America - The Official Thread
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UKMikey
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I won't miss American beer and already buy freetrade chocolate. Too bad PepsiCo has a near monopoly on our crisp industry though.
Not all Democrats are prepared to go gently into that good night, it seems, as Connecticut representative John B. Larson blasts the Republican chairman Jason Smith here over his party's plans to privatise social security.
Rightwing outlets and MAGA have characterised this as a childish tantrum. I suggest one listens to what Larson has to say and decides for oneself:
Not all Democrats are prepared to go gently into that good night, it seems, as Connecticut representative John B. Larson blasts the Republican chairman Jason Smith here over his party's plans to privatise social security.
Rightwing outlets and MAGA have characterised this as a childish tantrum. I suggest one listens to what Larson has to say and decides for oneself:
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You know there are options that dont require half a day worth of travel?
I mean, what exactly is American beer?
For chocole I like to like south or west for just a few kilometres.
And crisps? I was in Wales and Ireland for a few monthes and I dearly needed to import German goods to not suffer from bad taste poisoning 🤣
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That's difficult to answer. We don't really have a set style of beer in America. American Adjunct Lagers are probably the best known, but we also have unique spins on many styles. We have American Amber Ales, California Commons, New England IPAs, and Cream Ales. Yes, much of that has roots in the Old World, but beer is a complicated thing unlike some spirits that have rigid guidelines or what they can or cannot be. America grows many different hops that allow us to create beers with varying flavor profiles (Cascade, Simcoe, and Centennial are all American derived hops). I'm in Michigan, we're one of the areas with the largest craft beer presence in the country and I can pretty much get any style of beer I want and never buy from a brewery that isn't located in Michigan. Our wine industry is just as good and I will die on that hill too because Michigan makes some of the best wines. Our distillers are positively average at best though.
I know Europeans like to think all American beer is terrible, but that's only if you think we only drink stuff like Bud Light. Truthfully, every country makes some pretty terrible to average mass market beers. I've had some downright awful European beers as well as some completely average stuff. All the mass market European beers seem about on par with the mass market American beers, probably because they're almost always owned by InBev.
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Meanwhile, it seems like Trump is looking to invade Panama... again.
And Trump wants to start more trade wars.
I'd ask if eventually someone with any level of authority sees this as a problem, but the parties responsible are too corrupt to see the forest for the trees.
And Trump wants to start more trade wars.
I'd ask if eventually someone with any level of authority sees this as a problem, but the parties responsible are too corrupt to see the forest for the trees.
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Only trouble with Supermac's is their difficulty to expand beyond Ireland because of the trademark disputes with McDonald's but who knows? Maybe the EU will stop caring about US trademarks in its territory over that of its member states.
Instead, all they can see is the revenue to be made from the lumber.
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How would wasting stuff that's already paid for help? It'd be performative at best (and only then if I made a show of it, which I wouldn't).
Are you not familiar with the concept of "voting with your wallet"?
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The thing that really gets me about this is that the Panama Canal as it exists today is not the Panama Canal that the US financed and construction managed in 1914. How can the US claim to have any right to the expansion built by Panama in 2016?
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@Famine wants to drink it. He just doesn't want to buy more of it.
It's really not that difficult to figure out.
Unless you're Kid Rock.
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Policy, not products.
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Gotta look at this upside down, just like Jeebus intended.
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This chart would still be terrible in Australia.
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Guess this should be in the Europe thread (for now) but nobody reads that so:
news.sky.com
Greenland's slow independence party wins election in result seen as rejection of Trump's interference
Demokraatit secures 30% of the vote, overturning the ruling coalition's majority. It will now open talks over forming a coalition government of its own.
Erm, is it me or is joining the US the opposite of determining their own future?Sky News
Even if you ignore his economic record in his own country, where is he going to find these billions of bucks? Perhaps he can feel around between the cushions in Musk's sofa, although I'm sure his VP has been doing that already.Sky News
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I've been a JD drinker since I was 18 (🤥) but I've not bought a bottle for years - I don't need to because it's been my default birthday present from family and friends for years 😅 I got a bottle of McLaren JD for my 50th birthday and I regret opening it now, but then again, I'm not a collector! 😅
I think this is really going to hammer Kentucky bourbon manufacturers, while it probably won't hurt JD much at all - I would hazard a guess that JD outsells all other Tennessee whiskies and Kentucky bourbons overseas by a country mile, and even with tariffs slapped on, it will still sell by the barrel load. That said, I think it is all completely unnecessary and won't benefit anyone, however one has to draw the line somewhere when it comes to cutting back on expenditure!
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If there's one area that Europe is at least equally as good as the United States, whatever your personal preferences are, it's whiskey. Should US whiskeys start slumping in sales, there are plenty of European whiskeys to pick up the slack.
It's sadly pathetic that it even has to come to this.
It's sadly pathetic that it even has to come to this.
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I've been boycotting JD since Italy 2001... #NeverAgain, I still can't stand the smell of the stuff.
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Ah, the right still don't understand how boycotts work.
Pliny the Elder says otherwise.
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On one particularly revolting night out, my die hard JD drinking friend and I spent the night drinking a simple cocktail that was 1 shot of SC and 1 shot of JD mixed together. We christened it the "****ing awful", and never did it again.
Good times.
I'd be okay with with boycotting SoCo for a presidential term. I've never truly forgiven them for that 5% drop anyway.
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Absolutely.
Believe it or not, the student union at UC Irvine had this on tap when I worked there (the Uni, not the student union bar) and most of my favourite beers are west-coast Californian - Alesmith IPA and Speedway Stout being sensational. Sadly, however, 'US beer' in the UK is usually Bud, Miller, and other canoe porn.
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Budweiser is also an interesting US-Europe trademark dispute; here in central Europe Budweiser is the Budvar brewed in Czechia that has actual is from the town of České Budějovice (Ger: Budweis) unlike the American Budweiser which was simply named after the town by its owners because the town was famous for good beer and they wanted a rub of that reputation. Anheuser-Busch isn't allowed to call its beer "Budweiser" in markets where the Czech Budweiser Budvar has its rights and has to settle for "Bud" instead.
