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Posted on 04/24/2025 6:55:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
Cherie Currie was the lead singer of the 1970s hard rock band The Runaways. It’s the same group that launched the career of Joan Jett.
These days, Cherie Currie still performs to adoring audiences, but she is also more focused on politics, and she has embraced MAGA and the conservative movement.
A quick glimpse at Currie’s Twitter/X account lets you know exactly where she stands.
Currie’s political transformation has been in the works for a while.
Western Journal reported on this almost a year ago:
Former Punk Rock Lead Singer Cherie Currie Renounces the Democratic Party After Realizing She ‘Fell for’ Its ‘Lies’
About 40 or 50 years ago, cross-dressing, tattoos, protesting and occupying the radical left wing were enough to establish your punk credentials.
But something changed in the intervening decades. What once put these punk groups in direct opposition to the mainstream has now become deeply entrenched in the mainstream…
Best known as the lead vocalist for the teenage punk band (which included a young Joan Jett) in the 70’s, Currie embodied that anti-establishment ethos of the time by prancing around on stage in lingerie and singing sexually charged lyrics before it was cool.
But now, the former punk rocker has taken to social media platform X, denouncing in a lengthy rant the Democrat Party for the left-wing rhetoric she once espoused.
Later this month, Currie is speaking at this conservative event:
Currie talks about her political journey in this #WalkAway video:
It’s not easy for people to stand up like this and speak the truth about their beliefs. When a person leaves the left, they usually get attacked, especially if they’re famous. Congratulations to Ms. Currie for being her own woman.
UPDATE: It looks like Cherie Currie has read this story. She tweeted it:
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One of the many rock band posters that adorned my teenage bedroom walls in the 1970s was The Runaways. Glad to learn Cherie turned out well.
One of the Ramones was a conservative. He was always clashing with another member who was liberal.
Johnny Rotten is also MAGA.
She has an identical twin sister Marie-
Municipal Bonds, Ted
Triple A rating
Leaving a cult is always difficult.
The cult is where a person has friends and an identity .
That was Johnny Ramone. All the original Ramones are gone now. Joey the lead singer was the one he clashed with. Johnny stole Joey’s girlfriend so that might have led to some of the bitterness though.
Ted Nugent
Alice Cooper
and
Kid Rock.
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You Start a Nice Little Rock Band !
Joey was the one who wrote “Bonzo Goes To Bitburg”.
She said embraced...
never heard of this “iconic” rocker...... but cool anyway
“the cult is where a person has friends and an identity” is a farcical idea when the person has a disagreement with the other cult members and finds out quick, fast and in a hurry that “friends” and “cult” cannot exist together in real life and your new identity becomes that of an escapee. ask me how I know.
The Bangles was my go-to girl group of that era. Saw them in Hollywood at a small club. Still unknown at the time, they were known as the Bangs. You could tell they were headed for the big time.
And “The KKK Took My Baby Away” after Johnny stole his girlfriend.
Joey Ramone was the liberal Johnny clashed with. But as I understand it, the friction between them wasn’t over politics. But rather, over personal and artistic matters.
For example, Johnny stole Joey’s girlfriend and married her. Was married to her until the day he died.
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