Let’s turn back the clock to July 2020 when I wrote:
So it doesn’t look like Kanye is launching a serious bid for the White House in 2020 so much as a trial balloon for 2024.
Read the receipts here.
That was two years ago.
Then something extraordinary happened two days ago.
Here’s the full three-minute video, in which Ye gives a brief tour of his fashion design studio:
During the tour, the cameraman asks Ye if he’s running for president in 2024, and Ye answers in the affirmative. The cancelled rapper even shows off some apparel branded with his 2024 campaign logo.
But that’s not all. The short video holds additional, perhaps just as significant, surprises for those with quick eyes.
First and most obvious, Ye appears at the beginning of the clip alongside notorious Conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos.
Milo rose to prominence as Breitbart.com’s tech editor back in the #GamerGate days. He became the first to be deverified on Twitter and among the first to be banned for political reasons.
The flamboyant gadfly rose to even greater infamy in 2016, when he embarked on a college speaking tour in support of Donald Trump.
After that, the establishment made Milo a test case for the now-standard cancellation treatment.
He’s kept a lower profile since then, hosting a couple of streaming talk shows and making his living by ghostwriting. Which is a great gig if you can get it.
Now, in the new video, Ye identifies Milo as his campaign manager.
If true, it’s a smart move on Ye’s part.
He won’t find a savvier operator with as intimate an understanding of outsider politics – and who’s willing to work with him – than Milo.
Fellow #GamerGate alum Ethan Ralph, host of the unkillable Killstrteam, Spoke with Milo about the video’s contents. Ralph had this to say about their conversation:
It’s hard to argue with Milo’s assessment.
Biden is a Death Cult witch who feigns Catholicism while supporting the slaughter of babies.
Even Trump has always been an 80s New York democrat who pays occasional lip service to Christianity.
Ye confesses Christ in public, opposes infanticide, and even got Marilyn Manson to go to church.
The lingering question is which party Ye will seek the presidential nomination for.
Till now, I’d held that he’d run as a Democrat. Being from Chicago, which has been, let’s say, kind to Dem candidates, and having a huge black fanbase, would seem to make the Democrat Party a natural fit.
But now that he’s been cancelled, it’s certain that the DNC would pull out all the stops to rob Ye of the nomination.
They’d have Bermie’d him anyway, but it wouldn’t have been as obvious.
Running as a Republican might mitigate some of Ye’s problems. Republicans fawn over black Conservatives, so he’d have strong appeal to BoomerCons watching Fox News at home. But you can be sure Mitch McConnell would sabotage Ye’s run in the primaries. Trump caught the GOPe with their pants down in 2016. Now they have safeguards in place to block outsider candidates.
Going third party or running as an independent has built-in problems. The bifactional regime party has already been sucking the air out of third party candidates for decades; keeping them out of debates, denying them press coverage, etc.
A lot of folks have forgotten that Ye ran as an independent in 2020 because he hardly made an impact at all.
Ralph speculated that Ye would only need like 5% to get into the primary debates. That would guarantee at least some press, and would introduce a lot of chaos into the system.
Whatever happens, it’s gonna be interesting.
Bonus:
Happy, hopeful, and practical
I thought electoral politics at the national level was pointless? And while yes, Ye is a far more authentic Christian than either party has put out in a century, I’m still not sure what to make of that bizarre Black Hebrew Israelite style rant he posted on Twitter a while back. Nobody’s perfect, I guess.
Voting for the Red Team or the Blue Team in the hope of electing people who will enact the people’s will is pointless. Exposing the breakdown of the system by injecting chaos into it may not be.
Milo was on Timcast two weeks ago praising a Trump run the same way he did in 2016. Although I’ve respected Milo for lots of his articulate takes, I sometimes wonder if he’s just clout chasing to stay relevant. Or maybe he’s ghostwriting for Ye.
Of late, Milo has expressed reluctance to stand in the limelight and has even said it’s time to pass the torch to the next generation. He seems to be taking more of a background advisory role, and being Ye’s campaign manager is in keeping with that approach.
As for Milo’s support for Trump, perhaps he’s hoping Ye can peel off enough Democrat voters to counter the election fraud. Or he may be calculating that Ye’s campaign rhetoric will push Trump to the right. Time will tell.
May Ye24 bless us with maximum chaos and a mainstream platform from which he can preach sound principles. Nonstop. Also, I want to hear Death Cult leaders and figureheads try to say, “Jesus is King,” when discussing Ye.
Cosigned.
UPDATE: Nick Fuentes has been photographed at Miami International Airport walking through the concourse with Ye. Word on the street is the two of them were there to meet Donald Trump.