Henry Rollins: Bend Over, America — Here Comes President Trump (You have to see this)

The L.A. Weekly ^ | July 30, 2015 | Henry Rollins, Black Flag group member

[2ndDivisionVet]

America is an angry country. It always has been. Those who came before us cleared out the locals by any means necessary, then sanitized the genocidal slaughter as they self-immortalized their deeds into the stuff of legend.

After the sun dried the corpses, we set upon each other. Our history is splattered in blood and steeped in unrestrained hostility toward all living creatures.

People in countries all over the world trip out on America. Not only do we make films the rest of the planet flocks to see — we are living in them as well. America is so larger-than-life, our reality kills millions of us each year.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining; I’m just saying that part of what the rest of the world considers to be exceptional about America is our ability to bring the pain over great distances at a high rate of speed, and our seemingly insatiable lust to do it again and again.

America has defined the size of the world. For now at least, things are as we make them.

Americans are hard on every possible thing in America, from our natural environment to city infrastructures. Our greatest contempt and top-shelf brutality, however, we reserve to unleash upon ourselves and one another.

Even after all the science, advances in medicine and technological breakthroughs, which have brought about possibilities that were once almost impossible to imagine, many of us long for the pungent ooze of a stagnant past. Ideas of equality and common decency often are seen as being weak or an abomination. Why? I don’t know. It’s one of those things that makes us exceptional.

When you think about it, some of the greatest examples of American music are, in many ways, blood diamonds. You think blues, gospel and soul came from everyone getting along and living comfortably? Billie Holiday’s tone came from all the hugs and free breakfasts? Jazz, America’s greatest single cultural export, came to be because Jelly Roll Morton didn’t spend most of his life being made to feel like a second-class citizen? To listen to this music, conscientious people might have to accommodate what they are unable to overlook and accept that which they cannot change.

Being an American is to understand where you come from and choosing whether you want to repeat the past or invent the future. A huge number of us have chosen the former. The proof is everywhere.

There are not just a few people opposed to same-sex marriage in America. There are millions and millions.

During the president’s recent visit to Oklahoma, protestors stood across the street from the hotel where he was staying, waving their Stars and Bars flags. Not racist; it’s a heritage thing.

Countless Americans see the recent efforts to neutralize Iran’s nuclear ambitions as mere Neville Chamberlain–esque, Kenyan trickster commie-islamofacism — the workings of an arrogant, Israel-hating tyrant who despises America and wants to open the borders for all his buds in ISIS to stream in by the busload. In fact, they’re probably already here, draining your wallet to buy lobsters, steak and extra Qurans with SNAP coupons, thus robbing your children of their subliterate future.

This is who we are. The world outside of America gets it. Some of them think we’re cool, others think we’re violent morons, but they all know we are not to be ***ed with. We are armed, we are dangerous, and we will come over there.

Every country needs a leader. A leader who not only personifies the spirit of that country but one who epitomizes it. It can’t be Obama, right? Biggest American blunder of the 21st century! All that peacemongering and compromise. America does not negotiate with terrorists — and almost every country in the world is run by terrorists! (Not Canada, although we could beat their asses and take their $#*+ by next weekend. We’d be treated as liberators!)

So who’s it gonna be for 2016? Hillary the crim (probably a lesbian) and her lying, adulterer husband? She personifies the greatest nation on Earth? She is a billboard for our values and dreams? No way! If elected, she’ll build a mosque on the front lawn of the White House on day one and start on the concentration camps the next! No! Not Hillary!

In a nation of hundreds of millions of people, there is one man born to lead. A man who stands head and shoulders above the rest. A lone alpha who burns incandescent in a vast wasteland of darkness.

When asked to serve in Vietnam, he said no and took a deferment. He took a few of them, actually, because he is his own man.

He got married. The merger didn’t work. She was fired. So was the next one. It’s business, not personal — like America!

He has overcome adversity. Like bankruptcy. And with an almost Michelangelo-like genius, he conquered the K2 challenge of his hair.

He is what America needs. A man with so much self-confidence that, if you put him in the Oval Office, some of it will no doubt trickle down to you.

Who is this man who will put all other world leaders in their place? The same man who just read a cellphone number, allegedly Lindsey Graham’s private line, out loud so the world could hear. (Hey, I laughed.) This man is America.

So bend over, relax and hold onto something solid, because here he comes — here comes Donald Trump 2016. And when he puts it in, you’ll know who your daddy is.

[PGalt]

She [Hillary] personifies the greatest nation on Earth? She is a billboard for our values and dreams? No way!

HOORAY Henry.

[GilGil]

If this guy is so incensed I am sure he is outraged that 40% of black babies are butchered for fun and profit. I am also sure that he is incensed that 85% of Planned Parenthood is located in minority low income neighborhoods so that black women can be better targeted and butchered. Right!?

[Dr.Deth]

Henry, I'm gonna go ahead and quote a guy who on his worst day makes a hell of a lot more sense than you ever have: I don't care about you.

[HarleyLady27]

What you said and said it VERY well....thank you....

[onedoug]

If we’re so tough what are doing about the price of razor blades?

[IwaCornDogs]

Apparently, he’s the result of a broken home, sexual abuse, chronic depression, years of Ritalin medication, has daddy issues ... AND dates Jeanine Garafola.

Nothing wrong here.

Let’s give the guy a job as a journalist.

[Yardstick]

Yet no doubt he fancies himself an original thinker. I’ll grant he can turn a phrase but his basic outlook is as predictable as clockwork. I’ll bet you could spend a week with Henry Rollins and never once hear an unexpected thought.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Cue Mr. Mackey.

[gaijin]

He was working in a cafe when quite suddenly his role as singer for Black Flag was THROWN into his lap:

He was friends with the band, showed up to a backyard concert and was invited to sing one of their songs as they played FOR THE HELL OF IT.

And they liked him. And invited him to freaking JOIN. And he did —it was his way out of the cafe.

And now that he’s all grown up and BF is no more he’s completely terrified of being IRRELEVANT and IGNORED.

He is a pretty intense speaker, fitness buff and film guy, sure.

But he is utterly terrified of not having a next gig, and so he is constantly in search of a way of not becoming forgotten.

I think this shows in this piece, here.

[ModelBreaker]

It’s the LA Weekly. A bizarre mixture of “death begins in the colon” ads with paranoid left-wing articles. It would be the political equivalent of “UFO guys beamed me up and gave me an anal probe” type articles.

[grania]

in a weird sort of way he makes a lot of sense

Yeah. But in a sort of way that convinces me even more that our only chance at saving the US is President Trump.

[Mase]

Henry Rollins evolved from TV Party Tonight with Black Flag to a disassociated artist of the spoken word.

But he's really just a moron....a moron with a profound superiority complex, but a moron nonetheless.

[richardskeet]

A great read; well written and funny. Sarcastic and shocking; truthful, yet full of shit. Pro and anti-American. Psychotic and twisted.

Pure satire.

MSM left-wingers are such pansies, and idiots. It’s refreshing when anyone in our idiocracy has a highly-functional brain, and the balls to unleash it unfiltered.

Rollins gets WHY Trump will be president; Trump is the alpha male; Americans love winners.

Obviously Rollins is wrong about many things, yet I still enjoy reading this. Just like I enjoy the movie and book: Fight Club.
Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, the comedy of Chris Rock, Lewis Black-
I can disagree with everything someone jokes, or sings about, or believes, yet if their art is clever and gets me to think, makes me feel, or makes me laugh...

Reminds me of eating crawfish. Not a-lot of substance, a whole lotta crap in the way, but there’s some good meat in there.

[grey_whiskers]

... AND dates Jeanine Garafola.

!!

I wouldn't touch her with someone ELSE's ten-foot-pole.

(Not that Rollins has one.)

[GoneSalt]

A sharp stick would elevate his mind, composting would elevate his value.

[wastoute]

He seems to be right about Hillary. Mosque, camps, and all. Surprising actually. Sounds like he bought into Howard Zinn’s crap about our history. For the most part, due to measles or small pox what is now the US was apparently empty land when our ancestors got there.

[driftless2]

Rollins is what I would call an exceptionally stupid person. Not just average stupid...galactic-sized. In other words a typical left-coast liberal.

[trebb]

Another reason to appreciate what Trump has brought to this campaign - the Left is running out of clean panties.

GO CRUZ!!!

[basil]

Oh my goodness! Where can I get a subscription? (LOL!)

[rlmorel]

I know. As you said, I am certain he "fancies himself an original thinker". (somehow, that seemed like the perfect stereotypical description of a liberal moonbat like him)

Humorously, it brings to mind "Arreck Bahlwin" in "Team America"

"The, the, ...global warming and... corporate America and..."

That's it. When one boils down through all his flowery "turns of the phrase" as you so accurately put it, it boils up from the same reservoir of shallow, putrid, sewage.

I really detest liberalism, and I feel a degree of sympathy mixed with compassionate contempt for run of the mill, good-hearted people who buy into it, because they can understand there is nothing good-hearted at the functioning core of it, and they are too busy or preoccupied to learn the truth.

But starry-eyed, spittle-lipped, fevered devotees like him who buy into it hook, line and sinker fill me with disgust and anger, because they are the driving engine behind the advance of liberalism. They are the filthy nanny-statist foot soldiers who advance the cause on behalf of people like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and his fellow Alinsky acolytes who are the real source of the cancer.