{"id":136733,"date":"2018-06-12T19:10:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136733"},"modified":"2018-06-12T19:10:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:10:38","slug":"history-repeats-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/12\/history-repeats-itself.html","title":{"rendered":"History repeats itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fun fact: In 1971 Richard Nixon triggered a trade dispute with Canada. He called the Canadian PM an &quot;asshole&quot; and a &quot;son of a bitch&quot;. The Canadian said &quot;I have been called worse things by better men&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>That Canadian PM was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JustinTrudeau<\/a>&#39;s dad. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/g7?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#g7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Bevan \ud83c\udf99 (@MatthewBevan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewBevan\/status\/1005928064017055745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>RT @MatthewBevan: Fun fact: In 1971 Richard Nixon triggered a trade dispute with Canada. He called the Canadian PM an &#8220;asshole&#8221; and a &#8220;son\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun fact: In 1971 Richard Nixon triggered a trade dispute with Canada. He called the Canadian PM an &quot;asshole&quot; and a &quot;son of a bitch&quot;. The Canadian said &quot;I have been called worse things by better men&quot;. That Canadian PM was @JustinTrudeau&#39;s dad. #g7 &mdash; Matt Bevan \ud83c\udf99 (@MatthewBevan) June 10, 2018 RT @MatthewBevan: Fun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/12\/history-repeats-itself.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;History repeats itself&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,77,10,1071],"tags":[1659,723,1664,1077],"class_list":["post-136733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","category-economy","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-trump","tag-canada","tag-nt","tag-tradewar","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136666,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/02\/asymmetrical-trade-warfare.html","url_meta":{"origin":136733,"position":0},"title":"Asymmetrical Trade Warfare","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-Jun-18 5:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This article has an element of genius about it. 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