Kanye West announces he's running for president

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  1. Andrew Jackson

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    Really? You don't say.

    I hadn't heard:

    http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/kanye-west-is-running-for-president.574969/

    And, Kanye's "Campaign" will be bankrolled by Trump's Money Machine, in the hopes that Kanye siphons off enough Black Votes (from Biden) to facilitate Trump's Re-Election.

    Here is an in-depth list:

    This link contains a Table for the Requirements (and Deadline) for Independent Presidential Candidate Ballot Access (in each state).

    https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_acces...ial_candidates

    There is still more than enough time to get on enough state ballots, if his "backers" are willing to spend millions bankrolling petition drives.
     
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    He can campaign as a write-in candidate. That would actually make it pretty cheap. He is a celebrity, he doesn’t need to pay mass media for articles about him - every tweet and status update gets on the news anyways.
     
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    It will be interesting.
     
  4. Andrew Jackson

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    True.

    If people want to throw their votes away, there is nothing to stop them.
     
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    Every election is a 2 front fight - to get your candidate the most votes and to get main opponents candidates voters to vote 3rd party.
    Kanye might be doing this to help trump to get democrats to descend into racial insults like “Uncle Tom” (which is no different than “White Privilege”), which he can keep going till end of October and then endorse Trump. I think that’s why Trump didn’t produce a single peep about it on Twitter or Facebook. Kanye can seriously split black voters.
     
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    Then Kanye can get Kim to run with him on the 2 Big Asses ticket....
     
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    Oh yeah... Kanye will certainly split the black vote

    "When you hear about slavery for 400 years ... for 400 years? That sounds like a choice,"

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43970903

    1/2 think he's deranged
    1/2 think he's insane

    A clear split....
     
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    Can one actually get on the ballot in 50 states this late in the game? Methinks this is going nowhere.

    I agree with this blogger:
    https://leantossup.ca/kanye-wont-hurt-biden/

     
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    I remember seeing one episode when they went to Cuba (out of curiosity of peeking inside Cuba).
    So, I think they lined up to push a stalled car, or something, and when their behinds lined up I couldn’t help but think how can such giant oversized butts be considered hot? They look borderline deformed!
     
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    From the OP.. No...

    SNIP
    Bad news for voters in Indiana, Maine, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina and Texas -- the deadline has already passed to file and you won't get a chance to vote for West. (Unless you want to write him in.)
    ENDSNIP

    Still 44 available (or 51, if we believe Barack) and DC, but I assume he better get jumping....
     
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    Kanye, alone, is a pretty average suburban-type conservative - more on moderate side. I am actually supportive of his views. I think there are many black moderates, and Kanye can struck a good tone with them.
    My personal experience - as a Ukrainian immigrant I tend to be treated like a minority by people who hear my accent, but when progressives start hearing my more conservative opinions I immediately become a whitey who enjoys white privilege and my ethnicity gets attacked. This kind of about face always leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
    Kanye can show Democratic Patys racism by subjecting self to progressive attacks, which will most certainly result in some off-mic comments being aired, or being called “acceptable” racial slurs, like Uncle Tom. Democrats are primarily banking on black votes because according to almost all mass media - they are not racists, and Republicans are racists, making it a basic binary choice for a black voter. Almost like life and death. Kanye can completely destroy this image with such presidential run, as democrats will have an old white candidate who is accusing other side of racism running against a black candidate.
    Kanye should probably run for sure in 2024 (after splitting with Kim).
     
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    He can take his best leap forward, but my money is on he won't garner a second look.
     
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    Probably a plan concocted by Dirty Donald and his pals Kanye and Kim to siphon black votes away from Biden ???
     
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    He's fully committed to his marriage. As he says in his song, not even Jezebel has a chance.
     
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    Kanye, Kanye ... at least he's got his money and Kim his Chick-Fil-A. I'm not going to lie, this what lit (even though he can't sing and is a third tier rapper he assembles others who have talent) but when he said no more living for the culture and said slavery is a choice he was intentionally to be provocative.

    So on the one hand, a lot of black voters would like the new Christian stuff, but he's a loose cannon politically and ideologically and it's no secret that in addition to his gimmicks he's had challenges with his mental health which will make voters need him to be well screened. Hanging out with Trump is enough to disqualify him to most Dems of any race by itself.



     
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    Not all of America just a certain segment.
     
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    Well, we once had a poster tell us Hillary has been running for 250 years, so why can't Kanye's statement be valid as well? Maybe they're immortal? I've seen people like that on Star Trek.
     
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    That's not cottage cheese - it's Fix-a-Flat.
     
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    That brings to mind a funny visual... Ha ha ha
     
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    Lol...if kanye and kim become the first couple, the film Idiocracy will have come true.
     
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    I think you are right.

    There were a lot of dems and socialists who pointed out that the candidates of color did not make it through the democrat primary process. Some feel they were forced out to make way for slo-Joe.
     
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    Thats correct. Biden has the lowest voter enthusiasm on record, and voter enthusiasm correlates directly with voter turnout.

    Its notable that Biden wasn't doing particularly well in the primaries until he got to his firewall states in the south.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bid...rails-badly-enthusiasm-poll/story?id=69812092
     
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    I'd support West over slo-Joe any day.
     
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    Actually Kanye has very specifically not played the race card-he was attacked by the media, politicians, etc for being a black man who worked with Trump.

    Beyond working on prison reform with Trump, West established a very successful shoe manufacturing company in wyoming.

    He has been about what is good for Americans, regardless of skin color-and he's been attacked as being an uncle tom.
     
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