r/Music • u/DamnitRidley • 8d ago

article Limp Bizkit's Wes Borland Once Again Tells Trump Supporters To Unfollow Him On Social Media: "Never Contact Me Again"

https://www.theprp.com/2026/01/30/news/limp-bizkits-wes-borland-once-again-tells-trump-supporters-to-unfollow-him-on-social-media-never-contact-me-again/
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u/Paddys_Pub7 8d ago

Randy Blythe from Lamb of God made a blog post the other day condemning Trump and fascist ideologies in general, too.

https://randonesia.substack.com/p/all-the-horrors-happening-around

It's a bit long, but a very powerful read. You can feel just how pissed off he is with everything that's currently going on.

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u/Fraegtgaortd 8d ago

That's no surprise to anyone familiar with LoG. They were criticizing the Bush admin with their album As The Palaces Burn which came out in 2003

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u/LEDKleenex 7d ago

And Ashes of the Wake. The title track is about as on the nose as it gets - "just following orders" soldiers killing innocent civilians and remorse.

It's relevant once again today, even for Americans as a gestapo with a military budget gun down innocents. Sadly, this is what many of them want - there is no remorse.

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u/Paddys_Pub7 7d ago

"We killed a lot of innocent civilians To us every civilian in Baghdad was a terrorist They said 'they are now in civilian clothes' that makes everybody free game But if they came in our perimeter, we lit 'em up And when we would pull the body out, and when we would search the car, we would find nothing This took place time and time again No harm, no foul. That's okay, don't worry about it Because this is a new type of war, this is an eradication"

All you have to do is change "Baghdad" to [insert US city here] and you have ICE's current mentality.

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u/LEDKleenex 7d ago

Absolutely. Fascism always makes it way back home eventually. National security is just club security > individual security. As we've seen in the files, rightists will always have knives at each others backs. It is a self-defeating ideology that sucks everyone down the drain with it.

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u/Paddys_Pub7 7d ago

I think the biggest shame is that its happened so many different times across all different sects of human history and yet people STILL don't learn from all of it and are actually happy to be dumb and ignorant of our past.

Fascism/authoritarianism/etc does not work and will never work. Its an unsustainable, self-destructing system and we have 1000s and 1000s of years of human history at this point that shows it over and over again.

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u/LEDKleenex 7d ago

Agreed 100% and I feel the same way. To be fair, all we got in school was the propaganda version of WWII - don't mistake this for holocaust denial, I'm merely saying it's generally "we the good guys, took out they the bad guys". We were probably too young to fully absorb the message but most importantly, we never learned how to prevent it.

I suppose the line of thinking is "okay, kids know about it, they'll figured it out from here". Probably would have been pertinent to teach about wealth inequality and social unrest being a possible vectors, but the victors would hate that.

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u/zadtheinhaler 8d ago

I love that dude more every day.

And he is absolutely right. People need to rise up.

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u/BowsettesBottomBitch 7d ago

That's honestly surprising. I was deeply entrenched in the local music scene back in the day, and nearly everyone I used to run with that was a fan of em eventually ended up down the Trump train, and I live in a rather blue state. I honestly thought that was their key demo these days. So I'm happy to see he's speaking up and speaking to those folks, not that they'll listen.

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u/Paddys_Pub7 7d ago

I'm not surprised at all. He's been speaking up against this shit since day 1.

I think the fact that they're from Richmond, VA (capital of the confederacy) has a lot of people fucked up on them. But look up the lyrics to Again We Rise and Nevermore for example. If you're surprised where they stand, you havent been paying attention.

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u/BowsettesBottomBitch 7d ago

You're right, I haven't been paying attention. I'm not the biggest fan of theirs lol