{"id":1759950,"date":"2022-12-02T13:03:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759950"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:03:31","slug":"there-are-only-four-ways-to-explain-kanye-west-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-are-only-four-ways-to-explain-kanye-west-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Only Four Ways To Explain Kanye West Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthere-are-only-four-ways-to-explain-kanye-west-right-now%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759950&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Let\u2019s cut right to the chase:<\/p>\n<p>1: Kanye\u2019s stupid.<br \/>2: Ye\u2019s having a psychotic episode.<br \/>3: Saint Pablo thinks he can say anything and get away with it.<br \/>4: Yeezy just wants to be done with it all so he\u2019s burning his life down.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I\u2019m leaning on 4, but keeping my options open on 2.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the best I\u2019ve got. If you\u2019ve got another theory, hit me up at the email address below (I\u2019m open to other explanations).<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, West on Thursday praised Adolf Hitler and Nazis in a bizarre interview with far-right radio host Alex Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like Hitler,\u201d said West, who was wearing a full head cover that made him look like a mannequin. He fixed it a bit later, saying, \u201cI love Jewish people,\u201d but he lost it again when he added, \u201cbut I also love Nazis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At another point, Ye said, \u201cThe Jewish media has made us feel like the Nazis and Hitler have never offered anything of value to the world. I see good things about Hitler, also.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones laughed and interjected, \u201cWell, I have to disagree with that.\u201d When you\u2019ve got Jones to the Left of you, you\u2019ve done something wrong.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s work through my possible explanations.<\/p>\n<p>First, West isn\u2019t stupid. He might not be book smart, but he sure as hell is smart (dummies don\u2019t become billionaires by building massive empires in music, fashion, and art). So I\u2019m discarding that one.<\/p>\n<p>Second, Kanye\u2019s having a mental health issue. This is a strong possibility. West was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2016 but didn\u2019t make that public until his 2018 album Ye. Months after that, he told President Donald Trump that it was a \u201cmisdiagnosis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got some experience with schizophrenia (my aunt, my son) and I think Ye is on that spectrum. Medication (once the right combination is found \u2014 and that\u2019s not easy) can help, but psychotic episodes could still occur. When they do, rational thought goes out the window \u2014 but to the sufferer, everything still seems to make perfect sense.<\/p>\n<p>Third, Yeezy thinks he can just say whatever he wants and get away with it. Trump, one of his heroes, has the same delusion. \u201cI could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn\u2019t lose voters,\u201d Trump said at a campaign rally in January 2016 \u2014 and he still won.<\/p>\n<p>But West must\u2019ve at least learned a little lesson the last time he bashed Jewish people, when his sponsors bailed on him in droves and he lost a reported $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>So, fourth. The more I think about it, this one makes the most sense (after excluding No. 2, of course). What if you just wanted to be done with it all \u2014 the fame, the paparazzi, everything? You can\u2019t just put out a bad album (he has), charge $1,000 for sneakers (he does), or allege that Jews run Hollywood (that\u2019s an old saw many have played before).<\/p>\n<p>Nope, you gotta go full Hitler. You\u2019ve got to say that not only is Hitler not bad, he was actually good and offered things of \u201cvalue\u201d to the world. <em>That<\/em> one will rub just about everybody the wrong way (except for Mel Gibson).<\/p>\n<p>And the Aussie actor is a good example of how to incinerate your entire life in one fell swoop. Overnight, Gibson was finished in Hollywood and disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I\u2019m not sure Gibson is actually the best example here. He did disappear for a while, but then he made \u201cHacksaw Ridge.\u201d It got nominated for a bunch of awards, and now he\u2019s embraced by Hollywood again.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s my best guess. Sure, it could be No. 2 (and when you\u2019re a billionaire, no one can tell you what to do [think Michael Jackson using propofol, a powerful anesthesia, to go to sleep nightly]). In November 2016, he was committed to the UCLA Medical Center with hallucinations and paranoia. That\u2019s schizophrenia. And that\u2019s a lifelong malady.<\/p>\n<p>And it could still be No. 3, maybe he thinks at this point he can just say anything.<\/p>\n<p>One thing we know for sure: This mess isn\u2019t over. Ye\u2019s in the throes of \u2026 something, and it won\u2019t end until it plays itself out fully. Unfortunately, there\u2019s no stopping that now.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s cut right to the chase: 1: Kanye\u2019s stupid. 2: Ye\u2019s having a psychotic episode. 3: Saint Pablo thinks he can say anything and get away with it. 4: Yeezy just wants to be done with it all so he\u2019s burning his life down. Me, I\u2019m leaning on 4, but keeping my options open on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1759953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}