"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has scanned the horizon for threats, and sure enough, he has found a new group of dangerous adversaries: think-tanks," Tom Nichols argues:
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Don't bet against the possibility that Hegseth believes Think Tanks are actual.....tanks.
jul 29, 2025, 10:10 pm • 4 1 • view
Pete's never been a fan of thinking
jul 30, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
Appears that each cabinet member in this regime has a quota for how many enemies are "identified". But not allowed to ever look in a mirror.
jul 30, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0 • view
Logical thinking and common sense are no longer desired traits of Americans. Just believe what the conspiracy pundits tell you on con radio or TV.
jul 29, 2025, 9:20 pm • 5 0 • view
100% loyalty to Trump is all that’s required.
jul 30, 2025, 1:26 am • 4 0 • view
Heavens to mergatroid
jul 30, 2025, 1:23 am • 0 0 • view
Look out Hogsex, those thinkers will get ya.
jul 30, 2025, 1:23 am • 0 0 • view
Oh, my God!!! This man is totally unqualified for this job!! He's a: rapist! serial assaulter and adulterer! drunk! He has divulged sensitive military on at least 3 occasions on Signal Chat! He's paranoid (lie detector tests)! Narcissist (has his own makeup studio)! Bigot! Sycophant!
jul 30, 2025, 12:32 am • 2 0 • view
I'd posit he's against all thinking...
jul 29, 2025, 9:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Surely not The Hoover Institution, though, right...?
jul 30, 2025, 1:11 am • 2 0 • view
Like The Heritage Foundation?
jul 30, 2025, 2:45 am • 0 0 • view
Ah think tanks. They build buildings for people that think. Allegedly.
jul 29, 2025, 10:47 pm • 2 0 • view
resist.bot/petitions/PT...
jul 30, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
The more decisions I see from Hegseth, the scarier it gets.
jul 30, 2025, 12:18 am • 2 0 • view
Not surprised that Hegseth feels threatened by thinking.
jul 29, 2025, 9:18 pm • 8 0 • view
People are afraid of what they don't understand.
jul 30, 2025, 5:41 am • 0 0 • view
If this is what he mean at a senate hearing when he talks about a new anti-tank weapon, I’m done
jul 30, 2025, 1:02 am • 3 0 • view
Try explaining to experts, like Tom Nichols, that 3rd world countries can't outproduce 1st world countries and then you'll see "threatened by thinking." Foreign policy is probably the one area that was already in such dire straits that even the Trump administration may struggle to make any worse.
jul 30, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
Is Tom Nichols suggesting that experts like him had foreign policy under control before Trump came along, or something?
jul 30, 2025, 4:43 am • 0 0 • view
Is that like asylum (seekers)?
jul 30, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
Yup, anything that includes "think"ing.
jul 29, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Heaven forbid people would actually get together and discuss new ideas.
jul 29, 2025, 10:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Remind him that the Heritage Foundation, CATO, AEI, Freedomworks, Americans for Prosperity, the Federalist Society, the NRA and several more should be on his radar. (In other words, rapepublican think tanks.) Let him properly harness his ire.
jul 30, 2025, 1:20 am • 1 0 • view
The tanks need to be periodically cleaned, filtered and disinfected. Maybe bring in a snail on Wednesdays.
jul 29, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Hegseth is afraid of collusion. He is paranoid of his own people and what they could do to undermine his authority. Basically a control freak.
jul 29, 2025, 9:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Alcoholic Hegseth is the real threat.
jul 29, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 0 • view