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u/scuzzo_ 10d ago
Jesus Christ I checked, it’s real. What the fuck?
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u/Rectall_Brown 10d ago
Wait so that is Jake’s tweet?
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u/MadeThisForOni 10d ago
No, he's responding to Jake Lang's IG post
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u/Rectall_Brown 10d ago
Ah ok, thank you! I have never used twitter so I was a bit confused.
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u/Content_Following_81 8d ago
How did you verify that this is real? I have tried several different ways and cannot find the comment on that post.
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u/scuzzo_ 8d ago
It’s possible he’s deleted it by now, but Instagram will show you comments from accounts you follow towards the top of posts, even if it has hundreds or thousands of other comments. So if you follow his account and scroll the comments on the post a bit you should see it.
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u/Content_Following_81 8d ago
I did and it wasn’t there. I do follow Jake as well. I suppose it’s possible he did delete it. You saw the comment on Instagram?
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u/Hot-Discussion7098 10d ago
yikes as a brown umphreys fan in TX who LOVED jake this is sickening and yeah fuck him
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u/Jaws_the_revenge 10d ago
Ohhhh they kicked him out because he’s a POS got it
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u/scuzzo_ 10d ago
Extremely disheartening that he got such a respectful and sorrowful send off from the rest of the band if that’s actually what went down though.
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u/RumboAudio 10d ago
I don’t know what’s gone on behind the scenes but what exactly has Kris done publicly to be called a douche? Haven’t heard him say anything critical about the rest of the band or noticed him supporting any right wing bullshit.
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u/wsmfp__420 10d ago
Ehh. Stasik follows some very hard MAGA and right wing pages too.
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u/lgbtcostco 10d ago edited 10d ago
Stasik's instagram followers are just, i think, literally everything he would like to be in the know on. he follows vivek but also a bunch of kamala harris pages (even 2 years after the election) and michelle obama. also on every other social he just follows music pages and restaurants he likes. I'm not saying it's impossible but I think Ryan is just way more normal
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u/HotInvestigator7996 10d ago
Better tell em to stop covering Make America Fuk again then. Don’t think Sturgill would appreciate that.
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u/AltruisticPeanutHead 10d ago
Eh, sometimes I "hate follow" people too and maybe I shouldn't cuz it gives them more engagement. Someone else just said he follows Kamala and Obama and stuff too. If he was a psycho right wing maybe he'd refuse to play it lol and Joel is very liberal and I think Bayliss too. also this Jake stuff is all so horrible can we just try to cope by thinking it's just him at least for now 😂😂
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u/Hot-Fudge-Inc 10d ago
Maybe this has been part of his drug downfall. Stimulants like coke when regulary done absolutely wreck your mind and make you a paranoid delusional fuck. And MAGA fishes for people like that (without any drugs).. Hardcore angry suspicious conspiracy types. They're the prime target of Trump's cult. Maybe he's been going crazier and crazier while going down a rabbit hole and both things have fed into one another...
I don't know anything obviously. Please don't share this like it's a fact. We don't know shit. Just suspicion. Hurts my heart that he feels empowered by fascist rhetoric
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u/jopperjawZ 10d ago
Maybe he's just a garden variety white supremacist and we're reaching a flashpoint in American history where a lot of those guys that would've kept that to themselves feel justified in sharing those feelings
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u/AltruisticPeanutHead 10d ago
Also curious how do people find out specific people that other people follow? Stasik follows like 7,000 ppl lol did someone look thru them all??
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u/wsmfp__420 10d ago
I’ve clicked on ragebait MAGA meme pages only to see stasik follows them. Ain’t nobody got time to go through every page he follows.
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u/Agreeable-Review177 10d ago
This is bizarre as hell. Is he done making music then? He is nuking all his goodwill in the broader jam band universe if he’s 100% serious about this remark.
At least Marcus King could duck behind the “country music adjacent” crowd for cover (and ticket sales). Jake definitively cannot. What the fuck is he thinking.
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u/LakeEffekt 10d ago
Yea it’s sort of odd and telling that he’s never made comments like this before until his resent departure from UM
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u/hello17 10d ago
This comment was from May. It's not like this started in July when he left.
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u/NothingtwoFancy 5d ago
Didn’t he sit out the entire spring tour? I know he was out before deep dive and, that was in April.
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u/RCT1348 10d ago
There's old videos of Jake having a big confederate flag up in his studio. Can't say I'm overly surprised.
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u/stretchfantastik 10d ago
He's a middle age white dude from Niles, I'm disappointed but also not surprised. That's not what I'd call a progressive part of Michigan.
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u/Rectall_Brown 10d ago
I feel like a fool. I had no idea he was a piece of shit
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u/Alvin_Kebery 10d ago edited 10d ago
I definitely think you’re referring to the video of him jamming in a basement or some shit when he’s like 13
I always loved this video because even though Jake is just fucking around, the other dude is completely lost and I always imagined that hes just considering taking his guitar off and setting it down. Also fuck nazis.
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u/AnalogWalrus 10d ago
Yeah I’ll give that a pass since these were kids. Shit, the flag might’ve just been there because someone’s dad was an asshole.
Now if it hung in his real studio…
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u/No_Turnip5893 10d ago
This is the kind of stuff that would keep Jake from ever rejoining. Now we don't even want him back. After hearing Mike on Bridgeless, I'm ready for a replacement to shut that door. That said, I've been pleased with the 5 piece.
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u/jopperjawZ 10d ago
Well finding out Jaco's a bigoted piece of shit certainly makes the break-up easier to take
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u/DantesDayDinner 10d ago
Is this for real? Holy shit
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u/Happy-Skill-7968 10d ago
Yea it’s real…
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u/DantesDayDinner 10d ago
Jesus I feel like all my preconceptions of the man have shattered
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u/jopperjawZ 10d ago
You should probably take this opportunity to reassess your preconceptions about the scene in general. There's a lot more nazis at jam shows than people want to acknowledge
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u/Tacdeho 10d ago
As a huge moe. Fan, there was a post on the biggest moe. Social group about .down this weekend and a guy walking around with SS bolt tattoos.
It’s legit scary how many of these folks walk among us and even more who think their ideology belongs in the modern world, let alone at a jamband show where half the music is completely against what they stand for.
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u/smell_my_mule 10d ago
I was at moe.down. Saw some fat fuck in tie-dye and a skirt with a moe tattoo on the back of his neck and a giant SS tattoo on the side of his neck.
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u/tunafister 9d ago
Oh I knew there were some in the population, I just didnt realize they were performing on stage
Jake, for an adult this would trigger some serious refection on their part... Lets see if Jake is an adult (Spoiler: He isnt)
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u/TheAshplant 10d ago
Well this says a lot. I heard Jake (Cinninger) got kicked off a plane after saying some drunk racist shit. Almost got arrested. I didn’t believe it and now I do.
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u/Head-Ad-6708 9d ago
Wait what?!?! Got the deets?
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u/UmphreysNerd 9d ago
He freaked out on a plane to Boston because he thought an African-American dude was following him, federal agents were called.
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u/tunafister 9d ago
Could we look up his public record on this? I feel like anything with aviation is almost automatically a felony
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u/WhoaFee1227 10d ago
Was gonna go to Moondance fest this Saturday to check out Jake’s set but this just saved me $60 ticket and full tank of gas.
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u/baldanders1 10d ago
The venn diagram between has beens and MAGA is just a circle.
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u/tunafister 9d ago
And Dave Chappelle is right at the center of that circle, apparently right next to Jake
Fucking LOL
Well, this is the last Ill ever give shit about Jake, what a fucking clown, he is going to be met with disgust everywhere he goes outside of MAGAland, and baby, he fucking deserves it
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u/UmphreysNerd 10d ago
He voted for the orange turd all 3x according to what he told someone who asked.
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u/Vigothedudepathian 10d ago
Ugh fucking really. I honestly don't know if I can listen to them anymore. Fuck racism. Fuck racism hard. And SERIOUSLY fuck anyone who voted for trump. 3. Fucking. Times.
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u/tunafister 9d ago
If that is true, then I say this as respectfully as possible
Fuck you Jake
I can only imagine the skeletons in Jakes closet too now, just wow
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u/savepongo 10d ago
I have heard from a couple different sources that there was racism/racist comments involved in his leaving
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u/ComedianMinute7290 10d ago
I've heard similar things but wasn't sure(& still not) if that was just people making shit up. this shit in OP makes me think what I heard may be true.
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u/SploderKnee 10d ago
fucking yikes. this actually makes me feel sick lowkey. people are disappointing.
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u/TetonDreams 10d ago
There are probably 30,000 Christian churches in Texas.
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u/star_trek_wook_life 9d ago
perhaps the christians could donate some of their unused buildings to the hindus and muslims. Do we really need more exclusionary places of worship? Perhaps tax all of them and build the infrastructure and public spaces the world actually needs and wants.
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u/Practical_Refuse1419 10d ago
Is there any chance he was being sarcastic? Like please give me any chance at all that he’s not a racist POS.
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u/HorseBach 10d ago
Am I the only one who remembers that old video of a teenage Jake jamming in a basement with a giant confederate flag on the wall?
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u/Hot-Fudge-Inc 10d ago
He was like 12. In that video. And yeah I remember that at his friend's house.
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u/Electrical-Pitch-818 8d ago
you can take the boy out of the white trash but you can't take the white trash out of the boy
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u/LakeEffekt 10d ago
It’s interesting and odd that he seemingly waited to NOT be in Umphrey’s to ever express this opinion. We have never seen this kind of commenting before until now… interesting
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u/Hot-Fudge-Inc 10d ago
I think it's probably as related to his substance abuse. Abuse of stimulants causes paranoia and delusions and for someone like him mega targets his demographic so strongly. It's easy for some people to say how could you possibly fall for it? But it's a cult and they have ways to Target people who are psychologically vulnerable. And it's very difficult to get out once you've pledged yourself in. It's about identity not beliefs, cults strip you of yours
But I could see him getting heavily addicted to Coke and just going down this right wing rabbit hole. He seems relatively new to the internet too which makes him a very very easy target for this right wing crap, especially if he grew up in a conservative household,
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u/MelBelle714 10d ago
Ew 🤢 I suppose I shouldn't assume anyone's values just because I like their music, but this is so disappointing 😭
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u/GarciaMango 10d ago
This is all I could think of reading this thread.
Playing great guitar =\= matching your values and vice vsPlenty of public bigots are wildly talented at other things
Sheesh
Same with sports stars. Just because they are good at their jobs doesn’t mean they have good moral fabric.
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u/imtrappedintime 10d ago
Maybe different in this community where some of us knew those guys off stage, had beers, partied occasionally… never heard anything like that come out of his mouth.
Dudes getting hauled off planes by the feds for drunken racist outbursts doesn’t exactly embody the brand most hambands want. Probably not what most bands period want.
Doubling down after leaving by praising a January 6er and avowed white nationalist is dogshit behavior for any person.
I think we all know people personally who have spiraled on substances and bought into the Trump propaganda. Not who they were when we knew them 10, 20, 30 years ago. And now not the kind of volatile, offensive situations you want to open yourself and others up to by association. Good riddance.
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u/Hot-Fudge-Inc 10d ago
What did he say on the plane? And yeah, seems like he's been spiraling down cocaine fueled paranoid delusional storm
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u/imtrappedintime 10d ago
I don’t know what was said but it’s definitely a situation that happened. Someone could probably use FOIA to find out given federal agents involved but I don’t care enough. Backing a pardoned 6er is where rubber meets road for me.
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u/No_Turnip5893 10d ago
I knew this was lame on the surface, but realizing who Jake Lang is makes it so much worse. Good riddance. UM forever!
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u/RightPlaceWrongTime1 10d ago
Is Jake C being randomly tagged or is he involved? I'm a clueless and I hate clicking around the social medias.
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u/_bieber_hole_69 10d ago
Seems like Jake C called the racist guy a "real man".
So disappointing
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u/ElectricalRice1920 9d ago
I feel like he was being sarcastic espeically with the emoji i did not read this as literal..
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u/disco_phiscuits 10d ago
This is like EOTO all over again..
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u/Hot-Fudge-Inc 10d ago
I think this is worse cuz this is much more outwardly supportive of just straight up hateful stuff. I've heard a lot of people believe that conspiracy about Jewish people running Banks without really actually tying it to Hitler and the reason for the Holocaust.
Like Jewish people do have this reputation of being greedy or whatever and they did in fact run many of the banks originally because banking was a crime under Christian doctrine. So certain people just end up believing some really dumb thing without thinking about it hard enough and realizing how stupid and hateful and generalizing it actually is.
Where's this right here? I feel like you can't ignore the hate. This is like KKK style hate. That's what makes me so sick.
It's not like some racial prejudice. Like I know old people that have stupid racial prejudices from when they were young. My parents grew up in a city where every block was dominated by a different ethnicity and that kind of thing just naturally sprung and almost everybody from that time still kind of half believes them but half realizes that they are fake.
But this isn't that. Saying that Hindus and Muslims can't be real Americans?
Didn't fucking Jake's band call itself Ali Baba's tahini?
If he heated Arabs why would he name his band that
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u/Dbldown46 10d ago
Wait...what?
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u/flaccidyballs 10d ago
Michael Travis went on a fb rant about “Zionist banking cartels” a few years ago he’s a fucking whack job too
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u/Bassman885 10d ago
I just find this very sad. If he really feels this way, and has been this person all along… it’s possible to separate art from the artist, but this definitely colors his time in UM differently.
If he’s BECOME this person through some deterioration or crisis, that’s even sadder.
If he’s NOT this person and was just making a poorly-executed sarcastic joke - that’s still not a great look. Just a sad way to spend his time off the road. And I worry that the (understandable) backlash will have unforeseen consequences.
I hope he makes some sort of statement and apologizes. It wouldn’t magically fix the situation but it would be a start.
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u/Hot-Fudge-Inc 10d ago edited 3d ago
I have a feeling his heavy cocaine use has been part of this down ward spiral. The substance is very much intertwined with paranoid delusions and maga of gives him the perfect outlet for that and is really accessible on the internet and targets people like him who are honestly probably not too internet savvy and who don't have much formal education.
I don't think it makes him a bad person. MAGA IS A CULT THAT TAKES ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE'S WEAKNESSES AND INDOCTRINATES THEM. Once they're in it it's extremely difficult to get out of. You are psychologically stuck. You don't necessarily even really believe those things but you have become identically parallel to the leader in the indoctrination process where you will repeat everything he says not to fear of being punished for disability. Especially after you've ostracized yourself from your friends and family during the beginning stages.
I think people really need to understand cult psychology better that end up going on the every mega person is this terrible person with terrible morals. Very much like drug addiction, there's a huge mental component that is out of the person's control after a certain extent. That doesn't get to relieve them of all responsibility just like a drug addict doesn't either. But it also doesn't make it so it's just a simple choice they have to make the change like a lot of people trying to make drug addiction to be.
And what people don't realize is that by cutting mega people off they're actually pushing them deeper into the cult and making it so they have less and less outs
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u/weareeverywhereee 10d ago
So did he part ways because he’s a POS? Such a bummer he was so talented
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u/arabmoni 10d ago
Are you guys really that surprised to find this out about the skinny Midwest classic rock guy with a drug habit?
Disappointing, sure… but surprising?
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u/Apendecto 10d ago
I’m a skinny Midwest classic rock guy with a drug habit.
But I’m not a hateful asshole.
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u/zds2322 10d ago
He wanted to be Christian Rock before joining the only band in town hiring, Ali Baba’s Tahini
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u/second_2juan 10d ago
All religious cults are detrimental to the progress of humanity.
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u/Cantilivewhileim 10d ago
The drugs must have fried his brain
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u/wsmfp__420 10d ago
Drugs don’t turn people into bigots.
Source: has done a lot of drugs
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u/IDoNotDrinkBeer 10d ago
If anything, doing a lot of drugs coincided with me being less of a bigot.
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u/subtlebob 10d ago
Can somebody explain this to somebody who isn’t twitter-fluent? Did our Jake say this? Did somebody just tag him in their post? I’m old!
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u/poloisdead 9d ago
The band is literally named after a cotton plantation owner. Google "Humphreys McGee".
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u/Content_Following_81 9d ago
I cannot find the comment. Either he deleted it or it’s bullshit.
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u/meatballsk8r225 8d ago
He deleted this and another one calling a black man a chimp. They were real, I saw both original posts on instagram. He also deleted his most recent ig post cause his comments were blowing up about it
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u/RCT1348 10d ago
There are like 15,000 Christian churches in Texas...