A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 3)

The BBQ Pit
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Is it okay to buy Whiskey from Blue states?

Cause I’m a sucker for honey base/enhanced alcohols, so I bought from a micro-distiller here in Colorado:

I’ll be cracking it open for some of the pre-New Years drinking. Though I suspect bourbon purists wouldn’t be satisfied, compared to many of the fine non-MAGA territory and international options.

But I do know that Colorado is suffering a noticeable drop in international tourism, so I feel okay in supporting local business. I also sympathize with @Superdude - loss of tax revenue isn’t good for the general population, and often hits the most disadvantaged areas first. So, while the majority of the population voted for Trump, I feel for everyone who DIDN’T who is getting fucked over by the actions of the evil and short-sighted.

Though I don’t see much chance of a fix giving the trends, so, while it’s probably not an option, I’ll suggest exercising your pedal franchise and get the hell out, because the people in charge and their meathead supporters will absolutely drag everyone down as long as they “win” or don’t have to admit they were wrong.

[ I say the same thing to my family in Texas, and yeah, they have few opportunities to pick up and leave as well ]

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If I wanted to drink dirt, I’d drink dirt.

No, in the absence of bourbon, I’ll just stick with my old friend Tullamore Dew.

2363

You know, the reason i opposed him is because, as expected, he’s fucking over all of us. He’s sending troops into the cities to round up brown people. He’s cutting off federal funds to hospitals that offer services to trans kids, and despite the messaging, when you look at the details that’s going to include talk therapy, or at least (like abortion laws) be so ambiguous as to scope and draconian as to punishment that no one’s going to risk offering those services. He’s imposing punitive tariffs that fuel inflation. He’s trying to shut down nearly completed wind farms.

Do i feel bad for the innocent workers at a whiskey plant? If you bring it to my attention, sure. But they can get in line.

2364

I will respect your choice to eschew flavour.

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(I think that should probably be flavor, but my phone is busy letting me down).

2365

I think since it’s Scottish, flavour is correct!

2366

Try Breckenridge Bourbon. I’m not really a wiskey drinker, but it’s rated very good. And Breckenridge is quite Blue.

2367

Trump did not even receive a majority of the people who voted. Far less than the majority of the eligible voters.

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IMHO, supporting small local businesses whose policies and principles you agree with is absolutely the right thing to do. Americans are not morally obligated to seek to fuck over our ENTIRE economy just to discredit this loathsome Administration harder.

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The sad part is, it would be so easy to mislead without lying. “We set a new record for viewership!” Just leave out that it’s the record for lowest viewership.

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In 2024, Mr. Potato Head won 49.81% of the votes, and Harris won 48.34%. :frowning:

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I admire your taste, all three are favourites of mine.

Luckily for me, my exposure to US goods are my Macbook Pro and some software I purchased a permanent license for, before Trump part 1.

And, I suppose the SDMB.

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That is what you think. You are, regrettably, wrong. See this article from The Guardian. Where, among many other interesting things, they write:

All this has been accompanied by an open assault on the institutions of international law that stand in the way of coercive power. Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the international criminal court, recently gave an interview to Le Monde in which he spelled out the impact of US sanctions imposed on him in August as a result of the ICC’s issuing an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes against humanity.

The sanctions have changed every aspect of his daily life. Guillou explained: “All my accounts with American companies, such as Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal and others, have been closed. For example, I booked a hotel in France through Expedia, and a few hours later, the company sent me an email cancelling the reservation, citing the sanctions.”

You are not better protected than a French judge at the ICC, sorry. Not when the president of the USA is dismantling international law (to which the USA never fully adhered, btw, the US has never been a signatory to the Rome statute or the UN convention on the law of the sea and never wanted to be) all the way back to the Viena Congress (1815). Everybody thinks trump wants to be king. What he really would like to be, even if he is too stupid to put it into coherent words, is Napoleon.

And when I drink whisky I choose Cardhu, Bowmore (12 J.) and Highland Park (12 J.). I think I will need more of the stuff soon.

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I’m not much of a whiskey drinker either, they sucked me in by being local and it being a honey-base/added drink. I’ll be trying it soon, and likely using it for mixed drinks and baking as well.

I do think a good point can be made for not buying products produced by people extolling Trump-ish values. Especially if you have the financial wherewithal to afford more expensive alternatives, a luxury available to many of us.

So with pride rather than my usual “This is paint thinner, right?” sentiments, I’ll be buying a large bottle of Canadian Mist for the whiskey component of the New Years Nog.

Technically, we have to use it anyway, the guest insists on making his father’s recipe rather than my preferred Alton Brown version, but I’ll feel better about it this year.

Back to more Schadenfreude though, I was amused and deeply offended by the comments that came up in this CNN article:

Rep. Michael McCaul — who is retiring after two decades in the House, where he has served as chairman of the Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs Committees — told CNN that Congress has changed for the worse over his tenure.

“The level of partisanship, rancor, vitriolic debate, demonizing the other side of the aisle, not willing to work across the aisle to get good things done for the American people, and just the overall toxic environment. And then we are chained to the floor here on votes that will never become law in a lot of cases,” the Texas Republican said.

Who the everliving FUCK do you think is to blame for almost all of it? Mitch, the “We have no agenda other than yelling NO at yours” McConnell. Or, you know, Felon47 who you had a chance to remove after he tried to have many Representatives killed for not supporting his bloody half-assed coup?!?

These fuckers shat the bed of the nation and still think they’re the ones being wronged.

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Why is the magaflatearth crowd whining about Jim Beam closing? Isn’t it owned by a Japanese firm? The MFE should be thrilled!

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RE: Beam

I’m noticed a Shit-load of advertising for them over the last few days on TV.

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TrumpKennedyCenter.org and TrumpKennedyCenter.com have been registered by comedy writer Toby Morton – apparently months ago. Per a Facebook post by Occupy Democrats:

Having previously acquired domain names related to MAGA reps such as Lauren Boebert, Nancy Mace, and Marjorie Taylor Greene for his satiric web-based purposes, the writer knew exactly when to spring into action.

Now, as Trump attempts to immortalize himself by stapling his name onto a national arts institution, Morton is preparing to turn the whole thing into a digital roast — one that mocks the ego, the vanity, and the absurdity of a president treating a cultural landmark like a piece of personal merch.

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MeidasTouch (2 min) shows an email Trump sent out. “CLAIM GIFT FROM TRUMP” which actually charges you for a donation. Yes… you would have to be a complete idiot to NOT notice you were donating money, but that’s what Trump thinks of his supporters.

https://youtu.be/L3GlZzSZ0zk?t=765

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Turns out the reversible Epstein redactions were not due to incompetence by DOJ editors. Elon’s DOGE canceled the premium Adobe subscription used by the federal government, and the basic subscription the DOJ was forced to use doesn’t have the feature that makes redactions permanent.

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The schadenfreude is strong in that one!

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There is nothing in that piece that confirms any of this is true. It’s all “and then a poster replied ‘what if they didn’t pay the subscription fees’” and then another poster put up a screenshot of someone else saying… "