Gadsden flag

Metallica is a band, like, yes, they're a band, but more than anything else, they're a corporation.

Like they're the black album with a Gadsden flag on it being blacked out and hidden to the side.

Their politics exist, but they want you to think of them as nonpolitical.

So that way they can play everywhere, including Israel.

It's the strongest fit.

It draws heavily on the Gadsden flag, Don't Tread on Me.

And if you look on the cover of the album, it has the Gadsden flag in black on black.

The rattlesnake on the Don't Tread on Me, it's a symbol of American resolve.

Hetfield has described it as a don't fuck with us song and a counterpoint to the more cynical tone of And Justice for All.

Oh, ranked number nine on the National Review's list of the greatest conservative rock songs.

The Black Album cover itself features the coiled snake from the Gadsden flag, yes.

And Justice for All, strong anti-corruption, anti-elite angle.

Yes.

I mean, I have the American flag up, I have the Gadsden flag up, but I have an empty...

What used to be a Trump flag for more than eight years, and if you would've told me two years ago that Trump would be less popular than Biden, first off, I'd have walked away knowing that you were brain dead if you would've been like, "Yeah, you won't even support Trump in two years."

Mm-hmm.

This, this what's going on in America, friends, let them keep, let them keep being exposed, Luke 12:2, over and over, because that way we know we have to remain vigilant.

We have to be like the Gadsden flag, and I'm talking about individuals.

Everybody talks about their patriotism until it's time to actually be a patriot.

The Gadsden flag is a snake coiled up, ready to strike, okay? That means against tyranny.

Anybody that tries to, uh, do what it is that they're responsible for doing to you today, America, concerning the usurpation or the usurping of your God-given rights, and you see that on full display.

Now, check this out.

Don't tread on me

... don't, the Gadsden flag.

Right.

I like seeing don't tread on me at the golf course.

It's this yellow flag with a snake on it.

The Gadsden flag.

The Gadsden flag.

Oh, that would have been a great

question.

The Gadsden flag is how it's known.

It actually started back with Benjamin Franklin doing a cartoon in his – I forget what it was called.

It's his Pennsylvania Gazette or whatever.

Likely.

Fannin or Gadsden?

Gadsden.

Ooh.

Fannin or the Gadsden flag?

Oh, get that out of my face.

You got to go with Fannin.

Yeah.