Posted on 04/26/2025 10:17:16 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Former United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice bucked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s intelligence following weeks of scrutiny over leaks at the Pentagon amid massive spending reductions at the Department of Defense (DOD).
Rice, who previously served as national security adviser in the Obama administration, questioned Hegseth’s proven ability to lead on an international level in conversation with “No Lie With BTC” podcast host Brian Taylor Cohen.
“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,” Rice said in the clip, highlighted by Mediaite.
Her comments come after Hegseth was scrutinized for sending sensitive information in various Signal message threads. Past Defense officials have raised concerns with his repeated use of an unsecured platform that may pose a threat to national security.
Rice said in the wake of his actions that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) remains under threat in the second Trump administration and serves as a barrier blocking qualified candidates from reaching high-ranking roles.
“DEI has been used as a slur to suggest that anybody who might be a woman, might be a person of color, might be a religious minority, might have a disability … might be a veteran of Native descent, anybody who has benefited in any way, shape, or form from the notion that we all should be treated equally and that we should be viewed on the basis of our merits and not discounted because we happen to be a woman or happen to be a person of color,” Rice told Cohen.
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Says the DEI reprobate.
Oh, wow, isn’t she bitter and juvenile?
In other words, if you don’t support “diversity” over merit, you are “dumb as a rock.”
she said the next day after she was fired along with the rest of the entire lot of Deep State “committee advisors” that have accumulated throughout the clinton, bush, obama, and biden administrations ...
Why isn’t Susan Rice not on trial for her life?
Hegseth served with honors.
What are Susan Rice’s military credentials that put her in an advisory role with the DoD other than being a Chickenhawk?
Strange. I saw her floating in my toilet this morning. So I flushed.
Rice a Roni...a San Francisco Freak
Rat faced Rice is the poster girl for DEI failure. Everything she touched turned to crap. She was at the helm of all of the foreign and military disasters during the Obama admin and domestic disasters during the Biden admin. She is the original Jasmine Crocket, all mouth, no talent.
Hegseth served with honors.
What are Susan Rice’s military credentials that put her in an advisory role with the DoD other than being a Chickenhawk?
I watched her comments. She’s truly full of hate.
He was smart enuf to fire her b a.
She mad cuz Pete cancelled her free lunch ticket
Merit pays well, and well it should. Diversity is mostly a “share the blame and poverty” approach to economic affairs, invoking scarcities and rationing, so everything is “fair”. There is no concept that the size of the pie can be grown, only a zero-sum game that eventually runs out of other people’s money.
This leads to reckless claims that everybody is entitled to a “living wage”, and demands for ever greater “minimum wage”. Merit gets lost in the shuffle, if the time-servers are paid at the same rate as the hustlers and the overly ambitious.
Crabs in a pail. One crab can simply climb out. Two or more, the crabs lower down in the pail just keep pulling the one that is nearly out back into the pail.
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She might as well have DEI tattooed on her forehead!!
Learn it, live it, love it, beyotch.
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