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Jack White goes after Trump again

While many parts of the US managed to pull off 250th birthday celebrations (the “Semiquincentennial,” if you want to be correct about this, anything Donald Trump touched turned to sh*t, including all the events in Washington DC.

Jack White, who is about as far from MAGA as you can get, had a few words.

He writes:

“Happy 250th to America! And even more importantly, the concept that America is a possibility, a promise of an attainable ideal, all things achievable in the pursuit of happiness and true freedom.

““I believe in the rock and roll band in the garage, the protest in town square, the drive-in theater, the workers on the way to the car plant, the melting pot and the integration of faiths, Woodie Guthrie and Leadbelly, Thanksgiving dinner, the soup kitchen feeding the homeless, the sunrise in the Grand Canyon and the building and climbing of the tallest sky scrapers.

“I leave you with a reminder: MAGA doesn’t own our flag and never will, and definitely not on this anniversary of a nation currently in peril that was founded on the indelibly human right, duty, and endeavor to fight against tyranny and the current tyrant we suffer under today.”

You rock, Jack.

Alan Cross

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