Susan Rice got fired the other day by Pete Hegseth. As a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee for the last two years, she was canned along with a number of others because the DOD Director decided that their services were no longer needed.
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Rice, a long-time government employee and ally of the Obama-Biden kabal, wasted no time in going on both social media and MSNBC to whine and stomp her feet. Calling Hegseth “dumb as a rock,” Rice said:
Well, if you’re a white male Christian cisgender macho MAGA man, you can be as dumb as a rock and be deemed qualified to serve as secretary of Defense. That’s apparently what we’ve learned from this episode.
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Rice had no problems demonstrating her racism, sexism, and anti-Christian bias while throwing a child’s tantrum on national TV, but these days, this is expected, and I’ve grown numb to the charges. This is what Democrats and progressives turn to when they get angry. It’s a lot like the name-calling we were all either subjected to–or subjected others to–in the third grade. One would hope that a person who is 60 years old would have at least displayed a little more self-control and decorum. Like Rex Tillerson.
In 2018, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson got fired for poor performance, etc., yet he managed to depart his position with a little bit of grace and style. You can love or hate him all that you want, but compared to Susan Rice, he behaved like a grown-up.
“To the 300-plus million Americans, thank you for your devotion to a free and open society, to acts of kindness toward one another, to honesty, and the quiet hard work that you do every day to support this government with your tax dollars…I’ll now return to private life, as a private citizen, as a proud American, proud of the opportunity I’ve had to have serve my country.”
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Contrast that with Rice’s tweet, “Hegseth is a fat head. He’s a racist. He’s a woman hater. He’s a (gak) Christian of the worst kind!!!!!”
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of dropping off your child at day care for the very first time, you know well the cry of the desperate.
Again, this is not unexpected, but it is disappointing because it’s obviously just an emotional outburst. And one would hope that people in the Pentagon who advise the DOD director, who advises the president, would be at least a little bit above the behavioral caliber of a toddler in a pack ‘n play. A position that Rice got kicked out of is far too important for people who have failed to mature emotionally by the age of 60.
Looking at this analytically, and while the DOD has not released the names of other former advisors on the council, I will go out on a limb and assume that they all weren’t women and they all weren’t white. Maybe they just got canned because the Director wanted to fill the seats with people who think as he does. It would have been interesting to see how Susan Rice’s tantrum would look if he’d fired her specifically and replaced her in the seat with Condoleezza Rice. Or better yet, instigated a little in-party catfighting and replaced her with Maxine Waters. That would have been interesting.
When Barack Obama came into office, he fired everybody. Mostly white guys, but a few women and a few blacks, and nobody ever called him a racist or a woman hater. So when new leadership comes in, it cleans house. It’s just the way of the world, and it has been for 5,000 years. Octavian fired Lepidus, Truman fired MacArthur, Hegseth fired Rice. It happens, and it’s always based on performance or worldview.
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However, Susan Rice is special, and so with her gift of natural immunity from the tides of history, it must be something else. And really, it is a pathetic thing to watch a grown woman melt into a puddle of insecurity on TV, calling Hegseth a bunch of names as an act of public self-soothing. She should have probably done that in a private setting. But in our modern day of self-expression, we showcase our vulnerabilities, failures, and tantrums before the entire world.