Oh that's just terrible, No Kanye? how will they survive?
Music & Politics: Kanye Delivers Pro-Trump Rant on ‘SNL,’ Gets Booed By Audience UPDATE: Now he HATES Trump & Biden
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Fam: I just found the rest of the interview:
ON HIS MEDICATION
“How could you be so heartlesss...?”
ON HIS MEDICATION
“How could you be so heartlesss...?”
Kirsten Dunst Does Not Endorse Kanye West’s Message
By Rebecca Alter@ralter
DUNST-PLEMONS 2024. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Getty Images
Kanye West, you picked the wrong smiling-blonde-lady.jpg to put on your campaign posters. On August 18, the independent presidential candidate tweeted a “KANYE 2020 VISION” poster featuring stock imagery of smiling people of all walks of life, including a close-up of a happy, sun-dappled Kirsten Dunst. The photo, it turns out, was taken by photographer Mario Testino and was from a Vanity Fair photo shoot in 2002. Dunst, who supported and publicly endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primaries, tweeted her confusion about the unauthorized use of her face on West’s campaign poster, replying, “What’s the message here, and why am I apart [sic] of it?” with the shruggy-lady emoji. And that really is the question we all want the answer to: What is the message here? Where is he going with this? Why is this happening?
Look, we’re glad to have a reason to reflect on the ethereal beauty of Dunst in the post–Virgin Suicides era, but it’s a bummer that we have to talk about it because West is going forward with this political project. West’s confused political leanings aside, the aesthetics of this poster are extremely not it. Among the checkerboard of diverse smiling children and elderly people and workers in construction helmets, West also uses a picture of Anna Wintour, because, yeah, Condé Nast management is really what you want to be associating your campaign with right now.
I mean at some point.... someone has to shut this farce down..
Democrats say it's 'absurd' to claim Mickey Mouse and Bernie Sanders signed Kanye West's petition
For the two sides arguing about Kanye West's nomination papers, the issue is anything but Mickey Mouse.
Last week, West's campaign team turned in more than 2,400 signatures in his bid to get on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin. To make it, an independent candidate needs 2,000 signatures approved by state regulators.
Among those signatures were several that stood out, including ones by Mickey Mouse, Bernie Sanders and even Kanye West. Actually, there were two of these.
For Democrats, who are fighting West's candidacy, these are proof of the sloppiness of his campaign. They filed a challenge to West's nomination papers last week, urging the Elections Commission to strike these names and bump him from the ballot.
An attorney for West shot back by saying the burden is on the Democratic Party to prove that these are not real Wisconsin voters. That's the way the system works, he said.
Now, Jeffrey Mandell, an attorney for the Democrats, has filed a response in which he argues that his side doesn't have to prove anything. The signatures are obviously bogus, he said, and the state should strike them.
"The (state Elections Commission) may certainly take notice of the fact that these are celebrity names, are not in common usage and are not real Wisconsin electors," Mandell wrote. "To say otherwise, as respondents do, is to interpret Wisconsin law in ways that lead to absurd results."
There you go — obvious and absurd, or unclear and unproven.
This is one of a handful of issues that the bipartisan Elections Commission will have to deal with when deciding whether to put rapper West on the Wisconsin presidential ballot in November.
For many, the campaign may look like a vanity project for a billionaire celebrity with a lot of personal issues. But it is very important to political partisans in Wisconsin.
Democrats are concerned that a West candidacy will siphon votes from former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat who is expected to face Republican President Donald Trump in November.
Wisconsin Republicans took an active part in trying to get West on the ballot. At least five of his 10 electors are Republican activists or Trump supporters. Also, Lane Ruhland, an attorney for the Trump campaign in a Wisconsin lawsuit, helped file the nomination papers for the West campaign.
One Wisconsin Republican source has said the goal is for West to get 107,000 votes, about what Libertarian Gary Johnson did in 2016. Trump won the state by a little more than 22,000 votes.
So when West's team turned in its nomination signatures, the Democrats immediately pushed back. They filed a complaint saying West should be kept off the ballot for a variety of reasons — including its Mickey Mouse signatures — but mostly because his campaign was late with its signatures.
Michael Curran, the attorney for West's campaign, countered with a 24-page response dismissing most of the criticisms.
On Thursday, the Democratic Party filed its response to the West campaign's response. Again, the focus was on whether the rapper-turned-politician beat the buzzer when his team filed its nomination papers.
Mandell, the Democrats' attorney, said the issue is simple.
West's campaign had until 5 p.m. on Aug. 4 to turn in 2,000 signatures to get on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin.
By all accounts, the West campaign was late. Timers kept by a TV reporter and a Democratic official at the scene suggest Ruhland and an assistant were a minute or two late filing the papers.
But even using Ruhland's own testimony, Mandell said, she was late. He dismissed the suggestions that she was hampered by an "overly aggressive media" and by state officials who locked the door at the Elections Commission's building.
Therefore, Mandell said, the state Elections Commission should not allow West on the ballot.
He urged the commission to reject the West campaign's claim that it actually had until 59 seconds after 5 p.m. to submit its signatures. If the state were to accept the argument made by West's attorney, the Democrats said, it would be substituting a clear deadline with a flexible one.
"When the statute says '5 p.m.,' it means 5 p.m.," Mandell wrote in his Thursday filing.
Beyond that, Mandell said, the earlier filing by the West campaign defending his nomination papers should be tossed because the billionaire celebrity failed to provide a sworn signature on the document. Mandell said the response is not "verified" and should not count.
Curran, the attorney for the West campaign, did not return calls to his office.
Contact Daniel Bice at (414) 224-2135 or dbice@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter @DanielBice or on Facebook at fb.me/daniel.bice.
Bice: Democrats say it's 'absurd' to claim Mickey Mouse and Bernie Sanders signed Kanye West's petition
A lawyer for the Democratic Party says it should not have to prove that Mickey Mouse and Bernie Sanders' signatures are bogus on Kanye West's ballot petition.www.jsonline.com
Kanye Releases Presidential Campaign Ad Telling Voters to ‘Write In Kanye West’
Featuring one very compelling J.K. Simmons look-alike.
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Kanye Releases Presidential Campaign Ad Encouraging Voters to ‘Write In Kanye West’
By Rebecca Alter@ralter
Kanye West qualified for presidential ballot access in 12 states in the 2020 election, so he has had to re-tool his campaign messaging for the other 38, where it looks as though he’s hoping to gain ground as a write-in vote. On Monday October 12, West released his first campaign ad to Twitter, with the caption, “we stepping out on faith.” In the nearly 90-second commercial, West is shot in front of a black and white American flag, asking, “What is America’s destiny? What is best for our nation? Our people? What is just? True justice? We have to think about all these things, together as a people, to contemplate our future. To live up to our dream, we must have vision.”
So far, West sounds like he’s stalling in the introduction to a book report to reach the page requirement. But then he gets into his primarily faith-based platform: “We as a people will revive our nation’s commitment to faith. To what our Constitution calls ‘the free exercise of religion.’ Including, of course, prayer. Through prayer, faith can be restored. We as a people are called to a greater purpose than ourselves. We are not only a beacon to the world, but we should be servants to each other. To encourage each other. To help each other. To lift up each other, our fellow Americans, so we may all prosper together.”
Throughout this monologue, swelling strings play over imagery of families: Praying at the dinner table, praying at a Bible study. There’s an image of a satellite. Of firefighters. Of a man who looks like JK Simmons with a ponytail, walking through a garden, fondling the leaves as if to say, “yes, prayer, mm, yes, faith, Kanye, America.” You can see it in this B-roll actor’s eyes, because he is a very good actor, like JK Simmons. We are just over halfway through the ad, but the rest of it is more faith-stuff and more B-roll. The ad ends with the words: “VOTE/KANYE WEST/WRITE IN KANYE WEST.” There are 22 days until the election, but surely that satellite B-roll will do the trick.
Kanye West Responds To SNL Sketch, Claims Show Uses Black People “To Hold Other Black People Back”
By Bruce Haring
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Kanye West has fired back at Saturday Night Live for putting him down during one of last night’s sketches.
In the sketch, which featured SNL host for the evening Issa Rae along with Kenan Thompson and Ego Nwodim, the imaginary talk show Your Voice Chicago asked about election candidate choices. Rae slammed the chances of Kanye West as president. She said, “Kanye? F him!” The remark followed her saying she would vote for everyone Black, a play on her remarks at the 2017 Emmys, when she said she would root for everyone Black.
West gave his take on the remark on Sunday morning via Twitter. “I’ve always said SNL uses black people to hold other black people back,” he wrote.
“My heart goes out to Issa Rae. I’m praying for her and her family. I know that the twenty years of service that I’ve paid in the entertainment field has furthered our ability to be more successful.”
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25COMMENTS
Kanye West has fired back at Saturday Night Live for putting him down during one of last night’s sketches.
In the sketch, which featured SNL host for the evening Issa Rae along with Kenan Thompson and Ego Nwodim, the imaginary talk show Your Voice Chicago asked about election candidate choices. Rae slammed the chances of Kanye West as president. She said, “Kanye? F him!” The remark followed her saying she would vote for everyone Black, a play on her remarks at the 2017 Emmys, when she said she would root for everyone Black.
West gave his take on the remark on Sunday morning via Twitter. “I’ve always said SNL uses black people to hold other black people back,” he wrote.
“My heart goes out to Issa Rae. I’m praying for her and her family. I know that the twenty years of service that I’ve paid in the entertainment field has furthered our ability to be more successful.”
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I know that the twenty years of service that I’ve paid in the entertainment field has furthered our ability to be more successful.”
Kanye in a nutshell (pun intended)
Kanye in a nutshell (pun intended)
Always? Did he say that when they were breakin him off? He took their gigs and cashed those checks, or no?
KABOOM
fuck this dude....
I wish BGOL had a software algorithm that would automatically BAN coonye’s name every time it’s typed
Kanye West Says He’s Helping Build a ‘New City of the Future’ in Haiti
Kanye West mentioned the ambitious idea during his appearance on the 'Joe Rogan Experience' following a visit to the country back in September.
Kanye West Says He’s Helping Build a ‘New City of the Future’ in Haiti
Kanye West mentioned the ambitious idea during his appearance on the 'Joe Rogan Experience' following a visit to the country back in September.
"Make Kanye 2006 Again"... amen brotha
Pete's segments are always pretty funny. Weekend Update is the most reliable segment on SNL by far.
Dam its funny he ended up piping his wife
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Kanye West suspended from Twitter again after sharing swastika post
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, shared an image of a swastika within the Star of David on Twitter — and he's now been suspended for it.
Him wearing an Adidas hoodie, and neck strap purse makes me wonder if they are in any way invested in this new venture.
Kanye West says Jonah Hill in '21 Jump Street' made him like Jewish people again
Kanye West says Jonah Hill's '21 Jump Street' performance made him 'like Jewish people again.'
Kanye West Ups His Troll Game, Reportedly Opens Yeezy Office Next Door To Adidas
Kanye West has taken his trolling to a new level, reportedly setting up the new Yeezy headquarters next door to an adidas store in Los Angeles.
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You’re a fucking moron.