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Punk Rock Bush?

Hieronymus

23:12 / 20.03.04

I have no idea whether this should go to Switchboard or Music but this New York Times article opened my eyes to an element of punk I'd never heard of before, i.e. pro-Bush, pro-Republican punk.

Why does this seem one step away from swastika punk to me?

Char Aina

02:42 / 21.03.04

because it is.
does punk have a fifth column, d'you reckon?

Alex's Grandma

19:16 / 21.03.04

It seems to me that punk rock nihilism and Republican big business values are actually quite a good fit. The remorseless pursuit of profit over everything else ( environmental factors, employee welfare, long-term social consequences etc, etc, ) seems maybe one step away from C.E.O.'s the world over coming out of their boardrooms drunk and covered in spit, thinning hair glued into spikes or mohicans, before unveiling " Fuck you " as the new mission statement.

Plus, if you genuinely hated the world and everything in it, I guess you would be pro-Bush really, since he seems most likely to bring it all crashing down.

grant

15:25 / 22.03.04

Actually, a friend of mine once interviewed either DeeDee or Joey Ramone for a zine, and she slipped in a couple political questions -- the Ramones were actually surprisingly right wing, especially with regard to immigration issues. You'll find a lot of cultural overlap between anarchist I-hate-everything punks and small-government Republicans and right-Libertarians.

Baz Auckland

15:34 / 22.03.04

Well Joey did like his stocks...

"One of my hobbies is the stock market," Joey Ramone said in March 1999. His fascination at the time was a daily financial analysis program on cable station CNBC.

"I watch this show 'Squawk Box' every morning, and they have this host named Maria Bartiromo who is really hot and feisty. When I stopped drinking, I started getting into the stock market because it's sort of like a mosh pit down there."

pomegranate

21:02 / 22.03.04

"When I stopped drinking, I started getting into the stock market because it's sort of like a mosh pit down there."
*spits water out on keyboard*
*laughs hysterically*
*wets office chair*
*gets fired*

Alex's Grandma

21:52 / 22.03.04

And then there was " Bonzo Goes To Bitttberg, " about R Reagean going to Belsen, etc. It wasn't exactly heavy satire, but I remember the ramone's apologising for it a few months later, something on the lines of
' Aw shucks, yeah Reagan, he's a good old guy... We shouldn'a said that. " Etc.

Ethan Hawke

22:07 / 22.03.04

Johnny Ramone is the real rightwing one. He and his good friend, Vincent Gallo.

Baz Auckland

00:37 / 23.03.04

They apologised for Bonzo goes to Bittburg?!!?!

...sigh....

grant

13:56 / 23.03.04

Also: there's a generation of high schoolers who grew up with Democrats in the White House. What better way to piss off the power structure than vote in (and vocally support) their opponents?

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