what that means — they sent death threats to the guys parading around as fake intergalactic aliens in fake armor.
The main incident that got people up in arms was the band’s performance at Riot Fest in Chicago last year. During that particular show, they featured a little simulated murder of noted racist net negatives to society and wastes of valuable oxygen Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. It was all in good fun worthy of a good “hahaha” or a “hehehe” during your metal show.
Well, that was too much for the MAGA crowd. No, they couldn’t stand to see an effigy of their God Emperor and his minion getting fake murdered, so their influencers got all mad and condemned GWAR for their act for allegedly normalizing political violence. So they apparently responded by sending the band death threats, which is an act of political violence in its own right.
Never mind they’ve killed countless politicians over the years, but now was when they were fomenting violence. It was a situation that frontman Blöthar the Berserker laughed off at the time in an interview with Billboard.
“The idea that Gwar is normalizing violence is patently absurd.
“We’re not millionaires that are afraid of what people are going to say when they see what we do… Yeah, it pissed me off! We’re a group of artists that makes art, and it’s really the idea that what we have done is normalizing violence… there’s nothing normal about the violence that goes on at a GWAR show. It’s a cartoon, it’s Looney Tunes.”
Since then, GWAR’s only ratcheted up the vitriol, killing figures like now former Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem. But that’s not to say the anger from the right has subsided at all. In fact, in an interview with The Guardian, guitarist Mike Derks (a.k.a. Balsac The Jaws Of Death) explained how the whole situation’s been frustrating and scary at the same time. He also took umbrage with a group of people who claim to be pro-First Amendment to then go on to try to censor a band like GWAR.
“In a sense, it’s just laughable, but it was scary when we were getting death threats over social media. It did get me very upset when people were trying to say: ‘Oh, you can’t do that.’ This is the country where we’re supposed to be able to do that! People were saying we can’t do it after we’d been doing it for 40 years.”
But once again the obvious should be stated: the MAGA cult is so rotten with nothing but a buncha whiny, pasty white, piss-soaked, crybabies that couldn’t take a joke if it were handed to them with soft kids’ gloves. Sure, their ideology is the catalyst for this country’s backsliding into fascism, but they’re still somehow just soft as baby shit.
67 Comments
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 136 pts · 132d
I bet there was MAGA GWAR fans who thought GWAR was like them. Just like RATM some bands music just goes right over the MAGGOTS heads.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 132d
There was a post here on Lemmy right around the time of the superbowl where some guy was looking to form "the right wing version of RATM".
I'm still unclear if he's a comedic genius, or an idiot.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 132d
I remember that. It's probably true for some right winger out there. When I did flooring, there was always other work crews around who you could tell were maga listening to musc like Ratm. Like the message just didn't click with them.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 131d
"Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses"
"Ah, what a wholesome message! I like these good ol' boys, rage against the machine!"
everyone else facepalms
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 131d
I had heard a rumor that the original lyrics were “some of those that hold office, are the same that burn crosses”
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 131d
I mean.....also historically accurate in certain parts of the country.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 131d
My understanding is that's a live edit of the song from its original recording. It's not incorrect at all though.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 131d
Thanks!
wesdym@mastodon.social · -1 pts · 131d
@Lost_My_Mind Is John Valby still performing?
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 25 pts · 132d
Back before I left Facebook I was part of the Bohab group that was a continuation of the bohab forums, there were A LOT of hard right fans that thought GWAR were also hard right.
4am@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 131d
Assumption: The left are blue-haired SJW liberals and the USA tried to beat them up and take their property for not being on "their side" during the McCarthy era...you know, when men were men! They do wimpy and gay things. They're also so DUMB and uncreative even though they think they're so great, and they put DEI in video games and are groomers.
Fact: GWAR does GWAR things, like violence, gore, blood, piss, heavy metal, growling, screaming, loud, lights, electricity, power.
Incorrect Conclusion: GWAR is not left
They just can't imagine leftist thinking being anything but the strawman set up by their propagandists
wesdym@mastodon.social · 0 pts · 131d
@nocturne I think they confuse anything they perceive as 'aggro' to be "like me", not getting the rest of the world can count above ten without taking their shoes off.
wesdym@mastodon.social · 8 pts · 131d
@Salamanderwizard That RATM thing was great. "What Machine did you believe we're raging against?!"
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 84 pts · 132d
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 131d
How is that mocking? Seems pretty on point.
audit69@programming.dev · 2 pts · 130d
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 132d
GWAR decapitates or sodomomizes with a sword any politician in the spotlight. It's just an excuse to spray the audience with stage blood. It's not a GWAR show without a bloody pit. They made a whole album called The Bloody Pit of Horror. They did it to Bush and Obama and I didn't hear any complaints. Certainly not on Lemmy. magas could look at it like baptism and maybe they'd understand it a little better.
sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today · 41 pts · 132d
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 132d
I saw them in 2018 and they used the same Trump on stage, but wearing a crown, and cut his stomach open to spray the crowd with "blood". It was great, and the blood washed out surprisingly well.
sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 132d
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 132d
I'm like 99% sure I saw them kill Trump back in 2017.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 132d
When noem complained to them on twitter, sp replied, so I guess we are relevent, #eatabagofdicks
jarmitage@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 131d
I saw them in the late 90s and they brought out a JonBenet Ramsey doll to bang and decapitate.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 2 pts · 131d
Yikes
Soulg@ani.social · 1 pts · 131d
That's just what they do, edgy
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 48 pts · 132d
Somehow I don't think Gwar is gonna be intimidated.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 132d
Gwar always retreat from controversy.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 131d
They said this is their last apology tour.
devolution@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 131d
Black guy here who normally doesn't go for music like GWAR... I fucking love GWAR and their tunes and even more now that they have shown they have a spine.
In the race
Olympicsdraft, I'll trade Kanye for GWAR.FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 131d
We don't want Kanye. GWAR is worth at least both Bad Brains and Living Color. Send Kanye to the Amish so he doesn't have an Internet connection.
devolution@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 131d
You can't have Living Color. How's about I give you a three in one? TLC's Chili, Kanye, AND Nikki Minaj for GWAR?
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 131d
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 131d
Keep all of those. And Diamond. How about Jimi Hendrix and Little Richard. I thought about Tina Turner but I'm pretty sure she was covered in a previous draft.
devolution@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 131d
Little Richard yes. Jimi Hendrix? No. If I add James Brown, we got a deal?
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 131d
Whites claiming the godfather would be an injustice. I think we are at an impasse. Or maybe we are thinking about it incorrectly from the beginning. The scumdogs of GWAR belong to all the people. Or rather the people belong to them, to slaughter.
devolution@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 131d
Agreed!
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 130d
Brown was a republican who stumped for Nixon....
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 131d
It's actually a draft
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 131d
In a stunning move, the Asians announce they have picked the entire Wu Tang Clan.
devolution@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 131d
Yep. That.
mrbeano@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 132d
Scumdogs of the Universe don't care about your feelings
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 132d
Hahahaha
Janx@piefed.social · 24 pts · 132d
I love their cover of "Pink Pony Club".
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 132d
They have done some great covers over the years.
I'm just Ken from the Barbie Movie
She Bop by Cyndi Lauper
West End Girl by The Pet Shop Boys
Carry on my wayward son by Kansas
Get outta my dreams, get into my car by Billy Ocean
If you want blood, you got it by AC/DC
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 131d
Even if I don’t listen to GWAR I always appreciated their theatrical presentation. Good to know they’re also on the right side of history.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 21 pts · 131d
GWAR would literally eat all those MAGA pissbabies and turn it into another skit.
Hayduke@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 132d
They don’t really get GWAR, I gather. Fucking ignorant snowflakes. It’s telling as they attach so much of their personality to someone who is as equally fragile.
yakko@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 132d
Some people just don't like highbrow art
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 131d
I’m not a fan of their music (and I love metal) but I LOVE their stage presence. I’ve seen them once in the early 2010s, and it was an incredibly fun show. They did indeed decapitate George Bush. Hitler came all over me. I never washed those clothes.
Hayduke@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 129d
Hell yes. I still have my (formerly white) COC shirt somewhere. I saw them like 33-ish years ago in SF. It was everything I hoped it would be. Plus, they never strayed from the act, which is great and why people getting all upset about it completely miss the point of the show. Oh well. Sucks to be someone who never gets to enjoy a show in person.
wesdym@mastodon.social · 0 pts · 131d
@Hayduke To be fair, I don't expect MOST people to 'get' GWAR. But MAGAts are a special kind of stupid. They don't get a LOT of things. I bet even Pop-Tarts confuse them.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 131d
Get them to visit lake Titicaca and see their heads explode en masse.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 131d
Time to give this Nazi skinhead one more haircut.
Real close to the shoulders, like.
Whoa! His heads been decapitated.
Look at all that PSI in his aorta artery.
Whoa! Is he a gusher or what?
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 131d
Those GWAR dudes look pretty scary. They would probably eat those MAGA losers for breakfast.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 130d
why doesnt the larger simply eat the smaller ones.
brem@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 130d
Too much codpiece. The appearance of larger genitalia scares the lone MAGA.
..but in a pack, they are known to swarm.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 131d
The MAGAt morons probably had no idea who Gwar was until this.
Lol
Suggestionofhuman@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 130d
Gwar was making fun of Trump way before he got into politics
brem@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 130d
Me too
homes@piefed.world · 8 pts · 132d
GWAR!
toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 132d
Hey Mark, you sure play a mean guitar, it's too bad you have to... Die.
BodePlotHole@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 132d
"The swastika, and the bloody old cross. Two great hates that hate great together."
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 132d
The public media episode collab with John Oliver was pretty awesome ngl, raised a lot of money for local public radio stations :)
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 130d
It's literally just bots. Maga fucking barely exists IRL. We all saw when twitter let you see where people were posting from that all the chuds were foreign accounts.
brem@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 130d
They definitely exist & I know many (including family)
Rubes are a dime a dozen in the central states
wesdym@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 130d
@Raiderkev I live in one of the more liberal states, and I can testify that these people are real, and not rare. I don't know how common they are, and I certainly agree that the online world is flooded with bots, including MAGA. But these chumps definitely exist and are not rare. I see them often enough, and even know some.
mPony@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 129d
true, but they exist openly because they think they're the majority, due to all the bots. Without the bots, they would look like they did in 2012.
wesdym@mastodon.social · 0 pts · 129d
@mPony They do indeed live in echo chambers that massively inflate their own sense of their own prominence. I've noticed that most conservatives behave like most sports fans: They assume that most other people are like them. I'm not sure why sports fans are like this, but echo chambers are the reason conservatives are like that.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 129d
they are real but rare. about 1% will yell a pro trump type thing. used to be about 10% would give us a pro protest indication but over the year it raised to about 20%
wesdym@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 131d
@nocturne Trump supporters are the biggest fucking snowflakes, I swear.