justOnePersistentKbinPlease

The seven years war is fantastic and is utterly critical to understanding the US Revolution as well as understanding how the Iroquois pulled a power move on the other first nations that worked, but later led to the current situation with first nations in North America.

On the revolution: Namely that corruption was so endemic in the colonies that when the UK actually started to do something about it the revolution happened albeit with a lot of pushing from the upper crust of the colonies.

Pity Walmart is the only game in town for mpst places because of corrupt officials.

And Stephen Harper/Pierre Poilievre won. They capitulated to the US and their base never called them on it.

Illegal as determined by all but one international trade tribunal, because it was claimed to be dumping, but the US had no proof, and Canada had proof to the contrary.

Also it was flagrantly against NAFTA.

There is one caveat to the tariffs not working.

They were fantastically effective against Canada when the US lumber lobby illegally attacked Canadian processed lumber.

The proceeds of the tariffs were funnelled back into the US companies that paid the import tariff, so the US did not suffer from the massive illegal tariffs applied, and the tariffs were not applied against the raw logs that they did want from Canada.

If you believe what Musk is saying, some of the things his “2 trillion savings” pretty much has to cut is VA, Disability benefits and Unemployment. Most of the rest of the budget is stuff that has forever been used to maintain false GOP support in poorer states.

Of course, the lion’s share of that number is that his PAC Actually Said he would stop debt payments, which would immediately lead to a world catastrophe, also would need all of Congress and Senate to roll over and play dead so that number is hopefully complete bunk.