Tom Nichols
speaker
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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Hegseth is different.
Hegseth is the guy who joined the army thinking he was going to be Sergeant Rock and then leaves full of bitterness.
And they judged me and they didn't like my tattoos.
And I wasn't recognized as, I mean, he just left hating, like I said, the kid who hated high school.
And so the idea that somehow, oh, we'll protect the service members and we have their back.
was always bullshit.
That was never going to happen.
And Hegseth had no interest in actually doing anything.
Again, I mean, he called those 800 officers into that auditorium.
Why?
To show that he could.
That's exactly the kind of, you know, sneering little boy that says, I know you're a three-star general.
You're going to come in this auditorium because when I was a major, you pushed me around and now I'm going to push you around.
It's not a surprise at all.
that Hank Seth would dump these people, anybody under the bus.
The second part is, you know, I, I guess I have limited empathy when someone says, geez, you know, I, you know, maybe I ought to leave this administration.
Well, you know, you had four years of experience of what he does to people who work for him.
And yet you came back in.
And I mean, I understand everybody's got a mortgage, everybody's got to eat.
And, and I, and I will give the benefit of the doubt to several of the people at kind of lower levels of saying, well,
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