EMBARRASSING – AT 11:45 P.M. ET:  Michelle Obama, who once said that the only time she was proud of her country was when her husband ran for president, is now gifting us with more of her accumulated wisdom.  From USA TODAY:

Pressure is mounting on the nation's leading social media companies to permanently ban Donald Trump from their platforms as former first lady Michelle Obama on Thursday joined the growing number of powerful voices calling for the president's ouster to prevent him from using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to incite another wave of violence.

Trump has been blocked from posting to Facebook and Instagram "indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday.

But Obama along with civil rights groups say he needs to be banned for good and condemned Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube for failing to stop the flood of extremist and dangerous content from Trump and his supporters that they say fueled Wednesday's violence.

“Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior –and go even further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technology from being used by the nation’s leaders to fuel insurrection,” Obama said in a statement posted to Twitter Thursday.

COMMENT:  That is the way of the authoritarian, and it's the direction the American left wants us to go.  Censorship and suppression. 

Michelle Obama and her husband, in the middle of a pandemic that has brought severe suffering to millions of Americans, moved into a $15-million mansion in Massachusetts, to supplement their $8-million mansion in Washington.  They have monetized the American presidency as no president and first lady ever have.  You'd think they'd be concerned about appearances, but apparently not.  The former first lady might consider her words and deeds more carefully in the future, and perhaps also contemplate the virtue of silence.

January 7, 2021