Kanye West wants you to donate to his campaign so he can become the 46th POTUS, and he's making the pitch by laying out his positions on various issues, and one thing's clear ... he's playing to both Democrats and Republicans.
Ye, who calls his platform, "Creating a Culture of Life," is seeking contributions ranging from $20 to a grand. As for his positions, the first is revealing ... "Restore faith and revive our Constitutional commitment to freedom of religion and the free exercise of one's faith, demonstrated by restoring prayer in the classroom including spiritual foundations."
That seems to be a cornerstone of his campaign ... freedom of religion, which for him includes a hard-line, antiabortion stance. This position clearly targets Republican voters.
But, then he pivots to the Dems, promising to reduce household debt and student loan debt. He also wants to restructure the educational system, by opening it up to "at-risk and vulnerable populations."
He takes a stand on policing, promoting policies that "treat all Americans the same, regardless of race, color, or ethnicity." And, he promises to protect the environment by promoting clean air and water as well as renewables.
And, then he pivots back to Republican voters, promising to "place Americans' best interest first and foremost." He also vows to "Maintain a strong national defense."
Kanye says he's not a spoiler ... he's in it to win it. This turn shows he's trying to win votes by traversing party lines.
Again ... in a close election, he could make a difference. The question ... who would he help and who would he hurt?
This is as painful as it is revealing to watch. A man absolutely LOSES IT at a restaurant, because they took too long to prepare his order.
It happened in, of all places, Canada ... famous for its friendliness. The man was at the Chinese Garden restaurant in Blind Bay, British Columbia when he exploded at the waiter for taking way too long to place his order.
He screams that he's waited an hour and needs to feed his 2-year-old.
The person who shot the video, Amanda Toms, says the man showed up during the Friday night dinner rush, adding, "A delay on food is no excuse to treat people this way. This restaurant is a local gem and the owners are wonderful people. Be kind, it's not that f***ing hard."
She says the guy tore out of the parking lot and almost swerved into some parked cars.
If people are losing it in Canada, we're in big trouble.
Nick Cannon says America needs another Black man in the White House ... that's why he's team Kanye 2020.
Nick was at LAX Friday when the photog asked him what he thought of Ye's run. Answer: "I love it!"
Now, the photog took it a step further and asked if he'll still be with Kanye when he casts his ballot, and Nick gave the semi-emphatic "Yes." We say semi because there's clearly a slight smirk.
On another subject ... Nick was asked about his recent troubles over some anti-Semitic comments. Nick has been earnest in attempting to educate himself ... even meeting with rabbis.
Viacom gave Nick his walking papers for "Wild 'N Out" ... so the photog asked if he felt "cancel culture" was out of control. Nick's answer was genius ... it shouldn't be cancel culture, it should be counsel culture.
This is disgusting ... a woman claiming to be a member of the "Freedom to Breathe Agency" tried to bully and threaten a store employee who apparently dared to tell her to wear a mask.
The woman tells the worker she can be personally sued for trying to enforce the mask policy. It seems the woman entered the store to make a point, because she's holding a clipboard with documents ... one of which she hands to the employee which outlines what the woman says is the constitutional right not to wear a mask. Just ridiculous.
The business card for the "Freedom to Breathe Agency" is super deceptive ... it has a Dept. of Justice logo emblazoned on it. For the naive ... this is NOT a government agency.
The card reads ... "Wearing a face mask posses (sic) a mental and/or physical risk to me. Under the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) I am not required to disclose my condition to you."
She might as well start the "Right to Die Agency" ... because that's effectively what she's promoting.
It all went down at the Full Throttle Saloon in Sturgis, South Dakota. The crowd seemed to be singing the theme song to "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
People were cheering and having a great time ... all things that become dangerous, especially indoors when there's no social distancing and no masks.
The Rally in years past has drawn up to half a million people. This year, because of the pandemic, city officials are expecting closer to 250,000 people. It's already jam-packed. Preventative measures are suggested but not required. The event will go through next weekend.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian have had a rough few months, but there's still room for joy ... and that's exactly what they got when North busted a move, to the delight of her parents.
The family is in the Caribbean as Kim and Kanye try and work on their marriage, but on Friday night Ye was singing "Push The Feeling On" and then jumped out of his golf cart and started dancing. North then followed suit, jumping off the golf cart and joining in.
Kim's shooting the vid and she's laughing hard as Kanye and North do their dance-off. North jumps back in the golf cart as Ye runs alongside it.
Kanye posted the video Friday night, declaring, "IT’S FRI-YE-YE!!!"
Katy Perry is a week or 2 from giving birth, which makes this video all the more impressive as she accepts Orlando Bloom's challenge to show everyone her moves.
It was Friday, after all, so Orlando challenged Katy to dance to the beat of "Push The Feeling On" by Nightcrawlers.
Katy, who's in the car with her fiance, jumps out, raises her shirt and reveals an impressive baby bump ... then shows off some moves that others who are 8 1/2 months pregnant might not do so effortlessly.
Good to see Orlando laughing. As we reported, his beloved dog died a few weeks back, and it really tore him up.
Though the reasonable, safe and smart decision would have been to cancel the legendary Sturgis Motorcycle Rally ... the South Dakota city's doing what it can to keep it from becoming a COVID super-spreading event, and good luck with that.
Thousands of people have rolled into Sturgis for the 80th edition of the famous biker convention, and it's expected to draw 250k over the next 9 days.
As you know from President Trump's July 3 Mount Rushmore event, face coverings and social distancing were often shunned ... but here's what the City of Sturgis is doing to try to combat coronavirus spread.
The small town canceled all of its downtown events that take place during the rally that typically lead to large gatherings in confined areas ... including the grand opening celebration, parade and tattoo contest.
It's also installed hand sanitizer at every street corner in the downtown area, and we're told the Public Works Dept. has added a sanitizing fogging system to its nightly cleaning of the high-trafficked area.
A few more lax guidelines from the City include ASKING temporary vendors to abide by CDC guidelines, REMINDING them to physically distance and SUGGESTING they wear masks.
However, we're reminded that these are just recommendations but will not be enforced ... and there will be no tickets or criminal repercussions for not abiding.
Instead, Sturgis says it's relying on visitors to use common sense and take all measures necessary to protect their own health while attending the biker convention.
Oh, and Sturgis residents who are asymptomatic following the rally can get a free COVID-19 test ... so if they do contract the virus, at least they'll know it.
Kim and Kanye are giving it the 'ol college try to save their marriage, as tongues are wagging over the Bradley Cooper/Jen Garner sighting. So we gotta ask ...
The Libertarian Party's candidate for President has been sidelined .... 'cause she was bit by a bat.
Jo Jorgensen had a rally scheduled in Louisiana but she had to cancel, because somewhere on the campaign trail a bat took a bite out of her. She announced, "I will not be able to attend the campaign rally tomorrow morning ... I will be getting a rabies vaccine as a precaution after having been bitten by a bat near the start of this campaign tour!"
It's no laughing matter ... these shots are supposedly super painful, but life-saving because bats can be carriers of rabies. People who contract rabies and don't get the vaccine have virtually no chance of survival.
Jorgensen, btw, is a psychologist and university lecturer. Her campaign positions oppose the right to sue firearms manufacturers in cases where gun violence was committed by someone who never should have possessed a firearm.
Dana White says he's still talking with Floyd Mayweather about working together on another combat sports event -- telling TMZ Sports, "We're interested on both sides."
Of course, Floyd made a handshake deal with Dana back in 2019 to set up a fight involving the UFC.
But, all of Floyd's fight plans came to a screeching halt in 2020 following a series of personal tragedies and the COVID-19 pandemic.
We're told Floyd was left reeling after both his ex, Josie Harris, and his uncle, Roger Mayweather, died in the span of a week ... and fighting was the last thing on his mind.
Now, however, Dana says he's talking with Floyd ... and a possible collaboration is far from dead.
"Floyd and I still have dialogue and go back and forth. We're still interested on both sides."
White added an event is still "very possible."
So, who's the opponent? A boxing rematch with Conor McGregor perhaps?
"No no no. I know he would rematch Conor McGregor but I don't know if you heard about this but Conor McGregor's retired," White says.
McGregor announced his retirement from MMA back in June claiming he's lost his passion for the sport -- but no one really believes him ... except maybe Dana?!
"When I'm doing things right now and running business, I don't even think about Conor. Conor is retired. As of right here now today, Conor is retired until Conor tells me differently, I'm not trying to make any fights for Conor."
When challenged about Conor's true career plans, White explained it this way ...
"He is retired right now. He's not fighting. So, per my contract with fighters, I owe them three fights a year. If I do not deliver three fights a year, I have to pay them their money. Conor McGregor is retired."
Don't let these two almost identical images of Shay Mitchell have you feeling confused ... keep your focus and start turning those wheels in your head as you try and spot the sneaky switches that have been made to this tricky pic!
The actress was recently spotted on mom duty while out in Vancouver, Canada ... and we have made a few changes to the pic! Take a really good look around both of these snaps to see if you can spot the differences between these two almost similar snaps!
**HINT -- There are THREE differences in the above photographs!**
Carole Baskin is picking a catfight with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallionover theirnew music video, which she says sends a terrible message and is harmful to the future of big cats.
Carole tells TMZ ... the worst part of Cardi B's new music video is the way it glamorizes rich folk keeping tigers as pets, and she thinks it makes "every ignorant follower want to imitate by doing the same."
As we reported ... Cardi and Megan dropped the video to "WAP" Friday, and it's loaded with sexually suggestive imagery and lyrics, a Kylie Jenner cameo and tons of exotic cats, which is upsetting Carole.
While Carole is glad the cats likely weren't really in the room with Cardi and Megan -- only photoshopped in -- she says posing wild animals in front of green screens and using them in productions is unnatural and confusing.
Carole claims everything about the project points to producers working with one of the "big cat pimps" like Doc Antle or Mario Tabraue, who she believes mistreat cats ... something they strongly deny.
Ex-MLB player Cody Decker says that Nazi salute at the Oakland A's game is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to anti-Semitism in pro baseball ... insisting the problem is MUCH worse than it seems.
Decker -- who is Jewish -- was drafted by the San Diego Padres in 2009 and made his MLB debut in 2015. He retired from pro baseball in 2019.
In other words, Cody's been around the game a LONG time and has personally dealt with anti-Semitism ... a lot.
"I mean the amount of Nazis jokes I've dealt with throughout my entire career is pretty staggering," Decker says.
When it comes to Oakland A's bench coach Ryan Christenson -- who threw up a Hitler salute during Thursday's game -- Decker says things would have gone down much differently after the game if he was on that team.
"If I was in that locker room, what I’d have to go into that office and have to do with that coach?! We would have to have a very harsh conversation or we would have to shut the door and maybe throw punches because that's unacceptable. Plain and simple."
During our conversation, Decker describes several times he dealt with blunt anti-Semitism from other players, coaches and fans ... and it's downright ridiculous.
"If you think ant-Semitism is not rampant throughout baseball!? ... It's a very, very, very Christian sport and not all of the players that are very, very Christian are the brightest of Christians. That's not knocking Christianity by any stretch of the imagination, I'm just telling you what I've death with throughout my career by being called multiple Jewish slurs by fans, by teammates."
So, what should happen with Christenson?
"I think a fair thing would be a suspension," Decker says ... while suggesting an educational component to educate Christenson on the dangers of anti-Semitism.
"I would like him to educate himself on the situation, understanding why this is so offensive, why this isn't funny to people like me and honestly players like me. Let him know what I've been through that's he's never been through and what my family's been through that his family luckily didn't have to go through and why this is unacceptable."
The summer heat is hitting hard right now and these beach babes are getting through it by heading down to the shore for some fun in the sun ... and who can blame them!
From models and actors to influencers and athletes, everyone is proudly posting their sweet shots this season!
Get a good look at all the bikini babes that have been sharing their sunny shots by scrolling through our gallery of sandy stars ... And while you're takin' a look, see if you have what it takes to guess which famous face is in the sexy snap!
Kanye West's Presidential run just got a death blow, at least in Illinois, where election officials say more than half his submitted signatures are invalid ... and that means he's off the ballot.
TMZ broke the story ... multiple people stepped up to object after Kanye submitted his petition to get on the ballot in his home state. That triggered a review -- from the State Board of Elections -- of all the 3,128 signatures on his documents.
The tally is in, and 1,928 were ruled invalid ... which leaves Ye way more than a thousand short of the 2,500 needed to be a Presidential candidate on the state's ballots. What we don't know is what was wrong with the bad ones.
It could be any number of issues -- fake names, fake addresses, unregistered voters in Illinois -- or even simply an illegible signature.
Bottom line is Illinois will be officially removing him on August 21, or he still has the option to gracefully announce he's withdrawing.
Although Illinois isn't considered a swing state in the Presidential campaign, it's a big blow for Kanye ... not only because he's from Chicago, but he just boldly declared his "goal is to win."
Hell, he even posted his 2020 vision board, which included the number 46 ... as in the 46th President of the United States.
The road to the White House was already near impossible for Kanye ... but it just got a little bit harder.
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