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  • Re: Swan Eaters: Rasputin Was A Jerk

    From The Horny Goat@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Jul 10 03:11:16 2025
    On Thu, 01 May 2025 08:43:37 -0700, Paul S Person
    <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

    The difference between tariffs imposed by /sane/ persons, and those
    imposed by Trump, no doubt.

    Or maybe it's just that Trump's seem to jump around a bit, making it
    hard to keep up.

    I understand that back in the days of the Founding Fathers America
    financed itself almost entirely by tariffs and other direct taxes.

    That said just because they did things that way in the first 100 years
    of America shouldn't mean we should do things that way now. That
    WASN'T what made America great so shouldn't be part of making America
    great again even if that was more than just a campaign slogan.

    Somehow I don't think America is read for v2 of the Boston Tea Party
    though...

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  • From Paul S Person@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Jul 11 01:41:01 2025
    On Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:11:16 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
    wrote:

    On Thu, 01 May 2025 08:43:37 -0700, Paul S Person ><psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

    The difference between tariffs imposed by /sane/ persons, and those
    imposed by Trump, no doubt.

    Or maybe it's just that Trump's seem to jump around a bit, making it
    hard to keep up.

    I understand that back in the days of the Founding Fathers America
    financed itself almost entirely by tariffs and other direct taxes.

    That said just because they did things that way in the first 100 years
    of America shouldn't mean we should do things that way now. That
    WASN'T what made America great so shouldn't be part of making America
    great again even if that was more than just a campaign slogan.

    Somehow I don't think America is read for v2 of the Boston Tea Party >though...

    Not yet.

    But give Trump time.
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    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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