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When Nicki Minaj Dominated Global Politics
The week that was in politics…
Had anyone said to Onika Maraj a week ago that her tweets would dominate political discourse on both sides of the Atlantic for the entirety of the week and would put her in a position of relevance which she hasn’t had for a while, she would have had a hard time believing that it would happen, and yet, it was exactly what took place.
For the uninitiated on this platform, who don’t know who Onika Maraj is, I am referring to Nicki Minaj, the multi platinum selling female rapper, whose lyricism and talent for reinvention is second to none.
What began as a number of tweets to her fans explaining why she gave the Met gala a wide berth, took on a life of its own, when she explained that she hadn’t taken the vaccine and that a cousin’s friend who was due to get married in Trinidad, had to call off the wedding when his testicles became swollen.
No sooner had these tweets been fired than the chief anti vaxxer in the world — Tucker Carlson —…