America finally decided to take its own side in the fight for civilization by canceling the concert tour visa for a ridiculous British punk/rap duo called Bob Vylan – get it? It’s like “Bob Dylan,” except “Vylan,” which sounds like “villain.” That’s the cleverest thing about them. They are basically Milli Vanilli with tattoos, worse music, and less originality – though, having heard snippets of their gawdawful racket, if I were them, I’d cop to plagiarism like the OG Milli Vanilli rather than take the blame for creating the sonic atrocities they call songs. It’s bad even for metal rap, with lots of shrieking about how they want to kill Jews, among other things. Wikipedia describes their oeuvre thusly: Bob Vylan “merges elements of punk, hip hop, grime, and hardcore, and features criticisms of the British establishment, inequality, racism, sexism, and homophobia.” It sounds bad enough that you can probably get Harvard class credit just for listening to it.
Bob Vylan’s popularity, such as it is, is attributable solely to the kind of self-loathing only affluent dumb people in the West are capable of. We’re probably not supposed to point out the obvious, but to send a tingle down the legs of the femboys and posh girls, they cultivate a sort of Third World tribal barbarian vibe; lots of scary shouts, tattoos, unwashed dreads, and no-shirt/shorts attire designed to evoke the kind of primitive tribesmen who once fronted to British soldiers and received a volley of musket fire in return. Of course, that was back before the English sacrificed their testicles on an altar to Princess Di.
Apparently, they are also vegans, as if you needed another reason to despise them.
In any case, they were going to do an American tour, but they just did the big Glastonbury concert in Britain, where they led a chant of “Death to the IDF” to their audience of pasty morons with bad teeth. Now, there are about 675,000 people in the IDF, mostly Jewish (not by coincidence), and it’s fair to ask whether Bob Vylan wants to murder all of them or just some portion of them. Of course, the regime media will be eager to jump in with an explanation that the obvious meaning of what Bob Vylan said isn’t exactly what Bob Vylan said, and it’s your fault for thinking that the words Bob Vylan used meant what the words Bob Vylan used mean. You’re probably racist because you expect the duo to communicate with its language. In short, they’re either psychotics or pretending to be psychotics.
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We get a lot of this kind of gamesmanship on the left. Down in South Africa, you have stadiums full of savages stomping out their catchy ditty “Kill the Boer,” only to have outlets like the New York Times jump to explain that this is really an aspirational notion, not a literal call to killing white farmers, even though the same people are literally killing Boers as we speak. Similarly, we get Democrat ingenue Zohran Mamdani demanding that we “Globalize the intifada,” and then we are told it doesn’t actually mean murdering a bunch of Jews, even though his friends are globalizing the intifada here in America by murdering a bunch of Jews. At some point, whether you are a psychotic or just pretending to be a psychotic, it doesn’t matter. If you’re psychotic adjacent, we need to treat you accordingly.
Leftists love this kind of butch posturing; it allows them deniability of the fact that it’s not posturing, it’s a game plan. Remember, Step 1 is to deny it happened. We’re almost at Step 2, where they admit it’s happening, but it’s not that bad. That will be followed by Step 3, where they admit it’s happening a lot and contend that it’s actually a good thing. Step 4 points out that the real problem is you noticing what they are doing because you are racist, Islamophobic, or some other lame epithet.
Well, the Department of State noticed what happened. The dubious duo decided they wanted to come into America as if we need more foreign scumbags in America, and after their little performance at Glastonbury, Marco Rubio – who, somewhere along the line, got born again hard – pulled their visa to come to tour America. America imports way too many things these days, and the last thing we need to import are more foreigners who want to spread the poison that contaminated their Third World hellholes and drove them to flee to Europe in the first place. It’s not like anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, and anti-Western civilizationism are jobs Americans won’t do. Sadly, we have plenty of Americans willing to adhere to scummy Marxist pathologies – in fact, we have thousands of commie incubators across the country. They are called “colleges.”
Are we refusing to allow these foreigners into America because of what they intend to say? Yes, and it’s about time. If you’re in America, you have a right to free speech, even if you’re a blithering idiot who embraces unconscionable evil. But we’re not talking about the Democrats at the moment. We’re talking about strangers to our country, invited guests who presume to take their invitation, light it on fire, and attempt to make it a suppository for their hosts. No, we are neither legally nor morally obligated to allow these degenerates to cross our border and plant their filthy feet upon our sacred soil. It’s about time we stood up for ourselves, and a basic part of that is not to let every weirdo, loser, and mutation with a hit single and an earnest wish that we all be murdered into our country.
There was a time, not that long ago, when I would have had second thoughts about barring somebody’s entry to the country because of what he might say. I like the First Amendment. I like free speech. I also like not having foreigners help destroy the country that made those things possible. It’s not as if Bob Vylan is out there leading its grotesque Glastonbury crowd in cheers to free that poor woman who their dictatorship imprisoned for 30 months because she tweeted something mean. They support that, and they would support doing it to you. Why would we help them? They’re like that meme about how, when I have no power, I demand freedom because that’s your principle and how I deny you your freedom when I have power because that’s my principle. We don’t have to ask what a country run by the likes of Bob Vylan and its fan base would look like; we have only to look at the kind of garbage countries they idolize.
It’s about time that we all realize our enemies are leveraging the rights of us citizens in order to enslave us citizens. Some of us are red-pilled; we declined the opportunity to join a suicide pact where we go first. We gave unbridled tolerance for wretched deviance a shot, and what did we get? People murdering Jews. Perverts in our schools skeeving on our kids. Basically, every problem we now face was a large part because we somehow got it into our heads as a civilization that our principles require we put up with this crap. But if a principle leads you to disenfranchisement, enslavement, and death, it’s a pretty crappy principle, and we’re not going to do those anymore.
There is zero reason, morally, legally, philosophically, or of any other kind, for allowing these kinds of degenerates into our great nation with the express intent of them seeking to undermine it. Does that make us hypocrites? No, it makes us adults. And it makes us not suckers.
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