No, I’m not hitting the sauce on 4th of July, but I think Kanye West must be.

What is the most reasonable explanation for this?

  1. The people in the alternate universe told Kanye to do this;
  2. Kanye had way too much to drink at the bar-b-cue and fell down the 13th Amendment trapdoor;
  3. Kim wants to be the next Melania;
  4. Somebody lined Kanye’s MAGA hat with mercury and his brain is gone;
  5. Kanye is so effing stupid he thinks life really is a TV show, just like Trump.

Here’s a great SNL clip that addresses this.

UPDATE: 7:55 p.m. PDT

Somebody is loaded or crazy or both today. Or, maybe his BFF Donald Trump phoned him and cried that his fee fees were hurt so Kanye decided he’d play president later, ya spose? What a world we live in. But, on the other hand, you can’t blame Kanye. He’s already seen a completely unqualified, mentally unstable moron get elected, why would he think he couldn’t do the same? Trump is sending a terrific message to America.

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    • Can he do this at this date? What would he be, a write in vote? Or, can he run as a Libertarian or something? I have no clue.

      • You’d need time and resources he likely doesn’t have. Plus, there’s that pesky virus that refuses to disappear…

      • Kanye won’t be the Libertarian nominee. That party nominated Jo Jorgensen on May 23. Her running mate for vice president is Spike Cohen.

      • He’d have to file with the FEC, he’s already missed ballot deadlines in a bunch of states (including Texas), and … how many people would actually vote for him?

        • Are you sure he’s missed the deadlines for the NOVEMBER general election? In Alabama, according to Ballotpedia, the filing deadline for “independent” candidates is August 13 (and a petition with 5000 qualified signatures must be turned in by September 6).

          And, also from Ballotpedia, the deadline has passed in only six states (North Carolina, 3/3; Texas, 5/11; New York, 5/26; Maine, 6/1; New Mexico, 6/25; and Indiana, 6/30). July deadlines are approaching in seven states (Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina, 7/15; Michigan, 7/16; Missouri, 7/27; West Virginia, 7/31; and Colorado, which is a special case–the petition deadline is 7/9 but the fee deadline is 8/5).

          The deadlines for the other states are mostly in August with 4 states having September deadlines (all before Labor Day, though).

          Where required, the deadlines for Democratic and Republican candidacies, however, passed months ago (New Mexico was the last on March 30). In some states, the parties provide the candidates’ names for the ballots.

      • I looked this up because so many white people are having a meltdown over this, believing it’s for real and parsing who it benefits and how it could play out (It will play out by not happening).

        Seven states, including one swing state, North Carolina, are past deadline. Three more swing states — Ohio, Michigan and Florida — are past deadline in the next week to ten days. In Florida he would have to collect well over 100,000 signatures in ten days during there pandemic which makes this so difficult many ballot issues have been abandoned for the year. He would need an extremely experienced and well trained team in place to hit the ground tomorrow to have even a distant shot.

        Three of the remaining eight swing states have deadlines in less than a month. One is in September. Non-swing states literally don’t matter if his goal is to somehow interfere for or against Trump by siphoning some vote.

        But he has no such team ad he’s not running.

  3. He is just trying to draw the black vote away from Biden so his pal Trump can win….no doubt thought up by the evil Trump.

      • Me: “Hold my drink. I gotta run down and vote for Kanye because he’s a music icon. Don’t spill it, I’ll be back in 6 hours”.

      • I believe Einstein once said he thought there were only two things that may be infinite…the universe, and human stupidity. He then stated he wasn’t so sure about the universe.

        • This isn’t a good response to anything. I’m tired of hearing if someone says “You can’t jump off a 50 story building and survive,” someone coming back with “Well, no one thought Trump could get elected.” Kanye isn’t running. He’s trying to get attention.

      • I thought the same thing (siphon off V’s from Biden) but, but, then again, 2016? Would any sane person be stupid enough to vote for Trump? and then…here we are.

  4. Wow…for a moment I thought i was having a flashback hallucination from all the windowpane in 73. I wonder if he was tired from staying up waiting to see if the underpants gnomes were stealing his underwear? Funny thing is I would consider him over orangebob shitpants. Taylor Swft for his running mate!

  5. If this is a joke, it’s a bad one. If it’s a scam, it’s a poor one. If Kanye is serious…well, let’s be the opposite.

  6. Kanye has always been a bit out there in his thinking. Makes for a great artist, but not so much in the political arena. Having Kanye for President would be kind of like having Stephen King hosting Sesame Street. It’s definitely thought through and not just off the cuff. Hopefully, if he actually tries to run, and stays in as a write in, his Millennial followers see through the hype and do the right thing by voting for Joe!

    • We need a constitutional amendment stopping this crap. Nobody should be able to run for president without having held elective office. Some entertainers go into politics and do well. Look at Reagan, Al Franken, Sonny Bono. I have no problem with that. The shit show of Trump and now Kanye West makes me violently ill and colossally angry. I guess the founding fathers didn’t foresee this.

      • Well, at least has shown responsibility in some form or another.To the founding generation (founding fathers or mothers) that meant property ownership but don’t really think that is the gold standard these days. How about just being able to keep up with the the pulse of the nation and showing some knowledge of history and its evolution through the years in US of A? Gotta start somewhere…

      • I expect they figured when you got to 35, you had some sense of responsibility to others. (A lot of people were married with children by 25.)

    • Welp lauran, I can just “see” all the delightful similes we could create. Nice one, Stephen King and Sesame Street. Gotta give this some thought.

  7. EVERY time this asshole’s name comes up I do a quick replay of the highlights of the South Park episode that just ripped Kanye and his massively overdeveloped ego to shreds. A half hour of being the butt of the joke. He’s probably refused to watch it but if he had to do a real life version of A Clockwork Orange and see the whole thing he’d be crushed.

    As for real life and this nonsense yes his ego is that big. He will probably piss off his pal Trump because he believes HE is the greatest person to have ever lived and Trump doesn’t like people horning in on his own claim to that concept! Why would Kanye West do this? Maybe he thinks being President the one thing I’ve said he wants more than anything else – for Beyoncé to dump her hubby and hook up on the Kanye West train. He wants Beyoncé the way Trump wants Ivanka. It’s an obsession.

    I really wish someone would tie Kanye West and LaVar Ball into a giant Kevlar sack and toss them into a pit. Now, don’t go accusing me of advocating violence for suggesting a variation on the two rats in a sack tossed into the river tearing each other to pieces. Neither Kanye or Ball could actually physically hurt the other one. Both are the type who would lean as far BACKWARDS as possible if they dared to throw a punch. The mutual insults might be entertaining to some at least, but I suspect they’d be as lame as both of them are.

    If there’s any good at all that might actually come from this it is that Trump will be furious at Kanye for trying to take over the Presidency. It doesn’t matter that Kanye doesn’t stand a chance, and would wind up with less votes than Pat Paulson. Trump will be pissed and Kanye and Kim will be scratched from any WH access and their calls will be refused.

    • You know, that was the very first thing I thought of when I saw this nutso story early this morning–Trump is going to lose what little mind he has left when he learns of Kanye’s “betrayal.” Because as we all know, fearful leader demands loyalty.

    • I know you’re referring to the “fish sticks” episode, but his other appearance shouldn’t be forgotten. Stan’s girlfriend, Wendy, helped Lisa Burger, a somewhat plain girl on the cheer squad, gain some confidence by Photoshopping her picture and Lisa suddenly becomes the “hottest” girl in school (even though Lisa hadn’t changed a single bit in terms of her physical appearance, all the boys go gaga for her just because of the picture–even when she’s physically in front of them, they only see her based on her picture). What led to the whole thing was Lisa had asked out Butters and Butters rejected her because she wasn’t hot enough and Wendy went ballistic and confronted Butters who explains his “perfect woman” is Kim Kardashian. Wendy explains that, without Photoshop, Kim is actually a hobbit (the episode’s title is “The Hobbit”) which thoroughly upsets Butters who turns her in to Mr Mackie and after the “counseling” session, Wendy tries to show Butters by taking Lisa’s picture and Photoshopping it–even though Butters is watching the entire process, all he pays attention to is the final Photoshopped image.

      At any rate, Kanye shows up, furious at the idea that his fiancée would be called a hobbit and, throughout the rest of the episode, he tries to prove she’s not a hobbit by pointing out that Kim doesn’t live in a home below the ground but, lives with him in an apartment that’s a little below ground and, while he’s explaining it, he gets on the phone with Kim–you never hear her side of the conversation–and tries to clarify that she’s not a hobbit, even though every single one of his “defenses” of her “not-a-hobbit’ seems to prove that she is, indeed, a hobbit. One of the best points comes when Pope Francis is being awarded a Nobel prize and Kanye storms the stage saying that Kim can’t possibly be a hobbit because she doesn’t turn blue in the presence of goblins; Pope Francis points out that it’s not the hobbits that turn blue but rather a special sword.

      • I know the episode you’re talking about. South Park could do plenty of episodes sending up Kanye West but as I recall from an old Doonesbury cartoon when someone made a snide comment about Reagan having been an actor the character B.D. (one of their token ultra conservatives who was unexplicably still pals with his old college buddies) said Reagan would be every bit as great a President as he was an actor. One of the others asks Mike if he wants to do the honors (as in the takedown) and Mike replies “I can’t. It’s too easy a shot!”

        So it is with West. Although I think South Park might want to create a new episode with what he’s handing them on a silver platter.

    • Elon’s board[s] of directors should have canned him, or forced him to go in for a mental evaluation. He’s shown he’s more ego than sense.

    • Oh. My. God. I missed this entire story until about 4 this morning–was busy all day yesterday writing a chapter for my book that somehow had been erased from my cyber-manuscript. And the piece on musical chairs. Catching up on all the news is hell, you know?
      Elon Musk. Crikey. He shouldn’t be allowed to endorse anyone.

  10. This was so crazy and here it is, true. As you say, what in the hell are we coming to? But you gotta admit: the tweets in response to it are terrifically funny.

  11. There’s been some talk of the Republican Party jettisoning Trump as their nominee. The convention has not been held yet. Could they pdump Trump for Kanye? That would be a sight to behold.

    • I can’t see the GOP doing that. They’d be more likely to nominate Romney. (But they’d go with Cornyn or one of the other RWNJs that are Big Names instead.)

  13. Okay, here are my questions: who put Kanye up to this? And who stands to benefit from it? And if the answer seems obvious, I’d suggest it is not. If the bright idea is that Kanye would siphon off black voters from Joe Biden, this will be an epic fail. Folks of color aren’t marching in the streets and endangering their health to vote for a rapper who clearly has mental health issues. And that folks even entertain the notion that they would vote for “one of their own” simply on the basis of color: black folks ain’t either stupid or suicidal. If this had been true, folks of color would have voted overwhelmingly for either Cory Booker or Kamala Harris; they did not. And neither of those two is on meds.

  15. Oh man, this is just the diversion of diversions. See, it got into the news cycles and it gets some heat off of President Tweet.
    Look – SHINY!

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