Jack White reflects on the election: “Americans chose a known, obvious fascist. It’s absolutely dumbfounding that this con man succeeded in pulling the wool over so many Americans eyes not once, but twice”

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/jack-white-donald-trump-election-win-wannabe-dictator-1235822068/

48 comments

  1. yeah I’d be dumbfounded too if I got my news from *checks notes* billboard dot com

  2. he’s assuming any wool was pulled over at all

    a lot of these people know exactly what they voted for and why, if not every single one of them

  3. He did not pull the wool over anyone’s eyes. The people who voted for this Nazi piece of shit did so because they themselves are Nazi pieces of shit.

    It is depressing to have to acknowledge that that is the reality of the United States but here we are.

  4. I’m so tired of this bullshit. Is Trump a fascist or an asshole? Is Kamala really stupid or just bad at public speaking ???

  7. They lost to this guy twice and almost a third time. If he’s so bad that makes you look worse. Take a look in the mirror and be better next time

  10. If you believe and state he is a fascist you would naturally leave the USA. I could understand that. But if you stay in the USA you are exposed as a despicable partisan spewing nothing but hateful rhetoric.

  11. Most Americans can’t even clearly define fascisim. They don’t realize or understand what it looks like in its populist “us vs them” beginning stages.

  12. Remember that Carlin quote about 50% of people being dumber than you realize? Yeah this election has proved it yet once again.

  13. Americans are just so gullible. You simply cannot educate those who support Trump- it’s impossible. The only education they will finally comprehend is when he actually makes cuts to SS or takes it all away. Of course he’ll raise the retirement age – eliminate Obamacare and Medicare. Definitely more tax cuts for the rich is a must. May be one of the first things he does after he ends all wars, deports all immigrants and set those tariffs which will only raise prices for Americans. Can’t wait. Making America great again is so exciting.

  14. There was no wool. There were studies indicating that Americans and more specifically found authoritarianism preferable to our current style of governing.

  15. It’s numbing having to describe the to-be president as fascist. It’s SICKENING that people just don’t care. Fuckin hell….

  17. No wool was pulled this time. The electorate made a deliberate choice.

  18. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again.

  20. Why do you all care what some celebrity has to say? What positive impact did any celebrity’s words have on the election? Why listen to someone who is so out of touch with the day to day struggles a majority of Americans live with?

  21. It’s not dumbfounding at all if you’ve been paying attention

  22. Trump loves the poorly educated and we have that in spades. The education system in this country is pathetic. But that’s how you control the masses. Keep them dumb and full of fear.

  24. Elections have consequences. Maybe the dems should focus on why they lost the popular vote

  25. Fool me once, shame on you.

    Fool me twice, can’t get fooled again 😎

  26. He didn’t pull the wool over their eyes. They’re just awful like he is. 

  27. Oh no! Americans are racist and endorsed someone that represent that! Who would’ve thought…

  28. I guess it says a lot about how weak the Democratic Party is now. Hopefully next time around they pick their shit up

  29. No wool. People knew what the were voting for. Dictators don’t take problem. They are given power by the people but they refuse to give it back. Make no mistake, not everyone will feel the back effects from this election but the ones who do, if they had voted for Trump, will regret it

  31. The first time felt like a fluke. This time was completely deliberate, which is terrifying.

  32. Americans, I have just learned, are as gullible as a newborn baby

  33. Confirming the old saying, you don’t win an election, the other side loses.

  35. You mean three times. Last I checked they all believe he won the 2020 election as well…

  37. It’s obvious if you pay any attention and don’t get your news from paid shills on social media.

    That’s not most of America. So now everyone gets a free reminder what kind of damage a born grifter can do with no brakes.

  39. Almost like out of touch millionaires don’t represent America

  40. Remember when artists would use their music to bring people together? Just Imagine….

  41. It amazes me how paranoid you all have gotten. These same people complaining are the same people that have anger, the same people that won’t hold a door open for a stranger, the same person that would step over a homeless person instead of trying to help.
    If you’re looking to Jack White for emotion support during these “facist” times then you need a better support system. How bout love somebody

  42. Well at least I can know I’m pretty messed up but I’m not voting for him messed up

  43. The media is to blame. A democracy requires an informed citizenry, and the US media over the past eight years in particular created an increasingly misinformed citizenry.

    When people are more concerned that a trans girl might play on a softball team than that the climate crisis might profoundly devastate the biosphere and much of life on it, human and otherwise, for the next 10,000 years, the media has failed. When people worry about crime when it is low, an economy when it is thriving and immigrants when they do much of the hard work that sustains that economy and commit fewer crimes than the native-born, the media has failed to reach them.

    When it came to Donald Trump, they went easy on him, and they again and again let him and the far right set the agenda. They constantly treated asymmetrical issues as symmetrical ones – if the Democrats resisted Republican outrages, both sides were “polarized”. In the media everything had two sides, even if one side was the truth and the other was the lie, one side was the human rights or the law and the other side was their violation.

    They went soft on Trump’s criminality and incompetence, and his sheer volume of scandals meant that the past ones were forgotten as the next one erupted. He would not have won his 2016 minority victory had the US news media adequately conveyed that Trump was not the fun fictional character in the reality TV show The Apprentice; he was a serially bankrupt man repeatedly accused of sexual assault with a lot of criminal ties and a history of not paying his bills, being helped on by the Vladimir Putin regime.

  45. It’s a little of column A, a little of column B. This is A. Trump made gains with almost all minorities.

    B is the fact that the Democrats couldn’t energize their base. It was a pathetic turnout. That *so* many people stayed home should be the bigger story.

  48. why not call us nazis too. fucking liberals are so smooth brained it’s beyond comprehension

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