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Milwaukee brewery making beer in response (Original Post) DinahMoeHum Jun 2024 OP
"The Beer That Milwaukee Made MAGAs Cry In!" marble falls Jun 2024 #1
I Can't Drink Beer Because My First Wife Gave Me a Real Killer of a Chronic Yeast Infection. panfluteman Jun 2024 #15
Are they tears or a constant dribble? marble falls Jun 2024 #16
Isn't he Hank Williams, Jr. a MAGAt? geardaddy Jun 2024 #19
You bet he is. The only good from him is making fun of him. The PoS MAGA scumball he is. marble falls Jun 2024 #26
Trump's his asshole too wolfie001 Jun 2024 #43
They take turns, on and off. marble falls Jun 2024 #46
Republican convention: the deplorables come to the horrible Walleye Jun 2024 #2
The beer that made Mel Famie walk us BoRaGard Jun 2024 #3
Wow! loved that joke aka-chmeee Jun 2024 #4
Me neither. Grumpy Old Guy Jun 2024 #10
My husband told that joke back in 1972 while in New York. ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2024 #6
For those who don't know sab390 Jun 2024 #13
People under 40 may not know what the joke was referring to Wednesdays Jun 2024 #30
I can definitely spin this out into 10 or 15 minutes lmao nt cactusfractal Jun 2024 #40
Nice editing of the original joke, which was usually told in a long, drawn out manner, with the aim to..... EarnestPutz Jun 2024 #49
They're called shaggy dog stories sab390 Jun 2024 #50
Funny stuff. Didn't know about the shaggy dog reference. Funny how you can just take the punchline and.... EarnestPutz Jun 2024 #61
love it. AllaN01Bear Jun 2024 #5
this AllaN01Bear Jun 2024 #7
Ha, ha! PatSeg Jun 2024 #12
Sounds like he walked back his walk back. And all in two sentences. marble falls Jun 2024 #17
Yeah, apparently he just can't help himself PatSeg Jun 2024 #21
"To have a friend, you have to BE a friend." TSExile Jun 2024 #20
It is so basic and simple PatSeg Jun 2024 #22
It really is. TSExile Jun 2024 #53
So did I. From my dad. calimary Jun 2024 #58
sputter sputt sputt. AllaN01Bear Jun 2024 #32
"Trump doesn't have any friends" Wednesdays Jun 2024 #33
Yes, I'm sure his definition of "friends" PatSeg Jun 2024 #47
...and the per-capita criminal percentage in the city rises as soon as he arrives. nt SeattleVet Jun 2024 #54
Add one to the "free market capitalism isn't always so bad" column... Wounded Bear Jun 2024 #8
I'll have to stop by and try one. Jimbo S Jun 2024 #9
I don't normally drink beer, but I will order some of this! Solidarity! surfered Jun 2024 #11
How Trump creates business. Rofl. Joinfortmill Jun 2024 #14
That is awesome! geardaddy Jun 2024 #18
I would like to add lonely bird Jun 2024 #23
This Brewery Owner Started a Super PAC to Fight Corruption One Beer at a Time Celerity Jun 2024 #25
great creative staff there . AllaN01Bear Jun 2024 #39
I just checked out their website. Not just beer. They partner with EqualityVines niyad Jun 2024 #34
Yes, I forgot about that. geardaddy Jun 2024 #37
Milwaukee irish julmur Jun 2024 #45
Yep, I follow them on Facebook geardaddy Jun 2024 #48
Kirk is the best - I follow their page on Facebook and they are always TBF Jun 2024 #56
He is! geardaddy Jun 2024 #60
I hope the producers of that brand become overnight billionaires DFW Jun 2024 #24
I'll drink to that! Wednesdays Jun 2024 #27
Very understated. The touch of gold conveys the message. Martin68 Jun 2024 #28
Biden's margin in 2020 was 20,000 votes in Wisconsin IronLionZion Jun 2024 #29
Yeah, don't take Virginia for granted Wednesdays Jun 2024 #36
I suspect thet Youngkin's efforts to gain national prominence, and to be on Trump's shortlist for VP, have not Martin68 Jun 2024 #42
I take nothing for granted. Every vote matters and we have to work for it. IronLionZion Jun 2024 #44
A lot of people gonna piss on Trump for his trash-talking comments bucolic_frolic Jun 2024 #31
Go figure, the convicted felon is talking about high crime numbers. StarryNite Jun 2024 #35
Love all of this North Shore Chicago Jun 2024 #38
So horrible and so delicious in so many ways Blue Owl Jun 2024 #41
I think I'll try to buy some for the week of the RNC. 4lbs Jun 2024 #51
DinahMoeHum......... Upthevibe Jun 2024 #52
Brilliant! lol at the leaked meeting! Cha Jun 2024 #55
he's concerned with crime? Skittles Jun 2024 #57
I hope Minocqua Brewing Company also has a showing! LeftInTX Jun 2024 #59

panfluteman

(2,162 posts)
15. I Can't Drink Beer Because My First Wife Gave Me a Real Killer of a Chronic Yeast Infection.
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 10:30 AM
Jun 2024

Does that qualify as a "tear in my beer"?

sab390

(201 posts)
13. For those who don't know
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 10:18 AM
Jun 2024

Mel Famie was a pitcher for the Milwaukee Braves. He was pitching in the world series in 1962. It was getting very tense as he came out in the 9th. He brought a bottle of beer to the mound with him. Soon the bases were loaded and he took the last drink of the beer and walked in the winning run. A player from the Tigers ran out and got the bottle and put it in place of the trophy in the celebration. The manager yelled at him but he said "that's the beer that made Mel Famie walk us". Great shaggy dog story.

Wednesdays

(20,095 posts)
30. People under 40 may not know what the joke was referring to
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 11:24 AM
Jun 2024


Schlitz was bought out by Stroh's in the 1980's, who then later sold it to Pabst. Pabst still makes the Schlitz line, but I don't know if they still use that slogan.

EarnestPutz

(2,554 posts)
49. Nice editing of the original joke, which was usually told in a long, drawn out manner, with the aim to.....
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 05:51 PM
Jun 2024

.......elicit a groan at the long awaited punchline.

sab390

(201 posts)
50. They're called shaggy dog stories
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 06:25 PM
Jun 2024

The punch line of the original is "I wouldn't send a knight out on a dog like this". And yes, I can do 20 minutes on every one of them. People stay away from me at parties.

EarnestPutz

(2,554 posts)
61. Funny stuff. Didn't know about the shaggy dog reference. Funny how you can just take the punchline and....
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 12:47 PM
Jun 2024

.....dream up your own version of the joke. "It was a rainy at the castle and the king needed....."

PatSeg

(49,589 posts)
12. Ha, ha!
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 10:07 AM
Jun 2024

Now he's trying to walk it back.....very poorly!

"Well, I think it was very clear what I meant. I said we're very concerned with crime. I love Milwaukee. I have great friends in Milwaukee. But it's, as you know, the crime numbers are terrible, and we have to be very careful," Trump said.

Don't think that's going to appease anyone AND Trump doesn't have any "great friends in Milwaukee". Trump doesn't have any friends.

PatSeg

(49,589 posts)
21. Yeah, apparently he just can't help himself
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 11:03 AM
Jun 2024

It is like insulting someone by calling them "fat" and then apologizing, "I'm sorry that you're fat".

TSExile

(3,275 posts)
20. "To have a friend, you have to BE a friend."
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 11:01 AM
Jun 2024

I heard that wise sentence as a kid and took it to heart. Too bad the RAPIST didn't.

Wednesdays

(20,095 posts)
33. "Trump doesn't have any friends"
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 11:31 AM
Jun 2024

He considers his millionaire and billionaire donors to be his "friends."

PatSeg

(49,589 posts)
47. Yes, I'm sure his definition of "friends"
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 02:49 PM
Jun 2024

is quite different than most peoples. Everything with Trump is transactional, even friendships.

geardaddy

(25,320 posts)
18. That is awesome!
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 10:58 AM
Jun 2024

There is a great progressive brewery in Minocqua, WI, which is deep in one of the reddest districts of Wisconsin that makes some excellent beer and is outspoken on progressive issues and calling out MAGAts.
They put up all sorts of great billboards.
https://www.minocquabrewingcompany.com/

Here's one of their T-shirts:

Celerity

(46,154 posts)
25. This Brewery Owner Started a Super PAC to Fight Corruption One Beer at a Time
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 11:15 AM
Jun 2024
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218145387#post17



Kirk Bangstad owns a brewery; he also owns a Super PAC. How many brewery owners can make that statement? Founder of Minocqua Brewing Company in Minocqua, WI, Bangstad wants change – social change, political change, and an end to what he calls “The Trump world we’re living in, where the lines of what is okay have been blurred and there’s a lot of ugliness going around.”

And in the two years Bangstad has been politicized, he has learned to fight the Right with the same tools they employ. Hence, the Super PAC, which Bangstad started in January 2021 after being forced to close his brewpub. “I call it dark money for good,” says Bangstad, who to date has raised nearly half a million dollars to support local progressive causes.



It has been a rollercoaster journey into politics for Bangstad. He has run for the Wisconsin State Assembly, sued the entire Wisconsin school board, used his Super PAC to sue two Wisconsin congressmen and a state senator, and found himself sued by local paper the Lakewood Times. He has attracted equal amounts of ire and admiration from right and left wing activists respectively around the U.S. and beyond, been featured in national media, and had to call the FBI after receiving a hate-speech-filled death threat.

But along the way he has also learned he has a secret weapon. Something he had been perfecting long before politics. Bangstad has the power of beer behind him. In fact, it’s the business of beer, rebuilding, growing, and eventually closing Minocqua Brewing (and switching to contract brew), that sparked Bangstad’s transition from apolitical brewpub owner to a bastion of Northern Wisconsin’s social conscience.

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niyad

(119,182 posts)
34. I just checked out their website. Not just beer. They partner with EqualityVines
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 11:33 AM
Jun 2024

(Russian River Valley winery, one of whose owners is James Obergefell of the scotus decision. Their wine label is called "Choice". Will have to order some.

julmur

(100 posts)
45. Milwaukee irish
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 02:11 PM
Jun 2024

Minocqua brewery has also been battling local authorities on several fronts, local authorities are literally trying to put them out of business. They have a good website to order beverages and merchandise online.

geardaddy

(25,320 posts)
48. Yep, I follow them on Facebook
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 02:56 PM
Jun 2024

There are several liquor stores here in the Twin Cities that sell their beer.

TBF

(33,972 posts)
56. Kirk is the best - I follow their page on Facebook and they are always
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 11:20 PM
Jun 2024

busy promoting progressive causes (and pissing off the local maga's)!

geardaddy

(25,320 posts)
60. He is!
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 09:43 AM
Jun 2024

I follow them on Facebook, too. I love his responses to MAGAts "reviews" of his beer. One day, I will definitely make the drive to his tap room in Minocqua!

DFW

(56,326 posts)
24. I hope the producers of that brand become overnight billionaires
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 11:07 AM
Jun 2024

They could sell that brand even in Belgium and Germany!

IronLionZion

(46,850 posts)
29. Biden's margin in 2020 was 20,000 votes in Wisconsin
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 11:23 AM
Jun 2024

Trump got around 48,000 votes in city of Milwaukee. Insulting their home city could lose enough votes for him to lose that state again.

I encourage Trump to do a swing state insult tour attacking Michigan, Ohio, PA, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, and more.

Virginia is fairly blue but Trump is welcome to insult my state too if he wants.

Martin68

(24,417 posts)
42. I suspect thet Youngkin's efforts to gain national prominence, and to be on Trump's shortlist for VP, have not
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 12:44 PM
Jun 2024

endeared him to most Virginians.

IronLionZion

(46,850 posts)
44. I take nothing for granted. Every vote matters and we have to work for it.
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 01:24 PM
Jun 2024

but Trump/MAGA is welcome to take some states for granted so they can lose again.

North Shore Chicago

(3,979 posts)
38. Love all of this
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 11:42 AM
Jun 2024

with only one exception. The extinct elephant.

Make Republicans extinct! Not our sentient superior elephants.

4lbs

(7,364 posts)
51. I think I'll try to buy some for the week of the RNC.
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 06:37 PM
Jun 2024

Won't watch the crap though (I have better things to do if I want to actually watch fantasy, like an actual fantasy movie).

LeftInTX

(29,689 posts)
59. I hope Minocqua Brewing Company also has a showing!
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 02:29 AM
Jun 2024


We went to Minocqua brewing on July 4th 2016, because my daughter wanted to "hang out" at some place with live music while we were in Minocqua for the day. (I really didn't want to spend the day in Minocqua. It was her idea) We had no idea it was a progressive brewer and there were no progressive beers on display. We went, and listened to music. Lo and behold a few years later, tada!
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