Chuck Schumer is attempting to lure Americans away from Trump by tempting us with the humble indulgences beer and guacamole — drinking and snacking — paired with watching television. But even if Americans were hopelessly addicted to these fattening pleasures, we could still, easily, choose a non-Mexican beer and serve those tortilla chips with melted cheese instead of that avocado paste. That might work out well for Wisconsin — home of beer and cheese — and quite badly for Mexico. What is it going to do with all those avocados if we say we'd rather push for Mexico to help us with the border problem than continue to mindlessly consume that that green goo... that sludge... that guck...Chuck Schumer claims that President Trump's tariffs will raise the price of beer because "most of it comes from Mexico" while holding a can of corona.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 3, 2025
This might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen a politician do lmfao. pic.twitter.com/z4Z0W22gUe
The story of how avocados went from being an obscure West-Coast cash crop to the juggernaut of the Midwestern produce section is one of extreme feats of marketing and major shifts in ideas about nutrition. It is a story of a desperate renaming, a PR Hail-Mary, and of the changing nature of the Super Bowl....
So marketers began to hawk avocados as a luxury item, to be used in “elegant” and “upscale” salads.... Starting in the 1980s, nutrition experts began urging Americans to cut their fat intake... The avocado growers began battling the anti-fat movement....
“Nationally, avocados were not that well-known or recognized”...
Meanwhile, the nature of the Super Bowl changed, too. Americans did with the big game what we’ve done with seemingly every national event: Turn it from a day centered on a specific purpose to a day of consuming thousands more calories than our stomachs will comfortably fit....
The avocado growers wanted in on the snackapalooza....
The saga of the avocado shows how food promotion can—when it coincides happily with changing demographics, fortuitous economic policy, and favorable scientific knowledge—work almost eerily well. It can change the way we eat, sometimes forever.
We changed before, and we can change again. There are plenty of converging factors that could end the Guacamole Era. And enough with the beer, people. We've got better things to do. And how will Mexico fare if we develop a patriotic new aversion to a food that we only recently learned to want?
It seems to me this is the best time of year for Trump's move. It puts the pressure on Mexico, with its immense glut of perishable food. What's it to us if we go without one particular food, eat something else, and then get back to that food as California warms up? That's how we used to eat. That's closer to the locavore ideal. Restaurants and home foodsters will adjust easily. No one needs to eat avocados. But people who have grown avocados need to sell them. And why shouldn't Mexico help us with the illegal immigration problem?...
Nudging hipsters to whine about their avocado toast is kind of a genius move.
ALSO: Remember the "Eat less avocado toast" meme?
On May 15th, 2017, Australian website 9news ran an article recapping a 60 Minutes episode in which millionaire property mogul Tim Gurner said “When I was trying to buy my first home, I wasn't buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each.” Gurner was attempting to make the point that millennials spend too lavishly to afford a home, while older generations saved money in order to invest in a home. However, the quote about avocado became a subject of derision as it became the focus of dialogue around Gurner's comments. TIME tweeted an article that claimed Gurner stated "Stop buying avocado toast if you want to buy a home."
It's 8 years later. Are millennials still eating avocado toast and failing at amassing a down payment on a house? Did they ever really want to own a house? What they do have, and what they will always have, is all those memories of sitting somewhere beautiful, nibbling on avocado toast.
UPDATE: Trump got results.
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This reminds me of 1990s Pace salsa ads: New York City vs. Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbp9UrwC-mI
I appreciate our hostess’ sentiments…but I love that shit.
- Krumhorn
we could still, easily, choose a non-Mexican beer and serve those tortilla chips with melted cheese instead of that avocado paste
Substitution Effect! Who says economics is impractical…
"Let's just take the post-Superbowl party. Mmkay? It's gonna affect your blow. Mmkay? Most of it — Gravel, here — comes from Mexico. It's gonna affect your Take Over. Because what is Take Over made of? Fentanyl. Both from Mexico."
The youngsters don’t do the guac as much as the avocado toast. They gotsta have the avocado toast
Either Democrats think the American people are stupid. Or they just know Democrat voters are stupid.
Oh no! corona! no no no!
All the human tracking and drug trafficking the Soros cartel let into our nation... under obedient democrat approvals.
Dear Corruptocrats - Go F yourselves.
I recall Schumer is the culinary equivalent of a Highlights ‘What’s Wrong?’ cartoon so discount accordingly…
“I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,”
-Chuck Schumer - threatening the Supreme Court.
Corona is weak lager. Little better than horse p*ss. India Pale Ale, as all other ales, are much better, with more flavor and body.
Well, think of all the money we will save by sending back all the illegals instead of supporting them.
Oh how we forget the good old days of Schlitz (Google urges me to spell check) and chips and dip.
Chuckie Schumer is still taking lessons on how to grill. He'll need 10,000-hrs of lessons to understand that first, turn the burns on, let the grill heat, cook the patties, then place the cheese on the cooked patties. He's a fossilized Democrat, so he'll finally understand that after he retires on his graft-funded investments.
I’m not worried about Mexican beers. I AM worried about not getting Mexican Coke made with cane sugar as opposed to the US-made stuff with high fructose corn syrup.
You might have a little something if you use one of those volcanic mortar and pestle setups as that really helps reduce the slime texture but then you have to drench it with lime juice and salt and if you’re gonna drench something with lime juice and salt some tequila and cointreau would be a far superior target so best to just stay away…
Poor white leftists might have to pay a bit more for their avocado toast. boo.
Schumer puts cheese on raw hamburger while grilling them. Hence, establishing his bona fides as a food expert.
Anyone who puts tofu on a grill is A) not trustworthy and B) might be an extraterrestrial, mmkay?
Corona is Tecate or Dos XX that has been drunk once. It's horrible shit that trendy morons think is something. If you want to drink Mexican beer, have the sense to drink a good Mexican beer like Modelo.
Everything that Schumer just said can be summed up simply by, "but who will pick all the cotton?"
Friend once picked up a drunk girl at a Super Bowl party. She proceeded to vomit during the act of fellatio which, as he tells it, leaving his nether regions covered in guacamole and Miller Lite
…serve Humpty Dumpty Potato Chips and Helluva Dip to your kids…
I’ll pay an extra quarter per avocado for 100,000 fewer fentanyl deaths
according to Democrats:
* Avocados are MORE Important than National Security
* We NEED Slaves to pick our crops
do i have that right?
it''s ALSO going to affect your post-Superbowl hookers!
MOST hookers are trafficed from China and/or Mexico
Expensive Quac! Expensive Drugs! Expensive Whores!
Trump is being fought on every front. And he is winning every fight.
California also grows avocados. Grew up eating avocados. Had a avocado tree in our yard. My mom grew up on a Kansas farm and moved to CA in 1936 at the end of her senior year. She would tell us about her uncle bringing her an avocado from one of his trips home from CA. She loved it and she couldn't wait to get to CA to be able to have avocados all the time - of course they are seasonal so her expectations were a little dampened after arriving. My understanding is a lot - most? - of the Mexico avocado business is now run by the cartels. So Chuckie is crying for his buddies south of the border.
Mexico has a good neighbor in El Salvador and America. Costa Rica has a charming climate. Argentina is becoming solvent. Emigration reform is real.
Regarding the tag along the bottom of tv screen freeze shot above, Trump first claimed that imposing tariffs on other nations would be an unalloyed boon to Americans, with riches pouring into our national coffers, paid by the foreign nations burdened by our tariffs. Now Trump acknowledges there will (or "may") be pain, but it will be "worth the price."
Well...how much pain? How long must we endure the pain? When will we enjoy the "worth" that is the price we must pay? Will the "worth" he promises be greater than the pain we must pay first? Will the "price" be worth it?
Really, only the stupid and the hypnotized can find any merit or intelligence (or honesty) in any aspect of Trump's mendacious idiocy.
My neighbor grew up in Homestead and says to ditch the slimy little Mexican ones for the Florida kind that are the size of a coconut. Publix has them…
I am a 6th generation southern Californian. My grandparents and everyone before them were farmers, mostly in eastern LA county. They grew lots of things, but avocados were seemingly always present.
One of my tragic personal subplots is that I've never liked avocados. It's a superfood, it's been a lifestyle and treat for so many around my life. But I've just never taken to it.
Alas.
Must be some of that there newfangled messagin' I done herd tell of. Suposta save the Democratic Party and all. Whoo-dawgies! That's some powerful stuff Chuck's asayin' up there. Us Trump folk better put our thinkin' caps on or we ain't gonna be able ta get drunk ner fat ner nothin' pretty soon.
We could try confusing the Mexicans by pointing out that the US leads the world in abogado production.
Beer equity: Negra Modelo -- the best mainstream Mexican beer.
Schumer and embarrassed, two words the rarely appear together.
Is the Democratic Party really taking the position of accept bad terms for the US so you can enjoy cheaper beer and guacamole?
Their properties vary dramatically by orgin/variety. Mexican Hass is the stereotypical standard, and what brought avocados international fame. Some of the non-Mexican varieties are woody and awful.
Avocados were a poor choice for Schumer to bring up as the cartels have been moving into the the industry
As cartels take a stake in ‘green gold,’ US and Mexico rethink how avocados reach American kitchens
By David Shortell, CNN
Published 4:15 PM EDT, Sat July 13, 2024
When two US avocado inspectors were assaulted and detained at a police roadblock in the Mexican state of Michoacán last month, it sparked a costly international crisis.
The US paused all avocado imports from the state for more than a week, leaving Mexican growers out of tens of millions of dollars and temporarily sending the price of a carton of the fruit in the US soaring by 40 percent, according to analysis firm RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness.
As a New Yorker and Jewish, Schumer should suggest a non-tariffed tradition of Super Bowl pastrami, bagels, and potato pancakes.
"I get that you don't want your sons poisoned by fentanyl and your daughters raped and murdered by face-tattooed gangsters. But what if I offered you some yummy avocados and light beer?'"
https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/1886247708349927536?t=QF-YTkQXYAL1AOX_ymwfwQ&s=19
"we could still, easily, choose a non-Mexican beer "
Yeah, gee Chucky. Way to promote the domestic producers. Corona. Jeez…
Yes.
The stock market as reacted well to the Trump’s tariffs.
At least he finally admitted that there will be pain associated with them. Thus something he has denied for years. Ultimately it was rising prices that brought down the Democrats. Trump seems intent to ignore this lesson..
There is no dispute that tariffs reduce economic output.what might look like a small reduction today grows into a huge I,pact over time thanks to the effects of compounding.
Here’s to hoping the Supreme Court can end this absolute madness.
Schumer strikes me as someone who is completely out of touch with regular American experiences so asks his 20 somethings trust-fund, ivy-league graduate staffers to put together a briefing on habits of the common citizen.
“ Avocados were a poor choice for Schumer to bring up as the cartels have been moving into the the industry.” That’s probably why he chose avocados. As Trump closes the border, cartel dark money for Democrats is endangered.
"And I'm sure Schumer knows all this and is embarrassed to be smarmily plying us with a beer and an avocado."
Embarrassed? I think not! Schumer is the definition of smarmy.
Note well that Schumer doesn't care one whit about the child sex slaves and hard drugs that the cartels are importing.
More room for kale at the table. Yum.
Second the Negra Modelo, almost as good a mainstay as Shiner Bock. Honestly, who would ever take food advice from a pudgy guy that doesn't know how to cook a cheeseburger?
People are forgetting the wider impact of all this. Everyone is out there worried about the avocados. But with Corona becoming scarce, won't someone think of the lime producers?
Thanks for sharing.
The part that blows my mind is the part what Canadian and Mexican politicians are given a choice:
1: Stop shipping fentanyl to the US
2: Engage in a trade war with the US that you can not win
And they're all going for option 2.
Now, we knew Mexico was a corrupt shithole controlled in large part by the cartels. And Mexico also has the excuse that they're desperately dependent upon $$$ from their illegals in the US.
What's Canada's story? Are the "Liberal" politicians all heavily invested in drug smuggling?
Guac says that Schumer's Anthropogenic Intelligence (AI) is observable in a Corona emission.
"Schumer doesn't care one whit about the child sex slaves and hard drugs"
I suspect he does care... which is why he is against blocking the cartels.
If all I got for the Superbowl was pork rinds with ketchup and half a cup of female panther piss I’d still be smiling about Trump. I’ve been smiling since November. I can’t seem to stop.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, "avocado rustlers" in California raided orchards at midnight to steal them by the truckload. As small, durable, pricey, and untraceable, they are super attractive to criminals.
Mexico is a failed state, owned and run by Narco terrorists. Those same terrorists have ties to other groups who hate America.
Any crop or product that is in demand, will be regulated or taxed by the cartels.
Many of the Mexican workers are in the States for better job opportunities, but also to avoid being used as an unwilling part of the cartels many businesses. Don't want to help them produce, smuggle, corrupt the local sheriff, mayor etc? fine, your wife, daughter will be raped, murdered, and put in a trash bag at the dump. The justice system in Mexico is more corrupt than ours.
Best thing Trump can do is pressure the Narcos economically and help Mexico eliminate them.
After prodding the import of 10M people costing billions of dollars only to disrupt the US and advance their cheap labor / government dependency agenda -- you ask about Democrats motives here?
As soon , first day , I get in prices will come down.April fools fools just kidding time for some pain! There's one born every moment!
Guac observes that Democrats who previously brayed their handmade tales from The Twilight Fringe have switched to plying their marks with Corona emissions.
Avocados are about $1.25 per pound (Costco) and Americans consume 9 lbs/per person/per year, so even if price doubles that's only going to cost me about $11 to help reduce fentanyl deaths and criminal aliens in US.
You know, when you see how the former Majority party's act changes when they become the Minority party, you get a glimpse at their core strengths. Or the absence of them. In Canada, Pierre Poilievre is minority, but look how effective an advocate he is. Same for some of the opposition leaders or minority leaders in the European countries. They can talk, they have ideas. But here ! The front office seems to be all empty husks, no message. What has been propping these paper tigers up for the past 16 years? Was it always just the money, paying for those back-office activist slobs doing the dirty work with riots, pandemic policy, Lawfare? It makes me shake my head, how we put up with this - this ! Trump is right to go after the money; it would appear that this is all they have.
The rise in the price of avocados is a pittance compared to the rise in the price of car insurance. Anyway I can do without avocados but not car insurance.
Thanks for checking in, STINKY. Good to see you still crying. It's 45 & 47 you know, and who could guess, maybe even a 48.
"these fattening pleasures, we could still, easily, choose a non-Mexican beer and serve those tortilla chips with melted cheese instead of that avocado paste."
What in the world? As if the avocado was the fattening part and not the chips? Avocados are Superfood! Far healthier than either the chips or cheese.
“It’s another Broke Dinky Monday
Starin' slowly into space
The guy’s shit-faced…”
h/t Frey & Henley
Venezuela has given up hostages and agreed to accept their citizens back. Panama has agreed to disengage from China. Mexico has major control over our shared border but has refused to stem behavior that is truly harming us. We have the upper hand in this economic tug-of-war, so it's seems likely they will come around. Yet, the anti-Trumpers are true to form, stating definitively on day one that we are headed for disaster.
Trump is a President who believes in using our position in the world for the benefit of his own people. What a change from Obama/Biden.
In Massachusetts, we have a 6.25% domestic tariff on restaurants. I've never seen the Democrats here complain about it.
Mike of Snoqualmie said...
"Corona is weak lager. Little better than horse p*ss."
Fortunately, we have an American alternative! Bud Light may start recovering from its self-imposed loss of market share.
"Avocados from Mexico" is a catchy musical phrase, but are avocados really that palatable in themselves? Don't you have to add something to them? It seems like you have to whip them up or something to get guacamole.
No shit. I mean he goes out in public with his wife.
Anybody know where I can get a lewd "Official Avocado Inspector" t-shirt?
Seeing as the cartels have really gotten involved with the Mexican avocado industry, they should re-examine their priorities or at least check the labels and buy American grown.
Honestly, who would ever take food advice from a pudgy guy that doesn't know how to cook a cheeseburger?
Ya know, for America being such a racist nation; I have yet to see anyone point out that a cheeseburger should be the last thing Schumer would ever cook.
You most likely can't do without climate controls as well - most HVAC appliances at least touch Mexico, if they aren't made there completely.
Panama
Imagine Puddin' Head achieving these gains.
As a Jew, Schumer shouldn't be putting cheese on a burger. C'mon guys, you need to know this stuff or they're going to revoke your MAGA Certified Racist cards!
45 DOES drive you VERY CRAZY, doesn't he?? Your name fits YOU.
And houses. And car prices. And interest rate costs. And 1,000 things that are more essential.
Mexican President says she had a good conversation with Trump. Tariffs on hold for one month.
What did Biden do with his four years?
Carbohydrates = body fat = beer = chips = ice cream
Back in the seventies, doctors invested in avocado orchards all throughout Southern California. Well going to college in Santa Barbara we would take empty grocery bags out to avocado orchards in Goleta and fill them up with the fallen fruit to have guacamole parties.
Also anyone who has spent any significant time in Mexico knows that Corona is piss water. Pacifico is where it's at.
...or Negra Modelo
It's kind of embarrassing the professor wrote that sentence. With all due respect to her, she can't possibly be that naive, can she?
Interviewer: What's your prediction for the fight?
Clubber Lang: My prediction?
Interviewer: Yes, your prediction.
[Clubber looks into camera]
Clubber Lang: Pain!
--Rocky III
I can live without avocados if milk and eggs and the price of cheese goes down. All of those things are not imported.
Trump this morning announced that Mexico will put 10,000 troops on the border, specifically to deal with drugs and illegal border crossings.
The tariffs are paused for a month, while Sec of State begins talks on the issues.
So tariffs are a good negotiation strategy. Gosh, Trump actually knows what he is doing, must come as a shock to Schumer and the rest.
I, for one, will gladly pay extra for American products if it helps stop the flow of illegals and deadly drugs into this country and I don't think I'm the only one!
They are awesome as is or combined. The best avocados are the ones you pick off the tree right in your own San Diego yard...
Mexico caves. 10,000 troops to the border. Tariffs on hold for a month. Fastest trade war ever. Trump is the man.
Also, and off topic, Trump shut down CIA front USAID. Employees told to stay home. No more "grass roots" Color Revolutions. The whole world was just made safer. Turns out USAID (CIA) was funding gain of function at Wuhan - $50 mill. No wonder they were unsure where the Chyna Flu came from. Tar and feather would be to good for them.
Nobody wins a trade war. These tariffs will raise prices (but probably not on fentanyl), reduce employment, and damage economies worldwide, including ours. We know this, even if we don't have a grip on economics, because we've imposed tariffs on steel twice recently, and each time employment in steel went up slightly, employment in industries that use steel, like auto manufacturing, dropped more, and prices rose. Sure, the beer example is stupid, but not as stupid as the tariffs. I voted for Trump, but his notions about economics are foolish. We are governed by morons. Biden's top economic advisor was a jazz musician; Trumps is a lawyer.
"Gosh, Trump actually knows what he is doing, must come as a shock to Schumer and the rest."
Schumer doesn't care about the welfare of Americans. He cares about the welfare of democrats
Seriously. Look at all the verbiage that came out of the DNC race. It wasn't about America's well being and the policies that would achieve that. It was about how do democrats regain power.
Charlie Currie said...
Mexico caves. 10,000 troops to the border. Tariffs on hold for a month. Fastest trade war ever. Trump is the man.
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Schumer and company look like amateurs.
Chuckie says tariffs are bad? Grok says:
Here are the amounts collected by the U.S. government in tariffs for the years 2017 through 2024:
2017: $35 billion
2018: $41 billion
2019: $71 billion
2020: $69 billion
2021: $80 billion
2022: $100 billion
2023: $80 billion
2024: $77 billion
Notice anything about that list?
Chuck believes it's only a delivery problem. In fact the D ideas and direction are fine and the messaging too. He thinks the way to win is to talk the way he thinks Trump talks. Good old authentic Chuck.
News: Trump won the trade war today.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp500-nasdaq-live-020-03-2025?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_1
Objection! Overruled. I laughed.
Completely screw things up.
Corona was Mexico's lowest-cost safe subsitute for undrinkable water. Then, a bunch of inexperienced young college boys drove to Tijuana and Ensenada for day trips and fish tacos. Their delicate young mouths and thin wallets loved Corona -- they brought it back to Southern California and marketers went wild. Youth and fashion-victim branding: Imported, light enough for the night club crowd, and the lime covers the beer flavor.
I'm an out and proud beer snob, former home brewer, buy obscure lambics, the whole nine yards, and I think Negra Modelo is the bee's knees. Great stuff.
Update from Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113940711907400754
Tariffs on pause for a month as Mexico agrees to guard the border and restrict illegal trade. Negotiations to begin on a long term agreement.
Chuck Schumer can keep drinking Mexican beer and eating their avocados at the low price he wanted, but Trump now has what the American people wanted.
Stuff'll ruin your sinuses.
I started reading through the comments. Before I could enter my observations about a trade war, it was over. Things move fast in the Trump era......The Spanish word for avocado is aguacate. Why is that? Is that part of the conspiracy?
Wow. That was a long, drawn out trade war. It lasted what, a day? Shock and Awe.
My daughter has an avacado tree in her back yard. Just a walk therough her neighborhood I can pick avacados, oranges , limes and lemons without leaving the sidewalk.
Schumer is such a schmuck. It’s funny that before the election, the Democrats were not concerned about inflation. They kept trying to gaslight us by saying that prices in the grocery store had not gone up. Now they are telling us to worry about a hypothetic rise in price of some Mexican products as if we would starve to death if we didn’t drink Corona Beer or eat avocados.
Seeing as the President has imposed these tariffs under the National Emergency clause of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (1977), I'm not sure the Supreme Court will have much of anything to say about it. (Could they decide that the situation isn't really a national emergency and it was declared improperly? Doubtful. Otherwise, Trump is good to go.) Considering the huge imbalance between what the US exports and what it imports from these countries, I have a good idea of who is going to blink first.
OK I'll comment on poor Angie Dickenson, who's been ignored so far. Sexy while sellin' avacodos. That's the way we rolled in the 80's. Curiously, the google machine AI tells me that "The word "avocado" comes from the Nahuatl word ahuacatl, which means "testicle". This may have led to the word "avocado" being used as slang for "ballsack"."
Have you tried the Amazon portal, just over there?
I don't know. Today both the Peso and Canadian dollar are in freefall so it all is probably a wash.
“ Well...how much pain? How long must we endure the pain?”
Not very long, it seems.
Hee hee! Trump talks to Sheinbaum and agrees to pause tariffs for one month!
Fuck you, Schumer!
If we Assume, for the sake of argument, that the Democrats are intelligent..
WHY would they pick a sleazeball like Schumer to pitch their politics?
I can ONLY assume that they are preaching to their choir? and their choir are sleazy?
This reminds me of back in the day when Coors beer wasn't distributed east of the Mississippi and anyone coming back with a cache from a western trip was an instant celebrity!
I'm still not tired or WINNING! After a year or two it might become passé, but not yet.
"Let's just take Superbowl Sunday. Mmkay? It's gonna affect beer. Mmkay? Most of it — Corona, here — comes from Mexico. It's gonna affect your guac. Because what is guacamole made of? Avocados. Both from Mexico."
According to Grok, "Approximately 79% of the beer sold in the US is produced domestically within the United States. About 21% of beer is imported from over 100 countries. Notably, Mexico accounts for a significant portion of these imports, with around 80% of the imported beer coming from there."
Beer from Mexico is 80% of the 21% imported, so- 16%.
Chuck says "most of it [beer] comes from Mexico." 16% = Most?
Makes you wonder how these mathematical geniuses in Congress are able to amass the amount of wealth they somehow manage to, doesn't it?
Be nice if there was some way to correct typos when you don't notice them until after you've posted. Oh well.
Somebody mentioned Florida avocados. I dont know how long I've been eating avocados, but 40 years ago I helped a friend pick a bunch from a pretty big tree at his family's grove ... evening before a hard freeze was agonna come. Then 30 years ago I was arguing with a friend's wife about which tasted better - the big ol Florida avocado or the little damn california one. Either one is improved by a big glob of mayonaise.
NAFTA's what turned em into Mexican avocados.
Chuck Schumer's comments re the absence of Mexican beer are as disgusting as his putting cheese slices on ice cold burgers on the grill. The craft brewers in my home county of San Diego are gravely disappointed in Chuck You's statement. And we used to raise a lot of avocados in San Diego County as well.
This is already old news. Schumer is the subject of a DOJ investigation for his 2020 incitement to violence and threats against Supreme Court members. Apparently, Trump noticed that lawfare is a burden to the victim of it, and wants to return the favor, but perhaps more justifiably than when he was attacked with it.
First we kill all the lawyers. Then we make guac out of them.
There is a long record of Trump viewing tariffs as a broad economic policy. The emergency crap is a fig leaf.
Mexico folds. Trump won, again. Suck it, libtards.
Thank goodness we can continue to get avocado toast at the local bistro. Sadly the side order of Fentanyl may be harder to get. Sorry Chuckster.
People used to drink beer and peanuts or beer and pretzels or beer and potato chips with sour cream. Even Tortilla chips were usually eaten with salsa. We dont need gucamole.
And mexican beer - LOL. AB InBev, an international conglomerate based in Belgium, owns Corona beer.
SYRHCS.
(Shut your reeking hole, Chuck Schumer)
To this you need to add the billions of direct government support to farmers who were granted subsidies to make up for the loss of exports to retaliatory tariffs.
"Well...how much pain? How long must we endure the pain? When will we enjoy the "worth" that is the price we must pay? Will the "worth" he promises be greater than the pain we must pay first? Will the "price" be worth it?"
And the answer is.....about two hours!
I'm always shocked at how many average people vote Democrat. As shown by this stunt, the D's don't stand for anything other than opposition to Trump and a desire for power.
One gets the feeling that if tommorrow TRump supported open borders, the D's would instantly switch to being border hawks.
Shameless Schumer. Hope he gets himself a good lawyer.
Or, you know, Mexico could cave immediately and all the tariffs be put on hold for a month while Mexico proves they'll do what they say they'll do.
Reality check: access to American markets is something every country the world that exports, desperately needs.
Trump is going to use that to get things he wants, and American needs.
And THAT is why the left hates his tariffs. Not because they're a "tax on Americans", but because Trump can use them to help Americans, and the Left HATES that
Schumer epitomizes progressive-liberal white-collar Democrats, demanding cheap household labor, cheap groceries, cheap restaurant help, cheap agricultural farm workers, and cheap day-labor construction workers, to benefit their personal household budgets at human cost of illegal undocumented labor-force, government cost for subsidizing health, education, and housing of illegal labor-force, and society's cost for increased violent assaults, property thefts, and gangs' drug-dealing and sex trafficking crimes due to illegal migrants' largely unpoliced nefarious actions.
What are avocados and Corona going for in Hanoi?
Shop at Aldi: sack of six small avocados averages $2.95, and $.59 for individual large avocado. A 20% price increase unnoticeable when Aldi dozen white eggs are $4.87/dozen in Jan 2025, were $.99/dozen in 2019, that's on you Chuck, and Joe Biden administration.
Looks like Trump listened to Schumer. Although Trump never saw a green vegetable he liked.
Colorado Kool-Aid
What? How come I didn't know about this?
"Looks like Trump listened to Schumer."
What bullshit.
Schumer is as corrupt as they come.... and they come pretty corrupt these days.
so USAID was really AIDing USA??!!!
Bernie Sanders is a fraud.
Reality cannot enter the impenetrable barrier of Democrat Party membership.
Even with today's higher-priced avocados, the fanciest avocado toast is basically $1-2 worth of ingredients, with minimal preparation. The other $10 or more goes to the high cost of running a restaurant (and even then, many don't make it). You're paying to go out to eat, at the type of hip/healthy/youthful establishment that would have it on the menu. While you could make it yourself at home for far less money, if you did, you'd realize that it's basically just a sad half-sandwich.
Not that avocados are any sort of sticking point, but they do have an advantage for Mexico. Avocado is climacteric: the fruit only ripens off the tree. Generally, only 2-3 weeks worth of crop is harvested, which is how long they last in shipping. The mature, but unripe, fruit can be stored on the tree for months. So rotting piles of brown goo aren't going to be a problem.
could Sen chuck be boasting about something else?
The Corona is considered the holy grail of cigar shapes by many. Coronas are generally 5.5 to 6 inches in length with a 42 to 44 ring gauge.
Schumer spoke before Trump announced, and therefore it's cause & effect. The same keen grasp of the concept has been applied to Climate Science for years, which science we are exhorted to trust above all else.
Gee, if only there was American piss beer we could have instead of Mexican piss beer.
Good news! There is. And they're both owned by the same company.
There is supposed to be evidence that Schumer made multiple trips to Epstein’s Pedo Island, and photos of him with underaged girls. And photos of (now) Senator Adam Schiff with underaged boys.
Corona is not a good beer and we have a domestic avocado industry in the United States. (PLus, I have an avocado tree in my back yard.)
Northern San Diego County was once the Avocado capitol of the world. I lived there. There were avocado orchards everywhere. But the lack of water killed them and the trees were cut down.
The lack of water happened when Delta Smelt became more important than avocados. For Delta Smelt, many thousands of avocado trees died, picking and packing businesses went out of business (I developed software for them), and thousands of grove workers lost their jobs. All of that moved across the border into Mexico, which didn't have avocado groves, pickers/packers, and packing warehouses before. They didn't even have water before then; but they've since increased their draw from the Colorado River.
Corona sucks. SoCal people drink Pacifico, Modelo, or Dos XX at home or in Mexico. Even Tecate is better than Corona. Sorry, Snoop Dogg; Corona ain't as cool as you are.
More importantly, Mexico didn't have either Delta Smelt or California politicians.
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