Kanye West gets labeled alt-right by Washington Post writer.

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One thing you can certainly say is that God has a sense of humor with the news cycle, because every day is an adventure. We'll get to all of the myriad adventures in just a second. First, I want to say thanks to our sponsors over at Birch Gold. So let's be real about this. You feel a little bit uncomfortable with the state of politics right now, do you not? You feel like the economy may be on a knife stage. Maybe you feel like it's going strong, or maybe you just want to invest for the future well whatever your case may be you should at least have some of your money in precious metals i'm not saying take all your money out of the stock market and stick it in gold i'm saying you might want to take some of your money and put it in precious metals because it's a good hedge against inflation against government interventionism it's a good hedge against volatility in the market. Well,

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on a routine basis, mainly because they didn't like that I was a cuck Jew and I didn't like that they were a bunch of anti-Semitic mind freaks. So I'm not fond of the alt-right. I find the alt-right despicable. And when I say alt-right, I don't mean people who like memes. I think memes are

funny. I don't mean people who voted for Donald Trump because the vast majority of those people

are not alt-right. I don't mean people who like memes. I think memes are funny. I don't mean people who voted for Donald Trump because the vast majority of those people are not alt-right. I mean people who are actual racists who believe that there is a white supremacy inherent in the color of your skin, which is stupid and ridiculous and anti-democratic. Well, the problem is that the left has now broadened out the label alt-right to apply to anyone. So they've labeled me alt-right, which is incredibly insane. I mean, like fully, full-on

insane, considering I was the number one target of the alt-right in 2016, according to the anti-defamation

league. I was the number one recipient of anti-Semitic tweets among Jewish journalists with a bullet.

I mean, I'm talking 40% of all anti-Semitic tweets directed at journalists, many of these from the alt-right, are directed at me personally. And yet now I am supposed to believe that I'm a member of the alt-right. What made me a member of the alt-right? What made me a member of the alt-right is that I am not on the left. And the latest beneficiary of this particularly bizarre line of logic is, of course, our future president, Kanye West. So a few days ago, I warned you that if you're conservative and you are supremely just in love with the fact that Kanye West is saying some mildly conservative things on Twitter, you might want to hold off. You might say, great, I'm glad he said that on Twitter. But before you start declaring that he's a presidential candidate, before you start saying he's a celebrity who knows things, you might want to take a look

at his older tweets, which include things like, for pillows are hard to sleep on. True, true,

I can't argue with that tweet, but not exactly in line with, I would say, the intellectual

thinking of the conservative movement. But because Kanye tweeted these relatively mild

things about how victim mentality is not good and how you ought to go out and work for yourself

and how he likes Candace Owens, who is the communications director of a Turning Point USA,

working with Charlie Kirk and both good folks, well now there's a person who's written

for the Washington Post. Her name is Molly Roberts, and she says that Kanye West is an alt-right darling, which is weird since the alt-right is not particularly fond of black people. But again, this is the way that the left shrinks that Overton window. The left says there is a window of acceptable rhetoric, and if you're not on the left, you are outside that window of acceptable rhetoric. Sure, Kanye spent most of the 2000 saying that George W. Bush was a vicious racist, but now he's out of the tent because he says that self-victimization is a disease. And that's, I think, a direct quote. So here is what this leftist writes over at the Washington Post. Quote, Kanye West was having a great weekend until he wasn't. One moment, the rapper, producer, entrepreneur,

was dispensing pearls of pseudo philosophy on Twitter to the retweets of adoring observers. The next, many of those Samin Myers had turned to denouncing him instead. Oh, and he had become an alt-right darling. Whatever West is going through at the moment, the response to his Twitter spree reveals more about the people who have fled from him and those who have flocked to him, too. West's fortunes reversed, writes this writer for the Washington Post, Molly Roberts, when he

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