Tom Nichols

I agree with you. I tend to think he just he's just not very conscious of his limbs or something. My colleague, Charlie Wurzel, has a great piece in The Atlantic about this today. that I would recommend people take a look at, you know, that basically on the other way, he's awesome. Yeah.

I agree with you. I tend to think he just he's just not very conscious of his limbs or something. My colleague, Charlie Wurzel, has a great piece in The Atlantic about this today. that I would recommend people take a look at, you know, that basically on the other way, he's awesome. Yeah.

I agree with you. I tend to think he just he's just not very conscious of his limbs or something. My colleague, Charlie Wurzel, has a great piece in The Atlantic about this today. that I would recommend people take a look at, you know, that basically on the other way, he's awesome. Yeah.

Um, you know, where the title is, did he, by the way, I want to say those of us who are well-versed in Star Trek understood that what he was really doing was the Imperial salute from the mirror mirror episode of the original, uh, You think I'm joking, but go watch Mirror Mirror and tell me it's not the same salute.

Um, you know, where the title is, did he, by the way, I want to say those of us who are well-versed in Star Trek understood that what he was really doing was the Imperial salute from the mirror mirror episode of the original, uh, You think I'm joking, but go watch Mirror Mirror and tell me it's not the same salute.

Um, you know, where the title is, did he, by the way, I want to say those of us who are well-versed in Star Trek understood that what he was really doing was the Imperial salute from the mirror mirror episode of the original, uh, You think I'm joking, but go watch Mirror Mirror and tell me it's not the same salute.

If you're sitting around parsing and saying, Hey, do you think he really did this right wing, you know, kind of pseudo Nazi thing? Do we need to talk about this when he's openly supporting the right wing extremist party in Germany? Like, this is what I mean about how easily distracted people get when you're dealing with these kinds of problems. It's like.

If you're sitting around parsing and saying, Hey, do you think he really did this right wing, you know, kind of pseudo Nazi thing? Do we need to talk about this when he's openly supporting the right wing extremist party in Germany? Like, this is what I mean about how easily distracted people get when you're dealing with these kinds of problems. It's like.

If you're sitting around parsing and saying, Hey, do you think he really did this right wing, you know, kind of pseudo Nazi thing? Do we need to talk about this when he's openly supporting the right wing extremist party in Germany? Like, this is what I mean about how easily distracted people get when you're dealing with these kinds of problems. It's like.

Hey, I think he did a Nazi salute, as you just pointed out to him. That is the least of your problems with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and, you know, Bezos.

Hey, I think he did a Nazi salute, as you just pointed out to him. That is the least of your problems with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and, you know, Bezos.

Hey, I think he did a Nazi salute, as you just pointed out to him. That is the least of your problems with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and, you know, Bezos.

We have breached a new frontier in physics, a negative Scaramucci. Yeah.

We have breached a new frontier in physics, a negative Scaramucci. Yeah.

We have breached a new frontier in physics, a negative Scaramucci. Yeah.

Two things I want to say about this. One is I don't ever want to hear anybody call the 80s the decade of greed and excess ever again. I lived through the 80s. Practically a quaint, you know, Victorian, genteel decade. period of unrestrained capitalism compared to this level of cronyism and corruption. I mean, this is just insane.

Two things I want to say about this. One is I don't ever want to hear anybody call the 80s the decade of greed and excess ever again. I lived through the 80s. Practically a quaint, you know, Victorian, genteel decade. period of unrestrained capitalism compared to this level of cronyism and corruption. I mean, this is just insane.

Two things I want to say about this. One is I don't ever want to hear anybody call the 80s the decade of greed and excess ever again. I lived through the 80s. Practically a quaint, you know, Victorian, genteel decade. period of unrestrained capitalism compared to this level of cronyism and corruption. I mean, this is just insane.

Like, you know, the 80s were the decade of greed, because we cut capital gains taxes, like, oh, no, this makes the 80s look like, you know, an era of restrained virtue. The other is, can we finally just admit, and I think this is where You know, so many people, both in academia and on the left, get this wrong. Can we finally admit what utter bullshit American populism is?

Like, you know, the 80s were the decade of greed, because we cut capital gains taxes, like, oh, no, this makes the 80s look like, you know, an era of restrained virtue. The other is, can we finally just admit, and I think this is where You know, so many people, both in academia and on the left, get this wrong. Can we finally admit what utter bullshit American populism is?