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spanone

(135,635 posts)
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 08:56 AM Oct 2021

Condoleezza Rice said she cried on Jan. 6, but it's time to 'move on'

GODDAMN THESE PEOPLE

As a violent mob pushed past barricades protecting the U.S. Capitol, then dragged, beat and bludgeoned police officers before roaming the halls with abandon on Jan. 6, former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice watched and wept. The emotions, she said, were similar to those she felt on Sept. 11, 2001.

“I thought: ‘I study countries that do this. I didn’t think it would happen in my own country,’ ” Rice, a Republican who teaches political science at Stanford University, said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View.”

The assault on democratic processes that day, as protesters sought to interrupt the certification of the presidential election, “was wrong,” Rice acknowledged — but she qualified that it’s time for lawmakers to “move on.”

The former White House official’s comments were a response in agreement to remarks Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) gave on Tuesday. McConnell told reporters it was time for lawmakers “to be talking about the future and not the past,” referring to the discussion about false claims of election fraud pushed by Trump and his allies, which ultimately led supporters to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6. McConnell said the issue should no longer be of concern.


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Condoleezza Rice said she cried on Jan. 6, but it's time to 'move on' (Original Post) spanone Oct 2021 OP
STFU . . ..... Lovie777 Oct 2021 #1
War criminal says whut? 50 Shades Of Blue Oct 2021 #2
Why would she want to see any accountability? BeckyDem Oct 2021 #3
Good point. Her actions in Iraq could stand scrutiny Ritabert Oct 2021 #5
If she really studied countries that did shit like Jan 6 then she would know the aftermath of joetheman Oct 2021 #4
An insurrection that isn't punished is Ritabert Oct 2021 #6
sorry I robbed the bank officer but... jcgoldie Oct 2021 #7
She cried because the coup failed, beoach. gab13by13 Oct 2021 #8
I didn't cry then but hope she'll cry again, as her professional contacts fall. Hortensis Oct 2021 #9
Yet the fascists refuse to "move on" from the Big Lie of election fraud? Hypocrisy, thy name Alexander Of Assyria Oct 2021 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author Alexander Of Assyria Oct 2021 #12
Cry more, bitch. dixiechiken1 Oct 2021 #11
Can't help wondering if the real reason she cried is that the fascist insurrection Roisin Ni Fiachra Oct 2021 #13
Crocodile tears. Golden Raisin Oct 2021 #14
My thoughts malaise Oct 2021 #15
She cried because her days of neo-con grift were over. BradAllison Oct 2021 #16
For what reason shall we move on from a failed insurrection/coup attempt, Condi Rice? Wingus Dingus Oct 2021 #17
I do not care what she thinks LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #18

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
3. Why would she want to see any accountability?
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 09:02 AM
Oct 2021

She has nothing to gain, her pathetic legacy might then receive more scrutiny. The horrors of responsibility.

 

joetheman

(1,450 posts)
4. If she really studied countries that did shit like Jan 6 then she would know the aftermath of
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 09:05 AM
Oct 2021

merely "moving on." Condi is full of herself and BS.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
10. Yet the fascists refuse to "move on" from the Big Lie of election fraud? Hypocrisy, thy name
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 09:20 AM
Oct 2021

is Republican.

And to boot, the Big Lie is pure fiction, Sedition Day is pure fact.

Round Earthers see the difference.

Response to Alexander Of Assyria (Reply #10)

dixiechiken1

(2,113 posts)
11. Cry more, bitch.
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 09:25 AM
Oct 2021

I didn't think it was possible for me to hate her more now than I did then. I stand corrected.

Maybe Dick Cheney should take her hunting and explain why his daughter isn't "moving on."

BradAllison

(1,879 posts)
16. She cried because her days of neo-con grift were over.
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 11:22 AM
Oct 2021

Maybe she can suck up to the Kasich/Rmoney wing of the Democratic party.

Wingus Dingus

(8,049 posts)
17. For what reason shall we move on from a failed insurrection/coup attempt, Condi Rice?
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 11:30 AM
Oct 2021

A: I find this topic boring now.
B: They didn't succeed, so who the fuck cares?
C: Desperately seeking relevance and attention from the MAGA crowd because it appears they're still running the GOP

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