"I Like Hitler".... Yeah, Never Go Full Nazi; It's Won't End Well
Someday Ye will be the answer to a very bad trivia question
Remember back in the good ol’ days? What was that, October? When Kanye West, or Ye, or whatever he’s asking to be called these days, was still someone the Republicans held up as “Our Black Guy?” Of course, eight weeks can be SUCH a long time on the political clock today.
One day you’re a hero, part of the GOP’s Holy Trinity- “Kanye. Elon. Trump.”
The next, you’re so radioactive the Republicans no longer so much as want to utter your name. And all it took was three little words.
No, not THOSE three words, the ones your significant other never says to you anymore because they’d rather spend their time in front of the television watching Trauma Zone with a pint of Americone Dream and your dog. No, the three little words were “I LIKE HITLER.”
It doesn’t matter what the context of those three words might have been, not even if it was something as seemingly innocent as
I LIKE HITLER for the crime because he had means, motive, and opportunity.
I LIKE HITLER; he’s cute, and all the girls say he’s got some major Big Dick Energy going on.
I LIKE HITLER for $500, Bob.
I LIKE HITLER, but the cheeseball mustache has GOT to go, or our target demographic will never accept him as a NASCAR driver. That’s what he’s going to Charlottesville for…right?? And why is there a white robe and hood in the back seat of his race car?
I LIKE HITLER despite the fact he has a strange fascination with clearing land of Jews so Germans can live there.
I LIKE HITLER in the Spring when the dewy flowers turn a young man’s mind to thoughts of love…and race war.
No, no, no. Period. End of Story. No Q&A period will be allowed. Capice?? There is no acceptable use for “I LIKE HITLER.” The man is responsible for the genocide of six million Jews and millions of others during WWII- and those are just the civilians. This is not the sort of thing one jokes about or makes light of. The man was a monster, and his Third Reich was the most efficient killing machine Mankind has ever known.
There was nothing praiseworthy about Hitler, the Nazis, or the Third Reich, so the minute you begin talking about them, you are on a slippery slope that will inevitably end with you irreparably embarrassing yourself.
And it doesn’t help matters when Alex Jones is the one asking the questions and trying to rescue you from yourself.
A Republican congressional Twitter account quietly deleted a tweet shouting out Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, after the antisemitic superstar praised the genocidal Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Alex Jones’ InfoWars show Thursday.
The Oct. 6 tweet ― which simply read “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” ― was deleted without comment from the House Judiciary Committee Republicans’ account as Ye appeared on Jones’ show, alongside the white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and repeatedly praised Hitler and the Nazi Party.
On Jones’ show, Ye said “I see good things about Hitler,” and claimed that Nazis “did good things too.”
“We got to stop dissing Nazis all the time,” Ye said. During the broadcast, he wore a black mask that fully covered his face.
At another point he said: “The Jewish media has made us feel like Nazis and Hitler have never offered us anything of value to the world.”
Yikes…" good things about Hitler….” “We got to stop dissing Nazis all the time”…surely Ye is beginning to recognize that he needs just to SHUT THE F**K UP, right?
Au contraire, mon ami. Once Ye had his size 15s in his mouth, he discovered they didn’t taste so bad. And so he kept chewing.
Elsewhere, Ye claimed that “woke culture is controlled by the Zionist media,” and declared: “I do love Hitler. I do love the Zionists. I love everyone.” Jones interjected: “That’s a good T-shirt, ‘I Love Hitler.’ I’m joking.”
In light of such militant buffoonery, one wouldn’t be out of line to think that the GOP would drop like a flaming turd. And one would be sadly mistaken. I don’t recall hearing a single Republican utter a peep in condemnation of Ye and his comments. Not surprising, given the party’s recent history of providing refuge to bigots, racists, Nazis, homophobes, misogynists, Islamophobes, anti-Semites, and haters of all stripes.
What else could one expect from the party of White Conservative Christian heterosexual males, eh?
When former GOP Chair Reince Preibus once said the GOP should be the “Big Tent Party,” I don’t think this is what he hand in mind.
It was easy for the GOP minority on the House Judiciary Committee to take down their worshipful tweet praising Ye. He was a token to them, anyway. The sad thing is that Ye still doesn’t understand how cynically Republicans are using him to achieve their ends. Ye has betrayed himself and his best interests, as well as those of the Black community. Not that Blacks must be one monolithic ideological bloc any more than Whites are, but the Black minority in this country struggles enough without Ye setting their cause back.
Then there’s the reality that Ye has self-imploded his musical and design careers, likely costing him billions over the next few years, all because he couldn’t keep certain specific thoughts to himself. Whether this is from ignorance or a mental health issue is impossible for this outside observer to know, but it’s clear the man needs help. But, unfortunately, self-sabotage is never a sign that things are A-OK in Denmark.
I understand the idea of wanting to be an iconoclast, to shake people out of their slumber and get them to think- really THINK- about what’s happening in the world. Perhaps that’s Ye’s strategy here. Perhaps not. Whatever the case, I can’t help but think that his antics are a cry for help and that those around him are exploiting that cry for their own selfish ends.
I hope this doesn’t end with Ye penniless, his life and financial house stripped for parts and left on the curb. I don't care about his music, opinions, or career, but the man needs help. I hope he can get what he needs before he burns everything he once cared about to the ground.
And then I hope he’ll fade into the oblivion he so richly deserves.
It’s hard to watch. For a lot of reasons.