Tucker Parsons

The Trump administration is pulling off the greatest grift we’ve seen in our lifetime.

From the recent @TheFP God debate between me and Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT): Question from attendee: Doesn't the history of 20th century Marxism show us where rational materialism leads? And shouldn't you, as a student of history, have seen where this worship of rationality would lead? Me: Well, you're assuming that Marxism was rational. Attendee: It was the worship of rationality, putting human presuppositions about right and wrong before the teachings of God. Me: If we judge an ideology by its effects, there are reasons to think that the precepts of Marxism were the opposite of rational. Namely, they led to disasters, but people held them anyway, so it was the opposite of the ideal of falsifiability. And they led to both economic and humanitarian disasters, so on rational grounds, we can see that Marxism was mistaken. So the failure of Marxism does not cast doubt on the value of rationality. It is precisely because we can evaluate it on rational grounds that we can identify what was wrong with it. Likewise, the horrors of the 20th century due to Nazism were not because Nazism was rational, quite the opposite. It had a number of obviously mistaken and monstrous beliefs, and it is by the lights of rationality combined with concern with human well-being that we can judge it as having been a disaster. I don't think that our problem now is that we have too much empathy. I think that the allegation that we're suffering from toxic empathy is mistaken. That too much empathy is the least of our problems. If I were to single out some of the things in Christian tradition that I think are worth keeping, then empathy, compassion, forgiveness, forswearing revenge, all of those are good things because they can also be defended on rational grounds.

@anders_aslund @ylecun

🇮🇷 An Iranian girl performing a traditional dance at the Rasht Fish Market, Gilan Province, Iran. (August 2025) Video by Nafas Hoseini

Just going to keep posting this to counter the ridiculous bullshit until someone makes me stop. The Special Counsel investigation uncovered extensive criminal activity •The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice. •Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses. •A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors concluded that if any other American engaged in the same efforts to impede federal proceedings the way Trump did, they would likely be indicted for multiple charges of obstruction of justice.   Russia engaged in extensive attacks on the U.S. election system in 2016 •Russian interference in the 2016 election was “sweeping and systemic.”[1] •Major attack avenues included a social media “information warfare” campaign that “favored” candidate Trump[2] and the hacking of Clinton campaign-related databases and release of stolen materials through Russian-created entities and Wikileaks.[3] •Russia also targeted databases in many states related to administering elections gaining access to information for millions of registered voters.[4]   The investigation “identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign” and established that the Trump Campaign “showed interest in WikiLeaks's releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton”  •In 2015 and 2016, Michael Cohen pursued a hotel/residence project in Moscow on behalf of Trump while he was campaigning for President.[5]Then-candidate Trump personally signed a letter of intent. •Senior members of the Trump campaign, including Paul Manafort, Donald Trump, Jr., and Jared Kushner took a June 9, 2016, meeting with Russian nationals at Trump Tower, New York, after outreach from an intermediary informed Trump, Jr., that the Russians had derogatory information on Clinton that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”[6] •Beginning in June 2016, a Trump associate “forecast to senior [Trump] Campaign officials that WikiLeaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton.”[7] A section of the Report that remains heavily redacted suggests that Roger Stone was this associate and that he had significant contacts with the campaign about Wikileaks.[8] •The Report described multiple occasions where Trump associates lied to investigators about Trump associate contacts with Russia. Trump associates George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen all admitted that they made false statements to federal investigators or to Congress about their contacts. In addition, Roger Stone faces trial this fall for obstruction of justice, five counts of making false statements, and one count of witness tampering. •The Report contains no evidence that any Trump campaign official reported their contacts with Russia or WikiLeaks to U.S. law enforcement authorities during the campaign or presidential transition, despite public reports on Russian hacking starting in June 2016 and candidate Trump’s August 2016 intelligence briefing warning him that Russia was seeking to interfere in the election. •The Report raised questions about why Trump associates and then-candidate Trump repeatedly asserted Trump had no connections to Russia.[9]

Trump: ​"So now we have low-cost interceptors effectively combating Iranian drones." I wonder which country with "no cards" gave them to you 🤔

@KTLA He seems nice.

The suspect is already serving multiple life sentences for previous attacks on officers, officials said. Read more: ktla.com/news/californi…

Imagine going from being challenged over and over at Meta to this, raising $1.03B and now be the controlling entity of a new AI lab with a global mission from day 0. Congrats @ylecun and team

Look, it's just purely a coincidence that Donald Trump started a war just days before the release of FBI 302s of interviews of a victim claiming he raped her when she was 13 years old.

@Mr_Husky1 19, only missing recording tapes off the radio

6 for me!!….I feel confident nobody Has all 20!! How many for you?

If President Trump tries to take control of the midterm elections by executive order, he'll be defying the Constitution in an attempt to trample the authority of Congress and the states and the rights of voters. The time to draw a line is now, says Cato Senior Fellow Walter Olson. ow.ly/qoqn50Yn5JH

My prediction of what’s going on with OpenClaw/Clawdbot, Apple hardware and infinite intelligence for everyone… The catch? written in march 2023

ICYMI — Marge: “I think people are realizing MAGA was all a big lie for the people. What MAGA is really serving in this administration is the big donors.” Gotta be disorienting to have voted to “drain the swamp” only to realize you installed the biggest swamp monster ever.

@MaMoMVPY This is the core problem of America right now. We are a false Democracy. The clear will of the public cannot find its way to implementation. Common sense gun control, age gating social media, allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. These are public will, but not policy. Why?

The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the US. When the outside world observes Trump's insane behaviour and his threats against allies, and we at the same time observe that there is no real action from the US public, Congress, the US Supreme Court, or the US media about this insanity, we will all have to conclude that the US accepts this behaviour. The public in the US think the US is entitled to a certain position in the world where there is no room for decent behaviour and where there are no norms and rules. That means that we all have to conclude that the US — not only Trump — has betrayed the international order that the US, with its Western partners, were the main architects of after the Second World War. This is the conclusion that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney so clearly laid out in his speech at Davos yesterday. We simply cannot trust the US to play by the rules any more. Therefore, we also fundamentally have to ask ourselves — should we trust the financial and economic structure which is an integral part of the global rules-based order? Americans live in the illusion that the US can do everything on its own, despite the fact that the US for nearly 20 years has lived beyond its means. US private and government consumption has been funded by, among others, European central banks and pension funds. But we now have to ask ourselves — why would we trade in dollars? Why would we put our savings into US Treasury bonds? If the US is not a rules-based society, we cannot trust the dollar to be a stable currency, and it would be insane to hold dollars. As domestic US institutions are eroded and governance structures destroyed, the US will be turned into an emerging market economy — or more accurately, a de-merging economy. If the US threatens the territory of allies, then the US acts as an authoritarian bully nation. Nobody in their right mind would lend money to the US government. If the US doesn't live up to its international obligations and respect the sovereignty of other nations, why would we expect the US government to honour its debts? If Trump can tariff nations that will not give up their territory, then there is certainly no reason to believe that the US will not introduce capital controls. And if that is a risk, why would you risk investing in the US? It is not a question about Europe standing up to the US. It is a question about being prudent with our investments — about reducing risks. Every day Trump remains in office, distrust of the US increases, and the cost for the US will go up day by day. And this is irreversible. It takes years to build trust, but you can destroy it by your actions in minutes. Europe has now completely lost trust in the US. And so has Canada. It is up to the people of the US to demonstrate that Trump is an 'outlier', and it is up to the American people to stop him. If you don't do that, we will have to assume that this is what the US is about — whether the name of the President is Trump or something else, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat.

@lippyent That's a Priscilla.

I need a old fashion girls name that will fit her! Hmm 😒 🤔?¿

@Matt_Pinner Reveler. As in "a New Year's eve reveler was arrested for drunkenness."

Prove me wrong No word starts with 'R' and ends with 'R'

IT IS DEEPLY DISTURBING TO ME AS A DATA-DRIVEN MACRO RISK MANAGER THAT THIS DISCUSSION BY OUR FRIEND @RayDalio ONLY HAS ~200 THOUSAND VIEWS. IT SHOULD HAVE ~TWO BILLION VIEWS. IGNORE AT THE RISK OF YOUR FAMILY'S FINANCIAL SECURITY. —Skipper💜 youtu.be/Gda9T9gZSe4?si…

~500,000 Measles cases annually before vaccines, to 9 cases in 2021. But yeah, vaccines don't work...

"Decline is a choice," said Charles Krauthammer. Some of us thought that this decline, this choice, would come from the anti-American Left. But just as dangerous, if not more: the nationalist-populist Right, waving the American flag all the while ...

@DariusDale42 "Bury your head in the sand" rant = HILARIOUS

The Macro Minute | Jan 12, 2026 In today’s video, I answer the following: - Is this the beginning of the end for Fed Chair Powell, Fed independence, President Trump’s political influence, and the Congressional majority enjoyed by the Republican Party? You can watch it here: