Tom Nichols

That plane flew over Japan wearing a fruit basket on its head like Carmen Miranda. Oh, my God. After I stop having fun with you, I got to get off the Internet and go write about this. And I don't even know where to start. I mean, it's it's like it's strangely homophobic. It's a cross between the closeted colonel in American Beauty and.

Which everybody's been kind of crapping on lately, and I rewatched it the other day, and I was like, yeah, that's a pretty old homophobic trope, but also an element of truth in it.

Which everybody's been kind of crapping on lately, and I rewatched it the other day, and I was like, yeah, that's a pretty old homophobic trope, but also an element of truth in it.

Which everybody's been kind of crapping on lately, and I rewatched it the other day, and I was like, yeah, that's a pretty old homophobic trope, but also an element of truth in it.

I was okay with it until that last scene with Mina Suvari, and I'm the dad of a... college-age girl, and I just didn't... I hear that. But I do love the last line of the movie, which is that I've loved every moment of my stupid life, which I thought is kind of a nice ending.

I was okay with it until that last scene with Mina Suvari, and I'm the dad of a... college-age girl, and I just didn't... I hear that. But I do love the last line of the movie, which is that I've loved every moment of my stupid life, which I thought is kind of a nice ending.

I was okay with it until that last scene with Mina Suvari, and I'm the dad of a... college-age girl, and I just didn't... I hear that. But I do love the last line of the movie, which is that I've loved every moment of my stupid life, which I thought is kind of a nice ending.

But this whole DEI thing at the Defense Department is kind of like a cross between that and Homer Simpson in the John Waters episode where Marge comes home and he says, he didn't give you gay, did he? I mean, there is just this weird kind of... scrubbing of everything that is to be a little more serious about this. It's Stalinist. Yes.

But this whole DEI thing at the Defense Department is kind of like a cross between that and Homer Simpson in the John Waters episode where Marge comes home and he says, he didn't give you gay, did he? I mean, there is just this weird kind of... scrubbing of everything that is to be a little more serious about this. It's Stalinist. Yes.

But this whole DEI thing at the Defense Department is kind of like a cross between that and Homer Simpson in the John Waters episode where Marge comes home and he says, he didn't give you gay, did he? I mean, there is just this weird kind of... scrubbing of everything that is to be a little more serious about this. It's Stalinist. Yes.

I mean, it's just kind of a Stalinist, you know, throw everything in the memory hole. And, you know, I say this as... especially as a longtime federal employee, to sit through a lot of the training and all the other stuff, I could have been a natural ally about too much DEI stuff. Some of these trainings are stupid.

I mean, it's just kind of a Stalinist, you know, throw everything in the memory hole. And, you know, I say this as... especially as a longtime federal employee, to sit through a lot of the training and all the other stuff, I could have been a natural ally about too much DEI stuff. Some of these trainings are stupid.

I mean, it's just kind of a Stalinist, you know, throw everything in the memory hole. And, you know, I say this as... especially as a longtime federal employee, to sit through a lot of the training and all the other stuff, I could have been a natural ally about too much DEI stuff. Some of these trainings are stupid.

I had to take a morning out of my life as a federal employee while a professor came in and tried to explain to people, I still remember this, there were guys much older than me sitting there, nodding, trying to figure out. She's going, okay, so this is what cis...

I had to take a morning out of my life as a federal employee while a professor came in and tried to explain to people, I still remember this, there were guys much older than me sitting there, nodding, trying to figure out. She's going, okay, so this is what cis...

I had to take a morning out of my life as a federal employee while a professor came in and tried to explain to people, I still remember this, there were guys much older than me sitting there, nodding, trying to figure out. She's going, okay, so this is what cis...

hetero means and i'm like oh for christ's sake you know we really have work to do today and you know okay i get it that's you could say look we're not gonna we're not gonna do that we're not gonna spend money on that but scrubbing the defense department archives to like make sure that somebody who you know was gay in the 1990 story or something gets like you know

hetero means and i'm like oh for christ's sake you know we really have work to do today and you know okay i get it that's you could say look we're not gonna we're not gonna do that we're not gonna spend money on that but scrubbing the defense department archives to like make sure that somebody who you know was gay in the 1990 story or something gets like you know

hetero means and i'm like oh for christ's sake you know we really have work to do today and you know okay i get it that's you could say look we're not gonna we're not gonna do that we're not gonna spend money on that but scrubbing the defense department archives to like make sure that somebody who you know was gay in the 1990 story or something gets like you know

And Stalinist. That's the thing. There's a Stalinism to it. I mean, again, I could have – if Hegseth had had a quick press conference and said, listen, these things cost X dollars a year. We're not bringing any more guest speakers to explain to old retired colonels what it means to be cis. Fine. Fine. That was a waste of taxpayer money.