Susan Rice, the woman who somehow held like four different jobs in the Obama White House and still found time to do the Sunday shows, has wandered back into the spotlight.
If you forgot she existed for a few years, congratulations—you were probably touching grass.
Rice spent the Trump era doing the cable news circuit and writing a memoir, then briefly ran Biden's domestic policy shop before quietly exiting stage left in 2023.
Now she's popping up again, and the internet is doing what the internet does: arguing about her like she's a fantasy football trade.
For the uninitiated, Rice's greatest hits include being national security advisor during Benghazi—a word that still triggers a specific kind of uncle at Thanksgiving—and that whole "Sunday show" moment where she attributed the attack to a video.
Depending on who you ask, she's either a loyal public servant or the human embodiment of a "this meeting could have been an email" calendar invite.
Democrats never fully rallied behind her.
She exists in that weird political limbo reserved for people who are famous for being in rooms where things happened, but never quite the main character.
Anyway, whatever she said or did this time has Twitter/X in a tizzy, which is basically our national pastime now that we've abandoned baseball.
Half the replies are "she's a war criminal," the other half are "she's the only adult in the room," and the remaining twelve people are just posting that GIF of Michael Jackson eating popcorn.
We're all just yelling into the void with extra steps.
The real takeaway here is that American political discourse is a hamster wheel powered by the same twenty people from the Obama administration.
Rice, Comey, Clapper, Brennan—it's like a high school reunion that never ends and everyone's still mad about who got voted "most likely to leak." Meanwhile, actual legislation is happening somewhere, probably, and absolutely no one is tweeting about it.
So congrats to Susan Rice for the engagement, I guess.
She's trending, which in 2024 is the closest thing we have to a state funeral. **The closing take:** Rice is the political equivalent of a rerun you've seen forty times—familiar, mildly grating, and impossible to avoid if you leave the TV on.
Final Thoughts
The discourse will rage for 48 hours and accomplish exactly nothing.