Metallica’s James Hetfield Bails on San Francisco: Sick of Elitist Moonbats

Legendary Metallica was formed in Los Angeles, but moved to the San Francisco area way back in the early 1980s to get bassist Cliff Burton to join the band. However, frontman James Hetfield has had enough:

Speaking on the Joe Rogan podcast, Hetfield explained that, despite calling Northern California home for the last several decades, he had to move because he could no longer take being looked down upon for his lifestyle choices and political views. …

“I kind of got sick of the Bay Area, the attitudes of the people there, a little bit,” Hetfield said. “They talk about how diverse they are, and things like that, and it’s fine if you’re diverse like them. But showing up with a deer on the bumper doesn’t fly in Marin County.”

Says Hetfield,

“My form of eating organic doesn’t vibe with theirs.”

Hetfield is moving to Vail, Colorado, where his wife grew up, for the outdoors and because people there are “less obsessed with stopping what you’re doing and more enjoying what they’re doing.”

That calls for a vintage musical interlude. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for insufferable moonbats: