Robb Aley Allan

It’s only war if it comes from the war region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling conflict

Okay, Grandma, that's enough Winter Olympics for you! 😆

Came into JFK airport a week or two ago. There were no customs agents anywhere, at all. Customs inspection was closed. Now I know why. They all had been sent to Minnesota.

Trump encouraged insurrection. The end.

I’ve missed my family’s Charleston accent… it has long faded away in that city. So when my father died, I was arranging his burial in his hometown outside Charleston, and sexton of the church spoke to me with an ancient Charleston drawl — well, I recorded the conversation.

BREAKING: ICE announces it has detained Santa Clause because he entered the country illegally and without documentation. "Nobody is above the law," said Pam Bondi, "especially communists who just want to give things away."

With every passing day, we’re being reminded that businessmen make terrible political leaders. apple.news/Af96_2kRQT1G...

This doesn’t seem particularly reasonable. AI may be a creative shortcut, but it’s not necessarily inaccurate. In most cases, it’s a time-saving tool.

The difference between a grande and a venti anxiety is staggering nowadays due to Trumpflation.

What happens when a bridge-and-tunnel boy with no taste and a chip on his shoulder gets a charge card at Home Depot.

Never thought in my life that I would feel so betrayed by other centrists that I might now think of voting to support Bernie Sanders and AOC.

You hear all the apoplectic handwaving by people who say they’re going to flee New York because a socialist just got elected? That, in reverse, is how I feel about Texas and Tennessee. If they want to be a right wing paradise, they can do so without my tourist dollars.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

I read about insurgencies on both left and right who feel that their moment has come to take over their parties because people are unhappy with current leadership. But being unhappy with current leadership doesn’t translate into a hunger for something more radical. They want better moderates.

One of the things that saddens me the most is how quickly and easily law-enforcement in this country adopted authoritarian tactics, not just towards immigrants, but towards citizens as well. It really shows how thin the veneer of civilization is.

This is a well-known story in New York real estate circles, and is just one of the reasons why the New York real estate community has always looked on Donald Trump with disdain.

This is one of the strangest headlines I’ve ever seen.

Extremism. The left denounces. The right denies.

I used to be a science journalist. We got letters all the time from people who claimed to have solved antigravity, quantum physics, and perpetual motion machines. Now the loony kooks have podcasts and lots of gullible followers. There’s a sucker born every minute.

It’s much easier to understand and predict what this administration will do when you keep in mind that, fundamentally, Donald Trump is a performance artist with a mean streak. He’s the Don Rickles of American politics.

Imagine being an investor who just dumped a half million into Anthropic private equity to discover that the money went right out the back door.

We are over 65 yo. We live in Florida. We were just denied Covid vaccinations because of new Florida policies.

This is the kind of pollyannish magical thinking that causes kills entire industries. Americans are already flooding the London real estate market, and Florida is full of relocated New Yorkers. France and England have long experiences with tax expats. The past does not predict the future.

Erin projected to become a monster-sized storm by next week.

My prediction: sometime in the near future, we are going to learn that Donald Trump is having the Treasury use these extorted revenues from American taxpayers and companies to buy cryptocurrency that he owns. It is a gigantic theft from the American taxpayer.

I’m feeling so “who cares” about the poor, pierogi-deprived Alan Dershowitz right now …

Oh, Abbott should absolutely remove all the Democrats from the Texas legislature and prosecute them as criminals. Absolutely. Then we should watch as Texas comes to a standstill from protests, boycotts, and statewide strikes.

Next, he’ll be suing a bakery for refusing to make a wedding cake for his – oh wait a minute.

Those of us who actually believe and invest in free markets see this for what it is: anti-competitive, anti-capitalist protection behavior designed to maximize profits to the US government at the expense of its citizens

We aren’t adding any more to our scholarship at Columbia while there’s a risk of that money being used for payments to the Trump administration.

I’m sick of both the woke and the wack.

Such organizations should now incorporate overseas in countries where such meritless lawsuits aren’t so easy to file.

We have moved on from voodoo economics to voodoo medicine: the government is now the source of disinformation, and Americans will pay the price in degraded health for years. I predict medical tourism will skyrocket — if not outright expatriatism.

"What Sam Altman is saying is that his plan for solving global warming is to build a machine that nobody knows how to build and can’t even define and then ask it for three wishes."

...or, perhaps, the numbers reported are not what they seem.

“He hasn’t got the balls to be a border patrol agent. This guy lives in his mother’s basement…I guarantee you he sits down to pee.” Spoken like a man compensating for a small…hand.

Chasing people to their deaths is functionally equivalent to murder.

What we’re seeing (Stephen Miller being emblematic) is a spasm of rightwing grievance politics against everything & everyone they don’t like, rules be damned. At some point everyone else will get sick of it & strike back, which will just make rightwingers squeal even louder about their victimhood.

“The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting,” one senior reporter told Semafor. Cheap reasoning. That’s the definition of social media. Not news. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

They love America. They just don't love Americans.

If you think it can't happen here, you haven't lived here.

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Friedman nails it. apple.news/AEe3Tm9hrRsS...

Driving as it used to be.