What if I told you a real cult adopted a song by a fictional cult as their anthem – and didn’t know it?
That’s where we’re at with Freedom Corner, the pro-January 6th meetup that is slowly wasting away outside the DC Jail. Every night, they chant the name of Ashli Babbitt and other insurrectionist “heroes” while they await the second coming of Donald Trump.
And every night, at the end of a dead end street next to a cemetery, they sing:
They’ll look high and they’ll look low
They’ll look everywhere we go
But when the sinners find us, we won’t hide
They’ll come loud and they’ll come fast
We shoot first and we can last
Keep your rifle by your side
The song is “Keep Your Rifle by Your Side” from Far Cry 5, a video game in which players battle a doomsday cult. The song is the theme song of the bad guys; the people you’re supposed to kill.
Somehow, this got into the Freedom Corner playlist and, unaware of its origins, “Keep Your Rifle by Your Side” has become of their favs.
Rebecca, the mysterious Chinese-MAGA funder of Freedom Corner, even translated it for the benefit of her audience.
For anyone who doesn’t know this is fictional doomsday cult music from Far Cry 5 to make fun of people just like the #FreedomCorner. They play the song all time now. pic.twitter.com/MM5Gh2xlNM
— Justalazygamer (@justalazygaming) September 17, 2024
Yes, this is the same Rebecca who filmed the assault on Anarchy Princess and is a fan of Der Fuhrer.
And I thought Thomas Pynchon wrote some wacky stuff. But he’s got nothing on the mind-twisting absurdities, contradictions and far out weirdness of Freedom Corner.
I couldn’t make this shit up in a hundred years. It’s beyond life imitating art or life is stranger than fiction. It’s nothing that a rational mind can comprehend.
A whole new genre is needed, one that is nonlinear and nonsensical, an entirely new art form that can describe what is happening with Trump supporters as they leave reality behind to descend into their own conspiracy-laden multiverse of madness.
