This Is White Stripes Nation

Part of: White Stripes Nation
MANIFESTO I: "Seven Nation Army"
Greetings, Comrades. This is a communique from Generalissimo Alberto Barger regarding the present crisis. The current administration is an abject failure. The Bush regime is weak, and incapable of Decisive Action. Doing the denial twist in the cold, cold night is insufficient. The People demand change. A state of emergency exists.

Therefore, martial law is hereby declared. A directorate of The People has taken over, and a new executive has been chosen.

We must have a real leader, someone with a track record of real achievement who could impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. On careful examination, The People see that there's only one person fit for the task, a man of achievement equal to the job- a man with a genuine sense of geometry and theology.

Jack White has been appointed El Presidente for Life...

Legendary Monkey: Al, honey, no. Haven't you realized yet that your fascist ways convince no one? We have to approach this democratically, using logic and reasonable debate. Folks, you just can't mind Al. They haven't invented a medication yet that we can feed the big fella.

GA: Democracy has been tried and it has failed miserably. What in the world makes you think that average imbeciles have enough sense to run a country? They don't have enough sense to pick out a record collection. Do you think that people buying Coldplay and Mariah Carey records have any business making life and death decisions for the nation?

LM: I see through your weak attempt at distraction, and will not allow my disdain for anyone who likes Coldplay to influence my belief in a basic democratic system. Fascism isn't going to make us any friends here.

GA: We don't have time in the current situation to hold their hands and sing Kum-Ba-Frickin-Ya- they need only submit. Surely you can see that the Bush regime is weak, an abject failure. I think we can certainly agree that President Bush must be taken out and put to the lash immediately.

LM: I've been telling you that for years. If you'd listen to anything I said for half a moment, you'd have been singing this particular tune back in the day when it was fresh. You're jumping on my bandwagon and you're distracting me.

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  • 1 - Aaman

    Oct 21, 2005 at 10:53 am

    Good stuff - quite diabolical

  • 2 - michelle

    Oct 21, 2005 at 11:02 am

    as a black girl the white stripes to me are the best band out there i love jack white i never see him doing any interview on live tv

  • 3 - LegendaryMonkey

    Oct 21, 2005 at 11:31 am

    Diabolical! I love it.

    I hardly ever see a live interview, either... and oh, would I love to have 10-12 on video just hanging around for me to soak up on rainy Saturday afternoons. There can never be enough White Stripes.

  • 4 - Joe Battista

    Oct 21, 2005 at 8:40 pm

    They're okay. Creative presentation though!

  • 5 - MAF

    Oct 22, 2005 at 2:45 pm


    Hey Al, I am a Jack White disciple
    myself. The White stripes do rule.
    You have good taste (somewhat). Now
    all you need to do in order to be
    perfect in my eyes is to learn more
    about black people.

    I like your
    style El Presidente!!! You were
    born to write. I would buy a book
    by you anyday. Back to Jacky boy,
    what he did for Loretta Lynn was
    truly amazing. I never really took
    him seriously until after that.

    As a African
    boy who has a soft spot for any
    kind of music that appeals to me
    I appreciate your music reviews

  • 6 - LegendaryMonkey

    Oct 22, 2005 at 2:52 pm

    You wait, Joe... in a week, we'll have you singing a different tune.

    Al -- I sense the sweet smell of potential converts in the air! We'd better get to work!

  • 7 - Generalissimo Alberto

    Oct 22, 2005 at 4:37 pm

    MAF, thank you so much for your kind comments. Also, I hasten to add that White Stripes Nation is a post-colonial, post-racial land of union and harmony, open to people of all races, nations and creeds.

  • 8 - dr. frued / brain doc

    Nov 13, 2005 at 6:18 am

    You must be a very lonely guy....sad fer yu...
    why not go outside away from yer computer and see what the day brings?
    You are too young to be this way.
    dr. freud...


  • 9 - Reported

    Jan 17, 2006 at 9:37 pm

    I don't really care if this is a joke or satire. This type of talk makes me sick. Yeah, I know the lines before you say them "The White House doesn't care hahahaha!"

    Well, I guess we'll all be sitting in our chairs waiting to see if they do care, and come bust your doors down, and drag you fags out in pink P.J.'s.

    I don't really think this administration cares if this is joke or satire. Lets just hope they don't kill you for Treason.

  • 10 - Generalissimo Alberto

    Jan 17, 2006 at 9:47 pm

    Yee-haw, there, Reported. Come and get me, coppers!

    Also, if'n anybody wants to shoot me for treason, they'll have to get past by evil one-eyed coon dog first.

    And Jack's seven nation army.

    Also, a fair warning to the feds: I do NOT have pink PJs. I sleep in the nude. Consider yourselves warned!

  • 11 - OnlySmartPerson

    Jan 30, 2006 at 9:35 pm

    The White Stripes suck...I pity myself for even responding to a stupid post like this but thought you should know that white stripes are gay and besides wouldn't Green day be a better choice for you faggots.

    The final solutions is banning all laws and recycling all guns to return us to a mideval rennaisance so i could kill all of you with heavy metal....Whos with me?

  • 12 - Rodney Welch

    Jan 30, 2006 at 11:07 pm

    I ove the White Stripes and I love T. Rex, but that sentence about Elephant leading off with "a classic 70s glam slam that Marc Bolan would have been proud to claim for T Rex" has me totally befuddled. What in the world is "glam" about "Seven Nation Army"? The song and the album have virtually nothing to do with that world in sound or sensibility.

  • 13 - william pertublum

    Feb 02, 2006 at 4:30 pm

    That "OmlySMartPerson" was right! green day is better and the whole part about returning to the mideival ages was just...magical. I agree completely, we should change our government into a fuedal system.

  • 14 - DJRadiohead

    Feb 02, 2006 at 4:35 pm

    Green Day's crowning achievement seems to have been recording an album's worth of punkpop Springsteen ripoffs.

  • 15 - mark talula

    Feb 03, 2006 at 5:10 pm

    Yep green day is that bad but they are still better than the white stripes, sadly.

  • 16 - Naio

    Mar 14, 2006 at 11:41 am

    Whitestripes are wife and husband... so how can they be gay?? I also thinik they are with the few still making some good rock music instead of commercial shit!

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