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A DIRECT CORRELATION between the Boston Tea Party, 1773, and pissed off cattle ranchers, 2025. [View all]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
"The Boston Tea Party was a response to the Tea Act of 1773, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies and allowed it to sell tea at reduced prices whole still imposing a tax"
"The Boston Tea Party was a response to the Tea Act of 1773, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies and allowed it to sell tea at reduced prices whole still imposing a tax"
2025: Trump tells cattle ranchers the only reason they're upset is that they haven't shown him enough gratitude for his tariffs, and suggests importing Argentinian beef as the remedy for high beef prices, basically shooting all of the cattle ranchers on Fifth Avenue and getting away with it.
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