RE: Odds and Ends — 25 July 2026
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Haha fantastic cover image! Looks like someone attempted unsuccessfully to remove it and it might have been applied twice!
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/198m3VanvL/?mibextid=wwXIfr shitty corporate social media but an intelligent message from a Canadian perspective.
I never understood the lies and confusion around tariffs. When they are not surgically applied, they have proven to be disastrous economically for both sides. How goddamn stupid are people to believe they are a tax on importers and not just a grift/punishment of the businesses and people in the country applying the tariffs?! Load up the governmental coffer on the backs of their own people, then NOT use that money to serve the people, protect the environment or promote peace that is felt at home?
I am certainly hoping my American friends can endure this crumbling of all that was beautiful about the country, people, system and ideals.
“No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.” — H.L. Mencken