Buchman: No, we ruined all that tea because it wasn't being taxed.

Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable

Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about

As a British person I kind of thought that was the whole point of the affair from 1776 onwards. You all made a whole big thing about it.

IKR. "What did the founders think about being ruled by kings" is one of those things you can answer really easily by reading a history book, lol.

Did you ruin all that tea for nothing?

No, we ruined all that tea because it wasn't being taxed.

I think my key point is that you shouldn’t ruin tea.

No.

They didn’t ruin it, they just tried to make a big batch of cold brew but it didn’t work out.

Salted and seaweed-infused!

Spirulina.

TIL! Yes, and whatever else might be hanging about in the harbour. I feel like there's room for a whole range of Healthy™ drinks riffing on cold, salty tea and marine stuff.

And rusty grocery carts.😉

Too much water, too much salt. If you’d have kept a couple of friendly* Brits around, they’d have let you know. *not an era we were renowned for friendliness, I know. A bit like all the other eras.

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