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Coon in boots, aka Kanye West, aka Ye, is doubling down on his MAGA ways with his latest business move.
Spotted on Bloomberg, Ye has agreed to purchase Parler, the social media platform where MAGA whites went to share their far-right (racist) political thoughts “freely.”
Per Bloomberg:
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has agreed to buy Parler, a social media platform that has been embraced by conservatives who departed Twitter over allegations of political censorship.
Parlement Technologies, the parent company behind Parler, announced Monday that it plans to sell the social media platform to the hip-hop icon for an undisclosed amount. The deal would include technical support from Parlement, such as cloud services.
West, of course, issued a bonehead statement about Parler’s purchase: “In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.”
The multihyphenate’s purchase of Parler comes after his accounts on both Instagram and Twitter were restricted for the antisemitic rhetoric he was spewing.
Twitter removed a tweet about Jewish people, and Instagram deleted two posts he shared with his followers.
Twitter Users Spot The Parler Jig Already
Ye’s purchase of Parler shouldn’t surprise anyone because he has been spotted with edgeless conservative Candace Owens, whose husband, George Farmer, is the CEO of the still fledgling social media platform.
“I’ve been trying to avoid giving Ye any public attention, but…wow. So Candace and George Farmer (the Parler CEO) are just grifting/pimping him. The Drink Champs episode as a free infomercial for her “documentary” and now a big buyout for Parler and payday for Farmer,” one Twitter user pointed out.
Welp.
The Parler purchase also comes after Ye’s most recent visit to N.O.R.E’s Drink Champs podcast, where he put his foot in his mouth yet again.
You can peep more reactions to Ye cooning out in the gallery below.
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1. Good question
But what happens to Parler's reputation for thought-free speech? https://t.co/P9VqmyXdbK
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 17, 2022
2. SMH
Kanye is buying the nearly dead social media platform run by Candace Owens’s husband George Farmer to compete with Trump’s Truth Social, Jason Miller’s GETTR, and Andrew Torba’s Gab. https://t.co/Ell8XHj6NY
— Ron Filipkowski
(@RonFilipkowski) October 17, 2022
3. Accurate
Parler users soon: https://t.co/EJOBZsSbbM pic.twitter.com/iePugVCIEe
— CHRIS FOXX (@FoxxFiles) October 17, 2022
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Key context here is that Candace Owens’ husband George Farmer is the CEO of Parler. https://t.co/guF9ByFyLQ
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) October 17, 2022
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Candace Owens husband is the CEO of Parler. They just ran this stupid nigga pockets. https://t.co/1Z6dS8dPZl
— Agave Blame (@blame_two) October 17, 2022
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Kanye’s going to own Parler, Elon’s going to own Twitter, and Donald Trump is trying to make Truth Social a thing. Billionaire’s buying of creating social media platforms to enact their own ideas was really the inevitable next step. See: media as a whole during all of history. https://t.co/NpGo4UgQj7
— julia alexander (@loudmouthjulia) October 17, 2022
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Candace Owens suckered Kanye West into buying Parler https://t.co/1FGENNXnlp
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) October 17, 2022
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