{"id":792117,"date":"2019-01-16T21:48:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T04:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=780330"},"modified":"2019-01-16T21:48:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T04:48:24","slug":"cardi-b-on-government-shutdown-our-country-is-in-a-hellhole-right-now-for-a-f-king-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/cardi-b-on-government-shutdown-our-country-is-in-a-hellhole-right-now-for-a-f-king-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B on Government Shutdown: \u2018Our Country is in a Hellhole Right Now, for a F\u2013king Wall\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/10018834ay.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cardi-b\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cardi-b\" data-tag=\"cardi-b\">Cardi B<\/a> slammed President Trump and the government shutdown, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/government-shutdown-explained-777734\/\">longest in American history<\/a>, and advocated for those having to work without getting paid in a humorously expletive-laden video post on Instagram on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey y\u2019all, I just wanted to remind you because it\u2019s been a little over three weeks, OK. Trump is now ordering, as in summonsing, federal government workers to go back to work without getting paid,\u201d she said, incredulously.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper also preemptively addressed her detractors who might cite the shutdown during Obama\u2019s administration. \u201cNow, I don\u2019t wanna hear y\u2019all motherfuckers talking about, \u2018Oh, but Obama shutdown the government for 17 days. Yeah, bitch \u2013 for healthcare,\u201d she quipped. \u201cSo your grandma could check her blood pressure, and you bitches could go check your pussies at the gynecologist with no motherfucking problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis shit is really fucking serious, bro,\u201d she added. \u201cThis shit is crazy. Like, our country is in a hellhole right now, all for a fucking wall. And we really need to take this serious. I feel like we need to take some action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also empathized with the scores of people who have continued to show up to their jobs, without receiving a check. \u201cBitch, I\u2019m scared,\u201d she concluded. \u201cThis is crazy. And I really feel bad for these people that gotta go to fucking work to not get motherfucking paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BstmkvDFGAm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-4.0902777777778\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cardi-b-government-shutdown-instagram-watch-780330\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardi B slammed President Trump and the government shutdown, the longest in American history, and advocated for those having to work without getting paid in a humorously expletive-laden video post on Instagram on Wednesday. \u201cHey y\u2019all, I just wanted to remind you because it\u2019s been a little over three weeks, OK. Trump is now ordering, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 14:09:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}