Trade war with Canada has contributed to a significant decline in U.S. liquor sales
Jim Beam, one of the largest makers of American whiskey globally, is shutting down bourbon production at one of its Kentucky distilleries for a year.
The move comes amid Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada, which has contributed to a significant decline in U.S. liquor sales after the country ushered in a boycott of American booze, and as more young adults are cutting back on drinking.
Jim Beam, owned by Suntory Global Spirits, is one of Kentucky’s biggest bourbon producers.
The Bluegrass state’s $9 billion whiskey bourbon industry has been struggling to manage its abundant supply of liquor against the drop in demand.
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.
Reagan had senile dementia his entire time of office. He was submissive and did what his team told him to do.
Reagan didn’t have a policy, but his team sure did.
A lot of people got really rich in the 1980s and it wasn’t by chance.
Don’t mistake the fact that bad things happened for incompetence.
The destruction of the middle class wasn’t a bug, it was a feature.
Even Harley Davidson is close to bankruptcy. Dealers are closing every month. Bad news for audiologists.
Fucking good. Those bikes sound like shit.
And they ride like shit and break. Their sales demographic is literally dying.
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there’s a japanese jazz scene?
a vibrant one
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They’ve got a pretty hoping rockabilly subculture too
I don’t know if it still is, but I know electronic jazz had a big scene there a few years back.
Music is Japan is huge.
Japanese jazz is the best out there.
“Make it… Suntori time…”
https://youtu.be/FiQnH450hPM#t=1m53s
Back in the 1970s Suntory Whiskey had a huge sign over Times Square in New York. The sign is visible in movies like Shaft. You couldn’t find Suntory in any American bar, but the company knew that Times Square was iconic and their sign would be seen all over the world.
While it’s certainly true that Jim Beam can no longer honestly keep the label of ‘all American’ due to corporate structure, they have kept up much of the American tradition and culture around Kentucky bourbon by generally letting them run autonomously. However, to your point, that’s definitely not guaranteed to continue-especially if profits are gonna start being fucked with. American jobs and culture are under pressure from both trump and outside corporate organizations. It was already insulting enough that a faceless corporation took it upon itself to be a steward of a part of American culture and history, but then the shameless sellout? It’s that irresponsible behavior that makes these corporations so inherently unreliable and untrustworthy no matter how faithful they may act for however long.
If you’ve never seen it, watch Ned Beatty’s speech from the movie Network.
https://youtu.be/35DSdw7dHjs
The whole movie is excellent, and went from cutting edge satire to quaint docudrama in real time.
Interesting. I should look it up for sure. While I’m certainly very much inherently in the camp of primarily approaching philosophy in a more traditional analytic style, I’ve become more appreciative of more artistic and “messy” packaging as of late, and this is certainly doing it for me. I love the absurd oversimplification disguised in rationality and nuance’s clothes. All that education these douchecanoes get only to never apply that same academic rigor to their worldview.