Adidas Terminates Relationship with Ye, AKA Kanye West, In a Costly Move for Sports Brand
/For Kanye West, legally known as Ye, the walls came tumbling down on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022.
Today, Adidas — a partner in one of the most lucrative and successful apparel partnerships ever — severed ties with the man who said it would never happen.
The German sportswear giant had faced pressure from the public and its own employees to cut ties with Ye, who said on a podcast on Oct. 16: “I can say anti-Semitic things, and Adidas can’t drop me. Now what?”
Adidas said in a statement: “Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech. Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.”
“After a thorough review, the company has taken the decision to terminate the partnership with Ye immediately, end production of Yeezy branded products and stop all payments to Ye and his companies. Adidas will stop the Adidas Yeezy business with immediate effect.”
It said this would have a short-term negative impact of up to 250 million euros ($246 million) on net income in 2022 due to high seasonality in the fourth quarter.
AOC Didn’t Come to the Kanye West Fight Recently
As we evaluate all that is written about this ending of the Kanye West-Adidas relationship, Anne of Carversville is proud that we didn’t coast into this party in recent days. We have been on the front of a dogged determination to hold Kanye West — who was once admired in these pages and I can prove it — to dislodge West’s hold on the corrosive and dangerous popular culture he came to lead.
America is a so-called free country but that doesn’t me that we don’t have a voice about Kanye West’s anti-Semitism, his deep misogyny against women, his right-wing love of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Simply stated, Kanye West stands for all the values and beliefs that I loathe and believe are dangerous for democracy.
And he wraps his hatreds in the name of God, telling the world that God gives him his marching orders. It’s the Republican hat trick day after day after day. My side may lose the battle in America, as the authoritarian forces are major against us.
American democracy may die in my lifetime.
Kanye West Represents Everything I Detest
But it cannot be said that I did not put up a good fight. Kanye West, legally known as Ye, represents everything that I detest. And we have not been afraid to stand against him, even though I have been in police protection for a year over my decades-old support of Planned Parenthood.
When I read over the weekend about Ye’s demands that his friends stand with him against Pete Davidson — because Kanye believes he owned Kim. Kardashian just like slave owners owned his ancestors — it came down to the size of his Pete Davidson’s penis.
Kanye West is worried about the size of his dick, according to Charlemagne. And in his mind, no white guy with a 10” penis was allowed to f### his wife — even though she was in divorce court with him at the time.
Men and D### Size
Do you know how many wars have been fought globally over insecure men worried about the size of their privates? Ye and Trump . . . and Elon — yell the MAGA Republicans — they are our leaders, according to the MAGA crowd.
We know that Trump is insecure about the size of penis, because he talked about it on the debate stage. Does this now include Elon Musk, too? Does Elon suffer from this affliction about the size of his privates? Inquiring minds want to know.
Kanye West lectures Kim Kardashian about a dress she is wearing, suggesting that she looks like a whore to his children. Meanwhile, he fornicates on the floor with women all over the media, but his message to his kids is do what daddy says, not what daddy does.
It’s disgusting and we are all over Ye, Kanye West, Yeezy and every other Jesus name he comes up with.
Kanye West does not walk in the shoes of Jesus, and he should stop desecrating the name of a holy person who did live and act very honorably and with progressive values, from all we know of him. And he was crucified for real, because of his progressive values, based on current knowledge.
Kanye West is not God’s second son.
I do feel badly for Ye’s kids, who will reading this entire nightmare saga by the man who wasn’t actually saved by his God who speaks to him in the shower, telling him to shut down Planned Parenthood. I’ve read considerable research about bipolar disorder and voices from God — a topic I will be taking up soon. Kanye thinks he’s in some kind of privileged — God chose me — relationship with God. Let’s just say he has a lot of company in this belief.
Back to Adidas, this is a very difficult stand — but the only choice for them — as they will take the financial hit one way or the other.
But we thank them for taking right action, and putting principle before profits. This will be one of the biggest hits in business history over ethics. So remember that next time you buy a pair of sneakers.
Adidas made a decision that the folks at Nike are sooooo very glad they don’t have to make.
I will say that Kanye’s anti-Semitism goes back much further than I understood, based on my late-night reading. So Adidas always knew that Kanye could blow up, from the day he lept on the stage and wrestled to take away Taylor Swift’s Grammy.
In his world, Kanye is the boss. and that includes being my boss, too. He is NOT, and I will not bow down to him. ~ Anne