XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 12/26/2025 9:24 PM, Chris Thompson wrote:   
   > Mad Hamish wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:16:08 -0600, Lynn McGuire   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 12/25/2025 3:41 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   >>>> Lynn McGuire schrieb:   
   >>>>> On 12/25/2025 3:38 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   >>>>>> Lynn McGuire schrieb:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Wow, Roomba just file bankruptcy. “Roomba’s bankruptcy may wreck   
   >>>>>>> a lot   
   >>>>>>> more than one robot vacuum maker”   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> [...]   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Killed by the Chinese knockoffs. Probably from the same   
   >>>>>>> manufacturing line.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Plus tariffs on imports from Vietnam.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The tariffs just started this year, 2025. The Chinese knockoffs   
   >>>>> started   
   >>>>> a decade ago.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> IRobot's bancrupcy was in 2025, not a decade ago.   
   >>>   
   >>> The financial problems started quite a few years ago. Amazon tried to   
   >>> buy IRobot a few years ago and Biden's government kept that from   
   >>> happening.   
   >>>   
   >> The article you linked said that the purchase was abandoned with the   
   >> EU regulators were looking to block it   
   >> Biden was not a member of the EU government   
   >>   
   >   
   > Ha. Biden wasn't a _public_ member of the EU government. But Hillary's   
   > emails from Hunter's laptop conclusively prove- PROVE, I SAY- that   
   > George Soros' paid demonstrators released the chemtrails over Area 51   
   > that activated the Jewish Space Lasers that Joe Biden used to give the   
   > orders to ANTIFA operatives from the pizza parlor basement to mindwipe   
   > the EU economic ministers.   
   >   
   > SO THERE.   
   >   
   > Every Trumper knows this stuff. It's like, you know, third grade to them.   
   >   
   Isn't third grade the MAGA equivalent of a doctorate? :P   
      
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   dirty old man.   
      
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