Dropkick Murphys win a wager with MAGA fan
Politics
“That is f—ing excessive drama right here,” frontman Ken Casey famous on the Clearwater, Florida, live performance final weekend.
To paraphrase the legendary Jim Croce, you don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit into the wind, you don’t pull the masks off the previous Lone Ranger, and also you don’t fiddle with Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey. Specifically, you don’t put on a MAGA shirt and hat to a Dropkick Murphys live performance.
A fan discovered that out on the Boston band’s present in Clearwater, Florida, final weekend, as captured on a video the band posted to YouTube and on its social media. Don’t fear, Kasey didn’t throw him out, like that Nazi in 2013, or tough him up, like that unruly fan in 2019. As a substitute, he made just a little wager.
“Would you, within the title of dialogue and discourse — and I admire you being right here — would you conform to a pleasant wager?” Kasey requested the fan from the stage. “He says ‘certain,’ that’s an excellent sport. Nicely, initially, do you help American staff? After all you do, after all you do. OK, and also you help American companies, clearly.
“So I don’t know if you happen to guys are conscious, ’trigger we don’t go round f—ing bragging about it, however Dropkick Murphys at all times sells proudly made-in-America merchandise solely, and right here’s the wager I’d wish to make,” Kasey mentioned. “If you happen to lose the wager we swap shirts, OK? If you happen to win the wager I provide you with $100, and the shirt.”
After a verify of labels and a drum roll — “that is f—ing excessive drama right here,” Casey famous — the MAGA clothes’s provenance was revealed.
“Nicaragua! It’s made in Nicaragua!” Kasey exclaimed. “He is an efficient sport, he’s taking the shirt off — we’re taking crime off the streets!”
Kasey famously ranted towards MAGA throughout a present in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 2022, saying, “You’re being duped by a bunch of grifters and billionaires,” so we will solely think about what he’s pondering as of late. However as he says within the clip uploaded this week, “We don’t care if we lose followers as a result of when historical past is claimed and carried out we wish it recognized that Dropkick Murphys stood with the folks, we stood with the employees.”
Luckily it appears this explicit incident had a cheerful ending. “They have been longtime followers who needed to tell us they disagree with our politics, however they have been respectful, and after the live performance, the gentleman really mentioned, ‘Dropkicks are household and I don’t let politics come between household,’ which I used to be pleasantly shocked by,” Casey informed Newsweek after the clip went viral.
The Dropkick Murphys kick off their annual St. Patrick’s Day live shows at MGM Music Corridor at Fenway on Friday. You’ll be able to watch the total alternate under:
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