For context this is at the National Libertarian Convention during Afroman’s run for president in 2024. It doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a Trump supporter, but it’s certainly a bad look (and it does mean he’s a libertarian, which depending on what your own opinions are is also a pretty bad look).
I find libertarians to be a very mixed bag. Their biggest issue is usually not understanding how much power they’ve been given, and what it would actually take to return that power to people who have historically not had much. I would think that a black man would have better context.
From what I’ve heard of afroman speaking he seems to feel that he has “hustled” his way into the American dream and that those who haven’t achieved the American dream just need to hustle more. He clearly understands that structural racism exists, but it’s easy enough for someone in his position to suppose that anyone can succeed despite any disadvantages, and take pride in the fact that he has done so. It’s a common mindset of people who have become moderately wealthy to believe that the system works (since it worked for them) and feel that that the government - rather than helping - should simply “get out of people’s way.” Libertarians see taxes on the rich and regulations as just making it harder for people to succeed, and don’t really have a good understanding of the power that wealth and privilege gives you over others. They see power as stemming only from the state.
It can also just be as simple as pure self-interest. “Why is the government taking all my hard-earned money!! I gotta do something about these taxes, this is theft!!!”
He also made a song making fun of Hunter Biden at that time. It seems pretty clear to me he was looking to hop onto that Kid Rock grifter gravy train and it just didn’t happen for him
Might wanna back that claim up with a source
I dressed like the American flag, because I got high.
I ran for US president, because I got high.
Now, I’m shaking hands with Trump, and I know why. Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high.
For context this is at the National Libertarian Convention during Afroman’s run for president in 2024. It doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a Trump supporter, but it’s certainly a bad look (and it does mean he’s a libertarian, which depending on what your own opinions are is also a pretty bad look).
I find libertarians to be a very mixed bag. Their biggest issue is usually not understanding how much power they’ve been given, and what it would actually take to return that power to people who have historically not had much. I would think that a black man would have better context.
From what I’ve heard of afroman speaking he seems to feel that he has “hustled” his way into the American dream and that those who haven’t achieved the American dream just need to hustle more. He clearly understands that structural racism exists, but it’s easy enough for someone in his position to suppose that anyone can succeed despite any disadvantages, and take pride in the fact that he has done so. It’s a common mindset of people who have become moderately wealthy to believe that the system works (since it worked for them) and feel that that the government - rather than helping - should simply “get out of people’s way.” Libertarians see taxes on the rich and regulations as just making it harder for people to succeed, and don’t really have a good understanding of the power that wealth and privilege gives you over others. They see power as stemming only from the state.
It can also just be as simple as pure self-interest. “Why is the government taking all my hard-earned money!! I gotta do something about these taxes, this is theft!!!”
He also made a song making fun of Hunter Biden at that time. It seems pretty clear to me he was looking to hop onto that Kid Rock grifter gravy train and it just didn’t happen for him
It’s a real mystery why conservatives didn’t like him