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Nope - it's a popular misconception. Bourbon can be made anywhere in the US. You could make it in Long Island if you wanted, provided you had the necessary permits. It's just that around 95% of it is made in Kentucky, so people think that it all has to be made there. Kentucky bourbon has a distinct taste mostly due to the water, which is often sourced from limestone-rich areas, so is quite alkaline.

Yeah, I figured they'd already had contingency plans in place in case the US did the dumbest thing possible in the 2024 elections. I mean, last time this traitor was president, he sent lists of the names and locations of US spies to Russia, and then in a completely unrelated series of accidents that followed, several of them died.

Any intelligence agency worth its salt should know by now that any secrets they share with the US will also be shared with Russia. Or anybody who pays a million dollars to go to a party at Mar a Lago so they can flatter Trump in person.

Every world intelligence agency should consider the US to be completely compromised at this point.

I mean, Ukraine probably shouldn't trust anything that the US shares with them now anyway. Any intelligence the US feeds to Ukraine is likely designed to benefit Russia.

ACAB means ACAB.

Ultimately, if they both do Russia's bidding, though, it's a distinction without a difference. Whether coward or asset, they're all traitors.

I'm not just talking about Trump. Nearly the entire Republican party is compromised as well. Also, there's Elon Musk and who knows how many other wealthy, high power individuals. Obviously, they weren't all bought with cash, but even collecting compromising secrets on them is time consuming and expensive. You kind of have to respect the hustle, even though the end result is the complete destruction of the last vestiges of our democracy.

Well I, for one, am shocked that our Russian-controlled puppet government is acting like a Russian-controlled puppet government.

It probably was incredibly expensive to buy Trump's victory, but you can't argue that Vladdy Poot Poot isn't getting value for his money.

It's interesting that you mention Martin Niemöller. He, like all of the MAGATs getting their faces chewed off by their elected leopard, was a giant piece of shit. His poem wasn't some clarion call to people who saw the danger of the Nazi party... he was a Nazi. He was a big fan of the Nazis and their agenda. Dude straight up hated the Jews. He only fell afoul of the party's agenda when they started coming after protestant churches, as he was a pastor.

I don't feel bad for the Martin Niemöllers of the world, and I don't feel bad for any person who allows themselves to be duped by obvious conmen. The fact that they gain some measure of enlightenment only after they reach the "find out" stage of the FAFO cycle does not in any way elicit sympathy from me.

Look - we're at a unique point in our history; information is more free and available than at any time before. Anything that someone wants to find out about practically any subject is just a couple of clicks away. The fact that we're still so shitty and ignorant is a never-ending source of frustration for me.

You appear think this is the fault of random people who wear different color hats instead of the result of decades of effort by some of the richest people in our society to fundamentally weaken democracy and to create uneducated people that can be manipulated.

I can assure you I do not, regardless of what you think the appearances are. I fully understand that this is the result of a systematic approach of the Republican party working as stooges of think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation.

That being said, my anger is most certainly NOT misplaced. For example, I can acknowledge that crime is often a result of poverty and desperation, and yet still be angry at a person who steals my stereo. People have the capacity to be more than just the result of the machinations of others. Not holding them to blame for their actions is anathema to me.

Also, I'm returning the favor and downvoting you for the ignorance you displayed in assuming my motives.

I suppose that's fair. It was mostly hyperbole, tbh. I am not cheesed off at people who literally look like the scum-sucking piece of shit in the article. It just sounded good.