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[Stacy Spence @stacy_spence]

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[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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[Stacy Spence @stacy_spence]

Neat explainer on Olympic site. I was lucky enough to stay and ski in Cortina. What a cool locale.

[Andrew O. Gastelum @aogastelum]

With Italy hosting the Winter Olympics, I went to the Dolomites to write about their extraordinary culture(s). It’s the most stunning place I’ve seen, like getting a peek at heaven. All because it’s not the Italy we’ve come to expect. My story for @SInow https://t.co/xgqUnwEHvj

[Stacy Spence @stacy_spence]

@CRussGam how did corn tortilla get in there? isn’t that against some sort of executive order?

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@ezraklein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?”

@JamesTalarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices very strategically to provoke our outrage, because that leads to more clicks, which leads to more money for them.

They are selling us conflict right into our bloodstream, and they’re calling it connection.

And I think it’s left people starving for actual community.”

[Stacy Spence @stacy_spence]

Who sang the national anthem at LCA yesterday for the MSU OU basketball game. Can’t find it anywhere. Guy was amazing. @Graham_Couch do you know?

[Spartans Illustrated @Spartans_Illo]

When you’ve got a game at 7 but a Renaissance Fair at 8.

[Stacy Spence @stacy_spence]

@MSUGear @NudgePrinting Awesome, happen to be wearing a Nudge tshirt (Defend, Rebound, Run) today. Brought me good luck! Love the Nudge gear. Go Green!

[Stacy Spence @stacy_spence]

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[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

[Stacy Spence @stacy_spence]

Interesting https://t.co/fmddh3HZkv

[Covie @covie_93]

If you see anyone not mourning the death of Robert Redford the way you would like them to please call their employer and get them fired!

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life.

A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation.

No more political violence.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance.

Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.

[Fireball sommelier @Sheehan_Sports]

Kansas basketball ever since every other program could pay players.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

America, March 2025

Stocks are tanking. People's nest eggs are slipping away. Tariffs are on, then off, then on again. America is headed toward a recession.

But a billionaire sells a car to another billionaire - a car he won't ever drive, because he literally doesn't know how.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

If this were about China, Americans might be at least vaguely sympathetic, but instead the stock market is tanking because we're having a trade war with fucking Ontario

[Stacy Spence @stacy_spence]

@LovelandSkiArea Bintz’s! Yes, I grew up skiing there too. Was a fun time in middle and high school.