Posted on 07/08/2020 4:55:45 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
After tweeting out news of his intent to run for the presidency this fall on Sunday, rapper Kanye West sat down for what Steve Forbes says was a 4-hour interview with reporter Randall Lane. In the exhausive interview, West provides all the details about his reasons for running, his views about President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the fact that he believes he has been chosen by God to lead the country and his belief that a COVID-19 vaccine would be the biblical Mark of the Beast.
The article on the interview can be found in full at this link.
Go read it youll be glad you did, regardless of your views about Mr. West.
And heres the thing about this: Whether you take Kanye seriously or consider his candidacy to be a joke, you should not doubt that, if he really does choose to mount a campaign this year, he will have a significant impact on the ultimate outcome.
As you watch the DC insider talking heads on your television assure you that its all just a joke, that West is not at all serious, that he will end his lark in a few weeks, and how could anyone imagine that Kim Kardashian West could ever become First Lady, remember that those exact same talking heads made the exact same dismissive comments in 2015 about Donald Trump and Melania Trump in the weeks after he announced his own candidacy.
One quote from West in this interview really stands out to me: Im not saying Trumps in my way, he may be a part of my way. And Joe Biden? Like come on man, please. You know? Obamas special. Trumps special. We say Kanye West is special. America needs special people that lead. Bill Clinton? Special. Joe Bidens not special.
Whether we want to recognize it or not, Americas presidential politics have dramatically shifted, and that shift started with Bill Clintons candidacy in 1992. Clintons victories that year over 30-year DC veteran George HW Bush and four years later over 30-year DC veteran Bob Dole started a shift away from campaigns in which some old hand of the DC establishment roams around the country giving boring speeches detailing his 30-point plans to address every imaginable issue.
Thats what Elizabeth Warren attempted to do during the Democrat primaries, and we saw how well that worked out for her.
Clinton didnt do that. Clinton was all about talking points and image he had no more than 5 overarching messages composing 25 words or less that he repeated throughout his campaign, over and over and over again. Much of his campaign was based on pushing his image of being young, good-looking, a carouser with women and a guy who played the saxophone on the Tonight Show. To the extent he actually addressed issues, he lied through his teeth about them, and that only made him more of a bad boy who was sexually appealing to the women, who voted overwhelmingly for him.
Obama was all about Roman columns and huge crowds in big stadiums repeating nostrums about hope and change and promsing to transform this country, a line we now see the pathetic 50-year DC hack Biden attempting to parrot from his basement.
Then came Trump, a complete outsider who had never sought a public office in his entire life. Trump didnt have a detailed plan to address a single issue, other than to build a wall on our southern border. What he did have was image: The image of being a wildly-successful real estate developer, the image of being the guy who spend a decade saying Youre fired! on NBC, the image of being a bad boy who had gone through three wives. And, like Obama and Clinton before him, he knew how to communicate in terms that common, ordinary Americans understand.
Thats what our presidential politics are today.
Democrat voters knee-jerked back to the old DC veteran Biden not because hes who they really want, but because pollsters and party leaders kept telling them that Biden had the best chance of beating Trump. But ultimately, Biden is Bob Dole without Doles sense of humor and status as a war hero. He is not going to be our next president.
If you dont think Kanye West will have tremendous appeal to many independent voters and tons of Black voters, then you really do need to pay more attention to what has been happening in our country over the last 28 years.
That is all.
Good. Run. It will split the dem vote.
if he runs, he will probably get more votes than biden
Wake me when West gets on the ballot somewhere and then we can talk about tremendous appeal.
He’ll peel off youth, black, dem votes. That’s about it.
Bernie bros will vote for him too.
Could be write in votes. But if he splits the Dem/millennial/sheeple vote, I’m all for it
Oh please.
But if he splits the Dem/millennial/sheeple vote, Im all for it.
He's not splitting anything.
I hate to break it to folks, but I’m thinking whoever got West to do this is looking to peel off Trump’s black supporters.
I think Kanye is serious but I think he knows that 2024 is a lot more likely for him than 2020.
He needs experience with a campaign organization and with campaigning. He needs an election year (2020) where he can practice and where expectations are low so that his first effort is not seen as killing his political aspirations.
I think Trump and Kanye genuinely like each other. I would hope that Trump will reach out and explain that he is by nature a counter-puncher. If Kanye attacks Trump, Trump will attack back. BUT if Kanye respects Trump and debates ideas with Trump without attacking Trump, then the President will not attack Kanye. That’s a pretty good deal. Biden will suffer, Kanye and Trump will both benefit.
He will run and before the election drop out before pledging his support for Trump and accepting a newly created position in his administration. Book it.
Run. When it looks like he can’t win, endorse Trump and urge followers to vote for him.
Trump projects energy. Kanye projects energy. People are attracted to energy.
Basement Joe? No energy.
If Lane and Forbes weren’t involved, I might agree with you.
Kanye West: Presidential hopeful wants to run the White House like Wakanda
“Hell peel off youth, black, dem votes. Thats about it.”
You mean Biden’s base?
I think that's unfair. I would vote for the parrot over Biden.
Parrot/Mynah 2020 = They're saying what you've been saying for years
Yes. If Kanye treats Trump right this will work out well for both of them. And it will greatly help to wake up the black vote — Democrats are NOT their friends.
Interesting dynamics. Kanye will peal away a bit of the electorate that would vote for Biden. Kanye is also likely to say some stuff that Freepers aren’t going to like, though he is very media-saavy.
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