President Joe Biden delivered his closing Oval Workplace tackle on Wednesday evening, and his farewell phrases of each hope and fear for the nation’s future had a significant affect on the cohosts of The View throughout Thursday’s (January 16) present — Pleasure Behar specifically.
“I miss him,” Behar instantly mentioned after reviewing a clip of Biden’s speech. Then, with out naming Donald Trump immediately, she in contrast the outgoing president with the one who’s about to take workplace once more. “He spent the final 50 years caring concerning the nation. This different one spent 50 years scamming everyone, making an attempt to remain out of jail. You recognize who I’m speaking about.”
Behar’s response continued on a extra private notice when she mentioned, “I really feel like we have been protected, like I didn’t have to fret was every part gonna blow up. I might reside my life whereas he was there [in office]. Now, on daily basis I get up and I fear, ‘What is that this man gonna do subsequent?’”
She then went on to the touch on the precise space of concern from Biden that “oligarchs” are seizing unchecked energy in America and had a stern warning for them to begin sharing their wealth: “Do they assume they’re going to reside endlessly? These folks. Everyone dies, I hate to interrupt it to them.”
Your entire panel then erupted right into a spirited dialogue concerning the continued affect of billionaire tech and social media moguls like Elon Musk (proprietor of Twitter, SpaceX, and Tesla), Jeff Bezos (proprietor of Amazon and the Washington Put up), and Mark Zuckerberg (proprietor of Meta/Fb).
“This is a vital challenge that Biden raises … this form of rise of the company tech oligarchy, the place the highly effective and rich are getting extra highly effective and rich, whereas the remainder of us are simply type of sitting again like, ‘Okay, how is that this going to work?’” Alyssa Farah Griffin mentioned.
Sara Haines was notably animated concerning the challenge and mentioned, “Once you consider an oligarchy, you consider all of the billions of {dollars} surrounding Donald Trump proper now, and he’s type of the gatekeeper of the nation. All the facility is with him. The scary half is these folks aren’t billionaires as a result of they created, like, the zipper. They maintain our consideration for hours a day on addictive gadgets the place we can’t get any regulation. In order that they not solely encompass the person and have entry to energy — as a result of cash is energy, energy is every part proper now — it’s the truth that they run corporations that personal our souls proper now, particularly our younger folks. And nobody will take a step in the direction of serving to shield that.”
Sunny Hostin mentioned the one means something will change is for the Supreme Courtroom to reverse its ruling in Residents vs. United, which protected company political contributions as free speech and opened the floodgates to darkish cash donations. And Whoopi Goldberg prompt, in a little bit of a winding apart, that it’s the duty of American mother and father to watch their youngsters’s web utilization, saying, “For those who’ve received children who’re misplaced to the web, you’ve received to rescue them as a result of the federal government’s not going to do it for you.”
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