This motherfucker played a free show to 500K on a Soviet military base less than 3 months before the collapse of the USSR. Tushino Airfield was one of the most overtly political moments in music history, it’s a textbook example of US soft power exerting real influence! Fuck you!!
Metallica has consistently been on the wrong side of history for decades. Napster, anyone? They’re also full of crap because Hetfield’s statement was quite literally a political statement— it was just a privileged, cowardly one.
Boomer losers.
I photographed Metallica at a concert in 2010. I have never been called a nigger so many times at a metal show in my life. One guy made monkey noises. I was shocked. I get where James is coming from, but it's not reality. There are always politics at play, especially in metal.
Music is inherently political.
To separate music from politics is to separate art from its soul. Lifeless, useless, and dead.
Like Metallica... for instance.
Hetfield saying he "doesn't do politics" is literally making a political statement. But he's too big of a pussy to say he's MAGA because he doesn't want to lose money, so he attacks a bold, powerful woman who actually has the guts.
That's it. Hetfield is weak.
I got a notice that Associated Press is trying to copy claim the twitter clip footage of the woman being punched at the Trump rally. Not sure if it was an errant claim but this would be a first by AP claiming footage, and from twitter clips. Fucking bizarre.
Yo @nytimes do you care to comment why a woman got punched by multiple MAGA men at Trump's rally and THIS is your headline the next day?
What the fuck, America?
This is especially disturbing considering Trump released that video referring to himself as "the Tiger." Remember? It was the movie clip that was actually talking about Hitler.
They're literally telegraphing some fucked up shit.
My last take on Metallica:
I believe in times of fascism, where masked killers gun down Americans exercising their 1A and 2A rights... EVERYONE has a duty to speak up.
You're also free to NOT speak up, cuz this is America. But SHAMING people who do speak up?
That is devious.
IT IS FUCKING INSANE THAT WE HAVE THE RESOURCES TO MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR SO MANY PEOPLE AND YET WE CONTINUE TO TREAT BASIC SURVIVAL LIKE A PRIVILEGE THAT MUST BE EARNED
Ken Paxton "received campaign contributions from the staff or political arms of five organizations with interests in legal matters on which his office weighed in."
https://t.co/eXof0jgZue
Another white Christian man preying on children...not an immigrant. Not trans.
Meet MAGAt and registered Republican Christopher J. Ballard, a former 28-year-old Christian private school teacher from Lakewood, Colorado, who was sentenced in January 2026 to 60 years in prison for the brutal sexual abuse and exploitation of at least 12 children. Ballard worked as a middle school "guide" at Journey Academy in Centennial and served as a church youth leader in Highlands Ranch, using his religious authority to systematically predatorize young students.
The investigation into his actions led to his arrest in March 2024 by the Parker Police Department after police executed a search warrant at his home in the 600 block of Alkire Street in Lakewood. Law enforcement uncovered a sickening pattern of exploitation carried out across multiple locations, including Journey Academy and the Journey Life Center in southern Jefferson County. The arrest affidavit detailed horrific abuse: Ballard inappropriately touched students, forced them to look at pornography, coerced them into recording explicit material, and forced children to strip and run naked as a form of punishment. In October 2025, Ballard pleaded guilty to two counts of 1st-degree assault with a deadly weapon with a stipulated sexual basis, resulting in the consecutive 60-year prison sentence finalized on January 16, 2026.