One reason I’m livetweeting this election is I want to have an appropriately emotion-charged strong personal memory of it. Which is possible thanks to Twitter. If this is a big historical fork, I want to remember it well.
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Axios argues that win or lose the strong performance means Trump will retain control of the GOP and perhaps tease a rerun in 2024 if he loses. Well, the battered wife is choosing to stay in abusive marriage. No surprise there.
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Possibly future: Biden wins but never finds his feet. Trump runs and wins again in 2024 at age 78 and rules a full 2 terms. Kanye win in 2032 and rules till 2040. And in the meantime millennial and zoomer social media celebs fight for 2040+ as planet cooks.
This is not a blip.
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We’re in an indefinite future of the amateurization of politics. Career politicians with at least a bit of a nerdy interest in governance and policy (even Nixon) are giving way to Idiocracy parade. Get used to it. There’s no “normal” in the future. Just a churning of the weird.
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Reminds me of the state of Tamil Nadu in India which elected a string of assclown filmstars to office for decades.
I have nothing against actors turning to politics btw so long as they take it seriously as a different skill/job, not just another role to play.
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Correction: apparently 2 term limit applies even if interrupted, so edit scenario above for Kanye 2028.
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He can't run for two more terms unless they change the Constitution.
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I think Kanye would be an even bigger disaster than Trump since he’s smarter, more successful, and more messianically sure of himself. Like a nuttier black Reagan. Kim Kardashian as Nancy kinda fits the picture too.
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Well CNN appears to be calling Michigan for Biden. We appear close to electing the Defendent in the legal battle that will drown out Covid news and discipline for weeks, probably leading to a solid third wave death count.
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It’s tempting to cast Reagan as B-grade celeb POTUS like Trump but don’t forget he was a serious politician who was CA governor.
I can respect that path. Kanye though has too much A-grade celeb hubris to go up a real learning curve, and like Trump, is uninterested in doing so.
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Don't forget, Ronnie also had Nancy. You can't discount a motivated partnership. We mostly remember her for "Just say no!" but she was transformative in his view of self and politics.
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Sorry, my point is, I don't know if I'd agree that she's the same influence. Nancy radicalized. If anything, I suspect Kim deescalates behind the scenes. I'm hardly a fan, nor am I a Kanye-ologist, but there's definite patterns to his manic episodes and their wind down.
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