If you were ever 14 and didn’t go through a Dead Kennedys phase, you are one sad kid. The Dead Kennedys are a wicked, sick killer band. Their songs are ferociously hooky, and the musicianship of guitarist East Bay Ray, bassist Klaus Flouride and drummers Ted (a.k.a. Bruce Slesinger) and D.H. Pelligro eschews the notion that “punk bands can’t play.” On top of all that, you have liberal loudmouth yahoo, Eric “Jello Biafra” Bouchard’s quivering, clown like vibrato caustically waxing about a dystopic future dominated by corporate interests, where the average American is nothing more than a cog in a machine and enters the workforce only to be spit out the other end when his productivity has expired.
In addition to bashing corporations and Republicans, Biafra takes swipes at “jocks”, “goons”, “hicks”, “racists” and basically anybody who is white and male. Before I even read The Redneck Manifesto, I found it strange that, for someone who allegedly cares about the “everyman”, Biafra sure likes to make low-ball attacks on the po’ white folk in songs like “Winnebago Warrior” or “Goons of Hazard.” Hell the latest album by his current band, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine (oh, ho ho!), is called White People and the Damage Done. What’s with the formalities? Why not just call it Kill All the White People? Or maybe that’s so unsubtle that people would think it’s a joke.
But, I do respect the man and his band’s uphill struggle against censorship. I also find it ironic that it’s someone on the left who tried to destroy his career after the Dead Kennedys inserted the H.R. Giger painting, Landscape XX, into the sleeve of the Frankencrhist LP. I found it doubly ironic that he’s spent his career defending free speech in an era when it was people on his side that are trying to kill it with political correctness.
And then he pulls this shit. “Nazi Trump Fuck Off”?! Like are you fucking serious? For those not in the know, the Dead Kennedys song “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”, a minute long blast of raging hardcore that attacked assholes on the scene who liked to start fights and beat people up in the pit, was originally released on their 1981 EP In God We Trust, Inc. Later on, as Nazi Skinheads became a regular fixture in the punk, hardcore and metal scenes of the 80s and 90s, the song seemed actually kind of prescient and important. By 2016, as occurrences of neo-Nazi gang beatings are practically non-existent in most punk scenes, the song has lost all relevance outside of being a fun blast of hardcore with a well meaning, but otherwise, completely safe message.
So, then I have to ask: is Biafra THAT stupid or is he so damn desperate to keep the pulse on the finger of the young “punx”, a subculture that’s nearing its fortieth year and has all but been turned into a leftist recruitment tool, that he’s willing to pull out Godwin’s law, internet-meme level, stupid tropes like “Trump’s a Nazi” in order to keep the spiky haired fan base tuned in? And on top of that, are they so stupid that they actually believe him?
Don’t answer that question.
Anyone who pays attention to what Trump has said knows that that man is not only NOT a Nazi, he doesn’t even care about abortions, gay marriage, marijuana or transgender issues; he literally answers questions about all of these topics with something along the lines of, “I will, but I won’t, but I care, but I don’t.” Translation: “I just want close the border, end trade deals and not let Syrian refugees in the country. Other than that, do whatever the heck you want.” In fact, many strict, hard-liner evangelicals say he’s not conservative enough.
Trump’s contentious views regard illegal immigrants, most of whom are Mexican, and Syrian “refugees”, most of whom are male and Muslim. No matter how Biafra wants to cut and slice it, most Americans feel the immigration system is broken; they don’t like sanctuary cities, immediate citizenship upon birth or how their cities are turning into Spanish speaking barrios; they wouldn’t like it if their cities were turning into Polish speaking ghettos either. On top of that, many Americans don’t feel comfortable with letting 10,000 Syrian refugees, people who have values quite different from those of the West as evidenced by, oh, I dunno, incidents in Europe ranging from the raping of a bunch of women in Cologne to the blowing up of the Bataclan in Paris, into the United States. It’s apparently “racist” now to want to keep your family safe. Except that Islam isn’t a race; it’s a religion. Wasn’t it Jello Biafra who wrote “Religious Vomit”?
All religions make me wanna throw up
All religions make me sick
All religions make me wanna throw up
All religions suck
They all claim that they have the truth
That’ll set you free
Just give ’em all your money and they’ll set you free
Free for a fee
They all claim that they have ‘the Answer’
When they don’t even know the Question
They’re just a bunch of liars
They just want your money
They just want your consciousness
[Chorus]
All religions suck
All religions make me wanna throw up
All religions suck
All religions make me wanna BLEAH
They really make me sick
They really make me sick
They really make me sick
They really make me sick
They really make me sick
They really make me ILL
ALL religions, Jello. I get it; in your estimation, ALL religions just means “Christianity and ALL of its derivations.” But to us, Jello, that is, the people who aren’t brainwashed by cultural Marxism, “ALL religions” means you can’t play favorites. As far as we’re concerned, there’s ONE religion that we need to watch out for. Here, let me give you a hint there, buddy:
See that guy? If you’re a gay person or a woman, that guy is not on your side. If you’re a Jew, Christian or atheist, that guy is especially not on your side. Trump wants to ban 10,000 people who believe in that guy from entering the United States, and he’s the Nazi?
I really love the Dead Kennedys. In fact I think the rest of the band are a bunch of buffoons for hiring scabs like Brandon Cruz, Jeff Penalty and that one guy from that one band to take your spot. I really love the records you made with Mojo Nixon, Tumor Circus, Nomeansno, D.O.A., the Melvins and even your latest band with the really stupid name. Hell, I saw you guys twice, and Andrew Weiss killed it! Jello, if you read this, I’m the guy who was at the show at Small’s in 2010, whose mouth you stuffed one of your rubber gloves into and then rudely shoved a mic in my face asking if I had anything “intelligent” to say. Well, I didn’t at the time, but I do now.
You’re a coward. Your buddies in Conflict, who wrote that great, anti-Muslim song “An Option”, on the other hand, might share your retarded, anti-Capitalist sentiment, but they at least understand that letting more Muslims into their country will increase the risk of getting killed.
The Eagles of Death Metal were performing at the Bataclan and watched people get blown up. Gavin McInnes interviewed vocalist Jesse Hughes, who some publications have banned because of his contentious views towards Muslims. HE WATCHED PEOPLE DIE, and now people are calling him racist. He’s pro-Trump and he’s anti-Muslim, which means, in this day and age, he’s anti-death and pro-survival. He’s got balls, and you don’t.
I know you’ve got a career to maintain, but, if you’re going to take on the easiest, wussiest, least edgy political stance of all time in order to keep fourteen year old kids coming to your shows, can you at least not insult my intelligence with your bullshit?
savagehippie 
Oh noes… CULTURAL BOLSH- I MEAN MARXISM!!! http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cultural_marxism
You are a fool. This is literally one of the dumbest things I have ever read.
Well, you’re a poo poo head.
Jello proved his intelligence by shoving a glove in your mouth. Did you save the glove? Most would. Sounds like you have a grudge with Jello. I don’t think you get Jello’s take on religion which is similar to the view William James took…they preach inclusiveness but they practice exclusiveness. All religions, not just Christianity. Jello has a first amendment right and so do you. So go out and make your own shirt…it can say ” white fools for Trump…
Memes do not count as “reading” go suck Stalin’s cock somewhere else soy scout reject. The next civil war IS COMING and will last almost as long as an episode of Seinfeld
Ha! And it’ll be funnier too.
I don’t believe all our problems come from illegal immigrants and Muslims. In fact, the US government routinely bombs other countries, killing people and destroying their infrastructure. Also, the mass incarcerations in Iraq helped ISIS form, because prisons were a great place to radicalize Muslims. So Jello is not far off. You’re right that extremist Muslims are a problem, which Jello has acknowledged repeatedly throughout his career (musically and in his spoken word). I will say this much: If all Muslims really wanted to destroy America, they would have done it already. There’s over a billion of them. That amount of people could pretty much overtake America overnight.
On that note, Trump had actually called for banning ALL Muslims from the United States, which is a pretty extreme policy to advocate in any case. It’s also totally unconstitutional, by the way. The irony, of course, is that the US has supported Islamic theocracies and terrorist groups plenty of times over the years, and cost taxpayers literally trillions of dollars in war expenses.
As for the other points, such as Winnebago Warrior, I think that song is spot on regarding macho dads who think they’re rugged pioneers when they’re just tourists. View against capitalism are often enough spot-on, too. For one thing, the vast majority of high tech advances come through tax payer funded research (such as Apple products, or Google analytics), and sweatshops are a problem for anyone with a conscience of significance. So I pretty much don’t agree with your post.
You don’t say.
You were obviously to young when punk started, you are also missing some major points, you obviously do not get it that when we bomb peoples countries and take their oil, can you blame them for wanting to come here ?, another point is it does not matter what Trump believes , Bannon is the one who writes policy, and Trump signs the executive orders, so do not try and white wash him .Finally punk has always been the voice of the downtrodden and oppressed from way back in late 75 when everything started . You cannot be both a Trump supporter and a punk, that was never what it was about, just as there were not punks who supported Reagan and Bush, with your viewpoints id argue you never got what punk was even about .
You’re obviously a faggot.
Your obviously a genius. Momma dun gooood.
I’m certainly smarter than you. How’s that Mueller report, snowflake? Need a tissue?