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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.
They have some very premium brands as well, that definitely deserve praise: hardin's creek, little book especially.
Anything labeled Jim beam is swill to meh (except Lineage, but you'll never see that on a shelf). The old grandad (bonded or 114) line is bang/buck.
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.
Japan has a greater appreciation for American things like jazz and bourbon than Americans do
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.
I was a bourbon fan when I drank. Been 5 or 6 years though. Glad I don’t support that industry anymore. Fuck ‘em.
You voted for this!
Bon Appetit leopards 🐆
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?
There’s Canadian bourbon options?!
Like, the liquor with that flavour profile. I know nobody else is “allowed” to call it bourbon.
https://whiskycompass.ca/bourbon-lovers-in-canada-face-a-dilemma-but-theres-hope-in-canadian-whisky/
Doesn't matter if it's called bourbon specifically or not honestly, as long as its made similarly.
I've tried several of these and have to wonder how the author came up with these suggestions, because they're very different than their American "counterparts" on this list. With that said, I've been doing my part and haven't bought a single bottle of anything from the US since this started. i do miss bourbon - it's my favourite liquor - but I've gotten to try a bunch of nice ryes and other whiskys, irish ones in particular.
Edit: that article actually looks like ChatGPT content, which explains why it's so bad and inaccurate.
As a Canadian, I've been disappointed in our alcohol choices since Budweisser broke into the market in the late 1970's. Today, Coors Light, Bud Light, and Busch are the most common.
As for liquor, bourbon became big in the 2000's, but it doesn't dominate.
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.
A couple years ago I worked the holiday season at a JC Penney, and worked Black Friday.
It was damn near dead. Like maybe no more than 15 people shopping at the busiest time of the night. It was bullshit. And this was like 2018.
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.
"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.
It takes 4-8 years to age it.
But it's not that big of a deal, they've had fires and lost millions of gallons multiple times.
This is at least planned, and you're probably right that they'll prioritize the higher priced items.
They'll also modernize the equipment so they need fewer workers. Who probably also voted red
No, but you can over-age it. Too long in oak changes the flavours and at some point it won't taste like your product. You can bottle it as a special edition, but whether consumers like the product or not is a toss up.
I for one will never buy American again. I hope relations can improve to the point where my children can begin to normalize what was one of the best international relationships in history.
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?
Bourbon-glazed face is the chef’s kiss
I am all in on the Canadian Club.
NOOOOO!!!
