{"id":30127,"date":"2025-07-07T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30127"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:16:05","slug":"a-tariff-tale-of-the-smuggler-the-snitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30127","title":{"rendered":"A Tariff Tale&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-79b0c41079442e9fe8afe8d9a812d6ac\" style=\"color:#d00e04\"><strong>Updated from June 20,2018 CP post<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-19595584cf36587357c03ebe0830d723\"><strong><em>The less discerning of you might consider this post rather silly ; however, it must be noted that the tale it recounts was a harbinger of The Donald&#8217;s infatuation with tariffs related to the Great Dominion !<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-c630c497bc717d6e72efcd15c5a21e20\"><strong>A Tariff Tale of the Smuggler &amp; The Snitch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1ea606391979bf86ccbfed30b8dc107f\" style=\"color:#0267aa\">\u201cThere was a story two days ago in a major newspaper talking about people living in Canada coming into the United States and smuggling things back into Canada because the <strong>tariffs <\/strong>are so massive.\u00a0The <strong>tariffs<\/strong> to get common items back into Canada are so high that they have to smuggle &#8217;em in. They buy shoes and they wear them,&#8221; he said. They scuff &#8217;em up, they make &#8217;em sound old or look old. No, we&#8217;re treated horribly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-bright-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1abc5c3339db3690c665e5e36ea2bce7\"><strong><em>From DJT  remarks of June 19.2018:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/pre-scuffed-shoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/pre-scuffed-shoes.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/pre-scuffed-shoes-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/pre-scuffed-shoes-768x544.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Donald the Snitch, just blew the whistle on Court Painter\u2019s secret side hustle\u2014smuggling freshly purchased varieties of brand spanking new&nbsp;<em>shoes<\/em>&nbsp;of all kinds in Sweetgrass Montana,which before loading in his conveyances he &#8220;pre scuffed&#8217; real good to assure an undetected smooth passage through the Coutts Alberta customs .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thanks to Donald the <em>Snitch<\/em>, Court Painter the <em>Smuggler<\/em> is now out of the shoe business,shoeless and barefoot back in the studio!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/horseshoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/horseshoes.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/horseshoes-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/horseshoes-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/shoetrees.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/shoetrees.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/shoetrees-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/shoetrees-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Snowshoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Snowshoes.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Snowshoes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Snowshoes-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/break-shoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/break-shoes.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/break-shoes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/break-shoes-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Court Painter seen at the height of his tariff avoiding petty criminal career!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated from June 20,2018 CP post The less discerning of you might consider this post rather silly ; however, it must be noted that the tale it recounts was a harbinger of The Donald&#8217;s infatuation with tariffs related to the Great Dominion ! A Tariff Tale of the Smuggler &amp; The Snitch \u201cThere was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30127\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Tariff Tale&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30127"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30145,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30127\/revisions\/30145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}