Okay everybody, here we go. Kanye West is running for president of the United States of America.

Maybe I could tell you I told you so. I didn't tell you he was going to run for president,

but I did very carefully tell everybody to watch Kanye West back in 2019 that many of the

cultural shifts will happen in his wake and in the wake of people

like him. So we're going to look at what's going on. We're going to look at some of his

pronouncements, the frame that he is proposing for his run in the presidency. And we will also see

what the end of clown world can look like. What happens when

the fool starts to say things, which are the wise things that no one dares to say anymore?

And this seems to be the case in Kanye's pronouncements. And so we'll look at all of that,

and we will see what it can tell us about this moment in culture.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

So in July 4, 2020, Kanye West announced officially that he was running for the United States presidency.

He has said things like this before. He has mentioned that he would like to run for the presidency, but he had been pointing now to 2024.

But now this announcement came on the 4th of July, on this strange 4th of July where

people weren't allowed to celebrate, but we saw these mass celebrations nonetheless. We saw

all these people putting out fireworks from their homes, hundreds and hundreds of people.

It was pretty astounding to see it happened. It actually looked like the end of a

movie. There is this one clip where you see all these fireworks going off and then you see, you hear in

the background a reporter basically going, but, but, but, but we told you're not allowed. You're not

allowed. You can get fine for doing this. And it really looks like the end of a movie where

everybody is defying, you know, the evil tyrannical power or something like that. So it was fun.

But so Kanye announced that he was going to run and there was quite an amount of frenetic energy,

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