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Title: It's official: Kanye's running for POTUS
Post by: Vanto on July 05, 2020, 11:46:05 am
https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/07/05/elon-musk-kim-kardashian-endorse-kanye-west-running-for-president/#7fcf5bd93c90 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/07/05/elon-musk-kim-kardashian-endorse-kanye-west-running-for-president/#7fcf5bd93c90)

My God, he actually did it. The absolute madlad.
Title: Re: It's official: Kanye's running for POTUS
Post by: Id82 on July 05, 2020, 01:51:44 pm
He's going to be our future president. I'm not joking.
Title: Re: It's official: Kanye's running for POTUS
Post by: DarkPhoenix on July 06, 2020, 01:04:48 am
People can say they're running all they want.  People can endorse other people all they want.  The US has rules about who can and cannot be on the voting ballots; they're different in each state, but they do exist.

Basically, if Kanye was serious about this, he should have done it months ago.  Now there's likely no way he can get his name on the ballots in multiple states.  So he's telling people to write his name in instead of voting for one of the actual candidates...
Title: Re: It's official: Kanye's running for POTUS
Post by: dpareja on July 06, 2020, 05:00:41 am
Some states don't even allow write-ins as I recall.

Plus there's fielding slates of electors. (Since the US still uses an ass-backwards system.)

And so on...
Title: Re: It's official: Kanye's running for POTUS
Post by: Id82 on July 06, 2020, 10:25:53 pm
He won't be president this time around. But he will be president.
Title: Re: It's official: Kanye's running for POTUS
Post by: Vanto on July 07, 2020, 11:59:12 am
How close would he be to a real-life version of President Camacho?
Title: Re: It's official: Kanye's running for POTUS
Post by: Id82 on July 07, 2020, 12:13:14 pm
Probably nearly identical except with more auto tune in his speeches. Keeping up with the Kardashians will move to the white house where important governmental private information will be leaked in a few episodes.
Title: Re: It's official: Kanye's running for POTUS
Post by: DarkPhoenix on July 07, 2020, 08:27:17 pm
Probably nearly identical except with more auto tune in his speeches. Keeping up with the Kardashians will move to the white house where important governmental private information will be leaked in a few episodes.

Because Americans are idiots who vote for the first name the recognize, rather than looking at what the parties DO and deciding to vote based on that.

It's a bad sign that a country can get more people involved in voting for American Idol than in the elections for their damned leaders...
Title: Re: It's official: Kanye's running for POTUS
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on July 08, 2020, 05:51:37 am
Probably nearly identical except with more auto tune in his speeches. Keeping up with the Kardashians will move to the white house where important governmental private information will be leaked in a few episodes.

I didn't think a president-based reality show more terrible than what we currently have could possibly exist but you just described what that would be exactly in less than 35 words. Thanks, I hate it.