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Dammit Mandrake! said:
The British subversion campaigns in the United States would make Bezmenov blush. Khalil is 100% a saboteur.
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Do you have more details on this?

Dammit Mandrake! said:
Fuck. If they can resolve this Ukraine shit, maybe I can get some good vodka for the first time in a decade.
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Isn't the difference between high quality vodka and normal vodka primarily the amount of times the drink is filtered?


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About a decade ago Yakima Washington discovered after Mt. St. Helens erupted in the 80s, it left their region with an identical climate and soil quality to Champaign, F
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>French mock the US for not having good champagne
>US mountain blows up and creates exactly the ideal conditions for champagne

God's country
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
About a decade ago Yakima Washington discovered after Mt. St. Helens erupted in the 80s, it left their region with an identical climate and soil quality to Champaign, France. Ever since they noticed that they have been adding vineyards next to the Apple Orchards they're known for; it's one of their fastest growing industries now. You can literally buy American made Champagne except for the fact that the term is a legally protected term that the EU only allows vineyards in Champagne, France to use.

We don't NEED France for their booze anymore.

The same "protected name" thing is true for Scotch, which is just Whiskey made in Scotland. If an American vendor makes the same product with the same recipe it's called Whiskey.

In a related thought, expect the EU and especially France to freak the fuck out about the "Champagne businesses in the US" part of that tweet.

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Scotch is whisky, not whiskey, and yes, there is a difference.
 
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Catch The Rainbow said:
Isn't the difference between high quality vodka and normal vodka primarily the amount of times the drink is filtered?
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Yeah generally. I just seem to like Russian vodkas better. Winter wheat and rye.

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The English are the primary reason why The United States has not been able to properly communicate and resolve issues with Russia going on 100 years.

For more modern examples: the Steele dossier was entirely concocted and laundered through British intelligence.
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
expect the EU and especially France to freak the fuck out about the "Champagne businesses in the US"
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I don't give a shit about alcohol, I don't drink, I just want the Euros to suffer. Fuck their alcohol, fuck their cultures, fuck their politics. Everything must burn before the might of America! They are our first and true enemies, constantly trying to curtail our rising power and superior liberties!

EUROPA DELENDA EST!
 
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Catch The Rainbow said:
Isn't the difference between high quality vodka and normal vodka primarily the amount of times the drink is filtered?
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Kind of. That's the big difference between bottom and mid shelf vodkas. Also, cheaper vodkas tend to use more of the heads and tails in their cuts, which are less pleasant (see: everclear).

"high quality" vodka usually has an additional difference. Whereas your average vodka typically uses plain, distilled water for proofing it down, higher quality vodkas often purposefully use a specific water source (Grey Goose uses a spring I believe). They do this to give a flavor to the final product rather than a relatively tasteless purified ethanol.

Something to keep in mind, depending on what you like in a vodka you may have zero reason to buy an expensive bottle. I use fairly cheap bottles and save the nice stuff for vodka forward cocktails where you actually want a taste from it.
 
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namelesstacotruck said:
I am confused at the Dems threatening a government shut down.

Thats peak "dont threaten me with a good time" behavior. Hell he can even demand all the Feds continue to work and failure to work while not getting paid equals fired.
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It also screams "getting rid of civics in school was a mistake".

Democrats don't even know what a real push-back is, how pathetic.
 
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Levitcus prime24 said:
Man we went form food posting to alcohol posting
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You act like that's a bad thing.
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"high quality" vodka usually has an additional difference. Whereas your average vodka typically uses plain, distilled water for proofing it down, higher quality vodkas often purposefully use a specific water source (Grey Goose uses a spring I believe). They do this to give a flavor to the final product rather than a relatively tasteless purified ethanol.
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Best vodka I've ever had (I've not tried a ton of vodka, admittedly) uses local well water. Thankfully it's not prohibitively expensive.

Their coffee flavored vodka was terrible though.
 
Wasn't there some previous discussion about there not needing to be a government shutdown, even in absence of a budget? I forget the specifics, but the gist was that the president could allow government employees to remain at work and performing their functions until a budget could be passed. Apparently this was the standard practice throughout history until some President used the move as a way of creating publicity and negative press against the Congress.

Assuming this is true, and Trump need not shut down the government, I think this would be the perfect outcome for him. Federal employees who are worth a damn or actually devoted to their country will likely remain at work. The vast majority of them don't need to be there for the cogs to turn and important functions to be fulfilled and it makes it so much easier to get Congress to cut later when you can point to the fact that things were running fine despite the supposed problems it would create.

Please Democrats, don't throw President Trump into the briar patch.
 
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>Be Massie
>GOP Congressman in office for 12+ years who has never passed a single bill
>Didn’t believe there was election fraud in 2020
> Supports Mitch McConnell
>Voted with the Squad on critical points
>Raised Biden’s debt ceiling while refusing to raise Trump's
>Against term limits

People shill for Massie because he's "principled" against Israel and foreign lobbying but Massie supported the extremely Zionist DeSantis for president after DeSantis signed a law restricting antisemitic speech while visiting Israel. Massie's campaign also took 13k from Zionist Jeffrey Yass's company Susquehanna International Group.
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I literally don't care about any of this as much as I care about ending daylight saving
 
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Irene and 22 others said:
Wasn't there some previous discussion about there not needing to be a government shutdown, even in absence of a budget? I forget the specifics, but the gist was that the president could allow government employees to remain at work and performing their functions until a budget could be passed. Apparently this was the standard practice throughout history until some President used the move as a way of creating publicity and negative press against the Congress.

Assuming this is true, and Trump need not shut down the government, I think this would be the perfect outcome for him. Federal employees who are worth a damn or actually devoted to their country will likely remain at work. The vast majority of them don't need to be there for the cogs to turn and important functions to be fulfilled and it makes it so much easier to get Congress to cut later when you can point to the fact that things were running fine despite the supposed problems it would create.

Please Democrats, don't throw President Trump into the briar patch.
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yeah iirc Hugh Hewitt was being shockingly relevant to current events yesterday explaining from his past life running the GAO or some other swamp joint that basically with a shutdown Trump would get carte blanche to do whatever the hell he wants about DOGE dumping staff and pushing through remaining nominees, and there might be a way for him to AKSHUALLY congress from un-recessing on top of all that
 
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