Threatening legal action to force Canada to order American booze?

dabertime@mstdn.social

Threatening legal action to force Canada to order American booze? Really?

Here's the thing..
Liquor stores where I live can order and sell American products. There is no government prohibiting it.

So, when I asked one store owner if he would be ordering more, he said that it would be crazy for any business to spend money on inventory that their customers have made clear that they don't want to buy.
Free enterprise, supply and demand and all that.

tazpoltorak@fosstodon.org

@dabertime Trying to force people to like something is odd, to say the least.

cthw@mstdn.ca

@dabertime
I do notice some of the retail stores have lowered their prices for US products, produce especially, to get some sales v

mxhdroom@mas.to

@dabertime My local stores can stock all the American booze they want; that doesn't mean I have to buy it. Or is Nutlick going to dictate what I have to purchase?

zenheathen@beige.party

@dabertime Right up there with Musk's lawsuit trying to force companies to advertise on Xitter.

funkybob@chaos.social

@dabertime
US: "Let the market decide!"
Canada: *does*
US: "No, not like that!"

ildiavolorosso@sfba.social

To which the court responded “Go home, Space Karen..,you’re drunk. Or in ketamine. Or just entitled.”

burn_this_@beige.party

@dabertime Maybe the US government can give away surplus liquor, kind of like how they did government cheese back in the day.

paulc@mstdn.social

@dabertime in the 1980s the US government tried to force Japan to change how they built houses as a way to force Japan to but more US lumber. The US method used more lumber to build a house and used imperial measurements.

The Japanese made it hard for foreign companies to sell lumber in Japan but it was a joke to ask a foreign industry to change so we could sell more stuff. Plus the US lumber industry had a lot of slop in our measurements.

But ask China about GB going to war to sell opium.

medeavanamonde@beige.party

@dabertime it’s like Elon Musk demanding companies to come back and advertising on (he)X

renardboy@mastodon.social

@dabertime rich people genuinely can't comprehend that boycotting is a free trade practice

npars01@mstdn.social

@dabertime

#FFFO (Fund a Fascist & Find Out)

The liquor, distilling, brewery & distribution business are heavy duty donors to Republicans.

McConnell won reelection with the help of Kentucky Distilleries because he does them favors like refusing to impeach Trump.
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/mitch-mcconnell-fueled-by-tobacco-and-whiskey/

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/09/trumps-pro-anheuser-busch-post-came-after-ufc-boss-dana-white-urged-him-to-back-company-source-says.html

Public corruption to the core
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/fueled-by-their-donations-mitch-mcconnell-pushes-special-tax-break-for-bourbon-industry-c8e29a2717b7/

Coors, Anheuser Busch are some of the six dynasties funding Project 2025's aims for corporate rule

6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025

More than $120 million from a few ultra-wealthy families who have spent years working to promote climate change denial has powered the Heritage Foundation and other groups that created the plan to remake American government.

DeSmog (www.desmog.com)

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