Bipolar Express
In the midst of a war and an unprecedented space mission, Britain’s news media have room today for a more everyday news story: the decision by a music festival to cancel the headlining appearance by Kanye West. Ye, as he likes to be known now, has a history of anti-semitic actions—releasing a song called “Heil Hitler” and selling T-shirts emblazoned with swastikas. In response to the cancellation, the rapper said those actions were the result of his bipolar disorder. And the media go no further in discussing his behavior.
But West is not just a disturbed individual setting fire to his bedclothes. He is in show business, he is surrounded by a bevy of agents, managers, record-company executives—none of them, as far as I know, suffering from either bipolar disorder or inability to speak. Issuing records and merch is, at West’s level, anything but a one-man operation. All of these folks had to sign off on “Heil Hitler” and swastikas. We have heard not a peep from them, or even a peep about them. We are peepless.
🧵On a perhaps even more pressing subject, the war with Iran:
This is war, so I mustn’t joke around here and be unmindful. Many people have been killed, including 172 students we blew up at a girls’ school, and they’re not here to laugh with us any more.
But, it is Tuesday, 7 April 2026–Ultimatum Day—and I’m curious what the Felon-in-Chief has in store for his threatened big finish tonight at 8:00 p.m., EDWT*
We can watch war crimes being committed in real time, blowing up bridges, desalination plants, & other urban infrastructure that is not in the fight, from the comfort of our La-Z-Boy recliners.
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* Eastern Daylight War Time.
🧵Great HEADLINE.
Great words, even better!
You seem to be trying to make actual sense, which is very quixotic of you, in this Land of Nod we’ve been banished to.