Some people are angry that Michelle Obama’s team has announced she will not be attending the inauguration of Donald Trump on Monday. The insults started to fly, because that’s what insults do. I understand, to a certain point. But I stop short of caring because life is better without Michelle Obama.
You don’t miss her, you know you don’t. The only reason you’d like her to be there is to watch her face for those moments she will no longer be able to hold in the misery she’d be in there. I get it, and I’d watch and laugh too. But it’s better not to.
One thing about the Obama presidency that I found really annoying was how you couldn’t get away from them. The government our Founding Fathers created had a federal government you’d barely notice in your daily life, and you’d have to look hard for it for you to notice it. Now, the federal government is everywhere. It won’t leave you alone in your own yard or your own house. Hell, Democrats are working hard to make it harass you in your own head for wrong-think.
Part of the normalizing of ubiquitous government was to turn the Obamas from politicians, which they are, into celebrities, which they are not. It started with the Clintons, but Bill had too much baggage with other women and Hillary had too much baggage with trying to destroy those other women not for sleeping with her husband but for daring to threaten their power by talking about it. You can elevate scumbags to hero status, especially when you’ve burned all the calories you had trying to convince people that what Bill did with an intern was the intern doing it to Bill and not sex.
They tried, but it was all they could do to save his presidency. The Obama’s presented another bite at the apple without the need for penicillin.
They made movies about their first date, wrote books about how wonderful they were, including children’s books, and insist to this day that the only scandal during Barack’s presidency was that he wore an ugly brown suit one day.
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And remember Michelle’s arms? She was so fit and shopped at Target! Not when it mattered, then she has couture custom made by people who’d charge you more than you paid for your house for it (she got it free), but she was just like everyone else, or at least everyone else who never skipped arm day.
She got more magazine covers than an actual beautiful model who became First Lady after her. I don’t need to see her ever again.
She hates politics anyway, or at least the country. Michelle has likely not been proud of this country since her husband left office because she hates Donald Trump and who in the world could be proud of anything Joe Biden is associated with?
She emerged from her insulated, gated community life for a speech at the Democratic National Convention and a couple of staged campaign events, but her heart was never really in it. There are plenty of people who’d love to see the country destroyed but never get off the couch to do it. Michelle is off the couch, just busy hammering giant checks for not really doing so much. For a racist country and system she’s not much of a fan of, it sure does send her a lot of “mailbox money,” doesn’t it?
Either way, I don’t need to see her. Miserable or not, I’m not interested.
She didn’t show up to Jimmy Carter’s funeral and I didn’t miss her. Donald Trump didn’t show up to Joe Biden’s inauguration and I didn’t really care then either. We don’t need the window dressing of the past – we remember it, we were there – to be filled with hope for the future. If former officials want to come, fine. Personally, I’d do away with most of the pomp and circumstance surrounding inauguration of anyone, only bringing it back after we get a balanced budget and half the national debt is retired. But that’s just me, I don’t need black tie parties to celebrate vanquishing Democrats.
Still, if you really had your heart set on watch an Obama squirm, Barack will be there. Though he’ll probably squirm more at the prospect of having to explain to a senile Joe Bien that just because they were all there and Trump was taking the oath, it wasn’t 2017 again. Maybe that’s the real reason Michelle is skipping out? In that case, I can’t blame her. Either way, she won’t be missed.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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