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Jim Beam is halting whiskey production at its historic Clermont, Kentucky, facility for most of 2026 in a major pullback that shows just how badly the bourbon business has soured. The distillery, which opened in 1935, will keep bottling what it has already made and let existing barrels age, but it won’t be producing any new bourbon, marking a complete reversal for an industry that bet big on continued growth. Export sales have tanked as a result of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with Canadian purchases falling by as much as 85 percent during recent trade fights.
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Another article missing the point of the Canadian boycotts entirely.
Trump. Threatened. To. Annex. Us.
It enrages me how little American media talks about that. Even when they do mention us in these kinds of articles, they only mention that we’re mad about the tariffs and never the fucking annexation threats
The US population is so brainwashed that they don’t even consider their imperialism a bad thing
A lot of us do consider it a bad thing.
Most major media outlets in the US are owned by people who are only looking out for the billionaires.
They push lies all the time, towing the pro-Russia, pro-Israel, pro-Trump line.
America has gotten less and less educated, by design. Deregulation of media (thanks Reagan) and many other industries has just made it worse.
The problem is that what passes for the Left in the USA is an incoherent set of feuding movements that spend more time fighting each other than the actual enemy. And while the Left, for some value of “Left” that includes America under the umbrella, was busy tearing itself into ever smaller mutually hostile camps, the three major branches of the Right (libertarian-, religious-, and economic-right) quietly set aside their differences and started working on a long-term scheme to put the Right on a course to rule.
Worse education? By design.
Deregulation of media? By design.
Systematic dismantling of labour power? By design.
Over a few decades, the Right quietly, and in a relatively unified way (with minor battles along the cleave lines) put into place a substrate that favoured their anti-human agenda all while the Left ranted over issues that alienated the public, tore huge strips of division through their body politic (the biggest idiocy being alienating the very backbone and militant arm of Leftist groups throughout history: labour), and generally let the Right get away with everything.
Until the Left starts treating their politics less as performance art and more as, you know, a literal struggle for survival, the USA will be held in the hands of Nazis.
It’s almost as if Americans had been so thoroughly propagandized over the decades that they think:
- they’re the good guys that everybody wants to be like;
- capitalism is a—no the—natural way things work; and,
- the only reason anybody would ever do a boycott of any kind, anywhere, is based on money.
They don’t understand that there’s other (better) ways to do things than sucking off billionaires, and they don’t understand that people do things for moral reasons in place of money-grubbing ones outside of the USA.
Pepperidge Farm may have forgotten, but I haven’t.
He hasn’t stopped saying it. I haven’t stopped avoiding American products and services.
Stopping saying it doesn’t mean it’s still not part of his plans.
This right here. And on top of that Trump <refrain>is not the problem, he’s a SYMPTOM of the problem</refrain>.
Trump is the American id made manifest. If there wasn’t a huge proportion of the American electorate on-board with his shitfuckery he’d be just another senile old man shouting at the clouds.
Nor does it take back the fact that a huge percentage of the USA was enthusiastically on board with a violent takeover of a neighbouring nation. That was the scariest part. So many Americans would apparently happily march into Canada, or stand aside and watch it happening, and kill as many of us as it took to pacify us. Destroy our cities, take our land, turn us into another Puerto Rico or Cuba.
No. We’ll fight to stop that happening.
No matter what happens now, the USA is no longer a friend and ally, no longer a partner.
Every time Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson call Canada “communist” or ridiculously challenge Justin Trudeau’s parentage - is manufacturing consent to annex us.
And him and his followers still have that plan. Trump will be gone but some parasite like Miller or Vance will carry in the legacy and policies. The Canadian boycott is forever. There is no going back.
Hope that it puts a lot of Kentucky traitors out of work
lots of democrats work there. all of them, even the republicans are in poverty or close to it
source: I grew up 10 minutes from clermont.
Much respect with how well Canadians followed through on the boycott, wish we did as well in Europe.
Canadian here. You have no idea. Our boycott is generational.
Wishing we had one here in Mexico, but I think we’re more dependent.
Canadian elbows fuck up Kentucky businesses cause a pedophile threatened to annex their country.
This should be the headline.
Albertan here. If we didn’t have a fucking separatist traitor as a premier, Canadian sales would be even lower.
Marlaina “Danielle” Smith quietly put all US products back on the shelves and continues to import American booze.
I hope people are choosing not to buy it.
Eh, iconic sure, but also it’s not very good. I’m no Canadian but Beam is no big loss when you’ve got Crown Royal to fall back on.
I prefer Jim Beam personally. It’s my favorite cheap whiskey.
That I’m sorry to hear, however, your fearless leader picked a fight with the wrong country. I say your, because up here in Canada we don’t say Donald Trump and the other word in the same sentence.
