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Kanye West for President?

Orphia Nay said:
Is it really "a bit late", though?

Can he actually get the nomination in enough states (if that's how it works)?
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Depends on how he would try and do things. I don't think there is a political party that would be on the state ballots already that doesn't have a chosen nominee or a presumptive one. In theory (not practically) some party could decide to change their mind and have him as their nominee.

That leaves him running as an independent. There's different deadlines and qualifications for a person to run as an independent in various states and be on the ballot. Some states deadlines have already passed. Others are going to pass by early August. A few deadlines are late august/early september.

Of the states that he still has time to register to be on the ballot, for most of those he'd have to get a few thousand signatures first.

If he can't make those deadlines, that leaves him as a write in candidate. And even then in some states they will not allow just any write in candidate - you need to register as one in order to have write in votes count.
 
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Stacyhs said:
The more I read about this the more I'm convinced he's in the midst of a bi-polar mania.
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Likely. People tend to forget that after he blathered in the Oval Office about Dolt 45, abolishing the 13th amendment, and whatever, he went to the nearest Apple Store, jumped on a table and ranted incoherently, and then flew to Africa. Folks have been saying he's way off ever since that song about cleaning a box of kitty litter...
 
I feel real bad for anyone wasting even half a second trying to predict how this would affect the election.
 
"What? I can't just say I'm running and get on the ballot? Okay, you can finish now."
 
Stacyhs said:
Kanye is on again as a 'candidate' but it's pretty clear he is not mentally well.
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Now, now, there's already a thread on this board which clearly shows that you cannot assess a candidate or President's mental health status without a detailed, in-person, set of diagnostic tests regardless of your experience or qualifications. :rolleyes:

If he is there as a spoiler candidate, could he materially affect one of the two major candidates' chances ?

West, who announced his candidacy on 4 July, has already missed the deadline to qualify for the ballot in several states. He needs to collect enough signatures to appear on the ballot in a number of others.

Last week he qualified to appear on Oklahoma's presidential ballot, the first state where he met the requirements before the deadline.

In order to appear on South Carolina's ballot he needs to collect 10,000 signatures by noon local time (18:00 BST) on Monday.
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Is his vilification of Harriet Tubman of his own devising, or is it part of a wider assessment of the role of the Underground Railroad ?

"Harriet Tubman never actually freed the slaves, she just had the slaves go work for other white people," he said.
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Personally I think there is a significant difference between being a paid employee and an owned slave but I'm a white non-American so I'm not familiar with the current state of play in that regard :o
 
I'm not the least bit worried about West affecting the results of the election. Why, only the stupidest idiots would vote for him, and... um... uh oh...

Oh, I guess could get a lot of votes then. Never mind.
 
Puppycow said:
The more I think about it, the less it seems like a cynical ploy to help Trump and the more I think the dude is just nuts and delusional. He has delusions of grandeur. He's also gotten religion. His latest album is called "Jesus is King". Subtle. I took a quick listen out of curiosity. It's exactly what the name suggests: entirely Jesus-worshiping stuff. Not very interesting musically.
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THIS.
Desperate attempt by a washed up musician to revive his career.
 
Puppycow said:
The more I think about it, the less it seems like a cynical ploy to help Trump and the more I think the dude is just nuts and delusional. He has delusions of grandeur. He's also gotten religion. His latest album is called "Jesus is King". Subtle. I took a quick listen out of curiosity. It's exactly what the name suggests: entirely Jesus-worshiping stuff. Not very interesting musically.
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He's always been religious and direct about it musically - his second single was literally "Jesus Walks". I'm atheist as get out, but it was a pretty good song (that was ghostwitten by Rhymefest as I recall - or possibly Nas, both are better lyricists than West). Thing is, Jesus Walks was...well, good. His stuff lately is just awful.

He's discussed being bipolar before, and why he doesn't take medication, and I think it's...rather clear he's having an episode and is going through things. I'm not saying this to mock him - as a person who also struggles with mental health I honestly sympathize with him.
 
The Don said:
Personally I think there is a significant difference between being a paid employee and an owned slave but I'm a white non-American so I'm not familiar with the current state of play in that regard :o
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He's probably trying to talk about prison labor and the 13th amendment again. The 13th banned chattel slavery, specifically, but has a massive hole for prison labor which is why we ended up with things like vagrancy laws throughout the south in the wake on the end of reconstruction (and, incidentally, why Trump's "show me your papers" demands for Obama was so flagrantly and ignorantly racist as hell).
 
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