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TheOther   
27 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [334]

Is it a CA wine?

I'm not sure, to be honest. The company seems to import wines mostly from France and Spain, and bottle them.
TheOther   
27 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [334]

Here's one of many:

drinkavaline.com/products/sauvignon-blanc-wine?pb=0
TheOther   
26 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [334]

even expensive wines have them these days

We are doomed, I tell ya ... ;)

corked wines must be opened with a corkscrew, which not everyone can do, and the cork may crumble.

There's another way: if the cork crumbles, push the rest into the bottle. Works every time.
TheOther   
24 Jul 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]

Once again the EU gets more from the US than it gets from the EU

If the EU receives more from the US, then American exports and jobs are dependent on Europe and not the other way around. Put more tariffs on their goods and they will retaliate again as they did before.

China would be a dead man walking.

You forget a few things: first, Americans are addicted to cheap crap. Take China out of the equation and prices here will explode. Second: China owns the USA. If the US tries to bring China to its knees, they will simply call in the American debt they are holding. Bye bye USA. We can default, of course, but that would also mean bye bye.
TheOther   
24 Jul 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]

Europe doesnt buy much from the US

In 2022, EU imports from the US amounted to $372.59 billion. Not much, really... ;)

tradingeconomics.com/european-union/imports/united-states

As soon as WW2 ended, ..., the US was doing very well economically.

Of course, because the USA had no competitors at that time. Europe was in ruins, the U.K. essentially bankrupt. That's the reason why the USA became a superpower, both economically and militarily.

The car industry almost died several times because of bad trade deals.

The car industry died because the quality of our cars was so bad that nobody wanted to buy them anymore. That's on the car industry and not due to bad trade deals.
TheOther   
23 Jul 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]

The US did fine after WW2 isolating itself

The USA did not isolate itself after WW2. Exactly the opposite happened.

The idea that the US needs Europe is just hilarious.

About 11% of our GDP is based on exports; about 15% is based on imports. You really want to tell me that the USA doesn't need the trade with the EU and China? How do you plan to compensate for the loss of that trade and the loss of related jobs? Increase domestic consumption of domestic goods? Good luck finding the money.

Cut the US off? Go ahead, like Russia has proven, the US would prove even better at surviving alone.

The US is the largest economy in the world, Russia only survives because the Chinese are helping them.

What happens when the US stops the idiocy of lending itself money and just prints off enough to pay off all the debt?

The moment the US$ stops to be the reserve currency of the world, the USA will be bankrupt.
TheOther   
23 Jul 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]

Any country wanting the US protection should pay for it.

Last time I looked we were not mercenaries or the mafia. Let's turn your argument around: the USA should pay for being allowed to maintain and use military bases in Poland, Germany, Japan, Britain ...

In Europe, only those countries that are alligned with the US completely should have a US presence.

What does that mean? Do as we tell you, or else? Sounds like mafia again.

As for access to European markets. US doesnt need them.

Come on, you know that's not true. Put high tariffs on Chinese products (the Chinese will retaliate, of course) and have no access to the EU markets, and the USA is dead economically.
TheOther   
23 Jul 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]

There are well over 50K US troops in Poland now, and that would be likely to rise in number under Trump. A strong offense is the best defense has always been the Republican doctrine.

Hmm, didn't you say that we are spending far too much money on our military budget? How does that correspond with showing strength and increasing the number of our troops in Poland? If Trump wants to get us out of NATO that also means he will get Americans out of Poland. Unless Poland is stupid enough to pay for protection Mafia style as it was Trump's intention right from the beginning.
TheOther   
22 Jul 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]

Necessity of the USA to use Poland as cannon fodder will cease.

Trump would hand over Ukraine to Putin on the first day in office. Once Putin has control over the country, the 'stans on the southern Russian border plus Georgia and Azerbaijan are next. Belarus will reunite with Russia and then they will think about the Baltic republics and maybe even about Poland. If you believe for one minute that Trump will send/ keep American troops to/ in the region, I have a bridge to sell you. By then, NATO will be history.
TheOther   
21 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [334]

Recently I even saw ice wine with a cap.

That's a sacrilege! The only "wine" that needs a loose screw cap is Federweißer.
TheOther   
20 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [334]

...not a cap like its German counterparts.

Screw caps on wine bottles? What kind of cheap booze are you drinking over there? It's almost like the wine casks we had in Oz long time ago. Aluminium bag filled with cheap wine, with a rubber valve and packed in a nice looking carton. Yuck! But perfect to get drunk quickly at parties...
TheOther   
9 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Moderators on PF are breaking the law: not only they can reported for it, but fines apply [95]

I like spreading my hate from here where hate speech is protected by the First Amendment.

Generally speaking, hate speech is protected with some exceptions. Private entities though are not bound by the First Amendment. So if the owner is fed up with you then he will simply ban you. No free speech for you today on PF... :)
TheOther   
8 Jul 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [129]

Gone are the days of green bullshit

Aah, the beauty of coal mining...

Coal mining
Bełchatów coal mine