The View: Week of 1/13/2025

[Mollywolly555]

A broken hip is major injury and surgery and recovery. 

Plus Pelosi was hunted by the insurgent terrorists on January 6th.

Pelosi's home was broken into with the purpose of harming/killing her, except she wasn't home and her elderly husband was brutally attacked wth a hammer!

How indefensible must her decision be to NOT  attend the inauguration? 

I just can't believe that Alyssa went there. Talk about going low. 

[Snapdragon]

Am I the only one who's kinda concerned for Michelle Obama?  She missed Carter's funeral and now she's missing Trump's inauguration.  Now, it could just be bad timing for Carter's funeral but the excuse they gave was she was on "extended vacation" in Hawaii, which could be legit or it could be that she's seeking some kind of medical treatment.  And with Trump's inauguration, I get why she just wouldn't want to go.  I'm just hoping that she doesn't have cancer or something.

[After7Only]

2 hours ago, Mollywolly555 said:

A broken hip is major injury and surgery and recovery. 

Plus Pelosi was hunted by the insurgent terrorists on January 6th.

Pelosi's home was broken into with the purpose of harming/killing her, except she wasn't home and her elderly husband was brutally attacked wth a hammer!

How indefensible must her decision be to NOT  attend the inauguration? 

I just can't believe that Alyssa went there. Talk about going low. 

That criticism of Pelosi was a head scratcher and tone def on her part.   She is no longer in House leadership.  There's no real reason she needs to be there, especially given she has a recently broken hip.  

I'm also not a fan of Alyssa's current attitude that because he won, the previous stuff he did is basically excused.   And the others should let go of their concerns.   She didn't stop criticizing Biden policies even though that is what the American people voted for (nor should she have)

 

 

[GHScorpiosRule]

13 minutes ago, After7Only said:

I'm also not a fan of Alyssa's current attitude that because he won, the previous stuff he did is basically excused.   And the others should let go of their concerns.   She didn't stop criticizing Biden policies even though that is what the American people voted for (nor should she have)

[sugarbaker design]

24 minutes ago, Snapdragon said:

Am I the only one who's kinda concerned for Michelle Obama?  She missed Carter's funeral and now she's missing Trump's inauguration.  Now, it could just be bad timing for Carter's funeral but the excuse they gave was she was on "extended vacation" in Hawaii, which could be legit or it could be that she's seeking some kind of medical treatment.  And with Trump's inauguration, I get why she just wouldn't want to go.  I'm just hoping that she doesn't have cancer or something.

I'm not concerned for MO at all.  I admire her for not going to the inauguration of the pig who tried to vilify her husband for years.

[Back Atcha]

On 1/16/2025 at 3:35 PM, KittyQ said:

I would love it to hear for once, someone say, "You know, I didn't think of it that way" or even "I guess I need to look into that further", the way regular people do when they are having conversations.

And occasionally, not be so obvious about allowing Whoopi to ALWAYS have the last word before going to commercial break.  It's not always about the clock.

[Back Atcha]

On 1/14/2025 at 3:07 PM, GHScorpiosRule said:

On 1/14/2025 at 12:32 PM, atomic said:

Alyssa keeps sitting there and giggling about the idea of Trump facing any consequences for J6. She used to not downplay his role in the insurrection and characterize him as the threat to democracy that he is. But now that the Dems aren't in power anymore, the entire script has flipped for her.

I hope it's The Powers That Be causing this turnaround.  She seemed like a level-headed Republican...even times when the rest of the table was against her.  Now she's just a shrill shill.  $he $old what wa$ left of her $oul.  I'm disappointed; she really seemed to be part of the group.  AND...what's up with her TAN HANDS?  Does no one check these ladies who use tanners.  The insides of her hands are almost neon gold!

[After7Only]

I had to chuckle at the end when Joy said they wouldn’t be on Monday for MLK Day.   Instead of saying they won’t be on because of the inauguration.   

[bluegirl147]

1 hour ago, After7Only said:

I had to chuckle at the end when Joy said they wouldn’t be on Monday for MLK Day.   Instead of saying they won’t be on because of the inauguration.   

It's things like that that make me smile.

[KittyQ]

5 hours ago, Snapdragon said:

Am I the only one who's kinda concerned for Michelle Obama?  She missed Carter's funeral and now she's missing Trump's inauguration.  Now, it could just be bad timing for Carter's funeral but the excuse they gave was she was on "extended vacation" in Hawaii, which could be legit or it could be that she's seeking some kind of medical treatment.  And with Trump's inauguration, I get why she just wouldn't want to go.  I'm just hoping that she doesn't have cancer or something.

I don't think that her absence indicates any health or other problem. I suspect that she just doesn't want to attend, and since being a former First Lady isn't an official role that has requirements (although there are social expectations) she gets to choose when she wants to show up or not. I do think that this aspect of MO's personality was carefully hidden when she was First Lady - she was on her best behavior, which almost all First Ladies are - but look at Melania Trump's example; she doesn't seem to care about social expectations or precedents, and seems to do just what she feels like doing. Perhaps Michelle has just taken a page out of her book.  

[Haleth]

I didn’t see the show (on vacation) but I will upset blame anyone for skipping the inauguration, regardless of who is being sworn in. Single digit temps!

(eta I didn’t realize it’s been moved inside.)

Edited Saturday at 10:36 PM by Haleth

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23 hours ago, Mollywolly555 said:

I just can't believe that Alyssa went there. Talk about going low. 

Considering Trump sulked off to Florida and not only did not attend Biden's inauguration but spent 4 years not doing any of the things one expects of a former president Alyssa being critical of anyone not attending was, well, a choice.

[Sue in her 60s]

20 hours ago, Back Atcha said:

And occasionally, not be so obvious about allowing Whoopi to ALWAYS have the last word before going to commercial break.  It's not always about the clock.

I agree with this. I don't remember how other moderators did it, but is there some rule that the moderator can't chime in at any point, but when time's up, simply say, "And that's where we'll leave it for today." and go to commercial?

[Sue in her 60s]

On 1/17/2025 at 11:49 AM, Mollywolly555 said:

I just can't believe that Alyssa went there. Talk about going low. 

In regard to Alyssa criticizing Nancy Pelosi for skipping the Inauguration, I've been trying to play closer attention ever since others on this board have pointed out Alyssa's MAGA-adjacent post-election behavior. She talks very fast, and crams so much in, that she is hard to follow.

This time, it was clear that her planned talking point was to bring up Nancy Pelosi after the discussion about Michelle Obama's decision to skip the event. And she did so by pointing out that former First Ladies (or former First Gentlemen for that matter) are in a different political category than House leadership. (Pelosi is still considered a leader, though not THE Leader.) Alyssa did this to ding a Democrat, even though as Ana and others said, Nancy Pelosi may have physical limitations that should excuse her from expected harsh conditions. (This was before it was changed to an indoor venue.)

But let's remember Nancy Pelosi after Trump's State of the Union speech, slowly and with determination ripping in half every page of her copy. She does not suffer fools gladly.

[KittyQ]

Joy says "this is not a normal inauguration" so no need to follow historic protocol. The thing is, there's always some rationale for doing what you want to do rather than what is expected of you and saying that a situation is "not normal" or "unprecedented" and therefore the exception to the rule is a common way to excuse yourself. I'm sure there have been other "not normal" inaugurations - for example in 2001, after the very close and contested election - did anyone official choose to not attend? 

Strangely, Joy seems to have forgotten Biden's terrible debate performance, because it was very clear to those watching that he could not win the election. It is unfortunate, but people age and sometimes develop cognitive issues; it has nothing to do with how good they are, or how successful they've been, but it does mean that their capabilities become severely limited. Being President of the US isn't a job for someone with this problem. 

 

[Dimity]

36 minutes ago, KittyQ said:

Being President of the US isn't a job for someone with this problem. 

and yet here we are...

[bluegirl147]

On 1/17/2025 at 8:22 PM, KittyQ said:

I don't think that her absence indicates any health or other problem. I suspect that she just doesn't want to attend, and since being a former First Lady isn't an official role that has requirements (although there are social expectations) she gets to choose when she wants to show up or not. I do think that this aspect of MO's personality was carefully hidden when she was First Lady - she was on her best behavior, which almost all First Ladies are - but look at Melania Trump's example; she doesn't seem to care about social expectations or precedents, and seems to do just what she feels like doing. Perhaps Michelle has just taken a page out of her book.  

I don't think Michelle Obama hid anything. If a different Republican had won she would probably be there.  Why should she come for a man who made his political career off of trying to convince people her husband was an illegimate president?

And as far as Melania goes she doesn't do much because IMO she thinks it's beneath her. 

[Mollywolly555]

I love Michelle O.

I think Melania's absences the first time around in the White House were to 1) distance herself from her husband, cuz she is so over him; and 2) to keep her own social life in Florida and NY, plus Baron was younger then. 

Now,  I am guessing that she may be more present in public... at least at first....primarily because Baron may be more involved in politics and the public life. Didn't his father already hype him for an official position? If not, it's coming. If only for the taxpayers paying their salaries.

[Shrek]

If the outgoing president doesn't attend because he has a golf game, then all future bets are off & nobody should have to attend if they don't want to attend going forward & any reason that they choose should be good enough for everyone on both sides without any finger pointing from either side.

This is the part that everyone on the Republican side seems to have conveniently forgotten because they want an old lady who recently suffered an accident to attend, and it is somehow outrageous because she isn't. I'm not even going to start about M.O., she can do what she wants to do.

I'm sorry but the orange felon set the precedent going forward when playing golf was more important than attending, so let's just stop all of the panty twisting & pearl clutching & get on with life while we can.

 

Edited Sunday at 03:50 PM by Shrek

[atomic]

As if Mrs. Obama would look to Melania for anything. It's already been well-established who takes pages out of the other's speech book.