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Alabama Republican voters and politicians meanwhile:
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
Good.
A lot of the wines are out of California. Both the state as a whole and the wine-producing regions in it tend to not be too keen on Trump.
searches
https://wineamerica.org/policy/by-the-numbers/
California makes 85% of all US wine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_Country
Wine Country is a region of California, in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, known worldwide as a premier wine-growing region.[1]
There are over 1,700 wineries in the North Bay, mostly located in the area's valleys, including Napa Valley in Napa County, and the Sonoma Valley,
Sonoma County voters, with 52% of votes counted as of Friday morning, firmly supported Harris with 72% of the vote, compared to 25% for Trump.
In Napa County, which had counted 32% of votes, Harris had 64%, compared to Trump’s 33%.
Did you miss the part where we Canadians genuinely do not care?
Who do you think makes up that 33%?
Do you think it's the normal people, or the obscenely wealthy vineyard owners? Take a wild guess.
IDGAF rein in your boy Yankee scum
Cry more :)
In either of those counties the minority percentages are the wealthy land owners who put huge Trump signs along the fences of their vinyards and orchards. They're also the ones who hire the undocumented workers every season, but that's a whole other discussion.
I'm well aware. Wasn't my point.
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.
"Put our booze back on your shelves! Also we don't care and we don't need you."
Aw, are Americans sad that they're being collectively judged and punished as an indistinct collective group?
... first time?
Maybe we should actually get our own house in order?
Just, you know, that?
That first?
No whining, no conditional explanations of layers and degrees of ... nah, just... actually geting our shit together?
Actually taking some accountability?
Good, that’s the point.
Fuck Gretzky wines in particular.
Maybe being a bag of dicks to the rest of the world wasn't such a great idea.
It's not California being a dick. But the boycott is justified all the same.
I live in wine country. Anyone who owns a winery is a capitalist douchebag, full fuckin stop. Feel no sympathy for them in your decision making. Boycott the cunts into the fucking ground.
I mean for the rest of the world noone cares what individual states think and do. The president and his administration represent the American people.
Californian here, and I would agree that CA isn’t really the problem that, say, Kentucky is and that’s why the bourbon boycott is effective. But, hurt CA and you’re hurting the US, so I support that. And the elephant in the room is that are more Republicans in CA than any other state, and I’d wager a high percentage of winery owners skew Republican.
It’s a shame, but the boycott is warranted. I just hope that when we get back to sane times, other countries remember that California largely tries to do the right thing. The way you look at the US, us Californians look at the rest of the US the same way.
Right, because the trouble is that boycotts become meaningless when you start trying to justify buying from certain states (no state is homogenous) or by C-suite political support (also not homogenous). At the end of the day, the tax money all funds a government that threatens Canada with economic warfare and annexation. I hope US businesses run by good people do well, but right now it has to be Americans themselves who support them.
You seem to be under the impression that I do not support Canadas boycott. I do. Re-read my comment.
Yeah all those winery owners are rich conservatives
CA isn’t really the problem that, say, Kentucky is
Reactionaries in California outnumber reactionaries in Kentucky 10:1
And sane people outnumber "reactionaries"/republicans. Your point?
You're willfully ignorant if you think the average California voter does more harm than the harmful Kentucky voter. See Mitch McConnell. Credit where due, however, their governor is pretty good.
All of that isn't to say I object to the boycott. I most certainly do not.
It’s not California being a dick.
California is flush with right wing reactionaries and techno-fascist shitheads.
Can’t really selectively target a nations dipshits so unfortunately you all get punished for not stopping it
It's not a la carte dicks of America. It's United States of America. At a certain geopolitical level there is no good vs evil. Just politicians vs politicians.
This is why having normal human beings in the driver's seat is important and not just entertainment.
California, home to the most evil and powerful companies in the world. Lmao.
Well it's not Mr. Peterson from Wyoming either. But we can't individualize how we treat USA. USA is making threats and has started a trade war, so we have to respond to USA as a whole. Both Canada and EU.
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.
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.
Most of the good people that don't just flee would be dead after a Civil War 2, leaving only proficient killers and crooks, or just cowards who keep their noses down. Large swathes of the country would be, for decades at least, one of "those places" that you never travel to and hear tales of barbarism from every now and then. Civil war would be a degradation, not a redemption arc.
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.
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
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.
Give it a gew years and we can maybe start repealing that legislation. No NAFTA? No more preferred trademarks.
Who could have foreseen this?
Oh, wait, we all could I'm sorry I have stroke nice doggy
Canada did not cause anything..the usa did.
Oh, nice glad it's working! ps fuck you
Australia has far, far better wine, just saying :)
