Kanye West's new 2018 album

Tweet right before it:

I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo and they didn’t want their name on it so she used mine. I never wanted any association with Blexit. I have nothing to do with it.

— ye (@kanyewest) October 30, 2018

amazing, everyone loses

i think it also had something to do with the right wing violence this weekend because the tweet before that affirmed his support for asylum seekers.

what actually happened was he stabilized mentally. he wasn't himself in the oval office--his thoughts were shockingly disorganized.

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Kanye being himself = acting like a fucking idiot

because that's who he is

cool

he's not the most articulate guy in the world but there's a difference between how he usually is and how he was that day

articulate eh

is "Imma let you finish" how he usually is or nah

yeah

he has trouble expressing himself in the moment and he sometimes makes self-deprecating jokes about it. it's not a crime. and it's also not the same thing as being in the throes of some kind of episode where you make wild connections no one can follow in front of news cameras

maybe he was just inspired by/following the example of our current rectal polyp of a president

i mean, there ins't a parallel there, i'm sorry. kanye's embrace of trump was always super idiosyncratic. he wasn't cynically leveraging racial animus in order to gain political power. he wasn't even attacking others.

he has a lot in common with Trump

obsessed with wealth and status, not particularly bright, overhyped, insecure, out of his depth etc

Trunp is one of the worst human beings on earth, he isn’t “an insecure,” “not too bright” guy who is “out of his depth” and suffers from bipolar disorder.

Kanye has the same flaws many of us do. Trump ix a monster.

what actually happened was he stabilized mentally.

treeship stop

the former is a value judgment, the latter is a set of characteristics - they are not mutually exclusive

xps

I left out that they're also both raging misogynists

he can't wind the clock back. before he could always be "george bush doesn't care about black people" kanye, whatever stupid shit he did, now he's eternally going to be "slavery was a choice" kanye, and no tweet is going to fix that

fwiw I'm not saying they're morally equivalent, just that there's a LOT of commonality there - plenty of subjects where both of them could look at the other and go "hey, that guy's just like ME!"

xp

Kanye is at least self-reflective at times and appears to have a sense of decency, compassion

that's true

Oi mates what is Blexit?

an astro-turfed movement to convince black people to leave the Democratic party

It’s over, man. Kanye’s a liberal. I let him back on 77.

ty xp

godspeed Yexit

Is he still running for President?

"Happy to meet his fans: Kanye poses with a well-wisher"

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/12/12/07/7320574-6484793-image-m-42_1544601371542.jpg

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