Cardi B Had 37 People Over for Thanksgiving While You Ate Alone On Your Couch

[demmiblue]

Thanksgiving was last week, and despite clear guidelines sent down from the CDC that specified reducing travel, wearing a mask, and avoiding large gatherings, many people simply could not be bothered with keeping others safe during the ongoing covid-19 global health pandemic. And one of those people was Cardi B.

According to her Twitter feed, Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar had 37 people over for the holiday—“12 kids and 25 adults... it was lit !!”—and then quickly followed up with an apology. “Sorry my bad wasn’t trying to make nobody feel bad.I just had my family in my home for the first time and it felt so good & uplifted me .I spent soo much money getting every1 tested but it felt worth it.I wasnt trying to offend no1,” she wrote, adding, “ME specially and everyone that works around me get tested literally 4 times a week. Im In the middle of work and Everytime we clock in we MUST GET TESTED !” Of course, the issue there is that it can take days after coming in contact with someone who has the virus to register a covid-19 positive result, and tests themselves are not foolproof. Someone in attendance could’ve very well been positive at the massive event.

But hey, at least she didn’t pull a Kim Kardashian-West and fly all her guests to a private island as we laypeople enjoyed our TV dinners in isolating silence?

This ain’t it, and I’m super not looking forward to celebrities’ holiday plans!

https://jezebel.com/cardi-b-had-37-people-over-for-thanksgiving-while-you-a-1845773795

You don't want to read the responses... it is so depressing that people just don't understand.

Link to tweet

[Alex4Martinez]

1. Wondering: What was the Cardi B equivalent in the 50's, 60's, 70's?

Seriously, I understand that she's a musical artist but her Tweets are beyond foul and she seems to bathe in ignorance, if her comments are anything to be taken seriously.

I'm drawing a blank, what is the 1960s equivalent of Cardi B?

[Drahthaardogs]

3. Calling her a musical artist is like calling

Chef Boyardee Italian cuisine. She’s really bad.

[Codeine]

5. I object to both "musical" and "artist" in that description. nt

[cwydro]

24. Same here.

Ugh.

[Klaralven]

9. Probably some '60s greaser rock artist, but can't think of a specific girl

[Sympthsical]

10. She also drugged and robbed men

But that hasn't made a dent in her career. Imagine if a male celebrity admitted to doing that to women? They'd be long gone. But here she remains.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47718477

Pop culture is baffling at times.

[lame54]

39. But if they don't admit it - yet others know...

They can have a long career like Cosby or become prez like Trump

[janterry]

42. this clarifies a great deal

about her.

I watched her WAP video and my friends bought the line that she is in control. And here (in the drugging men thing) she claims to have been in control.

Clearly, if she was sometimes 'in control' of the abusive behavior (drugging people is abusive, no?) - she wasn't always.

Lots of parallels between her video and her real life behavior.

This helps explain some things to me.

thanks!

[JonLP24]

55. You are comparing a modern hip hop artist to the 1960s?

Maybe Blues artists are the closest comparison but rap has had foul language since the 80s. Nothing new there. Besides most modern rap is very mild compared to late 80s and early 90s.

Cardi B is wrong for having a Thanksgiving that the experts were advising would lead to further spread but I don't care about her Tweets or music.

[radius777]

72. The 80s equivalent would be Madonna, also a great artist

and trailblazer just like Cardi B is (and hip hop is a great American art form).

[progressoid]

73. Where to start...

Are you talking about the sex stuff or the ignorance or just random stuff you don't like about her?

Cuz popular music back then was rife with inappropiate songs and references. Not to mention the actions of a lot of the "artists." Today, however, it's all on display via social media.

Like Bill Wyman (52) marrying the 18 year old he had been seeing since she was 13. And then his son from a previous marriage marrying his stepmother’s mother, making him his own step-grandfather.

Jerry Lee Lewis: ditto marrying a teenager. Twice.

Or Eric Clapton's racist rant to "Keep Britain white!"

The Rolling Stones: "Sticky Fingers" "You, you made a dead man come" “Under My Thumb” etc.

The Beatles lyrics in "Run For Your Life"

Gary Glitter - nothing more to add here

etc etc etc

[MontanaMama]

2. Whatever lady.

Could this person be more ignorant and self centered?

[Tech]

4. It would be nice if she "spent so much money" to get people working with covid patients tested.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. I'm just here for the replies

[Hugin]

25. +1

Yup.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

45. Ugh. Right?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

74. I usually ask racist dudes who bitch about her robbing tricks:

“If we take up a collection to get your $12 bucks back will you shut the fuck out about it?”

[radius777]

70. +1. Cardi B is one of the most successful female rappers of all time

having made against all odds in a male dominated industry.

[BusyBeingBest]

7. My neighbors across the street held a three-day

superspreader event, multiple cars and trucks in driveway and parked on the lawn. Fuck all these people.

[Midnight Writer]

44. Hey, we must live in the same neighborhood.

People across from me had the whole street blocked with all the parked cars.

They are very religious, so they don't need masks. (What the Dad told me a couple of months ago)

[BusyBeingBest]

51. I didn't know viruses were repelled by Jesus, I've been

doing it wrong.

[RobinA]

8. Cardi B

If one finds oneself doing the exact opposite of Cardi B one should congratulate oneself for doing the right thing. I'm sure she is very troubled, but as a role model she is a "what not to do." Not that she isn't in good company these days.

[NurseJackie]

11. TRANSLATION: "I wasnt trying to offend no1." means "I was trying to offend."

The double negatives cancel out each other and what remains is "I was trying to offend."

Privilege.

(I wonder what Susan Sarandon did for Thanksgiving.)

[Me.]

26. Had BS & Nina Over?

Ps. I don't think that she cares any more than Ivanka/Melania would/does

[aidbo]

31. Let it go

[NurseJackie]

32. What makes you think I was hanging-on?

[aidbo]

36. Your actions.

[NurseJackie]

37. What actions? And what is it that you think I'm hanging-on to?

[EllieBC]

63. It's AAVE.

Which is recognized by linguists. Usually it’s the cons who like to poke fun at AAVE. Didn’t expect to see it here.

Having a large family gathering for Thanksgiving is tasteless and gross but no need to attack her use of AAVE.

[NurseJackie]

64. No matter what it is, it's still grammatically incorrect...

... and it's ironic because in spite of her protestations, what she's literally saying is exactly what she did.

[EllieBC]

66. Not according to linguists. I guess you'll have

to call some of the great education institutions which are usually liberal friendly and tell them they are wrong.

[Denzil_DC]

65. Yes, it's one of the variants of English that uses that sort of construction.

It may be non-standard, but it's no less legitimate.

[EllieBC]

67. What's funny is people who mock it fail to realize they are acting like

racist GOPers.

[NurseJackie]

68. LOL!

Well... let me just say: I wasn’t trying to make nobody feel bad. I wasn't trying to offend no1.

[Denzil_DC]

69. Well, I'll be charitable and just put it down to lack of knowledge.

I edit books for a living, so I need to know these sorts of things, some don't.

In case this erupts into some sort of tiresome extended debate about grammatical niceties, I'll just be lazy and quote Wikipedia's entry on "double negative" (my italics):

In some languages, double negatives cancel one another and produce an affirmative; in other languages, doubled negatives intensify the negation. Languages where multiple negatives affirm each other are said to have negative concord or emphatic negation. Portuguese, Persian, French, Russian, Greek, Spanish, Old English, Italian, Afrikaans, Hebrew, and some dialects of modern English, such as African-American Vernacular English, are examples of negative-concord languages, while Chinese, Latin, German, Dutch, Japanese, Swedish and most modern English dialects are examples of those that do not have negative concord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative

[demmiblue]

13. Oh, stop.

[Lunabell]

15. I think this is really over the top and hateful.

[demmiblue]

16. That one has a limited shelf life.

They are really obvious.

[Lunabell]

14. Selfish

It's all about me, me, me. Shame on her.

[marybourg]

17. I'm lucky enough to not even know who she is.

Sounds like a heart medication to me.

[demmiblue]

23. Ok, that made me laugh!

[Hugin]

27. Neither do I...

In fact, this OP is the first I've ever heard of this person.

How I wish it were true of any of the Trumps.

[janterry]

35. Watch her WAP video

and you'll see how feminism has been debased by people who don't understand what it even means anymore

(it's very explicit - but it's worth seeing to understand what is happening out there. She's VERY popular and that's probably the most well known song of the year).

[marybourg]

41. Thanks . . . but no thanks.

[janterry]

43. understandable

n/t

[Cuthbert Allgood]

47. Expressing sexual agency isn't debasement.

But, continue, I guess.

[janterry]

48. that's not what she does

n/t

[struggle4progress]

18. "We played fun games all day, like

Name friends who have covid! and Who has got the biggest R value? And we sold tickets for our new annual Whose Grannie will die first? charity fundraiser!"

[cwydro]

19. Apparently Cardi B and her followers don't get it.

[aidbo]

20. People on this site only care about what Cardi B..

..does because she was positive toward Bernie in the primaries.

This is your 2 minutes of hate by proxy.



And to preempt any tedious questions:
No, I do not approve of Cardi B having a large family gathering for thanksgiving.

[demmiblue]

21. That didn't even cross my mind.

And, no, I don't have any issues with Bernie. I voted for him in the 2016 primaries.

I posted it because she has a huge following.

[aidbo]

28. Yes she has a huge following. Outside of DU.

Most people here only know of her because of her ‘vote for daddy Bernie, bitch’ tweet. Evidenced by someone else in the comments bringing up Susan Sarandon, someone that has no connection to Cardi B other than also being supportive of Bernie. Sarandon is another celebrity who is only brought up here for hating on Bernie by proxy.

I see it, and I recognize it, and I’ll call it what it is.

[edhopper]

29. Huh?

Do you think we are that ignorant of popular culture?
I know here and didn't even know she endorsed Bernie, which to me is the only positive thing she has ever done.

[demmiblue]

38. I don't see any comments about Susan Sarandon.

Then again, I do have a healthy ignore list.

I also have her name on "Auto-trash by Keyword" because I really don't care for all the drama. She has nothing to say that I would be interested in, anyway.

So there you go. I can't see the constant Bernie-hating drama llamas, nor any of Sarandon's misguided musings that may be posted here. Win-win, imo.

[ProfessorGAC]

52. Oh, Brother!

I fear you're seeing things, because that doesn't happen that often.
Sarandon; ok! She gets slammed here. I've participated because I think she's wrong. Her public statements have been provably nonsensical. It's not hate. It's vehement disagreement with someone perpetrating a fraud.
Sanders: much, much less.
If you're seeing more than a little, it suggests selective memory.

[aidbo]

57. I know what I read.

[Codeine]

54. Some of us are aware of her via other routes.

I have a teenage daughter. Nobody with a teenage daughter remains unaware of Cardi B. for long. She’s revolting regardless of any political affiliations she may have.

[Lucinda]

71. Sarandon is disliked because of her direct attack upon Dolores Huerta and her comments about

Hillary. It wasn't the fact that she supported Bernie - it was what she said after the primaries against Clinton.

[Codeine]

53. I didn't even know about that.

I just think she’s exceedingly gross.

[cwydro]

56. I don't think most of us even knew that.

If I did, I’ve forgotten it.

I’ll bet she’s not even registered to vote.

[aidbo]

58. Why would you bet that?

What is it about her that makes you willing to bet that she isn’t registered to vote?

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/524194-cardi-b-says-she-got-up-early-to-vote-for-biden-in-person

[demmiblue]

62. Why would you think that? n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

22. I fucking love her tho.

[ismnotwasm]

30. Yah, me too.

This was not her brightest move, but the woman has incredible talent

[demmiblue]

33. I don't listen to her music, but I do appreciate...

Dr. Gunter's NYT article (regarding WAP):

I was thrilled to listen to and watch “WAP,” Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s recently released homage to female sexuality and vaginal, shall we say, lubrication. (I recommend Googling what the acronym stands for, because it’s not something The New York Times is often allowed to print.)

As a gynecologist, I’m used to dispelling all kinds of vaginal misinformation in the office and online, but the one myth that is the hardest to undo — and that I encounter regularly with patients — is the idea that vaginal lubrication is “problematic.”

These women don’t have an itch or an odor. They don’t have pain with sex. They have no symptom other than their concern about the volume of their vaginal discharge or that they’re overly lubricated during sex. Or both.

I know the cruelty and damaging messages these women receive from various sources — men, mothers, friends, magazines and social media — all because of a system built and maintained (often by those without vaginas) that revolves around the culture of the problematic, shameful and, yes, wet vagina.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/style/wap-cardi-b.html

[Lars39]

34. 37 people...what are the odds at least 1 was false negative?

[LisaL]

61. Pretty good I'd say.

And it's not even false negative-covid tests remain negative for some time after the infection. So testing too early into an infection could produce a negative test.

[LiberalFighter]

40. Who the hell is she?

And she thinks having them all tested makes it better. She claims she had everyone tested? Seriously doubt it.

[EarthFirst]

46. Marking for update in two weeks... nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

49. Like tRump, this is not a good example for our youth.

People who want to bathe in the limelight should understand that comes with moral responsibility toward the hands that feed them.


KY...

[sarisataka]

50. That's because she is rich and important

So different rules apply. (yes I realize it is redundant to use synonymous words in a sentence)

I am glad she has the resources to get so many of her family tested and brought together; I'm sure it was uplifting.

My wife and I found it uplifting to distribute food at a senior apartment building. Unfortunately one of the ladies my wife spent time with informed us of a positive test over the weekend. Although masks were worn, the school where my wife works informed her per protocol she must take off two weeks without pay. Since her paycheck was going to be for Christmas gifts she will spend her required time off making gifts instead.

If it helps Ms. B feel better, let her know I was not offended.

[Raine]

59. I don't know anything about her except she's selfish and thinks she's so much better

then anyone else that rules don't apply to her.

[Brainfodder]

60. I hate auto-tune.

Rich people taking advantage of that wealth, nothing much to see here.

$ = privilege, why else are these fools running over others to get them sum?

Fools who get big $ are still fools just with big $ now?

The richest people I know, hoard it, not flashy in the slightest, except for their HOME.
Smarter.... not even flashy cars, Volvo after Volvo.
It's almost as if they want to stay that way.

EZ money is fleeting and IMHO this is the mantra a human should have:

The key to money is never running out.

[Beaverhausen]

75. AS if she's the only person to have a big crowd at Thanksgiving

Give me a break. Sadly thousands (millions?) had big groups at their homes, too.

She was just stupid and said it out loud.

Fuck all of them.