I’ll admit, I kinda like Cardi B.
Not her rapping. That’s atrocious. Or her abysmal language, which is arguably worse.
I simply find her a hilariously fascinating study into our generation, where modern music has devolved into something more akin to the sound of a six-car pileup than actual notes, and where people who probably should be getting evaluated in psych clinics can become insta-celebrities overnight, and no one can really explain why.
In that world, Cardi B is like the 27-minute YouTube compilation of face-maiming skateboard fails that you probably shouldn’t find so entertaining, but you do.
But of all the reasons to listen to Cardi B, I never thought tax policy would be one. Until now.
The Bronx-born stripper-turned-rapper posted a video to social media Thursday demanding answers from Congress as to where all her tax money goes, and it's already gotten more than 4 million hits. And, if you can stand the profanity, it’s actually pretty hilarious -- and maybe a little too spot-on.
“You know, the government is taking 40 percent of my [paycheck]. And Uncle Sam, I want to know what you doing with my f***ing tax money,” she complains.
“When you donate to a kid from a foreign country, they give you updates,” she adds. “I’m from New York, and the streets is always dirty, we were voted the dirtiest city in America, what is y’all doing?”
"I want to know. I want receipts," she demands.
It’s funny that Cardi B’s rant video would go viral on the same day the GOP-led Congress passed a bill – signed by a Republican president, no less – that fully funds abortion mill Planned Parenthood, dumps bucketloads of cash into sanctuary cities that openly flout our immigration law, and continues to ramp up our debt like $20 trillion is just couch cushion change.
I'm just saying, when a rapper who can barely string two grammatically correct words together starts to make more sense than most of Congress, there might be a problem.