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It's a drum he beats repeatedly, arguing that "patriots" — meaning, of course, white men — are unwilling to serve lest they be exposed to "CRT, DEI nonsense, all the gender nonsense."

He cast them as a threat to women and girls, including in sports, and told absurd lies to drum up additional fear — including his claim that American children were being whisked out of schools to have genital surgeries without their parents’ consent.

“The essence of the music is designed to interact. Synthesizers and drum machines? That’s not interaction,” he said in 2001.

Despite the incessant buzz of drones and the drum line of occasional explosions, for those determined to stay out of the fight between the Iran-backed Shiite militant group and Israel, it’s the “war over there.”

He even instructed sound engineer Bruce Swedien to create a drum sound with a "sonic personality" that no-one had ever heard before.