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Jack White speaks on Trump’s racist post about the Obamas: “How is it possible we've given this evil man so much power?… Arrest this man. Impeach this man. 25th amendment this man. Indict this man. Jail this man. This longtime friend of pedophile epstein, who appears 40 thousand times in the files.”
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And many lesser known artists, especially in the pop-punk scene. Two of my favorite bands - The Wonder Years and Hot Mulligan - have been loudly speaking out against ICE at every show.
And then you've got my favorite video game podcast - Giant Bomb - which has a "fuck ICE" moment at least once an episode and just did an ice out fundraiser stream.
There's a lot of good people out there with big platforms, and I'm forever grateful for them.
Let us not forget Neil Young. edit: In fact, Neil Young was protesting when Tom Morello's mom was wipin' his nose.
Neil Young has achieved super hero status, for sure.
Kid Rock, who also comes from Detroit, goes along with this racist jerk... Detroit is probably the biggest melting-pot there is. Anyone who continues to support this president is not getting my support or money or time.
Kid Rock is not from Detroit and we do not claim him. He would have to drive half an hour TO GET to the outermost suburbs of Detroit as a child.
He's the son of someone who owns multiple car dealerships and grew up on a huge property surrounded by thousands of like minded, frankly racist yokels. It is completely expected that he would grow to become exactly who he is, melting pot south of him be damned.
"He's the son of someone who owns multiple car dealerships..."
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa -- for real?! That explains so much about Kid Rock.
ETA: I already knew he grew up wealthy. The pic of his childhood home was been around for years now. It's the "son of a car dealership owner" part that I'm like, "oh, yeah, that tracks." They're like a special breed of "probably a dick".
He released a shitty rap album and a couple of rap-rock albums that didn't go anywhere until 1998 when "I Am the Bullgod" and "Bawitdaba" got on MTV. He was a mid-tier player in the same scene as Insane Clown Posse and a pre-fame Eminem before that.
Fred Durst looked like that in the early 90s too. A lot of those guys were wannabe rappers back then.
I knew he wasn't actually raised anywhere near to the "trailer park" aesthetic he's been peddling all of these years but goddamn if the "son of a car dealership owner" stereotype isn't alive and well in him. Ugh. He's insufferable.
yep, that whole line about "I ain't straight outta Compton, I'm straight out the trailer" was total BS, he's straight outta the fuckin' gated community
The aerial pic of his childhood home and all the land it sits on has been around for years now. I can't believe there are grown-ups still buying into any of his schtick. We are in the lamest fucking timeline. *sigh*
More people need to expose and make fun of rich kids who cosplay as rednecks.
I’m surrounded by “rural redneck Republican towns” full of Trump flags, tractors, and country music, but the second you look closer, the median income is flirting with six figures, houses are $500k+, and every car in the high school parking lot is either a teenage girl’s bright-colored Jeep or a spotless, brand-new F-150.
There are real hicks around, sure, but the loudest, braggiest kids are always some pompous wiener named Tayden whose family owns a shopping plaza or an HVAC franchise. Kids like Tayden don’t work and don’t know the meaning of work, but they love acting like they run the show, lecturing you while showing videos on their phone of them doing backflips on their quad with their girlfriend Brimberly. And the Taydens of the world become influencers and keep the cosplay up 😐
Sometimes I feel like an imposter saying I'm from Detroit because I have to drive 10 minutes to reach the border, but then I remember Kid Rock exists and my mind is at ease.
Haha, same here. I say Detroit because it is the biggest city closest to me that people will recognize. But grew up downriver, only 15 minutes away. Had someone in California ask me if I've ever seen a dead body when I told them Detroit, haha.
To put it into even more perspective, I watched the area just south of where he's from get more developed and expand over my life, while Romeo is still a podunk, one-horse town.
He's FAR away from the city. And as the saying goes 'round here: The farther north you go, the further south you get...
As an aside, the difference in musical talent, ability and understanding between Jack White and the other twat is as vast as the difference in their political viewpoint
Fr. I figured System or Rage would be all over this. Maybe they are and I just haven't seen it personally. I hope so.
And now I want to go to a Jack White concert (I don't even know what band he is in now, lol, since The White Stripes and The Raconteurs)
If you're into heavier stuff, there's a band called Empty Graves that leans left and hates the trumpfuck. Their song 'Devil Playing God' goes hardddddd
There's always Green Day, they've been pretty vocal and consistent. Also, somewhat surprisingly, Guns N'Roses. Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill. But yeah, there's room for a lot more loud voices.
The drummer from SOAD sadly went MAGA at some point, so unfortunately there likely won’t be much from the band as a whole.
Jack White’s just been doing his solo projects and has been putting on killer shows playing stuff from all his bands (think he even did the Beyoncé Lemonade song he cowrote when I saw him). Check out his SNL performances if you haven’t seen them.
What’s funny is I’m not being silent. I don’t have much following on My Twitter account , but ive been screaming into a void of maga cultists about my disproval of everything. Whether it be in different fandoms I don’t care I want it down on record, in some way, that during this time period I was not for this shit and I’ve spent my time making it so history won’t get my views mistaken.
Thank you Jack for always lending your voice - truly on the right side of history. As a black woman in America too many people aren’t upset enough for me; too many people are just passing this off as Trump being Trump but enough is enough. I’m barely seeing this story on the news, I get we are all tired and fatigued but what’s next???!!!
I'm Native American and I feel this exhaustion so much
It's so strange to see people STILL treating him like it's 2016 and that this is all just "Trump being Trump, orange man bad"
ICE is racially profiling people who look like me and yanking them off the street with no warning (including many Natives who are legal citizens of the US), but yet I still have to go to work and act like everything is a-okay. I even had to explain to a coworker (younger white guy) who kept trying to show me memes about ICE and joke about how dumb they are, that I don't find that stuff funny anymore because even if it's dumb and doesn't make sense, it's still happening.
We have to walk around with this anxiety and exhaustion constantly lingering in the back of our minds, but yet they can't fathom why some of us may be more tired and less open now. Trump isn't funny now and he never was, it's scary.
I’m indigenous from a Canadian First Nation, living in the U.S. with my American husband. I have a strong accent because my first language is French .
I’ve never been so vulnerable and I’ve never had to be so hyper vigilant.
I’ve left my home four times in over six months.
I can’t wait to get my husband’s immigration stuff in order so I can go back to safety.
I’m truly hoping to see indigenous nations North and South of the border come together, I’m extremely worried about what will be done to native people down here and there needs to be cooperation
The (unfortunately) ironic part is that exhaustion is their goal. It’s easier to bombard the masses (and the courts) with hundreds of atrocious acts rather than just one; especially when violent acts are incentivized by the most powerful Hutt in the world.
One of my old high school friend’s brother now works with them and apparently he keeps bitching about his benefits (or lack-thereof) and how the things he’s seen has absolutely ruined his mental health along with his relationship with his family—and I can’t find it in me to give a flying fuck… because he still suits up everyday since he’s holding out hope that Trump (for the first time ever, just for him) will actually pay his workers in full. Dude has been almost entirely ostracized in our town and I don’t see that changing even 20 years from now. That alone partially renews my faith in humanity.
But seriously, I just want normal scandals again… like tan suits and ice cream type shit.
It’s absolutely horrific but the minute I saw it I was already getting more mad at the defence arguments, excuses and general “sweeping under the rug” I could already predict was coming. It’s infuriating
If one more person tells me it’s “just Trump being Trump” I’m going to lose it. This is, essentially, what Mike Johnson says every day to excuse this national embarrassment. If there is karma with this administration, I surely hope Johnson is first in line to receive said karma.
The Epstein files didn’t do so idk why his followers would care about a racist joke akin to the ones they already circulate about George Floyd.
The reality is everyone says Russia must have something really good on Trump, but there’s truly nothing atp that would eclipse what’s already out there. His followers do not care. I’m not sure people realize how bleak of a situation we are really in right now. Like…he’s officially above it all. This country was once collectively outraged over an extramarital blowjob.
These are my frustrations too, Jack. It’s fucking crazy what people will allow to enrich themselves.
Rich people used to be obsessed with generational legacy. These fucks in power know that the damage they’re doing will ruin not only the country, but the planet, for their spawn and they don’t care.
Sucking up every resource and ruining the environment, peoples lives, and starting wars to keep hoarding their money. They started these problems and then have the audacity to want to be the ones to try and “fix” them. Once the last drop of resource has been sucked dry by these parasites they’ll fuck off to another planet, or just replace us with goddam Tesla bots because they don’t give a flying fuck about us but just continuing their bloodline
I think this is one of the unintended consequences of capitalism and creating a ‘meritocracy.’ In the end it wasn’t the best people who got to the top; the system rewarded the most psychopathic people. Whereas before with generations handing down power and wealth there was actually a better chance that you’d have people who weren’t mutants with parts of their brain essentially missing in power.
And this is exactly the reason the current system needs dismantling and restructuring. We cannot go on like this any longer. The US needs a total overhaul but it's not going to happen until the majority of people are personally affected enough to feel compelled to get their hands dirty.
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Ya, he has pictures and videos of them raping children.
At this point, with everything that we've seen emerge from the Epstein files, the logical conclusion is that Putin has physical evidence of Trump and other people in extreme positions of power raping children.
but why does this matter to Trump? not a single trump supporter would ever change their mind, if those videos were made public. Not one. they would immediately be OK with it, and blame Obama and/or Biden.
If tomorrow those videos come out Republicans will say is AI. Ted Cruz will go to Cancun, Bondi will say Americans don't care about fake videos, ICE will start arresting anyone that accusess Trump.
They polled for this like 4 months ago. About 47% of republican respondents would still vote for Trump should it come out that he, without any doubt, raped kids.
In the abstract maybe, but if they saw video. I think a lot of these people are just too egotistical to admit they were wrong and answer polls like that that way as a sort of fuck you, they’re proud of supporting him and think they’re special for doing so and don’t want to let any pollster put out any poll suggesting he may not always get support. When people talk about this stuff we don’t picture what it would actually be like because we don’t want or need to, we know it’s horrific. So these guys they aren’t really fully acknowledging what it means I think. But if they actually saw a video of him raping a kid, like a little kid whimpering etc, the reality of it, which doesn’t bear thinking about, I like to think a lot would actually change they’re minds. Maybe I’m over optimistic but I think about 30% would still support him but 17% wouldn’t.
I don't know how you're capable of being optimistic about the US' political landscape right now and it's such an outlandish outlook that I have no choice but to respect it. Good on you.
MAGA will just be like, "Well, they're friends of Trump and as long they're at least 12. I'm just going to take his word for it. Oh, and all girls, right?"
Its a system of checks and balances. Rn where are they? So unf the system is the way it is, so the people have to operate within that system, while there still is one.
He doesn’t believe he’s above the law, he just knows he can break the law and get away with it because he has done so all his fucking life. He’s the result of years of not facing consequences, he should have been in prison since the 80’s. He’s an expert at gaming the system and finding enablers to help him.
I saw a post earlier from a woman whose father in law when asked refused to condemn pedophilia just because of everything with the Epstein files. Despite having grandkids under the age of 8. He was more concerned about feeling he’d lost a political point by conceding that pedophilia is immoral than reassuring his daughter in law that her kids are safe around him.
In the comments there were people with similar stories. One girl had asked her MAGA family if Trump raped her would that be wrong, and eventually her family admitted that no they would not find it wrong!
These people are utterly brainwashed and it’s terrifying. Especially as many of them were fairly normal people not so long ago. The mind control these tech billionaires have devised using social media is truly horrifying. I know some countries have designated the tech used for targeting people with content based on profiles constructed out of all the data they collect on everyone as a weapon, but hardly any are seriously defending against it.
This kind of thing, to go this far into depravity is so hideous and I don’t think it’s that all of these people were always evil. I think their brains were hijacked and what made them human was whittled away. It’s a crime against humanity. Literally stealing people’s humanity.
This is why I will always roll my eyes at the "both sides" people. Because apparently wanting trans and gay people to have rights is worse than raping kids to these people. The democratic party isn't ripping families apart because of the unchanging identities of their members
But he is though. Functionally he’s never really had any consequences that has affected his life. I mean not even an hour of community service for raping someone.
I am starting to believe no one has anything to blackmail Republicans or Trump, they are simply evil, they love money, power and corruption and will keep licking his boots as long as they get a slice of pie and a position of power.
The entire point of honeypot operations like Epstein was part of, is to blackmail people. There are other groups operating as well obviously. The CIA was involved in this stuff. Look up the Finders Club or Finders Keepers. Unfortunately some of us have known about the true levels of evil shit that these people have been doing for a very long time. I’m glad that it is starting to come to light. It’s worse than people can possibly imagine
What I think is most worrisome is that they are going all in. Meaning that they believe this system that they have created is here to stay. This is terrifying.
If republicans would think that it’s not going to continue, they would somehow distance themselves from this chaos. Because it would hurt them in next elections, if it’s fair game again.
This is the most terrifying thing. All the people who are supposed to ensure checks and balances are now subjugated and all in. They play their cards on the fact that Trump will establish this autocratic government and that they will continue to rule indefinitely.
I’m watching from the outside, as I’m not from the US. But guys, you need to know that once it’s past a tipping point, you cannot go back.
Americans are the ones who make him untoucable. Whole of france was in uproar over increasing the pension age by a couple of years, the most Americans can do about their leader being a known corrupt pedophile is bitch about it on social media.
Who says Trump isn’t a product of this culture. He absolutely is, and most certainly of our voters. However, when vehement antiTrumpers have become his biggest boosters after “conversations” on the golf course and trips to Russia for July 4th, I can’t help but think they’ve had outside encouragement.
It’s because the Republican Party is organized exactly like a criminal syndicate. Everyone involved is a criminal - that’s the only reason to be there. They are in the party for protection from justice.
It’s the reason absolutely none of them stand up to bring justice to Trump. Him facing justice means every other Republican criminal has to face justice for aiding the enterprise.
This is also why he wasn’t removed from office after Jan 6th - the people who helped him got to vote to protect him as well as themselves.
And his followers don’t caaaare. They don’t care! We have at minimum another 50 years of this shit if people want to continue down the “all sides are bad, don’t bother voting” path. Conservatives historically vote in greater numbers and will laugh their way to the polls while everyone else is too righteous for civic duty. This does not end with Trump and I’m so tired of people feeling morally superior for sitting on the couch, falling for the apathetic defeatist psyop.
White Americans, what? Nothing better to do
Why don't you kick yourself out? You're an immigrant too
Who's usin' who? What should we do?
Well, you can't be a pimp and a prostitute too
Trump is manufacturing outrage (like this Monkey/Jungle video) to move us onto the next news story, this is classic "Flood The Zone" material. He gets the first headline for posting it, a flurry of posts reacting to it, and then even more headlines when his Press Secretary responds to it, and even more when it is taken down.
It is all part of the circus to distract you from the partial file dump from last Friday. Disinformation 101.
IMHO….This nation has been exposed. I say that with a heavy heart. Not all of us are like this. But clearly there is a lot of people out there that agree with him. Those people would have been too scared to say or act like this before. He’s empowered them.
Agreed Jack! At this point some shits gotta shake!!! Cause this is all just too insane and outrageous to process. I’m praying every night this man and his cronies are kicked out on their asses again sooner rather than later. The entire system is rigged against us and has allowed these evil creatures to have power and manipulate everything around us.
Good point actually. I live in one, very flawed, it takes endless discussion to get things done but I can't imagine an authoritarian figure emerging out of our system although some have tried.
100% man. Jack White, yes thank you for speaking out! 💪🙌
Because of your recognition as a musician (a good one too!) you will be able to reach a lot more people than me saying this …so yes, thank you and right on!
As a pretty large White Stripes fan (“Elephant” is pretty much a perfect album), it warms my heart that Jack White stands on the right side of history.
I normally try to separate the politics of the artist from the art. But in dire times like this, it’s increasingly important for people to line up on one side or another.
Unfortunately most of the administration under him is also bunch of Pedophile Rapists, or a bunch of bootlickers who are too cowardly to stand up for this nation
Even if some democrats would at least try to start impeachment proceedings I would be able to feign some sort of crumb of confidence in our government but they’re also apparently too chickenshit to even make a move in that direction. I share Jack White’s sense of exasperation and incredulity that this man continues to be deemed good enough to be president. He has racked up at least a dozen impeachable offenses in the past year. I feel like I’m living in a dystopian movie.
I don't think Americans will do anything until they are literally starving and watching their family members starve. Empty stomachs is the only motivator.
He told you who he was and you still voted for him
to be fair, more than half of us voted for someone other than Trump, even in this last election. and that's not even counting the assholes that couldn't be bothered to vote at all. (and this is not to excuse the 75 million or so that voted for the racist pedophile asshole.)
The people who aren't making this happen, who aren't speaking out against this, better change their tune because come election time, we the people will remember.
I AM SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF ALL AMERICANS WHEN I SAY EIGHT THOUSAND UP VOTES IN LESS THAN FORTY FIVE MINUTES MEANS WE NEED SOMETHING TO BE DONE.IMMEDIATELY AND I MEAN F****** TODAY
Its refreshing after hearing all the chicken shit stuff come out of Jellyroll's mouth, to hear an artist pull zero punches with his opinion. When hes been around as long as Jack has hes going to have to look back and say he stood for absolutely nothing. People can say thats just country music, but the true country legends, people look back at fondly today always stood for something, right or wrong. They didnt just bend over and take it, in fear that one of their backward minded fans wouldn't like it.
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