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Today I tackle the question of why Pete Hegseth is so cringe-inducingly corny.
Tom Nichols
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Tom Nichols
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- It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured stupidity that did it.
00:00 - He is easily the least intelligent person ever to hold the presidency, and it's not even closeTrump: Nobody knows what a magnet is.
00:00 - Before you burst out laughing, remember that his followers believe himTrump: I solved 6 wars, I averaging a war per month. Including wars that lasted 500 years.
00:00 - Like watching children play-acting.Welcome to the War Department.
00:00 - It really is the perfect encapsulation: Russia invades Polish airspace, so Trump issues an ultimatum to…. NATO
- Yale Law, '13
- First thing I thought when I saw the stuff about taking over DCWhatever is in those files are really bad.
- I never thought I would see the leader of the American nation siding with the Kremlin in a war of aggression.
- Honestly, I think this is why he came back early."Let me exercise my role as G7 chair" -- Carney steps in to stop Trump from taking more questions
00:00 - A 7 to 2 ruling? I wonder who the two dissenters were? Just kidding. I know exactly who they were, didn’t even have to look.
- So now we’re going to spend weeks talking about Tylenol instead of about the Epstein files.
- The video of Trump’s caddy doing an Oddjob Slazenger drop isn’t a big deal; cheating at golf isn’t nearly the worst thing about Trump. But watching the cult of personality try to explain it away is really some creepy North Korean level stuff.🙂
