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Pancho
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The Blacks came to the conclusion that his mom had the secret sauce to handling his bipolar disorder. She knew what to do and when to do it. The theory is hurt abrupt death hurt in more ways than one

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Just spit ballin here....  Should hit the shelves in two weeks  

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Everything is beyond parody. We're living inside a skit. Kanye actually became the over the top rapper, Taquil, from 'Frisky Dingo' all on his own. And I suggest anyone who likes laughter to watch Frisky Dingo. Every episode is on HBO Max. Taquil, the entitled, oblivious rapper, was voiced by Killer Mike. Much like 'Idiocracy,' they accidently predicted the future. Behold his controversial album Ballocaust:

 

 

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Pato del Muerto

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On 10/26/2022 at 9:47 AM, Neonmoon said:

It's almost if they just used his name and designed the shoes themselves. 

Yes and no. The designers are adidas employees (not sure if they get reassigned or terminated, will hear about they later I’m sure) and they designed the shoes. But Kanye had a level of creative control to say what he liked and didn’t like, what he wanted to see, etc. 

he also never came off as a narcissist the one time I was around him at an event, and they people we met that worked directly with him never described him in a way that I took to be narcissistic. 
 

juat very bipolar. The entire time they were in Cody, the employees and adidas fought making big expensive decisions because they expected him to fairly quickly change his mind. It was an accepted price for working with him. 

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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Yes and no. The designers are adidas employees (not sure if they get reassigned or terminated, will hear about they later I’m sure) and they designed the shoes. But Kanye had a level of creative control to say what he liked and didn’t like, what he wanted to see, etc.

I assumed as much. The same as any celebrity with a product. 

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On 10/27/2022 at 6:40 PM, Pancho said:

When you’ve lost TJ Maxx…

 

I once worked for TJ Maxx between jobs. I got stuck in the back with a bunch of skinny non-English speaking girls unloading huge boxes from trucks and emptying them and sorting them out and hanging them or placing them on carts to be taken into the store and then cutting down those boxes with box cutters. We were super excited one particular Friday before Halloween because we as a group of four cleared 200 boxes. In one hour. Apparently, we were expected to do this in 15 minutes. They have no tolerance so I’m shocked they took this long. Fuck Kanye. 

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8 hours ago, Pancho said:

Seems like something was clearly coordinated.  Thanks Fuck-ye

 

 

Why do I sense this phrase will be the next "Lets go Brandon". I expect to see GOP candidates close the campaigns down the home stretch wearing these

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Kanye is losing everything. The kardashian dashed as did his major endorsements. He’s incapable of sufficient introspection and won’t learn from the experience. No, he’ll blame and scapegoat like he did that damn Jew doctor who diagnosed Kanye bipolar. I hope Pete Davidson’s security is better than the Pelosis’. 

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I think the missed step is kind of the tie that binds all of these idiots together.  The Alt Right is like one big gathering of people who are liberated by the idea that their feelings no longer have to make sense in order to be right.

I googled "what did Kanye say about jews". I clicked on the first few links, that all referenced some kind of antisemitism, as well as the "death con" comment. That's all I could find. Crazy pills gif. 

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I googled "what did Kanye say about jews". I clicked on the first few links, that all referenced some kind of antisemitism, as well as the "death con" comment. That's all I could find. Crazy pills gif. 

K, maybe search harder?

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson, in clips released by Vice News, didn’t challenge Ye during an interview when the performer repeated a belief held by some that today’s Jews aren’t the legitimate Jews of the Bible. This is part of the doctrine held by the movement known as the Black Hebrew Israelites: that African Americans are the true descendants of ancient Israelites, a belief that is often blended with accusations that mainstream Jews aren’t the legitimate Jews.

“When I say Jew, I mean … the people known as the race Black,” Ye told Carlson.

In the interview, Ye also said there is some “financial engineering” to being Jewish.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/10/27/antisemitism-kanye-trump-adidas-jews/

He subscribes to some insane beliefs that Jews as we know them, either religious or ethnic, are not actually Jews. That's why he claimed to be a Jew in that tweet you reference, and he can't be antisemitic because he doesn't believe the people he's accusing are actually Jews. He has talked about this in other interviews too, and also believes in the "Jews control everything" conspiracy theory. He's not being shy about it, but it seems he's just hammering on the chords that make him famous or infamous because he's Kanye and that's just what he does. 

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So bad, Adidas was ok with losing $2 billion in revenue in dismissing him.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-01/kanye-west-adidas-split-was-brewing-for-years

 

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From the beginning, there were plenty of warning signs that Adidas AG’s collaboration with the rapper Ye was destined for debacle. But for anyone still unsure of the trajectory, the wake-up call came on the morning of May 3, 2018. Kanye West, as he was then called, had just suggested to celebrity gossip site TMZ’s newsroom that Black people in America had made a choice to remain in slavery for 400 years. Amid the outcry, Adidas’s shares plunged, calls for boycotting its sneakers grew, and Chief Executive Officer Kasper Rorsted appeared to do all he could to avoid tackling the subject head on. In a Bloomberg TV interview that day to discuss Adidas’s recent earnings, Rorsted said he wouldn’t speculate about every statement from all of his company’s external partners. “He’s been a fantastic creator,” Rorsted said, “and that’s where I’m going to leave it.”

 

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Except Rorsted couldn’t leave it at that—not for a minute of TV time, much less for the four years leading up to this fall. Had there been any talk at Adidas within the past 24 hours, a TV anchor wanted to know, about cutting ties with the rapper and designer?

“No,” Rorsted curtly responded.

 

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Last Tuesday, Adidas finally did cut ties with Ye, weeks after Gap Inc. had done so and days after a similar move by Kering SA’s luxury fashion line Balenciaga. The divorce was particularly significant for Ye because the deal had been his longest-running and most profitable corporate partnership. But it also could have major financial implications for Adidas, which had scored a huge win with the Yeezy line of sneakers and streetwear. The styles inspired by the rapper and social media star helped the company—long a leader in footwear and gear for sports such as soccer—to attract a young, hip international clientele that cares more about Instagram postings than instant replays. That cachet, and the premium pricing it allowed, has paid off: Morgan Stanley analyst Edouard Aubin estimates that the Yeezy line has been generating €1.8 billion ($1.8 billion) in annual sales, about 8% of Adidas’s total revenue and more than 40% of the company’s profits.

 

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Adidas had appeared to resist calls for ending the relationship in the face of Ye’s growing string of controversies that culminated with a spate of antisemitic remarks in October on podcasts and social media. Only when global calls for terminating the partnership reached seemingly unbearable levels did Adidas finally announce the split.

Within Adidas, there are mixed feelings about the slow reaction. Some of the company’s top executives hesitated because they first wanted to obtain opinions from outside law firms in the US that if Adidas went ahead with the termination of the Ye partnership, it wouldn’t be deemed as an obstruction of an ongoing court mediation process, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Still others disagreed with that stance, feeling that Ye’s behavior had become so offensive that it merited immediately cutting ties. 

Outside the company, the delay left the public to draw its own conclusions about Adidas’s motivations. Ultimately, the company on Oct. 25 released a statement denouncing Ye’s actions as “unacceptable, hateful and dangerous,” adding that they violated the company’s values of “diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.” Beyond that, Adidas has stayed silent, saying it will fill in more details of the Yeezy breakup and future of the partnership’s shoe designs when it delivers quarterly earnings on Nov. 9. Adidas declined to comment for this story.

“What was not in that press release is what they are going to do next and how they could learn from this,” says Lauren Compere, managing director and head of stewardship and engagement at Boston Common Asset Management, a longtime Adidas investor. “Frankly, this is a misstep from the company.”

To understand why Adidas might have waited weeks to renounce Ye’s unacceptable behavior, it helps to recall just how far behind Nike Inc. it had fallen in the decades since basketball’s Michael Jordan soared to global fame in the 1980s and ’90s. Rorsted’s predecessor, Herbert Hainer, set his sights on closing that gap in the 2000s, at first by spending $3.8 billion to acquire Reebok. When that strategy failed, Hainer shook up his brand management team and promoted a young executive named Eric Liedtke in 2014. Liedtke spearheaded the push for high-profile outside partners, tying Adidas to nonathlete celebrities such as Pharrell Williams, Beyoncé and Ye. 

Even from the start, Adidas executives were warned that working with Ye could be miserable. Nonetheless, they expanded the Yeezy product line in 2016 with an agreement calling for footwear, apparel and accessories—along with Yeezy-focused retail stores. The effort would be led by a dedicated Adidas team, based from the company’s North American headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

While many hoped Liedtke would take over as CEO, Adidas ultimately replaced Hainer in 2016 with Rorsted, a hard-charging tech industry veteran who’d once played for Denmark’s youth national handball team. Rorsted was already a darling of the German corporate world, having posted record profits during his stint as CEO of soapmaker Henkel.

Rorsted’s initial years at Adidas were golden. The share price soared thanks to fast-selling lifestyle sneakers like the Stan Smith and Superstar shoes, as well as the high-priced, red-hot Yeezy kicks. Ye appeared to be generally happy with the arrangement, too, and an inspiring figure to many of the young designers working on the Yeezy brand. For a while, many of these twentysomethings were willing to put up with Ye’s round-the-clock demands and sometimes unprofessional behavior, according to an Adidas employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Beneath the surface, there were signs of trouble. Even Adidas workers who’d admired Ye began to sour on him by 2018, when the rapper donned a “Make America Great Again” hat signed by Donald Trump—and then made his screed on slavery before the TMZ newsroom. That same year, Ye moved with his then wife, Kim Kardashian, and their kids to a ranch in Cody, Wyoming. Some of the 90 or so Yeezy-assigned workers relocated to Wyoming to work at a facility that Ye had demanded, which required transporting millions of dollars in machinery. The facility closed within six months, the person says.

Meanwhile, a series of crises engulfed Adidas headquarters in Herzogenaurach, starting with Liedtke’s decision to leave Adidas at the end of 2019. Then came the pandemic, which kicked off a series of other mistakes. First, Rorsted had to apologize and reverse a decision to refuse to pay rent at stores shuttered because of Covid-19 lockdowns. In the US, employees began protesting what they believed to be Adidas’s tendency to marginalize minorities, particularly Black workers. The discord intensified after the murder of George Floyd by a White police officer. Among the complaints was Adidas’s continued silence on the growing list of controversial statements from Ye. Rorsted replaced the company’s HR chief and went on an employee listening tour, an experience he described as “humbling.”

Adidas faced another blow after taking a stand on cotton sourced in the Xinjiang region of China, which had drawn foreign scrutiny after reports of forced labor. That touched off consumer boycotts in China of Western brands in 2021, which haven’t let up. Consumer companies like Adidas and Nike are still struggling to hire Chinese celebrities to market their products—with local brands rapidly gaining market share. That left Adidas even more reliant on the Yeezy brand to hit financial targets. And because of the Ukraine war, Adidas has pulled out of Russia, one of the few major countries where it’s long dominated Nike. Adidas has issued two profit warnings in the past few months.

Meanwhile, Ye had already been turning on Adidas—demanding a seat on the company’s supervisory board in 2020, accusing the company in the past year of copying his ideas on Adidas-brand products and making personal attacks against Rorsted on social media.

In August, with shares down more than half from their peak, Adidas put out a statement that Rorsted would step down early as CEO, clearing the way for someone else to “reset” the company in 2023. In a fit of schadenfreude, Ye posted, and then deleted, on Instagram a fake New York Times front page that said “Kasper Rorsted Dead at 60.”


From there, Ye’s behavior became more erratic. In early September, he called a Bloomberg reporter at midnight in New York to say he was done with corporations. “They steal my ideas,” he said. “It was all collusion, and it was just people trying to control Ye.” He soon got suspended from Twitter and Instagram for antisemitic posts, then caused a global uproar in early October for hosting a fashion show in Paris where he and models wore shirts that said, “White Lives Matter.” Days after that, Adidas finally put its partnership with Ye “under review.”

As Ye drew more negative publicity in the past couple of months, Adidas executives directed Yeezy staffers to keep working on the projects as if nothing was happening, according to a person familiar with the matter. Many are contractors and fear for their jobs now, the person says.

Ye ratcheted up his rhetoric with more antisemitic remarks—even saying that Adidas can’t fire him despite his antics—and the world began calling on the company to finally end the partnership. Letters came in from the Anti-Defamation League, celebrities took stands on social media, and boycotts of Adidas products picked up again in the US and Europe. Yet for weeks, Adidas declined to respond beyond its statement from Oct. 6—which stated that the “partnership is one of the most successful collaborations in our industry’s history,” but that after “repeated efforts to privately resolve the situation, we have taken the decision to place the partnership under review.”

Adidas didn’t stop putting out Yeezy products, however, and by RBC’s estimates, it may have generated €100 million of Yeezy sales in the first few weeks of October. Plenty of people accused the company of putting the pursuit of profit in front of principles, especially after a hate group hung a banner over a highway in Los Angeles supporting Ye’s remarks. Why, the public wondered, hadn’t Adidas—a company whose founder was an influential member of the Nazi party—not cut ties already? “Of course it’s money,” Doug Ellin, creator of the HBO hit Entourage, told TMZ during a Hollywood street interview early last week, echoing the thoughts of many on social media. “What other reason is there?”

At Adidas’s Bavarian headquarters, the matter seemed more complicated. Because of the scale of the Yeezy business, the company’s supervisory board needed to weigh in on the decision, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Meanwhile, Rorsted’s management team was waiting for the all-clear signal from two US law firms before acting. Once those opinions were in hand, the top management held an undramatic two-minute phone call and reached the decision. The press release went out, and in an instant, Ye’s billionaire ambitions vanished. Now Adidas faces a host of questions: Should the company keep selling Yeezy-designed shoes, just under the Adidas brand? If so, will consumers still want to buy the sneakers? How can Adidas win back customers in China, once its fastest-growing market? And can it ever afford to again become so dependent on a single celebrity? Coming up with answers will ultimately fall onto Rorsted’s replacement, whom, according to a person familiar with the matter, the supervisory board has hired two headhunting firms to seek out. One question that new leader won’t have to answer: What do we do about Ye?

 

 

 

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Exactly.  This asshole in particular pisses me off with his cancel culture persecution complex:

  1. He isn't being cancelled as a result of some giant conspiracy
  2. He is being collectively rejected by society because he is projecting socially repugnant ideas throughout society
  3. His "empire" has been built largely through social media influencing
  4. To the degree that his societal rejection is coordinated, it is as the result of social media influencing -- the calls on social media platforms for society to reject him because of his socially repugnant ideas
  5. He is a-ok with the power of social media to influence consumers when it benefits him, but as soon as it turns against him, it's a horrific tragedy
  6. He actively paints the societal rejection of him for his repugnant views as the result of a conspiracy by American jews to keep the black man down

The only people dumber than Kanye are those that believe fucking Kanye is any kind of victim.  But this isn't just Kanye.  There are SOOOO many influential people doing their absolute most to try to convince their audience into thinking America is out to get them, when they are simply being rejected by society for their socially repugnant ideas.  Kanye, Musk, Trump, etc....

It's almost enough to make you believe some foreign leader at odds with the United States and with dirt on all these mother fuckers has called in a shit ton of leveraged favors before the mid-term election.

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