The internet is not happy with how conservative musician Kid Rock thinks Israel can get Hamas to return their hostages.
The “American Bad Ass” singer and Spotify podcast host Joe Rogan were discussing the conflict between Israel and Hamas, when he pointed out that America has only successfully ended international conflicts by force.
“The only wars we won were f***ing ones where we were the most brutal motherf***ers on the planet,” Rock, whose actual name is Robert James Ritchie, began.
While the musician said that he doesn’t “disagree” with how Israel is conducting the war, he has a more aggressive solution to getting back the 134 hostages that have been held captive by Hamas since the horrific October 7 attack.
Kid Rock says Israel should kill civilians in Gaza by "30-40,000" if hostages aren't released in 24 hours.
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“They should just go in there and be like, you know what? We want our hostages back,” he explained.
“If we don’t have them back, clock starts now, in f***ing 24 hours, we’re going to start bombing motherf***ers and killing f***ing civilians, thirty-, forty-thousand a f***ing time,” Ritchie detailed his plan.
“So you civilians better f***ing pack up and f***ing get these f***ing motherf***ers. And you go against Hamas. You f***ing go against them. We’re not playing f***ing games with you.”
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Rogan pushed back that the “problem” with his suggestion was that the civilians are not armed.
“That’s the only thing people understand,” Ritchie countered. “That’s what happened to Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Boom. Just wiped out. They’re like, ‘oh yes, we don’t have Supreme Leader anymore. We did not know you had such big bomb.’”
Rogan said that “everyone has big bombs now,” and using one sets a precedent that Hamas could use a “big bomb.”
Ritchie argued that Hamas doesn’t have one, but Rogan pointed out that their allies, like Iran, in fact do.
“You can’t just nuclear bomb people, they’ll nuclear bomb you back,” he stated.
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Ritchie clarified that he didn’t mean using a nuclear weapon, but rather an aggressive attack that would encourage Hamas to change their ways once they got their “a** beat hard enough.”
“What if that was your house? What if that was your house? Let’s call your house Israel and your neighbors are Palestine,” the “We The People” singer used as an analogy.
“You got a family of four,” he continued. “They come over and f***ing take out two of them in the f***ing worst way.”
“Are you really going to worry about like what type of force you’re using at your neighbors?” Ritchie questioned.
“But you’re not supposed to pick civilian targets,” Rogan pointed out. “That’s actually a war crime.”
“You can’t fight war like that,” Ritchie disputed.
Rogan repeated that civilians could not be targeted, but Ritchie reminded him how Hamas has used civilians like human shields.
“They’re hiding in civilian targets! They’re in hospitals, they got trenches f***ing underneath. They got operation centers,” the rocker noted.
Rogan agreed that Hamas “definitely seemed to be doing that,” but added that Palestinians are under Hamas’ control from birth. “Those aren’t our enemies.”
The internet was not thrilled with the musician’s Israeli war strategy.
“Kid Rock goes full war-monger on Palestine,” someone commented on X. “Eventually their true colors come out…just another puppet!”
“Obvious to anyone with an IQ above 6, Kid Rock is among the lowest forms of life,” another insulted.
“The only thing I’ve learned from this interview, Is that Kid Rock is one level above being a waste of oxygen and epidermis,” somebody posted. “Here’s your conservative superhero, MAGA. In all his glory.”
While others thought that Ritchie actually had a point. “If Hamas could kill 30-40k Israelis civilians immediately would they do it?” An X user tweeted.
“If they could’ve done it two months ago would they have done it?” They asked.
“In an Airborne Minute,” a replier answered.