Trump vs. The EU – How Brussels is Bankrupting American Companies and Aiding China.

The European Union continues to hammer away at American companies under the guise of “digital regulation.” - Raheem J. Kassam

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) have become tools of economic and political aggression, masquerading as consumer protection. 

All of this, of course, under the European guise of “protecting democracy.”

• President Trump’s administration has, thus far, taken the right tone, characterizing the EU’s recent fine on X as an assault on Americans. 

What the EU is doing is nothing less than an extraterritorial power play meant to export European censorship norms into America...

As a particularly timely example, iRobot filed for bankruptcy this week, and a Chinese supplier will take control of the company.
Three years ago, Amazon, one of the companies listed as a “gatekeeper” under the DMA, had offered to acquire iRobot. 

However, EU regulators, with the support of the Lina Khan-led FTC, blocked the potential deal, arguing that it would limit competition. 

EU regulations have led to the bankruptcy of an American company, and Chinese companies will have greater market control...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for December 19

History for December 19 - On-This-Day.com 

Leonid Brezhnev (Russia) 1906

• 1871 - Corrugated paper was patented by Albert L. Jones.
• 1972 - Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
• 1973 - Johnny Carson started a fake toilet-paper scare on the "Tonight Show."
• 1989 - U.S. troops invaded Panama to overthrow the regime of General Noriega.
• 1996 - The school board of Oakland, CA, voted to recognize Black English, also known as "ebonics." The board later reversed its stance.
• 1998 - U.S. President Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives.

'That's not even cool': Watch food-stamp recipient complain she can't buy junk food with your tax dollars * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation

'That's not even cool': Watch food-stamp recipient complain she can't buy junk food with your tax dollars * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

A Missouri woman on Thursday receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds complained about only being able to buy "real food" with the program, according to St. Louis TV station KMOV. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced Wednesday the approval of a waiver request from Missouri and five other states to restrict the purchase of candy, sugar-sweetened drinks and other items after Oct. 1, 2026. Hannah Moore complained to KMOV reporter John Kipper in a story that the restrictions were "not even cool."

The way we were-----The Piltdown Man - The Biggest Scientific Hoax in History

'COOKING THE BOOKS': Police chief RESIGNS after being accused of cooking...

Gotta see this!-----This generation believes they are PEAK smart.

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Brown University Received a Letter from 34 Human Rights Groups in August Requesting They Disable Their CCTV System - The Last Refuge

The question is: Did Brown University acquiesce under pressure from far-left human rights groups to disable their CCTV systems, in advance of the mass shooting on campus? - Sundance
The motive for the request to disable CCTV systems as stated: 

“Right now these tools are facilitating the identification and punishment of student protesters, undermining activists’ right to anonymity––a right the Supreme Court has affirmed as vital to free expression and political participation.”... 

Against the factual evidence of Brown University receiving requests to disable their surveillance cameras, someone needs to ask the right question.
Everyone can see the potential ramifications here, along with the severity of the legal risk Brown University would be facing...

1. A targeted political assassination of a young, female conservative vice-chair of the Brown University Republican group takes place. 
2. The ideological shooter benefits from the lack of school security and surveillance. 
3. That lack of security was intentionally created by ideological school administrators and officials bowing to pressure from ideologically aligned leftist organizations...

THIS is what happens when you disarm your citizenry | Blaze Media

THIS is what happens when you disarm your citizenry | Blaze Media: 

“All six firearms were at the scene. It turns out, when you make it very difficult for law-abiding citizens to get guns, do you know what happens?” Gonzales asks. “It’s just the bad guys who end up going through the long and difficult process in order to obtain them. And that’s how you end up with the bloodbath that you ended up with in Australia.”

Situation in Europe December 2025 (Part 2)

A Lot of "Randomness" About :: SteynOnline

~Some readers have wondered why I have not commented on the weekend shooting at Brown University. - Mark Steyn
That's chiefly because I have no insight into the event you haven't heard from others:

The loss of a child offends the natural order. 

The loss of a child at Christmas taints the season for what's left of a parent's life. 

• We know the murder of Sarah Beckstrom at Thanksgiving was a direct consequence of government policy whose terrible costs do not fall on those who impose it. 

Why Ella Cook was killed we cannot yet say. However, her fellow victim has now been named:

• So a rare public conservative on a left-wing campus and a young man called Mukhammad are killed in the classroom of a Jewish professor...

Lunch video-----The Global Push for Government Mandated Digital IDs And Why You Should Worry!

Noon-toon

 

If We Can't Fix the Judge, It's All Over: Clinton Judge Orders FBI to Destroy Key Evidence That Comey Leaked

If We Can't Fix the Judge, It's All Over: Clinton Judge Orders FBI to Destroy Key Evidence That Comey Leaked: 

But it was later revealed — and Comey ultimately admitted — that he had asked Richman to pass along classified information to the media to spur the DOJ to appoint a special counsel to investigate and potentially prosecute President Donald Trump and members of his campaign team for allegedly colluding with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.

A scam from the start!

 

Are we exaggerating the threat of Islamic extremism?

Facebook - Ashton Cohen

The end of western civilization??!!

 

Victor Davis Hanson: Pete Hegseth Delivered the Military Turnaround Washington Said Was Impossible

PeteHegseth has turned the U.S. military around in ways no one thought was possible, like getting the military back to meeting all of its recruiting quotas - The Daily Signal @DailySignal

Recruitment under the Biden administration fell “some 40 to 50,000 recruits,” and former Sec. of Defense Lloyd Austin’s Pentagon used excuses like “people are out of shape, in gangs, using drugs, etc.” 

“The real cause was, as Pete Hegseth said when he came in, that people felt that the military was not emphasizing combat, battlefield efficacy…

Now... 

• There is a record number of Army recruits. 
• The military has met all of its recruiting. 
• That is equivalent to the dramatic revolution on the southern border. 

Nobody thought we could close the border. 

We did. 

Nobody thought we could get recruitment back. 

Pete Hegseth did,”...

#1 This day 1966-----The New Vaudeville Band - Winchester Cathedral (1966)

Higher maternal vitamin D during pregnancy tied to less childhood tooth decay

Tooth mineralization begins during pregnancy. - Justin Jackson, Medical Xpress

Some studies have suggested gestational weeks 13 to 17 as a critical period for mineralization of maxillary anterior teeth, and most primary teeth begin to mineralize from the second to the third trimester...
Maternal 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels tracked with early childhood caries in several ways...

• Higher maternal vitamin D levels across pregnancy aligned with lower odds of early childhood caries in offspring, suggesting supplementation before conception or during pregnancy as a potential lever for lowering the risk and severity of childhood tooth decay.
• Mid-to-late pregnancy stood out as a window where higher vitamin D levels had the strongest correlation with fewer childhood caries and less decayed, missing, or filled primary teeth...

Australia is lost!

 

WATCH: Biden regime let 18,000 known or suspected terrorists come to U.S. * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

WATCH: Biden regime let 18,000 known or suspected terrorists come to U.S. * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Federal officials have revealed that a stunning 18,000 known or suspected terrorists were allowed to come to the United States, and stay here, during the time the regime of Joe Biden was in the Oval Office. It was Joe Kent, National Counterterrorism Center director, who confirmed that in recent testimony. Normally, he said, they never would be allowed into the country because of their connections to ISIS and al-Qaida jihadis.

BREAKING NEWS - A Michigan parent is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take her case after a local school board reported her to the U.S. Department of Justice for speaking up for her child's education in public meetings.

Hernden, a police officer and mother of a special-needs child whose grades dropped during remote learning, opposed the policy as well as certain curriculum choices.  - AnnMarie Pariseau

• The day after, Hernden emailed board members about a recent 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals case striking down school board limits on speech and implied she would sue if the board restricted her speech. 
• The Board President construed this email as a physical threat and submitted this email to the DOJ’s tip portal and asked the department to “curb this behavior.”...

SHOCKING: Bondi survivor Vanessa Miller was separated from her three-year-old daughter and pinned down by gunfire.

but other officers—rather than returning fire themselves—held her back.
Saul Sadka@Saul_Sadka

She told @Erin_Molan that she tried to grab the gun of a critically injured officer to suppress the terrorists, but other officers—rather than returning fire themselves—held her back. 

“These police officers were hiding behind a car... I tried to grab one of their guns. Another one grabbed me and said 'no.' I hope they are hearing this. You are weak. You could have saved so many more people’s lives. They were just watching this all happen, holding me back.”