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Jim Beam shutting down bourbon production at Kentucky distillery for a year as Trump’s trade wars hit sales
(www.independent.co.uk)
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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.
Trying to shit on the entire world was the dumbest shit imaginable.
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.
That does seem to be the logic of even people on the left of American politics.
They seem to think that voting for democrats will change anything. Nah, they need to fix their damn stupid political system before anyone will trust them again. Except of course they won't because of a 250-year-old document who's authors would be amazed to find has become almost religious dogma.
Yup. It's something that won't be fixed for decades. Trump has seriously damaged the ability for the US to do international trade.
He went way beyond just trade affairs.
So far Canadians have been smart enough to hold the line. Don't bend and don't believe the liars in charge of the US. This administration would gladly invade anyone and subjugate them.
Never 51. Elbows Up, Canada. It's time to line brawl on the ice.
Canada has got this. They have shifted to trade with more stable countries and had ramped up local distilleries. They are not being mean but rather strategic.
Canadian products are generally superior quality anyways
That I can definitely agree with. US manufacturing is so crippled by capitalism that the results are squeezed into barely functional pieces of shit. Efficiency for the shareholders is king.
I'm always glad to see when someone like Canada has some pride in their products and not just making the shittiest thing that'll still sell.
What Canadian products?
Can't speak for manufactured products but our food quality is typically on the better side due largely to higher standards and regulations.
https://impact.economist.com/sustainability/project/food-security-index/
not enough to not go to disney though.
Even if I thought like that, there are other Disney parks in other parts of the world where they don't arrest you for trying to enter legally.
Why the fuck would anyone go to a Disney park at the best of times?
... 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.
what they did during/after covid was shrinkflation/cheapflationed thier products. it was very noticeable in consumables like toileteries/laundry, toothpaste, etc.
plus canada can just choose other countries alcohol menu instead.
Canadian here. I don't think trade discussions will improve much about the booze sales when the leader/rapist/businessman ruling america with an iron fist waves his pecker in our face and tells us how much he wants to own us. Bathtub gin is my drink of choice now. Who needs quality when you have freedom?
The common people have the memories of goldfish and will go back to throwing billions across the border.