This feels like he is playing an RPG with the lowest character and intelligence points, where his only remaining actions are "impose levies", "play golf" and "incoherent rambling"
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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For everyone playing at home - you literally cannot have an American Champagne.
Do it, you fucking coward. Americans should be forced to drink the swill they make domestically.
No one deserves to drink wine from Virginia (coincidentally, where Trump's winery is). California has proven for decades that they can stand on equal footing to anything produced in France (sorry France - I still love you).
if "A" does an action and "B" does a retaliatory move, then, next thing "A" does is not retaliatory. Now "A" is doing escalation. This is full on trade war and America has already lost looking at the markets.
"Champagne businesses in the U.S."
What an uncultured dumbass.
It's only Champagne if it's from Champagnooga, Tennessee.
Otherwise it's just sparkling moonshine.
Champagne is fermentrd, moonshine is distilled.
And you are very smort.
Relax. We're just throwing hot air around.
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Good, keep your Jack Daniels and I keep my Chianti, Grappa, Merlot and Riesling. Win-win.
Jack Daniels is shit, drink a glass of Scotish or Irish whisky/whiskey instead.
Wooosh
Tbh, I can't stand Bourbon, regardless of country of origin. Don't know of a single good scotch from the States though.
There is no Scotch from the States.
Scotch is from Scotland by definition.
You're absolutely right! I should've said malt or grain whiskey.
This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.
lol
What's next? U.S. Vinho Verde?
Another knock-off? That's a product of my country! Vinho verde Γ© do Minho, carago!
Absolutely nobody will be shocked to learn that Trump owns a winery in Virginia and stands to profit off of this.
The wine sucks. Patticia Kluge who owned the winery at first put hundreds of millions into it before it failed. Trump bought it at a very cheap price.
What I wish still existed at NYC closeout costs was his vodka which was shit at $45 but was good at $16.
Can confirm - Virginia wine is just not good (red wines in particular). Have had a white or 2 that were ok.
It's too humid and the growing season is too short.
Lol, good luck having cabinet meetings without scotch, idiot.
Heβs finally learned that tariffs arenβt a discount on the price and as such the value can go above 100%. The sky is the limit at this point.
I feel miffed at this.
My country makes and exports better wines and spirits than France and nobody remembers us. I want to see the Orange Avenger being miffed at Portugal! I want tariffs on Porto and Madeira wines imports! Try and get those anywhere else!
And nothing of value would be lost if Europe were to blanket ban all US drinks. Especially US wines and spirits. Vile, overly expensive stuff.
400% tax on coca cola!
Californian red wine is pretty good.
But if it were off the shelves where I live, I likely wouldn't even notice.
And if I did, I'd be like "meh" and buy one from Chile, Australia, or Spain instead.
Yes on all, but oak aged chardonnay. Fucking love that shit. Been buying one from Washington for years now. Ste Michelle.
Gonna miss it while the carrot rules.
Meursault would be an even better substitute. Thereβs also great oaked Chardonnay from the Maconnais and Languedoc. Sicily also offers great options.
Mersault is like twice the price. Have not found a French substitute yet.
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We should put a 1000% tax on BigMacs. Let's see how fast the numbers can go up.
If we don't sell champagne to the US does it mean the price will get lower for us ? If yes, I'm all in :)
Bar any other factors, yes, that should be the case.
Given there are multitudes of variables in play here: Unlikely.
IIRC wine and other alcohol products are already struggling a bit in the EU because the younger generation doesn't drink as much.
As an old fuck:
I'm doing my part to keep our economy up!
More booze for us, enjoy your prohibition lite.
I enjoy my glass of wine and occasional spirit but... come on! Not that much!
This guy is so cringe
then maybe Europe should retailiate by tariffs ov 250% on ANYTHING american - including ALL software services. And, if they don't pay immediately - what about rate-limiting their bandwidth until they pay proper taxes in Europe?
If they still block - SOME of their hardware is in European datacenters. We - Europe - plan on building our own big IT infrastructure. So, to quote Age of Empires:
"Nice cloud server - I'll take it." - and seize ALL the american IT hardware we've got here.
Let them sue...
Banning all American products and services would be a net positive on European society in the long term, IMO.
I donβt drink alcohol so Iβm good.
That's the spirits
No, it's exactly the opposite. No.alcohol means no spirits.
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