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BlueWavePsych

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7. Breakfast table battle: Brazil and Bolsonaro, America and Trump, and the squeezing of Florida
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:36 AM
Sep 22
Now a domineering president has unilaterally put a new tariff on coffee as well as other vital imports in an effort to protect and defend a fellow insurrectionist and would-be dictator against his own people’s justice and democracy.

One of the key complaints against King George III in the Declaration of Independence was that he was “cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world” and imposing taxes without the peoples’ consent.

Perhaps it’s time for another protest against an unfair, unrepresentative and damaging tariff imposed by fiat, for, as the Declaration of Independence put it: “A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” Just remember that as you drink your next morning orange juice and down your breakfast cup of coffee.

Dictators don’t pay their bills.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9/19/2344461/-Breakfast-table-battle-Brazil-and-Bolsonaro-America-and-Trump-and-the-squeezing-of-Florida

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