Mixing upper and lower case letters… tut tut… that might be the final straw. He’s gone too far now.
Now you’ve got me picturing Trump as the Jack Lemmon character (but he sees himself as the Alec Baldwin character).
Also picture that the Alec Baldwin character is being played by America’s best, and Donald Trump’s favorite, actor Hannibal Lecter.
And we find you me cribbing lines from Horace Red Dragon, as well.
I’m sure that it was someone else who wrote the “Tesla Pricing” note. If the displayed examples of Trump’s actual handwriting are anything to go by, then the writer of the “Tesla Pricing” note was not him.
See also on the “Tesla Pricing” note, the addition, “Teslas can be purchased as low as $299/month or $35K.” Not the kind of thing that Donnie would care to make a note of, if he’s so rich. Again, I’m sure that somebody else wrote this.
For some reason I always read this note as if it were the lyrics to a Ramones song. Just imagine some buzzsaw guitar and Joey shouting “I WANT NOTHING, I WANT NOTHING, I WANT NOTHING, I WANT NO QUID PRO QUO”.
It’s more Rage Against the Machine to me, but you know, six of one, half a dozen of the other.
I can honestly see that. 
Cite on this claim?
Hegeseth is a POS, for sure….but my read of the situation and the story is that Hegeseth is looking to make the rules on grooming stricter, so I suspect, in true anti-DEI fashion, he’s going to start challenging the medical and religious exemptions that allow some servicemen to wear beards.
Medical exemptions to wear beards? Hmm, I have absolutely no idea if there might be a specific racial group that has problems with the effects of shaving, absolutely no idea.
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Senator CTE says “free speech is not what we need” and that all protestors should be jailed.
So, Mr. Tuberville? When did you become woke and start supporting criminalizing hate speech?
Cancel Culture!
“If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES,” Trump wrote. “This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.”
“This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.”
For reasons of history (not least because the US had ratified Prohibition when many countries formalized the use of the regional appellation), the use of the word ‘champagne’ for stuff made in the US does actually exist, though most companies voluntarily did not use the term and later restrictions did come into play.
Not that I give him credit for knowing or understanding the nuance or how few remaining exist, but there actually are champagne businesses in the US.
There are “champagne” businesses in the US.
Anything called Champagne is only from a small region in France. Called Champagne.
ETA: Using the term champagne for new wine producers has been banned in the US since 2006. Any producer grandfathered in from before that date is required to include the place of origin.
So “California Champagne” is a thing.
Oregon bans producers from using the term. Most producers in other states avoid using it. Methode Champenoise or Methodo Traditionale or Traditional Method are more commonly used these days for wines of this type outside of France.
Nah. It’s a long, boring story, but it’s only by international agreement that it is so.
And the EU (France in particular of course) has spent the last century to get more and more countries signed on to it and to make it known “real” champagne is the way they define it.
And the US was not originally a signatory, though has since mostly signed on. New wineries (I think any founded in the last 20-30 years?) can no longer call it that. And some individual states have put restrictions on their own wineries. And the older major wineries, especially the ones that want to market overseas, voluntarily do not. That leaves only a smattering of a few older, smaller wineries. So, not exactly a thriving community to begin with. And not one that would be helped by tariffs anyway.
What France has really gotten successful at, though, is convincing people that there’s some fundamental definition to it. Very clearly successful given would-be pedants who aren’t even technically correct about it.
I’ve been a professional sommelier, wine buyer and restaurant/wine bar operator for 30 years. I know what I’m talking about but will drop this before it becomes too much of a hijack.
Bottom line as you acknowledge, Champagne is a very specific thing from France. Most domestic producers have dropped using the term.
And there is definitely a very specific definition of what it is and how it is produced.
Perhaps France should start producing and exporting bourbon if geographic name protections are off the table.
Either way, it’s one of those cases where Trump, albeit certainly by accident, was not even wrong (about the businesses existing, not that it would be ‘great’, of course).
Stopped clocks and all.