As the 2024 presidential campaign crawls toward its conclusion (14 days to go), voters are faced with a choice between major party candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. One man who has unfortunately not thrown his hat into the circus ring is Insane Clown Posse rapper Violent J, who recently confirmed he will not run for president.
“F–k that, no. No amount of money,” J said in a recent The Daily Show segment. “You gotta go places, They give you an itinerary. You gotta get up early and s–t.”
The declaration comes from a recent report on the political persuasion of ICP fans, known as Juggalos. In a man on the street, or rather man in the lot, segment, Troy Iwata surveyed the horrorcore rap duo’s annual Gathering of the Juggalos festival at Legend Valley in Thornville, OH to find out how Juggalos will vote. It turns out that for many, the answer is not at all.
“You’re voting for two people who pretty much doesn’t care about your existence,” a face-painted clown wielding a baseball bat said. Despite that political apathy, many interviewees expressed strong support for progressive causes including climate change and increased taxes for billionaires, with a Juggallette summing up her community’s stance on reproductive rights, “We don’t want to keep getting nutted in and having f–ing babies all the time.”
Though he is not seeking the nomination, J’s progressive ideals align with many of his fans. His platform on border security (“Now I remember why I hated Trump, that wall s–t”), women’s rights (“They have the right to be the s–t”), and ecological conservation (“Let me tell you what the superiors animal is: a whale”) was only slightly derailed by the oncoming effects of some mushrooms—still making him one of the most cogent debaters of the 2024 election cycle. Despite being taxed “up the f–ing anus,” he still supports higher taxes on the rich, “And I’m happy about it. I pay double what they asked.”
Since Violent J will not be seeking the office of President of the United States, he has opted to give a big “woop woop” of endorsement to Kamala Harris, though not without some difficulty. Iwata patiently explained how to pronounce the vice president’s name before J blissed out on mushrooms. Another day on the campaign trail.
Who Will Juggalos Vote for? Troy Iwata Visits Gathering of the Juggalos to Find Out | The Daily Show
This was not Violent J’s first foray into politics, following his and his ICP counterpart Shaggy 2 Dope‘s public campaign against the FBI’s decision to classify Juggalos as a gang. In 2014, ICP teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union to sue the government over its categorization of the group’s face-painted, Faygo-guzzling fans as a “loosely organized hybrid gang.” The official classification legalized profiling of the group’s fans by law enforcement, “gang enhancement” charges for Juggalos facing legal issues, and caused Hot Topic to stop selling Insane Clown Posse t-shirts. Despite this, the case was dismissed in 2014, a decision overruled by an appellate court in 2015, and shot down again in 2017. The campaign culminated with the 2017 Juggalo March on Washington when approximately 1,500 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial. Insane Clown Posse’s legal strife was documented in the 2021 film, The United States of Insanity.
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