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Michelle Obama Releases Video Panning Tragedy Of Trumps Coronavirus Response
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michelle-obama-trump-coronavirus_n_5f7c7007c5b61229a05779c0
Former first lady Michelle Obama tore into President Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus crisis in a live video Tuesday, calling Trumps pandemic leadership willful mismanagement and negligence.
We simply cannot trust this president to tell us the truth about anything, Obama said in her Closing Argument, a nearly 25-minute appeal to Americans to vote for Democratic nominee Joe Biden over Trump in next months presidential election.
The worst part is it didnt have to be like this, Obama said of the more than 210,000 coronavirus-linked deaths in the United States. So many other countries arent experiencing this level of extended suffering and uncertainty.
She continued:
These countries were hit by the same virus as we were. They had the same kind of resources to contain it as we did. But what they didnt have to contend with was this president ...
A man who knew how deadly this virus is but who lied to us and told us it would just disappear. Who, in the greatest crisis of our lifetimes, doubled down on division and resentment, railed against measures that could have mitigated the damage and continues to hold massive events without requiring masks or social distancing, knowingly exposing his own supporters to a dangerous virus.
Blue Owl
(50,704 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,559 posts)Le Roi de Pot
(744 posts)to go apoplectic ...
FULL ON MELTDOWN ----
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Love your video!
stillcool
(32,626 posts)a woman of her word, speaking out when she has something to say. Spunk, tenacity, intelligence, communication skills up the ying-yang. Love that woman. And we now have others in the congress that are of the same ilk. Gives me hope.
gohuskies
(1,160 posts)So articulate and classy while making it crystal clear to any who is on the fence or undecided. The righteous choice of Biden/Harris could not have been made any better than by Michelle Obama.
onetexan
(13,095 posts)EndlessWire
(6,619 posts)Hekate
(91,228 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,641 posts)But when you try to steal everything you can't be surprised when people fight back
NBachers
(17,221 posts)Le Roi de Pot
(744 posts)Cha
(298,354 posts)needs to keep her gloves & mask on.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)context, and pervert parts of her speech.
Le Roi de Pot
(744 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)peggysue2
(10,903 posts)Traildogbob
(8,958 posts)Has a whole lot of angry black women right now. Many have lost husbands and sons and live in fear for the ones that are alive now. Any black man can tell you, an angry black woman, be afraid, an angry black mother, shit gonna get real. Wait until the next womens March after this asshole is drug out by the combover.
Black women are what it will take to MAG, no again shit, make it great.
And I am an old white man.
Cha
(298,354 posts)president". Boom!
Michelle said "Gaslight"!! Mahalo Michelle!
Fucking Puerto Rico Gov should See THIS.. instead of having his head up his stupid ass.
Michelle made me cry.. with Hope!
GOTV WITH POWER & PASSION!
louis-t
(23,323 posts)Disgusting, hideous human being.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)For Michelle. She tells it like it is.
lpbk2713
(42,786 posts)I love it. She couldn't be any more on the mark.
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)I love her. I love her voice. In these so stressful times, on nights that I'm having trouble sleeping, I take her audiobook to bed with me and I go to sleep with her voice in one of my ears. Her voice is so soothing. It feels like I have a friend in the bedroom with me and I feel safe. I can never find the exact spot that I fell asleep at so I start again at all kind of random spots.
And I love how she has been having fun trying out so many different hairstyles now that the spotlight isn't so hot and judging any longer.
That said, you go girl!
KewlKat
(5,625 posts)FakeNoose
(33,023 posts)... but I think the Repukes will treat Michelle and Kamala the same way they treated Hillary in 2016.
It makes me sick to think about how Hillary was treated. That's what Repukes do, they disrespect everyone, especially women. They hate it when a woman presents herself as a leader and a person of achievement and intelligence. THOSE are the women they go after with zeal. Kamala and Michelle are Women of Color as well!
Maybe I'm wrong, I hope I am wrong. These women are national sheroes and deserve respect.
electric_blue68
(15,072 posts)"taking the gloves off"
It's a term relative to a person's personality, sometimes I forget that.
So watching our smart, elegant, empathetic (former) First Lady... (*thinks*) ok.. she looks slightly angry esp for minutes at a time - that's (imho) barely ever happened for maybe even a few seconds. (*thinks* OK, that's her version/level of "gloves off" )
Of course, she listed off the actions, or non actions of Trump that have made us angry, sad, despairing...
Oh, but then...
She gave a nuanced, detailed, deeply poignant litany of experiences, and feelings of living while black here in a still racist America. Then extending a sort of a spiritual "hand" to racist white Americans - to look again, reexaimine their feelings in the face of the truth that most black Americans are as hard working, family loving etc people just like them.
That was like a Zen gloves off. Like (is it Buddhist) the image of water going flowing into, through places nothing else can get through.
applause
Cha
(298,354 posts)Cha
(298,354 posts)Michelle went scorched Earth on the Treasonous Murderer
Cha
(298,354 posts)was still in the WH. Before Putin's Puppet..
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14236184
Le Roi de Pot
(744 posts)What a downgrade from this to Melania !!!!!!
Cha
(298,354 posts)the OP!
Yeah like 180 degrees downgrade
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)She is amazing. There are no bounds to my admiration for her.
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