Tom Nichols

If I'm going to worry about anybody, I worry about the guys who know what they're doing, who have made plain their intentions, you know, in numerous writing and speeches. So I expected more guys like that. not this kind of, you know, clown bus of, you know, stuff that is just, but that's bad too.

If I'm going to worry about anybody, I worry about the guys who know what they're doing, who have made plain their intentions, you know, in numerous writing and speeches. So I expected more guys like that. not this kind of, you know, clown bus of, you know, stuff that is just, but that's bad too.

If I'm going to worry about anybody, I worry about the guys who know what they're doing, who have made plain their intentions, you know, in numerous writing and speeches. So I expected more guys like that. not this kind of, you know, clown bus of, you know, stuff that is just, but that's bad too.

And I don't get off my soapbox, but I don't want to minimize that because one thing that occurred to me, I was trying not to think about politics in Europe. I was going to Christmas markets and I was trying, I had mulled wine for the first time in my life and it's bad. Yeah. So I'm just going to say that.

And I don't get off my soapbox, but I don't want to minimize that because one thing that occurred to me, I was trying not to think about politics in Europe. I was going to Christmas markets and I was trying, I had mulled wine for the first time in my life and it's bad. Yeah. So I'm just going to say that.

And I don't get off my soapbox, but I don't want to minimize that because one thing that occurred to me, I was trying not to think about politics in Europe. I was going to Christmas markets and I was trying, I had mulled wine for the first time in my life and it's bad. Yeah. So I'm just going to say that.

I think it didn't taste, it didn't taste good. But I kept watching this news from Syria and saying this is a momentous event. earth moving, you know, geo strategic change. And I'm trying to imagine if this had happened and somebody walks into brief secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth and DNI Tulsi Gabbard and, you know, attorney general Pam Bondi. Well, the DNI is on the side of the deposed.

I think it didn't taste, it didn't taste good. But I kept watching this news from Syria and saying this is a momentous event. earth moving, you know, geo strategic change. And I'm trying to imagine if this had happened and somebody walks into brief secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth and DNI Tulsi Gabbard and, you know, attorney general Pam Bondi. Well, the DNI is on the side of the deposed.

I think it didn't taste, it didn't taste good. But I kept watching this news from Syria and saying this is a momentous event. earth moving, you know, geo strategic change. And I'm trying to imagine if this had happened and somebody walks into brief secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth and DNI Tulsi Gabbard and, you know, attorney general Pam Bondi. Well, the DNI is on the side of the deposed.

Well, exactly. You know that I kept thinking that it's like, it's like, okay, how do you go in and tell, uh, how do you walk into ODNI, you know, and, and there's Tulsi Gabbard saying, um, madam director, uh, You're not going to like this because I got good news. I got bad news. No, I'm lying. There's no good news. So, you know, I'm worried.

Well, exactly. You know that I kept thinking that it's like, it's like, okay, how do you go in and tell, uh, how do you walk into ODNI, you know, and, and there's Tulsi Gabbard saying, um, madam director, uh, You're not going to like this because I got good news. I got bad news. No, I'm lying. There's no good news. So, you know, I'm worried.

Well, exactly. You know that I kept thinking that it's like, it's like, okay, how do you go in and tell, uh, how do you walk into ODNI, you know, and, and there's Tulsi Gabbard saying, um, madam director, uh, You're not going to like this because I got good news. I got bad news. No, I'm lying. There's no good news. So, you know, I'm worried.

But I think there were a lot of strategic mistakes in this tranche of nominees. And one last thing. These are the nominees right now. Remember that everybody that Trump appoints, even after they're confirmed, they're

But I think there were a lot of strategic mistakes in this tranche of nominees. And one last thing. These are the nominees right now. Remember that everybody that Trump appoints, even after they're confirmed, they're

But I think there were a lot of strategic mistakes in this tranche of nominees. And one last thing. These are the nominees right now. Remember that everybody that Trump appoints, even after they're confirmed, they're

It is hard to feel the same way about the country. These days, at least for me, patriotism is an act of will. I still love this country. I love what it stands for. I love the values on which it's based. And I think most, I still believe that most of the people in this nation

It is hard to feel the same way about the country. These days, at least for me, patriotism is an act of will. I still love this country. I love what it stands for. I love the values on which it's based. And I think most, I still believe that most of the people in this nation

It is hard to feel the same way about the country. These days, at least for me, patriotism is an act of will. I still love this country. I love what it stands for. I love the values on which it's based. And I think most, I still believe that most of the people in this nation

believe in the founding principles of America, at least in some core gut way of constitutional, not the legal sense, but that constitutional guarantee of freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion. So before I descend too far into the darkness, I'll just say that.

believe in the founding principles of America, at least in some core gut way of constitutional, not the legal sense, but that constitutional guarantee of freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion. So before I descend too far into the darkness, I'll just say that.