Multimillionaire TV host and movie star Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at poor people during Monday’s edition of ABC’s The View. She was irate that poor people would dare to be upset about having to pay high prices for basic goods and vote against President Biden because of it. She told them to ignore inflation and suggested that if they didn’t, and former President Trump returned to the White House, he would have them put in “camps.”
Goldberg lamented that “people's faith in the country is waning” and that it was “pissing me off” because Biden was trying to save the country from Trump. “Because, in fact, here's a reason Joe Biden ran the way he did. There's a reason he’s running for democracy now, because that’s really what’s at stake,” she bloviated.
Becoming unglued, Goldberg demanded that poor people stop worrying about paying their bills and suggested, without evidence, that Trump was going to put them in concentration camps:
You’re worried that you can't pay your bill? Wait until the other guy becomes president, and you won’t have to worry about it because you'll be in some camp somewhere because that's his promise. His promise to us is he's going to force people to do his bidding. That's what he said. I'm going to be good on day one, and I'm going to turn into this other person.
She then told Americans that they should get used to having open borders and people jumping ahead of the line to get into the U.S.:
What is the country you want? Do you want the country that you kind of thought you had where we all get to say what we think and we don't have to be afraid of being American and believing that, yeah, there will be people who come in, and some will get in quick and some will take a different route. But they're coming here for a reason because they're living in a place that's not good for their families.
Also attacking poor people, multimillionaire and staunchly racist/anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin (who bragged she hadn’t been grocery shopping since the pandemic while also demanding her reparations) insisted that people who were concerned about making ends meet were just engaging in “grievance politics.”
She suggested those people were jealous of others and hated minorities and immigrants. “‘I can't pay my electric bill. My gas bill's high. I need my food. Why is that? Why is my station in life like this? It's because that black guy got into Harvard and became president,’ or ‘it's because that immigrant is over there doing better -- driving a nicer car than I'm driving,’” she chided them.
Hostin concocted a vast right-wing conspiracy bent on “intentionally dumbing down our electorate” to control them:
Women don't have reproductive rights anymore over their own bodies. Why? So they can have power over women. Why is French and Mandarin and Spanish being taken away from our public schools? So that we can be a monolithic -- a monolingual society and can’t compete globally. The Republicans are intentionally dumbing down our electorate, erasing history, so that past can become prologue, and so they can remain in power!
Back in reality, inner-city public schools controlled by Democrats were the ones performing poorly.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
January 8, 2024
11:15:55 a.m. Eastern(…)
SUNNY HOSTIN: What we're seeing by the Republican Party, and I give it to them, we're seeing a long game. We're seeing that they are dismantling or attempting to dismantle institutions.
All of a sudden the most elite colleges and universities in the world, which by the way, they all went to. Everybody in the Supreme Court went there. Elise Stefanik went there. All the congresspeople went there. Ted Cruz went there. Those schools are not good enough anymore because -- I think because now people that don't look like them were getting in. Affirmative action, no more. Why? So that people that don't look like them don't get in.
Women don't have reproductive rights anymore over their own bodies. Why? So they can have power over women. Why is French and Mandarin and Spanish being taken away from our public schools? So that we can be a monolithic -- a monolingual society and can’t compete globally. The Republicans are intentionally dumbing down our electorate, erasing history, so that past can become prologue, and so they can remain in power!
And it's grievance politics at its best, and it's because people see - what Sara was saying – “I can't pay my electric bill. My gas bill's high. I need my food. Why is that? Why is my station in life like this? It's because that black guy got into Harvard and became president,” or “it's because that immigrant is over there doing better -- driving a nicer car than I'm driving.”
It's grievance politics, but culture wars specific, and I wish people could see it in that way because this is not by accident.
[Crosstalk]
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: What's interesting for me is that people's faith in the country is waning. That's the thing that's --
HOSTIN: Yes.
GOLDBERG: -- pissing me off. Because, in fact, here's a reason Joe Biden ran the way he did. There's a reason he’s running for democracy now, because that’s really what’s at stake.
You’re worried that you can't pay your bill? Wait until the other guy becomes president, and you won’t have to worry about it because you'll be in some camp somewhere because that's his promise. His promise to us is he's going to force people to do his bidding. That's what he said. I'm going to be good on day one, and I'm going to turn into this other person.
So, here's the deal. This is all up to you. This is all up to you. We can sit up here until we're green in the face, but this really comes down to the people. What is the country you want? Do you want the country that you kind of thought you had where we all get to say what we think and we don't have to be afraid of being American and believing that, yeah, there will be people who come in, and some will get in quick and some will take a different route. But they're coming here for a reason because they're living in a place that's not good for their families.
If you’re okay with that, you understand that, then fight for us to find a better way to make immigration work. Fight for that. Don't fight for keeping everybody out because then we all have to leave.
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