Robin Seabrook 🌼

Robina aka Rob

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

If you honestly believe that any of the violent 1,600 rioters that stormed the Capitol and beat cops with flagpoles and fire extinguishers on January 6th deserves ONE CENT of our hard-earned tax dollars, you are a DISGRACE and an asshole.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Into my veins.

[Robin Seabrook 🌼 @seabreezerobin]

Truth!

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I wonder what would happen if Trump and Republicans put as much energy into their long-awaited healthcare plan as they are into Trump’s ballroom?

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Look if Trump wants to keep making the ballroom a big issue, he definitely should. Voters will be thrilled for the President to get a ballroom, on top of the billions he’s grifted, while their grocery and gas prices continue to climb. Great issue for R’s to campaign on in 2026.

[Robin Seabrook 🌼 @seabreezerobin]

So true!

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

If Joe Biden was asleep on camera while sitting behind the Resolute Desk during a press conference he called, Republicans would have drafted articles of impeachment five minutes in.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

They’re letting the criminals from Jan 6 go free while they attempt to prosecute Cassidy Hutchinson for testifying in front of the January 6th committee. Disgusting stuff.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The truth is that if democracy is to survive this era, we can no longer treat independent media as optional. It is essential, and we must do everything we can to help it thrive and grow — quickly. https://t.co/mvjTXbgmCE

[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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[Robin Seabrook 🌼 @seabreezerobin]

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[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

The legendary Catherine O’Hara has died.

She was 71.

Per TMZ.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

The 2nd amendment fetishists who brought you Kyle Rittenhouse and January 6th think Alex Pretti's legal gun was the problem? Are you f**king kidding?

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

The truth as only Jon Stewart can tell it. This whole concept of ‘don’t believe your lying eyes’ and now it’s a problem to be in possession of a permitted gun is madness even for this regime.

My friends the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

Thanks to The Daily Show for the clip

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/VDCpDajglu

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

We hope the good people of #SanFrancisco will forgive us for adapting a song about their city in 1967 to address the shocking and tragic events in #Minnesota in recent weeks. This is dedicated to Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and in solidarity. Our version is called "Minnesota" ❤️

[Washingtonian 🌸 @washingtonian]

Snow much fun! 🐼❄️

Giant Pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao played in the snow at Smithsonian’s National Zoo yesterday🥺

🎥: Smithsonian National Zoo

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.

To all those who bravely served our country, thank you to you and your family for your extraordinary service. The sacrifices that all of you have made to protect our country will be honored, today and every day.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

We’re giving $40 billion to Argentina.

This is $5 billion MORE that the entire USAID budget that DOGE cut.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

.@SenatorSlotkin: "We want to sit in a room and have a negotiation. We don't want to negotiate through the press. I don't need to watch Senator Thune on TV in order to find out what he says he's offering. Just get in a room like adults do and we can talk this out."

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

If you're the Qatari royal family worth $335 billion, Trump gives you an Air Force facility in Idaho.

If you're the President of Argentina, Trump gives you a $20 billion bailout.

If you're an American whose health care premiums are about to double? Tough luck.

[Dr. Dave @drdave1999]

Kristi ‘Dawg’ Noem just compared Antifa to Isis, Hezbollah, and Hamas.

The problem, of course, is that there IS no Antifa— it’s a philosophy, not an organization.

She’s so indescribably stupid that she could only work for Trump. No one else on earth would hire her.

[Robin Seabrook 🌼 @seabreezerobin]

Will be there!

[Home of the Brave @OfTheBraveUSA]

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway3d