I’m not sure what you’re asking. If you’re referring to softwood lumber the profits of Canadian lumber companies were at record levels because the US needs Canadian softwood lumber with or without tarrifs. The tarrifs didn’t affect sales at all so with the increased demand despite the tarrifs Canadian companies didn’t suffer at all. US consumers spent more and the money went to the US government which presumably gave some of the money to uncompetitive US softwood lumber companies to subsides their unprofitable operations. It’s a tax on US consumers.

Canadian softwood lumber companies pay a stumpage fee to sustainably harvest softwood on public land. US softwood lumber companies pay much higher prices to harvest lumber mostly on private land. It’s all about extracting the highest profit for the most wealthy people. Canada has a better system and the US is salty about it. The US has lost at the WTO every time but refuses to accept the result so it ignores its treaty obligations and just forges ahead with the illegal tarrifs which hurt US consumers.

Everyone needs a lesson in how tarrifs work. Tarrifs are a tax on thing that US companies buy. They are intended to make foreign products more expensive to protect domestic producers. So, the American company pays the tariff. They then pass that tariff on to their customer, either another company or an American consumer. Then, the country that the tariff had been applied to applies offsetting tarrifs on American goods.

When the product that the tariff is applied to can’t be produced in the US, think advanced microchips or Canadian softwood lumber, Americans pay more but still have to buy the foreign product. With the softwood lumber tarrifs the cost of building a home with Canadian softwood lumber went up by tens of thousands of dollars and Canadian companies laughed all the way to the bank. American consumers paid more and Canadian companies made record profits because the US can’t produce enough softwood lumber to meet its needs.

So, the price to American companies and consumers goes up and the cost of American goods overseas goes up. Americans pay the tarrifs and American companies sell less goods overseas.

America loses.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62828684/donald-trump-elected-2024/

“Donald J. Trump is the chosen president-elect of the United States in every possible way you can be, a winner in the popular vote and a winner in that marble mausoleum called the Electoral College. The asterisk is not coming back, because this time I am absolutely sure that a majority of my fellow citizens will get exactly what they want. They will get pardons for the January 6 insurrectionists and an end to any federal prosecution of the incoming president, now and forever. They will get attacks on the free press and on political dissent that they have been slavering for. They will get validation for their rage, and an outlet for their promised vengeance, beyond their wildest fantasies. They will get the chaos for which they voted, and which they apparently fervently desire. And there is absolutely nothing that God, man, or the Constitution can do about it, because we did it to ourselves.”

More that 70 million of you a solid majority of the popular vote, just elected a useful idiot fascist dictator wannabe laying the groundwork for a christofascist dictatorship.

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I had a traveling farm hand from France who had never been trick or treating. She was 34. She was super excited to go so we took her when we took our kids out. At each house I said, “She’s 34 and from France and has never been trick or treating.” She got a bunch of candy and was very pleased.

Trumpists would label them illegal intellectual elitists and hate them.

Amazing! Japan?

Sounds amazing!

Yum! Homemade salsa is the best.

Thanks!

It makes a great breakfast. I like to shallow fry my chicken in a mixture of half butter and half vegetable oil then bake it in the oven.

Sounds delicious!

Ducking autocucumber!

Nice. I sometimes throw crumbled hash browns in a bowl with bacon or sausage and throw some cheese and a couple of fried eggs on top. It’s not fancy but it fills a hole.

Nice.

Ma(p)le syrup makes everything better.

I had a silly breakfast this morning. I had leftover chicken parmigiana from Fratelli at Kanata Centrum in Ottawa.

I do a thing I call a farmer’s bowl. I pan fry potatoes with onions and green peppers then put them in the bottom of a bowl. I add crumbled bacon or sausage, cheddar cheese and green onion, then top everything with one or two fried eggs with soft yolks so that the yolk runs down into the potatoes.

This morning I had left over chicken parmigiana from Fratelli at Kanata Centrum in Ottawa.

Most definitely. I do a thing where I put potatoes with peppers and onions in the bottom of a bowl, add bacon or sausage, then cheese and green onions, and top the whole thing with a fried egg. I call it a farmer’s bowl.