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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The E-Mail Newsletter for the Mogul Set</strong> - The media startup Puck is aiming to build a business by covering power and wealth from the inside. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-e-mail-newsletter-for-the-mogul-set">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sam Bankman-Fried, Effective Altruism, and the Question of Complicity</strong> - Leaders of the social movement had no way to know that FTX would collapse. But they also had every incentive to ignore warnings. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/sam-bankman-fried-effective-altruism-and-the-question-of-complicity">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Hacked Newsroom Brings a Spyware Maker to U.S. Court</strong> - When Roman Gressier, an American reporter working in El Salvador, found out that he and his colleagues were being surveilled, he feared persecution and worried for his sources’ safety. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-hacked-newsroom-brings-a-spyware-maker-to-us-court-pegasus">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Fight for a New National Monument in Texas</strong> - El Paso’s Castner Range could transform the way that underserved communities engage with the outdoors. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-fight-for-a-new-national-monument-in-texas">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Supreme Court Case That Could Upend Elections</strong> - J. Michael Luttig, a retired judge, discusses how Moore v. Harper could impact our democracy. Plus, Susan Orlean on the death of a snack food. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/the-supreme-court-case-that-could-upend-elections">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Democrats go to war with Iowa and New Hampshire over 2024</strong> -
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<img alt="A group of people seated in a living room raise their hands to vote." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Z64fpWxBykjonNq5Y8ODKE7ElWQ=/249x0:2300x1538/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71703439/1155623347.0.jpg"/>
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The precinct captain of a Democrat caucus counts hand votes for Sen. John Kerry of fellow Democrats gathered in a Winterset, Iowa, living room. | Marlin Levison/Star Tribune via Getty Images
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It’s Joe Biden’s Democratic Party and he’ll ditch New Hampshire and Iowa if he wants to.
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For a half-century, the presidential nominating calendar has been regular and predictable. But, on Friday, the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the DNC decided to blow up the 2024 primary process.
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The committee approved a new primary schedule that ended Iowa’s status as an early state and calls into question New Hampshire’s place on the calendar.
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The calendar <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/2/23488627/democrats-primary-iowa-michigan-joe-biden">was proposed</a> by President Joe Biden earlier this week and greatly diminishes, if not ends, the longstanding places of Iowa and <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/13/23400859/politics-new-hampshire-america-quirkiest-state-explained">New Hampshire</a> in Democratic nominating contests. Both were states where Biden did poorly in 2020. In a letter <a href="https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DNC_Letter.pdf">proposing the change in the calendar</a>, though, Biden emphasized the need to ensure voters of color had a bigger role in the nominating process.
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The new schedule puts South Carolina first on Saturday, February 3, 2024, a move that came as a surprise to top Democrats in the Palmetto State. The draft calendar then has New Hampshire and Nevada three days later on February 6, followed by <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/georgia-on-everybodys-mind">Georgia</a> on February 13 and Michigan on February 27. The full Democratic National Committee will almost certainly ratify this calendar early next year.
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This means that the Democratic nominating contest will begin with South Carolina, the only state where Tom Steyer in 2020 and Al Sharpton in 2004 have finished in the top three in a presidential primary. However, it’s likely to set off a chaotic scramble over which state goes first.
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National political parties don’t determine when states hold their nominating contests. That’s the subject of state law. However, national parties are fully within their rights to sanction states that don’t follow their rules for how to hold nominating contests, or throw out the results altogether.
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In advance of rolling out this new schedule, the Democratic Party already added more teeth to its ability to crack down on states that buck the DNC to hold nominating contests earlier in the primary. Recent rules changes give the <a href="https://www.frontloadinghq.com/2022/09/2024-democratic-party-rules-changes-may.html">party more latitude to crack down</a> on candidates who campaign in states that hold unsanctioned contests.
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In setting the calendar, the resolution passed Friday also requires state elected officials to pledge to abide by DNC rules, otherwise they lose their position as an early state. In Georgia, it requires Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state, to certify that he will hold the state’s presidential primary on February 13. This would either require Georgia to hold two entirely separate presidential primaries or for the Peach State to jump the line in the Republican nominating process. A spokesperson for Raffensperger did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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But Georgia is a sideshow in this. The real targets are Iowa and New Hampshire, which have been the first two states in Democratic presidential primaries for generations and have perennially been the target of resentment as a result. Removing Iowa from the calendar accomplishes that cleanly. The state has been an obvious target since its fiasco in reporting results during the 2020 caucuses, which were in part the result of rules changes imposed on the Hawkeye State by the national Democratic Party. Scott Brennan, a DNC member from Iowa, told Vox, “We’re disappointed and believe the calendar passed ignores a vast swath of the US. There is no pre-window state in the Central or Mountain time zones. “
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In <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23488229/trump-2024-gop-presidential-primary">the Republican presidential primary</a>, Iowa is maintaining its traditional role as the first nominating contest and there is no reason that state Democrats couldn’t ignore the DNC and go at the same time. The entire national media will already be camped out in the state and any contest will receive significant coverage even if the caucuses would amount to no more than a glorified beauty contest.
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The new rules also implicitly target New Hampshire and set up a conflict where the state legally cannot abide by the DNC’s rules. Under state law, New Hampshire’s primary must go first in the nation, seven days before any other state. (Iowa does not conflict with this because a caucus is deemed sufficiently different from a primary.)
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The DNC resolution going into effect would require New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu and Jason Osborne, the state’s GOP House majority leader, not only to agree to repeal the state’s first-in-the-nation primary law but also to change state election law to allow more widespread early voting. In a statement, Sununu said, “This was Joe Biden’s decision, and once again, he blew it. … The good news is that our primary will still be first and the nation will not be held to a substandard process dictated by Joe Biden and the Democrat Party.” Osborne simply sarcastically told Vox, “Yes, I have a letter for the DNC. Looking forward to sending it.”
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Joe Sweeney, the former executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party and a state representative there, told Vox, “I would say it’s likelier President Biden comes back to New Hampshire to campaign again after all this than any New Hampshire Republican caving to DNC bullying regarding our FITN law … New Hampshire won’t be bullied by DC and certainly not by the DNC Rules Committee or the president.”
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Ray Buckley, the longtime chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, succinctly told reporters, “We’ll have first in the nation, and whatever sanctions they have, so be it.”
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This sets up a spiraling conflict over the calendar and opens up the possibility for other states to go rogue and move up. There is precedent for this. In advance of the 2008 presidential primary, the final calendar wasn’t set until December 2007, and even then there was conflict over Michigan and Florida going rogue and holding primaries in defiance of the DNC, which was not resolved until May 31, 2008, at the very end of the primary process.
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But this is a year in which conflict over the calendar has comparatively few consequences. If, as expected, Biden runs for reelection, he is unlikely to face a serious challenge for the nomination. This means that any conflict over the calendar will happen during an election that is likely to be a fait accompli.
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But what it does mean is that there is a precedent set in advance of 2028, which will be a wide-open field, to minimize the role of Iowa and New Hampshire. It will open the door for new fights, over exactly what states come first, that will happen with potential candidates posturing for the calendar to help them.
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For all the criticisms of Iowa and New Hampshire as too white or too rural or too unrepresentative of the Democratic Party, their place on the calendar at least provided certainty and an electorate that, for better or worse, was accustomed to vetting presidential candidates. That’s not the case moving forward. The next competitive Democratic presidential primary will happen without any preset calendar or clear rules of the road.
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In the meantime, the Republican presidential calendar is set and a host of candidates will show up in Iowa and New Hampshire as usual in advance of 2024, while the national Democratic Party might go to war with the state parties in both states.
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Kanye West at Paris Fashion Week, October 2022. | Edward Berthelot/GC Images
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Kanye West is dining with white supremacists and openly praising Hitler. How did we get here?
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Fake children, lost Black tribes of Israel, and vast conspiracies, all leading to <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/what-we-know-about-donald-trumps-dinner-with-nick-fuentes.html">an incendiary Thanksgiving-week dinner</a> with Donald Trump and a hard-line white nationalist and public praise of Hitler’s Nazi regime: This is not the Kanye West we used to know.
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Ye, né Kanye, habitually draws headlines for more than just his music, whether it’s for his outspoken comments on race and politics, his beefs with other artists, or his contentious relationship and divorce from Kim Kardashian. Ye is so much, all the time, that it might be easy to skim past the last several months<strong> </strong>of non-stop Ye controversy.
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But even for Ye, his abrupt public embrace of antisemitism and counterintuitive right-wing political rhetoric, resulting<strong> </strong>in his bringing avowed white nationalist <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/11/20948317/alt-right-donald-trump-jr-conservative-tpusa-yaf-racism-antisemitism">Nick Fuentes</a> to dine with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, has been disturbing. He’s since followed that up with a swift tour of right-wing media, including <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/infowars/rapper-ye-goes-unhinged-antisemitic-rant-infowars">an appearance</a> on Infowars in which even the famously incendiary Alex Jones had to counter Ye’s blatant antisemitism.
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The controversy following the November 22 dinner has led to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/us/politics/trump-nick-fuentes-dinner.html">multiple</a> defenses from Trump, in which he consistently claimed to have no idea who Fuentes was but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/donald-trump-shied-away-from-criticising-nick-fuentes">reportedly chose not to distance himself</a> from the ideologies espoused by West or Fuentes. In one of his more recent attempts at disavowing the incident, issued on Truth Social on November 26, Trump <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/what-we-know-about-donald-trumps-dinner-with-nick-fuentes.html">framed</a> the entire event as a backfiring attempt to “help a seriously troubled man” — that is, West himself.
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Trump claimed Ye had asked him for “advice” on whether or not to launch another run for president; three days after the dinner, West <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/25/kanye-west-presidential-run-2024">officially announced</a> his candidacy. In a <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-ye-west-releases-bombshell-campaign-video-for-2024-presidential-election-talks-trump-kim-kardashian">since-deleted tweet</a> accompanying the announcement, Ye shaded Trump, bragging that he’d asked the former president to be his running mate, and praised Fuentes, describing him as a loyalist. He also indicated he’d invited disgraced right-wing reactionary Milo Yiannopoulos, whose controversial career flamed out in 2017 after old remarks surfaced in which he <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/20/14673036/milo-yiannopoulos-cpac-pedophilia-tape">defended</a> pedophilic relationships, to be his campaign manager. Meanwhile, the backlash against Trump has been so severe that it’s caused even formerly loyal Trump advisors to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/25/trump-fuentes-ye/">distance themselves</a>.
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Kanye, however, has seemed completely unfazed — and unfortunately, his bizarre antisemitic outbursts have only escalated. Following the Mar-a-Lago scandal, he appeared on right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool’s podcast on November 28, accompanied by Fuentes and Yiannopoulos. However, after a 20-minute rant against various individuals, in which he repeatedly alleged a Jewish conspiracy to suppress him, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-west-storms-out-of-interview-after-tim-pool-lightly-defends-jews">Kanye abruptly ended the interview</a> when it seemed as though Pool might push back against his antisemitism by resisting his guests’ use of “they” and “them.”
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On December 1, the situation, somehow, worsened when <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/infowars/rapper-ye-goes-unhinged-antisemitic-rant-infowars">Kanye appeared</a> on <em>The</em> <em>Alex Jones Show</em>. Over the course of the broadcast, he repeatedly praised Hitler and the Nazi party, insisting that he “loves” Nazis and “likes” Hitler, and at one point blatantly declaring, “The Jewish media has made us feel like the Nazis and Hitler have never offered anything of value to the world.” His remarks placed Jones in the rare position of attempting to help Kanye walk back his extremism by reminding him that Nazis “did a lot of very bad things.”
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“But they did good things, too,” Ye responded. “We’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all of the time.”
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That was in the morning. By evening, Ye had been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/business/media/kanye-west-twitter-suspension.html">indefinitely suspended from Twitter</a> for posting an image of a Nazi swastika inside of a Star of David.
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It might be hard to understand how West, in no time at all, has become a poster child for antisemitism and white nationalism — but that’s partly because so much has happened so quickly. Beginning with an October 3 appearance at Paris Fashion Week, through a controversial Fox News interview — and <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ad77y/kanye-west-tucker-carlson-leaked-footage-antisemitism-fake-children">unaired footage</a> from it that was even more controversial — and then on social media, Ye has revealed the latest phase of his <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/10/11/17961438/kanye-west-donald-trump-racism-white-house">bizarre political evolution</a>: A growing embrace of antisemitic conspiracy rhetoric, a turn toward white supremacist rhetoric concerning the death of George Floyd, and the surprise purchase of a controversial right-wing social platform.
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On October 25, amid growing pressure, sportswear powerhouse Adidas <a href="https://www.adidas-group.com/en/media/news-archive/press-releases/2022/adidas-terminates-partnership-ye-immediately/">announced</a> it was ending its longtime partnership with the rapper amid the controversy. Kanye’s relationship with the company spanned almost a decade and included multiple collaborations with Kanye’s <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/kanye-wests-net-worth-reportedly-jumps-to-6-6-billion-4153244/">billion-dollar clothing line</a>, Yeezy.<strong> </strong>
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Overall, Ye’s behavior and statements have raised public concern and debate over his politics, the nature of his growing extremism, the state of his <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2022/02/kanye-west-bipolar-disorder.html">well-known mental health issues</a>, and whether anyone in his position should be given a platform at all.
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Even more alarmingly, his recent hateful rhetoric has begun to embolden white supremacists who’ve recently been <a href="https://twitter.com/samyebri/status/1584246059269644288">spreading</a> bigoted hate speech — and using West’s name to bolster their arguments.
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The hip-hop legend made headlines for all the wrong reasons when he showed up at Paris Fashion Week to stage a guerrilla fashion show related to his own YZY clothing line. Ye invited his friend of some years, controversial conservative pundit <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/30/18045104/kanye-west-blexit-t-shirts-design-candace-owens">Candace Owens</a>, to attend the event, which the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/style/yeezy-kanye-west-paris-fashion-week.html">characterized</a> as a messy “experience” that was more about celebrating the aura of Ye than the clothes on the runway.
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Ye and Owens used up every bit of media attention on themselves by wearing matching “white lives matter” shirts, which she <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-west-candace-owens-don-white-lives-matter-t-shirts-at-paris-fashion-weeks-yzy-season-9-presentation">proudly shared</a> on social media. The phrase <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/white-lives-matter">originated</a> with extremist white supremacist groups in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and is <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/12/16138244/charlottesville-protests-photos">closely associated</a> with white supremacist ideology.
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The ensuing outrage this stunt provoked might have quickly faded like most Ye-related outrage, had he not quickly followed it up with an even more shocking appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show. The interview, a two-hour pre-taped conversation with Carlson, was filmed in response to Ye’s fashion show and aired over two nights on October 6 and 7. In the interview, Ye <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/kanye-west-white-lives-matter-shirt-vogue-1235235487/">explained</a> that he thought wearing the shirt would be “funny” and a mark of both his “brilliance” and his connection to God. “The answer to why I wrote ‘white lives matter’ on a shirt is because they do,” <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1578177211017797633">he said</a>. Carlson inserted commentary throughout, reminding viewers to observe how sound of mind and rational West appeared.
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Throughout the interview, Ye made provocative insinuations about Jews and money and went on unprovoked tangents. His unsettling statements suggest he is growing increasingly paranoid, adopting a range of bizarre conspiracy theories and delusions, and harboring growing antisemitic tendencies. As disconcerting as the interview itself was, Vice <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ad77y/kanye-west-tucker-carlson-leaked-footage-antisemitism-fake-children">later reported</a> that Carlson’s show strategically edited it to make Ye’s remarks appear more coherent and less antisemitic than they apparently were. Even the broadcast footage was striking, however.
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At various points, Ye did seem to be his old trenchant self. He indicated he’s still, at least nominally, thinking about the impact of racism, regardless of what T-shirts and hats he wears. “For politicians, all Black people are worth is an approval rating,” he told Carlson, in a direct criticism of Trump. “The Democrats … and the Republicans feel that they don’t owe us anything.”
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But he also seemed fixated on the idea that Blackness itself is an identity that Black people need to distance themselves from. The concept of Blackness was, he alleged, created by white people. Instead, he offered up Black community power — through the form of real estate development and financial control — as an alternative, bizarrely adding, “The people that make money and the powers that be, I am your true Nikola Tesla.” It’s not clear what he meant by this, but it sums up the interview as a whole: some sharp observations colliding with a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/07/carlson-fox-news-kanye-west-elites/">fixation on power</a>, characterized by incoherence, grandiosity, and conspiracy rhetoric.
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Ye’s conspiratorial thinking was on display at several moments that made it to air — like when he <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/kanye-west-tells-tucker-carlson-media-is-working-to-keep-lizzo-fat-as-a-genocide-of-the-black-race/">accused the media</a> of conspiring to keep fellow rapper Lizzo fat in order to promote “clinically unhealthy” lifestyles. (Lizzo seemed <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lizzo-kanye-west-body-shaming_n_63439f17e4b0281645363059">unfazed</a> by the shade.) He explained the media’s motive as “the genocide of the Black race.”
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Ye also <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-says-kanye-west-telling-truth-after-speculating-gap-and-media-knew-about">claimed to Carlson</a> that “the people at The Gap” knew about the <a href="https://www.vox.com/23180392/uvalde-texas-police-response-failure-timeline-robb-elementary">Uvalde mass school shooting</a> before it happened, a statement Carlson smoothly finessed into Ye suggesting that it was a “coordinated message” from the media. (It’s not clear what the connection was, but given Ye’s <a href="https://apnews.com/article/kanye-west-4e4ff0d466f7a1a622339e03232a1ca1/">recent contractual disputes</a> with The Gap, it seems possible that Ye’s reference to “78 specific outlets” that he implied had coordinated a shooting-related message was a reference to Gap outlets that Carlson misinterpreted as media outlets.)
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Unsettlingly, Ye <a href="https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1578209001199833089">accused</a> Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner of orchestrating Middle East peace treaties in order “to make money” for himself. Then he added, “I think that’s what they’re about. I don’t think that they have the ability to make anything on their own. I think they were born into money.”
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At the time of the interview airing, you could be forgiven if you interpreted Ye’s use of “they” here as a reference to Trump’s relatives. But it would soon become alarmingly clear that Ye was being straightforwardly antisemitic here, embracing one of <a href="https://www.vox.com/22256258/marjorie-taylor-greene-jewish-space-laser-anti-semitism-conspiracy-theories">the oldest, most bigoted conspiracy theories</a> — that Jewish people secretly control the world’s systems of finance.
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This became rapidly apparent once Ye blasted out more antisemitic remarks via Instagram and his only recently revived Twitter account, in posts that both platforms have since removed. Ye first posted to Instagram, sharing <a href="https://www.xxlmag.com/kanye-west-war-diddy-texts/">a long series</a> of screenshot texts between himself and fellow rap legend Sean Combs, after Diddy apparently tried to reach out to share his concern for Ye promoting the “white lives matter” slogan. Ye, clearly angry, told Diddy he was focused on selling his merch. Then he added, “Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.”
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The outcry over Ye’s antisemitism was immediate and sustained, and his Insta posts were quickly deleted. But Ye then tweeted into the ensuing wave of backlash. He revived his account by linking <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/10/08/musk-welcomes-kanye-west-back-to-twitter-after-hes-blocked-by-instagram-over-apparent-antisemitic-post/">a Forbes article</a> about <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/10/5/23390008/elon-musk-fix-twitter-decline-peter-kafka-column">likely future Twitter owner Elon Musk</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1578769394536452097">welcoming him back</a> to the platform following his Instagram cancellation. In the same tweet, however, he <a href="https://archive.ph/SeTt7">abruptly threatened</a> the world’s 15 million Jewish people: “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 [sic] on JEWISH PEOPLE,” he wrote, an apparent reference to going on “defcon” military alert.
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Though this tweet was deleted — and Ye’s Twitter account was <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/10/kanye-wests-twitter-instagram-locked-over-offensive-posts-00061089">briefly locked</a> in response, though it was quickly unlocked — another, in which Ye seemed to <a href="https://archive.ph/z35Su">rhetorically suggest</a> Jewish people invented cancel culture, initially remained online. It was also eventually deleted.
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The statements drew a <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/10/10/john-legend-more-stars-slam-kanye-west-over-anti-semitic-tweet/">wave of backlash</a> from fellow celebrities and Jewish organizations. LA’s Holocaust Museum <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/10/11/kanye-west-invited-to-holocaust-museum-after-anti-semitic-words/">invited him to visit</a>; the Anti-Defamation League strongly condemned him and <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/unpacking-kanye-wests-antisemitic-remarks">began tracking</a> his hateful statements. Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1579627776231247874">tweeted</a> that he’d talked to Ye and expressed his concerns, which he indicated vaguely “I think he took to heart.”
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Incredibly, all of this happened before <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ad77y/kanye-west-tucker-carlson-leaked-footage-antisemitism-fake-children">Vice revealed on October 11</a> that Carlson had strategically edited his interview with Ye, and that the parts that didn’t air were even <em>more</em> offensive and conspiratorial in nature.
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Some of the edits were directly political, like Fox’s omitting Ye’s offhand comment that he received the Covid-19 vaccine. But most fully undermined his credibility and claim to rationality. Most of the unaired antisemitism regurgitated the “Jews control finance” conspiracy theory, but some was convoluted and difficult to parse, like when he claimed that Black people were the real “12 lost tribes of Judah,” a claim that seemed to be linked to an <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/extremist-sects-within-the-black-hebrew-israelite-movement">extremist religious sect</a> that believes Black people are really Jewish.
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“I mean, like actors, professional actors, placed into my house to sexualize my kids,” he told Carlson. He referred to the “so-called son” of an associate, seemingly to imply the child was fake. “We don’t, we didn’t even believe that this person was her son because he was way smarter than her, right?”
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While this is all pretty heartbreaking for Yeezy fans, it didn’t stop there. During an October 16 <a href="https://www.revolt.tv/video/2022-10-16/244710/ye-drink-champs-video/">appearance</a> on Revolt’s <em>Drink Champs</em> podcast, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4oy0FlCVGc">Kanye brought up</a> Owens’s <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-candace-owens-film-premiere-ray-j-kid-rock-photos-1235155497/">recently released propaganda film</a>, <em>Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM</em>. (The podcast episode has <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/kanye-ye-west-george-floyd-drink-champs-podcast-pulled-1235242504/">since been removed</a>.)
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“I watched the George Floyd documentary that Candace Owens put up … They hit him with the fentanyl,” he said. “If you look, the guy’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.” Owens’s film purports to question the official findings about Floyd’s death, bolstering a thoroughly <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56670912">debunked argument</a> used by Derek Chauvin’s defense at <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/27/22350040/derek-chauvin-murder-trial-george-floyd">his trial for Floyd’s murder</a>. Kanye then went on to protest “the Jewish media” for censoring him.
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Kanye is clearly smarting from recent run-ins with media and social media platforms that have censored him for hateful rhetoric and disinformation. On October 17, the controversial platform Parler announced that <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/17/1129405942/kanye-west-ye-twitter-ban-parler">Kanye West would be acquiring it</a> for an undisclosed amount. Parler is known for housing right-wing extremism, harboring disinformation and conspiracy theories, and welcoming Donald Trump after he was <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22221543/twitter-suspended-trump-account-permanent-ban">banned from Twitter</a>, all under the banner of free speech. It’s currently owned by Owens’s husband, George Farmer, who <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/kanye-west-to-buy-libertarian-social-media-platform-parler-11666003746">told the Wall Street Journal</a> that conversations about the purchase arose during Owens’s appearance at Kanye’s fashion show.
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This is obviously a lot to process. But the basic problem with all of these statements is that it’s unclear how much is pure trolling for publicity, how much Ye really believes, and how much his long history with bipolar disorder has spiraled into a disturbing increase of volatile behavior and activity. (Bipolar disorder, of course, does not cause antisemitism.)
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This question has hovered over his public behavior for years, but especially ever since his very public breakup with Kardashian: That is, is he embracing a deliberately edgy public performance in order to commandeer the spotlight, perhaps to sell products or draw people to his <a href="https://www.nme.com/news/music/kanye-west-wants-turn-homes-into-churches-3120078">growing religious commune</a>? Or is he truly going down a mental health rabbit hole, the way so many people have as they get drawn into <a href="https://www.vox.com/21558524/conspiracy-theories-2020-qanon-covid-conspiracies-why">conspiratorial beliefs</a> or struggle with personal stressors?
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Unfortunately, this nuance doesn’t matter to the actual white supremacists and antisemitic extremists whose own bigoted ideas have found mainstream expression thanks to Kanye. On Saturday, October 22, antisemitic demonstrators in Los Angeles rallied on a freeway overpass, displaying a banner declaring “Kanye was right.” Over that same weekend, residents in Beverly Hills were <a href="https://twitter.com/samyebri/status/1584246059269644288">targeted with bigoted fliers</a> promoting hate speech and antisemitic propaganda. While the demonstrations have <a href="http://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-23/kanye-is-right-about-the-jews-more-antisemitic-hate-seen-in-l-a-after-rappers-remarks">reportedly been happening</a> in the area for several weeks, Ye’s comments appear to have added fuel to an already blazing fire.
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Prior to 2005, West largely confined his controversial opinions to his excellent hip-hop albums, but that changed with Hurricane Katrina. A live celebrity-studded fundraising effort during the disaster went completely off the rails when West, standing next to a dumbfounded Mike Myers, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/8/23/9191907/hurricane-katrina">famously shone a spotlight on the inherent racism</a> behind the Bush administration’s handling of the disaster: “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people.”
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In his current conservative mode, Ye has since <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kanye-west-donald-trump-bush-doesnt-care-about-black-people_us_5bbf8adbe4b0bd9ed5580b8b">attempted to distance himself</a> from that statement, saying it represented a “victimized mentality.” But at the time, what made this moment instantly historic was not only the greater truth it represented about politics and racism, but Ye’s casually blunt approach, as if there was nothing else he <em>could</em> have said and he wouldn’t even know how to approximate saying anything else more polite.
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It was the same casually shocking approach he used when <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/8/26/20828559/taylor-swift-kanye-west-2009-mtv-vmas-explained">interrupting Taylor Swift’s award acceptance at the 2009 VMAs</a> four years later to declare straightforwardly that Beyoncé should have won instead — another legendary moment that spawned the <a href="https://people.com/music/kanye-west-famous-inside-his-and-taylor-swifts-relationship-history/#:~:text=September%2013%2C%202009%3A%20Kanye%20West,moment%20that%20started%20it%20all.">subsequent decade-long feud</a> between Swift, West, and Kardashian. Heading into the 2010s, West steadily ramped up both his interpersonal conflicts and his edgy, unpredictable behavior: His early friendship with Drake abruptly became another <a href="https://www.iheart.com/content/2021-09-16-drake-kanyes-beef-timeline-explained-the-versus-before-verzuz/">decade-long feud</a> when he cut Drake from his 2010 single “All of the Lights.”
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2013 saw him first dally with white supremacist symbols, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/04/us/kanye-west-confederate-flag/index.html">wearing a confederate flag</a> that he claimed he was attempting to “reclaim.” He also <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kanye-west-confederate-flag-shirt-explained_n_4173200">sold the flag shirt as merch</a> for his “Yeezus” tour that year. The debate about that stunt was essentially the same as the debate we’re having today: Was Ye genuinely trying to create discussion and dialogue, and if so, what kind of dialogue could be created around such an incendiary symbol? Or was it a pure publicity stunt? In 2013, though, West had yet to publicly flirt with white supremacist principles, so this debate in the abstract felt less real than it subsequently would.
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By 2016, however, he was <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/kanye-west-trump-support-231601">voicing his support</a> for Trump and wearing MAGA hats. In 2018, he caused public outrage when he stated during an appearance at TMZ that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/entertainment/kanye-west-slavery-choice-trnd">slavery was “a choice</a>.” In 2020, he ran for president himself, albeit in <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-presidential-run-analysis-9477968/">the most erratic way</a> possible. P.R. Lockhart <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/10/11/17961438/kanye-west-donald-trump-racism-white-house">smartly outlined West’s political evolution</a><strong> </strong>for Vox, pointing out that it’s always been linked to his quest for cultural power and influence. Somewhere around the time he was donning the confederate flag, he seemed to become enamored with the idea of co-opting controversial iconography and rhetoric, as if absorbing them into his personal brand could negate their power. But over time, his use of symbols and rhetoric have grown more extreme and more violent — so much so that it’s gotten hard to keep track — and further gotten hard to tell how much of this is irony, how much of it is innocence, and how much of it is a sincere embrace of white supremacist rhetoric.
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Complicating all of this is his mental health. In 2020, he raised <a href="https://pagesix.com/2020/09/18/kanye-west-leaves-fans-concerned-as-he-tweets-about-being-murdered/">widespread alarm</a> for what seemed to be <a href="https://www.essence.com/celebrity/kanye-wests-spiral-things-havent-been-right-since-halloween/">a significant mental health spiral</a> during the deterioration of his relationship with Kardashian. Throughout 2022, he’s drawn repeated concern over his artistic depictions of his ex-wife’s then-boyfriend Pete Davidson, after <a href="https://www.complex.com/music/kanye-west-shares-skete-davidson-dead-at-age-28-ig-post-after-reports-of-kim-pete-split">repeatedly</a><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/8675735/kanye-west-pete-davidson-video-eazy/"> describing Davidson’s murder</a>. Again, we have to ask: Is it a real obsessive fixation, or is it trolling? And at what point does it stop mattering?
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Throughout this period, he’s been drawn to critique the idea of “cancellation” and criticism. Promotion for his 2021 album <em>Donda</em> saw him <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22652228/donda-kanye-west-album-controversy-explained">conflagrating</a> a stage version of his childhood home at a concert featuring musicians Marilyn Manson and DaBaby, who have been accused of sexual assault and homophobia, respectively. All of this suggests he’s creating an insulated bubble for himself that renders him impervious to criticism. After all, troublesome artists who’ve been criticized themselves are arguably less likely to judge him for his own controversial behavior. And we saw how he reacted when Diddy tried to reason with him. This is a man who, after all, has always had <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/20/showbiz/music/kanye-west-god-complex-yeezus">a god complex</a>.
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On top of everything, he’s seemingly going down a very niche religious path — both through his quirky “<a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/ywydqm/kanye-west-coachella-performance-sunday-service-on-easter">Sunday Service</a>” and his new “<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kanye-west-donda-academy-school-1234593961/">mysterious religious school</a>.” As we’ve seen with another recent celebrity downward spiral, that of <a href="https://www.vox.com/23013773/ezra-miller-arrest-restraining-order-what-happened-the-flash-hiatus">Ezra Miller</a>, the whole “cult-like religious commune” thing will likely inflate his ego and validate the narrative of specialness he’s writing himself into — none of which is likely to encourage him to seek help for whatever is going on with him.
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Ye’s rhetoric has brought significant consequences. High-end designer Balenciaga <a href="https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/demna-balenciaga-breaks-up-with-ye-anti-semitic-threats-hate-speech-1235397358/">dropped Ye</a> as a partner around October 20, amid the growing backlash. Hollywood’s powerful Creative Artists Agency, which represented Kanye on tours, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kanye-west-caa-talent-agency-drops-ye-antisemitism/">dropped him as a client</a> on October 24. MRC, the film production company behind successes like <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/9/12/20857504/knives-out-review"><em>Knives Out</em></a>, <em>Ted</em>, and Netflix’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/23220006/netflix-persuasion-review-dakota-johnson-jane-austen-henry-golding"><em>Persuasion</em></a>, announced in a <a href="https://www.mrcentertainment.com/newsroom/shelving-of-our-kanye-west-documentary-and-two-important-lies%EF%BF%BC">lengthy callout post</a> on its website on October 24 that it would no longer move forward with plans to distribute its recently completed documentary on Kanye’s life. “The silence from leaders and corporations when it comes to Kanye or antisemitism in general is dismaying but not surprising,” the company’s leaders stated.
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In the biggest blow to Kanye’s fortunes, his lucrative partnership with Adidas was initially <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/business/kanye-west-adidas-partnership-review">under review</a> and ultimately dissolved. Under growing scrutiny, the company <a href="https://www.adidas-group.com/en/media/news-archive/press-releases/2022/adidas-terminates-partnership-ye-immediately/">announced</a> on October 25 that it was ending its partnership with Ye and his Yeezy clothing line. The sportswear giant said in the statement that pulling its Yeezy collaboration would cost it up to 250 million euros, or $248 million, in net 2022 income. Still, “Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous,” the company stated. Kanye <a href="https://twitter.com/stopantisemites/status/1583151910932336641">boasted</a> on the <em>Drink Champs</em> podcast that he could “say antisemitic shit and Adidas can’t drop me … now what? Now what?”
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It’s a good question. Perhaps the dismay of his own fans will prove to be a corrective; in reaction to his latest wave of pro-Nazi rhetoric and overt Holocaust denialism, Reddit’s r/Kanye sub declared itself over and began filling with Holocaust awareness <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Kanye/comments/zace5d/never_again/">posts</a> (and, more humorously, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Kanye/comments/zafg9f/hi_swifties_whats_your_favorite_taylor_swift_album/">odes</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Kanye/comments/z9xumg/she_made_graduation/">to</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Kanye/comments/za04u1/this_is_now_a_taylor_swift_subreddit_we_had_a/">Taylor Swift</a>).<strong> </strong>“We had a good thing,” <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Kanye/comments/z9wxz9/we_had_a_good_thing_you_stupid_son_of_a_bitch_we/">ran one post</a>, riffing off a <em>Breaking Bad</em> meme. “[W]e had Jay Z, we had the best album of all time, we had everything we needed and it all ran like clockwork. You could have shut your mouth, sang, and made as much money as you needed, but you just had to blow it up, you and your pride and your ego.” On December 1, the same day West appeared on Alex Jones to tout Hitler, Billboard tweeted — then quickly deleted — <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kanye-west-top-gospel-artist-billboard_n_63890ce2e4b0151bdb1f65b4">an announcement</a> that Kanye West was the year’s top-selling gospel artist. If Ye’s looking for validation from fans, he’s losing it fast.
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In perhaps the most telling sign of change, the House Republican Judiciary Committee’s official Twitter <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-judiciary-republicans-delete-kanye-elon-trump-tweet-rapper-prais-rcna59654">finally deleted</a> its controversial “Kanye. Elon. Trump” tweet. The account had tweeted the incendiary statement in October, implying that West, Trump, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2022/11/28/23473239/elon-musk-twitter-ceo-leadership">new Twitter owner Elon Musk</a> were heralding a new cultural era of right-wing political ascension. Apparently there’s no room in that group for Hitler.
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Still, thus far,<strong> </strong>the fallout from his behavior and rhetoric has only made Kanye double down, and as long as he’s able to find media to platform his reprehensible views, he’s committed to airing them. It’s unclear whether those outlets will manifest now that he’s begun praising Nazi Germany. What is clear is that the Ye we see before us isn’t the Ye we once knew. The clear-sighted Kanye of 2005 and 2009 has been replaced by a guy who claims people are hiring out replacement children just to mess with him.
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Ye answers to almost no one, so it’s unclear what, if anything, can get through to him and curb his mayhem, especially following his divorce from and anger toward Kardashian. Certainly, it won’t be a smirking Tucker Carlson, encouraging him by telling him he’s “speaking the truth.” Someone needs to speak the truth to Ye about himself — if anyone still can.
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<em><strong>Update, December 2, noon ET: </strong></em><em>This story, originally published on October 12, has been updated multiple times, most recently to include information about Kanye’s latest appearances in right-wing media and the reactions to them. </em>
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A low-key push by Democrats to rework their 2024 presidential primary calendar was thrown into chaos by President Joe Biden Thursday, when Biden proposed an unexpectedly sweeping reshuffle that it’s far from clear the party will be able to enact.
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Democrats had already been anticipating kicking Iowa out of their list of states permitted to hold early contests. Then, the expectation was, they’d decide whether New Hampshire or Nevada would go first, and which Midwestern state should be added to join South Carolina and round out the roster, with the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee set to make a recommendation this weekend.
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Biden’s proposal Thursday then “came as a shock” to leading Democrats, the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/01/2024-primaries-biden-democrats/">Washington Post’s Michael Scherer and Tyler Pager reported</a>. Iowa would still be dropped. But the president wants South Carolina to go first, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada on the same day, then Georgia, and then Michigan.
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In a <a href="https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DNC_Letter.pdf">publicly released letter to the Rules and Bylaws Committee,</a> Biden did not mention that specific state lineup, but said that it was “unacceptable” that Black voters “have been pushed to the back of the early primary process.” Making South Carolina go first and adding both Georgia and Michigan as early states would certainly address that concern, since Black voters make up a large share of the Democratic electorate in all those states.
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But one catch — and a big one — is that Democrats don’t actually have the power to move these states’ official primary dates. Republicans control state governments in New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Georgia, and a Republican will soon be inaugurated governor of Nevada, too. The Republican National Committee <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rnc-makes-no-changes-to-their-2024-presidential-nominating-calendar-a-day-after-dnc-upends-their-schedule">has already declared</a> it will make no changes to the Republican nominating calendar, and New Hampshire officials have pledged to ensure no primary goes before theirs. And even Democratic officials in <a href="https://www.wmur.com/article/democrats-washington-primary-new-hampshire/42127592">New Hampshire</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/dylanewells/status/1598516278179889154">Nevada</a> have already criticized Biden’s proposal.
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Theoretically, state Democratic parties in these GOP-run states can opt out of the state-run primary and hold their own nominating contests on different dates. But that would mean opting out of state funding and election administration and having the party run the contests themselves — an expensive and logistically difficult prospect, particularly given that Biden also said he wants to maximize participation and <a href="https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DNC_Letter.pdf">abandon caucuses</a>.
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Overall, Biden’s proposal is an unmistakably bold rethink of an early state lineup that doesn’t make much rational sense and has been left in place due to inertia and fear of stirring up controversy. But he may learn soon enough why prior party leaders have been hesitant to rock the boat.
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Neither the Democratic nor Republican Party centrally plans a full schedule for the months-long staggered series of primaries and caucuses that end up determining the presidential nominees — state governments or parties pick their own dates for their particular contests. But after too many states tried to leapfrog each other to go earlier in the process, both national parties laid down restrictions about who gets the special privilege of being an “early state” — one that goes before the floodgates are open for everyone and has the power to greatly <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/1/25/10817088/iowa-caucus-2016-poll-trump-sanders">influence national perceptions</a> about which candidates can actually win.
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Since 2008, Democrats have designated four early states in the following order: Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. They get a whole month to themselves. If any other state tries to jump the line, they’ll be punished by the national party, as Florida and Michigan <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/08/a_calendar_in_chaos.html">found out that year</a>. But Iowa and New Hampshire have held on to those first two spots since the 1970s, <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-01-28-9601280262-story.html">tenaciously fighting back</a> against anyone else who tries to go in front of them. They’ve romanticized how their small states let retail campaigning and one-on-one interactions, not just big money and ad buys, matter. Yet critics have argued that a racially diverse Democratic Party shouldn’t give two overwhelmingly white states their two most privileged calendar spots.
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Inertia persisted until Iowa started really screwing up. The two most recent Democratic presidential caucuses there were controversial and messy. The issue in 2016 <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/2020/01/17/iowa-caucuses-2020-preference-cards-realignment-rules-should-help-credibility/2847207001/">was a lack of a paper trail</a> on the actual vote count for the caucuses (which happen predominantly through in-person discussions). Because of that, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/1/30/21083701/iowa-caucuses-results-delegates-math">reforms for 2020</a> were aimed at increasing transparency, but in practice they complicated the reporting process, badly slowing down results, which <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/us/politics/iowa-caucuses-democrats.html">ended up taking</a> about a week to get. Technical difficulties and obvious errors in the count <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/9/21125703/iowa-caucuses-2020-final-results-pete-buttigieg-wins">made the whole thing</a> look like a clown show.
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This time around, there was a sense among many in the party that Iowa’s time was up. Rather than explicitly target Iowa, the DNC said it was opening up the whole early state lineup and invited any state party to apply. In April, they laid out standards for their decision — diversity, general election competitiveness, and feasibility of moving and running a contest.
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Over a dozen state parties applied (and the existing early states reapplied). But until Thursday night, what was expected was a pretty simple change: Iowa out at the beginning of the group, and Minnesota or Michigan in toward the end of the group (since the DNC had promised at least one Midwestern state would go early), with the drama being whether New Hampshire or Nevada would get the nod to go first.
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Biden’s own views, though, were a mystery. Just days ago, a Politico report <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/29/democrats-primary-calendar-00071074">described</a> “frustration among some DNC members about the silence from the White House,” quoting one DNC member saying they’d support whatever Biden wanted, but that the White House “has given us nothing.”
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Now Biden has weighed in. And his proposed early state lineup — South Carolina, then New Hampshire and Nevada on the same day, then Georgia, then Michigan — is significant for several reasons:
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It moves South Carolina, the state that <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/2/29/21151054/joe-biden-south-carolina-primary-democratic-winner-2020">famously rescued his presidential ambitions</a> in 2020, first.
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Biden has no love for the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primaries. In his 2008 run for president, he finished fifth in Iowa and subsequently dropped out. In 2020, he did nearly as badly, coming in fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire — but he recovered to come in second in Nevada, won South Carolina big, and then dominated on Super Tuesday. Those results give him a decent argument that, in addition to being unfavorable to him personally, Iowa and New Hampshire are simply out of step with the national Democratic Party.
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When it comes to ideology, Sanders did relatively well in both 2016 and 2020 in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada — states that Biden is demoting — and he did poorly in both years in South Carolina and Georgia, states Biden is promoting. Michigan is tougher to categorize, since Sanders upset Clinton there in 2016 but lost big to Biden there in 2020. But overall, allotting two of five early state spots to Southern states probably wouldn’t help progressives’ chances in future presidential contests.
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It’s not even clear if Democrats will have a contested nomination in 2024 if Biden runs again, as he’s suggested he will. So it’s unclear whether, if these changes are adopted, they’ll matter much in the near term. Additionally Biden’s <a href="https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DNC_Letter.pdf">letter stressed</a> that he intended these changes to apply only to the 2024 cycle, and that the DNC should review the calendar every four years — but once you get added as an early state, that’s likely a big advantage in your favor as you seek to retain that position in the future. So how this plays out likely will matter, at least eventually.
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Part of the reason Biden’s proposal is so surprising is that it seems to disregard the rather important practical question of whether Democrats can even implement these calendar changes.
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To understand why, keep in mind that primaries are run and administered by state governments — not the parties. It’s expensive to hold a statewide primary and challenging to administer one, and the state government is generally best experienced at doing so. But if you want the state to foot the bill, the state picks the date. Primary dates generally are set in state law, and moving those dates would require passing new laws.
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So while technically either party is free to hold its nominating contests whenever they like, in practice most let the state government take care of it. And in three of Biden’s proposed early states — South Carolina, New Hampshire, and Georgia — Republicans fully control the government. They likely will not be eager to move primary dates in accordance with Joe Biden’s wishes. And the RNC <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rnc-makes-no-changes-to-their-2024-presidential-nominating-calendar-a-day-after-dnc-upends-their-schedule">has already said</a> it would make no changes to its own calendar. (New Hampshire state law requires the state to hold the nation’s first primary, and empowers the secretary of state to move the date to make that happen.)
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Michigan is the exception — Democrats won control of their legislature and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) was reelected), so the party can move the primary when they want. That’s one reason it was expected the DNC’s eventual proposal wouldn’t change much besides dropping Iowa and adding Michigan at the end of the lineup. Indeed, the party nodded to this in making “feasibility” one of its main criteria to judge its proposed calendar changes, but Biden seems not to have shared that goal.
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Theoretically, it would be possible for state Democratic parties in GOP-run states to opt out of the government-run primaries and fund and run their own nominating contests. Many parties have run caucuses for that reason in the past. But caucuses require in-person attendance at a specific time, and that lowers turnout, so Democrats have soured on them — indeed, Biden wrote in his DNC letter that he wanted to “rid the nominating process” of caucuses. A “party-run primary,” as <a href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/firehouse-primary/">a few Democratic states used in 2020</a>, is another alternative, but, again, it would be expensive and daunting to make it as accessible as a normal state-run primary.
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All that means that Biden’s proposal may well be more aspirational than realistic. Michigan will likely become an early state, but there are big question marks around what happens with every other state as well as the overall order.
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And even Biden’s idea, ambitious as it is, didn’t address some of the biggest problems of the current system. One is simple unfairness: Why should some states’ voters get special privileges to be treated as more important than others, because of their place on the calendar? The other is volatility: Does it really make sense to have a major-party nominee so heavily influenced by the exact sequence of four or five states out of 50 that go first? The impact of the early states can often feel random and arbitrary. Without a more sweeping overhaul, that won’t change.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>FIFA World Cup | Beware the Asian march</strong> - Asian countries have forced traditional giants to sit up and take notice at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, with three teams from the AFC making it to the Round of 16, and two others exceeding expectations</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>FIFA World Cup 2022 | Argentina, Netherlands eye quarterfinals as last 16 kicks off</strong> - The USA and the Netherlands open the Qatar World Cup second round, while Argentina takes on Australia later</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Gujarat opposes in Supreme Court bail pleas of some convicts in Godhra train burning case</strong> - Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta said these convicts threw stones on the Sabarmati Express at Godhra which prevented people from escaping the burning coach</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Learning to survive in Ladyzhyn, a town with no heating</strong> - Ladyzhyn’s 18,000 people went without heating for a week after Russian missiles hit its power plant.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Police foil group trying to steal Banksy mural from Ukraine wall</strong> - Police arrested several people who cut the artwork from the wall of a war-torn building in Hostomel.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Poland says stolen Kandinsky auctioned in Germany</strong> - The German auctioneer suspends finalisation of the sale after an angry response in Poland.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>OLED monitor selection is pathetic. 2023 can change that</strong> - There’s reason to hope for greater OLED monitor variety in the new year. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1901593">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Apple slices its AI image synthesis times in half with new Stable Diffusion fix</strong> - Creating AI-generated images on Macs, iPhones, and iPads just got a lot faster. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1901694">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Samsung’s Android app-signing key has leaked, is being used to sign malware</strong> - The cryptographic key proves an update is legit, assuming your OEM doesn’t lose it. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1901603">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices</strong> - CryWiper masquerades as ransomware, but its real purpose is to permanently destroy data. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1901752">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Report: Apple’s upcoming VR and AR operating system has a new name</strong> - Bloomberg report claims that Apple has begun referring to it as “xrOS.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1901632">link</a></p></li>
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