• NM_Gringo@lemmy.world
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    Maybe being a bag of dicks to the rest of the world wasn’t such a great idea.

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    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.

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      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

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        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.

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          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.

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            I can’t believe Russia 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 criminal barons more and more, how soon before Trump starts another war to justify why he needs to remain in power

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      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

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      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

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca
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    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.

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    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.

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    I’m trying to use as few american products as I can. It is nit easy as they have infected everyday life too much.

    Not buying Nestlé is much simpler

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    “Put our booze back on your shelves! Also we don’t care and we don’t need you.”

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    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.

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      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.

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        Give it a gew years and we can maybe start repealing that legislation. No NAFTA? No more preferred trademarks.

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        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

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          Heres the legal requirements:

          • 51+% corn

          • Aged in new, charred oak barrels

          • Produced in the U.S.

          • And then the generic proof ones.

          So no, not every corn whisky is a Bourbon, although they may taste the same.

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          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.

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      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

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    Who could have foreseen this?

    Oh, wait, we all could I’m sorry I have stroke nice doggy

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    Canada’s boycott of U.S. wines ‘causing devastating harm,’

    That’s the point, dumbass.

    If you want it to stop, talk to the clown in the white house.

    This boycott wouldn’t be happening if he didn’t decide to threaten, insult and attack Canada.

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    false. the US administration is on record saying they don’t need us.

    do you doubt dear leader?

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    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.

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    I’m a Californian and support the boycott. But the majority of comments in here are misguided.

    This is like commenting on an article you haven’t read about the First Minister of Scotland saying how negative Brexit is for Scotland, and responding “You shouldn’t have voted Brexit then, dumbass!”

    No shit. Probably why they didn’t overwhelmingly.

    Also kinda like how California has consistently, overwhelmingly, voted against Trump, and is one of the most oppositional states in the country against his fascist regime.