Honestly, I’m not sure why I’m surprised. Sure, this seems like something shock rock band W.A.S.P. may have done when Chris “I’m a racist short dick man” Holmes was still in the band, but this is just depressing. At their New York show last night (November 16) at the Hammerstein Ballroom, W.A.S.P. pretty much ejaculated pro-Trump rhetoric all over the stage just before closing the show out with “Blind in Texas.” Watch, and be shocked by it, below.
As if just looking at all of that Trump shit wasn’t traumatizingly offensive to eyesight enough, frontman Blackie Lawless had to make it even worse:
“We’ll do something a little different tonight. We are in the appropriate city to do this. You know, it was Shakespeare that said, ‘Some are born to greatness. Some have greatness thrust upon them.’ It was the Greek historian Herodotus who said that when it comes to tragedy and things like that, that we do not rule circumstances, circumstances rule us.
He then referenced the PMRC (Parents’ Music Resource Center) and censorship he experienced in the past:“Now when I was a little kid, growing up across the bay over here in Staten Island, I never, I never ever imagined that my time would come where I would be thrust into a situation where I had no control over. Now, it will be 40 years next year, there was a situation that happened, and it was called the PMRC. And there were hearings, there were hearings done in Washington, D.C. And two days later, Frank Zappa and myself stood on a stage just around the corner here and we talked about the evils that would come about them. Because censorship is an ugly, ugly thing. And it ain’t just in music. It happens in all forms of life.
“…The very first amendment of our constitution guarantees freedom of speech. Our founding fathers were genius enough to know that if you can control speech, you can control thought. And these men knew this. These were great men. Fast forward a couple hundred years, 250 almost, now we have a situation in the last six, eight years, we find censorship again rearing its ugly, ugly head. Now, this time it’s on the Internet, and it’s affecting every single one of us.”
I guess Trump was at some fight next door at Madison Square Garden, too, and Lawless felt the need to address that as well:
“Tonight, you may not be aware, but right next door to us over here in the Garden, there is a man who has undergone attempt after attempt, assassinations on his life, and this man has stood up for this country. He’s right next door right now at the Garden. Now, I got two things that I’m passionate about the most. One of them is that freedom of speech,” he added. “And the other one is about being a patriot. Because I’m here to tell you, I don’t care if you’re Republican, Democrat, Independent, you need to be a patriot of this country. I am willing to die for this country. I believe in it that much. And that man next door, he believes in it too. I only got one more thing to say before we go. Cause I’m blind in Texas.”
After he vomited this bullshit into the microphone, “Trump 2024” flags graced the stage along with a photo of the presidential disgrace post-alleged assignation attempt that happened earlier this year.
Show attendee Shayne Mathis summed it up pretty well—”Lololol you are not going to believe how W.A.S.P. ended their set tonight.”
You’re right. I can’t believe it.
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