The republican party--putting the extreme in extremism for better than fifty years

Kanye had to literally praise Hitler and the Nazis before Jim Jordan’s House Judiciary Republicans deleted their pro-Kanye tweet. If you want to understand just how extreme the modern GOP is. https://t.co/il7QAg2EiO

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) December 1, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

But their base wants the consequences

Republicans are criticizing Ye and Fuentes because they want the benefits of hatred without the social, professional, and political consequences of performing overt bigotry. They need it to remain subtext. But are fine with the hatred otherwise.

— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) December 2, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

The Holocaust started out small, too

Agree. Ignoring the normalization of antisemitism within the GOP has only allowed it to fester. See, e.g., Bannon's "Jewish bankers" commercial for Donald Trump in 2016, followed by Charlottesville, followed by now routine "Soros" smears, followed by... https://t.co/RWeMyCj69P https://t.co/Hl2PY4JEu1

— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie) December 1, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

Guess what? Republicans view his ashy ass as inferior, too

Kanye West talks about Hilter with admiration and reverence as if Hitler wouldn't have viewed his ashy ass as inferior.

— Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy) December 2, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

White supremacy = domestic terrorism

Also here's your regular reminder that the Oath Keeper verdict, the Buffalo verdict, the Mar a Lago dinner, and the Proud Boys elections to local offices are part of THE SAME STORY about a rising and militant white power movement

— Kathleen Belew (@kathleen_belew) November 30, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

It is who republicans are

Kanye West just posted a photo of a swastika within the Star of David

Elon Musk let him back onto Twitter

Trump let him into Mar-a-Lago

Republicans promoted him

Alex Jones and Tim Pool gave him a platform

He didn’t do this alone. Remember who enabled this clusterfuck

— Lindy Li (@lindyli) December 2, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

The republican Nazi problem

If your political party is unable to denounce Nazis because they make up too much of your base, it’s probably time to re-evaluate your political party.

— Justin Horwitz (@JustinAHorwitz) November 28, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

Nothing more than common cowards

To me, the story here isn’t how a prominent pusher of hate against Jewish people ended up at a table with Trump. The story is the response of so many so far in a party that could nominate him: a shrug or indifference. All as many shrug or ignore his nods toward Q Anon conspiracy.

— Robert Costa (@costareports) November 26, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

The republican party Presidential nominee, 2024

Donald Trump this week had dinner with Nick Fuentes, an antisemite and prominent white supremacist, advisers to the former president said. Also at the dinner at Mar-a-Lago was Kanye West, who has been condemned for making antisemitic statements. https://t.co/9cD1IqjlNC

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 26, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

The republican party is echoing 1930's Nazi Germany

"The leader of the Republican Party, who remains the top presidential contender for 2024, reacted to Ye’s attacks on Jews by saying, 'He was really nice to me.'" https://t.co/MJ8DmVsf20

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 28, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

 

Not even trying to hide their Anti-Semitism anymore

Exclusive: we obtained unaired footage from Tucker Carlson's interview with Ye, in which the artist makes numerous inflammatory comments about Jews and describes a bizarre claim that "fake children" were planted in his home to manipulate his own kids. https://t.co/CMn0sGfK58

— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) October 11, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Jesus walks...away from Kanye

A lot of folks are probably reacting to Kanye with a shrug — it’s just Kanye; it’s not like he’s in a position to act on his anti-Semitism; etc.

Don’t. His behavior isn’t harmless. Normalizing hate moves the Overton window on what’s acceptable for people under far less scrutiny.

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) October 9, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Whatever influence Kanye West had in the music world, should now be shattered

New documents show Kanye West’s doomed White House campaign—styled as an “independent” third-party effort—appears to have disguised potentially millions of dollars in services it received from a secretive network of Republican Party operatives. https://t.co/S8wRRWuVFL

— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) December 17, 2021

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

 

West-ward, no!

You know, I couldn't even come up with a comment for this one

Earlier this week, Kanye West announced he was running for President in 2020, though most (and probably rightfully so) believe it's little more than a publicity stunt (anyone remember Senator Kid Rock?  me either) as West has a new album due shortly.

Just in case, though, I'd like to remind anyone contemplating voting for West that electing an idiot celebrity in 2016 didn't turn out so well (coronavirus, Russian stooge, children in cages, racism, economy in ruins, to name but a few) and electing another one won't work out any better in 2020, so it's best to cast your vote for Joe Biden.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Great moments in bad career moves

Leave it to a woman to school a child

Truth be told, I don't keep up much with the minutiae of pop music these days, so I wouldn't really be able to tell you if Kanye West's best days are behind him (a la fellow Trump supporters Ted Nugent and Kid Rock) or if he's still riding a wave of popularity.  Either way, one has to wonder exactly what the fuck, from a career standpoint, he's thinking when he throws his support behind Donald Trump.  Does he think old white people (swear to God truth:  every time I tell someone near my age that one of my hobbies is music, their response is always something along the lines of 'I like music, too, except for that rap shit') are suddenly going to rush out and download his tunes?  Or white nationalists?  Exactly how does pissing off 60% of your fan base (roughly the percent of people under age 40--presumably Mr. West's core fans--who disapprove of Trump's job performance) translate into more commercial success?

Besides, I thought the job of plantation toadie had already been taken by Ben Carson....

Curious Aside #1:  Mr. West said he voted for Trump because he made him feel like more of a man than Hillary Clinton.  While it's not a subject I'm familiar with, if Mr.West needs a man to feel like more of a man, don't they have male gigolos for that sort of thing?  Certainly seems like it would do a lot less damage to his career.

Curious Aside #2:  I don't know which idiot Kardashian Mr. West married, but I did note in one of the pieces on his visit to the Oval Office that they have three daughters together.  Wouldn't you just love to be a fly on the wall when Mrs. West explains to their daughters that they can't run for President because it would make Daddy feel like less of a man?

Th-th-th-th-that's all folks....

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CXIV--Kanye West: Jesus Walks

Kanye West--messiah or madman, you decide....

Alas, devoting a paragraph to the life and accomplishments of Kanye West would be like devoting a paragraph to the solar system--way too much there to encapsulate with a handful of sentences.  Suffice it to say, West started out as a hip-hop producer extraordinaire before becoming a rapper in his own right (believe it or not, West had all kinds of trouble finding a label to finance his first album--since he came from a comfortable middle class upbringing, many felt his image wouldn't play in the world of hip-hop), releasing eight albums (of which the first six debuted at #1 on the Billboard album chart), having umpteen top 20 singles, won  21 Grammy Awards, and performing otherworldly concert tours.  I originally thought of claiming that West was the Bob Dylan of hip-hop until I realized that Dylan didn't even come close to accomplishing--at least commercially--what West has accomplished in the last 20 years.  He is probably the music artist of the 21st century--at least thus far.

All of West's accomplishments have not come without controversy.  West is a horrid loser at awards shows, tends to let his mouth move without checking with his brain first (welcome to the club!), and runs the gamut politically from compassionate activist to just another rich asshole.  His marriage to Kim Kardashian, a woman who has no discernible talents and basically became famous because her family is rich, is something of a head scratcher, too, but like the song says, the things we do for love....

It's not often that a forty-five year old man will be sitting in his living room flipping channels late in the evening and a when a video for a previously unknown hip hop artist appears on his TV (and a song about spirituality to boot), sits up and says, "Man, I've got to hear that one again..." but that's exactly what happened with me the first time I heard "Jesus Walks."  Fortunately, the Beautiful Girl was already a fan and burned me a copy of his debut CD, The College Dropout, which I would listen to for the next couple of months.  The song would go to to reach #11 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100, win a Grammy Award for best rap song, and appear at #273 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All-Time.  "Jesus Walks" is one part military cadence, one part gospel song, and one part angry young black man ranting about the fucked up world he sees.  In the end it's an acknowledgement of both his real and perceived faith, which, while not my cup of tea, one certainly has to respect for bringing a heretofore untouched subject matter to the world and music of hip hop.  It's a tour de force in the pantheons of pop music:  unforgettable, passionate, and startling.

Rap Sheet:  "Yo, we at war/We at war with terrorism, racism, and most of all we at war with ourselves/Jesus walks..."

Enjoy:

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Jesus mocks

Seems you can't click on any internet news service today without being told that Hip-Hop mogul Kanye West has married reality show, um, personality Kim Kardashian.

Want to know one of the few joys of getting older?  Without the slightest bit of self-consciousness that you might sound hopelessly outdated, you can say this about the above reported nuptials:  Ask me if I give a shit.

Peace,
emaycee

The change in my pocket

Every few years a single comes along that literally makes me snap my neck--"what the fuck is that sound all about?"--and makes me remember why I devoted such a huge chunk of my life to music. Since 2000 I recall that reaction to the White Stripes' "Fell in Love with a Girl," Bright Eyes' "Lua," Outkast's "Hey Ya," and Kanye West's "Jesus Walks." This century has another: Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You." (And what joy I get from being an independent blogger who is able to actually type out the world "fuck" instead of creating a grawlin--F#$%--like the MSM must.)

Peace,
emaycee