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Nicki Minaj 's MAGA Era Is A Mess... · The imuRgency Room

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  I've been really trying to avoid this conversation, but
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  unfortunately, it is time that we talk about Miss Nicki Minaj.
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  And if you've been living under a rock for the past couple of
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  weeks, you may not know exactly what's going on or how bad it's
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  necessarily gotten. Let me give you the Cliff Notes
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  sketch you up. So basically, as of a couple of
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  weeks ago, Nicki Minaj is now MAGA.
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  Yes, she is not just your average Trump supporter.
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  She actually is the Trump supporter, as in going to
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  summits and conferences with the president, saying that he is not
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  only doing a great job with everything in the country right
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  now, but is in fact her favorite person.
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  And going to the first ladies movie premiere completely on
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  free will, all too seemingly either troll or I guess, like,
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  express her views on things. I don't know.
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  I just know that it looks really bad.
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  And it is really bad because what is happening in the
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  rhetoric that she's spreading is very harmful.
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  And I think most people see it as that.
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  But there is a large population of people that do not.
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  And the reasonings for that track, should I say?
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  And if we want to be real, this is not necessarily the biggest
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  surprise because Miss Minaj has had a history of sometimes
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  spewing some rather conservative or Republican rhetoric.
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  My mind immediately goes to the 2020 vaccine denial, or at least
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  skepticism that she was very public about on social media,
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  talking about how you shouldn't trust a shot because her cousin
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  got big balls from it or something.
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  I don't know. But it seems like compared to
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  back then, things have gotten so, so much worse.
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  Because not only are we just now blatantly getting homophobic and
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  transphobic rhetoric coming from her, we're also getting a spew
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  of a bunch of other unfounded in conservative rhetoric around
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  things like voter fraud and voter skepticism.
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  Along with taking advantage of some of the things that are
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  going by right now with the Epstein files, promoting, again,
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  unfounded or should I say at least alleged allegations of her
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  enemies being child schmiders. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Life gets bad, and it's only
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  getting worse. And that's the problem.
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  That's the problem. It just continues to get worse.
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  And the reason I'm even making this video is because recently,
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  and as of recently, I mean, yesterday as I'm filming this,
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  the Grammys happened. And the Grammys were great.
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  I'm really happy with a lot of the Grammys results.
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  I think that the people that I wanted to win did win.
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  And there are even a couple of surprises that I was kind of
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  here for, like Justin Bieber performing in his undies.
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  Like, who would have expected that?
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  But I mean, are are we mad? Although there were some things
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  that I didn't necessarily love about the Grammys.
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  I think for one, and I don't know if a lot of people are
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  clocking this, but like the camera angles for some reason
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  this year were just terrible. Like I think for a lot of
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  people's performances, the artists did the best that they
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  could, but like the cameraman just did not live up to the
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  expectations. Like I'm thinking specifically
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  for like Tyler, the Creator's performance as well as like I
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  think Addison Rae, where like the cameraman just was not In
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  Sync and the angles are too wide.
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  It just wasn't giving what I think the vision was supposed to
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  give. And the mics were all so low.
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  But I'm getting besides the point.
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  This is not a Grammys breakdown. But the reason I bring up the
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  Grammys was because Onika was mentioned, and not in the best
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  way. The host of the Grammys, Shevard
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  Noah, made a joke pretty early on in the show, essentially
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  prodding up the fact that Nicki Minaj was not at the Grammys and
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  was implying that that was a good thing because of her recent
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  mogification. And to which seemingly the
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  entire arena applauded and cheered to.
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  But caught on camera was Chrissy Teigen, who gave the thumbs up
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  being like, yes, this is a great thing, I love this.
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  Onika is over now. Honestly, when I turned on the
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  Grammys, I missed this part. So I didn't see this.
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  I ended up having to catch that clip on Twitter.
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  And when I did, I saw a lot of other things, a lot of other
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  things. Miss Mama was activated and
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  let's just say that things got very problematic very fast
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  because Nikki was quick to tweet and retaliation that and I
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  quote, everyone knows Chrissy Teigen has slash had allegedly
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  with the classic Chucky picture. And that was only the start.
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  That was followed by a slew of other tweets talking about any
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  and everything, talking about the host and reposting graphics
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  from the barbs that are just inaccurate and then going to
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  promote her podcast interview with some conservative lady.
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  And you may be asking yourself, how the hell did we get here?
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  How did someone that was lauded as one of the biggest allies of
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  the queer community get to this point?
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  And I'm there with you. I'm wondering the same thing.
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  I'm just genuinely shocked how far this whole situation has
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  gotten and around how this is on so much farther than trolling.
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  Because I know a lot of people defend a lot of her actions by
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  saying like oh she's just trolling she's just doing this,
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  she's not actually being serious and that she has some master
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  plan that we all just have to wait and see the results up.
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  And when I hear this, it makes sense why there is like this
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  pivot towards the mogification because these explanations sound
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  almost identical to the ones that like 2016 Trumpers had.
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  Even a lot of Trumpers that still support Trump do have
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  around the sentiment of these both being trolls and
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  masterminds that have like this grand scheme plan working out
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  that the rest of the world are just too dumb or too tapped out
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  of the scene to actually perceive and know.
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  And there might genuinely be a plan here at play.
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  I don't believe that to be so, but you know, benefit of the
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  doubt. Let's say there is some plan at
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  play. How many people have to be
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  harmed and feel unsafe in the crossfire for you to get to that
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  point? You know, like, again, as
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  someone that has been such a reverence, safe space and ally
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  to the queer community, ally to women and a proponent for
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  women's empowerment, how can you then seemingly turn your back on
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  that community by very outwardly supporting the party that is
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  anti all of that? And not just that, but then
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  going forward to use homophobic and transphobic rhetoric towards
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  people that you don't like. I'm thinking about the way she
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  was calling Don Lemon a sucker, both online and in clips on that
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  podcast that she's going on relentlessly going after her
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  sexuality. And then the whole comment of
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  Chrissy Teigen, did we need to be transphobic?
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  Like the answer to that clearly is no.
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  Because especially given the state of the world that we're in
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  right now and considering the fact that you're now aligning
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  yourself with MAGA, who has made it very clear that they feel
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  that trans people should not exist, To then go and cast
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  speculation and use Terpu language against Chrissy Teigen
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  to essentially just have a gotcha moment and to also
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  essentially just be transphobic. Like I'm just going through the
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  Twitter right now and this just sounds like someone's Republican
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  Facebook auntie. Like most of the things that I'm
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  seeing here is just either rage bait or unfinded accusations.
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  And we talk a lot about grifters on this channel when it comes to
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  like influencers and podcasters siding with one side or being a
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  talking head from one point and then switching up when the money
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  dries out or they find out that they're were being played.
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  But I didn't expect to get to a timeline where a A list
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  celebrity would do such a public grift.
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  And I think this is so problematic because of the
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  person that's doing it and because of the fan base that she
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  has. Like the barbs are one of the
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  most loyal fan bases on the Internet, like truly a force to
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  be reckoned with. And I fuck with bars.
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  But what I'm worried about in this instance is the fact that
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  there are a lot of young and impressionable barbs that are
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  seeing this stark shift that can be easily influenced to start
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  going down the alt right pipeline because that's what
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  this is. It's just another funnel through
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  that. Like this shift, while more
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  overt, is just another way to start thinking and believing
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  conservative talking points and conservative beliefs.
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  And like what's happening here and what's happening in Candace
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  Owens's side of the Internet are pretty much the same thing.
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  And if not the same thing, then very similar.
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  And I really don't care as much about the Nicki Minaj, but as I
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  do the impact of what she's saying and the people that she
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  has influence over because those things are long lasting.
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  Whether or not you believe what she's saying or supporting what
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  she's saying fully, the fact that people are ingesting this
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  content more frequently and almost normalizing it by just
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  sort of letting it happen only again normalizes it, but also
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  increases the acceptance of these ideas.
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  And these ideas at hand are inherently harmful, especially
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  given where we are in history and where we are in this
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  country. You have militarized forces
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  going around this country, terrorizing people
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  indiscriminately, taking people out and disappearing people left
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  and right. And somehow this is the time to
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  endorse the president for starting all of that.
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  I don't know. I'm not buying it.
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  And I don't know how this ends, nor do I know if there's an
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  actual comeback from all of this because for better or worse,
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  this is going to go down in history and not in a good way.
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  And I've been seeing a lot of people say online that like,
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  they're not taking this seriously or holding anyone
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  accountable because we still let Kanye be in the conversation
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  despite everything that he said and done and how he supported
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  Trump in the past. And personally, I think there's
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  two things here. 1, I think we should have handled his
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  situation much earlier and we should have done something about
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  that or been more vocal about not supporting that.
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  And two, I think the times in which both of these things
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  happened are so vastly different.
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  Like, I understand the concept of a double standard, but at
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  that time things were still bad. Trump was bad.
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  Being a Trump supporter at that time was bad.
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  But comparing that to now, giving vocal support to the
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  administration now is a completely different sentiment.
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  Things were bad then back in 2016, but things are
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  exponentially worse now. We're inching, actually, we're
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  not even inching. The fascism for all intents and
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  purposes is here. And this country is looking more
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  and more authoritarian by the day, giving enthusiastic support
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  at any anytime Not great. But to give it now, when things
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  are ramping up and things are getting increasingly violent and
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  increasingly dangerous, to come out and be MAGA now means more,
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  hurts more, and just generally looks worse.
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  And I hate that it's gotten to this point.
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  And I hate that it's Nicki Minaj that we're talking about,
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  because, again, I've loved her music for so long.
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  But I fear in this case things have just gone too far.