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Canada and the U.S. have since agreed to launch formal discussions to review their trade agreement
I don't think that's gonna make a difference anymore. Reverting the 2025 decisions will not revert things. The sentiment has changed among the common people.
It’s abuser logic. “If I stop hitting you, we’re cool. There’s no problem, anymore. That is until I decide to hit you again.”
That doesn’t work on everyone and eventually someone will hit back harder or gang up and take them down. Unfortunately, people let them get away with it for too long.
Trying that shit on Canada of all people was the dumbest shit imaginable.
Ah, you've met the average MAGAt I see.
Yeah, but try explaining to an abusive narcissist that... they have to actually show a real dedication to changing themselves, and making things right.
You basically can't, because the idea that they could be flawed or mistaken in a fundamental way... well, that's basically incomprehensible to them, beyond being some kind of insult toward them.
Yup. It's something that won't be fixed for decades. Trump has seriously damaged the ability for the US to do international trade.
... also the price of things.
Corporations especially grocers just got a big chance to raise prices .... even if the tariffs go away, none of them will bring the prices down again. They'll just pocket the difference and let everyone pay the new high prices which will stay in place.
The funniest thing is that 'all American' Jim Beam is owned by Suntory, a Japanese company.
Even 7Eleven and Firestone are Japanese companies. Americans can’t run shit.
Way back in 1981, Ronald Reagan looked upon post-Vietnam America and saw too options. One was to tax the rich heavily, institute massive government controls on energy production, and push a renewal of America's aging heavy industries. The other was to cut taxes for the upper classes and encourage wild speculation.
You say that like Reagan had some grand economic plan. He was an idiotic actor very similar to Trump. It's true that tons of terrible policies can be traced back to his presidency but he wasn't the mastermind of much of it in the same way that Trump doesn't have a coherent plan now. They are both good examples of dumb, self serving outsiders being given too much power and listening to the wrong people.
I occasionally travel with two people for work that love bourbon, but hate Jim Bean and call it garbage. Knowing now that it is owned by a Japanese company combined with their current understanding of blaming Biden for the current economy, really puts it together as to why they hate Jim Bean.
These are also the same people that ask me how it's like living two hours from the war torn and destroyed area known as Portland.
Eh, Jim Beam is generally considered cheaper, kinda bottom-shelf stuff these days. Fine for a bourbon and coke, but not really intended to be sipped neat. I wouldn't really be surprised by a bourbon-lover turning their nose up at it, regardless of who owns the brand.
It could just be they don't like drinking shitty bourbon. Jim Beam is... not great.
Jim beam was in the “cheap rotgut” category for ages. They only fairly recently started trying to make decent stuff again, regardless of ownership.
As to your colleagues… people can dislike mediocre whiskey and still be assholes.
These are also the same people that ask me how it’s like living two hours from the war torn and destroyed area known as Portland.
Propaganda is a helluva drug, that's for sure.
Cue the "I didn't vote for this" gomers...
"But I'd vote for him again"
Well they’ll gladly vote for whoever has the “R” next to their name, no matter what. That is if there ever are elections again.
Just what they voted for!
Woot! A year* long vacation! /s
* Assuming things don't get even worse (which is a generous assumption)
Only a year? Let's make it permanent Canada. Elbows up.
Not just Canada. I haven't bought bourbon since last year here in the U.S... which was my go-to drink of choice.
No mention of the annexation threats and "51st state" rhetoric coming from the Trump administration, which I suspect is a bigger driver of the boycott than economic disputes.
They never mention the real reason. They talk about tariffs but never that he literally threatened to annex us economically multiple times.
The two are very much related. We're just in a special category with Denmark and perhaps Venezuela. But I recall him specifically saying we wouldn't be able to survive the tariffs he was imposing. I will continue to do what I can to keep my money from going to America.
Would it be that hard to show numbers on how much us consumption is down, and how much exports are down for this company?
News be trash.
Very happy that Canadians had a hand in helping this happen.
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I guess Kentucky is getting everything they voted for. I’m happy for them.
You voted for this!
Bon Appetit leopards 🐆
I love whiskey, but fuck Kentucky. It would take a lot for the morons there to figure out Trump and republicans in general are not helping them. They did elect a Democrat governor at least, so that’s a good sign.
Anecdotal report from my area, but a retail worker I spoke with who works 2 jobs at a dollar gen and Walmart said this is the slowest holiday year they've seen since the pandemic.
Canadians, why were you drinking so much Jim Beam? Didn't you have a minimum quality level you'd accept? There were better Canadian options available in the US, why would you settle for that swill?
"We will continue to distill at our [Freddie Booker Noe] craft distillery in Clermont and at our larger Booker Noe distillery in Boston, we plan to pause distillation at our main distillery on the James B. Beam campus for 2026 while we take the opportunity to invest in site enhancements.”
They're going to keep making the craft bourbon, and I suspect they could coast for a decade on the barrels they have in rack houses. Bourbon doesn't really go bad.
This seems to part of "making America great" (again).
Jesus. So not only is trump directly hurting the American economy, he's destroying actual American culture. I would say this event just makes trump's literal destruction of the Whitehouse even more of an apt analogy of his relationship with America as a whole, but anything more than 100% is just excessive.
So I know that Jim Beam is an entry level bourbon, and I know the story here is more about the tariffs and the relationship between the US and the rest of the world...
But genuine question: will 2027 Jim Beam be super good because it's aged an extra year?
On one hand, fuck the government of Kentucky and the people who voted for this. On the other my heartfelt sympathy for people who fought against this bullshit and are suffering.
Danm, what a pain it will be to bring up that still in a year. Also have to take down and clean all their vats. Remind me not to buy any jim beam made in 2027.
At least maintenance will get free reign for once.
With any luck they will sell and rebrand, beam is a dead brand.
