Billy Robb

Phoenix resident.

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

This stands in contrast to many local Republicans who defend stupid stuff for no reason except they think the base wants them to support the admin no matter what.

Everyone knows the trump act is growing old. Interesting to watch the maneuvering as we reach lame duck status.

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

Marco Rubio is positioning himself as the most competent member of the administration, but also, he tries to avoid being associated with the consequential disasters of the administration.

It seems to be working for him.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

The Wealth of Nations turned 250 in March. Most think of it as economics book, but, as I explain in @thedispatch, it's also an insightful look at crony-fueled protectionism:

"Adam Smith Warned of (Almost) Everything Wrong With U.S. Trade Politics Today" https://t.co/j3Yjo9WX80

[The Dispatch @thedispatch]

"You can two-step around reality any way you like, but the fact is that right now Republicans are offering both Ken Paxton and $5.60 diesel." | Kevin D. Williamson

https://t.co/yXiD7dx6rp

[Justin Stapley @JustinWStapley]

And that's why Reagan >>>>>> Trump. Always.

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

Reaganism exists - long after there is no such thing as, say, Bushism - because it's a legible, coherent philosophy. Trumpism will exist as long as Trump is in power, but its survival after that will involve a lot of heated contention over what it means beyond the man himself.

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

I wonder how many GOP primary voters are wishing, in retrospect, that they had backed a younger candidate for president.

Hindsight is 2020.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Incomes not keeping pace with inflation has been the persistent economic issue for tens of millions of Americans for quite some time.

When Congress borrows trillions and runs massive deficits, it is still an effective tax increase — it just comes in the form of higher prices.

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

Economic damage as a result of one man's rash decisions to wage war and raise tariffs.

This is what the Constitution was supposed to protect against.

[Ben Casselman @bencasselman]

In inflation-adjusted terms, workers have now seen *zero* wage gains since Trump returned to office -- the surge in prices over the past few months has wiped out all of the real wage gains made in the first year of Trump's second term.

[Eric Boehm @EricBoehm87]

Some Republicans are finally starting to distance themselves from him, but it's kinda shocking that there aren't more. The ship is sinking, guys!

[The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru @Garrett_Archer]

Once gain, the grifting class needs to conflate policy-driven concerns with election processes and fanciful claims of outright fraud committed by election officials.

These are not related.

-You can despise California's, admittedly rather lax rules around ballot acceptance. This is a valid opinion.

-What you can't do is claim officials are "counting until they get the results they want." There is no evidence to suggest this. Quite the opposite in fact. The process is being watched by bipartisan observers and election attorneys, and polling lines up with reasonably well with how results are coming in.

Please think critically.

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

An unpopular 80-year-old president got booed at a basketball game.

I really didn't think this could be promoted as an act of heroism. Props to the creativity of the trump stans.

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

Patriots chant “USA” and leftists boo Trump as he smiles and salutes the flag during the National Anthem at MSG for game three of the NBA Finals

I love this. He refuses to cede one inch of American soil to the civilizational arsonists.

🇺🇸🇺🇸

https://t.co/pFq1XK7Piu

[Will Creeley @WillatFIRE]

"As Lincoln grasped better than anyone ever has, the Revolution and its Declaration of Independence offered us a set of beliefs that through the generations has supplied a bond that holds together the most diverse nation that history has ever known."
— Wood in 2025 speech.

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

The harshest MAGA critique of Haley is that she was going to get us into a war that would damage the economy.

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

When government takes part ownership of a company taxpayers foot the bill, but they don’t get a say.

It’s not capitalism. And it’s certainly not conservative.

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

Yea man. These RINOs talking about free markets. Everybody knows Republicans support their president no matter what kind of big government policy he enacts.

[M @coressel_m]

@TheFP iM thinking.... he should just become a Democrat at this point

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

Jeff Flake wrote a very similar book in 2017.

Conservatism is more coherent and more effective than trumpy populism.

The more people who are willing to say it out loud, the better.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

In an excerpt from his brand-new book, What Conservatives Believe, former vice president Mike Pence reflects on Barry Goldwater’s 1960 book, The Conscience of a Conservative, arguing that many conservatives today have lost sight of the movement’s core principles.

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

I don't think you can accurately call yourself a constitutional conservative unless you think personal character and morality are important in a public official. The Founders believed that moral values were essential characterisitcs that allowed the Constitution to function.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

The Paxton victory in Texas has resurfaced the issue of character. I think young people would be shocked at how much emphasis Republicans and conservatives once placed on character: character in office, character in society. Personal responsibility. Etc. It wasn't that long ago!

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

The sweet spot for me in terms of aesthetics is the Suns teams w/ Nash and Amare in the aughts. They were ahead of their time w/ speed and threes, but still shot 10 fewer threes per game than modern average. Pick and roll play was brilliant, but it was balanced with post touches.

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

The '90s game featured post-up plays and mid-range jumpers as regularly as the modern game features pick-and-rolls and three-pointers. To me, I find post play to be more interesting than pick and rolls, and I don't like the aesthetics of teams shooting 40 threes per game.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This three minutes of basketball is aesthetically ugly, less athletic, less strategically complex, less skilled, and all-around just objectively worse than the basketball played today in the NBA.

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

I don't hate the modern game, but there are interesting features of the old game that are missing from the modern game. I would rather watch Wemby post up 20 times a game rather than watch him set picks above the three point line all game.
https://t.co/v2VV1AfiNw

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

My feed is drenched in whining about how much the modern NBA sucks. Seems even more whiny than normal.

Do other sports have such a vibrant cottage industry of anti-fan posters who are so determined to hate on the sport?

[Billy Robb @billyrobb33]

Wemby is 7'5" and the Thunder big man guarding him was in foul trouble.

By my count, the Spurs posted up Wemby once in the entire second half. He made it.