I don’t follow rap music, and I certainly don’t have Cardi B on my playlist. After all, her signature opus “WAP” is not exactly this white Boomer’s cup of tea.

But you know the saying, that sometimes a blind squirrel can find a nut. Cardi B became that squirrel with her recent comments over NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ budget cuts. And she was quite the frenetic squirrel, too.

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Remember how Eric Adams won the mayoral election after desperate New Yorkers supported him? Adams is a former NYPD officer, and voters thought Adams could return order to the Big Apple, which has been plagued with crime and dysfunction.

Well, they got fooled. Last Thursday Adams announced that the NYPD must freeze hiring and lower its number of officers from 33,000 to 30,000. Moreover, his budget proposed $1 million cuts in education, including to summer school programs and universal kindergarten.

All because of the migrant crisis. Without federal funding to help the famously welcoming Sanctuary City maintain its billion dollar welcome mat, more cuts may come, too.

Adams said in a statement:

No city should be left to handle a national humanitarian crisis largely on its own, and without the significant and timely support we need from Washington, D.C., today’s budget will be only the beginning …

Migrant costs are going up, tax revenue growth is slowing and COVID stimulus funding is drying up. 

Meanwhile, some 10,000 migrants arrive in the Big Apple every month, and its right-to-shelter law has attracted over 116,000 migrants since the spring. Yet Adams has not renounced NYC’s sanctuary city status.

Which leads me to Cardi B.

Cardi B Speaks Her Mind

Let’s be honest: Cardi B is no political genius. She’s certainly not eloquent in her use of language. But she is black, and she took on the black Democrat mayor with no holds barred.

The rapper is also a native New Yorker. And like many from that city, she’s not afraid to speak her mind.

What’s going to happen to my nieces, what’s going to happen to my nephews, what’s going to happen to my cousins, my aunts, my friends that’s living in the hood? I’m from the Bronx, I don’t want to see my s**t affected.

If your kid can’t f*****g buy books at the book fairs and s**t, your kid can barely even f*****g read at a local library, they’re going to close that s**t.’ 

‘Crimes are gonna go through the roof because there is a police safety budget cut and on top of that there’s a sanitation f*****g budget cut so that means we’re gonna be drowning in rats.

Cardi B threw shade at Joe Biden, too:

How is there $100 million budget cut in New York City for f—ing schools, library, police safety and sanitation, yet Joe Biden is talking about, ‘Yeah, we can fund two wars’?

We can’t fund these wars, we can barely f—ing fund this country.

Preach it!

Cardi B slams NYC Mayor Eric Adams over announced $120M budget cuts amid surge of migrants into Big Apple
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— SHO’NUFF (@IAMSHO_NUFF) November 20, 2023

Young Adults Also Seeing the Light

Cardi B spoke for a growing number of young Americans with her disillusion with Democrat leaders.

An NBC poll released Sunday showed Joe Biden trailing Donald Trump among young adults from 18-34. In that poll, the former president received support from 46% as compared to Joe Biden’s 42%. That’s got to jar the bigwigs in the Democrat Party, since in 2020 Biden won over the 18-29 crowd by over 20%, according to exit polling.

Moreover, in October an Emerson College poll showed Trump beating Biden among young adults 47% to 45%. On top of that, among voters aged 30-39, Trump led Biden by a whopping 11 points.

Of course a poll, as the saying goes, is merely a snapshot in time. And as another saying goes: your mileage may vary.

Would Cardi B help sway young New Yorkers away from the dead weight of the Democrat Party? Hard to say. In Chicago, for example, the Gen Z voting bloc elected Mayor Brandon Johnson, who, like Eric Adams, is in way over his head. Johnson, the former teachers union organizer, stubbornly refuses to give up on his progressive ideology as well.

And let’s not forget the infestation of Shit-For-Brains students on elite college campuses calling for the destruction of Israel, or TikTokkers expressing their admiration for Osama bin Laden. We’re far from being out of the woods when it comes to any sanity arising among Generation Z.

But if Cardi B is a sign that some squirrels among Gen Z are finding some nuts, then good on her. Just don’t ask me to download any of her rap.

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