Cardi B & Zohran Mamdani Would Like To Tell You About Free NYC Childcare

This morning, my entire social media feed is mad about a New York Times article with this viciously stupid headline: "They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?" That's how these fucking guys always want to frame it. Annoying rich people exist, so nobody anywhere should ever get anything for free. Don't bring that shit up around Comrade Cardi.

Cardi B has always had good politics; please recall the campaign video that she made with Bernie Sanders in 2019. She's rich, and she deserves free childcare, too! That's the "universal" part of "universal child care"! This morning Cardi appears alongside fellow New York rapper and all-around charming celebrity Zohran Mamani, the man who just became the first Democratic Socialist mayor of Cardi's hometown, in one of the extremely charming social-media videos that have become Mamdani's trademark.

In that video, Mamadani and Cardi discuss New York City's new 2-K program, which extends free childcare to two-year-olds. The program is going to have a jingle, and Cardi is going to help judge it. If that's just an excuse to get Mamdani and Cardi on camera together, that's good enough for me. Watch it below.