cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49310400
Alabama Republican voters and politicians meanwhile:
Maybe being a bag of dicks to the rest of the world wasn’t such a great idea.
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.
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
lol, still won’t be true after a civil war
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
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.
Good.
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?
No, we desperately need the whole world to boycott us to save us from the orange chomo-in-chief
we desperately need the whole world to boycott us to save us from the orange chomo-in-chief
The rest of the world will do what we can to protect ourselves from your country’s government, but it’s up to American citizens to do the hard work of fixing their own damn country.
And I’m telling you we’re losing, dont hold your breath for us
Americans sad that they’re being collectively judged and punished
We’re not being collectively judged and punished. Some number of American wine distributors are seeing a decline in their Canadian portfolios.
Why would the rest of us give a shit? That’s their problem, not ours.
Americans sad that they’re being collectively judged and punished
We’re not […]
Nah you guys definitely are being judged
Everyone’s being judged.
I’m still judging you guys for inviting a real actual living 1930s fascist to your Parliament to applaud his work.
I mean, it was obviously a mistake but fair to judge even if it’s on a completely different scale to half your country eagerly electing a modern day pedophilic fascist a SECOND time who has proceeded to fuck over most of the world and repeatedly threatened to annex my country.
You could have mentioned Canada’s treatment of indigenous peoples and the residential schools that went on as late as the 1990s which would have also been a fair thing to judge (I judge it too) but I’m still going to judge the USA harshly for enthusiastically electing a shit starting demented pedo nazi
I’m not judging every American individually, some did try hard to prevent this mess, but I am judging America collectively for allowing this to happen. I’m sick of being told the vast majority were against Trump. If the VAST majority are against him, he’d have lost the election by a landslide. I don’t understand the weird political inertia in America that guarantees every major candidate roughly half the votes no matter what. And fuck those who say that a lot of Americans didn’t vote, as though that exonerates them. Choosing not to vote means they didn’t give a fuck if fascists took over.
And fuck those who say that a lot of Americans didn’t vote, as though that exonerates them.
The US disenfranchises voters with a variety of techniques. One of those techniques is to foster guarantee popular candidates aren’t afforded a place on the general election ballot.
If you’ve got nobody to vote for, I can’t blame you for not voting. Demanding people participate in a ritualized farce of democracy when the race is uncontested is pure foolishness.
If you’ve got nobody to vote for, I can’t blame you for not voting
Not letting them off the hook that easily.
They could still vote against an obviously horrible candidate.
Not letting them off the hook that easily.
It’s not your hook. They’re dealing with their fascists. You’re dealing with yours.
When Canada stops putting members of the Ford family in elected offices and clapping for real literal 1930s Nazis, they can tell the Americans about how to do democracy correctly.
They could still vote against an obviously horrible candidate.
That’s not how elections work. The seat doesn’t sit vacant because enough people vote “I don’t like you” to the winning candidate.
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
Do the full tour, beat a spouse and drive a RAM1500 drunk.
yeah, that’s shit.
“Put our booze back on your shelves! Also we don’t care and we don’t need you.”
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.
Give it a gew years and we can maybe start repealing that legislation. No NAFTA? No more preferred trademarks.
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:
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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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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.
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’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.
false. the US administration is on record saying they don’t need us.
do you doubt dear leader?
Canada did not cause anything…the usa did.
Then stop being a shitstain of a country
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.
Framing it as a “boycott” is just wrong, at least where I live
I avoid most US chains and import foods simply because they’re junk, so I know what you mean, but that doesn’t negate the boycott movement of people who were regularly buying US products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025-2026_Canadian_boycott_of_the_United_States
Boycott - To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.
For me those last words, “as an expression of protest” are important. For me there’s no protest and thus no boycott. The upset caused me to try Canadian products. I like them better.
Yes, we know you are not boycotting.
Some other people are boycotting.
