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(CNN) Less than a month before the midterm elections, a man who has admitted to being a proud non-reader of books and nonvoter met with Donald Trump at the White House. Yep, after faithfully stroking the President's ego, Kanye West finally got his narcissistic wish.
The meeting between Trump and Kanye was high-octane foolishness and one of many debasing moments in Trump's circus-like White House. As people are fighting for their lives while enduring Hurricane Michael, which should have been the focus this week, we instead have two fame-obsessed, thin-skinned celebrities gushing over each other.
There are claims that Trump is exploiting Kanye West, who has admitted to having mental health issues, by inviting the press to witness his gesticulating and f-bomb throwing in the Oval Office.
While Trump is known for exploiting any and everything -- even the September 11th terrorist attacks -- Kanye West is no victim. Moreover, it is wildly offensive to conflate having mental health issues and displaying erratic behavior with being a willfully ignorant man-child, which is what Kanye West has become. Mental health struggles have nothing to with one's political beliefs. In addition, a black celebrity worshipping a raging bigot is nothing new -- simply revisit Sammy Davis Jr.'s history with President Richard Nixon
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Yeezy is no victim and should not be empathized with as one. This is a person who claimed Malcolm X wasn't relatable, said Harriet Tubman shouldn't be on the $20 bill, and compared himself to Nat Turner.
twobuttcheeks on October 12nd, 2018 at 05:22 UTC »
I'm mixed between laughter and fear. Kanye seriously opened his photo gallery and with complete sincerity showed the POTUS an imaginary concept plane (stolen btw) which he has absolutely no god damn clue about that "Apple will build" (because they definitely manufacture aircraft) to replace air force one. He is so stripped from reality that he brought a fucking concept plane to be magically built for the president. Why stop there ? Get the invisible plane from justice league. The russians will never see it coming.
grr on October 12nd, 2018 at 01:53 UTC »
This is a meeting of stupid minds.
“In 1976, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity.
Stupid people, Carlo M. Cipolla explained, share several identifying traits: they are abundant, they are irrational, and they cause problems for others without apparent benefit to themselves, thereby lowering society’s total well-being. There are no defenses against stupidity, argued the Italian-born professor, who died in 2000. The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren.”
The five universal laws of human stupidity
PoliticalPleionosis on October 12nd, 2018 at 00:56 UTC »
It’s something that the Kardashians are the least embarrassing ones in that family now.