The Daily Show’s Troy Iwata did an excellent piece about the Gathering of the Juggalos. I wonder if his interview with Violent J had an effect on this decision.
Edit: oh, I posted this before I read the article. This interview is what they’re considering the endorsement.
Makes sense, Juggalos hate fascists and despite Kamala being a cop, Trump is the bigger fascist.
Although it is weird to see Eminem and ICP on the same side of something.
I was undecided, but this did it for me.
As an old wrestling fan from the late 90s, how did 2024 manage to make me cheer for the ICP while booing the undertaker and Steve Austin?
Cuz Steve always sucked
3:16 is how many dicks he sucked at a time and for how many hours
Hey, let's not discourage dick sucking marathons.
And Hulk Hogan
Kamala promised to explain how magnets work.
Are juggalos still considered a terrorist organization?
by the terms of the juggalo-furry alliance, the furs are called to also vote
The alliance has your back 🤝
The furries are voting
We been on the block to vote. Republicans have nipped at us one too many times and many many of us are LGBT. 😤
That's because they're actually normal people.
Scientists getting them pissed...checks out, unfortunately pretty normal in this country.
This will almost assuredly get her more votes than literally all of the press and air time Cheney has offered her.
Put some respekt on the Dark Carnival. There are over a million Juggaloes in America. Probably a couple dozen Juggalettes, too.
How about Juggalenbies?
Is this satire? I honestly can’t tell.
their dedicated following, known as Juggalos, is in the tens of thousands. Gatherings for ICP fans have drawn upwards of 20,000 people. Juggalos are known for their distinctive style, which includes face paint, clown costumes, and hatchet symbols. They've also developed their own slang and idioms. The National Gang Intelligence Center estimates that there are over one million self-proclaimed Juggalos in the United States, but 85–90% of them are non-criminal music fans.
That a lot of voters, I wouldn't say no to. And for some reason Ive found out that a lot of conservatives in the u.s think juggalos are a crazy street gang like in the warriors
Too many cartoons. They took Batman Beyond seriously.
They hold a music festival every year called the gathering of the juggalos, usually somewhere in the Midwest, that attracts around 10k people per year. They're not a huge underground culture in America but they are there and disproportionately higher populations living in Midwest and Central swing states. Most of the juggalos I've met are kind and just want to get high and listen to music about horror movies and wrestling and stuff like that. They have been anti-science and education in the past in their anti-establishment rhetoric which is probably the worst part of the subculture.
This is going to give my Trump-loving prepper brother in law an aneurysm.
Can you post a video?
Speaking with comedian Troy Iwata for a recent segment on The Daily Show, Violent J confirmed that Harris is his preferred pick for the White House, saying “I want her to win because she’s a Democrat, and I love my mom.”
Say what you want about Juggalos, but this is likely to get Kamala significant votes.
More than Dick Cheney or Lizzo (look up the lawsuits from last year if you don't know).
I'd even say this is bigger than Eminem the other day. Juggalos are a very close knit group, and if Violent J says vote, they're gonna vote.
Edit:
The Daily Show segment
That’s fresh.
Especially since the juggalo crowd is by and large rurally based, they overlap a large generally Republican Voting demographic.
The endorsement I've been waiting for
Juggalos are surprisingly decent, given their image. I may not be down with the clown, myself, but they're alright
I haven't exactly spent a lot of time in Juggalo circles, but the few I have met have all been great people, the types of people who would literally give you the shirt off their back without a second thought. Generally not the brightest bulbs out there, but they also tend to be the rare type of person who can recognize that about themselves and are willing to seek out and listen to people who are more knowledgeable (unless we're talking about scientists and magnets) which is actually pretty amazing, that's not a common quality to find in any group of people
I generally kind of think of juggalos as those kids in school who were a little too weird to be "normal" kids, and not smart enough to be "nerds" some of them have some issues, maybe more than average, but most of them are just trying to get by with what they've got.
They've also started to become the adults in the room sometimes. I'm not sad to see it, but it feels weird.
As for women’s rights, he believes in them (“they have the right to be the fuckin’ shit”), and as for environmental conservation, he thinks its time humans get over their superiority complex, saying, “Let me tell you what a superior animal is: a whale.”
American politics are so fucked that actual clowns have become the voice of reason.
ICP on the right side of history
The good weird tho, gotta discriminate
Isn't that a bit late? I'm 36 and ICP seemed like a thing for the age bracket above me growing up. Or did the whole magnets meme push their demo to a lower age bracket or something?
some artists pick up new fans with every generation. see also: michael jackson, the beatles, ozzy, hendrix, slayer, etc.
it's kind of hilarious to me, being a 80s/90s kid, that of all the acts that were HUGE in the 90s (collective soul, smashing pumpkins, alanis morrisete, REM, etc), ICP is one of the few still in the news
"According to the National Gang Intelligence Center, there are more than one million self-proclaimed Juggalos across the United States. It is estimated that 85–90% of self-described Juggalos are peaceful, non-criminal music fans. The other 10–15% make up the Juggalo subculture's criminal element"
a million.
Those are impressive numbers. Sincerely, I'm sure I never hear about them because they're so well behaved.
Well, 85-90% of them.
They live in a society
Damn, I have a new found respect for the posse.
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