Tom Nichols

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2,378 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 19 May

Tom Nichols’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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You know, hey, Pete, maybe, you know, sending out classified military plans.
on an unsecured phone over signal would be a bad idea.
They don't listen.
They think that as long as the boss, they have the ear of the boss, that's it.
And the country's paying for it now.
And not just with Hegseth.
I mean, there are going to be kids that are going to get sick.
Because of RFK, you know, the justice, there are criminals that are going to go free because at least two of Trump's attorneys, state attorneys now have been ruled to be illegally appointed.
I mean, it just doesn't stop.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, he you know, a lot of these folks are I used a couple of metaphors here.
The the the kid in your high school, you know, taking the angriest, most dysfunctional kid and then making him principal of his old high school.
You know, I mean, it's just it's a way for them to unload all their grievances about how they weren't valued.
And, you know, Pete, I'm sure Pete Hegseth walked around for years.
And if I were secretary of defense, tell you what I would do.
And now he's doing it.
The problem is that the kind of stuff that it occurs to a guy like Pete Hegseth to do doesn't really have anything to do with running the Defense Department.
Yes, PT and grooming standards are important.
That's why you have sergeants and lieutenants and ensigns who enforce that stuff.
The Secretary of Defense should be concerned with that.
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