Jack White Claps Back

"Jack White Just Shut Down The Trump Administration With One Brutal And Lengthy Instagram Post"

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/jack-white-fired-back-white-191021365.html

What cracks me up is all the people e-mailing me saying not to use their name. Nobodies from nowhere saying inoffensive things. As if the long arm of the law is going to reach out and do...exactly what to them? A veritable nation of pussies I tell you, especially on the left. These are not men, these are mice.

And how do you turn them around?

By showing the way, as Peter Frampton would say. By standing up and being a beacon.

Like Jack White.

Used to be you stood up to the man via music, now you do so with your words.

Will Jack White lose out economically as a result of his words? No, because he's not part of the music industrial complex, he's stood aside, and therefore he's not dependent upon the gatekeepers for success. No, Jack White has a hard core fan base, built over decades, and he knows people respect him, not only for his music, but for his other enterprises... If Jack White and Third Man are involved, you know it's authentic, you know Jack believes in it, EVEN IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT!

Respect. Isn't that what Ali G said?

Not something one has for most of the people with a profile in music anymore. Who don't want to risk the brand, don't want to offend a single potential customer, who are tools of the system.

Think about this, you can criticize the President and immediately get a response. Whereas a record does no such thing. You see White hit Trump where he's vulnerable, where he cares...his design and decorating taste.

An artist criticizing a businessman. HOW DARE YOU! Aesthetics...something that are no longer a focus in our commerce driven music world. Of course it's a business, but can anybody say no, can anybody have a backbone?

Those on the right seem to have no problem doing this. They're firing up their keyboards as I write this. They believe if they clap back immediately with strength I will cower into submission. That's their game plan. The exact OPPOSITE of those on the left. Who are afraid to speak up.

Unlike Jack White.

Do you get Chuck Schumer railing against the gaudiness of the Trump redecoration of "the people's house"?

Of course not, because his whole being is based on compromise.

That's the essence of an artist, to be UNCOMPROMISED!

As for the message...

Got to give Bill Maher credit, he's got it right, it's a slow moving coup, just like he was right about Trump not leaving the office back in 2020.

It's not like Trump's actions are not documented in the news. But we've got a somnambulant public which believes it'll all work out in the end. Just wait until 2028! Yeah, right, as if the Texas redistricting is not a harbinger of what's coming in the voting sphere.

At what point do you say NO MAS!

Historically, too late. Just ask the Jews in Germany.

Don't accuse me of being histrionic.

I'm no fan of John Bolton, but this revenge tour by Trump is positively scary. You think you're immune... By time they come looking for those afraid to speak up today it will be too late, can you say CHECKMATE?

What has been proven by both Gavin Newsom and Jack White is the best way to get to Trump is to make fun of him, that makes his skin boil. Point out that he's a doofus.

Policy? Trump doesn't care what you think.

Image? He's got the thinnest skin extant. His clap back tweets are laughable on Truth Social.

As for his supporters... If you're waiting for them to come around, good luck. The truth is they hate you more than they care about anything Trump does. Now if you're rich and a Republican, I get it. But I constantly hear from Uber drivers, those barely keeping their heads above water, who are dyed-in-the-wool Trumpers. Not because they believe Trump is going to lift them up, but because they believe he's going to put the libs down.

So who's sticking up for the libs?

No one has as much power as an artist. Maybe some of them can stop putting out multiple iterations of vinyl and take a stand.

Hell, how about a blackout night, when there are NO SHOWS across the nation.

How about an icon every artist can post to TikTok, and then a newspaper ad listing everybody who did this (you might not read the newspaper, but Trump and his team live to see what's in the "New York Times").

We are not fighting against Trump so much as for America.

For those who believe in the Constitution...

We've got a compromised legal system that is allowing this guy to do whatever he wants. And when they say no, he goes ahead and does it anyway.

And now he's got troops in the street.

And he takes advice from Viktor Orbán, who is a hero of the right.

Please explain that to me. You want to emulate a strongman?

Jack White is doing the work you won't. He's got a profile, you don't, but you're afraid to go on the record.

As for music... The only hope is a single song, like "We Are the World." Radio will refuse to play it, but radio is no longer in control, the audience is. And the track can be driven to number one on streaming services instantly. And then you've got a news story and...

You've got to stand up at some point.

Or else you'll be shut up.

Don't lose your voice.


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