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Questions or not, fuming is just what this White House does.
Now Trump will discover that she was never talented.
MAGA “fumes” from reasonable question. Does MAGA ever stop fuming?
I wish they'd have coronaries
Will the whining ever stop?
In any case, the opinion of hairdresser amplified by the repost of a diva has given POTUS a really fine burn.
Yes, and?
Grande, 32, shared an Instagram post by podcast host and makeup artist Matt Bernstein, who asked Trump voters a pointed series of questions.
“It’s been 250 days. Now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for virtually everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse for us all — has your life gotten better?” Bernstein asked.
“Have your groceries gotten cheaper? Has your health insurance premium gone down?” he continued. “Has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you in the way he promised it would, or are you still waiting?”
They really don't like questions or past quotes of themselves. Says a lot.
Fascists: "Everything is better under Trump"
All other people: "Name one thing, please."
Fascists: Angry NPC face
Ariana probably: yuh
Save your tears, Ariana, because President Trump’s actions ended Joe Biden’s inflation crisis and are bringing in trillions in new investments,
Well thank goodness for that. I can now see all Americans lives will become better as soon as they attain billionaire status.
... and are bringing in trillions in new investments
My office had to lay off half the workers because so many clients are canceling projects or we're being viciously underbid by competing firms desperate to make a deal.
We're all gonna be billionaires by the time Trump is done fixing inflation! /s
Yeah, like how everyone in Zimbabwe has millions in the account.
Like his "concepts of a plan" /small hands wave an invisible accordion
It's a good question.
Well she is Latin. If she wasn’t a diva ice would consider taking even her. So racist…
I thought she was Italian?
I thought she was Italian?
To answer your question, yes, you did. You're welcome.
Yeah, we just have a ton of really similar words for not-quite the same thing.
Latin: with roots going back to Rome (Most Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian people). But almost nobody uses this in the USA.
Latin American/Latino/Latina: with roots in South/Central America, the Caribbean, or Mexico (notably, this includes Brazil and Haiti)
Hispanic: with roots in Spanish-speaking countries (notably, this excludes Brazil and Haiti, and includes Spain)
Ariana Grande could reasonably be called Latin, but not Latina. She just tans well so she plays the "racially ambiguous" card when it suits her.
Someone can be hispanic but can they be byespanic?
That's all ridiculous. You guys (the US) need to get past this race shit. She's a US citizen by birth and that's that.
For some reason none of you want to be just "Americans". You want to divide yourselves up into little tribes that link you back to some place you've never been.
If you yourself emigrated, sure...call yourself Italian-American. If it was your parents...you are American and your parents were Italian. If it was your grandparents, you're just American. Stop pretending.
It would also help your politics no end.
See, here's something that people outside of America don't understand: when people immigrated to the US, they usually formed their own communities centered around the culture and traditions of their original country. This happens in other countries as well, but since most countries are like 5% immigrants at most, you just don't see it unless you're directly interacting with those communities.
The often spouted "melting pot" claim about the US has never been true - we've always been divided on a million things. It's a micro-scale version of the countries of Europe - tiny timeframe, often tiny divides, but the same squabbles as there were between the former regions that now make up the countries of Europe. Invasions, racism, regional cultural differences, etc. They're all there. In that sense, the US can be seen like the EU with a single unified language in some ways. On one end, it's like the Scottish and Irish being British due to invasion and attempted genocide (the Nazis were inspired by how the US treated the indigenous people here, after all) and on the other it's like the people of Paris and the Loire Valley arguing about who is or isn't French. But you don't have to go much further to find that you're suddenly arguing about who's French and who's Belgian.
It's the fact that it's not a melting pot that I'm calling out. Americans need to see themselves as American first, and more importantly see each other as Americans first. All the time they separate themselves from each other, they're letting "race" matter. Stop clinging onto what your family moved away from, and embrace what they moved to.
Otherwise you'll just keep tearing at each other.
She's completely Caucasian. If we consider Italians Caucasian. Yes we do consider Italians Caucasian.
She's also a method actress who's been known to assume several different nationalities, each for a long duration of time. Like remember when she looked & spoke black for awhile?
The only way she's Caucasian is if you're using it to mean "white", which is based in pseudoscientific racial theory. Quoting the second definition from Wiktionary:
- (anthropology, dated) Of a racial classification pertaining to people having certain phenotypical features such as straight, curly, or wavy hair and very light to brown pigmented skin, and originating from Europe, parts of Northern Africa and Central, South, and Western Asia.
- Synonyms: Caucasoid, Europid
I don't tend to do linguistic prescriptivism, but I have to make an exception for things like this. Caucasian should just be used to refer to people from the Caucasus.
If we consider Italians Caucasian. Yes we do consider Italians Caucasian.
For now. That'll change.
I hope it does. The Caucuses are like Armenia and Azerbaijan, Italy is different mountains
They wouldn’t be mad if it wasn’t true.
She's a ILLEGAL DEI HIRE ~~TRANSVESTITE~~ ~~TRANSMISSION~~ ~~TRANSLATOR~~ TRANS THING!
How dare she ask the hard questions.