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... and you thought Mike Judge really went out on a limb in Idiocracy?  In this crazy, upside-down world literally anything is possible, even the prospect of Kanye West sitting in the Oval Office, only this time behind the desk.  If the Donald can do it, anyone can!

We have four long months until the general election and things had been getting kind of boring.  Our billionaire rapper wasn't content to sit on the sidelines in 2020, watching the poll numbers of his "father figure" tank.  While most just consider this a blatant promotional campaign, some political pundits appear to be genuinely worried he can pull votes away from Joe Biden, especially after Elon Musk offered an endorsement of sorts.

Kanye represents one half of a billionaire power couple that has a lot of social influence, but will it translate into votes?  Of course, no one thought the Donald would get any further than the first primary and look who ended up sitting in the White House.  It seems Kanye, like many other conservatives, doesn't feel Trump has done enough, so he is offering a new "unifying vision" to make America great again by "trusting in God."

Obviously, you don't have to be original.  You just have to show a lot of enthusiasm, and Kanye has that in spades.  I've always kind of begrudged Dave Chappelle for introducing us to this guy on his show, but he had no way of knowing at the time what a menace Kanye would become.  It is virtually impossible to escape Yeezy no matter how hard you try.  He pops up everywhere, using many of the same promotional tricks Trump used back in the 1980s to make him a household name.

There are a lot of disgruntled Millennials who might be tempted to vote for Kanye.  Neither Trump nor Biden hold much appeal to them.  Few turned out in 2016 despite all of Hillary's celebrity endorsements, bummed their man Bernie wasn't in the general election.  Beyond this age group, Kanye has little or no appeal.  This is why you figure he has an upcoming album he wants to plug.

In the meantime we see an ever-deteriorating Trump who has lost his sense of political timing, pitching yesterday's news and promoting gardens no one is really interested in.  Certainly not the Sinatra family when they learned Donald wants a statue of their father in his garden.  He also has to contend with a pesky niece whose book his brother has been unable to stifle.  Why can't she be like Ivanka!

Events certainly appear to be conspiring against the Donald, to the point that a Kanye presidential run would probably have much greater impact on him than it would Sleepy Joe.  This despite a sizable handout to Yeezy, LLC, during the crisis.   Kanye has been lukewarm to BLM.  Apparently, only giving money at Kim's insistence.  Even Dave Chappelle has created distance from him after some of the outlandish things Kanye said back in 2018.  Not much chance he will siphon off much of the African-American vote from Biden.

Kanye is more toxic avenger than he is a unifying voice, still smarting from being called out by Obama in 2009.  He never got an invite to the White House, unlike Beyonce and Common.  Of course, he can always blame it on his sprained brain, rather than claim to have aced a cognitive test, which the Donald did at an RNC dinner.  Haven't we had enough damaged persons vying for our political attention?


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