Jeff White

Teacher, Cyclist, Runner, Trader, Sports, Gambling, Volleyball, Math

[Ian Hartitz @Ihartitz]

1.10 feels like the tier drop for dynasty rookie drafts after top-six WRs + Love + Sadiq + Mendoza.

Jadarian Price/Mike Washington/Jonah Coleman getting a nut landing spot with Washington or Seattle would certainly help.

Probably just riding with Chris Bell there at the moment.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Pretty incredible that for the second straight year, right around the beginning of spring, Donald Trump made a rash, confounding, and sudden decision that snatched an Article I power away from the US Congress, and sent markets reeling as mass confusion spread throughout the world, despite the WH’s liberal use of use of the word “liberation” as a defense of the policy.

(Trade war/Actual war)

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

"Never start a bombing campaign that will completely halt shipping in the Strait of Hormuz" is right up there with "never get involved in a land war in Asia” in terms of the classic blunders.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

TURNS OUT, TRUMP WILL SEND OUR SONS TO WAR

[Jeff White @flefster]

@awealthofcs 0 being a flop and 10 being world altering...

Metaverse 1/10
Crypto 3/10
AI is at a minimum a 5, and at it's most, a 10.

The upside (that 10) of AI is very much possible and that's why we're all excited/nervous.

[Jeff White @flefster]

@MarioIsmailanji @conorsen @NateSilver538 This best case scenario is the most likely scenario imo

[Jeff White @flefster]

@byelin @capitalweather https://t.co/X22dIlusYH

Has some models

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @DOJRR47: WTF are you talking about? The witness who called into the FBI’s National Threat Operations was a man, who drove Trump in a limousine.

The girl he met who said Trump and Epstein raped her was found with her head blown off. DOJ never interviewed the male witness.

[Jeff White @flefster]

The dow is no longer above 50,000

[Jeff White @flefster]

@adamlevitan @strassa2 Any thoughts on the AI article that went viral this week? Implications for stocks?

[Jeff White @flefster]

@DavidPurdum So.....Did he?

[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 White @flefster]

@JeremiahDJohns Stock market

[nick wright @getnickwright]

I truly implore folks not to argue with “people” on this app about important events.

You’re going to drown in a sea of bots, paid foreign accounts cosplaying as Americans, and truly the worst of our citizenry.

Talk to real human beings in real life.

You’ll feel better.

[Tyrese Haliburton @Hali]

Alex Pretti was murdered.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.

[Jeff White @flefster]

@HaydenWinks @DavisMattek Rashee rice should be at the 2/3 turn

[Jeff White @flefster]

@Blfire @mochabean99 @tek_sauce @unusual_whales You're talking about a traditional or Roth IRA, not a 401k.

[Jeff White @flefster]

@JustinHerzig Six seven

[Jeff White @flefster]

@KosherNation @JakobSanderson Thank you.