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It's obvious that Kanye West is experiencing mental health issues. (Original Post) mac56 Aug 2020 OP
no and I don't have much sympathy for Kanye either. Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #1
Is he really? RhodeIslandOne Aug 2020 #2
Really bad move on West's part. He should have known better, or at least have taken good advice. Eyeball_Kid Aug 2020 #3
I'm appalled and not surprised but it's hard to sustain being appalled chowder66 Aug 2020 #4
It's a known known in the black community Ye is mentally ill. This is sick uponit7771 Aug 2020 #5
It does concern me.... LakeArenal Aug 2020 #6
Why doesn't his wife have him committed? He needs help. blueinredohio Aug 2020 #17
Assuming she has an empathetic ass? LakeArenal Aug 2020 #23
LOL blueinredohio Aug 2020 #24
She's made statements about it. xmas74 Aug 2020 #28
She made a statement about it. xmas74 Aug 2020 #25
It makes one wonder blueinredohio Aug 2020 #26
Possibly xmas74 Aug 2020 #27
All good points. Mike 03 Aug 2020 #7
Yes and no 50 Shades Of Blue Aug 2020 #8
Ugh. Like gum on a shoe. NCDem47 Aug 2020 #9
Why Not, That Seems To Be Their Thing Me. Aug 2020 #10
This whole thing reminds me of an episode of "Maude." Archae Aug 2020 #11
I am appalled that there are people who think we black folk are so stupid cyndensco Aug 2020 #12
We black folks or course won't vote for West but there could be something else... brush Aug 2020 #19
The third party splitter is right from the Karl Rove playbook. McCamy Taylor Aug 2020 #21
Yes, their vote tampering schemes only work with very close elections. brush Aug 2020 #22
Spoiled rotten C_U_L8R Aug 2020 #13
So, the GOP is supporting not one, but two mentally ill candidates for president? Cracklin Charlie Aug 2020 #14
They exploit Trump's obvious mental health issues Sedona Aug 2020 #15
He has always been rusty fender Aug 2020 #16
Another Reagan lame54 Aug 2020 #18
Russia probably has dirt on him. McCamy Taylor Aug 2020 #20
I think it's called Head up Ass syndrome. jalan48 Aug 2020 #29
mac56, I'm happy for you and I'm going to let you finish... darmok167 Aug 2020 #30
Not surprised in the least shanti Aug 2020 #31
 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
2. Is he really?
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 11:41 AM
Aug 2020

I don’t 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)
3. Really bad move on West's part. He should have known better, or at least have taken good advice.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 11:41 AM
Aug 2020

His meddling in politics will not go well for him. He'll lapse into depression, IMO.

chowder66

(9,055 posts)
4. I'm appalled and not surprised but it's hard to sustain being appalled
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 11:41 AM
Aug 2020

when in his lucid moments, Kanye, doesn't help matters much.

xmas74

(29,670 posts)
28. She's made statements about it.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 01:53 PM
Aug 2020

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)
25. She made a statement about it.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 01:28 PM
Aug 2020

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.

xmas74

(29,670 posts)
27. Possibly
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 01:46 PM
Aug 2020

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)
7. All good points.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 11:47 AM
Aug 2020

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.

NCDem47

(2,248 posts)
9. Ugh. Like gum on a shoe.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 11:52 AM
Aug 2020

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.

Archae

(46,301 posts)
11. This whole thing reminds me of an episode of "Maude."
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 11:54 AM
Aug 2020

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)
12. I am appalled that there are people who think we black folk are so stupid
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 12:01 PM
Aug 2020

we would support a President West.

The cluelessness of these people is infuriating and I am insulted by their assumptions.

brush

(53,741 posts)
19. We black folks or course won't vote for West but there could be something else...
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 12:43 PM
Aug 2020

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)
21. The third party splitter is right from the Karl Rove playbook.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 12:50 PM
Aug 2020

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)
22. Yes, their vote tampering schemes only work with very close elections.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 12:57 PM
Aug 2020

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)
13. Spoiled rotten
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 12:17 PM
Aug 2020

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.

Sedona

(3,769 posts)
15. They exploit Trump's obvious mental health issues
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 12:34 PM
Aug 2020

what would stop them from exploiting anyone else?

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
20. Russia probably has dirt on him.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 12:48 PM
Aug 2020

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.

darmok167

(284 posts)
30. mac56, I'm happy for you and I'm going to let you finish...
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 02:00 PM
Aug 2020

...but Kanye West has been experiencing mental health issues for ALL of TIIIIMMMMMMEEEEEEE!!!

shanti

(21,675 posts)
31. Not surprised in the least
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 02:55 PM
Aug 2020

They exploited Chump's vulnerabilities, and look where we are. Everyone knew who and what he was before he was nominated. Useful idiot.

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