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   Your Name to Dimensional Traveler   
   =?utf-8?Q?Re:_=E2=80=9CThis_is_how_the_w   
   27 Dec 25 19:38:11   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-12-27 06:14:21 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:   
   > 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   
      
   MAGA nutters can't even manage to graduate from pre-school.  :-\   
      
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