Remember how Staind frontman Aaron Lewis literally wrote the “Where My Country Gone” song from South Park, even though he’s forgotten the lyrics to the National Anthem in front of thousands of people? Welp, now he’s apparently bought into the belief that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is actually an attack on the Deep State, who are trying to undermine Donald Trump, and we should maybe give the war-mongering megalomaniac a chance. Swear to fucking God, man.
As reported by Blabbermouth, Lewis took a moment during his March 17th show at the Vern Riffe Center in Portsmouth, Ohio, to go on a long-winded political rant that ended with him siding with Vladimir Putin.
Here’s what Aaron said:
“So, I’m not gonna go into some big get-myself-in-trouble dissertation. All I’m gonna say is this: question everything. Everything that they’re telling you right now is a lie. Everything.
“We need to come to grips with something, people. This is our country. We own the most corrupt country in the world. So my question is, what are we gonna do about it? Because we put these people where they sit, to become corrupt and to sell us out all for their gain and not for ours. They’re supposed to represent us, not themselves. And they’re all guilty of it — 90 percent of ’em.
“I don’t know who’s worse — the Democrats that are trying to destroy this country or the Republicans that sit idly by while they do so. They all need to be removed. We need to start voting for people that aren’t lifetime politicians because those are the most lecherous, snake-in-the-grass pieces of shit that you can ever possibly put into power.
“The next governor needs to be you. The next senator needs to be you. We need to pick from our peers, people — people that have good ideas that we can stand behind; not these fucking snake oil salesmen that tell us everything we wanna hear. And until we wake up, this country is going off the cliff, people.
“We have no order. We have no president. Every single day that goes by, we lose standing in the world. Everyone’s laughing at us. Everyone is positioning themselves against us. And it’s not us — it’s the government that we put in power. These are the people that are making us look bad throughout the entire world — the same people that have you convinced that we all need to support Ukraine even though all of their money laundering systems, all of their everything, the way that they get all their kickbacks and they wash everything is all through the Ukraine.
“…You know, as fucked up as it sounds, maybe we should listen to what Vladimir Putin is saying. Maybe, just maybe, when Klaus Schwab and George Soros and every other dirty fucking earth-destroying motherfucker all jumps on the same bandwagon, maybe, just maybe we should fucking take a good look at that. Why are they trying to protect Ukraine so much? What do they all have to lose?”
First of all, it’s a weird time to live in when a guy who sells himself as a diehard American patriot wants to buddy up to Russia.
Second, then again, Lewis is a fucking crackpot, and definitely went hard enough on his Trump support that it only makes sense that the former president’s boner for Putin has rubbed off on him. This isn’t that surprising.
Third, people in the Ukraine are dying, and what anyone has to lose here is the lives of Ukrainian civilians, not to mention the countless more that could be lost if this war escalates and sucks in other countries. If Lewis’ first thought when he hears that is to jump to some kind of conspiracy theory that glorifies military aggression and dehumanizes people being killed, well, fuck him.
You can check out the blithering monologue below.