Jeff Jackson

Penguins, Magpies, Irish, and Heels fan. Italy loving, Shorty listening, NP hiking, scuba diving, cheese grits craving, transplanted Tar Heel in the 'Burgh.

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@STZ721 Note 7 and 15

[Bruce Straughan @bruce_straughan]

Notre Dame voted Safest Campus in America by Niche!! ☘️

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 James Longstreet’s wife, Helen Dortch Longstreet, helped build B-29 Superfortresses in WWII as a Rosy the Riveter.

She was 80 years old.

And she never missed a day of work.

LIFE Magazine actually photographed her. This is one of their photos.

Her husband was the commander who oversaw Pickett’s Charge. She helped build the type of machine that dropped the first atomic bomb.

Wild.

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@unc8689 😂

[CHIEF i k u k u 1 🇳🇴 @IEruona]

As Ødegaard was breaking up the scuffle, Haaland casually ran over and drank the Brazilian goalkeeper's water. 😂😂😂

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@TheCinesthetic Daniel Craig in Road to Perdition

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@GuyInco15542744 @MattBrownEP Obviously this. Shockingly, Snowflake Lee is looking for a reason to be offended.

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@DavidCBets 😂

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@ByPatForde So it’s not a coach rant, but a rant about coaching. Still the greatest college football rant ever. How often does Teddy Ruxpin get worked into a rant. https://t.co/tvAr9ukwmR

[Joe Cunningham @JoeCunninghamSC]

If you’re mad about Virginia, support a national gerrymandering ban.

If you’re not willing to take map-drawing away from politicians in every state, you’re not mad about gerrymandering. You’re mad your side lost this round.

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@unc8689 and Steelers fan…

[Ross Martin @RossMartinNC]

Michael Malone - confirmed Dead Head?

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@yinzzzerr Yes on the Igloo and Doc, but also so great to hear John Barbero again.

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@unc8689 and Steelers fan…

[Ross Martin @RossMartinNC]

Michael Malone - confirmed Dead Head?

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

Obama agreed to $1.3 billion in sanctions relief for Iran as part of a deal that prevented both an Iranian nuke and a war.

Trump withdrew from the deal, started a war that will likely result in Iran obtaining a nuke, and gave Iran $14 billion in sanctions relief.

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@unc8689 He seems completely lost.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Hubert Davis gave an unbelievable presser after UNC’s choke job

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@AGretz Re: Dubas, this seems good. Also, the number 81 and Toronto sounds vaguely familar..

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@murphymike What you’ve been preaching.

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Oil companies in the West: still debating whether EVs are viable.

Oil companies in China: building charging hubs the size of fuel terminals.

Shell’s biggest EV station on Earth:

📍 Shenzhen
⚡ 258 fast chargers

The future isn’t waiting for Western think tanks. #Bettrification

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation.

Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention.

In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust.

But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming.

American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time.

Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical.

Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself.

Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office?

This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest?

Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse.

This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price.

The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most.

So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television.

History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late.

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[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@timprister The Bettis story about this cover and Holtz is terrific.

[West Coast College Sports Guy @WCCSG_]

West Coast Stadium of the day!🏈

Memorial Stadium

Capacity- 62,467
Opened- 1923
Location- Berkeley, California

What's your all-time favorite game played at the Memorial Stadium?

[Jeff Jackson @JannePens]

@AlexTran677026 Almost as good as this:

https://t.co/45uccImZQ9

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

They claimed he was washed up but he’s looking stronger than ever this weekend. Never count out a fucking legend.