Posted on 10/29/2025 7:51:08 AM PDT by simpson96
Former first lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday said women need to stand up against those who might seek to silence them.
In an interview with People magazine, Obama reflected on her life and explained how she embraced entering her 60s. She talked about how her father raised her to be proud of her height.
“I’m still working on, every day, waking up, looking in the mirror and telling myself that I am smart and beautiful, and kind and worthy,” Obama said. “I don’t think that work ever stops for women, particularly women of color, because sometimes you don’t always hear it back.”
“Women today, we’re facing a time now, where people with power are trying to quiet the voices of people they disagree with,” she continued. “And I think now more than ever, it’s a time when we have to fight to remind ourselves that we matter, that we count.”
At no point during the interview is Obama quoted mentioning the current president. The former first lady discussed the pressures of being in a role that was a “job, non-job” from 2009 to 2017, and how even her style choices were political. Obama said she “liked the fact that, in hindsight, people identified with what I was wearing.”
“Because if I wore something and it could sell out, that meant that most women could afford to buy it. And I thought that’s a good thing,” she said. “I wanted the people of America, all people of all races, of all political persuasions, to be able to connect with me.”
In analyzing her life now, which includes dinner dates with the former president and keeping herself healthy, Obama said she’s putting herself first.
“This is the first time where every decision that I make is for me,” she told People.
Former President Obama was more explicitly political during a recent interview on the last episode of Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast, criticizing President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops into his home state of Illinois.
“If I had sent in the National Guard into Texas and just said, ‘You know what? A lot of problems in Dallas, a lot of crime there, and I don’t care what Gov. Abbott says, I’m going to kind of take over law enforcement, because I think things are out of control,’ it is mind-boggling to me how Fox News would have responded,” Obama said, referencing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).
Emotionally immature people need constant validation…
Indeed she has no problem feeding her ego.
Hey lady, at least no one is threatening to shoot you in the neck.
Pot...kettle...black...
Other than her media sycophants, no one else is going to tell her that.
Big Mike would be better off just keeping his mouth shut and perhaps go back to Man’s World to find another “sucker”....LOL
Michelle Obama: ‘People with power are trying to quiet the voices of people they disagree with’ /
Well then stop doing that big Mike.
And tell your fellow bolshevists to stop doing it too.
Yes, Biden and Hillary tried to quiet Republican voices, but we elected Trump anyway to bring them to justice.
“I’m still working on, every day, waking up, looking in the mirror and telling myself that I am female.”
Well, yes. The IRS being used to target opposition during her husband’s administration is a good example.
Big Tech tried for more than a decade to silence us.
This is classic pot calling the kettle black.
Evidence emerges that Obama administration official knew of IRS targeting during 2012 campaign
sometimes even people will drown on their own accord
‘She’ is a moose with shoulders like a Polish power lifter, buttocks like a Clydesdale mare, feet like canoes and a face like a Notre Dame gargoyle.
‘She’ should shut up and go make me a sammich.
LOL
WAYNE ROOT: I was Banned, Shadow-Banned, Censored and Silenced by Media, Social Media, the US Government and Stanford University for Telling the Truth and Trying to Save Lives.
October 29, 2025
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“Michelle Obama: People with power are trying to quiet the voices of people they disagree with”
I know, ironic isn’t it. I have the same reaction when HRC starts flappin’ her lips too.
I don’t vote for first ladies but... there’s been a couple in my lifetime who practice over reach with regularity. There ought to be an amendment to shut them down. It’s a security threat, ir could be... witness Jilly and her comatose sidekick.
That’s it, right there.
These people love to talk about themselves.
*bump*
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