Sorry, everyone. Rapper, activist, and CNN personality Killer Mike can't run for office to be a state representative from Georgia. After posting on Instagram at the last minute yesterday (the special election is today) that he wanted to people to write him in as a candidate, he found out he'd have to officially enter the race as a write-in, rather than, um, just being written in. (Read his full explanation and renewed commitment to eventually running for office over at Noisey.)
As seemingly spur of the moment as this appeared, it's a good idea, with a lot of history -- Mike has been a community organizer and an activist for a long time, and it's not as if entertainers don't have a long history of successfully becomingpoliticians (and some of them are actually pretty good). (Mike has something to say about that in the video below.)
On another, grosser hand, human windbag and possibly extremely fragile human being Donald Trump has finally decided to run for president after years of threatening the country with his presence.
Why is this happening? Does he need to sell more items of clothing from his Macy's collection? Did Celebrity Apprentice finally get canceled, leaving him with no way to explain his fill his hours and thereby confronting him with the meaninglessness of his own existence, and the fact that when he dies he will be universally mocked? As far as distractions from mortality and the shitstain of your own legacy go, running for president in a pretty good one, I guess.
As seemingly spur of the moment as this appeared, it's a good idea, with a lot of history -- Mike has been a community organizer and an activist for a long time, and it's not as if entertainers don't have a long history of successfully becomingpoliticians (and some of them are actually pretty good). (Mike has something to say about that in the video below.)
On another, grosser hand, human windbag and possibly extremely fragile human being Donald Trump has finally decided to run for president after years of threatening the country with his presence.
Why is this happening? Does he need to sell more items of clothing from his Macy's collection? Did Celebrity Apprentice finally get canceled, leaving him with no way to explain his fill his hours and thereby confronting him with the meaninglessness of his own existence, and the fact that when he dies he will be universally mocked? As far as distractions from mortality and the shitstain of your own legacy go, running for president in a pretty good one, I guess.