Emily Jashinsky

Her saying, quote, we are the cool kids hits totally differently when it's coming from a person on the right in 2025, almost 2026, because Donald Trump is now the president.

He has this whole vibe shift post 2024.

So it makes more sense to see something like that.

And it does make it, it does kind of, for me, at least watching that, it, it,

underscores the shift in the culture, and especially for younger people.

But Nicki Minaj had the everyman's reaction to critical race theory in that video.

And let's put up how JD Vance responded.

He said, Nicki Minaj said something at AmFest that was really profound.

I'm paraphrasing, but she said, just because I want little black girls to think they're beautiful doesn't mean I need to put down little girls with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Vance continues, we all got wrapped up over the last few years in the

This was because the people who think they rule the world pit us against one another.

Nicki Minaj rejects that, we all should.

And bundled into that package actually from Vans is this idea that the people

who rule the world were trying to pit us, or they think they rule the world, were trying to pit us against one another, that gets to what Nicki Minaj was saying about being tired of people telling her what to think, saying we are not allowed to think out loud anymore.

And that is actually very profound as well, because we think now in published social media, she's been using X a ton, by the way, but we think in like these social media

bites or you have a thought, you post it.

Because when you open up your social media to check in what's going on, it tells you to post what's on your mind.

Literally, that's what happens when you open the apps.

So it comes out on Instagram, it comes out on TikTok, it comes out on X, it comes out on live videos, it comes out on videos that are published.

And as you go through life, your thought process, your thinking is happening aloud.