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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's obvious that Kanye West is experiencing mental health issues.
Yet the GOP are willing to actively exploit this, to try and steer the election.
Is anyone appalled?
Is anyone surprised?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)I dont buy it when I see these idiots ranting and raving in public about masks that they simply must have some sort of paranoid dementia. Fuck Ye.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,429 posts)His meddling in politics will not go well for him. He'll lapse into depression, IMO.
chowder66
(9,055 posts)when in his lucid moments, Kanye, doesn't help matters much.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)LakeArenal
(28,802 posts)Who cares? Kanye exploits his own mental illness.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)LakeArenal
(28,802 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)xmas74
(29,670 posts)She had him committed in 2016. Since then he's educated himself and knows exactly how far he can go without her being able to do it again. She's stated he's holed himself up away from the rest of them, allowing no contact and is not medicating. Until he basically self harms or appears to be a public threat her hands are tied.
I watched a friend go through this with her spouse. It's not that easy to just commit someone. Their daughter is seven-old enough to know something is wrong but not old enough to understand it.
xmas74
(29,670 posts)Basically it stated that no matter how many times she commits him it won't help until he finally helps them. She said he refuses to take medication and they don't even reside in the same home anymore. It sounds like she's tired of being his keeper, especially after he claimed she and Kris were out to get him.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Is it going to take him getting hurt or hurting someone else?
xmas74
(29,670 posts)I saw it with a friend. It was almost impossible for his wife to have him committed because of the laws in place.
I know we all make fun of the Kardashians but I feel for her right now. This has to be hard on her, especially with the kids. And one claim is that he's holed up either in Wyoming or Montana because their adult commitment laws are stricter.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)1. His family has told TMZ he is having a "breakdown", and in the past these episodes go on and on until he somehow gets checked into a facility.
2. Somebody is doing a lot of his work for him, and I want to know who it is. I tried to find out who owns his campaign domain websites but that information is murky. Universal Music seems to have obtained a bunch of Kanye2020 domain names, which is sickening. (I thought maybe Russians, or GOP).
3. In his current status, he seems unable to make key decisions a candidate needs to make. Someone is actively helping him get on ballots via his moronic 2020 website, which makes it criminally easy to sign to get signatures to put him on ballots.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,920 posts)NCDem47
(2,248 posts)This one will never go away.
I honestly do not understand how West (like Trump and the Kardashians) has any kind of fan base, buys his stuff or follows him on social media.
Like a train wreck, it's hard to look away for some I guess.
Me.
(35,454 posts)supporting mentally ill people for president
Archae
(46,301 posts)When the character had a bout of bipolar, wanting Henry Fonda for president really bad, and crashing badly when he said no.
cyndensco
(1,697 posts)we would support a President West.
The cluelessness of these people is infuriating and I am insulted by their assumptions.
brush
(53,741 posts)going on. A poster of an earlier OP thinks there's a more insidious reason for trump's people trying to get west on ballots, especially in battle ground states. He theorized that their reason is once there are more than two presidential candidates on a state ballot, the republican-manufactured voting machines with no paper trails, using proprietary software accessible only to republican secretaries of state and voting officials, will be able to tamper/switch votes in an undetectable manner with three presidential choices.
I don't know if that theory is true as to needing at least three names on the ballot but the poster contends that a large number of black voters siphoned off to trump with legitimate counts is not the object at all as they can switch as many votes as needed with their proprietary software with no one the wiser. Admittedly, this does sound like what happened last time in Wi, Mi, and Penn with the Russkies help.
We shall see, and we'll also see if west gets on enough ballots for their tampering to work.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Since Bernie and the Greens will not play ball this time, they need someone else. However I expect the pollsters will NOT act they did in 2004 (suppressing the exit polls) and there will be no way to re-assign enough votes to West to make a hill of beans difference this election
brush
(53,741 posts)Keeping my fingers crossed for Biden's vote lead is too large, as in Obama's two wins, for them to do their usually cheating.
C_U_L8R
(44,987 posts)It's not his first time making a jackass of himself on the public stage,
but he wasn't very successful spoiling Taylor Swifts' Grammy either.
It's nothing more than narcissistic trolling. Just ignore.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Terrific.
Sedona
(3,769 posts)what would stop them from exploiting anyone else?
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)a talentless fuckwad. No surprise.
lame54
(35,262 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)His is a thankless job. He will be the third party write in spoiler. The computer hackers will re-assign a certain number of Biden votes to him the way they did to Jill Stein and the Greens in previous elections. Everyone will be amazed that he was able to create such a strong following...
That is the plan. I don't see it panning out. He is too obviously a loser.
jalan48
(13,841 posts)darmok167
(284 posts)...but Kanye West has been experiencing mental health issues for ALL of TIIIIMMMMMMEEEEEEE!!!
shanti
(21,675 posts)They exploited Chump's vulnerabilities, and look where we are. Everyone knew who and what he was before he was nominated. Useful idiot.