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Jack Brand

@jacklbrand.bsky.social

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Seattle musician/songwriter/composer. Anti-MAGA is an understatement. Politics is complicated. If you are telling Democrats to "do something", fine, but you had better be doing something yourself. 2026 matters. #Mizzou #UW #Mariners

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hardly anyone will read this because I am not one of Those Accounts, but:

The most irresponsible msg people can be putting out now is trying to convince people that 2026 elections will not happen.

If we don't prep for 2026 elections, and they do happen, we hand the GOP even more power.

Stop it.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 18h

Oh believe me, he is.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

No, no, it's fine - do keep posting.

As I mentioned in another reply you're ignoring - we see you.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

Pretty funny, then, that you people are saying Chuck Schumer has all the power over the shutdown now. 🤣.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 21h

So a party is no longer legitimate if it loses an election?

Whoever taught you about the U.S. political system owes you a refund.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 21h

The INTERVIEWERS need to end these interviews the moment people like Vance don't answer the question asked, gaslight, or lie.

Shut the mic off and cut away.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 21h

Another Sunday of unqualified interviewers letting fascists gaslight.

No thanks.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 22h

HOW IS STARTED, Reagan: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

HOW IT'S GOING, JD Vance: "All federal employees are worthless bureaucrats who should be fired."

MAGA: "Yup yup yup."

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 22h

True, but they are killing the govt which finally responded to the ground-up cries for social change, and overruled the locals who were keeping the old order (racism) in place.

Conservatives hated that. E.g. they are still hopping mad about the Civil Rights movement, and the fed's role in that.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 22h

Racism has driven the conservative agenda ever since Brown v. Board - hell, since Abolition.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 22h

ICE appears to be doing the work of the Old Testament God who likes babies to be smashed against rocks (Psalms 137:9).

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 22h

No, I'm not saying that, but just noting what motivates conservatives.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

To MAGA, the radical left™ is anyone to the left of David Duke.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

Notice his "some how" instead of knowing it's, "somehow".

This is the "Get back to the 3 Rs!!!" crowd.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

His hair is just a ridiculous as his father's and brothers, so there's that.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

We're onto you. You lecture us about "manners" and not using ad hominems, and when we point out that your guy in the White House breaks every one of your rules about that, you're silent, and go find a post you can say "Hm, who is 'us', anyway? I'm not clear on your word choice..."

We see you.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

When the Leticia James case gets dismissed, they will simply move on to flinging more shit up against the wall to see what might stick, and to try and exhaust people from opposing it.

The Mariners were likely exhausted by the 15th inning. How did the game come out?

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

When he finally croaks, all the conspiracy nuts* will say, "But he was in perfect health - this was Antifa!!!"

*The Republican Party

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

We're not hearing much from the "Both parties are the same!" crowd lately.

Good.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

Embed white male privilege into its founding documents and institutions while crowing about "equality".

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

Trump drained a swamp and appointed everyone he found at the bottom of it to his cabinet.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA won't abandon Trump over him getting "the jab™ ". A cult's power to rationalize whatever their cult leader does as acceptable is immense.

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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 1d

So true!

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1d

Telling MAGA who anti-fascists really were (e.g. us in WW2) does no good, because "Antifa" is just the new label they have for "anyone to the left of me".

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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 1d

Innocent people wouldn't do everything in their power to hide the Epstein files.

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