Ultra-Rich Former First Lady Lectures Americans On Taking More Than We Need

[Hammster]

Ultra-Rich Former First Lady Lectures Americans On Taking More Than We Need

I'm over here with 4 kids in a small starter home that we've long outgrown, cutting coupons month to month as we try to survive the inflation that the politicians have unleashed upon us all.

notthebee.com

I'm over here with 4 kids in a small starter home that we've long outgrown, cutting coupons month to month as we try to survive the inflation that the politicians have unleashed upon us all.

But this insanely rich woman is here to lecture me about taking more than I need.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Ultra-Rich Former First Lady Lectures Americans On Taking More Than We Need

I'm over here with 4 kids in a small starter home that we've long outgrown, cutting coupons month to month as we try to survive the inflation that the politicians have unleashed upon us all.

notthebee.com

I'm over here with 4 kids in a small starter home that we've long outgrown, cutting coupons month to month as we try to survive the inflation that the politicians have unleashed upon us all.

But this insanely rich woman is here to lecture me about taking more than I need.

Oh, how I love threads built on buffoonish commentary on an out of context quote...

Here's a transcript of the full speech and the relevant passage:

You see, my mom, in her steady, quiet way, lived out that striving sense of hope every single day of her life. She believed that all children, all — all people have value. That anyone can succeed if given the opportunity. She and my father did not aspire to be wealthy. In fact, they were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed. They understood that it wasn’t enough for their kids to thrive if everyone else around us was drowning.

So, my mother volunteered at the local school. She — she always looked out for the other kids on the block. She was glad to do the thankless, unglamorous work that for generations has strengthened the fabric of this nation. The belief that if you do unto others, if you love thy neighbor, if you work and scrape and sacrifice, it will pay off. If not for you, then maybe for your children or your grandchildren.

You see, those values have been passed on through family farms and factory towns, through tree-lined streets and crowded tenements, through prayer groups and National Guard units and social-studies classrooms. Those were the values my mother poured into me until her very last breath.

Kamala Harris and I built our lives on the same foundational values. Even though our mothers grew up an ocean apart, they shared the same belief in the promise of this country. That’s why her mother moved here from India at 19. It’s why she taught Kamala about justice, about the obligation to lift others up, about our responsibility to give more than we take. She’d often tell her daughter, “don’t sit around and complain about things. Do something.”

She wasn't lecturing anybody about wealth. She was extolling the virtue of serving others. That's a good thing. That's a Christian thing.

 

[Hammster]

How many threads are you going to start around buffoonish commentary on an out of context quote?

Here's a transcript of the full speech and the relevant passage:









She wasn't lecturing anybody about wealth. She was extolling the virtue of serving others. That's a good thing. That's a Christian thing.

She’s thriving. Others around her are struggling.

 

[NxNW]

She’s thriving. Others around her are struggling.

Who, Melania?

 

[iluvatar5150]

She’s thriving. Others around her are struggling.

And? Does she not do stuff to help others? Most of her career prior to becoming First Lady involved some sort of public or community service, and she's still involved with a fair amount of charity work.

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

She’s thriving. Others around her are struggling.

They just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, stop buying latte's and avacado toast. Mrs. Obama did it. So can they. They'll be fine.

 

[Hammster]

They just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, stop buying latte's and avacado toast. Mrs. Obama did it. So can they. They'll be fine.

So that’s how she made her money. Got it.

 

[Belk]

She’s thriving. Others around her are struggling.

Let us know when the Republicans in congress come up with a plan to help out. I seem to recall a bunch of us on the left pointing out the problem of wealth inequality for years and conservatives telling us we "hate rich people".

 

[RileyG]

Ultra-Rich Former First Lady Lectures Americans On Taking More Than We Need

I'm over here with 4 kids in a small starter home that we've long outgrown, cutting coupons month to month as we try to survive the inflation that the politicians have unleashed upon us all.

notthebee.com

I'm over here with 4 kids in a small starter home that we've long outgrown, cutting coupons month to month as we try to survive the inflation that the politicians have unleashed upon us all.

But this insanely rich woman is here to lecture me about taking more than I need.

She’s a hypocrite. Plain and simple. I’m far poorer than her and I don’t need to listen to her lecture about what I can or cannot do.

 

[RileyG]

How many threads are you going to start around buffoonish commentary on an out of context quote?

Here's a transcript of the full speech and the relevant passage:









She wasn't lecturing anybody about wealth. She was extolling the virtue of serving others. That's a good thing. That's a Christian thing.

Virtue signaling, much?

 

[iluvatar5150]

She’s a hypocrite. Plain and simple. I’m far poorer than her and I don’t need to listen to her lecture about what I can or cannot do.

Virtue signaling, much?

Yes, the virtues I'm signaling are literacy and reading comprehension.

 

[RileyG]

Yes, the virtues I'm signaling are literacy and reading comprehension.

I don’t need to listen to her preach because I don’t care. When most Americans are poorer than her, she has zero right to tell people they have an excess of something.

 

[iluvatar5150]

I don’t need to listen to her preach because I don’t care. When most Americans are poorer than her, she has zero right to tell people they have an excess of something.

She didn't tell anybody they have an excess of anything. If you or the OP had bothered to take a couple minutes to listen to the speech or read the transcript that much would have been clear.

The guy who wrote the article is either a liar or an illiterate moron. My vote is on the former.

 

[Belk]

She didn't tell anybody they have an excess of anything. If you or the OP had bothered to take a couple minutes to listen to the speech or read the transcript that much would have been clear.

The guy who wrote the article is either a liar or an illiterate moron. My vote is on the former.

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

When most Americans are poorer than her, she has zero right to tell people they have an excess of something.

She literally did not tell anyone anything like that.

If I recount a story about my dad saying, "you need to be nicer to people to get ahead in life." Did I just tell people they all need to be nicer?

 

[Aldebaran]

And? Does she not do stuff to help others? Most of her career prior to becoming First Lady involved some sort of public or community service, and she's still involved with a fair amount of charity work.

Most of the time prior to becoming First Lady, she wasn't even proud of the country she lived in.
Only once she became First Lady was she finally proud of it.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Most of the time prior to becoming First Lady, she wasn't even proud of the country she lived in.
Only once she became First Lady was she finally proud of it.

That's nice.

 

[Aldebaran]

That's nice.

It's also revealing.

 

[RileyG]

Most of the time prior to becoming First Lady, she wasn't even proud of the country she lived in.
Only once she became First Lady was she finally proud of it.

How embarrassing.

 

[RileyG]

She didn't tell anybody they have an excess of anything. If you or the OP had bothered to take a couple minutes to listen to the speech or read the transcript that much would have been clear.

The guy who wrote the article is either a liar or an illiterate moron. My vote is on the former.

My fault. It was basically a knee jerk reaction to the title of the thread.

You're right, my apologies.