Current Events > The right wingers found out about GWAR lmao

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Nobody is safe from Gwar. For decades, the costumed thrash metal collective has imbued their live shows with comically over-the-top acts of mock violence against right-wing political figures like Ronald Reagan and former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, as well as centrist Democrats like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Its no surprise that Gwar, who incidentally hail not far from DC, hate Donald Trump. But its taken American conservatives a surprisingly long time to catch on to the bands faux-blood-spewing antics. Theyve caught on now, and youre never going to believe this, but theyre clutching their pearls about it. Gwar have also issued a response to the outrage.

Over the weekend during their set at Chicagos Riot Fest, Gwar beheaded a figure of Elon Musk, and somebody came onstage in a very rotund Trump costume that started bleeding out. The New York Post posted about the performance, further spawning complaints that the schtick was normalizing violence. Americans normalizing violence? Say it aint so!

Riot Fest, for the record, has Gwars back: The dumbest people on the internet are still mad today, the fest wrote today. Got to love it. As long as they keep posting that awesome video and mentioning our name for the free publicity its a win for me.

The idea that Gwar is normalizing violence is patently absurd, the bands lead vocalist Michael Blthar the Berserker Bishop said in a statement to Billboard, describing the spectacle as a parody of violence. Were not millionaires that are afraid of what people are going to say when they see what we do Were a group of artists that makes art, and its really the idea that what we have done is normalizing violence Theres nothing normal about the violence that goes on at a Gwar show. Its a cartoon, its Looney Tunes Its trying to make violence into a spectacle and show humanitys absolute absurdity. Thats what Gwar is, its absurdism. To say its normalizing violence is really reaching.

my entire exposure to GWAR is that time they were on Codename Kids Next Door yes this was real

(okay, the band wasn't, but some of their music was. Pretty much any band with the attention to paid to their craft like how GWAR does is guaranteed to end up despising MAGA-types I think.)

Y'all motherfuckers need to watch Empire Records.

It's not the daily occurrence of actual shootings that's normalising violence.

It's the absurd theatrical antics of a costumed metal band.