Robb Aley Allan
@robballan.bsky.social
Family office tech/retail/theatre investor. Heritage-brand business owner. Former science/tech writer/reporter for Newsweek/MacWorld/etc. Long-time Apple developer, database programmer, and incorrigible geek.
I guess provocation wasn’t strong enough. Or needling.
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I guess provocation wasn’t strong enough. Or needling.
The New Aristocracy: let’s hang all the ruffians.
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The New Aristocracy: let’s hang all the ruffians.
We’re also talking about people who must pay back what they borrow, and may see gains turn into losses.
Unless, of course, you are prepared to pay taxes on every increase in value of your pension or your retirement fund because those, too, are unrealized gains.
Unless, of course, you are prepared to pay taxes on every increase in value of your pension or your retirement fund because those, too, are unrealized gains.
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
We’re also talking about people who must pay back what they borrow, and may see gains turn into losses.
Unless, of course, you are prepared to pay taxes on every increase in value of your pension or your retirement fund because those, too, are unrealized gains.
Unless, of course, you are prepared to pay taxes on every increase in value of your pension or your retirement fund because those, too, are unrealized gains.
They do that, and they guarantee a change in the Court by a democratic Congress. Suicide.
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
They do that, and they guarantee a change in the Court by a democratic Congress. Suicide.
There was a time in my adult life when I had faith that the Supreme Court worked from a base of impartiality and good faith. I have lost that faith.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
There was a time in my adult life when I had faith that the Supreme Court worked from a base of impartiality and good faith. I have lost that faith.
What “fight” were these people engaged in? What weapons did they have? What battlefront were they headed to?
This is an administration using the “national security” excuse to justify every action no matter how lethal as some twisted form of self-defense.
This is an administration using the “national security” excuse to justify every action no matter how lethal as some twisted form of self-defense.
December 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
What “fight” were these people engaged in? What weapons did they have? What battlefront were they headed to?
This is an administration using the “national security” excuse to justify every action no matter how lethal as some twisted form of self-defense.
This is an administration using the “national security” excuse to justify every action no matter how lethal as some twisted form of self-defense.
Yes. Income tax has already been paid on income earnings, and capital gains taxes have already been paid on investment earnings. Taxing people again after they’ve already been taxed is simply confiscatory. It will lead to people moving wealth out of the country to avoid it.
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Yes. Income tax has already been paid on income earnings, and capital gains taxes have already been paid on investment earnings. Taxing people again after they’ve already been taxed is simply confiscatory. It will lead to people moving wealth out of the country to avoid it.
What happens when white Christian men assert their white Christian man rights.
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
What happens when white Christian men assert their white Christian man rights.
Only Republican lives matter.
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Only Republican lives matter.
“We have a great plan for Americans – – it’s called the ‘No Plan’ plan. You won’t need insurance because you won’t get treated by anybody.”
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“We have a great plan for Americans – – it’s called the ‘No Plan’ plan. You won’t need insurance because you won’t get treated by anybody.”
He ignores the freedom of choice that doctors will have to not accept your insurance, that insurance plans will have to not cover your conditions, and that hospitals would have to not treat you without insurance. But sure, you’ll have a little more cash to buy Band-Aids.
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
He ignores the freedom of choice that doctors will have to not accept your insurance, that insurance plans will have to not cover your conditions, and that hospitals would have to not treat you without insurance. But sure, you’ll have a little more cash to buy Band-Aids.
Can’t wait for the new coal-rolling standards so I can blind my neighbors driving their kids to school each day. MAGA!
December 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Can’t wait for the new coal-rolling standards so I can blind my neighbors driving their kids to school each day. MAGA!
When suppliers eat additional costs, they cut their costs elsewhere, usually by layoffs.
December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
When suppliers eat additional costs, they cut their costs elsewhere, usually by layoffs.
Layoffs could actually begin in earnest, as opposed to hiring freezes and attrition.
Emergence of stagflation as tariff-driven prices continue to rise while employment is dropping, consumption drops, production slows down.
Emerging liquidity squeeze on households and small investors.
Emergence of stagflation as tariff-driven prices continue to rise while employment is dropping, consumption drops, production slows down.
Emerging liquidity squeeze on households and small investors.
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Layoffs could actually begin in earnest, as opposed to hiring freezes and attrition.
Emergence of stagflation as tariff-driven prices continue to rise while employment is dropping, consumption drops, production slows down.
Emerging liquidity squeeze on households and small investors.
Emergence of stagflation as tariff-driven prices continue to rise while employment is dropping, consumption drops, production slows down.
Emerging liquidity squeeze on households and small investors.
If only we had something like, you know, “insurance”, or something like that. Maybe Costco could invent health insurance? Even though Costco isn’t open to everybody… well, then we could require Costco to accept everybody as a member… just freethinking here…
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If only we had something like, you know, “insurance”, or something like that. Maybe Costco could invent health insurance? Even though Costco isn’t open to everybody… well, then we could require Costco to accept everybody as a member… just freethinking here…
Now the “war on drugs” is an actual international war. It’s amazing how this administration stretches every authority to its breaking point. National security, war on drugs, cancelling pardons…there is no right that this president won’t claim to justify every abuse of power he can conceive.
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Now the “war on drugs” is an actual international war. It’s amazing how this administration stretches every authority to its breaking point. National security, war on drugs, cancelling pardons…there is no right that this president won’t claim to justify every abuse of power he can conceive.
Trump‘s recent threat to denaturalize existing American citizens makes it clear that he is not intent on deporting just illegal immigrants — and certainly not just deporting criminal illegal immigrants. He is deporting everyone who doesn’t fit his definition of an “appropriate” American citizen.
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Trump‘s recent threat to denaturalize existing American citizens makes it clear that he is not intent on deporting just illegal immigrants — and certainly not just deporting criminal illegal immigrants. He is deporting everyone who doesn’t fit his definition of an “appropriate” American citizen.
I have had that exact experience.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I have had that exact experience.
I don’t know, check her location tag on Twitter, she may actually live in Pompas
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I don’t know, check her location tag on Twitter, she may actually live in Pompas
Which proves the point that business people make terrible politicians.
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Which proves the point that business people make terrible politicians.
Dollars have one vote each, too.
November 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Dollars have one vote each, too.