March 23, 2018

The Cardi-B anti-tax rant.

Language warning (she keeps asking what "y'all are doing with my fucking money"):



I'm not sure if this is stupid — like she just noticed that when you make a fair amount of money the government takes a 40% cut — or hilarious — "When you donate, like, to a kid from a foreign country, they give you updates of what they're doing with your donation, I want updates on my tax money!"

Via The Daily Mail.

ADDED: Also in The Daily Mail: "'Nobody gives a f***:' Cardi B says the #MeToo movement doesn't care about women in hip hop":
'A lot of video vixens have spoke about this and nobody gives a f***,' the brash rapper began. 'When I was trying to be a vixen, people were like, "You want to be on the cover of this magazine?" Then they pull their d***s out. 'I bet if one of these women stands up and talks about it, people are going to say, 'So what? You’re a ho. It don’t matter.'"

And the starlet wasn't giving the men supporting #MeToo much credit, telling Cosmo: 'These producers and directors, they’re not woke, they’re scared.'
AND: I had not seen the term "video vixen" before. Obviously, I could understand the meaning from the context, but I wanted to know more about whether it's something like a standard job title. Wikipedia has an article on the subject:
A video vixen (also hip hop honey or video girl[2]) is a female model who appears in hip-hop-oriented music videos. The video vixen image has become a staple and a nuanced form of sex work within popular music; especially within the genre of hip-hop. Many video vixens are aspiring actors, singers, dancers, or professional models. Women from various cultures have been portrayed either as fragile, manipulative, fetishistic, or submissive within contemporary music lyrics, videos, concert and movie soundtracks, although this is not universal, as demonstrated by the archetypal ride-or-die chick.
"Ride-or-die chick" has its own article:
A "ride-or-die chick", in the hip hop culture, is a woman willing to support her partner and his illicit lifestyle despite how this might endanger or harm her. Sometimes this is portrayed as a more passive "support and love regardless of their transgressions" role, but oftentimes it requires women to take an active role in these transgressions and manifests in a "willingness to help men in dangerous situations," and "a sense of shared risk." It is often referred to as a hip hop manifestation of the Bonnie and Clyde dynamic.

32 comments:

robother said...

I suppose you could read the 1000 page Omnibus Spending bill as an update of what they're doing with your fucking money. (Or as a kind of white man rapping).

rhhardin said...

She needs to lobby for a flat tax.

brylun said...

This is a clear reminder that all cultures are not equal.

320Busdriver said...

Even though I can't see the video I'm going to go with stupid.

320Busdriver said...

I'd like to see her do her taxes. I'd pay money to watch that.

I'm Full of Soup said...

"I want receipts..." Heh great question. Turnabout is fair play right. We should show up at the IRS office and dean receipts from them. I like how this lady thinks.

bagoh20 said...

Even a gaudy, loud, broken clock is right twice a day.

What's funny is reading those academic descriptions of Hip Hop women. What does a female beard scratcher scratch when woman-splaining?

the 4chan Guy who reads Althouse said...

Hip-hop and taxes: I Googled to see if Jay-Z, a rich rapper, might have said on the subject.

Google came back with this:

"Rapper Jay-Z says he'd be willing to pay more in taxes -- as long as it goes to causes he supports. At least that's what he said in a CNN interview recently...

"I wouldn't mind paying more taxes if it went to the things that mattered," he said, citing education, health care and extending aid to the impoverished.

But he did call for improving government transparency.

"It should be clearly defined where all the money is being allocated," he said. "It should be open accounting of where everything is going. I'm sure if it was . . . to help people I think most people with a conscience . . . wouldn't have any problem paying taxes."


Ah. The proverbial rub: happy to pay more taxes if the taxes are spent the way you want them to be spent.

Because that is how Government works.

If Government really worked.

The Germans have a word for this.

MD Greene said...

Classy.

Sebastian said...

Hey, Carli, listen up, girl: your money goes to old people, to poor people, to non-poor people who get subsidies, to a tunnel between NJ and NY, to missiles and ships and airplanes, to sugar planters and other ag subsidies, to school lunches, to --. And so on, for 1000 pages.

Anyway, in NYC your tax money doesn't go to street cleaning or the subway--that's just petty bourgeois crazy s**t, know what I mean?

the 4chan Guy who reads Althouse said...

I had a ride-or-die chick" as a girlfriend once.

Like sometimes I would jaywalk, and she would come along with me.

She did kinda look like a young Faye Dunaway.

The Germans have a word for this.

Henry said...

Video vixens? Ride or die chick?

I think country can claim first.

Stand by your man.



robother said...

Hillary's no video vixen, but she might be a ride or die chick.

AZ Bob said...

She speaks for a lot of us. Okay, maybe I'm not as colorful with my language.

Fernandinande said...

"Retard with money says dumb things - details at 11"

The Germans Have A Word For That. said...
"Rapper Jay-Z says he'd be willing to pay more in taxes -- as long as it goes to causes he supports. At least that's what he said in a CNN interview recently..."


Nothing is stopping him from doing so, yet he doesn't do it. How very strange.

"Congressmen Had 1,000 Minutes to Read 2,232-Page $1.3T Bill"

That's $582,437,275.99 per page.

Bay Area Guy said...

Last night, I asked Bay Area Gal if I could refer to her in public as my "ride or die" chick.

She demurred, and returned to watching Game of Thrones.

I will try again.

HoodlumDoodlum said...

Wait, you're saying that an industry founded on the exploitation of women is somehow not woke?

You're saying that culture that praises & lionizes horrible criminals--that has as it's highest compliment "pimp" (the closest thing to a modern day slavemaster in America)--is insufficiently respectful of women!? That's just hard to believe.

But don't worry: Beyonce is a feminist heroine. I mean she sings about being a ride-or-die girl in the context of supporting her man's criminal enterprises (being a drug kingpin, mob boss, etc) but that's just art!

Pop culture is filth. If some rich celebrity gets pissed about their taxes, good. The rest is noise.

MayBee said...

Is she in California? Wait until she finds out about the bullet train.

MayBee said...

I have a smart, politically interested friend that I am friends with on Facebook. Of course, he is politically left (and thinks things like Andrew Sullivan was a wonderful centrist during the late Bush years).

But a few elections ago, he was writing about tax policy. And he said, "Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a certain dollar amount beyond which you don't have to pay taxes on it?"

People think things like this. Because our political discourse is so stupid that people who just listen to the arguments think that one side (or another) is actually telling the truth. You hear rich people don't pay taxes, and you believe it. You hear rich people pay less in taxes, and you believe it. And I'm betting that's what happened with Cardi B.

J2 said...

Feminist analysis needed
ride or die chicks vs. trap queens
Who has more agency?

Rusty said...

Our usual suspect public sector employees actually believe that all income belongs to the government and they just let you have some.
They have no idea how the sausage is made.
So why is this bitch complaining? They ask themselves.

robother said...

She ain't wrong about the MeToo# hypocrisy either. Definitely an antebellum "flower of Southern womanhood" vibe to it. METooSo White#

Gahrie said...

One of my favorite things as a teacher is dealing with the outrage of my students when they get their first paycheck.

Etienne said...

I can tell from that GIF (without watching the video) that she talks like a black African.

She has some nice teeth though. I can count them.

tcrosse said...

Frank Zappa said that You Are What You Is.

rehajm said...

Who’s FICA?

Scott M said...

So...did they mention misogyny? I see a problematic lack of women's studies majors tilting at the windmills of hip hop culture. Why is that?

Danno said...

Me watch? No thanks. I lost a few brain cells just looking at the blog post. I am sure she doesn't say anything that is intelligent.

Lucien said...

I have a friend in one of the Scandinavian socialist paradises. She's been living off of her parents' money for a while and recently got an office job in an industrial company. When she got her first paycheck, she was stunned how much of her pay gets siphoned off to fund the socialist paradise. She went on an anti-big government rant that would have made John Galt proud.

A liberal is a conservative who just got laid off.
A conservative is a liberal who just got their first paycheck.

Rappers are apparently no exception.

Anonymous said...

Reminds me of the "the rent is too damn high" guy.

holdfast said...

I guess life was better when she was an all-cash ho.

Bad Lieutenant said...

Now explain to her how much money President Trump saved her with his tax cut, and how much good he has done her, and let her write a song in his honor.