Greg Warren

CrossFitter, avid Lions fan and part time tinkerer. Just give me non-crispy bacon, crunchy peanut butter and hard cider we'll be bestest friends for everest

[Greg Warren @gregwarren2]

Thank you for not just sticking to sports @davebirkett @kmeinke @Justin_Rogers @POD_Payton @JeffRisdon

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Greg Warren @gregwarren2]

@JayssPlayss Damn. France total corners move to 6.5

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: The Trump DOJ has ended its review of the Biden “autopen” matter after finding no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

NO KIDDING!

[ClosingDime @ClosingDime]

My Caesars account has been permanently closed due to a “business decision.”

No explanation. No transparency.

I now have to wait 4–6 weeks to receive MY own money via check.

Over 3 years my lifetime profit was only $1,522 with a 1.2% ROI.

Never multi-accounted. Never arbitraged. Never automated.

I understand they’re a private business and can refuse service but this process is ridiculous.

@MassGamingComm here’s a case study for you. Feel free to reach out

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump took $59 million from 590,000 Americans for a phone that may never exist.

Then quietly updated the terms:

“No guarantee a phone will be produced or sold.”

The crypto coin. The sneakers. The Bible. The gold card. The ballroom. The phone.

Every single time the same pattern.

Take the money. Change the terms. Walk away.

[Iran Embassy in Tajikistan @IRANinTJ]

Trump is one of the reasons that proves the existence of the Satan in the world.

[Herman Moore @HMAN84]

https://t.co/yoX2PIvhfb

[Greg Warren @gregwarren2]

Now substitute “United States,” for Iran…

[AF Post @AFpost]

State Sec. Rubio: “Imagine if instead of spending billions on weapons, Iran spent that money on its people. They’d have a much different country.”

Follow: @AFpost

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

REMINDER: “your energy bill within 12 months will be cut in half. I’ll have your energy bill down within 12 months, throughout the country."

It's been 13 months.
Electricity is UP over 11%.

Promise everything.
Deliver NOTHING.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Wow!

The Germany-European Parliament warns the world about ICE and the American government’s turn toward authoritarianism and fascism.

[Dina Titus @repdinatitus]

My FAIR BET Act has been sitting in @WaysMeansCmte for eight months, despite commitments from @HouseGOP to restore the full gambling loss deduction.

I am now filing a discharge petition to bring it to the House floor for a vote.

Both high-stakes and hobby gamblers are struggling, and local economies like #OnlyInDistrictOne that depend on gaming revenue are hurting. We need 218 signatures to bring this commonsense fix to the floor. Call your representatives and tell them to sign on.

https://t.co/bViIA33QVa

[Greg Warren @gregwarren2]

@JeffRisdon you’ve manifested it into reality

[Rachel Hopmayer @rachelhopmayer]

Good morning: #Lions fan favorite and recently retired OL Dan Skipper has been hired to Detroit’s coaching staff. He’ll be molding the next jumbo TEs in no time.

[Aaron Quinn @AaronQuinn716]

There is a metaphor here about the state of the union for sure.

[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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[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Belichick waited 49 years for his girlfriend to be born, the Hall of Fame will be a piece of cake for him.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection

It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens

[Greg Warren @gregwarren2]

Making America great again

[Pubity @pubity]

ICE accidentally deported a man who was a prime suspect in the largest jewel heist in U.S. history.

He was up for trial but volunteered to be deported after being detained by ICE, avoiding criminal charges for an $100 million heist.

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

Greenland deploying their weather on us was an unexpected first strike.

[Greg Warren @gregwarren2]

@GLitvinskas @KoryEWoods Two totally different scenarios. Flores was already in the building for them. The Lions had to go out and conduct a search for an OC

[Fairplaygov @fairplaygov]

Full testimony from @repdinatitus on restoring 100% gambling tax loss deductibility