Kanye West confirms 2024 Presidential run, hires “ex-gay” Milo Yiannopoulos for campaign
Freshly reinstated on Twitter following a ban for numerous unforgivable antisemitic rants, Kanye West is once again proving that cancel culture is, in fact, a complete myth – by throwing his hat in the ring (again) for U.S. President.
The rapper – whose list of credits in 2022 also include violent rhetoric against Kim Kardashian’s ex-boyfriend Pete Davidson, promoting a “White Lives Matter” t-shirt while premiering his Yeezy line at Paris Fashion Week, getting dropped by Adidas, levelling repeated slurs at Daily Show host Trevor Noah (to name just a few) – was spotted heading into a recording studio in a clip that has since had the internet talking.
“Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech. Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.”
— Adidas drops Kanye pic.twitter.com/HebMvnOZCq
— Queer Insider 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ (@qitweets) October 25, 2022
After unsuccessfully running for President in 2020, West is giving it another go in 2024, this time hoping the wisdom of “ex-gay” Milo Yinnopoulous help him secure the White House.
The rapper confirmed his upcoming campaign to reporters over the weekend, according to Consequence of Sound. “Yes… It’s simple…. It’s just we’re moving toward the future,” he said when asked if he’s running.
Ye then confirmed that alt-right political figure Milo Yiannopoulos “is working on the campaign.”
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Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart senior editor, most recently worked as an intern for Republican congresswoman and right-wing extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene.
In 2017, Yiannopoulos was fired from Brietbart after he appeared to condone statutory rape and sexual relationships between underage boys and men.
In 2021, Milo came out… as an “ex-gay”, telling far-right anti-LGBT+ LifeSite News that he was no longer engaging in gay sex and wanted to rehabilitate the practice of conversion therapy.
“Anyone who’s read me closely over the past decade must surely have seen this coming,” Yiannopoulos told Doug Mainwaring – also a self-proclaimed celibate gay Catholic – at LifeSite.
“I wasn’t shy about dropping hints. In my New York Times-bestselling book Dangerous, I heavily hinted I might be ‘coming out’ as straight in the future. And in my recent stream-of-consciousness Telegram feed, I’ve been even more explicit — stomach-churningly so, if the comments under my ‘x days without sodomy’ posts are anything to go by.”
He said he was “never wholly at home in the gay lifestyle” and “only leaned heavily into it in public because it drove liberals crazy to see a handsome, charismatic, intelligent gay man riotously celebrating conservative principles.”
Here’s the clip that got folk online talking:
Can someone tell @kanyewest that this is the same Milo Yiannopoulos who resigned from Breitbart News over his disgusting pedophilia remarks. Or never mind, RIP 2024 Ye-campaign. https://t.co/fe9d2jf0Vp
— Arzu 🌿 (@pantarheio) November 20, 2022
Here’s what some people had to say on Twitter about Kanye’s new partnership, which we imagine will be considerably less lucrative than the one he lost with Adidas.
2/ the last I heard from Milo he had gone from being married to another man, to signing up for the extreme right wing Catholicism, and believed he was sick as a gay man, and had started flirting with the idea of gay conversion therapy. Then he got Covid, hadn’t been vaxed, and
— Moistened Tart (@MoistenedTart) November 22, 2022
Elon Musk brings back dozens of banned accounts. Kanye West spotted with Milo & possibly Nick Fuentes. Dave Chappelle switches scripts to make edgy Jewish jokes on live TV.
Looks like “cancel culture” season is officially over, folks.— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) November 20, 2022
Kanye has spent the weekend with Nick Fuentes and Milo so that’s all going really well for him.
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) November 20, 2022
Kanye West was spotted hanging out with neo-Nazi Milo Yiannopoulos
Fox Corp owned TMZ described Milo as a "super right-winger," which barely scratches the surface of his extremism. Fellow white nationalists are celebrating them hanging out https://t.co/UvihtB2Xtx pic.twitter.com/7ZLyRXWG7a— Justin Horowitz (@justinhorowitz_) November 18, 2022
Can't even muster up mild bemusement over the whole Kanye-Fuentes-Milo thing, it's just exhausting/sad seeing an artist of that caliber being scammed by the biggest losers around.
— who, me? (@le_post_enjoyer) November 21, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene intern and Kanye West 2024 campaign staffer Milo Yiannopoulos posted he believes the Earth is flat.
Milo: “The earth is flat and space is fake…” pic.twitter.com/0tvXJcHoqk— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) November 22, 2022
Sometimes it seems like Kanye and Pete Davidson are on mirror timelines where every time Pete gets a more beautiful girlfriend, Kanye hangs out with an even worse person https://t.co/NyL3JmkGHm
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) November 19, 2022