Bankruptcies soared to a 15-year high in 2025
www.the-independent.com

Heckuvajob, pedo 47.

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-29 05:27 PM | Reply | Flag: This is nothing unusual for Dummkopf Trumpf; this is what he has done his whole racist good-for-nothing life.

FTA: "Corporate bankruptcies in the US soared to a 15-year high in 2025, with 717 companies filing for Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 between January and November."

That's two a day and his supporters love him for increasing unemployment and decreasing the corporate tax revenue base.

Did they steal his groceries?

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-29 01:45 PM | Reply | Flag: Worse

ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu did this to the Houthis. This abominable miscreant flew into the US again to befoul our country and convinced Dummkopf Trumpf to attack an Iranian proxy.

Netanyahu wants American casualties in any retaliatory counterattack by the Iranians, Houthis, or Lebanese Hezbollah (LH), to gin up more Islamophobia in the US and a rationale to destroy Iran.

There will be an imminent election in Israel, so a war in 2026 will also keep Bibi's legal problems at bay (which are too many to cite here).

When the ayatollahs took power Iran in 1979, they welcomed relations with all countries in the world except for two: Suid-Afrika and Israel, because of their similar apartheid policies towards the "kaffirs" and the "hijab wearers."

Iran's great sin is being a country that stands up for Palestinians in Israel (since 1979 when the despotic Shah fell) and Shia Muslims in southern Lebanon (Israel's 1982 invasion led to the eclipse of "Amal" and the birth of Lebanese Hezbollah).

The American people's support for Israel has been the lowest in decades because of the Likud pogrom against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. There are too many polls to cite here.

American candidates that back Israel will find themselves in a losing proposition in future US elections. This will affect the evangelical white GOP less, but the Democratic Party more, as antiwar progressives won't vote for a candidate that supports war, Islamophobia, or ethnic cleansing. See election results of 1968 or 2024 for more info.

The sooner the Democratic Party frees itself of the Israeli fetter around our collective ankle, the sooner we can retake the House in 2026 and the Senate and White House in 2028 to rid ourselves of the Republican Party for as long as possible.

Somali's are the new Irish Catholics'
The refugees seeking haven in America were poor and disease-ridden. They threatened to take jobs away from Americans and strain welfare budgets. They practiced an alien religion and pledged allegiance to a foreign leader. They were bringing with them crime. They were accused of being rapists.
These undesirables were Irish.www.history.com

#31 | Posted by Scotty at 2025-12-29 01:45 PM | Reply | Flag: "History Repeats Itself"

In the antebellum South, the Irish Catholics were considered below plantation slaves, sitting at the bottom of the feudal socio-economic pyramid.

Plantation slaves were expensive to buy and maintain, so blacks weren't used as labor to dig canals, work the mines, build roads or buildings, because they could get hurt or killed or lose their ability to procreate in an accident.

That's a lost investment for the rich white slaveowner.

But an Irish Catholic laborer in the South was paid pennies for his toils and if he died at the worksite, a pauper's burial was overseen by a priest (if any were around) and that was that. Simply hire another Irishman off the boat.

Life was so bad for the Irish that plantation slaves made fun of each other with jokes like "Don't be Josephat's Irishman."

"The Irish: Slaves by Another Name"

It's unbelievable to look at the past forty years of global history and think civilization's biggest challenge is the rich are taxed too much.

#133 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-29 02:44 PM | Reply | Flag: Brainwashing Works on the MAGAts and Rubes

"Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1%."

More information on the development of this Russian-designed submarine:

"South Korean intelligence has been cautious in its assessments, saying that there is no concrete evidence that a Russian nuclear module has been handed over to Pyongyang.

What North Korea reveals and what it actually deploys operationally are two different things," said Park Won-gon, a professor of North Korean studies at Ewha Womans University.

"Even if Pyongyang received small reactor technology from Russia, it would still take considerable time to realize the technology, and the likelihood that it would function properly remains low."

Links:

It's like we elected Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers to the White House but it's the psychopathic ICE goons that wear the masks.

"Dear California Firefighters:
Save all of my palatial estates and then GFY.
Signed,
Selfish California Billionaires"

At least six ISIS ("Daesh") operatives were rendered ineffective by Turkish security personnel. Three Turkish National Police (TNP) officers were also killed; eight TNP officers and one security guard were wounded during the operation.

Hi Snoofy: Republican hypocrisy is both mind-numbing and stifling.

Dummkopf Trumpf recklessly withdrew the US from the WHO on the first day he seized power on 20 Jan 2025. This year's spikes in measles cases could cause the US to lose its "elimination status" by next year after the CDC reports nearly 2,000 cases and 50 outbreaks nationwide.

Dr Vin Gupta on MSNBC: 'People are going to skip healthcare' as Americans brace for impact of skyrocketing health care premiums thanks to Dummkopf Trumpf and the Republican Party.

Links:

Hi Hamburglar

Thanks for posting. That surgeon is a genuine Samaritan. As luck would have it, I was just gifted a National Geographic subscription for Xmas.

The Pyongyang regime is silly to show film of Westerners to their people. The Norks see how healthy and well-dressed the Westerners are compared to them, as well as their South Korean cousins.

Nota Bene: Chinese consumers prefer the taste of Florida's Key West lobsters over the New England variety. This report didn't specify the type of crustaceans that were boosted.

The lobsters, which were not alive, were on their way to Costco stores in Illinois and Minnesota, said the owner of the supply chain company that was victimized.

"This theft wasn't random. It followed a pattern we're seeing more and more, where criminals impersonate legitimate carriers using spoofed emails and burner phones to hijack high-value freight while it's in transit."

"For a mid-sized brokerage like ours, a $400,000 loss is significant," he added. "It forces tough decisions and ultimately drives up costs across the supply chain, costs consumers ultimately end up paying."

"Brokers are on the front lines of this problem, but we need federal agencies to have modern enforcement tools to keep pace with organized criminal networks," he said. "Until that happens, these thefts will continue to disrupt businesses and impact everyday prices."

This trend of hijacking food and other merchandise, high end or run-of-the-mill items, will continue as the US economy continues to plummet and people become more and more desperate. Expect an increase in small time "porch piracy" of Amazon products or other unsecured packages as well.

*** Poverty Drives People to Catch Rare Songbirds in China ***

"Each year on China, tens of thousands of birds are caught in nets for the pet trade, or for meat.

The pandemic and a property crisis have turned the economy sluggish, so catching and selling songbirds on the black market is a low-cost and often low-risk way of making a large profit.

A pretty songbird, such as a Siberian rubythroat, can often sell for nearly 2,000 yuan (210; $280), which is more than many farmers earn in a month."

*** North Korea Tests Long Range Cruise Missiles ***

"North Korea fired long-range strategic cruise missiles into the sea to test the country's nuclear deterrence, days after Kim Jong-un showed off the apparent progress in the construction of his first nuclear-powered submarine.

Sunday's launches were the latest weapons display by North Korea ahead of its planned ruling Workers' Party congress early next year."

ICE agents barked at the pastor that they had to take him back to their office in order to prove his legal status to be in the US.

"He's a pastor! You're beating a pastor," one witness yells.

"He's not a pastor in this country," one of the ICE thugs growls.

"God will judge you," an eyewitness warns. "You're taking people from their kids, and leaving them alone."

And China is building up its nuclear arsenal rapidly.

BTW: North Korea is about to deploy a nuclear-engined submarine.

Aren't we all lucky to have Dummkopf Trumpf as POTUS?

Links:

#11

Your father and my friend served in the USAF as navigators at the same time. 'Vic' also flew missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis and met JFK (and MLK Jr later).

#9: There is no confusion on my part as a cook or my friend who worked in the food industry as a "taster." .

My wife and I bought fresh groceries and produce in Paris France and Tokyo Japan and ate like the natives during the day on picnics.

At night, we went to eat where the locals ate, not the tourist spots.

When I was single, I did the same in Thailand, Turkiye, and Germany. I bought local produce and ate picnic style. At night, I ate with the locals.

Food and produce taste better overseas because they are fresh, are less chemically-processed, and use different pesticides than US food. I can see the difference when I shop in the foreign grocery stores.

Worst. President. Ever.

And on top of our misery, this week ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu again befouls the US with his noxious and unwelcome presence.