April 10, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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| I'm going to start off by saying something. | |
| I've got no beef with Michelle Obama, alright? | |
| I really don't. | |
| A lot of people just, you mention your name, and they go crazy. | |
| With this big mic stuff. | |
| It's like, stop that! | |
| I've never subscribed to that. | |
| I'm not in that Candace Owens fixation about Brigitte Macron. | |
| It's like, I don't know what's going on with these people, but does this really keep you up at night? | |
| Well, it does at me. | |
| I got no beef with Michelle Obama. | |
| But what I do have a problem with is people who are just absolutely profoundly insincere. | |
| Who don't really appreciate what they have, you know, after months of, I guess, dodging and this silence and this cryptic, these weird photo ops or that weird creepy brother of hers, Michelle Obama has finally, I love the way they say this, finally broken her silence about the divorce rumors that are swirling around and about, I guess, between her and Barack Obama. | |
| Now, or Barry as we call him. | |
| Now look. | |
| Here's a shocker. | |
| It wasn't exactly a grand statesman-like declaration, but rather some pity, laced, solipsistic, self-absorbed podcast chat with Sophia Bush, where Michelle, with all the poise of a woman burdened, By being mildly inconvenienced, oh my God, imagine! | |
| She has to deal with marital discord or indifference or indecision. | |
| Oh my God, this is what drives me crazy! | |
| She claims that skipping President Carter's funeral and President Trump's inauguration was simply her making choices for herself. | |
| Quote, I'm just making choices for myself. | |
| Oh, how noble! | |
| Oh my God, how brave! | |
| And of course, it couldn't be that anyone found her absence strange or worth asking about. | |
| Oh, no, no, no, no. | |
| It's just society being mean to a poor woman trying to have some me time. | |
| Oh, poor thing. | |
| She only enjoyed one of the greatest honors that a country can bestow upon you. | |
| To be first lady of a country that treated you beautifully. | |
| Michelle insists that people just can't fathom the idea, the notion of a grown woman making decisions for herself, as if the American public hasn't watched her curate every move, you know, like a high-end PR campaign that nobody cares about. | |
| This since 2008. | |
| And now she's questioning, who do I truly want to be every day? | |
| Oh, God. | |
| Makes you want to puke, as if she's just discovered midlife crisis chic. | |
| Let me tell you something. | |
| Listen, let's not forget also, she's still out there doing the occasional speech, a few appearances for Kamala Harris. | |
| Remember that one? | |
| And, you know, working on the library project that she's not really involved in, that boondoggle. | |
| That thing which is costing how much a month for us? | |
| For Barry's library? | |
| Or library, as some would say. | |
| But, don't you dare question her marriage. | |
| Even though Barack is out here publicly admitting he's in a deep deficit. | |
| What the hell? | |
| What is this? | |
| Are you trying to be deliberately cryptic? | |
| Well, rumor mills spin tales of affairs with Jennifer Aniston. | |
| Not a chance! | |
| Not, I'm telling you right now, not a chance. | |
| Remember the awkward birthday selfies? | |
| Remember that one? | |
| Michelle's picture and the birthday selfie? | |
| No. | |
| It's my curly imitation. | |
| These half-hearted, these, I don't even know what this was. | |
| These weird, here we are, don't even bother. | |
| And by the way, seriously, we don't care. | |
| We're just bored. | |
| We like to gossip. | |
| That's it. | |
| Michelle Obama, the same woman who once micromanaged school lunch menus. | |
| Remember that? | |
| Look, she tried. | |
| Who now wants to believe that she's just flying by the seat of her soul. | |
| Please. | |
| The American people aren't stupid, Michelle. | |
| They're just tired of being gaslit by someone who pretends to be above, you know, the spectacle of it all. | |
| Oh, she's got me time and me time. | |
| While quietly feeding it one vague, boring, soporific podcast at a time. | |
| Oh, and it gets better. | |
| It gets better. | |
| Or worse, depending upon your perspective or your tolerance for elitist, self-indulgent... | |
| Masquerading as some kind of enlightenment. | |
| Michelle, who spent the last two decades telling Americans how to eat, how to vote, which values to embrace, now she wants to retreat behind the idea that she's just a woman on a personal journey. | |
| Leave me alone. | |
| Okay, you got that one. | |
| It's convenient. | |
| She sidesteps questions about the health of her marriage, ducks out of key events. | |
| And when people dare to notice, which she should be glad about, she frames it as a feminist awakening. | |
| Are you ready to puke yet? | |
| Now, according to Michelle, criticism equals oppression. | |
| Huh? | |
| And accountability? | |
| What? | |
| What is she talking about? | |
| That's just sexist noise. | |
| She paints herself as the misunderstood sage. | |
| The wit! | |
| You know, the poobah, more like the panjandrum, too evolved, too evolved for the political mud, but not above, you know, stepping in when there's a camera and a soft focus filter involved. | |
| Her podcast, Work in Progress, isn't just an excuse or a shield, a slow motion Brand, I don't know what this is, exercise disguised as soul-searching? | |
| I don't know what this stuff is. | |
| This introspective navel-gazing? | |
| It's enough to make you barf. | |
| Look, Barak is off making speeches, hanging out with college students and apparently apologizing in public about his deficit in the marriage. | |
| What the hell does that mean? | |
| I think we know what it means. | |
| That's not normal, folks. | |
| That's PR damage control, I think. | |
| I think damage control is supposed to make things better. | |
| And while the media spins the narrative of a power couple under pressure, no one, but no one wants to admit what's obvious. | |
| Something's off. | |
| Something's wrong. | |
| Something's weird here. | |
| From skipped funerals to solo political appearances, from cryptic quotes to dead-eyed selfies. | |
| This look of... | |
| Absolute emotional vacancy. | |
| The Obamas are broadcasting their brand louder than ever. | |
| Just not together. | |
| And Michelle's self-care rebrand, it's not fooling anyone. | |
| Real people, the ones outside of media cocktail circuits and podcast land, they know if your marriage is solid, you don't need to be making excuses for missing key moments. | |
| In fact, most people shut the up because they have this thing called pride. | |
| You don't need to reframe basic absence as personal growth. | |
| What are we, stupid? | |
| And you certainly don't need to drop quotes about questioning who you are in your 60s unless something very real is unraveling. | |
| Look, let's talk about the rumors, alright? | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| This Jennifer Aniston thing, what? | |
| Who put that up? | |
| Her people? | |
| The Anderson tabloid nonsense may be laughable, but it's not coming out of nowhere. | |
| See, these types of stories don't gain traction without cracks in the image, but also by a very nimble and deft PR move, at least on her part. | |
| Jimmy Kimmel's jokes, Michelle's absence from major events, and this weird kind of awkward timing of her extended Hawaii vacation. | |
| I'm doing a lot of these lately. | |
| I've got to stop that. | |
| It all adds up. | |
| And when Barack posted a clearly outdated and unflattering photo on her birthday, I'm being kind there. | |
| Well, that's not damage control. | |
| That's a blinking red light. | |
| Now look, these aren't conspiracy theories. | |
| I know what you think. | |
| They're observations. | |
| Keen observations on my part. | |
| They're what happens when two political celebrity types try to live a Hollywood life while pretending to be relatable down-to-earth public folks and assuming that we give a rat's arse about it in the first place. | |
| You know, the disconnect couldn't be more obvious. | |
| And Michelle says she's still working on girls' education and speeches and projects. | |
| Great. | |
| Great. | |
| But that doesn't explain the silence, the dodging, the veiled jabs. | |
| If anything, it raises more questions. | |
| Why is she suddenly embracing ambiguity? | |
| I mean, with both hands. | |
| Why is she speaking in therapy session cliches instead of straightforward answers, the way normal people speak? | |
| Why? | |
| Why does everything feel like it's some kind of a weird calculated emotional performance, like some weird Deepak Chopra, you know? | |
| Calling guard. | |
| What do you say? | |
| Complete with all this strategic and some might say performative vulnerability. | |
| It's because the narrative is shifting. | |
| And she's trying to stay ahead of it. | |
| Appearing to be honest without being honest. | |
| You see, she wants the credit for authenticity without the cost. | |
| Without the authenticity! | |
| She thinks we're buying it. | |
| She wants applause for being brave while avoiding the specifics that real bravery demands, commands, and deserves. | |
| And let's not forget the political angle, okay? | |
| You've got Gamala and that disaster. | |
| The Democratic bench being non-existent, if not looking thinner by the week. | |
| The Obamas are still the party's biggest names. | |
| Now, let me just say that, as of today, but that could change or that doesn't mean anything if the marriage is faltering, or at least if the optics suggest it is, because they still want to be power players. | |
| They still enjoy this. | |
| But I'm telling you, Barack, and I said this a long time ago, he's out of it. | |
| And Gamala ruined it. | |
| The whole brand is weakened. | |
| And Michelle, these teary, these lugubrious, funereal, narcissistic podcast monologues, this wasn't about the American people. | |
| It wasn't even about her marriage. | |
| It was about control. | |
| Narrative control. | |
| Something. | |
| Or narcissism on display. | |
| Image management. | |
| You see, the Obamas have always played that game better than anyone. | |
| But now, the mask is slipping. | |
| And no amount of podcast wisdom or Instagram captions will hide it for long. | |
| Listen to what I'm saying. | |
| So listen, Michelle, spare us the full vulnerability. | |
| Tell the truth. | |
| The era of Obama myth-making is over. | |
| And it's not because the public is cruel. | |
| It's because we're finally paying attention. | |
| Because nobody buys us anymore. | |
| See, there's nothing better than authenticity. | |
| People love when you're real. | |
| Like Al Sharpton says, keeping it real. | |
| So what do you think, my friend? | |
| Am I being mean? | |
| Am I being nasty? | |
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