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The turn does come out of nowhere, except that we know that she's a long-term green card holder who clearly wanted to change that status and saw and knew that in this administration, you can kiss the ring and get almost anything.
So while...
So we get this bizarre split screen of poor immigrants are running for their lives and getting deported and beaten and shot in the streets while a rich immigrant gets a pathway to citizenship.
In an administration where you can be at the courthouse going through the proper steps and they arrest you and detain you.
But she has had a green card and now she just gets a pathway away.
I don't believe that citizenship should be sold as a luxury good, especially as a personal choice of the leader that he happens to like you.
You have kissed the ring.
You have shown sufficient deference to his political perspective.
So you get to be a citizen.
I think becoming an American citizen should be much more egalitarian, should be much more of a broader opportunity for a widespread of Americans, widespread of non-Americans.
who don't necessarily have to suggest that they love, personally, the president to get a citizenship.
No, no, not at all.
I mean, you know, part of the thing is that a large portion of her fans are black and brown.
A large portion of them are LGBTQ, especially trans.
She has been a trans and gay icon for a while.
So, you know, we keep talking about how she has betrayed a large swath of her fan base by doing this.
And we don't really—I don't believe that she actually agrees with any of the policies of the Trump administration.
I don't think she knows any of the policies.
We do know there are people who are, like, attracted to the personality of Trump, and I guess—
you know, you get to your political side whatever way you want, but I don't believe she actually knows or cares about any political ideal at all.