Kanye West rants at VMAs: I have decided to 'run for president'

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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In typical Kanye West fashion, the rapper delivered a rambling, nonsensical speech when he was presented with the Video Vanguard Award at the 2015 VMAs on Sunday night.

Taylor Swift politely presented Kim Kardashian’s husband with the award, and after he stood silently on stage for several moments, he ranted about crashing Taylor Swift’s award acceptance speech six years ago.

Then, in a seemingly never-ending soliloquy West bashed MTV for reairing the clip of him interrupting Swift on stage and for having her present him with the award.

“I don’t understand award shows!” West ranted. “F—k that, bro”

At one point in his speech, West said he was on drugs.

“Ya’ll might be wondering, 'did he smoke something before he came out here?' The answer is yes, I rolled up a little something. I [took] the edge off.”

He drifted between topics, often speaking about kids and society.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen tonight. I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, bro. But all I can say to my fellow artists, is just worry about how you feel at the time.”

Surprising no one, West said he is self-assured.

“I’m confident. I believe in myself. We [are] the millennials, bro. This is a new mentality. We are not going to control our kids with brands. We are not going to teach low self-esteem and hate to our kids. We are going to teach our kids… to believe in themselves.”

At one point, he insisted, “It ain’t about me. It’s about ideas, bro.”

He ended his speech by declaring he would run for president.

“And yes, as you probably could have guessed by this moment, I have decided, in 2020, to run for president.”

[Goofy]

Fuck off Kanye, no-one cares anymore

[PorkChopSandwiches]

[Teh One Who Knocks]

We [are] the millennials, bro. This is a new mentality. We are not going to control our kids with brands. We are not going to teach low self-esteem and hate to our kids. We are going to teach our kids… to believe in themselves.

[DemonGeminiX]

Idiot kids would vote for him.

[deebakes]

Fuck off Kanye, no-one cares anymore

shut up meg

[redred]

if i could i'd vote for him to be president for you guys , then return to living in the UK

[DemonGeminiX]

if i could i'd vote for him to be president for you guys , then return to living in the UK

Idiot kids would vote for him.

[Hal-9000]

Things like this are scary. If a person gets enough votes..

[DemonGeminiX]

Hopefully the electoral college would have a lot more sense.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Things like this are scary. If a person gets enough votes..

Hopefully the electoral college would have a lot more sense.

Hal thinks the average American has some kind of vote that matters

Hal, when voting for president unless you are part of the electoral college your vote doesn't mean shit, they are supposed to vote as the people they represent want them to, but are not required and can ultimately vote for whoever they feel like. So all us averge Joes just cast a vote to feel better, but not to make a difference

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Hal thinks the average American has some kind of vote that matters

Hal, when voting for president unless you are part of the electoral college your vote doesn't mean shit, they are supposed to vote as the people they represent want them to, but are not required and can ultimately vote for whoever they feel like. So all us averge Joes just cast a vote to feel better, but not to make a difference

I am pretty sure, at least in the last 150 years, that the Electoral College has never voted contrary to how the popular vote in each state has gone.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I am pretty sure, at least in the last 150 years, that the Electoral College has never voted contrary to how the popular vote in each state has gone.

157 times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector

In 157 instances, electors have cast their votes for President or Vice President in a manner different from that prescribed by the legislature of the state they represented. Of those, 71 votes were changed because the original candidate died before the elector was able to cast a vote. Three votes were not cast at all when electors chose to abstain from casting their electoral vote for any candidate.[8] The remaining 83 were changed by the elector's personal interest, or perhaps by accident. Usually, the faithless electors act alone. An exception was the U.S. presidential election of 1836, in which 23 Virginia electors conspired to change their vote together.

As of the 2012 presidential election, there has been only one occasion when faithless electors prevented an expected winner from winning the electoral college vote outright: in 1836, twenty-three faithless electors prevented Richard Mentor Johnson, the expected candidate, from winning the majority of votes for the Vice Presidency. However, Johnson was promptly elected Vice President by the U.S. Senate in February 1837; therefore, faithless electors have never changed the expected final outcome of the entire election process.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

You just proved my point, it's never happened. The person that won the election for President has always won, the Electoral College has never gone against the will of the people.

[Hugh_Janus]

can you imagine this guy being the most powerful man on the planet?

:shudder: