A lot of competing interests were affected by the oddball scene of a white supremacist and a black rapper descending upon the lair of the titular GOP frontrunner in the next presidential election this past week. Primarily, it was a screw up that Donald Trump and his supporters did not need. Although, that said, many politicians have had their relationship with Nick Fuentes hit the headlines and it hasn’t been a career killer. Ask Marge Greene. Or Paul Gosar.

But it’s also not doing Trump any good to have this level of negative publicity right after he announces his run for office. He’s at a place where he needs to be consolidating his backing and building it, not going through more turmoil and splintering of supporters, not to mention the effect this will have on donors.

Ergo, it is damage control time. Bigly. And who should jump into the fray but Steve Bannon. The latest conspiracy theory on the boards is that the visit of Kanye West and Nick Fuentes is part of a much larger plan to undermine Donald Trump. And that may be the case. I also would put you in mind of Hanlon’s Law, which states, “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

I think Trump has made himself irrelevant. And I love the idea that Trump’s screw up is being blamed on his staff, and that they should be tasked with “interventions.” OMG. And this guy is running to become the leader of the free world? Again? And he needs to be protected from himself?

Here’s more on the immensity of the scheme.

“Who benefits the most?” Well, this scandal might not do Ron DeSantis any harm, maybe he’s the one “who connected all of these people.” I don’t see a giant operation here. What I see is vintage Donald Trump. He had plans to have Kanye come visit him for some time because they were going to discuss Parler and Truth Social. That’s a matter of record.

Meanwhile, Kanye decides he’s going to do another presidential run and that is vintage Kanye West. He’s always saying or doing something that causes people to shake their heads. So the dinner finally happens Thanksgiving week. How Nick Fuentes came to be there has not been revealed but it’s presumed West made the acquaintance of Fuentes when he got bashed for his anti-Semitic remarks and lost a lot of business.

This is just one more stupid Trump blunder in a lifetime of blunders. Bannon and his cohorts may see a plot of James Bondian proportions but that’s because they peddle fables and snake oil for a living.

The bigger takeaway here is that Fuentes has come right out and said that America First should now be helmed by Ron DeSantis and not Donald Trump. That’s the seismic change here, is that MAGA is moving on. I don’t know if the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers are going to come out in support of DeSantis, too, but Fuentes did and that’s a big setback for Trump. And mark my words, the Fuentes endorsement is nothing that DeSantis is going to be crowing about, at least not openly.

 

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  4. Forgotten in all this is why Kanye was there. I’m still trying to wrap my head around Kanye telling Trump he wanted to run for President himself, and discuss the possibility of Trump being his running mate/VP! Or at the very least him being Trump’s #2. If anything, it was probably Trump’s reaction that caused Fuentes to say to himself “this dude is way too fucking nuts to be back in the WH – we need a Trump without the “Trump”. Like DeSantis.”

    Of course, Kanye is so fucking clueless to have even suggested it to Trump in the first place but he does think he’s the world’s greatest gift ever. Funny (literally) but South Park reruns are on Comedy Central every week and I usually catch a few just to laugh cause lord knows we all need some laughter sometimes. As it happens they recently ran the “Fish Sticks” episode and it’s an awesome send-up of Kanye West.

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    • Yeah, the “Fishsticks” episode is classic but Kanye’s appearance in the later episode, “The Hobbit,” is, at least, its equal.

      While the episode is mainly a jab at the way models in ads are frequently Photoshopped to hide any number of perceived flaws, Kanye’s involvement starts after Wendy Testaberger says that without Photoshop, Kim Kardashian has the body of a Hobbit which leads to Wendy’s being accused of being “jelly” (a slang term for jealous). Then Kanye appears at the school to defend Kim against the charge but, in the middle of his vehement defense, he starts to lose focus and has to call Kim (who never actually appears in the episode) to explain–again–exactly what his defense is supposed to be. Every one of Kanye’s defenses ends up being largely ineffective. At one point, he crashes a ceremony in which the Pope is being honored as Time’s “Person of the Year” (obviously a reference to Kanye’s moment at the Grammys when he interrupted Taylor Swift’s accepting a Grammy) and asks the audience “If Kim’s a hobbit, then why doesn’t she turn blue in the presence of goblins?” When no one responds, Kanye’s comeback is that she MUST be a beautiful, sexy woman. Then the Pope steps up and says, “The hobbit doesn’t blue . . . only his sword does.” Kanye responds with an f-bomb and calls the Pope a “hobbit trivia bitch.” He then says the audience would see how beautiful she is if she could be there but she’s busy with an upcoming movie directed by Peter Jackson called “The Hobbit” and then he pauses, calls Kim and asks her, “Your movie’s called the Hobbit?” He then turns back to the audience and says she’s not even in the movie; it’s just based on her TV show, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” which, he proclaims, “is about short loud little people living in a fantasy world.” Again, he calls Kim and tells her “If you are a hobbit, you need to let me know now ’cause I’m making a fool of myself here.”

      And, also in the episode, Kanye performs a rap, “My Gurl Ain’t No Hobbit.”

      Oh. And through the entire episode, he’s basically wearing his “Gay Fish” video wardrobe.

      Frankly, between the two episodes, “The Hobbit” is the better one.

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