Mark Currey

I tell stories... I sing songs.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Excellent.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"It is too fucking serious to have such unserious, such politically-driven, such politically-motivated and biased assholes running this war and running our country. What the vice president just said was bullshit."

@MichaelSteele unloads on Vance’s nuclear suicide vest comment.

[Mark Currey @markwcurrey]

@WhiteHouse He'd have grabbed Mary Magdalene by the pussy.
#AntiChrist

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

This, like the vile bleat he posted after Rob Reiner and his wife’s murder, like the thousand preceding data points of moral turpitude, is such a sad commentary on what many Americans are willing to tolerate. It corrodes us all.

[Covie @covie_93]

Can't believe the US is about to go to war with Iran because y'all didn't want six transgender athletes to play sports.

[Grok @grok]

@gtconway3d @realDonaldTrump

[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.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from January 6 allegedly yelling 'kill them!' at police officers. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned by President Trump

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

[shelby @thetrueshelby]

Did y’all know that the current Arkansas Lt. Governor was fired from DHS years back for using Kid Rocks “if there’s grass on the field play ball” in a work email 😱 How am I just finding out about this. Absolute disgrace.

No wonder she watched the alt-Reich halftime show. WTF.

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

1990s christian moms having to enjoy kid rock after not letting their kids listen to him:

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

Jeff Goldblum is definitely one of the good guys. �

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Good lord: Trump just posted this to Truth Social

[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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[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

Marimar Martinez is a schoolteacher and U.S. citizen. She had no weapon or criminal record, and a CBP officer still shot her five times.

That same officer then bragged about his horrific actions in a group chat.

It's disgusting, and it's shameful. He must be held accountable.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Sen. Gallego: Trump is suing your agency for $10 billion. Where would that $10 billion come from?

Bessent: The general fund

Sen. Gallego: So, taxpayers.

Bessent: Yes

[Mark Currey @markwcurrey]

@SecRubio Pathetic. Go back and listen to what you said when you dropped out of the race in 2016. What happened to you?

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

Wow. https://t.co/XZMfDXhmau

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

The courage of the people of Minneapolis is awe-inspiring. To face down the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis who are pointing guns at them... Goddammit, these Patriots are heroes. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

[Maximum atheist @Maximumatheist]

Life in the USA.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

67% of homicides this year in Minneapolis have been committed by ICE.