cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49310400
Alabama Republican voters and politicians meanwhile:
false. the US administration is on record saying they don’t need us.
do you doubt dear leader?
California senators don’t get to tell me what to buy. Framing it as a “boycott” is just wrong, at least where I live. We have American booze on the shelves. I just don’t want to buy American garbage anymore so I’m not doing it.
Trump gained 2.2 billion dollars in wealth since taking office.
Him reading about this news from California is making his week so much brighter. You folks cheering - you should drop by the white house!
Lemmy continues to be so empty headed on certain topics… So eager for those rare wins that you’re willing to snatch them from your allies.
It’s very American, I must admit.
Oh no, the boycott we initiated with the explicit intention of causing DEVASTATING HARM is causing devastating harm. Fie on intended consequences!!!
I won’t be buying a hovercraft either, so let them say I’m “causing devastating harm” to the hovercraft industry.
Good. Boycotts work. If any of you Americans out there are wondering how you can fight…boycotts work.
My neighbourhood grocery store and liquor store have both decided to stop stocking US goods.
I don’t miss anything. As a Canadian, this is more important to me.
Not only will I not buy us booze if back on the shelves but I actively avoid buying any american products if possible and I will never travel there again in my life time. Fuck the pedophile and all who support him and the others who are full of apathy and avarice and sit idly by.
Good, that’s the point.
Fuck Gretzky wines in particular.
part of me wants to go to Brantford and accidentally bump into all the Gretzky wines at the LCBO
Maybe being a bag of dicks to the rest of the world wasn’t such a great idea.
“Put our booze back on your shelves! Also we don’t care and we don’t need you.”
This like all the other trade that is disappearing to the EU is going to become a permanent change. Prior allies now view the US as an enemy and aggressor and are forming alternative routes of trade. This will not be returning just because the president is changed in the future. The relationship is over.
Yeah that’s what I think as well, because Trump is just a symptom of a larger issue, he represents a large percentage of americans, especially amonght the rich, he did not get to this position without the backing of these greedy fascist pigs who know they can use him to make a lot of profit at the expense of the common people, even when he’s gone, these foreign nations still have to deal with these greedy sociopaths and their meddling in foreign affairs, not to mention the dumb voting public who might just back another little Nazi who makes them feel good about themselves
I was thinking the other day how funny it is that the Untied States has had such wide influence that multiple IPs from other countries got movies made in America (Harry Potter, Smurfs, LEGO, The Handmaid’sTale). Now that Trump has ruined America’s relationship with the rest of the world, I wonder if we’ll see less of that
I can only hope that the US snaps back hard managing to show the world that there are still good people here…maybe after civil war 2 electric boogaloo
Unless there is a Nuremberg style trial for the current administration, I don’t know how America can gain back it’s trust.
Even if Americans elect a president that is super helpful/generous to allies, there is always the chance that they elect another Trump in the following election who basically has almost free reign to do anything they want with no consequences.
The constitution that Americans beat over everyone’s heads has been revealed to be republican toilet paper.
Yeah, Trump has exposed how broken the American system is. He’s exposed American as completely incapable, or unwilling, of preventing a criminal enterprise from running the country into the ground.
I can’t believe Russio somehow won the cold war after all this time, for all the red scare anti communist shit this country went through, they now resemble Russian style oligarchy run by criminals more and more, how soon before Trump starts another war to justify why he needs to remain in power
I feel bad for Americans who didn’t have much choice in Trump being elected. However that is tempered by the fact that they are not inudating their congressmen and senators to get rid of Trump. They are timidly waiting for the next set of elections hoping that will change things although Trump has already meddled enough that even a landslide vote against him may not change a single thing. Write, email, text and phone your elected officials and tell them to get rid of him.
Yes feel bad for us by helping us get rid of the chomo-in-chief by boycotting us. Yes we write our Congress and go to protests but they don’t care unless it affects their bottom line.
One of the things that bother me most is people clinging to the assumption that this will be over after the election. I can’t wait til November when either they’re proven wrong or I am, either way I guess something will change whether that be for better or for worse
Yeah, I made some phone calls too, but I haven’t gotten a response back yet
I’m from Maine and took a road trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia recently. I stopped in a licquor store (the LC) and jokingly asked the cashiers where the bourbon was. They got a good chuckle out of that one.
Rideau Whiskey may not say it’s Bourbon on the bottle, but there’s bourbon in the bottle. Because of some dumb laws you can’t call it bourbon unless it’s made a certain region in the US, sort of like champagne. So we actually do have bourbon, even if it’s not called that.
It’s kind of like how sparking wine must come from the Champagne region of France to be termed Champagne.
Bourbon is just a naming convention for corn whiskey. I’m just finding out based on your post that Rideau Whiskey is in my neck of the woods, and I will have to try it! BRBN from Okanagan Spirits has been our recent treat - my husband really loves bourbon and this has hit the mark
Oof, it’s $60 now, it was $40 when I bought a couple of bottles of it. It’s kinda weird because I can’t find it on the LCBO site, I had to order it online.
I like it better than Wild Turkey or Maker’s. Not sure if I’d consider it to be high end tho.
Clan Colla (from Ireland tho, not Canada) is really good, better than Booker’s (which used to be my favourite) IMO. But that’s super hard to get, I happened to pick up a bottle of it at the Dublin airport and now in my circle we consider it to be the best. Which is kind of a problem since it’s so hard to get.
Heres the legal requirements:
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51+% corn
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Aged in new, charred oak barrels
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Produced in the U.S.
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And then the generic proof ones.
So no, not every corn whisky is a Bourbon, although they may taste the same.
Well it tastes like bourbon to me, so I don’t really what it’s called :P
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Give it a gew years and we can maybe start repealing that legislation. No NAFTA? No more preferred trademarks.
It’s fine stuff but if money is no object I’d rather have actual whiskey (with an ‘e’) anyway.
Too bad you didn’t take the opportunity to drink some Legendario, my favourite (so far) Cuban rum. Had my buddy in Nova Scotia bring me some a few months ago when he was coming out. Wish they sold it it my area but sadly they do not. Happily however I have friends
Who could have foreseen this?
Oh, wait, we all could I’m sorry I have stroke nice doggy
And we all foresee things getting worse, yet it’s still being allowed to happen
Canada did not cause anything…the usa did.
