Allen Boone

Christian, gamer, comic enthusiast, software developer, and connoisseur of corny puns. Podcaster on @mbhpodcast and @turtlejumpshow. Views are my own.

[Allen Boone @kallenboone]

@MikeCosper Hearing you on @thedispatch podcast and @stephenfhayes on The Bulletin podcast was a fun crossover event.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Political violence is evil. I don't care how angry you are at your opponents. We have a ballot box. We have courts. We have free speech. I'm sick with grief for Charlie and his family. I'm sick with concern for this country.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Honestly don’t know what’s going on.

You have well known liberal pundits finally arguing for growing the pie instead of trying to redistribute it and that the bureaucracy is failing people while prominent people on the right are adopting Marxist talking points about the need to accept sacrifice for the common good.

A lot of people insisting that the same free market system that dragged millions out of poverty and made America the richest country in the world is the real problem. A system where even our poor have a higher standard of living than the middle class in almost every other country on earth. But it apparently isn’t working because goods are too cheap and people, when given the choice, prefer white collar jobs to working in factories nowadays.

And of course none of the people saying all this are the ones who actually work in those factories. They just assume someone else wants to.

Did you actually ask the people who are employed in service jobs while we have 4% unemployment if they prefer to work in plants? Of course not.

Instead you’re clapping like seals as the captain drives the ship towards the iceberg. And then getting mad at some of us for screaming there’s an iceberg ahead and you can’t just spin your way out of the damage to the ship after you hit it.

Trump thinks he’s going to be FDR but instead he’s headed into Herbert Hoover territory. While the WH and social media is full of yes men telling him it’s brilliant and that the ship will magically bypass the iceberg.

He has the chance to be a very successful President. Americans support policies to secure the border. They support deportations of people who shouldn’t be here. They want a strong FP that uses American strength to punish enemies and secure American interests. They are even understanding of some pain to cut government waste and fraud. But most of all they care about their pocketbooks. They voted for the booming pre-COVID economy of Trump’s first term. They voted for growth, lower pricing, and low unemployment. They might even tolerate some questionable threats to achieve cooperation on key issues.

But they didn’t vote for central planning of our economy. They didn’t vote for trade wars. They didn’t vote for crashing our economy based on a wacky theory on how to refinance our debt. They didn’t vote for higher prices or job cuts. And no amount of spin will deflect the blame for those things.

You can pretend we don’t know what happens when you hit an iceberg, but we do. And the predictable next step is the same people downplaying the harm will be calling for price controls and blaming the consequences on everyone else (can’t wait for the “greedy corporations” lines).

You can do what you want but don’t say we didn’t warn you. And please stop pissing on our feet and telling us it’s raining.

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

We just won an election on the fact prices were too high and now I have all these MAGA people arguing, “The problem with America is everything is too cheap.” I feel like I’m going insane.

[Allen Boone @kallenboone]

@JonahDispatch I don’t know what Gracie said, but it made my cat whip is head toward me when he heard it.

[Allen Boone @kallenboone]

@gavinortlund But could he see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

[Mike Cosper @MikeCosper]

“We want a king! A conqueror! A Christian Prince to restore our national glory!”

God: I give you a child, born in the mud and stench of a stable, lying in a manger.

It was the first of countless inversions that are the mystery of Christ.

Merry Christmas.

[Allen Boone @kallenboone]

Maybe the real Twitter was the friends we made along the way.

[Allen Boone @kallenboone]

If Twitter disappears or whatever, you can find me over there. *points indistinctly*

[cats being weird little guys 👅 @weirdlilguys]

you can do it I believe in you

[The Wonder of Tolkien @TolkienWonder]

Fall Vibes.

[Dont Show Your Cat @DontShowYourCat]

found a bowling ball in the wild today

[Allen Boone @kallenboone]

@Wario64

[Joshin and Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

this was my multiverse of madness

[Best of Nextdoor 🏡 @bestofnextdoor]

"HELP WITH CAT"

[Joshin and Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

RIP julius caesar you would have loved knives out

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is almost certainly a vain hope, but it’s a hope nonetheless.

Can the exposure to Russia’s brutal invasion provide some domestic perspective?

Words aren’t violence. Bombs are.

Big Tech isn’t tyranny. Tanks are.

Politics isn’t war. War is.

[Joshin and Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

praying for the day when

"They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore."

—Micah 4:3

[Joshin and Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

when Gimli says "and my axe!" in the Council of Elrond that's a random axe of kindness