The Queen Was Barely Even Cold, And The View Ripped Her To Pieces…

After careful deliberation, I’ve come to the conclusion ABC’s “The View” is little more than a well-remunerated mainstream media troll farm.

Want to find the most incendiary, thought-free lefty hot take on the issues of the day? Don’t whip out your phone and hit up Twitter. Just wait until 11 a.m. rolls around in most markets and you’ll get some combination of Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Sara Haines and a guest ganging up on token Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin and/or common decency.

The only issue of the day anyone was talking about on Thursday and Friday, of course, was the death of Queen Elizabeth II; the monarch of the United Kingdom passed away on Thursday at her summer home in Balmoral, Scotland, after reigning for 70 years, effectively halting the coverage of other stories and prompting an outpouring of grief and sympathy.

Unless you’re somebody who takes “too soon” as a challenge, not a rebuke, there wasn’t a hot take to be found in Elizabeth’s passing. But lo — come Friday at 11 a.m., there was certainly a hot take to be had.

This time, the troll in question was Sunny Hostin, who told the audience they should “mourn the queen and not the empire,” then told them why they shouldn’t mourn the queen.

Hostin was responding to Haines’ pillorying of a Carnegie Mellon professor, Uju Anya, who has become briefly famous for tweeting that “the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”

Rather than condemn Anya, Hostin, who lived in London at one point, tried providing context to defend her.

“I wanted to meet the queen because I think we all love glam and pageantry,” Hostin said.

“And I think, though, we can mourn the queen and not the empire.”

What followed was an inverted version of Marc Antony’s funeral speech for Julius Caesar: She claimed had come to praise Queen Elizabeth, not to bury her. And, much like Antony, she intended to do nothing of the sort:

“If you really think about what the monarchy was built on, it was built on the backs of black and brown people,” Hostin said.

“She wore a crown with pillaged stones from India and Africa. And now, what you are seeing, at least in the black communities that I’m a part of, they want reparations.”

UGH!