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one funny thing about the Kanye West Alex Jones Trainwreck was that it highlighted a very specific degeneracy I don't share with any of my friends

because while we all watched or at least heard a lot about the interview, we were very clearly coming at it from opposite angles

they were hitting me up like, hey did you hear about this thing Kanye said on some show

meanwhile for me, Kanye was the person I knew the absolute least about in that room, by a wide margin

More Kanye west memes, get them while they’re hot

a day of mourning in that city… my condolences to the people of skinskatteberg 🫶🏻

I have been saying this for at least a decade now but I've never liked the way people treated Kanye's very obvious mental illness as a joke, until he went too far and became irredeemable. Like it was warning sign after warning sign for over fifteen years and everyone just went "Haha, that's Kanye! Always saying some crazy shit!" I have never seen a celebrity who more obviously needed medication and treatment, but it was all just treated like a joke.

And then when he finally went totally bonkers and started saying barely coherent racist shit to Alex Jones, suddenly he's an anathema, as if this isn't the result of being very very sick for years and years while everyone around you continues to hype you up and treat you like a god while you refuse to take your meds. Yes, he said some awful irredeemable shit on that podcast and shouldn't be able to have a career after that.

But if you actually watch the episode, it is impossible to see a guy who simply turned racist and not someone who is completely unstable and should absolutely not be recorded for the public while he's in that state. For fuck's sake, he showed up like this:

And he said some awful shit! That shouldn't be forgiven! But he also said he thought his mom (who died from surgery complications) was a human sacrifice. Along with Michael Jordan's dad. He blamed all of this on Zionists and satan. Does this, in all honesty, sound like a person who is any condition to be recorded for a multi-million follower podcast right now? But because he's Kanye, until this moment, he pretty much got to do whatever he wanted and go on whatever show he chose, because no one was saying "Hey maybe we shouldn't let this guy run off his mouth on the air." It's Kanye! Who's gonna pass up that publicity?

I'm not excusing his behavior on the show (or any of his past behavior). I'm just saying that it's frustrating to me to see how little understanding people have always seemed to have towards the fact that this man is sick and has needed a lot more help than he's ever gotten. If you take all his bullshit in the context of "Guy who has badly needed treatment for decades but was surrounded by yes men instead" I think his actions make a lot more sense. It doesn't make them good or excusable actions, but it makes it obvious that this isn't as simple as "dude goes down anti-semitism pipeline." And it KILLS me that people are acting like this was just a "mask off" moment where he reveals that he's racist, when the reality is way more complicated than that.

I don't know if he's a good person. I don't know if he actually believes any of the shit he says, if he actually believes worse, or if this was 100% delusion that Alex Jones just happened catch on camera. I have no idea. But I do know that no one in that studio stepped in to stop that recording from happening, and that makes me uncomfortable.

kim kardashian photographed by nadia lee cohen for interview magazine

Kanye West at MTV's TRL (2004)

The k*rdashians switching back to being as ethnically neutral as possible is so funny to me like I feel like culturally we’re on the brink of forgetting Khloe running around in ski masks with French Montana

swifties’ hatred for every woman in music other than taylor should be studied

Watch "The Kanye 'Ye' West Interview With Piers Morgan" on YouTube

This is what happens when you make a contract with the devil and then try to get out of it. You lose your mind and reputation in the process. Beware the fame and money monster.

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Is it just me or has jamie lee curtis has been like really annoying during this whole oscars run