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Kanye West - American Idiot (Original Post) AZ8theist Oct 2018 OP
Useful idiot dalton99a Oct 2018 #1
Three dummies who think they are smart superpatriotman Oct 2018 #2
After seeing that pic. Soxfan58 Oct 2018 #3
West does not know he is a propaganda tool...is what is so sad. Fred Sanders Oct 2018 #6
quick trivia question onethatcares Oct 2018 #8
That isn't the Oval Office, it is Trump Tower. demmiblue Oct 2018 #11
You mean idiots don't you? lunatica Oct 2018 #10
He is more than an idiot, he is a f**king racist. still_one Oct 2018 #4
I got him Gibbyman01 Oct 2018 #5
You....are special. Iggo Oct 2018 #13
He reminds me of that Dave Chappelle awesomerwb1 Oct 2018 #7
At least Clayton had an excuse for being so misguided. Dave Starsky Oct 2018 #19
When is tRump going to stick that thumb up his azzzzz? Totally Tunsie Oct 2018 #9
This is sad, but... roscoeroscoe Oct 2018 #12
I saw him perform on SNL TrogL Oct 2018 #14
They tell me he's a genius. (n/t) Iggo Oct 2018 #15
He tells you YE is a genius grantcart Oct 2018 #16
Trump says the same about himself. lpbk2713 Oct 2018 #20
My nephew who is 26 awesomerwb1 Oct 2018 #21
Kanye West is the Bobby Fischer of hip-hop. Dave Starsky Oct 2018 #17
You're giving West too much credit comparing him to Fischer.. AZ8theist Oct 2018 #18
I didn't mean to compare them in terms of intellect or talent. Dave Starsky Oct 2018 #22

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
6. West does not know he is a propaganda tool...is what is so sad.
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 10:37 AM
Oct 2018

And quite frankly his music lately is just as weird.

onethatcares

(16,161 posts)
8. quick trivia question
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 11:13 AM
Oct 2018

"Who was the last president to have a framed Playboy cover on the wall at the Oval Office?"


WTF???

Iggo

(47,533 posts)
13. You....are special.
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 12:31 PM
Oct 2018

"45 dump Trump give a thumb up and a smile for Yeah I got this dumb N- Word" -- Gibbyman01

Enjoy your stay.

awesomerwb1

(4,264 posts)
7. He reminds me of that Dave Chappelle
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 10:39 AM
Oct 2018

skit with 'Clayton Bigsby"...I think the episode was called "Frontline". (Highly recoomended, it's hilarious).

This Kanye West dummy is the new Clayton Bigsby.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
19. At least Clayton had an excuse for being so misguided.
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 04:08 PM
Oct 2018

And for anyone who hasn't seen it, you really do need to check out Dave Chappelle's "Frontline" sketch. It is one of the greatest pieces of TV political sketch comedy ever made.

TrogL

(32,818 posts)
14. I saw him perform on SNL
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 01:22 PM
Oct 2018

Last edited Mon Oct 1, 2018, 03:47 PM - Edit history (1)

He and a female sidekick were performing to a recorded backtrack. She came in a bar late.

When Kayne came in all he did was stumble around the stage mumbling incoherently.

awesomerwb1

(4,264 posts)
21. My nephew who is 26
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 04:20 PM
Oct 2018

told me he's a genius.

I looked up one of his albums and in the credits, I kid you not, I think he had like 10 different writers and 20 producers. For one album.

If I had all the time in the world and had access to a few writers/lyricists and 20 producers I'm pretty sure I could come up with some pretty "cool" music. These guys could record an album or farts and it would be "genius".

No talent.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
17. Kanye West is the Bobby Fischer of hip-hop.
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 03:59 PM
Oct 2018

For you youngsters, Bobby Fischer was a brilliant World Chess Champion who, though always a little bit eccentric, became a full-blown whack-job conspiracy theorist, religious nut, and fulminating anti-Semite (despite being Jewish himself). Some psychologists thought he developed schizophrenia. Some thought it was some sort of paranoid disorder. Others just thought he "snapped". Some complicated connection in his brain that deals with social behavior just wasn't working right anymore. He eventually became an expatriate recluse who renounced his citizenship.

I think the same has happened to poor Kanye--or "ye", as he now calls himself. I think he's got a badly broken connection in his brain.

AZ8theist

(5,400 posts)
18. You're giving West too much credit comparing him to Fischer..
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 04:06 PM
Oct 2018

Sure, Fischer was a whack job, but he was a brilliant chess player. Watched his match with Spassky with intent.
Kanye West is a fucking imbecile wanting to repeal the 13th Amendment. Just. Fucking. Stupid.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
22. I didn't mean to compare them in terms of intellect or talent.
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 04:41 PM
Oct 2018

Bobby Fischer was TRULY one of a kind. He is the greatest chess player that ever lived, in my opinion.

But he was also--you must not forget--a HUGE celebrity. His match with Spassky in 1972 was covered by the media as being on par with the Olympics. Everyone in the US followed that match to see if we could beat the Russians, to claim we were at least intellectually superior to them in the depths of the Cold War. Even a rural rube like me in the heart of rightwing America followed it.

The disappointment came later when the celebrity that we had loved suddenly changed into a crazy person that no one recognized. That is happening today with people who followed ye.

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