It’s funny and sad how quickly stories about Kanye West can turn. A week ago, we were like “yay, thank God Kanye is back on Twitter!” Now we’re like “holy sh-t I forgot how exhausting he is, someone please shut him down again.” As we’ve previously discussed, Kanye seems to be in the midst of some kind of breakdown. Again. Same as 2016. He’s been on Twitter, playing footsie with Deplorables for days, and then on Wednesday, sh-t hit the fan when Kanye went all-in on Donald Trump and even proudly displayed his signed MAGA hat.
You don't have to agree with trump but the mob can't make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don't agree with everything anyone does. That's what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018
If your friend jumps off the bridge you don't have to do the same. Ye being Ye is a fight for you to be you. For people In my life the idea of Trump is pretty much a 50 50 split but I don't tell a Hillary supporter not to support Hillary
I love Hillary too.— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018
And also I'm all the way out the sunken place. And I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of the media. I'm not scared of the past and I'm optimistic about the future. This tweet is in love not fear.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018
my wife just called me and she wanted me to make this clear to everyone. I don't agree with everything Trump does. I don't agree 100% with anyone but myself.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018
we got love pic.twitter.com/Edk0WGscp6
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018
my MAGA hat is signed 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/DrDHJybS8V
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018
All of which made the Deplorables screech, “SEE? The Left hates black people because they’re trying to shut down Kanye West’s free speech, Jesus Walks y’all make Yeezy Great Again” or whatever. To be clear, Kanye has every right to his own political beliefs, his own thoughts, and he’s free to say whatever. Just as everyone else is free to say “Good God, Kanye, I can’t even pretend to care about you at this point.” Donald Trump is quite literally a white supremacist. Trump is literally using ICE to rip apart families and he wants to throw people in jail for the crime of brown and black skin. It’s not okay. This isn’t a case where “both sides have some good.” Trump is a fascist and he’s destroying this country. It’s not about love.
And Kim Kardashian had A LOT to say on Twitter too. I’m not going to embed this sh-t, so here’s the text:
To the media trying to demonize my husband let me just say this… your commentary on Kanye being erratic & his tweets being disturbing is actually scary. So quick to label him as having mental health issues for just being himself when he has always been expressive is not fair. Yesterday it was announced that Kanye had parted ways with some business people and media outlets made this about Kanye’s mental health. Rather than just a simple business decision. So I’m glad he tweeted about the state of his company and all of the exciting things happening
He’s a free thinker, is that not allowed in America? Because some of his ideas differ from yours you have to throw in the mental health card? That’s just not fair. He’s actually out of the sunken place when he’s being himself which is very expressive. Now when he spoke out about Trump… Most people (including myself) have very different feelings & opinions about this. But this is HIS opinion. I believe in people being able to have their own opinions,even if really different from mine. He never said he agrees with his politics.
Kanye will never run in the race of popular opinion and we know that and that’s why I love him and respect him and in a few years when someone else says the same exact thing but they aren’t labeled the way he is and you will all praise them! Kanye is years ahead of his time. Mental Health is no joke and the media needs to stop spitting that out so casually. Bottom line.
[From Kim Kardashian’s Twitter]
Kim, we’re not being “casual,” we truly believe that your husband is having some kind of breakdown and we also believe that there are many medications which might help him be less… manic. Sis, I know you’re worried about your brand and your family, but can you not with this bulls–t?
Anyway, as I said, the Deplorables have been picking up on all of this. Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Don Trump Jr. all tweeted at Kanye and Kim. I can’t.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
I’m sorry but… I’m screaming. Twitter was such an entertaining place yesterday…
Kanye can not be excused again. He is trash or at least his ideas are. And Kim? This is the hill you’re going to die off?
I’m screaming. Hopefully they’ll get what they deserve
Twitter was nuts yesterday. But this tweets wins them all:
https://twitter.com/kellyjoyrf/status/989237687616983040
Lol. That photo of Bigly yelling at the lawn mowing kid has gotten a lot of mileage, it works so well for just about anything Trump does!
The other tweet that killed me was Tomi Lahren’s smugness about the Democrats not having a monopoly on diversity. Because Kanye.
The one with fire coming from trump’s mouth and Kanye as the lawnmower boy is hilarious.
Yup. This is neither a mental health issue nor is it about his mother’s death or Kim K. Kanye is this person. He believes whole heartedly in the myth of white supremacy and it’s reflected from his choice of spouse, to his eurocentric views on art, design and beauty to his inner circle. Unfortunately black people, myself included, have so few heroes that we cling to him and one comment he made 14 (!) years ago. We want to believe so badly that he’s in the sunken place and has no agency, but he’s not and he does. This is Kanye.
2 points of interest though;
1) Why did Kim have another baby with a man who is still in the midst of recovering from opioid addiction? Seems like that would be stressful.
2) It’s funny how Kanye can wear a SIGNED MAGA hat and we’ll try to excuse him while Taylor Swift, who’s never said not one nary word about DJT is accussed of being a supporter.
That’s all I got for today.
1) Because he’s a glorified sperm donor? She wanted three kids with a black man, the other two turned out beautiful, hence the third.
2) I have no idea. The rabid hate for Swift over anything she does or doesn’t do baffles me. To me, she’s just not that interesting and I’m not going to spare any thought on things she hasn’t done, like make any kind of political statement.
I don’t get the Swift venom either. She’s a pop singer, not all that consequential.
I think she’s consequential minx, or at least has influence. She has millions of fans worldwide, and they pay attention to what she says. I don’t think she should be talking politics, ever, but her words will have weight.
Thank you! I’m so sick of the excuses for this man. Guess what, this is not about mental health, in fact it’s insulting to people who have real mental issues. This is who this man is and has always been. Are people forgetting how he has been his entire career? The scary fact is he is like Donald Trump. I know people supported him because he took down Taylor Swift but if you hate everything our pathetic president stands for then how can Kanye get a pass. Also, it’s true Taylor is called a nazi lover and look at the heat Shania got for what she said, but Kanye gets a pass?
And the disgusting “art piece” he did with plaster nude women lying with various sordid men was grotesque. Why he is gets any respect after that assault is beyond me. He and trump both are narcissistic creeps.
Taylor Swift has been doing conservative dog whistling-esque shit for years. Like making public donations and sending flowers to police departments (trying to get those blue lives matter coins) and remaining silent about her neo-nazi fandom. Her people issued a statement about the suitcase thing being a made up story but she couldn’t five minutes from her day to denounce hate groups/racism and say that she embraces fans of all colors/creeds? Then there’s the swastika photo from 2009 she claims she had no idea was next to her. She also friends with disgusting anti-semite Pewdiepie. Oh and her father and best friend are huge Trump supporters.
She’s not harmless. She may or may not have voted for Trump or have racist beliefs herself, but she has those types of people around her willingly and is afraid of not getting money from those type of fans. She’s just smart enough to play things vague.
Taylor tried to warn us guys.
Yeah, we can stop with that. Taylor lied and got caught.
The “dragon energy” thing is so reminiscent of Charlie Sheen’s tiger blood meltdown. It’s the first thing I thought when I saw Kanye’s tweet yesterday.
#winning
Yes, it does remind me of the tiger blood thing. Troubling.
Me too. Exactly where my thoughts went. Tiger Blood. Well, I’m getting the popcorn ready. Again.
Yesterday, Kanye lose 9.2 million followers on Twitter because of the Trump stuff. There’s free speech and then there’s sabotaging yourself, your brand and just being unable to read the room. He’s a mess.
This. 100%. He think whatever he wants, that’s his business. But at the end of the day if your income is dependent on FANS that hang on your every word… well, decisions and their consequences speak for themselves.
That was proven wrong
Kanye wanted Obama`s approval so much. He did not get it from him. So he went to Trump to get his validation. Oh well.
I guess there are more acute problems in the world than this whole mess? Tempest in a teapot, I say.
I agree. I think he is angry that Obama never wanted to hang with him but hung out with JayZ and Beyonce. I think Obama saw him as someone who is self involved and all about himself and didn’t need that energy. There’s enough of that in DC. Meanwhile Jay and Bey were actively doing a lot of charitable work behind the scenes for many years and he probably was able to connect with them on that level.
Side note: the memes coming out of his have been on fire! The one hilarious meme I saw was one of George W. Bush saying Kanye doesn’t like Black people. I’m black and have had issues with Bush and don’t appreciate the rewriting of history to make him into a lovable goof, but I have to admit that made me laugh hard.
Obama called out him and his wife. Don’t think either of them got over that.
This is the crux of all this. Obama. Kanye’s ego got hurt that he dissed him and he feels a kinship with trump over Obamacare grievances and narcissicism that makes him sees trump as a reflection of himself. What some families being ripped apart, really, when there’s dragon energy and swagger to relate to w trump?
Which in a way is really just sad because seeking approval from a narcissist (even if you are one yourself) is chasing a fleeting and arbitrary prize that the giver will yank away from you at any time just to watch your anguish and then make you believe it’s your fault.
I doubt Kanye knows the first thing about Obamacare.
Amen Wren. Just ask Dump’s oldest sons, and Tiffany, about wanting a narcissist’s approval.
@KLO
THIS!
Plus, Kanye and Trump are both narsassicists so they recognize that in each other. But really, it’s because Obama called Kanye a jackass. Which, he is. Go ahead and do you, Kanye. We see you.
That whole birds of a feather stick together thing.. trump & west are both narcissists.. both feel slighted by Obama (againboth for crazy reasons)..
Well, that was after Kanye got drunk and leaped on the stage to declare that Beyoncé deserved the award that a teenager had just received. He did act like a jackass and even Kanye knows it. But Obama also said that Kanye was very talented in the same breath. Didn’t the jackass notice that? The POTUS thought he was a talented guy as well as acting like a jackass. Multitasking.
Kanye is canceled for me. I don’t care how good or “expressive” his new album is. I’m not buying it or downloading it. I hope the deplorables like rap, because the black and brown people are canceling him in droves.
This is not about freedom of speech. It’s about being so privileged that the only thing that matters to you is getting some attention. Regardless of whether other people are being hurt or even killed.
Kanye has a platform. He could use that platform to help underprivileged and underrepresented people. Instead, he chooses to side with someone who has expressly shown how much he hates anyone who isn’t a white man. Yeah, done with Kanye.
Amen!
Exactly.
Agreed. Kanye can say what he wants. Let him keep talking so we can continue to see his willful ignorance and privilege.
Though I did find myself nodding when Laura Ingram said on her show last night that “Kanye should just shut up and rap”.
(of course that last part didn’t/would never happened)
omg yES he is doing a white power symbol!
You said it all.
this. all that crap from KK about “can he not express himself? is this not America?!”
sure he can, Kimmiecakes. and we can, too. isn’t that bigly beautiful?
PS – one of the white dudes in that pic is flashing a white power symbol.
but, but, but…..TMZ is unequivocally denying that is a WPS. No way, no how, uh-uh. The denial is both sad and funny.
The guy is Lyor Cohen, a well known Jewish rap exec. In this case, I would say he’s probably not flashing a white power sign but I could be wrong.
Kim makes the same mistake many people make when they think about censorship. It’s not censorship when other people just disagree with you and express that opinion. Kanye wasn’t dragged off to prison and his house wasn’t bombed or burned to the ground and his children weren’t stolen and his assets weren’t frozen and he didn’t lose his passport and he didn’t lose his life, and he still has no trouble finding a multitude of ways to express his expressiveness to his little heart’s content. He hasn’t been censored. He just isn’t being adored the way he expected.
You’ve encapsulated perfectly my approach to cancelling people. I can handle messy and complicated and I can forgive mistakes and leave room for growth, but people who refuse to see beyond their own privilege and reinforce power structures that cause injury to others, sorry, not sorry, you’re cancelled.
I haven’t liked him for a long time and this is just another example of why. He’s so wrapped up in the idea of his greatness that he doesn’t understand how other people perceive him. He appears desperate for approval from those who he considers great and almost like a dog who is just happy to be included and receive attention and pets. It doesn’t matter who these things come from, as long as they’re one of the “big people”. He’s the token black man, humored because of his wealth and celebrity status, included only because his presence grants a degree of legitimacy to a ridiculous and backwards way of thinking, and he will be summarily tossed out again when that usefulness is over. After all, that’s what always happens when you try to cozy up to people who truly believe that you are less than them. It’s actually really sad.
“It’s about being so privileged that the only thing that matters to you is getting some attention.”
Everything you said, but most especially this! Wow. Thank you for being so eloquent.
“people are being hurt or even killed.”
This is what is most important to me. This isn’t some trivial policy disagreement. There are real LIVES at stake here. Trump is making all of us less safe, but most extremely those who are POC. I don’t care what your stance is on fiscal policy, fiscal priorities seem so petty and frivolous in these times.
And a POC who elevates Trump over Obama? Just no.
Well said! And also, I’m really tired of Trump and his supporters blathering on about “freedom of speech” anytime people call out the ignorant crap they say. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from criticism when you open your mouth and prove you’re an idiot.
Freedom of speech will not protect them for slander and libel lawsuits. Just saying.
Preach!
Hmmm….besides Kanye wearing that hat. Something about that photo is very disturbing. Can’t put my finger on it. Does anyone else notice something is just “off”?
the guy with his arm around kanye, is making the “ok” symbol, a hand gesture the alt right uses.
I was thinking that, but I didn’t want to say it.
Yup! My BF showed it to me last night and explained it’s a white power gesture? I kind of didn’t believe him but…
Yes, it’s the symbol used by Chuck Johnson and other white supremacists. The Anti-defamation League lists it on their website, along with so many other racist hand signs that it will make you sick to look at them. Kanye chooses to stand with these men while one makes that symbol–I’m sure the guy was making the gesture to show other racists that they had power over Kanye.
Yes, I agree. I’m not putt8ng words to it, but I agree.
Clearly the white power symbol. This isn’t debatable. This is the sunken place.
The photo is really disturbing on a number of levels and while Kanye is using his platform deplorably, I can’t help but feel sad for him, too.
Yes and I’m confused because isn’t that guy Jewish? I forgot his name but I think he is. Then again, there are Jewish people who uphold white supremacist beliefs, so nothing surprises me.
Yep. It’s Lyor Cohen. A very well known rap exec.
Add to this Chance the Rapper framing this as a “black people don’t have to be Democrats” argument and I had to log all the way off yesterday. I can’t. They are truly in the sunken place. Also Kanye was tweeting about Obama which gives fuel to the rumors that he’s mad that Obama wanted nothing to do with him or Kim while in office
Obama called him a jackass, which continues to seem warranted haha
Obama also made fun of the Kardashians when they came to the White House press dinner as guests for some kind of publication. I get why Kanye might be salty. Nobody likes to be snubbed or be made fun of.
I see no lies. I expected better from Chance but yea I’m done with him too.
John Legend had one of the best takes on this.
It’s true. Kanye is a total jackass!
Kanye just wants very badly to have access to all of the same privilege that rich white men have.
I found Chance’s comment so incredibly offensive. Like how dare you imply that African-American people don’t realize that they don’t have to be democrats. There are actually many prominent black republicans and during reconstruction there were many as well. The cognitive dissonance that is required to pretend that there aren’t specific reasons why many African American people chose to align themselves with the Democratic Party is mind blowing.
Oh, Chance. Sigh.
This isn’t about Dem V Repub, this is about supporting a racist, straight-up.
I’m not even registered to either party because they both suck (obviously one more than the other) and also because I believe the Dems have to earn my vote every election.
But there’s a middle between being a Democrat and supporting the alt-right chance
Unpopular opinion here but many of the people like Chance weighing in on this don’t really understand the issues. If you understand that the Republican party is a dumpster fire of card carrying white supremacists no self respecting black person can be a ‘conservative’ . If you want to do the grass roots work and create a new conservative party where all are welcome have at it. But don’t tell me that it’s ok to associate with people who if they saw you on the street would shoot you and your kids. This is F@#$!%@! ridiculous.
Obama himself said at the Dem Convention that the Republican convention and nominee didn’t seem to be very conservative. Or very Republican. 2016 was the first time he felt that the Republican candidate was actually not capable of governing, despite political differences.
Something strange is going on with them and it’s not conservativism.
I don’t think we can say that everybody identifying with other things traditionally considered conservative and/or Republican is a white supremacist Nazi. We have to distinguish between disagreements over policies and how to solve problems vs. real toxicity. Change is hard for everybody and many of them wouldn’t feel comfortable with a Democratic label either.
I’m so ticked with the National Republican Party for letting all this happen that I wouldn’t vote for a Republican for dogcatcher at the moment, but that doesn’t mean that individuals can’t be good people despite still clinging to a Party that has betrayed us all. Their politics is local and not necessarily bad. Misguided and unrealistic sometimes in my opinion, but their motivations vary.
It’s not as though the Democrats have always had golden halos and angel wings. The Democrats were just lucky that the worst of them migrated to the Republican Party, welcomed by Dick Nixon, because they couldn’t tolerate the changes that came with the Civil Rights movement that the wiley old Texan LBJ decided to embrace, even though he predicted his actions would lose the South for Dems for generations. The resulting diversity among the Democrats ended up strengthening them, and they are drawing on that strength now. But don’t get too complacent. Their time will come to be tempted.
That was so disappointing. I love Chance but that was just stupid …
Chance really annoyed me. I know you feel indebted to him and don’t want to turn your back on him but that was such a dumb “argument.”
Yep-I was way more disappointed in Chance. I don’t expect anything from Kanye these days-he’s revealed his character more than enough. Chance genuinely seems thoughtful and engaged in social issues and his community-I’m not saying I disagree with “black people don’t have to be Democrats,” but he seems intelligent enough to understand exactly what he played into. Seeing Donald Trump Jr retweeting him made me sick. So disappointing.
The photo of Kanye with a white man with his arm around his neck giving the white power sign is just heart breaking.
I can’t help but think about Trump and his “good people on both sides” comments juxtaposed with images of DeAndre Harris in Charlottesville being beaten by nazis with sticks. People aren’t outraged because black people aren’t supposed to support republicans. People are outraged because of support for THIS republican (Trump) and all of the damage he has done. You’d think Chance and Kanye would hear Trump’s comments on Chicago for what they are.
Chance’s post was so unnecessary. Now of course the alt right is gleefully posting that Kanye and Chance are red pilled and how they love them for going after Obama. I don’t think Kanye is a republican, he’s just Kanye and cares mostly about Kanye. He is not some awoken, red pilled Republican. Chance just had to say Kanye is a friend and a mentor and says whatever is on his mind. He didn’t have to wade in like that.
Kanye posted texts from John Legend and said John is trying to suppress his thought etc etc. How gross of him to post a text John sent PRIVATELY knowing the trolls would go after him and accuse him of trying to sway Kanye.
Oh and my twitter account was locked today for the first time. Which means someone reported me. I posted a few things about Kanye, and some alt right weirdo must have reported them (they were snarky and did not violate the tos- even though Twitter said I violated the rules, I think they do it regardless). Thanks for making Twitter a mess Kanye lol.
What is this “sunken place” they are are both referencing? And how can we send Trump there?
watch the movie get out.
Good to know, I thought it was something they made up to explain Kanye’s darker moods or something. Get Out is on my list, will move it up to the top.
@hnmmom I am going to be generous and say that Trump himself is too, in the sunken place. The sunken place is not only for black people (or americans). I have also been. It was awful XD
Trump is not in the sunken place…he would be one of the people putting you IN the sunken place. It’s literally a metaphor of the system that oppresses people of color
I don’t think you understand the sunken place. Did you even watch Get Out?
I don’t think that word means what you think it means @ KLO. Watch the movie…again if you need to.
Yeah no. Trump is the one putting people there. Watch Get Out again.
To all that say I don`t know what i am talking about – yes, I saw the movie multiple times.
To me, the “sunken place” is the place where people who have been stripped of their self and their self-esteem and self-pride are. Where they feel powerless and vulnerable.
Black people in the USA are not the only oppressed minority in the world.
The whole concept of the movie is very relatable to anyone who has ever felt like that, anyone who has been abused and robbed of their agency and self-esteem.
I think the fact that this movie is so relatable does NOT take away from the american black community, INSTEAD it gives more importance and prominence to the movie as a social commentary about humanity as a whole.
I think not seeing Trump as a human being is a big mistake. He is not some kind of mythical monster. People want to make him that because they are afraid of the side of themselves that they recognize in him.
People (people!) in the US voted for him. He is a human being and we don`t have to be afraid of him, but live our OWN truth and take back our OWN power.
@KLO to humanize monsters is a big mistake.
So you are saying Trump is oppressed and powerless? He’s the most powerful man in the world. He is using that power to hurt vulnerable people.
“He is not some kind of mythical monster. People want to make him that because they are afraid of the side of themselves that they recognize in him.”
This isn’t a rom-com where the leads are sooooo much alike that they fight until they realize they were meant for each other. The Trump opposition most certainly doesn’t recognize themselves in him. People aren’t saying Trump’s actions are horrible because they identify with him and cant handle it. We see the real and serious threat that Trump and his policies pose to other human beings. That is the source of the opposition.
What his voters recognize and identify with is a belief system that is not based on facts, but is based on the myth of white-oppression and persecution. The “monster” classification doesn’t matter. Even human beings are capable of causing incredible harm. Like Assad, one doesn’t have to be an alien to commit atrocities.
Saying people shouldn’t be afraid of Trump is to ignore the incredible power he has, and how destructively he has used it. I am amazed that you would say people shouldn’t be afraid.
honestly this whole thing makes me want to vomit. Kanye is and pretty much always has been sick and he needs help. didn’t he also just admit to being addicted to opioids during his last break down? Why isn’t anyone talking about that? Kim wants to act like he didn’t have a total breakdown like 2 years ago, and that’s really unfortunate for him. I wish people would stop allowing Kanye to express himself because his thoughts are often useless anyway.
It’s because Kim is trying to salvage her brand. Instead of getting her husband some help, she wants to deflect and pretend. I think it’s telling when he says “my wife called” or she says “my husband e-mailed.” Are they never in the same place? Kim is about to find out that her marriage of convenience is becoming very inconvenient for her business.
hmm I for one have never doubted that they do really love each other.
People work. married couples spend apart most of their waking hours all over the world, I do not see anything weird there.
I don’t believe there is any love in this relationship. It’s all for public display. Ain’t nothing more to it. I’d bet money on that.
I think they are rarely together.
I agree with Minx, I think they’re rarely together.
and I do believe that, at one point, they were very much in love. I think Kanye was “in love” with Kim from afar for a LONG time…and I think she was flattered and charmed etc by him (and his status, WAY better than some nobody ball player). I think they both had this idea of what the other was like, and what being with the other was like, and both were surprised that their vision was not reality.
He only got help two years ago because the people surrounding him on his tour took action while she was elsewhere. She seems to be in denial and excuses the problems he has. I have sympathy for their children and I again question why she would bring a new baby into this situation. She put her desire to be “the mother of three” over making rational decisions on dealing with his problem and helping her two older children grow up in what may be a very stressful environment.
Never mind. I reread your comment. lol
That’s what bothered me about Kim K’s clap back. We KNOW he’s been institutionalized BY FORCE before. If she ever leaves him, she won’t have much compassion, cos she kept saying everyone else has a problem not her Kanye. I just hope they get him the right treatment soon. Kim’s been by his side through the years with this… that’s commendable.
Still not that surprised. The Kardashians and the Trumps have a lot in common.
edit: double post
Yes. Shameless thirst for attention, extreme narcissism… the Trumps and the Kardashians wrote the book on this.
So his antics are totally Kim’s fault? A person who clearly has completely different political views and has, in her show, made informative episodes about Planned Parenthood, the homeless situation in LA and gun violence, is to be blamed by her husband’s ignorant opinions?
As much as famewhores they are, I don’t see any of the Kardashians stimulating hate against religions/genders/ethinicities. They are probably more business successful than any Trump member (without using the goverment and state for that) and their tweets aren’t on the verge of breaking a war.
So, everybody is entitled to perceive them as shallow, famewhores and not deserving of their fame, but blaming everything a grown man says on their backs, specifically Kim’s, because “hey, she likes to take nude selfies, so she obviously is guilty for association” seems like something Trump would say.
Yeah I was about to say….I cannot stand Kim but she made it clear that she doesn’t support Trump’s ideology. Just as Kanye has a right to express his support, Kim has a right to point out that Kanye doesn’t speak for her.
I was talking about the shallowness, the fame whoring, the narcissism, the worship of money, the apparent absence of an inner life and the gaudiness. All things the Kardashians and Trumps have in common.
Eh….sure yeah I guess that’s right. But keep in mind that you are describing a lot of people here. You could easily be talking about a real housewife or Paris Hilton, etc or some of the less talented IG models.
I’m not sure the Kardashians share more with the Trumps than they share with the average rich, reality TV family.
Kanye’s antics are Kanye’s antics. Not his wife’s; not his mother’s. Kanye’s. He is NOT a good person. But his wife does enable, excuse, & encourage his bad behavior.
I don’t think Kim likes this. I know that family loves them some attention, good or bad, but this is too much. The freaking president and his kids are getting involved. I think she’d rather have “marriage in trouble” or “will they or won’t they break up” rumors rather than whatever this is. I don’t think Kris or Kim is behind this. This is pure Kanye.
NO. THEY. ARE. NOT. being on a reality show and being the trumps is not the same. the trumps were in the KKK, have been slumlords for 50 years, are in bed with dictators. they are money laundering criminals who rip off contractors and ruin people’s businesses and livelihoods. they take out magazine ads calling for the execution of innocent men. they are all rapist, bigoted, misogynist, opportunistic pigs who make fun of people with disabilities and use their platforms to spread lies that get people killed. the kardashians have a tv show and sell lipgloss.
I agree with you.
the reason the trumps are in the position they are in now, and have the dangerous political connections they do now, is not because of their business, since donald was able to mismanage that to hell and back, it’s because of celebrity. they’re selling THEMSELVES. fred trump was in real estate, his son was in self-promotion and hiding behind the guise of being a property mogul. big difference. donald and his children are cut from the same cloth as the kardashians whether you accept it or not. they’re friends with the same exact vile media players that allow both families to thrive, and it shouldn’t have to take you the kardashians eventually being elected to public office for you to consider that maybe, just maybe, they pose significantly more damage to society than just having a “tv show” and selling “lipgloss.” critical thinking is a gift. ten years ago, you could’ve just said trump was nothing dangerous, just a celebrity with a “tv show” and selling shitty steaks and vodka – look where that ended up. self-generated celebrity with no talent behind it and a drive to achieve fame no matter the cost is dangerous for everybody.
ASHLEESIMPSONSNOSE – I’ll embrace critical thinking when you get a grip.
Oh well. I must say I like Kim’s message. Whatever, let’s hope for good music with no trump in it.
Yeah it was on point, no matter the circumstances.
I doubt she wrote it herself.
Yeah, I mean she said Kanye was ahead of his time and a genius basically. Plus her tweets all sound immature. She interjects “like” and “oh my god” into many of them. But anything to defend them I guess.
He’s an a**hole
well he is not making any friends among his fellow black artists. I read that Rihanna and Arian Grande unfollowed him?
Janelle Monae was very outspoken in a radio interview, as were John Legend and Ice T and Samuel Jackson on Twitter.
Snoop also posted his concerns on IG.
In that picture of Kanye and the two other dudes one of them is LITERAALY flashing the hand signal for WHITE POWER under Ye’s chin and we are supposed to believe this is about love? He’s so cancelled by this long time fan.
Good to know that the POTUS has time to tweet praising Kanye effing West but NOTHING, not a tweet or mention of James Shaw Jr. who heroically took the Ak-15 out of the hands of a murderer at the Waffle House and saved lives… then he opened a gofundme for the victims/victims familes!!!
That man is a hero.
I want to punch something!!!!
It is so infuriating. Princess Nagini had to jump in too. She also has been silent over the Waffle House killings and the heroism of James Shaw Jr.
I love how Twitter just trolls the eff out of him about the Waffle House murders and James Shaw Jr. He is so f*cking vile and James is basically a saint.
when I read about how Shaw said he was “counting his daughter’s eyelashes” when he saw her for the first time after the shooting, because he had thought he’d never see her again…I just cried. what a good person that guy is.
F*CK 45 and his whole horrible family. (except Barron, the only innocent in all of this.)
Yes, yes, yes.
Ok, Kim, back to cleaning up after her husband. Does she care more about her husband or her own bottom line? I’m sure more nude pics are coming to distract everyone from her husband’s erratic behavior.
I just can’t with other black people supporting this man. And him criticizing Obama?? Seriously I have never heard him doing anything to lend his hand or voice to issues going on in his hometown, so he can have a seat.
Haha – she has a perfume coming out with a bottle shaped like her nude body. She’s mad that he’s distracting from that.
The DM has a picture of the perfume bottle.
President Obama’s organization Brother’s Keeper has done way more for Chicago than Kanye ever has and Chance (remember that one million wasn’t all Chance’s money-it was in partnership with some business).
I read Trump ended that on his first day. Not sure of the validity, does anyone know? But apparently Kanye says he and Chance will be building homes in Chicago. Sure Kanye.
Can we all stop with the mental illness excuses, please? We don’t know if Kanye is sick and even if he is, having a mental illness doesn’t make you an stupid ignorant idiotic person. Kanye is stupid, his tweets are stupid, this whole thing is his stupidness, his refuse to read books and educate himself, his need to be “revolutionary” and contraditory. Blaming it all on mental illness just makes people with real issues sound unreliable. Stop the prejudice.
Him and his mamma were very close. Personally, I have come to believe that his erratic behavior started becoming known after she passed away. I think he clearing needs some kind of counselor to try and resolve this issue.
Well then, maybe his mom was acting as his counselor and talking him off these ledges and maybe helping him stay on his medication. Yes, people with mental illnesses (or drug dependence) can be jerks, but the rambling that accompanies Kanye’s jerkiness seems to be a sign of mental illness.
My Dad and I were very close and I watched him slowly lose his battle with cancer. I didn’t turn into someone who turned my back on my people because I lost someone.
Let’s stop making excuses for Kanye and treat him like we treat other racist-loving a-holes. With utter contempt and disgust.
Tania – when someone with severe problems that is being stabilized by one person suddenly loses that person – it isn’t as simple as just regular loss of someone you love.
I saw this in someone I knew personally. I don’t know what professional diagnosis she would have had, but I described her behavior in our interactions to someone with some experience in such things and was told that it most likely was borderline personality disorder as at least part of it. Not sure about that, though, since usually people with that syndrome (unlike narcissists) know they have a problem and seek help, but this person didn’t. Her pattern of disordered thinking and intense pursuit of unwanted romantic relationships with coworkers and inappropriate feelings of personal rejection led to her losing/resigning one job after another after about a year at most, even though she was quite competent in her work. That pattern stopped only when she was living with a man who was actually trained as a counselor, and she stayed in the same job for ten years. She complained about him “practicing counseling” on her, but that was the only thing that stabilized her. When he died, she went back to her old destructive pattern at an accelerated pace. She would never seek therapeutic help because she always thought the problem was with everybody else, not her.
Kanye’s mother may have fulfilled that role with him. She stabilized him, then she died and it was like suddenly being off the meds that allow you to live a reasonably normal life. People sometimes accuse his mom of being the one who instilled this idea that he was the Second Coming, but maybe we’re putting the cart before the horse with that idea. Maybe he showed problems as a child that she attempted to fix by building up his confidence, and his disorders pushed him to respond with such grandiose thinking at some point.
Agreed, I think it’s time to admit he’s just an asshole.
Thank you.
I am tired of the excuses for him. I am a fan of his music, but at this point he’s trolling. If he has a mental illness, I hope he is able to manage it and get any help he needs. That doesn’t mean he’s not an attention loving jerk.
Having seen what mental illness does to one’s thought processes and decisions, this whole thing makes my skin crawl. Are there black Republicans? Of course. I mean it confuses me because the power structure that I see the GOP would sooner see black people sort of poof into the ether, especially now with newer, stronger fascist power, but I get that many African Americans are very conservative. But this isn’t Kanye. Kanye doesn’t appear to be in his right mind and frankly I wish and his money would fade into obscurity if that’s what it takes to get him real treatment.
Not that I am totally shocked that Kim defended him, but now I REALLY believe one of the next moves we see from the Klan is an invitation to the WH and suddenly the whole family conveniently forgetting they supported (however weakly) HRC, followed by a defense that it would have been rude to not accept and that they’re just trying to give everyone a chance, okay?
PMK sees possible dollar signs and she doesn’t care if the demographic is racist AF as long as they watch the show and put money in her pocket.
it was vomit inducing to read about his 45 asslicking. It was even worse to see the tweets from the rest of the crime family about how excited they were to add another flunky to their voting base.
One of the worst parts about this is the fact that Trump’s family approved and retweeted. He not only praised that family, he gave them ammo.
I don’t agree with him about trump, but Kanye ‘s tweets on this sound eminently sane. He doesn’t deny trumps blatant and highly active racism; he says he admires him anyway. I don’t agree with that either; but it’s troublesome i feel the need to reassure and establish my bonafides.
I suspect his affection for trump is because he’s a born contrarian like Kanye who knows how to get free publicity. All the sound and fury over this 100% works to his advantage. Smart.
Agreed 100%
I actually think it’s incredibly limiting to perpetuate the idea that the only way Kanye could be into Trump is for him to have a mental illness.
Of course to us Trump’s obvious shortcomings are incredibly obvious – Kanye is just choosing to focus on the aspects of Trump’s machine he is interested in. Kanye in all his grandiosity truly believes he has something of value to contribute in politics. Obama wouldn’t give him the time of day but a guy like Trump who suffers from the exact same narcissism naturally has time for him.
Trump is giving Kanye the legitimacy he craves. He could care less about our collective outrage because it’s not our approval he is looking for.
This. It’s one narcissist who appreciates the other narcissist.
Yeah I think you nailed it.
True, and you could add that both Trump and Kanye are known to abuse drugs.
And both are misogynists
I’m not giving Kanye a pass in supporting a fascist just because they’re both contrarian. Isn’t that hugely much a diminished expectation, not to expect a degree of responsibility from a celeb? Taylor gets dragged for her not silencing Trumpster fans and Kanye doesn’t for actively supporting Trump?
Taylor Swift must be loving this!!!
Kanye has always been a narcissistic prick just like his hero Trump. I feel bad for Kanyes kids
anyone who decided this was the moment they were “done” with kanye west is showing their ass. what about when he stopped by trump tower post-election? or when he called bill cosby “innocent” on twitter two years ago? people have made so many excuses for this guy (or they just have an incredibly selective memory), it makes no sense to me. he’s been irredeemable for years yet people keep acting surprised when he continues to reveal the self-obsessed piece of shit he is. he’s genuinely awful, and has been for the longest time, and i haven’t trusted anyone who’s defended him the past several years. and as for the kardashians, it’s really mind-boggling that people actually expect a family that’s famous for the same exact reason as the trumps and has maintained their fame the same exact way to be ANY different than the trumps. not only are they cut from the same cloth, but they’re friends with the same people behind the scenes. people have kept insisting they’re “harmless” for years, just because they’re not in the white house, which is beyond idiotic. after all, the trumps were in the same exact position as the kardashians only a few years ago – tanking brand, failing reality show, sliding into irrelevance. what makes you think that if the money and opportunity came the kardashians way to do what the trumps have done, they wouldn’t have gone for it? people really are so incredibly gullible and naive. as if kim – or any of them for that matter – gives a shit about racism, homophobia, or just about anything. she spent years cozying up to paris hilton, who’s on tape using every racial and homophobic epithet known to man, and only distanced herself from paris once she had an opportunity to be famous on her own, not because of some moral epiphany. all of these people are truly horrific and a stain on humanity.
I have never understood why people give him a pass over and over and over again. He is incredibly misogynistic, always has been, but people just ignore that. And I’m also really tired of seeing people excusing any of this because his mother died 10 years ago. That’s putting blame on her. The blame is all his own. And no, a parent’s death does not excuse this behavior.
Bravo! And your point about the Kardashians is chilling.
YES @ashleesimpson! I drew the parallel between the Kardashians and Trumps long ago… the shamelessness, the narcissism, the PR strategy (family as a brand). They’re very similar, they’re extremely harmful; they need to be resigned to the dustbin of history.
The Trumps are the East Coast Kardashians.
Agree!
I cancelled him long ago after he pulled the wheelchair stunt at a concert a few years ago. Don’t feel like explaining it as I already have but he singled out a disabled fan of his in a wheelchair.
@ashlee, nailed it. I never understood the excuses made for him either no matter great his music is. He makes music, he’s not curing cancer. Nobody needs him.
This tbh,he also put a naked Rihanna with her abuser on the Famous video, he slut shamed her ex over and over, and even went after her son with Wiz… He is trash and I’ll never understand his apologists.
I’ve been done with him for a while. The music doesn’t make up for this mess. He’s a troll and contrarian. I honestly don’t think he’s lost anyone from this. The same people who defended him are still defending him. Shrug.
It does seem like some of his famous cohorts ARE calling him out, though. That is what will get to him more than anything. He loved being fawned over by famous and influential people.
We should have known when he tried to ‘reclaim’ the confederate flag back 2013. I’m sad, I refuse to believe this is nothing other than a mental break down, I mean, his body of work before TLOP had always been socially annd racially conscious, even communist sometimes. Well, guess we’re gonna have to wait and see how far he goes.
If he needs help, he won’t get it as long as there’s money to be made.
You know, had you told me five years ago that Kim K would be the Kanye’s impulse control, I’m not quite sure I would have believed humanity would make it to the year 2018.
In all seriousness, I think he has legitimate mental health problems centering around internalized racism and narcissism, and whatever help he needs, he’s not getting.
You know, I’m beginning to smell notes of Kris-da-momager all over this media blitz.
Kanye has something to sell.
Kanye needs attention in order to sell his product.
Kanye is getting attention.
Kanye’s product will sell.
This is exactly what I’ve been thinking. This whole thing is a very “Kris Jenner” type of media onslaught. Any attention is good attention to these people. PMK did just be some his manager.
Is Kim aware that Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a form of mental illness? I mean, I think there’s more going on but let’s just start with that.
Kanye has shown he was all about Kanye for years. He has always been self absorbed so I’m not even surprised. Maybe he has mental health issues? Maybe not? But let’s stop acting this dude wasn’t a douchebag even before his mom died. The thing about Kanye is that he had the right people around him for a very long time to temper him and people made excuses for his actions calling him a genius. It always angered me how easy that label was attached to him as a means of dismissing his behavior. As a black woman, i always got a sense that he devalued us in some way. He didn’t really give a damn. And this is before Kim.
Kanye has always been about Kanye. Meanwhile the dude in the picture is clearly holding up a white power sign. Many people say it’s for publicity but I don’t know how this helps him because the black community were cancelling him right and left yesterday (save for the few who always makes excuses).
I don’t think the alleged “white power sign” is enough to condemn anybody without other clear evidence simply because it’s also a benign gesture that has been used ever since I can remember (and I’m old as dirt by now). Maybe it’s meaningful to members of a white power group as a secret symbol that only they know about, although I doubt that they use it front and center in a photograph this way.
It’s quite possible the person making it had no idea about the recent meaning people are attaching to it. I find that new meaning puzzling myself and the vast majority of people don’t think of it that way either. I really don’t think “white supremacy” when I see it.
Now if somebody does a stiff Hitler type salute, yells “Sieg heil!”, puts on a swastika armband, and starts goose stepping around the room – that screams Nazi to my generation. But that OK sign with the fingers just means “OK, we agree, you’re on the right track, go ahead, keep doing what you’re doing” to us and generations of people younger than us, and we ourselves have likely used it at some time to silently indicate agreement.
When your life starts resembling Uncle Ruckus from The Boondocks, you need to consider your life choices.
Or that of Clayton Bigsby
OMG I forgot about Clayton.
The only take that matters in this whole drama is John Legend’s.
Yup.
Agree. I really think Legend is the true definition of friend to West. I know he has never bad mouth Ye in public, but I can imagine behind the scenes he has told him some things.
For Legend to take it to Twitter, you know this is bad. I can see John just wash his hands of this.
Not sure if you saw, posted about it above, but Kanye posted a private text to him from John. Basically saying John was using textbook tactics about his legacy and fans to manipulate Kanye.
He tweeting a message John Legend, a famous known celebrity, sent him privately. He knew that would cause more people to go against John. That in it of itself is awful.
I just did Shark.
I want to be friends with John Legend now.
That photo is so embarrassing and cringe-y. The Alt Right and Deplorables are using Kanye’s blackness as a prop to legitimize their racist platform and troll the Left (bonus!).
“Hey look, even black people like our shit! How can you call us racist when Kanye supports us?!?!”
It’s sad to watch, honestly.
It’s so infuriating.
I haven’t seen it for Kanye in a long time, but the most hilarious(pathetic) thing about this is that the same people who were calling him some form of n****r and his wife a hoe, just a few short years ago, are the same people proping him up now. The fact that he doesn’t even care about the hypocrisy shows how far gone he is.
Yup. All this BS about “loving everyone”. ORLY, Ye? Even the Nazis???
Waiting for the K-clan take on that white power symbol. I dare them to ignore it, although now that I think of it, TMZ is pissing themselves trying to explain that it wasn’t a WPS.
I’m Hispanic and in Mexico the figure Malinche helped the Spanish colonizer/oppressors conquer her own people. I think the black equivalent is Uncle Tom? I really don’t understand the level of self-loathing that people who do that have. This is Kanye “Bush doesn’t care about Black people” West, and while Bush was very problematic, race was never the problem there. Kim is in denial and NO part of me believes that SHE believes that he is fine and it’s just “Ye being Ye”. If she has such an influence over him that she can call him and tell him “make sure you add that you don’t agree with everything he says” and he’ll do it then she could possibly influence him to stop and seek help. And if this is about preserving her brand girl who gives an eff he’s ruining it anyway.
Tess, this is very interesting, thanks for brininge Malinche up. Wiki states this: “Feminist interventions into the figure of Malinche began in 1960s. The work of Rosario Castellanos was particularly significant.[24] Her subsequent poem La Mallinche recast her not as a traitor but as a victim.[25] Mexican feminists defended Malinche as a woman caught between cultures, forced to make complex decisions, who ultimately served as a mother of a new race.[26]”
I would guess in the current decidedly postcolonial global discourse the complexity of this character would be acknowledged, but she would still be cast as more negative than positive (which I would agree with, but am obviously not the authority), and there is arguably an aspect of accountability that may be lacking in the former interpretations by feminists. If you do find the time, @Tess, I’d be interested to hear more of your opinion on this.
Mexican historian here 🙋🏻♀️ The thing with Malinche is that official History always portrayed her as a traitor and was put a lot of blame on her, but it isn’t quite like that.
Mexico wasn’t a nation, but several and very different cultures and there was hardly a sense of unity, if anything there were some allegiances for political reasons. Malinche was the princess of a tribe (rival to the Aztecs), that was gifted to the Spanish. Most of tribes were opressed by the Aztec empire, so it made sense for them to support the Spanish. Its also very vaguely mentioned, how once the conquest took place, not all natives were treated the same way, tribes like the Tlaxcaltecas got some privileges, specially during the first decades (things got uglier with the Borbonic laws, but that’s a whole other story).
That’s why Mexican feminists of the 60’s tried to redeem Malinche’s importance in the conquest without all the blaming factor.
This is very interesting. Thanks for bringing this up and explaining, Tess and Saks.
Very interesting comments!
Thank you very much, @Saks, for getting back to me. Very interesting, indeed.
Kim Kardashian has done very positive work to support public awareness of the Armenian genocide. Someone needs to help her connect the dots. Kanye is playing with real fire. He is emboldening pure evil. This has gone way past some “red vs. blue” debate between rich celebrities on a reality show. White supremacists have allied with Nazis and Putin, and they are on the march in our country. Wake up, Kim!
I was just telling my husband that I wouldn’t be surprised if her “logic” is telling her to be “nice” about this Trump thing with Kanye because there were rumors about Trump possibly officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide. I said if that’s the case man…smh…
When I was at the lowest with depression, an acute mental illness, I managed not become a raving, ignorant idiot. THIS IS THE REAL KANYE. He can be a bit unbalanced, but this is him. Period.
Meh….he’s doing it because he’s a narcissist first and a business man second. He’s getting a ton of press and you know he doesn’t care if it’s good press or bad press. In his crazy mind Trump supporters will buy his new music. He has probably seen what has happened to Eminem’s fanbase and wants to combat that. What he doesn’t realize is he’s alienating his real fan base.
Kim is pissing me off though. First denying his mental state and then blasting people for disagreeing with Kanye. Just because Kanye has a right to say his opinion doesn’t mean that no one can criticize him or disagree with him. God those two deserve each other!
I agree with this assessment. I think he loves to stir things up. Oh and the alt right bloggers and “journalists” are now saying the “leftist” “main stream media” is calling Kanye crazy because he came out in support of Trump and in turn calling all black Republicans crazy. Except that the media has been calling Kanye crazy or questioning whether he is mentally ill for like 13 years now and Kanye isn’t a Republican. He’s a Kanyeian, or a Kanyecrat if you will.
This is not going to end well. I see another hospitalization in Kanye’s future. He always goes off the rails when he’s working on an album because he has so much “genius” and is so “creative.” I doubt Kim will encourage him to seek help, she seems to be in as much denial about her husband’s issues as he is or is trying to pass it off as “Kanye being Kanye.” Nice try Kim.
As I pointed out above, when he got help the last time, it was because the people working with him, not his wife, took action. He just fired those people.
WTF it that the Orange Turd’s signature? look’s like a heart beat! Maybe that’s the part of the problem, the Kardashian’s coven didn’t recognize that he needs help. They just leave Kanye to his owned bubble world full of delusion. Just like KK’s tweet referring to Kanye as “Free Thinkers” no girl, he is on manic stage and when he explode he will take the whole coven with him.
It looks straight up psychotic, doesn’t it? It always gives me chills, and not in a good way.
2 egomaniacs end up being 2 peas in the same shady self absorbed pod? Why is anyone shocked?
I feel for him, since his mom passed he’s not had the support he needs. His song I love Kanye, says it all. He’s talented and has a huge influence, I think he sees himself as a revolutionary challenging the status quo, similar to trump whose an anarchist. Twice it autocorrected to anti Christ, yes trump is that too.
Eh, he was a mess when his mother was alive too. She seemed to be a lovely woman, but she fed his ego like crazy. She wasn’t a stabilising figure in his life, she was the one telling him he was the second coming.
I think that’s unfair to say, I don’t think she fed into his ego. She was a remarkable woman who raised Kanye to believe in himself and follow his path. To reduce her to an enabler is insulting. Kanye has made his mark and some of his music has some real intelligence behind it. I think genius is applied too liberally nowadays but he was a game changer.
He needs help to deal with his mental health issues.
@Jussie yes I agree. I have had the same suspicions for a loooooooong time.
I suspect his mom was giving him normal confidence boosts and it was transmogrified to “I’m the Second Coming” via Kanye’s underlying disorders. I can’t imagine her being responsible for his distaste for reading, for example. She was a college professor! We can’t blame our parents for everything.
She probably was indeed stabilizing him simply because he would actually listen to her without assuming she was out to get him.
He’s had problems getting anything in his life that has the same stabilizing effect because he doesn’t think he needs it. Kim can’t do it even if she were aware and informed enough to realize what was going on. She had to be in the other side of the continent before his friends could get him into psychiatric care – if she had been there, my guess is that she would have blocked it. Kim also thinks he’s such a genius that she tends to believe his take on everything and mistakes mania for a creative phase. She pushes back a bit only when her own family counteracts some of his excesses strongly enough. Mama Ten Percent is smart enough to know that being identified as a Trumpy is not good for the brand. She might even hesitate at a White House invite at this point, Mama Ten Percent knows that solid Trump supporters are not likely their market and Trump’s criminal activities are likely to bring him down soon.
Kid Cudi has to be livid right now.
I was looking forward to the album (I would have tolerated Ye on it). Oh well, you lay down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
Yup! He has to be pissed because a lot of people were waiting to hear from Kid Kudi. And now Kanye does this?! He’s hurting a lot of peoole’s brands. When I heard he was working with all these artists I knew it wasn’t going to end well. Kanye is a narcissist and can be self destructive. My husband even said that this could be an amazing collaboration and Kanye getting his life together or an implosion taking down others. I think we are seeing the latter.
I’ve been furiously checking Cudi’s Twitter since the shit hit the fan yesterday and…nothing. This is probably good promo for their new album, sadly.
Oh, and I’m not avoiding his collabo with Cudi for anything. Sorrynotsorry but I can’t punish My Cudi for Ye’s nonsense.
Same! I was like “i’ll tolerate a bit of kanye if that means I have new Cudi music” but oh man, this is getting more and more difficult…
Ya know. Why does Kanye want to ruin everything?
This situation confirms that we’re in The Bad Place.
What the fork man !
Yet Kanye didn’t even vote !
Also, I’m sorry but this still seems like the same old pr stunt he always does right before he has an album or new Yeezy line to promote.
He doesn’t have to vote, he’s a genius remember? Voting is for regular folk.
Kanye must be loving all the attention he’s getting during his latest meltdown.
and Kim…and Kris…
I was never a fan, but this certainly doesn’t help. My God.
So…anybody who disagrees with Kanye must be doing so because they are liberal? and left wing? This is the main argument circulating on social media and I don’t understand it. Is it left wing to expect that an opinion is backed by solid logic? It feels lazy to me when someone cries about freedom instead of strengthening their own argument.
They are simply trying to distract from the actual point here. And seems as if they are projecting a bit.
Their other argument is that people are only calling him crazy or questioning his mental health because he supports Trump and Candace Owens. Nah man, people have been saying that for years.
That kind of argument, if it’s not just completely dishonest, has to come from people who never followed Kanye. People have been calling Kanye “Krayzye” for years. It has nothing to do with trump and people saying that it’s about the left or right are just being lazy and ignorant.
These two RAGING with anger and enormous egos narcissistic morons like each other.
I’m completely shocked!!!
Kanye and anybody else are welcome to their opinion and I’m allowed to not like it and I can criticize it.
That is also called “freedom of speech”.
And Kanye is the one who labelled W racist, interesting.
Maybe Kim should stop defending him on social media and get him some help, being this erratic can’t be very good for his health.
Kanye said himself he’s “a proud non-reader of books” so he’ll fit right in with the Deplorables.
And what’s lost in all this is that there are many black (economic/cultural) conservatives that consistently vote democratic simply because there are so many toxic racial structural issues w/ the Republican Party that one would have to overlook to even start talking about the issues.
It’s hard to even get to the issues when a party is trying to keep you from voting while welcoming in white supremacists with a gusto.
And now this MFer is posting private texts from John Legend. I usually skip the BET awards (cable provider didn’t have it for years.), but his ass is going to get roasted alive and I’m going to enjoy every second of it.
Here`s a thought:
Thanks to Kanye`s tweets I remembered an idea I had a while ago – “I hate Trump” is the new “I voted for Obama”.
If you have seen the movie Get Out you will know what I am referencing here.
But this time it is not only USA (as with the Obama quote) but now it is the whole world (“i hate Trump”).
Feel free to disagree.
You should see all of the deplorables on Kanye’s twitter feed talking about how empathetic Trump is and defending Kanye.
It just sickens me that he is trying to legitimize such a deplorable, hateful president that we are stuck with.
Sorry Kimmy his tweets makes him sound unwell. I don’t know if he’s trolling the crazy people so he can boost his album sales or not however, whatever. He’s cancelled to me.
I’ve closed the book on Kanye. He’s no one to listen to or enjoy as his toxicity as permeated his “art”. Do I believe that he has a mental illness? Absolutely. But that is not enough to negate the harm that he’s causing. My feelings are stronger than just cancelling him. He’s put in a corner never to be acknowledged again. I’m through, I’m out.
Nice self-promotion to create buzz for 2 upcoming albums.
Kanye is a very out of touch man. Out of touch with regular people, with the common human experience. Pampered, privileged, isolated. He’s not mixing with his community. One can only speculate about his mental health. There seem to be signs of some kind of delusion. If he’s troubled, that’s sad and he needs to get help. But aligning with Trump is not really surprising. When has Kanye really displayed empathy? There’s been the outburst, the sporadic cries of “injustice”… but we haven’t really seen much compassion from this person. Maybe a long long time ago, when he was in the beginning of his career, before the fame. But not for many years now.
Like Trump, he sees himself perpetually under attack, misunderstood, the entire world is out to get him. So Trump is some kind of kindred spirit to him. Because Kanye has truly fallen out of touch with the experiences of regular folks and the challenges they face, the injustice of Trump’s policies doesn’t register with him. He is viewing this from a distorted place. He is used to feeling entitled, used to being indulged by everyone around him, used to having his desires met, he’s a classic egomaniac and so it’s unsurprising that he relates to another classic egomaniac.
The problem with these latest Kanye rants is because he’s part of pop culture and to many still a respected musician, he is contributing to normalizing the Trump administration. Which is irresponsible and horrendous. And now, his rants are being adopted by the Trumps as some sort of seal of approval to broadcast to the rest of the world. “See, Kanye is cool and hip, and he loves us!” He has little grasp on the consequences of his actions. My only hope is that after this latest rant, he will lose credibility as a musician and a fashion player. Ones he becomes culturally irrelevant, his endorsement of Trump won’t carry as much weight. So yeah, please don’t buy his next album or his effin sneakers!
Yup. Officially over Kanye now, mental health issues or not.
I just can’t with the so called president of one of the most powerful countries in the world acting like some teen, spending his days on twitter and watching and calling in TV. I found that hilarious that during his rant to Fox, even Fox people were like: err, don’t you have more important things to do?
As for Kim, she shows not how tolerant but how ignorant she is by envoking that argument: everyone has the right to an oppinion. She is rising biracial kids and she basicaly says that it’s ok to endorse a racist shit because it is just an oppinion?
I bet Kim’s freaking out, Trump even quoted her lmao.